Claire Barclay’s work is always partly created in-situ, and in this case, responds to the raw industrial aesthetic of Tramway’s exhibition space. Her installation ‘Yield Point’ addresses relationships between the human body and the industrial workplace, in particular, the physical states of strength and vulnerability that underlie human engagement with skilled manual work. Large sculptural […]
Amy Feldman's first solo exhibition in Germany, Breath Myth comprises a group of entirely new paintings by the New York-based artist. Starting with a preparatory sketch in marker pen, Feldman makes each painting in a single performative take. Giving herself just one chance to get it right, the associated risk and anxiety play an important […]
Joy Gregory is one of the major artists to emerge from the Black British photography movement of the 1980s; a time when debates around the domain of representation were explored and challenged. Gregory’s work is influenced by a combination of race, history, gender and aesthetics; firmly rooted in concepts of ‘truth and beauty’. This major […]
A year in paintings, showing new works, by Fiona McAlpine.
Eleri Mills creates an exhibition inspired by local history, mystery and mythical nature of the Welsh countryside in Borderland. A comment about her work, "Eleri Mills stands alone as poet painter. Eleri records her love of her native land and she records it with great sensitivity and talent: for she is a superb draughtsman and this is […]
Still hanging around: paintings from 1956 to the present, is an exhibition of paintings by Hilda Margery Clarke to celebrate her 90th year. She was born in Manchester and learnt to paint through the guidance of L.S. Lowry, with whom she remained life-long friends until his death in 1976. She moved to Southampton in 1954 […]
Claire Barrow is the latest in a series of collaborations between the plastic shoe brand Melissa and designers including Gareth Pugh, Jeremy Scott and Vivienne Westwood. Dancing with Dreams brings together art, sculpture, film, garments and music. Claire has made five sculptures from found and recycled materials, clay and acrylic which will be mixed with […]
Holly Hendry presents Wrot an entirely new body of work for her first solo exhibition in a UK institution. Using a variety of materials, from Jesmonite and plaster to foam, wood, […]
Angela Brookes' printmaking focusses on the natural world and reveals her interest in the mystery of the landscape. She is fascinated by light, mood and atmosphere and the effect of the […]
Widely acclaimed as a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group, the modernist painter, Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) was a pivotal player in 20th century British art, inventing a new language of visual expression. Muse to fellow artists such as Roger Fry, sister of Virginia Woolf, mastermind of the idyllic Bloomsbury life at Charleston – Bell’s reputation […]
Concrete Jungle, is an exhibition featuring video works curated by Alexandra White. Set within the iconic concrete architecture of the Brazilian Modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer, the works on view explore the physical and psychological boundaries between the human and architectural body within the specific context of Brazil. Concrete Jungle includes work by Copenhagen-based Brazilian video […]
Respected writer and critic Hilton Als curates paintings and drawings Alice Neel (1900-1984) made during the five decades she spent living in Upper Manhattan, first in Spanish Harlem and later the Upper West Side. One of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century, Neel is known for her portraits of family, friends, neighbors, […]
Join us for a curator talk of Gazelli's fabulous all women exhibition, ‘toute seule’, an all female show depicting artistic heroism transcending time. Despite the influence artists had on one another, and collective responses that were made by the surrounding world, this exhibition highlights the solitude – graceful, thought-through, strategic and compassionate individuality of each […]
A presentation of Weddings and Babies, Alice Theobald‘s second solo show, which comprises the artist’s recent 3D film work, The Next Step, new sculptures and sound based installation, devised around a scripted and unscripted human interaction. Weddings and Babies explores the anxieties of ‘Thatcher’s Children’, the reconciliation of neoliberal and societal aspiration with the realities […]
The art of 1930s America tells the story of a nation in flux. Artists responded to rapid social change and economic anxiety with some of the 20th century’s most powerful art - brought together now in this once-in-a-generation show, America after the Fall: Paintings in the 1930s. The 45 truly iconic works paint an electrifying portrait […]
Carolyn Cameron's work predominantly involves stitching onto paper. Having lived all over the world as a child, Carolyn is inspired by images of urban landscapes, and her work concerns creating artwork using watercolour and layering the architectural forms by repetitive stitching onto paper. Through sewing, Carolyn’s images are built up from a series of quick and […]
Photographer, Fay Godwin became one of Britain’s most important landscape photographers. She is best known in Wales for her work with author Shirley Toulson on the book, "The Drovers’ Roads […]
Spanning work made from the 1950s to the end of the artist’s life, this survey traces Maria Lassnig’s evolution from early experiments with abstraction to a richly inventive figuration and the refinement of her ‘body awareness’ paintings, in which she captured physical sensation as felt from within. Lassnig devoted much of her career to recording […]
An exhibition of work by Fiona Robinson RWA exploring the relationship between drawing and music “Drawing is the closest thing to pure thought, not in a philosophical sense, but in terms of the immediacy of the connection from eye to brain to hand. I draw, because I must, in order to understand. It is a […]
Elma Alcock’s semi-representational works take everyday objects as their subjects; a window frame, an egg or a glass offer a point of departure into a quiet and contemplative inner world. Delicately balancing between representation and abstraction, the disarming simplicity and stripped-back aesthetic of Alcock’s canvases connect the viewer to a deeper silence and stillness within […]