Claire Tabouret is acclaimed for her figurative painting representing groups and characters, which may recall those of Romantic painting. The tonalities adopted by Tabouret are sometimes dark and sometimes acidic, making her practice unique. For this exhibition, Claire Tabouret returns to portraiture. Depicting her relatives and friends’ figures, the canvases are tainted with personal experience, […]
Fons Americanus is a 13-metre tall working fountain inspired by the Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, London. Rather than a celebration of the British Empire, Kara Walker’s fountain explores […]
This exhibition is the work of two separate solo projects by Mamma Andersson and Tonico Lemos Auad at Frieze London. Both artists have produced new bodies of work especially for the fair. Auad has made a new series of geometric textiles that disrupt traditional modes of weaving, whilst Andersson has completed a small group of […]
Shani Rhys James is arguably the most exciting and successful Welsh artist of her generation and her considerable reputation, both in Wales and beyond, continues to grow apace. This latest exhibition, Sunflowers and Scissors, consists of approximately twenty-five new paintings, all executed in Shani’s bold style, with sumptuous colours and rich textures, confirming her painterly and […]
Coinciding with Camilla Løw’s forthcoming publication outdoors utendørs, the exhibition introduces the idea of transferral — outdoor sculpture elements within an enclosed space. The show title, Alfabet refers to the book by Danish poet Inger Christensen (1935 – 2009), where each chapter represents a single letter. With this system the artist follows a self-imposed order, simultaneously gaining […]
Elizabeth Peyton's Aire and Angels, explores the development of Peyton’s unique art from the 1990s to the present day. She is one of the world’s leading contemporary artists and is internationally renowned. Her work has been at the forefront of a re-evaluation of figurative art and the tradition of portrait painting since the 1990s. The exhibition includes […]
Mary Sibande presents a series of photographic and sculptural works exploring the power of imagination and constructive anger in shaping identities and personal narratives in a post-colonial world. I Came Apart at the Seams follows the transformative journey of Sibande’s avatar, Sophie. Taking form as a series of colourful human-scale sculptures modelled on Sibande herself, Sophie transgresses […]
Goshka Macuga’s practice focusses on studying the art of rhetoric and artifical memory as intricately linked tools for the organisation and advancement of knowledge. She presents 18 new collages and a […]
Orla Kiely is a successful fashion and lifestyle designers, whose stylised plant based patterns are innovative, influential and instantly recognisable. With enchanting applications, her flat, graphic style and choice of […]
This Centenary exhibition 1919 – 1999 traces Prunella Clough’s work from her early figurative depictions of dockworkers, fishermen, a lorry driver, as it evolves towards abstraction. The figures slowly disappear […]
A group of 15 new paintings by Eileen Cooper RA that fuse objective drawing from life, a new part of her practice, with the instantly recognisable, passionate and imaginative works […]
160 years after the first pictures were exhibited by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1849, Pre-Raphaelite Sisters, explores the overlooked contribution of twelve women to movement, including Evelyn de Morgan, Effie Millais (nee Gray), Elizabeth Siddal and Joanna […]
Christina Quarles has gained international recognition for her bold and vibrantly coloured, post-Surrealist acrylic paintings of sensual, ambiguous bodies. Bodies that consist of multiple styles and parts, that float within, […]
Joy Labinjo's paintings depict intimate scenes of contemporary family life, capturing the everyday and the domestic. She creates her compositions by fusing different photographs together, instinctively collaging interiors and figures.
A new film exploring the erasure and revision of identities and histories past and future. The work features performances by Yumna Marwan, Elizabeth Peace, boychild, and by Sophia Al-Maria herself. Each […]
Jo Crook collects seaweed specimens from south Devon beaches where they have been washed up and are at the end of their biological lives. There is no loss to their […]
A major retrospective exhibition devoted to the work of celebrated British artist Bridget Riley. The exhibition looks closely at the origins of Riley’s perceptual paintings and traces pivotal, decisive moments in her acclaimed career. It features the artist’s iconic black-and-white paintings of the 1960s, early representational paintings, expansive canvases in colour and recent wall paintings, […]
An exhibition of new paintings by Naomi Frears, which consists of over 25 new works using oil on canvas, acrylic on wood, dry point on linen and mono printing. In […]
A Long Memory brings together many new and acclaimed works - including drawings, sculpture and video. This exhibition engages with Elizabeth Price’s pre-occupations of technology, history, politics and pop music.
More than 70 outfits are on display in this new exhibition, which explores shopping and style in Liverpool during the interwar years. An English lady’s wardrobe offers new insight into Liverpool’s wealthy […]