Ima-Abasi Okon works with sculpture, sound and video to produce installations that explore the historical and political charge of materials. Previous works have included the artist's own jewellery, used as a filter between spaces, or contained within medical liquids. For this exhibition, Okon repurposes industrial and handmade objects, removing their use-value or function, in order to explore the formation of […]
From research in the “special collections” of medical history and the modern labour suite, Anne Bevan and Janice Galloway have put together the words and sculptures of Rosengarten, taking the tools of obstetrics and pairing them with water, light, human hands and garden plants. Away from the heat and trauma of birth, seen in isolation or […]
Chilean artist Patricia Domínguez explores rituals and healing practices emerging in the contact zones between multiple cultures, worldviews and livelihoods. Informed by the study of ethnobotany in South America, her first UK solo exhibition, Green Irises, invites the viewer to envision possible futures for humans, plants and animals thriving in the cracks of modernity. The exhibition features newly-commissioned […]
An exhibition to celebrate the American artist Elizabeth Murray (1940 – 2007. The exhibition highlights a dramatic decade that saw Murray’s work dominate the art scene of 1980s New York. Her innovative paintings paved the way for a revival of the medium that included Julian Schnabel, David Salle and Anselm Kiefer. This landmark exhibition, Flying […]
Group Hat is inspired by Lauren Godfrey’s impression of the De La Warr Pavilion and the town of Bexhill as a ‘porous chorus’ of people, organisations, buildings, pieces of furniture, steps and surfaces that together form a whole. Many of the works in Group Hat have been developed in conversation and collaboration with local organisations.
The Potter's Space is an exhibition of the renowned ceramicist, Jennifer Lee. It includes 40 works made from different periods throughout Lee’s entire career as well as new pots which have been especially made for the exhibition at Kettle’s Yard. Jennifer Lee is a major presence to have emerged from studio ceramics of the 1970s, whose practitioners dismantled […]
The Bird in Borrowed Feathers’, is a solo exhibition by the Dutch photographer Hellen van Meene. Her work is renowned worldwide for its distinctive photographic approach. Working in analogue and principally in small format, she focuses on the experiences of young people at the stage between adolescence and adulthood.
Join us to explore the group show Where Were You at Night, a second in a trilogy of group shows at the S|2 gallery where a work of literature forms a conceptual framework for an exhibition and is accompanied by a new edition and reprinting of a story. The first group show, House of the Sleeping Beauties, took […]
The exhibition Her Ground: Women Photograph the Landscape highlights the contributions made by women to contemporary photography, and address ideas of how landscape can be viewed through the female gaze. The exhibition sets out to raise questions around how we define our landscape today, and touches on notions of visibility, ownership, identity, and social or political agency. Artists exhibiting include: Lisa Barnard, Maja Daniels, […]
Motherline, is a group exhibition of ceramics, tapestry and printmaking, Glenys Barton and others. The exhibition explores the emergent expression of identity and memory, visibility and the unconscious, fantasy, myth and the uncanny within the sphere of female experience.
It may be summer, but we can't let this fabulous retrospective go without a visit. If you are free on 18th July to join us for a wonderful visit to the Barbican with an introduction to the exhibition from the curator Eleanor Nairne please RSVP now. This event will proceed only if we get a […]
Marie Neurath and her team at the Isotype Institute produced over 80 illustrated children’s books from 1944-1971 in a pioneering collaboration between researchers, artists and writers. Using infographics and illustrated diagrams to explain scientific concepts, Neurath’s books mark a defining moment in information design for children. The exhibition includes spreads and working materials from book […]
From her early naturalistic style – honed during her studies in France – to her highly abstracted self-portraits, this exhibition will present Schjerfbeck for the first time to UK audiences.
Awkward Beauty is a Lucy Jones retrospective, spanning 25 years of work. For the first time her self-portraits, landscapes, and works on paper are exhibited together, offering a deep insight into Jones’ prolific and varied practice. Expressive colour, painterly brush work and bold simplicity distinguish her as one of the most significant British painters working today. Often […]
Moyra Davey is always aware of the inevitable end, she constructs a practice conscious of its own past and reliant on radical self-doubt. Her photographs, films, and essays cross-reference and depend on one another as she makes a subject of her own process and its intentions, fears, and failures.
"A Mind For Moonlight", is an exhibition of new work by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. The exhibition features a new group of paintings, including portraits and figures in landscapes. Her subjects, black men and women, are bold, often confronting the viewer; the works evoke a narrative that is up to the viewer to reconstruct.
The Ballroom table’s Perspex box has been transformed by Candace Bahouth into a creative hot house - Box of Delights! A riot of colour, pattern and mosaic, Candace takes the ordinary and reimagines it to create bizarre, surreal and fanciful objects.
Above the Eye Level is an exhibition of works in textile by Leonor Serrano Rivas.
In the nineteenth century, long before the current era of fake news, Emily Dickinson wrote a meditation on truth in her poem Tell all the Truth but Tell it Slant. With […]
Mona Hatoum’s work reflects on subjects that arise from our current global condition, including systems of confinement, the architecture of surveillance and themes of mobility and conflict. Channelling the poetic charge and metaphoric resonance of a wide range of materials from steel, brick and concrete, to rubble, glass and human hair, in this exhibition, Remains […]