Tools for Life is the first UK solo exhibition of Chilean artist Johanna Unzueta. It features a large-scale felt installation, a collection of garments, a film shot at a textile factory in Chile, a wall mural and a selection of freestanding geometric drawings inspired by natural patterns. The exhibition reflects Unzueta’s interest in shared histories of […]
Toyin Ojih Odutola proposes speculative fictions, inviting the viewer to enter her vision of an uncannily familiar yet fantastical world. Working like an author or poet, she often spends months […]
Tamar Mason’s practice encompasses textiles, sculpture, ceramics and architecture. The artist’s choice of media, traditionally associated with women's work, ornament, and domesticity, confronts perceived divisions between art and craft, and allows Mason to integrate artistic practices more closely into daily life. Her work further explores the intersections of male and female, urban and rural, Western and African, […]
A pioneer of 1970s Feminist Art, Su Richardson played a key role in revalidating craft as a fine art form and its potential as a means of disrupting the white cube aesthetic. Simultaneously celebrating, exploiting and subverting feminine craft skills such as crocheting and embroidery, Richardson's home-made objects stir the unconscious of domesticity and femininity and their […]
From our celebrated collection of some of Britain’s most recognised fine art painters and printmakers, this body of work, State of Being, captures and interprets the human form. Each of our artists […]
In her distinctive approach to painting, Aileen Murphy generates imagery through a combination of slow layering and fast applications of oil paint, animating a delicate urgency and sparking sensations of both epiphany […]
The exhibition Two Views from the Same Window, by Malgorzata Polonczyk reunites several works that reinterpret different sections of the same contemporary piece.
The centrepiece of this exhibition reimagines the ‘Five Senses’ collaboration between Rubens and Brueghel, which Olivia Kemp’s new paintings reinterpret. Each painting presents one of the five senses as a figure, surrounded by imagery that illustrates the theme. Olivia’s uses these compositions as templates to bring together a stream of both art historical and personal associations. […]
Chantal Joffe: For Esme – with Love and Squalor, explores the intimate act of painting and portraiture. Taking its name from J.D. Salinger’s short story For Esmé – with Love and […]
Elizabeth Price’s trilogy of new multi-channel video works, SLOW DANS, includes KOHL, FELT TIP and THE TEACHERS. These present a fictional past, parallel present and imagined future, interweaving compact narratives that explore social and sexual […]
Jo Spence (1934-1992) emerged as a key figure in British photography in the mid-1970s. Engaging with a range of photographic genres, from commercial to documentary and photo therapy, Spence took a […]
Christine McArthur's early work was primarily in oil and she became well known for her large-scale still life paintings on canvas. In the late 1980s she began to work in oil […]
In the artist's own words "My interest in painting lies with non-representation and abstraction. I have no desire to make obvious comment or narrative about external worldly matters when painting. […]
Helen Cammock explores social histories through film, photography, print, text, song and performance. She is motivated by her commitment to questioning mainstream historical narratives around blackness, womanhood, wealth, power, poverty and vulnerability. Mining her own biography in addition to the histories of oppression and resistance, multiple and layered narratives reveal the cyclical construct of histories. […]
An exhibition of new paintings created during a residency with the gallery in Venice by Flora Yukhnovich. Her sources include the music of Vivaldi and the memoirs of Casanova, in addition to one of her key influences, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, whose works include ceiling frescoes in the Ca’ Rezzonico museum and the Chiesa Santa Maria della Visitazione, […]
Violet Costello's work is inspired by the complexities of the human condition: our quirks and familiarities, our moments of loneliness and moments of joy, the ways in which we identify and represent ourselves in and to the world. With a practice incorporating painting, sculpture and installation, Costello explores the home, familial relations and society's ability […]
This exhibition, Textures of Understanding, creates a dialogue between suffragette embroideries created in Holloway Prison and Denise Jones' contemporary work. Between 1911 and 1912 hundreds of suffragettes were sent to Holloway Prison for smashing windows. Whilst incarcerated, some of the women worked on small embroideries. Jones uses cloth, thread and material objects to create responses to […]
Ndakavata pasi ndikamutswa nekuti anonditsigira, is an exhibition of new paintings by the Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera. The title translates from Shona to English as ‘I took my rest in sleep and then I awoke for He sustained me.’ In her paintings, Zvavahera gives form to emotions that manifest from other realms and dimensions beyond […]
For her new commission Rabiya Choudhry has created a mural, Big Broon Stressed Oot Eyes, in response to the current collective moment. With characteristic Glaswegian humour Choudhry has created a playful image of two large eyes which peer anxiously from Tramway's two front gallery windows.
Gillian Wearing continues her exploration of identity, fiction, reality and the mask presenting a series of new works on paper, board, sculpture and film. Conceived over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the exhibition Lockdown, focusses mainly on works made during the lockdown. Her new watercolour portraits have all been created in this time of self-reflection […]