A retrospective of the work of Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011), one of the most significant American artists of the twentieth century. A key member of the second generation of abstract expressionist painters, she made a major contribution to the subsequent development of abstract painting with works acclaimed for their bold forms and colours.
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The Making of Husbands is a major exhibition that brings together works by Christina Ramberg (1946–1995), her contemporaries and younger artists to explore the urgency with which her work speaks to the current debate around gender and identity. Artists include: Alexandra Bircken, Gaylen Gerber, Allen Jones, Konrad Klapheck, Ghislaine Leung, Hans Christian Lotz, Senga Nengudi, Ana […] Arrowcut Slab (colliding not thriving) is a new temporary public artwork by Rosie Grace Ward consisting of two new site specific works for the annual railway bridge commission on Southend High Street. Drawing inspiration from Southend’s Anglo Saxon history, each panel – one decorative, one figurative, depict both sides of an intricately carved slab of stone. Digitalised […] 'I Saw the World End’ created by Es Devlin and Machiko Weston, and Voices of War form part of an IWM programme to mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Victory 75 invites reflection on the momentous events that led to the culmination of the conflict and questions the fundamental […] Toyin Ojih Odutola proposes speculative fictions, inviting the viewer to enter her vision of an uncannily familiar yet fantastical world. Working like an author or poet, she often spends months creating extensive imaginary narratives, which play out through a series of works to suggest a structure of episodes or chapters. Drawing on an eclectic range […] From our celebrated collection of some of Britain’s most recognised fine art painters and printmakers, this body of work, State of Being, captures and interprets the human form. Each of our artists brings a different perspective, and include Henrietta Dubrey, Sara Hayward, Míla Fürstová, Chris Orr. For some, the subtlety of expression can only be deciphered with […] In her distinctive approach to painting, Aileen Murphy generates imagery through a combination of slow layering and fast applications of oil paint, animating a delicate urgency and sparking sensations of both epiphany and discomfort. Fictive characters are the focal points of Murphy’s paintings. The figures fluctuate under the viewer’s eye, revealing and concealing themselves behind and via the […] The centrepiece of this exhibition reimagines the ‘Five Senses’ collaboration between Rubens and Brueghel, which Olivia Kemp’s new paintings reinterpret. Each painting presents one of the five senses as a figure, surrounded by imagery that illustrates the theme. Olivia’s uses these compositions as templates to bring together a stream of both art historical and personal associations. […] Chantal Joffe: For Esme – with Love and Squalor, explores the intimate act of painting and portraiture. Taking its name from J.D. Salinger’s short story For Esmé – with Love and Squalor (1950) in which time hangs as heavy as the protagonist’s ‘enormous-faced chronographic-looking wristwatch’, the exhibition captures the changing faces across the years of Chantal and […] Elizabeth Price’s trilogy of new multi-channel video works, SLOW DANS, includes KOHL, FELT TIP and THE TEACHERS. These present a fictional past, parallel present and imagined future, interweaving compact narratives that explore social and sexual histories and our changing relationship between the material and the digital. It is a large-scale installation conceived by the artist for a repurposed 19th century assembly […] Jo Spence (1934-1992) emerged as a key figure in British photography in the mid-1970s. Engaging with a range of photographic genres, from commercial to documentary and photo therapy, Spence took a unique approach to the camera, swerving academic theories and embracing a model based on experimentation and personal experience. Photo Therapy features work from the artist’s series […] In the artist's own words "My interest in painting lies with non-representation and abstraction. I have no desire to make obvious comment or narrative about external worldly matters when painting. My focus resides in the process and construction of the work, allowing unplanned outcomes to emerge. I prefer to leave the painting where something is […] Helen Cammock explores social histories through film, photography, print, text, song and performance. She is motivated by her commitment to questioning mainstream historical narratives around blackness, womanhood, wealth, power, poverty and vulnerability. Mining her own biography in addition to the histories of oppression and resistance, multiple and layered narratives reveal the cyclical construct of histories. […] An exhibition of new paintings created during a residency with the gallery in Venice by Flora Yukhnovich. Her sources include the music of Vivaldi and the memoirs of Casanova, in addition to one of her key influences, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, whose works include ceiling frescoes in the Ca’ Rezzonico museum and the Chiesa Santa Maria della Visitazione, […] Ndakavata pasi ndikamutswa nekuti anonditsigira, is an exhibition of new paintings by the Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera. The title translates from Shona to English as ‘I took my rest in sleep and then I awoke for He sustained me.’ In her paintings, Zvavahera gives form to emotions that manifest from other realms and dimensions beyond […]
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The title of the exhibition, Jesture, touches on a sense of the absurd, responding to the disruption of daily rhythms arising from forced isolation during lockdown. Central to Jade Fadojutimi’s practice is a repeated questioning of identity, its fluid nature and how the understanding of notions of pleasure, desire and choice are integral to a […] For her new commission Rabiya Choudhry has created a mural, Big Broon Stressed Oot Eyes, in response to the current collective moment. With characteristic Glaswegian humour Choudhry has created a playful image of two large eyes which peer anxiously from Tramway's two front gallery windows. Gillian Wearing continues her exploration of identity, fiction, reality and the mask presenting a series of new works on paper, board, sculpture and film. Conceived over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the exhibition Lockdown, focusses mainly on works made during the lockdown. Her new watercolour portraits have all been created in this time of self-reflection […] A selection of new works by British sculptor Holly Hendry, whose large site-responsive sculptures and installations are concerned with what lies beneath the surface and the idiosyncrasies of the human body in all its lived, material and messy forms. Casting is central to the artist’s process, using an array of materials including steel, jesmonite, silicone, ash, […] Alison Britton’s is one of the most important and influential ceramic artists working in Britain today, and her practice has remained focussed on the vessel, exploring its features both formal and conceptual. This exhibition is entitled Heat Work. Monster/Beauty: An Exploration of the Female/Femme Gaze, is a group exhibition curated by Marcelle Joseph featuring the artwork, ephemera and archival photographs of nineteen female-identifying or queer femme artists who portray the feminine body in its sexed or sexual state, empowering the womxn artist as both subject and object as well as image and image-maker. This exhibition is comprised of new work created by Cicely Brown in response to Blenheim's Palace’s history as an English country estate, and as the home to successive generations of the Spencer-Churchill family and their collection of paintings, tapestries and decorative arts. Rendered in her emotive, frenetic brushstrokes, Brown’s new series visually references masterpieces by Sir […] Sophie Barber's exhibition The Greatest Song and Songbird Ever Sung is part of a new series of large-scale paintings for the Episodes series at Goldmiths. Barber’s painterly practice revolves around her interest in the natural world, and life on the Sussex coast. Often humorous and tender these heavily impastoed canvases of significant scale, simultaneously dictate an intimacy and architectural […] Huma Bhabha’s exhibition Against Time, focusses on the figure. Bhabha’s work addresses themes of colonialism, war, displacement and memories of home. Her influences are wide ranging, from ancient Egyptian statuary, African art, Classicism, Cubism and German Expressionism to science fiction and horror films. This exhibition spans the last two decades of Bhabha’s work, bringing together an impressive cast […] Miho Sato uses acrylic and board to display the work in her current exhibition Freedom. In this exhibition, which they have curated, Christine and Jennifer Binnie use their own work to complement pieces chosen from the Gallery's collection. The exhibition guides the visitor through a journey that reflects on and embraces our place in this changing world, exploring themes of nature, the body, meaning and the cycles of life. They […] Train Yards, is an exhibition of paintings by Mary Weatherford. She roots abstract painting in subjective experience, evoking urban and rural environments while experimenting with internal painterly dynamics around light, color, and gesture, as well as the relationship between a painted surface and various three-dimensional addenda. Weatherford prepares each canvas with a mixture of gesso and […] Mud Season, is an exhibition of new works by Lisa Sanditz. One of the most celebrated landscape painters working in America today, Sanditz’s richly coloured works explore humanity’s impact on the natural world. She depicts the landscape as a reflection of contemporary cultural values. The eighteen works, made during lockdown in the United States in the […] Can You Hear Me? by Nalini Malani is a commissioned work, which embodys the role of the artist as social activist. In her exhibition Malani gives voice to the marginalised through visual stories which often take the form of multi-layered, immersive installations, exploring themes of violence, feminism, politics, racial tensions and post-colonial legacies. This exhibition explores Nancy Holt’s use of language in her ground-breaking work of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the video installation Points of View and a selection of early concrete poems. Points of View was made for the Clocktower Gallery in New York, where each of the four monitors is set to the circular windows of this […] Colour, Carmen Herrera says, is always about “a dialogue”, as she has always been “curious about two colours reacting or dancing with each other”. Thus, paintings in her exhibition “Colour Me” testify to her words in a trio of panels — “Blues” (1991), “Two Yellows” (1992) and “Horizontal” (1992). Herrera paints the surface in one […] Most well known for her photomontage, this exhibition displays the diverse range of Linder Sterling's practice. It explores Linder as performance artist, zine-maker, musician, documentary-photographer, collaborator, muse, guru, medium and body-builder. Linder was an active figure in the punk and post-punk music scenes, and is probably best known for the album covers which she created, […] This exhibition spans Marina Abramovic’s work – including live re-performances of iconic works, as well as brand new works. It brings together works spanning her 50-year career, along with new works conceived especially for this exhibition. As Abramović approaches her mid-70s, her new work reflects on changes to the artist’s body, and explores her perception […] |
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Impromptu(s), is an exhibition by Juliette Dominati and Clare Burnett — two artists that share an understanding of the everyday sublime, conjuring practices from observing the immediate, adapting, altering contexts, shifting perspectives. Both artists find themselves struck by a material or an object that sets them on a journey; these spontaneous improvisations shed light on our habits, our history and […] |
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Marianna Castillo Deball’s exhibition focuses on sharing the stories of a number of little-known female anthropologists and indigenous storytellers and makers. To do this, the artist recreates historical artefacts and reconfigures display cases to expose how museum collections both conceal and reveal historical narratives and shape our understanding of the world. Between Making and Knowing Something is […] Kiki Smith is recognized for her prolific and wide-ranging multidisciplinary career spanning over four decades, which has addressed the social, cultural and spiritual aspects of human nature. Much of Smith’s work is inspired by her own perceptions of animals and the natural world as it changes through the seasons, blended with the imagery of folklore, […] Through a collage-like installation featuring pottery, photography and textiles, Mariana Castillo Deball works to uncover stories and individuals often hidden in traditional museum displays. While the gallery is temporarily closed, you can still enter Mariana Castillo Deball: Between Making and Knowing Something online to discover new insights into the exhibition. |
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Artemisia Gentileschi challenged conventions and defied expectations to become a successful artist and one of the greatest storytellers of her time. She painted subjects that were traditionally the preserve of male artists and for the male gaze; transforming meek maidservants into courageous conspirators and victims into survivors. In this first major exhibition of Artemisia’s work in […] “In September 2019 I spent some time drawing at Wildegoose Nursery, South Shropshire, an exquisite garden surrounded by a high, red brick wall. This experience became unexpectedly rich with metaphor during Lockdown when I was barred from the hills I love and felt cut off from the horizon. I dug into my walled garden memories […] Nicole Eisenman brings together a diverse multidisciplinary language through mixed media works on paper, sculpture and painting. This exhibition, Where I Was, It Shall Be, presents the fluid transition and interchangeable approach Eisenman takes to sculptural image making, painting and larger-scale outdoor installations. Her oeuvre is distinctive in its emphasis upon the allegorical and its confident combination […] |
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Flowered Songs and Broken Currents is an exhibition of new work by María Berrío that shows her large-scale works, which are meticulously crafted from layers of Japanese paper. They often reflect on cross-cultural connections and global migration seen through the prism of her own history. The central theme of this exhibition is the quiet of catastrophe’s aftermath, […] Mary Corse's exhibition, Variations, serves as a timely reflection on our current period in history. The show is a marker of Corse’s practice to date, with a collection of new works directly referencing different series developed throughout her career. In the presentation, the language that threads through all of the artist’s work can be viewed in […] Laure Prouvost’s exhibition, Love, repurposes the gallery spaces as an educational environment of sorts, offering willing visitors the opportunity to de-learn or un-learn what they have forgotten they already know, and to newly acquire – or re-learn – a language of her own devising. After navigating a bureaucratic entry point, consisting of the now familiar rituals […] Renate Bertlmann's Magic Carpet paintings and sculptures are, in the artist's words, a “courageous feminist act.” Embodying a sense of feminine erotica and magical optimism, the works explicitly manifest Bertlmann’s exploration of ‘kitsch’ in the provocative trilogy that defines her practice: 'Pornography', 'Utopia' and 'Irony'. The gallery’s presentation for Frieze Masters features some works from the series […] Marinella Senatore’s artistic practice is inclusive and relational; her works are manifestos of militancy and resistance that combine political protest with theatre, music and film. Her performances, paintings, collages, light installations, videos and photographs focus on such social themes and urban issues as emancipation, empowerment, equality, systems of aggregation and working conditions. Senatore's presentation for […] |
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Erika Verzutti is an artist concerned with the abundance of the world: its shapes, colours and complexities; its existential anxieties and increasingly infrequent moments of respite. Working with freestanding sculptures and tactile clay reliefs, the artist gathers together an assortment of visual fragments—from politics, art history, nature and digital culture—in order to create sculptural collages […] Sophie Bouvier Ausländer’s past years has been dedicated to words, culminating in her doctoral thesis on the notion of tangibility, contemporary reliefs and continuous dimensions. The topic for her thesis ties in with Bouvier’s preeminent, multi-faceted interest in our planet as a sculpture. It is present in all her bodies of work, and underlines the […] |
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The space of the gallery is transformed by a series of Trulee Hall’s self-contained, elaborate vignettes – the viewer moves through discordant scenes, each presenting a tangled meta-narrative. Installations comprising video, sculpture, paintings, composed soundtracks, and kinetic mechanisms create dense environments that invite the visitor to step around, peep through, and settle in, allowing a […] |
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A group exhibition featuring 19 short-listed artists of the Mother Art Prize 2020, the only international prize for self-identifying women and non-binary visual artists with caring responsibilities. Their work raise questions around the representation and construction of the body, religious identities, sexualities and gender, as well as reproductive technologies. Cecilia Charlton creates technicolour, highly-patterned textile works that reference personal and cultural histories while questioning notions of medium by bringing together traditions of painting, craft, abstraction, and folk art in her exhibition Aurora. A collection of work by Helen Simmonds, that feature selections from the artist’s collection of small ceramics, bottles and enamelled vessels. The jug and ladle are recognisably Victorian; other preferred objects are the oriental porcelain cups and vases, their surfaces decorated with musicians, dancers and temple visitors. These various objects are beloved, imbued with significance as […] |
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Pioneers: 500 Years of Women in British Art explores the history of female artists in Britain who defied the status-quo. This multidisciplinary exhibition progresses from 16th century portraitists, to painters working at the forefront of the British avant-garde in the early 20thcentury. This active and constantly developing area of art history examines the historical significance of female artists, […] |
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'How to Behave at Home', is a new exhibition by sculptor and taxidermist Polly Morgan. Social media and the COVID pandemic provide the context for new abstract sculptures that use highly decorative hides of snakes and the trompe l'oeil designs in nail artistry to comment on the disparity between surface and reality. In an age where […] |
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Rebecca Allen is an artist inspired by the aesthetics of motion, the study of human perception and behaviour, and the potential of advanced technologies. Her early interest in utilising the computer as an artistic tool led to her pioneering art involving human motion simulation, artificial life algorithms and other generative techniques for art creation. Throughout […] |
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Installation artist and sculptor Susie MacMurray presents 'Murmur' - a compelling body of work comprising tactile and thought-provoking sculptures, an ambitious new installation, intricate drawings, striking bronze works and silver jewellery. Known for her unique fusing of materials, MacMurray's show promises to be unforgettable. Mainly focusing on the figure, Huma Bhabha’s work addresses themes of colonialism, war, displacement and memories of home. Her influences are wide ranging, from ancient Egyptian statuary, African art, Classicism, Cubism and German Expressionism to science fiction and horror films. This exhibition spans the last two decades of Bhabha’s work, bringing together an impressive cast […] |
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Our latest commission, Forest on Fire, developed by contemporary artist Lucy Skaer is available for viewing digitally. The installation is inspired by the image of the Tauroctony, the iconic centrepiece of Roman Mithraic mysteries. The Tauroctony depicts the god Mithras slaying a bull, surrounded by strange but precise images telling the story of recreation and the […] |
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Cornelia Parker, who transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary, uses printmaking to produce something elusive and ephemeral. Director Alan Cristea comments; “Parker’s new body of work, on which she has been working through the pandemic, is aptly called Through a Glass Darkly, the words of St Paul which suggest an obscure vision of reality. What we […] |
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This is a major exhibition of existing and new work by South Korean artist Haegue Yang, who is renowned for her vast and non-binary artistic languages. The materiality and aesthetics of her work are derived from her inventive methods, from using industrial and everyday materials to labour-intensive and craft-based procedures that create creature-like sculptures. The resulting […] Rajni Perera’s bold and intricately crafted paintings, sculptures, textile works, and installations explore issues of ancestorship, hybridity, futurity, and identity through the lens of science fiction. Influenced by a range of visual references including Indian miniaturisim, Astro-blackness, paleontology, magical realism, scientific illustration and fashion as well as her personal experiences of migration, Perera’s works evoke […] |
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An exhibition of works made in New York from 1979–80, focusing on a rare series of colour photographs by Francesca Woodman staged in her New York apartment. Her focus was on the relationship with her body as both the object of the gaze and the active subject behind the camera. Sara Barker’s work blurs the lines between sculpture, painting and drawing, as well as between figuration and abstraction and between imagined and physical spaces. Not quite sculptures and not quite paintings, her work typically explores the boundary between those disciplines. Her recent work has been large-scale and has involved working within angular, indented aluminium trays […] |
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Meryl McMaster describes her work as sculptural photography — incorporating props, constructed garments and performance to examine her sense of identity and selfhood. For her latest series, As Immense as the Sky, McMaster draws upon themes of memory, migration, genealogy and time as she retraces the footsteps of her ancestors. Her images explore the intersections […] |