The drawings and paintings on show are the work of six women who worked as war artists during the First World War. They provide an interesting perspective on women’s roles during the war, and on the relationships between men and women in a variety of wartime situations.
The exhibition, Chinwag, presents an array of Alice Irwin’s new works, including colourful, multi-layered screenprints and etchings, complemented by sketches and preparatory studies that offer insights into her meticulous creative process. Through diverse shapes, sizes, and colours of Irwin’s cast of characters, the exhibition presents a dialogue on the range of personalities in social gatherings and […]
The exhibition, The Lightclub of Batavia, showcases a combination of new and existing works by Sinta Tantra. It features iridescent gold and Prussian blue paintings that adorn the Manor’s walls and platforms, complemented by brass sculptures. These pieces, shimmering in the changing light of the day and changing seasons, offer a unique sensory experience similar to […]
An Idea of a Life, responds to everyday histories of the women-led community who lived in Barking Abbey from c.666AD through to the early 16th Century. This exhibition tells stories that are both imagined and informed by archaeological finds, records and ongoing research emerging from the site of the former Abbey. The exhibition holds newly […]
Sylvia Snowden: Painting Humanity, presents a selection of work from a career that spans six decades, the exhibition includes large early paintings through to more recent works. Snowden works with oil paint and pastels as well as acrylic and collage to create her expressionist, distorted, monumental figures, capturing the psychological essence of her subjects – […]
Manual Labour is an immersive environment, comprising film, sculpture, print and sound, the exhibition explores the process of becoming a mother, and its creative and destructive power. The exhibition includes a choreographed mechanical sculpture which considers the physical act of labour. The work captures the beauty and struggle of the transition in the sculpture’s brutal, […]
An exhibition of vivid, colour-filled textiles by post-war designer Shirley Craven. The exhibits are displayed together for the first time in over 60 years alongside newly acquired unique works from her days as a Student at the RCA.
Anne Rothenstein’s work transports viewers into a space where colour and form intertwine with everyday objects and landscapes to create profound emotional scenes. Using delicate layers of oil paint washes, Rothenstein builds a distinctive palette, layering her compositions with a luminous quality of depth and texture. Drawing inspiration from found imagery, personal experiences, and memories
Show me the World Mister, is an exhibition by Ayo Akingbade comprising two new film commissions. Shot in location in Nigeria, The Fist and Faluyi are Akingbade's most ambitious productions to date, building upon her continued interest in history, place-making, legacy and power.
Spanning 400 years, this exhibition, Now You See us: Women Artists in Britain 1520 - 1921, follows women on their journeys to becoming professional artists. From Tudor times to the First World War, artists such as Mary Beale, Angelica Kauffman, Elizabeth Butler and Laura Knight paved a new artistic path for generations of women. They challenged what it meant to be […]
The Shape of Things, questions the idea that still life is a lesser genre, showing how important it is to artists and society. Featuring a ‘Who’s Who’ of Modern and Contemporary British artists, the exhibition digs into still life’s rich symbolism and how it has pushed boundaries and new ideas. The exhibition shifts from 17th-century […]
Vanessa Bell (1879 –1961) was one of the leading artists associated with the Bloomsbury Group. This focused display in Project Space comprises 3 paintings, 1 woodcut and 8 works on paper. It includes her masterpiece 'A Conversation', as well as the bold, abstract textile designs she produced for the Omega Workshops, which aimed to abolish the […]
The work of Phyllida Barlow (1944 – 2023) is a celebration of the artist’s transformative approach to sculpture, and marks the gallery’s 10th anniversary that was inaugurated by Barlow’s solo exhibition ‘GIG’ in 2014. Over a career that spanned six decades, Barlow took inspiration from her surroundings to create imposing installations that can be at […]
Spanning the River Lea, On WindTides is a large-scale text installation by Helen Cammock that explores movement, migration and change. It consists of a short prose, on either side of a 60-metre cable bridge just north of Cody Dock. One side of the bridge reads ‘we fold ourselves across the tides,’ whilst the other side reads ‘from […]
Flora Yukhnovich and François Boucher: The Language of the Rococo prompts visitors to reconsider preconceptions, explore how we can connect with the Rococo today and examine the impact of display on art interpretation and historical re-evaluation.
A major UK survey of visual activist Zanele Muholi. The exhibition is based on the artist’s 2020-21 exhibition at Tate Modern and will include new works produced since then.
The title of this new exhibition refers to Alchemy – an ancient practice that included trying to change ordinary metal into gold, and Bharti Kher’s work has these ideas of magical transformation at its heart. Mythology plays an essential role and is a major source of inspiration. Stories of imagined creatures and spirits who live […]
The exhibition brings together works on paper, paintings, textile pieces and sculptures made across the artist’s seven-decade long career, from a rare early painting, made in the 1940s, to examples of her iconic bronze Spider sculptures from the 1990s, and À l’Infini, a series of monumental works on paper that envelop and immerse the viewer, made during the final […]
Known for her immersive installations, large-scale sculptures and intricate paintings, Yayoi Kusama often features kabocha, or pumpkin, in her work. Since 1946 Kusama’s pumpkins have taken many forms, colours and shapes, but they are always covered in the artist’s signature polka dot pattern. Pumpkin (2024) is Kusama’s tallest bronze pumpkin sculpture to date, standing at 6 […]
Inspired by the ancient Roman temple of Mithras discovered on the Bloomberg site, Macuga invites viewers to delve into the rich tapestry of Roman mythology, particularly the intriguing narrative surrounding the god Mithras, to whom the temple was dedicated. Born From Stone explores these themes through a transformational cave-like installation, featuring sculptural rock formations which evoke the […]
Lina Iris Viktor's work unearths connections across time and cultures, from ancient Egypt to medieval illumination and indigenous Australian art. In bringing together these connections, she mirrors Soane’s own eclectic approach to collecting objects from varied cultures and time periods. Viktor’s sculptural works, made especially for this exhibition, Mythic Time/Tens of Thousands of Rememberings, are […]
This major survey of feminist art celebrates the women who challenged and changed the face of British culture. You will discover the powerful and often provocative work of over 100 artists and collectives forged against the backdrop of seismic social, economic and political change over two decades. Artists in this exhibition address a range of […]
NAOMI: In Fashion is the first exhibition to celebrate the skill and contribution of an individual model to the fashion industry. The exhibition draws upon Campbell's own extensive wardrobe of haute couture and ready-to-wear ensembles from key moments in her career, along with loans from designer archives and objects from the V&A's collections.
This exhibition brings together a wide range of Leonora Carrington’s work, to show the span of her output across a wide range of media. Loans include a wall of masks; a series of masks made for a theatrical production of The Tempest in the 1950s; original lithographs; tapestries; sketches; sculptures; jewelry – and of course […]
Shiomi’s sophisticated woodcut prints combine relief and intaglio methods. They are rooted in the traditional technique of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock printmaking. Shiomi uses traditional icons that have become synonymous with Japanese culture and daily life. Her work explores philosophy and popular culture to reconsider the interchange of influence between Britain and Japan. Her objects […]
This duo exhibition features the works of the first British Constructivist artist Marlow Moss (1889-1958) and the Hungarian pioneer of computer art Vera Molnár (1924-2023). Both women artists, pioneers in their field, Moss with her precise drawings, executed with pencil, ruler and compass in the 1940s, and Molnár working with early 1970s computer plotter apparatus. […]
The exhibition Troupe, refers to a group of amateurs or community theatre players. "The stage is a simplistic metaphor for life," writes Christina Zimpel, where the private moments of doubt, anxiety or confidence are of particular interest to the painter. Implied in the definition of 'troupe' is also the notion of movement, of travelling, which is […]
Ice Moon Fire Land, an exhibition by Victoria Crowe, runs concurrently with the artist's show at the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney. The works in this exhibition take inspiration from nature and its transformations during the white nights of the summer solstice and the dark splendor of midwinter. Exploring the ephemerality and fragility of the […]
The 1932 French drama Dainah La Métisse serves as the jumping-off point for the body of work in Agbo Godeau’s solo show, What Have You Done with Her? (Part 2), follows a longstanding interest of the French-born artist in drawing from film and photography in her oeuvre to explore questions around identity.
SPIT, is a duo exhibition of painting, sculpture, sound and film by artists Emmanuel Awuni and Divine Southgate-Smith. Conceived together over a year-long research driven collaboration, SPIT explores the untethered rhythms of abstraction, architecture, poetry and song.
Yi Liu is known for her unique blend of Eastern and Western painting techniques. Her latest series, Searching the Mountains, continues her exploration of traditional oriental imagery while incorporating Western artistic methods.
Rana Begum’s new Louvre series explores how different materials interact with light and considers texture, density, reflection and transparency. Uniform panels of glass, stone and metal are tilted and repeated to create suspended and wall-based works. Begum’s exhibition demonstrates a move towards a more meditative practice that seeks to distil and simplify, creating a space for […]
Enter a world of Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum’s creation in ‘It Will End in Tears’. The exhibition is presented in a series of life-size dioramas; viewing paintings in a narrative sequence, as a story unfurls of a ‘femme fatale’ film noir character living in an imagined colonial outpost. You discover what happens when the main character […]
Tracing Time, is a new exhibition of paintings by Rebecca Salter PRA that presents works made over the last six years. The exhibition traces the artist’s preoccupation with line and materials, which have been a continued territory of exploration throughout her career. Presenting both small and large scale works, the exhibition showcases the breadth of […]
Simryn Gill's exhibition, includes photography, works on paper and sculpture, featuring works from the last six years. Shelter highlights the artist’s pivotal role in contemporary ecological discourse.
Mourning Marsyas, is an exhibition of new works by Marlene Dumas. The paintings in this show are created through a mixture of chance and intention, mostly evolving in a dance through time, combining very fast and focused actions with reflective pauses. Here, Dumas’s style as well as subjects move between being in and out of […]
Yayoi Kusama’s exhibition premieres a new Infinity Mirror Room and introduces works from a new series of paintings, entitled Every Day I Pray for Love. Created in a more intimate format, these paintings continue the artist's singular explorations of line and form. Often minutely detailed, with characteristically bold accents of colour, they evoke both microscopic and macroscopic […]
The exhibition, La Perez es el Milagros de dies (Idleness is the Misrule of God) presents eleven new works on canvas made by the artist this year. Torres practice is deeply rooted in her upbringing and the culture of Colombia’s Caribbean coast, in this body of work the artist explores notions of the absurd, miracles and […]
This exhibition by Susan Hefuna, Liaten to: The Sound of Earth, Sun, Water and Air, showcases her latest series of textile works, in which she presents her most recent body of textile works; a series which reflects on the fragility of life, nature and humankind. Reminding viewers of the cycle of time, LISTEN TO: The […]
Centred on concepts of visibility and erasure, the exhibition brings together paintings, prints and drawings from across Barbara Walker’s career, including her most recent Turner Prize nominated series Burden of Proof (2022-23),. The exhibition includes a commission focusing on the Windrush generation and in response to the Whitworth’s collection of historic drawings and wallpaper.
Anna Perlin is an established painter and print-maker whose distinctive work is inspired by a love of the British countryside. In her paintings, fabric and paper collage add texture and depth alongside paint, oil pastel and charcoal. Sarah Jenkins creates hand-built stoneware ceramics.
A presentation of works by Dawn Ng at Frieze London. The presentation includes a new series of ‘Ash’ paintings and photographic prints.
A retrospective exhibition of artworks by Everlyn Nicodemus. It includes drawings, collages, paintings and textiles from the last 40 years of the artist’s life, as well as new works created especially for this show. This inspiring experience is made possible because Nicodemus won the prestigious Freelands Award in 2022. She is an artist, writer and […]
Now in her 80s, Vija Celmins is best known for her obsessive, detailed images of ocean waves and the star-filled night sky. She is recognised for her highly executed drawings and her practice in printmaking, her delicate images are based on photographs of the sea, deserts, the night sky and other natural phenomena. This exhibition […]
Encounter the women of medieval Europe through their own words, visions and experiences. The exhibition presents the rich and complex lives of women in the Middle Ages, with over 140 extraordinary items that reveal their artistry, resourcefulness, courage and struggles.