Pioneers: 500 Years of Women in British Art explores the history of female artists in Britain who defied the status-quo. This multidisciplinary exhibition progresses from 16th century portraitists, to painters working at the forefront of the British avant-garde in the early 20thcentury. This active and constantly developing area of art history examines the historical significance of female artists, […]
'How to Behave at Home', is a new exhibition by sculptor and taxidermist Polly Morgan. Social media and the COVID pandemic provide the context for new abstract sculptures that use highly decorative hides of snakes and the trompe l'oeil designs in nail artistry to comment on the disparity between surface and reality. In an age where […]
Rebecca Allen is an artist inspired by the aesthetics of motion, the study of human perception and behaviour, and the potential of advanced technologies. Her early interest in utilising the […]
Installation artist and sculptor Susie MacMurray presents 'Murmur' - a compelling body of work comprising tactile and thought-provoking sculptures, an ambitious new installation, intricate drawings, striking bronze works and silver […]
Mainly focusing on the figure, Huma Bhabha’s work addresses themes of colonialism, war, displacement and memories of home. Her influences are wide ranging, from ancient Egyptian statuary, African art, Classicism, […]
Our latest commission, Forest on Fire, developed by contemporary artist Lucy Skaer is available for viewing digitally. The installation is inspired by the image of the Tauroctony, the iconic centrepiece of […]
Cornelia Parker, who transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, uses printmaking to produce something elusive and ephemeral. Director Alan Cristea comments; “Parker’s new body of work, on which she has been working through the pandemic, is aptly called Through a Glass Darkly, the words of St Paul which suggest an obscure vision of reality. What we […]
This is a major exhibition of existing and new work by South Korean artist Haegue Yang, who is renowned for her vast and non-binary artistic languages. The materiality and aesthetics of […]
Rajni Perera’s bold and intricately crafted paintings, sculptures, textile works, and installations explore issues of ancestorship, hybridity, futurity, and identity through the lens of science fiction. Influenced by a range […]
An exhibition of works made in New York from 1979–80, focusing on a rare series of colour photographs by Francesca Woodman staged in her New York apartment. Her focus was […]
Sara Barker’s work blurs the lines between sculpture, painting and drawing, as well as between figuration and abstraction and between imagined and physical spaces. Not quite sculptures and not quite […]
Meryl McMaster describes her work as sculptural photography — incorporating props, constructed garments and performance to examine her sense of identity and selfhood. For her latest series, As Immense as […]
Marking Jacqueline de Jong's return to oil painting after a number of years, Catastrophes highlights Border Line, a series of work addressing the traumatic experiences of migrants across the globe and critiquing the […]
An online exhibition of new work by Catherine Kurtz. The title of the exhibition Pinned, is taken from one of three series of paintings, also including Memento Mori and Torn. This body of work […]
Rose Finn-Kelcey is featured in Back to the Future, a curated section devoted to pioneers of contemporary art displaying works made between 1960 and 1999. The curated platform takes a multi-media […]
Alexis Hunter worked with photography and painting to explore Feminist theory, with often provocative and radical results. Hunter was influenced by a growing move towards anti-patriarchy and used art as […]
Chantal Joffe brings a combination of insight and integrity, as well as psychological and emotional force, to the genre of figurative art. Defined by its clarity, honesty and empathetic warmth it is attuned to our awareness as both observers and observed beings, apparently simple yet always questioning, complex and emotionally rich. New work includes a […]
‘Lost Summer’ is a solo exhibition of new work by Alys Tomlinson. The Lost Summer series consists of Tomlinson ́s recent prom portraits photographed in June 2020 as lockdown eased and is accompanied by ‘Night Wanderings’, taken during lockdown as part of the artist’s daily exercise. The prom portraits capture the poignancy of a lost summer […]
Vanessa Baird's haunting works in pastel and watercolour range from room-size murals to intimate self-portraits and draw on a wide range of references from the artist's own lived experiences, as well […]
‘Rear Window’ is an online exhibition inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 thriller about the seductions and dangers of looking. It is an invitation to consider how artists construct scenes and suggest narratives, […]