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 a title alluding to the poem, this exhibition, Telling it Slant, of Julie Cockburn’s latest work similarly excavates authentic stories by circuitous means. Using a rich material language, […]
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 […]
This exhibition by Harmony Hammond. features early and recent works, ranging in date from 1971 to 2019. As artist, curator, author and activist, Hammond was a pivotal figure in the feminist art movement in New York during the 1970s. Her early work combined gender politics with both a minimal and post-minimal understanding of materials and […]
This show celebrates the humanity and enduring impact of one of the most influential 20th-century printmakers – Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945). Notable for the emotional power of her drawing, printmaking and sculpture, the display explores the printed works of the socially-minded German artist through self-portraits and images of the poor and dispossessed.
Join us to celebrate the sixth Women to Watch programme, this year featuring female artists who focus on paper as a means of expression. The Women to Watch exhibition series features emerging or underrepresented artists from the states and countries in which NMWA has outreach committees. From illustrative to sculptural, this year’s exhibition explores paper […]
Details TBC but save the date for a very special opportunity to meet the artists over dinner in a private home in South Kensington after the Vernissage at Sotheby's. This key note event for UK Friends of NMWA will help us to defray the costs of mounting the show, and sending the British artist selected […]
A fascinating selection from Lessing’s extensive personal archive, is displayed for the first time, giving unprecedented insight into Doris Lessing’s life. The exhibition uses visual art and objects, alongside private correspondence and working papers, to explore the unfamiliar or forgotten aspects of Lessing’s life as well as iconic works that shaped her legacy. This exhibition […]