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 only recently been rediscovered thanks to the retrospective that Museo del Novecento in Milan dedicated to her in 2019. This selection of works cover ideas […]
The exhibition Nomi presents a focused body of work that was born from grief and trauma. Over the past two years, Zoe Buckman has undertaken a difficult, complex and spiritual journey resulting in a tentative yet defiant proclamation of love and joy as an antidote to the darker side of life. From a real voyage in […]
Taking inspiration from Central Core Imagery, this two-part online exhibition explores the work of leading female ceramicists: Lynda Benglis, with her Bird’s Nest Series; Zoe Williams creates unwearable shoes; and Jacqueline Poncelet creates abstract forms infused with sexuality. They all use central core imagery – whether explicitly or not – through the ‘open’ form.
Jessie Homer French’s exhibition, West Coast, brings together a vast range of works that encompasses a thorough investigation of the artist’s long-time practice.
Elene Chantladze's exhibition, August War, includes a selection of both new and earlier work, showing her breadth of painterly technique and, material, exploration.
Vanessa Baird’s work is story telling of a kind that is both potently provocative and emphatically individual. Her charged creations, made in pastel and watercolour, range from room-size murals to intimate self-portraits and draw on a wide range of references from her own lived experiences, as well as from Scandinavian folklore and literature. This exhibition, If ever there were an end to a story […]
On the deeds of many houses in Southchurch there is a covenant stating; residents are not allowed to make bricks or tiles from the clay underneath their feet, a seam nestled in the soil they walk on daily. Emma Edmondson will be exploring the untold history of local brickfields to create a permanent artwork formed […]
For Spectral Keepers, Sandra Mujinga illuminates the exhibition space with intense green lighting, immersing the viewer into an environment that feels part-nightclub, part-dimension travel dystopia. Inspired by the world-building practices found within video games, science-fiction novels and Afrofuturism, the artist invites us into an ethereal and viridescent world.
Heart of the Matter features new and recent works from Tracey Emin, Bridget Riley, Chantal Joffe, Jasmine Pradissitto, Sikelela Owen, Emma Prempeh, Layla Andrews, Eleanor Johnson, Sarah Jane Moon, Sahara Longe and Cecily Brown. Each artwork offers unique visions and explorations into the artist’s contemporary practice. Through Heart of the Matter, and in support of […]
To accompany 'On Hannah Arendt: eight proposals for exhibition', Laima Leyton draws on her multifaceted identity as a producer, musician, activist, artist, mother and teacher to create eight unique sound pieces in response to each exhibition in the programme and each chapter in Arendt's book. Titled collectively as Infinite past, Infinite Future and Now, the works […]
Drawn to the Line, is an online exhibition that brings together various types of drawings by Caroline McAdam Clark, Sula Rubens. Kate Scott, Jila Peacock and Jane Peacock. The drawings represent observational, imagined and impressed drawing scenes by the artists.
An exhibition of landscape paintings by Yasmin David (1939-2009) Yasmin’s work explores the beauty and light of the South Devon landscape near Dartmoor. One of few women working in landscape painting during the post-war period, David produced paintings which are both intimate and dramatic, emotional and turbulent, and captures the molten qualities of sky and […]
The exhibition, Natural Geometry, showcases the strong geometric sculpture of Halima Cassell and the exquisite feather constructions and installations of George Taylor, their first show together. Cassell and Taylor have a […]
Part II: Ceramics – The Central Core explores the fantastical, mythological and performative elements of the medium. The malleability of clay allows it to perform under and for an artist’s […]
This exhibition, Out of the Blue shouts out to a new optimism following recent lockdowns and isolation. Blue hues emerge into the landscape and people emerge into blue backgrounds and take […]
Margaux Williamson’s practice centres on painting but incorporates books, text and film projects, often in ways that connect and inform each other. Her figurative paintings frequently begin with writing, a […]
The Duveen Gallery is transformed by an immersive art work; this year the commissioned work is by Heather Phillipson.
Challenging Convention explores four women artists – Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), Laura Knight (1877-1970), Gwen John (1876-1939) and Dod Procter (1890-1972) - through their lives and work in a climate of modernism, […]
The exhibition explores our relationships between nature and the built environment through Alison Milner's creative use of imagery and materials. Decorative Minimalist features a large-scale, illustrated tile mural entitled Walk in the Park. […]
Anne Desmet writes,“I am delighted to have this opportunity to show with a select group of Royal Academician printmakers whose work I esteem highly. As with any group exhibition, it […]