Vanessa Baird’s work is story telling of a kind that is both potently provocative and emphatically individual. Her charged creations, made in pastel and watercolour, range from room-size murals to intimate self-portraits and […]
On the deeds of many houses in Southchurch there is a covenant stating; residents are not allowed to make bricks or tiles from the clay underneath their feet, a seam […]
For Spectral Keepers, Sandra Mujinga illuminates the exhibition space with intense green lighting, immersing the viewer into an environment that feels part-nightclub, part-dimension travel dystopia. Inspired by the world-building practices found within video games, science-fiction novels and Afrofuturism, the artist invites us into an ethereal and viridescent world.
Heart of the Matter features new and recent works from Tracey Emin, Bridget Riley, Chantal Joffe, Jasmine Pradissitto, Sikelela Owen, Emma Prempeh, Layla Andrews, Eleanor Johnson, Sarah Jane Moon, Sahara Longe and Cecily Brown. Each artwork offers unique visions and explorations into the artist’s contemporary practice. Through Heart of the Matter, and in support of […]
To accompany 'On Hannah Arendt: eight proposals for exhibition', Laima Leyton draws on her multifaceted identity as a producer, musician, activist, artist, mother and teacher to create eight unique sound pieces in response to each exhibition in the programme and each chapter in Arendt's book. Titled collectively as Infinite past, Infinite Future and Now, the works […]
Drawn to the Line, is an online exhibition that brings together various types of drawings by Caroline McAdam Clark, Sula Rubens. Kate Scott, Jila Peacock and Jane Peacock. The drawings represent observational, imagined and impressed drawing scenes by the artists.
An exhibition of landscape paintings by Yasmin David (1939-2009) Yasmin’s work explores the beauty and light of the South Devon landscape near Dartmoor. One of few women working in landscape […]
The exhibition, Natural Geometry, showcases the strong geometric sculpture of Halima Cassell and the exquisite feather constructions and installations of George Taylor, their first show together. Cassell and Taylor have a very different approach to making and using materials; they are poles apart. The similarity is in the way they manipulate their chosen media to demonstrate […]
Part II: Ceramics – The Central Core explores the fantastical, mythological and performative elements of the medium. The malleability of clay allows it to perform under and for an artist’s hands, a physical, mysterious manifestation of an artist’s psyche and ideas. The second half of our two-part online exhibition for Women 2.0, showcases work by […]
This exhibition, Out of the Blue shouts out to a new optimism following recent lockdowns and isolation. Blue hues emerge into the landscape and people emerge into blue backgrounds and take shape to give context for new beginnings. Works by 6 award winning contemporary artists: Ruth Bunnewell, Lara Cobden, Jane Lewis RWS, Martin Laurance, Shanti Panchal Hon […]
Margaux Williamson’s practice centres on painting but incorporates books, text and film projects, often in ways that connect and inform each other. Her figurative paintings frequently begin with writing, a […]
The Duveen Gallery is transformed by an immersive art work; this year the commissioned work is by Heather Phillipson.
Challenging Convention explores four women artists – Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), Laura Knight (1877-1970), Gwen John (1876-1939) and Dod Procter (1890-1972) - through their lives and work in a climate of modernism, […]
The exhibition explores our relationships between nature and the built environment through Alison Milner's creative use of imagery and materials. Decorative Minimalist features a large-scale, illustrated tile mural entitled Walk in the Park. […]
Anne Desmet writes,“I am delighted to have this opportunity to show with a select group of Royal Academician printmakers whose work I esteem highly. As with any group exhibition, it […]
This major new touring exhibition challenges the male-dominated narratives of post-war British sculpture by presenting a diverse and significant range of ambitious work by women. Breaking the Mould represents the work […]
Rebecca Chesney was a YSP Visiting Artist in 2010 and spent time surveying the parkland for species of bumblebees and solitary bees, and all the plants they feed on. After setting up […]
Tessa Newcomb and Robina Jack have long, successful careers as artists. Robina Jack’s painted plates and bowls focus on the menagerie that surrounds her: dogs, cats, hens and family history. Tessa Newcomb’s paintings record the garden, the greenhouse, the allotment; she draws you into her work, it feels intimate. The younger artists are Cornelia O’Donovan, […]
Jade Fadojutimi’s large-scale paintings combine abstract and figurative elements in compositions that have intense graphic energy. At the heart of Fadojutimi’s work is an introspective mining of facets of her […]
Solitary Acts, is an exhibition of drawings, collage and animation by Rachel Goodyear. The exhibition explores the agency of the individual, as the artist navigates between divergent modes of existence – conscious and subconscious, interior and exterior, fearful and desirous. Highlighted are new works on paper alongside a new single-screen version of Limina, an animation co-commissioned […]