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.
Rosa is an exhibition of roses illustrated by RHS gold medallist Janie Pirie. This is a new body of botanical art to coincide with the launch of a book of the same name. Having had a love of roses from early childhood Janie was inspired to illustrate those that had a name connected to her […]
Sue Campion’s pastels are drawn paintings. Using sandpaper as a base, the pastels catch the rough surface, creating texture and layers of pigment, giving a similar quality to paint. Her landscapes are mainly of Shropshire, where she lives and works, and Spain where she lived for many years. The earthiness of the Shropshire hills, contrast […]
The exhibition Radical Women explores how Jessica Dismorr and her female contemporaries engaged with modernist literature and radical politics through their art, including their contributions to campaigns for women’s suffrage and the anti-fascist organisations of the 1930s. 80 works including paintings, sculptures, graphic art and archival materials, some of which have never been exhibited before, are […]
An exhibition celebrating the life and career of pioneering Edinburgh-born artist Mary Cameron (1865-1921). The exhibition Life in Paint places this forgotten artist back in the spotlight. It explores the fascinating story of Cameron’s life and career, charting her creative journey from elegant family portraits to breathtaking Spanish scenes. The exhibition features over forty rarely-seen […]
An exploration of the role of art in community, identity and protest. The first chance in the UK to see American Pop artist Jann Haworth and Liberty Blake’s mural, Work in Progress. The 28ft mural is the result of a collaborative community project and celebrates women who were catalysts for change in the arts, sciences and […]
An exhibition of Ethel Walker’s landscapes.
An exhibition of Paintings and Prints by Barbara Rae.
Sally Moore explores mood, memory and states of mind through the use of surreal metaphor in this exhibition, which marks the publication of a major new book about her work. The book, titled Sally Moore: Acting Up, shows her paintings as a kind of demonstration, taking back control from the hidden worries and fantasies that plague most […]
Inna's Dream is a continuation of Varvara Shavora's ongoing quest into her family’s history, asking questions about power, authority and male and female representation as well as the interface between individual and collective history.
A presentation of the sculptor Ann Christopher’s latest solo show ‘If you stop asking questions - - - ’ The exhibition explores the nature of making and what drives an artist to continue. It comprises a new body of sculpture inspired by Christopher’s peripatetic wanderings around the world where she collects all sorts of natural […]