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 colour palette resonate with a nostalgia for vintage style and interiors. This exhibition, A Life of Pattern, explores Kiely's creative output and the power of decoration […]
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 but Clough’s close observation of colour, texture and form remain constant throughout, as does her fascination with the human impact on landscape. It was this […]
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 for which she is best-known. Entitled Personal Space, the focus of the exhibition is on the female figure in nurturing and intimate spaces, explored with confidence, […]
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 Wells (nee Boyce), whose work was largely omitted from the history of the movement. The exhibition features new discoveries and unseen works from public and private […]
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, push against and burst from the confines of the large canvas walls in erotically-charged and tangled poses. The show will feature new and recent paintings and […]
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 one is cast against the science fiction backdrop of a solar battle, as evoked by Etel Adnan in her 1989 war poem. The Arab Apocalypse […]
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 environment, nor to biodiversity. Their beauty is retained and made visible in these works. A seemingly endless variety of shape, size, form, texture and colour […]
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 this new series of work Frears depicts a variety of enigmatic human forms, that simultaneously confront the viewer and appear lost in their own worlds. […]
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 Tinne family, showcasing clothing and accessories purchased by Mrs Emily Margaret Tinne (1886-1966). The Tinne Collection is the largest collection of a single person’s clothing […]
This exhibition in the NOW series highlights the work of Scottish artist Katie Paterson, considered to be a leading artist of her generation. Her works are the result of long periods of research and involve collaboration with specialists in scientific and other fields in order to translate complex ideas into physical, often poetic works of art.
Andrea Büttner’s exhibition 'The Heart of Relations' presents a major new site-specific installation. Referencing Giotto’s star-filled blue fresco adorning the vault of the Scrove- gni Chapel in Padua, Italy, Büttner’s installation transforms the gallery’s arched ceiling into a painted sky mural populated by life-size potatoes. The exhibition also presents a selection of new sculptures and […]
Interventions/2 is a series of avant-garde films by artist and activist, Yoko Ono. Arising – a more recent work addressing the abuse of women also features within the exhibition, and was first exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2013. As part of the show, visitors are invited to write their personal wishes for peace and tie them to a […]
Erika Winstone combines drawn-paintings and gestural video in a newly commissioned installation of work spanning a decade. Her marks transitively capture the music, actions and communications of others in a body of work that includes performance, film and the medieval practice of drawing with metal point. A Beaconsfield Commission 2019
Incompatibilities introduces a new body of handwoven textile works by Hana Miletić. Made with bags of discarded, incompatible yarn that the artist bought from the only still existing yarn factory in her hometown Zagreb, the works pay homage to the textile industry in Yugoslavia.
This exhibition is a tribute Ann Pallares' grandmother and her final gift to Ana: a dying old woman who was able to listen to her granddaughter’s anguishes and dilemmas with total respect, without judgement and full comprehension towards her controversial way of life, decisions and conflicts. But it is also a reflection about the different […]
Dangerous Bodies narratives a multitude of characters from within a techno-humanity era. These disembodied entities are coming to terms with their own being. Barbara Kapusta’s protagonist(s) are one and are many, they are parts obscuring the centre, the partial body that speaks for a whole that cannot or does not want to be imagined as […]
Tongue-tied is a collection of mute tongues that emit no words but communicate through pigment and shape in this exhibition by Hayley Newman. Static and singular, they divulge, bare and reveal. One vulnerable, another bold; ventriloqual expressions of cadence and timbre, of pattern, patter and the patois of speech.