The Queen of the Circus is an exhibition of works by Betty Parsons (1900 - 1982), one of the most influential and dynamic figures of the American avantgarde. The paintings and sculptures Parsons produced during her six-decade career formed part of a rigorous and experimental artistic practice that centred on abstraction and drew on diverse sources, from […]

Tschabalala Self’s new series, Street Scenes, pays homage to the energy of the city, from the frenetic visual culture of bodegas to the communal experience of waiting at a bus stop. These large-scale printed, painted, and collage works create a cityscape that brings the vibrancy and energy of Harlem into focus. Growing up nearby and […]

Claire Tabouret is acclaimed for her figurative painting representing groups and characters, which may recall those of Romantic painting. The tonalities adopted by Tabouret are sometimes dark and sometimes acidic, making her practice unique. For this exhibition, Claire Tabouret returns to portraiture. Depicting her relatives and friends’ figures, the canvases are tainted with personal experience, […]

Fons Americanus is a 13-metre tall working fountain inspired by the Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, London. Rather than a celebration of the British Empire, Kara Walker’s fountain explores the interconnected histories of Africa, America and Europe. She uses water as a key theme, referring to the transatlantic slave trade and the ambitions, fates […]

This exhibition is the work of two separate solo projects by Mamma Andersson and Tonico Lemos Auad at Frieze London. Both artists have produced new bodies of work especially for the fair. Auad has made a new series of geometric textiles that disrupt traditional modes of weaving, whilst Andersson has completed a small group of […]

Shani Rhys James is arguably the most exciting and successful Welsh artist of her generation and her considerable reputation, both in Wales and beyond, continues to grow apace. This latest exhibition, Sunflowers and Scissors, consists of approximately twenty-five new paintings, all executed in Shani’s bold style, with sumptuous colours and rich textures, confirming her painterly and […]

Coinciding with Camilla Løw’s forthcoming publication outdoors utendørs, the exhibition introduces the idea of transferral — outdoor sculpture elements within an enclosed space. The show title, Alfabet refers to the book by Danish poet Inger Christensen (1935 – 2009), where each chapter represents a single letter. With this system the artist follows a self-imposed order, simultaneously gaining […]

Elizabeth Peyton's Aire and Angels, explores the development of Peyton’s unique art from the 1990s to the present day.  She is one of the world’s leading contemporary artists and is internationally renowned.  Her work has been at the forefront of a re-evaluation of figurative art and the tradition of portrait painting since the 1990s. The exhibition includes […]

Mary Sibande presents a series of photographic and sculptural works exploring the power of imagination and constructive anger in shaping identities and personal narratives in a post-colonial world. I Came Apart at the Seams follows the transformative journey of Sibande’s avatar, Sophie. Taking form as a series of colourful human-scale sculptures modelled on Sibande herself, Sophie transgresses […]

Goshka Macuga’s practice focusses on studying the art of rhetoric and artifical memory as intricately linked tools for the organisation and advancement of knowledge.  She presents 18 new collages and a series of small woven tapestries.  The series attempts to systematize Macuga’s interest in different fields of knowledge, and create a method similar to computer programming […]

Orla Kiely is a successful fashion and lifestyle designers, whose stylised plant based patterns are innovative, influential and instantly recognisable. With enchanting applications, her flat, graphic style and choice of colour palette resonate with a nostalgia for vintage style and interiors. This exhibition, A Life of Pattern, explores Kiely's creative output and the power of decoration […]

This Centenary exhibition 1919 – 1999 traces Prunella Clough’s work from her early figurative depictions of dockworkers, fishermen, a lorry driver, as it evolves towards abstraction. The figures slowly disappear but Clough’s close observation of colour, texture and form remain constant throughout, as does her fascination with the human impact on landscape. It was this […]

A group of 15 new paintings by Eileen Cooper RA that fuse objective drawing from life, a new part of her practice, with the instantly recognisable, passionate and imaginative works for which she is best-known. Entitled Personal Space, the focus of the exhibition is on the female figure in nurturing and intimate spaces, explored with confidence, […]

160 years after the first pictures were exhibited by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1849, Pre-Raphaelite Sisters, explores the overlooked contribution of twelve women to movement, including Evelyn de Morgan, Effie Millais (nee Gray), Elizabeth Siddal and Joanna Wells (nee Boyce), whose work was largely omitted from the history of the movement. The exhibition features new discoveries and unseen works from public and private […]

Christina Quarles has gained international recognition for her bold and vibrantly coloured, post-Surrealist acrylic paintings of sensual, ambiguous bodies. Bodies that consist of multiple styles and parts, that float within, push against and burst from the confines of the large canvas walls in erotically-charged and tangled poses. The show will feature new and recent paintings and […]

Joy Labinjo's paintings depict intimate scenes of contemporary family life, capturing the everyday and the domestic. She creates her compositions by fusing different photographs together, instinctively collaging interiors and figures.

A new film exploring the erasure and revision of identities and histories past and future.  The work features performances by Yumna Marwan, Elizabeth Peace, boychild, and by Sophia Al-Maria herself. Each one is cast against the science fiction backdrop of a solar battle, as evoked by Etel Adnan in her 1989 war poem.  The Arab Apocalypse […]

Jo Crook collects seaweed specimens from south Devon beaches where they have been washed up and are at the end of their biological lives. There is no loss to their environment, nor to biodiversity. Their beauty is retained and made visible in these works. A seemingly endless variety of shape, size, form, texture and colour […]

An exhibition of new paintings by Naomi Frears, which consists of over 25 new works using oil on canvas, acrylic on wood, dry point on linen and mono printing. In this new series of work Frears depicts a variety of enigmatic human forms, that simultaneously confront the viewer and appear lost in their own worlds. […]