Penelope Haralambidou's project 'City of Ladies' studies 'The Book of the City of Ladies', 1405, by Italian/French medieval author Christine de Pizan (1364 – c.1430). The text is part of a compilation assembled for Queen Isabeau of Bavaria between 1410 – 1414 (Harley MS 4431) the largest surviving collected manuscript of her works and one […]
Laws of Ordered Form is a new commission by Anna Ridler for Data / Set / Match, a programme exploring how digital technology and new categorisations increasingly influence the way humans and machines see and understand the world today. The project creates a “historic” ImageNet using labels and photographs from Victorian and Edwardian encyclopaedias to show how the echoes of historic […]
The End of the Sentence presents artist Judy Price’s research into the history of Holloway Women’s Prison. The exhibition reflects on the impact of the criminal justice system on women, […]
This selection of works demonstrates the genius in Marie Laurencin’s vision of a self-sufficient world of female affection and creativity. This exhibition seeks to celebrate Laurencin’s qualities as a great […]
‘Window’ is an exhibition by Isa Genzken featuring a new and unseen body of work. Genzken’s immersive environment expands on the themes of travel, through elements of an aircraft cabin, and the window as a juncture between interior and exterior spaces. In this respect, it reveals the artist’s interest in architecture and light. Genzken is […]
In a brief but explosively inventive career, Alina Szapocznikow (1926 – 1973) radically re-conceptualised sculpture as a vehicle for exploring, liberating and declaring bodily experience. In the exhibtion, ‘To Exalt the Ephemeral: Alina reveals the full expressive potential of her work through the material innovations she made during the last decade of her life. […]
Hannah Townsend’s sculptural vessels, merge the practices of ceramics and printmaking to reveal scrupulous order behind each expressive mark. In Marking Time, Hannah slip-casts beakers and bowls in white earthenware and creates large statement vessels using a hybrid casting-throwing technique that yields pleasingly irregular contours.
Emily Myers, Anna Silverton and Ali Tomlin are linked by their exploration to form and its relationship to the surface. This exhibition, Line & Form brings their work together, which explores the relationships between surface decoration and form.⠀
Neda Dana-Haeri’s work is based on the interplay of “cultural memory” and personal memory. Her art is driven by Persian poetry and Eastern philosophy, and her works reflect images of nature carrying with them the unconscious emotions of our daily life. Neda uses layers of colours and textures to reflect and infer nature, the unconscious […]
A line drawn by hand is a fundamental act for Wendy Smith and underpins her work. This exhibition, Forms of Life, offers a selection of new and previously unseen work stretching back to the late 90s that highlights the rich and seemingly endless possibilities that emerge as Wendy explores the mysteries inherent in drawn lines on a flat […]
An exhibition of works by Rose Finn-Kelcey (1945-2014), which focuses on key pieces from the 70’s to the 90’s, exploring a breadth of work central to Finn-Kelcey’s practice. She first came to prominence in the early 1970s as an artist central to the emerging communities of performance and Feminist art in the UK. The nature of Finn-Kelcey’s […]
Inscriptions IV, is a screening of 'Inscriptions of an Immense Theatre' at the Whitechapel Gallery, curated by Gareth Evans. Dr. Sarah Hayden (Department of English, University of Southampton) will be in conversation with Ailbhe Ní Bhriain on Thursday 5 March 7–9pm.
A new solo exhibition of work by Linder Sterling, who is well known for her photomontage. This exhibition explores the diverse range of Linder’s practice, and explores her as performance artist, zine-maker, musician, documentary-photographer, collaborator, muse, guru, medium and body-builder.
Abigail Reynolds travelled to the sites of fifteen former great libraries along the Silk Road to consider what a library means today. Her new work,Taken in a few seconds: by the reflection of light displays rare books and the oldest photograph from the Harris collection, alongside a moving image work giving voices to these objects and […]
Land of Dreams marks a pivot in Shirin Neshat’s gaze towards the “Western World” and opens the newest chapter in her practice. The exhibition comprises a portion of the 100+ photographic portraits and two video installations. For the first time, both mediums converge into one immersive experience to present a portrait of contemporary America under the […]
Nnena Kalu creates large–scale sculptural installations, by binding, layering and wrapping materials. Kalu explores space, scale and texture through repetitive and durational sculptural processes.
Unmanageable, is an exhibition of eleven recent paintings by painter and printmaker, Shara Hughes. This body of work proposes a novel exploration of interiority by using landscape as a model for working with and through consciousness. She began this series of paintings while offering support to close friends that were experiencing horrific tragedies and ordeals.
In this exhibition, SPIDER, Annegret Soltau will be restaging works from her early years in post-war Darmstadt, Germany. She presents works that examine themes of personal loss, identity, and transformation. The exhibition includes large-scale photo etchings, thread installations and archival works from the late 1970s and 80s.
Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles celebrates seven pioneering women who saw beyond the purely functional, to reveal the extraordinary artistic, social and cultural importance of textiles, and costume, which gives us a beautiful and intensely human insight into our history. This major collaborative project explores the innovative approaches of Edith Durham (1863 –1944), Louisa Pesel (1870 […]
Rethreading and Retracing is an exhibition by Bita Ghezelayagh, which gives us a glimpse into her practice that is influenced by her Iranian cultural heritage. She transforms old woven textiles and eastern carpets into new pictorial objects and works of art, by using traditional embroidery techniques along with found materials to transform disused textiles, giving them a […]