Misunderstood and overlooked, moths are unloved by most humans. They are unseen in the dark and dismissed as ‘dull’ in favour of their flashier, diurnal cousins: the butterflies. In reality, moths are more numerous and varied than we perceive them to be, and they contribute much to the ecosystem’s biodiversity. Sarah Gillespie’s gorgeous mezzotint works […]
Ruth Brownlee is one of the best-known of the many artists practising in Shetland. Her much-loved seascapes can be seen in homes in and beyond the islands.
Inside Me, is an exhibition of new work by Alina Zamanova. It is an exploration of beauty in the feminine form, featuring paintings, sculpture and sketches. Zamanova is concerned with matters of the the human body, its flesh and the emotional darkness it possesses. Within a globalising world, the artist perceives each person to hold an internal struggle […]
Chila Kumari Singh Burman creates a new work for Tate Britain’s iconic façade. Blending styles and materials, Burman's feminist practice spans printmaking, painting, installation, and film. Drawing on her Punjabi heritage and Liverpudlian […]
In this landmark exhibition, Tracey Emin selects masterpieces by Edvard Munch to show alongside her most recent paintings. The exhibition features more than 25 of Emin’s works including paintings, some […]
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is an artist and writer acclaimed for her enigmatic portraits of fictitious people. This exhibition, Fly in League with the Night, brings together around 80 paintings and works on paper […]
This survey exhibition includes paintings and drawings from the past decade alongside recent work. Jennifer Packer is known for painting intimate portraits of friends and family members, and flower still […]
With a practice spanning ceramics, works on paper, photography and video, Karen Densham combines kitsch with satire. Her work aims to challenge assumptions about the world around us. Seemingly innocent, ornamental objects […]
Judy Buxton's inspiration is drawn from the surrounding landscape of the Lizard Peninsular, Cornwall - its tracts of brown ancient earth contrasted with verdant watery passages, ribboning the landscape. Her large painterly canvasses of light and reflection evoke a strong physical sense. The paint becomes the air and light that surrounds her in a built […]
A group show with artworks by three women artists Perle Fine, Jann Haworth and Claudia Hart. Fine and Haworth’s artworks are on display in the main gallery space; Mannequin Defectors shows Jann Haworth’s works on one level and Cool Series celebrating Perle Fine’s work will be on another, while Claudia Hart’s three-channel video installation of her pivotal artwork, The Ruins, […]
This major exhibition of Linda McCartney’s photography includes more than 200 iconic images, from the music scene of the 1960s, to family life with Paul.
Works by Kenturah Davis, Mary Kelly and Agnes Martin in Lines of Thought, an exhibition exploring the poetics and politics of language. Important unseen work by Kelly and new ‘text drawings’ […]
Aliza Nisenbaum is best known for her bright, large-scale portraits of community groups. Inspired by the dedication of Liverpool's key workers, the artist created a series of new paintings of […]
The first in a 12-month programme dedicated to the writings of the German-born, American political philosopher Hannah Arendt, ‘The Modern Age’ extends Arendt’s examination of tradition and the modern age […]
Emma Cousin’s figurative paintings feature dynamic, carnivalesque scenarios that explore the space between realism and fantasy, felt experience and communication. Responding to the limitations of language when used to articulate the complexities of human experience and emotions, Cousin considers how we might interact without it, in pre- or post-linguistic states. Taking this idea of ‘the […]
Liz Fontaine works with performance, drawing, text and video. Concerned with sex, relationships, people and politics, her live performances are excruciatingly funny: filled with heartbreak, devastation and charm. In Hurt Agony Pain Love It, Fontaine's compulsive, titillating and densely detailed drawings take the viewer on a journey through her mind. Part diary, part fantasy and part […]
In ‘Mercy’, Sabine Moritz presents a selection of paintings, works on paper and, for the first time, photographs, encapsulating the full-range of the artist’s practice. Collectively, the works in the show reflect upon and respond to the unprecedented political, economic and environmental shifts of the last 12 months, which, compounded by an incessant, global news […]
An online exhibition of works by Rachel Kneebone forms a dialogue with the artist Robert Morris and the avant-garde choreography of Mary Wigman and Merce Cunningham. ‘I have always been fascinated by dance: how bodies meld and merge, how new forms are created by dancers and how dance allows us to escape to a different […]
A major new commission and solo exhibition by Candice Lin, comprising a virtual reality animation, flesh-like sculptures and a large-scale medieval trebuchet.
With a career spanning more than 50 years, Marinella Pirelli’s artistic efforts and talent are under-recognised. A leading experimental filmmaker in the 1960s and 1970s, Pirelli’s 16mm film explorations have […]