Frances Walker CBE RSA is one of Scotland’s most highly-regarded living artists. A painter and printmaker, who studied at Edinburgh College of Art, taught art in Harris and North Uist in the Western Isles before taking up a position as Lecturer in Drawing and Painting at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen. She was a founding […]
To Anna Keen, London is a world of dreams, of strange forms, shifting spaces and sudden voids. These artworks, Mighty Thames of Oil and Ink, capture her fleeting, emotional reactions to things seen, experienced and studied as she moves along the river through the ever-changing city and out into the immensity of Thames Gateway.
An exhibition to celebrate the life, collections and legacy of Alice de Rothschild (1847-1922). Discover her key role in Waddesdon’s history in a programme of exhibitions and displays, which explores “Alice’s Wonderlands” and uncover how she put her own stamp on Waddesdon—in contrast to and spite of contemporary expectations—both before and after the death of her […]
Agata Bogacka’s abstract paintings are characterised by competing planes of colour in constant states of transition, creating formal imbalances and tensions. The compositions enact dialogues, negotiations and conflicts by visualising the structural dynamics that underpin all levels of human experience. Bogacka is concerned with territorial thresholds that define all relationships between individual entities, describing the subject […]
Anna Perach works with an intricate tufting technique to create wearable sculptures and wall-based objects, informed by Slavic folklore, mythologies, fairy tales and psychoanalytic theory in her exhibition Spidora. Her sculptures function both as garments that are performed in as well as autonomous works. Through a distinctive medium that bears resemblance to carpet textiles, Perach considers […]
Set within a moonlit forest, the virtual reality work Of Hybrids and Strings creates connections to plants and creatures through a series of interactive threads. A flower-like spectral form appears merged by connected strings held in the viewer’s flowered hands. This hybrid flower creature mirrors the viewer’s every move creating a symbiotic dance. Throughout the experience, more […]
Sunneva Ása Weisshappel's work interrogates what it means to be human in a material and materialistic, world. Through strange and forceful combinations of materials, she transforms collections of found objects into complex, multi-layered canvases. From delicate textiles conjuring ghostly shapes of female bodies, to hair, teeth and wax evoking the texture of human skin, her works […]
The 2022 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize exhibition presents the nominated projects from this year’s shortlisted artists, Anastasia Samoylova, Jo Ractliffe, Deana Lawson and Gilles Peress. Each of the projects display a unique perspective on pictorial representation, with the artists taking a distinctive approach to the medium of photography and focusing on subject matter linked to a specific region […]
The 2022 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize exhibition presents the nominated projects from this year’s shortlisted artists, Anastasia Samoylova, Jo Ractliffe, Deana Lawson and Gilles Peress. Each of the projects display a unique perspective on pictorial representation, with the artists taking a distinctive approach to the medium of photography and focusing on subject matter linked to a specific […]
Rana Begum's eye-catching installation and video works in Dappled Light, bring colour and life to this stately home. At the heart of the show is a large-scale suspended installation made from soft layers of mesh whose spectrum of pastel shades have a sensual, almost hypnotic effect on the viewer. The venue also plays host to Begum’s […]
The exhibition explores the physical and metaphorical paths carved by generations of Leeds residents. Jill Mcknight's work takes inspiration from a wide range of stories where the ordinary and extraordinary are interwoven. Desire Lines features newly commissioned sculptures, works on paper, sound and film alongside a selection of significant artworks from Leeds Art Gallery’s collection […]
Emma Williams' new exhibition From St. Ives With Love presents a collection of new and never-before-seen paintings, which Emma herself says are inspired by the colours of Patrick Heron, spring flowers and iconic St. Ives ceramics.
Latifa Echakhch's Night Time presents a suite of new paintings that informs by the ways in which everyday objects and imagery can be transfigured into signifiers of identity, history, and mythology. Latifa's practice takes the form of painting, installation, sculpture, and sound, describing her work as “a question of power and postures”. She states she has “no […]
Night Time presents a suite of new paintings by Latifa Echakhch. Informed by the ways in which everyday objects and imagery can be transfigured into signifiers of identity, history, and mythology, Latifa Echakhch’s practice takes the form of painting, installation, sculpture, and sound. Describing her work as “a question of power and postures”, Echakhch states she has […]
‘Stirrings’ is an exhibition by Rachel Goodyear, co-commissioned by Grundy Art Gallery and the University of Salford Art Collection and includes new large-scale drawings and a new animation. The animation shows Goodyear experimenting with structure and sound, while the new works on paper see the artist working at a scale larger than ever before. For this new […]
The Sweetest Taboo, is an exhibition by Michaela Yearwood-Dan, an artist who thinks about the priorities for affirming spaces of self and collective actualisation, specifically BIPOC and queer space(s), community needs and desires, including her own. Projected and inscribed upon the large-scale paintings, are extracts of Yearwood-Dan’s experiences, influences, personal thoughts and questions, which commingle with abstracted […]
Radio Ballads is the culmination of three years of work by artists Sonia Boyce, Helen Cammock, Rory Pilgrim and Ilona Sagar. The exhibition presents four bodies of work created through collaboration with social workers, carers, organisers and residents which explore stories of labour, and who cares for who and in what way. Radio Ballads presents new film commissions alongside […]
These miniature paintings by Laila Tara H results from the period of lockdown, which gave her the freedom to paint with rigour. Months of heavy silence gave her the space with no distractions and no sense of future to produce paintings that were reflective of herself and entirely independent of her surroundings. For this exhibition, […]
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s drawings in Constellations, are influenced by film, fairy tales, botanical and zoological textbooks, as well as from her personal background. The artist finishes her drawings by dipping them in wax, which gives her work a unique materiality and emphasises the pencil line with ambiguous depth. The traditions and myths of her […]
Anika Roach's exhibition, In Spite of That, places a strong sense of importance upon representation. Luminous yellows, reds, pinks and blues are juxtaposed with missing limbs and genderless figures seen in peculiar scenarios. While these paintings can sometimes feel disconcerting, they allow multiple interpretations as the artist seeks to broaden existing narratives surrounding the painting of black […]