In her exhibition Hot Water, Frances Waite explores the domestic bathroom setting as the backdrop for a new suite of drawings, exposing the ambiguities of this secluded space and private activity. It is this environment, traditionally associated with cleansing and ritualistic purification, that becomes fertile ground for her main conceptual concerns: the stage on which scenes […]
Rewild, an exhibition by Orlanda Broom, features a new series of paintings created over the course of the last lockdown year; these buoyant works provide a colourful escape from our current state of being. Through her signature lush and saturated style, the artist depicts worlds both fantastical and surreal, absent of human or animal but abundant […]
An exhibition of work by Carol Rhodes (1959–2018). Organised in partnership with the Carol Rhodes Estate, whose curator Andrew Mummery worked closely with the artist for much of her career, the exhibition will include landmark paintings and rarely-shown drawings dating between 1995 and 2016. Rhodes produced a highly individual body of paintings describing the encroachment […]
The show presents Rana Begum’s ongoing investigation into the interaction between colour, light and form and how this operates within both two and three dimensional space. This new collection of work reveals how Begum’s practice has diverged and evolved, setting her precise minimalism against a new exploration into amorphous materials. She uses a layering process across […]
The works in our current exhibition, Dancing Into the Light - "letting rip", are from Wilhelmina Barnes-Graham's highly productive period. Dancing into the Light, refers to this confident unleashing of expression. 'Willie' said her work was about expressing what she felt as well as what she saw. These works are packed full of movement, balance and […]
Stories of the Imaginary (self-portrait of two lemons), is an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Stefanie Heinze - a playful and introspective body of work, which blurs the boundaries between waking and dreaming. Through expressive arrangements, Heinze draws on recent experience of restricted movement and limited social interaction, offering the surface of the canvas […]
For Cache, Kapwani Kiwanga created a series of formal sculptures and installations that continue her interrogation of history, power and resistance. Using materials including ceramic, metal, gold leaf, embroidery, textile and mirror, Kiwanga’s mixed-media works and wall-based reliefs revolve around the formal exploration of Cosmogonies, which encapsulate numerous creation myths from Asia, Latin American and Africa. Kiwanga’s research-based […]
A solo exhibition featuring four key works Spite Your Face (2017), Eyes To Me (2015), Germs (2013) and The Lion and the Unicorn (2012) showcases a decade of Rachel Maclean’s fantasy worlds. Alongside the unveiling of Maclean’s new commission upside mimi ᴉɯᴉɯ uʍop, audiences are invited to delve further into the imagination of Rachel Maclean […]
Pakui Hardware (artists Neringa Cerniauskaite and Ugnius Gelguda presents a newly devised commission created specially for Baltic's level 2, gallery space. It explores the subject of robotic and virtual care at a particularly significant moment, when we find ourselves more concerned than ever with the quality and accessibility of healthcare. Pakui Hardware’s work considers the […]
Greta Schödl is one of the most significant visual and concrete poetry artists living in Italy today. Active from the 1960s, when the presence of female artists using text represented a minority, Schödl has spent the past six decades honing a unique visual language through a range of mythical compositions. Her work incorporates letters and symbols, […]
The techniques and materials that Carey Mortimer uses are quintessential to her work. The paintings have their beginnings far beyond the first brush strokes; with pigments being ground from collected rocks, coral and burnt vines, ink taken from local cuttlefish. Carey is a contemporary British painter who uses these ancient techniques to convey her very […]
This exhibition of work by Prunella Clough (1919 – 1999) and Alan Reynolds (1926 – 2014), brings together two of the most important figures in twentieth-century British painting, exploring between them, figuration, abstraction, cubism, ‘concrete’ art, and collage. Prunella Clough is widely regarded as one of the most singular and significant British artists of the […]
DATES TBC This exhibition is a rare chance to experience two of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms. These immersive installations will transport you into Kusama’s unique vision of endless reflections. Infinity Mirrored Room – Filled with the Brilliance of Life is one of Kusama’s largest installations to date and was made for her 2012 retrospective at the […]
This exhibition of new works by Bronwyn Katz is titled ‘I turn myself into a star and visit my loved ones in the sky’. It includes ten new sculptures that deal with materiality, narrative and social history and addresses how each of these are intrinsically interconnected. Her thinking is developed around ‘earth matter: its origins […]
p- ool- s o-f t- he ou- t- l- ine- s incorporates a score titled Knives (2017), collaboratively produced by Anna Barham through computer and human reading processes. The score contains over a hundred versions of a short passage from Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, by the Brazilian Czech-born philosopher, writer and journalist, Vilém Flusser. The book presents a speculative investigation of the vampire squid to consider human and […]
Group Show with Cigdem Aky, Jack Bidewell, Gabriela Giroletti, Emilia Kina, Adeline de Monseignat, Natascha Schmitten, Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, Panos Tsagaris, Adia Wahid. In the context of art, the ancient Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi is often defined as a kind of flawed beauty, an appreciation for the anomalies that arise in nature or during the process […]
Curtiss’ first exhibition in London, featuring new paintings, works on paper and sculptures. Curtiss’ paintings are carefully composed, framed and cropped with a cinematographic instinct for arresting image and a keen eye for the absurdities of everyday life. With their saturated colour, crisp detail, and scenarios which are at once banal and bizarre, they have […]
Hilary Pecis paints kaleidoscopic portraits of her Los Angeles environs, spanning interior scenes, cityscapes, still lifes and landscape paintings, that draw from photographs and memories. Piecemeal Rhythm is Pecis’ first solo exhibition in the U.K. The title of the exhibition references the cadences of daily life depicted in Pecis’s paintings, where the casual disarray of […]
Mélanie Matranga's films, installations and sculptures are at once intimate and elegiac. Her work asks fraught and timely questions about images and memory, privacy and proximity. Titled 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, the artist presents works that were made over the last year. At a time when we have become accustomed to confinement and isolation, 0, 1, 2, […]
The exhibition brings together a group of new site specific paintings and works on paper by Sara Hughes, a series of large-scale flower paintings, which hangs together in the Nave, a vast space at the heart of the Museum. For this exhibition, Hughes takes a more pointed approach to the imaginative landscapes that have defined her […]