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 is always intriguing to note the threads that connect the work. Each artist who I have invited to join me in this exhibition is a […]

This major new touring exhibition challenges the male-dominated narratives of post-war British sculpture by presenting a diverse and significant range of ambitious work by women. Breaking the Mould represents the work of over 50 sculptors including: Rana Begum, Lygia Clark, Cathy de Monchaux, Elisabeth Frink, Anthea Hamilton, Holly Hendry, Barbara Hepworth, Mary Kelly, Kim Lim, Cornelia […]

Rebecca Chesney was a YSP Visiting Artist in 2010 and spent time surveying the parkland for species of bumblebees and solitary bees, and all the plants they feed on. After setting up two honey beehives on site, she shadowed the regional bee inspector to learn beekeeping skills and observe the life cycle of the honey bee at […]

Tessa Newcomb and Robina Jack have long, successful careers as artists. Robina Jack’s painted plates and bowls focus on the menagerie that surrounds her: dogs, cats, hens and family history. Tessa Newcomb’s paintings record the garden, the greenhouse, the allotment; she draws you into her work, it feels intimate. The younger artists are Cornelia O’Donovan, […]

Jade Fadojutimi’s large-scale paintings combine abstract and figurative elements in compositions that have intense graphic energy. At the heart of Fadojutimi’s work is an introspective mining of facets of her own identity and the social and cultural environments that shape them. Her paintings are typically made in bursts of energetic mark-making. While some are worked […]

Solitary Acts, is an exhibition of drawings, collage and animation by Rachel Goodyear.  The exhibition explores the agency of the individual, as the artist navigates between divergent modes of existence – conscious and subconscious, interior and exterior, fearful and desirous. Highlighted are new works on paper alongside a new single-screen version of Limina, an animation co-commissioned […]

 Internal Objects, is an exhibition of new work by Rachel Whiteread, who employs the formal language of Minimalism to objects’ minor details.  She employs existing artifacts and spaces—including domestic objects like chairs and mattresses, interiors of rooms, and even, famously, an entire terraced house—to evoke and explore corporeal presence. Notably, her deft use of negative space can imply […]

Ceramics and the natural world are Kaori Tatebayashi's passion. Working in hand formed white stoneware she produces portraits of flowers and plants with amazing precision, not only describing how they look, but also how they feel. The result is an experience which comes very close to nature. Modelling directly from flowers and plants in season […]

Temples, a solo exhibition of new works by Daiga Grantina, whose practice investigates the encounters between materials to propose a synthetic concept of the many relationships that shape our world. Grantina presents a new body of work made predominantly from fabric, wood, paint and plastic.

Piumari  was one of Marinella Bettineschi's first series to give voice to her ongoing interest and research into alternative languages: the ability to transform and create new ways of thinking with our own breath and further illustrating women’s ability to bring life into the world. Elegant, minimal boxes containing loose feathers, suspended beneath a thin […]

Sally McKay's etchings resonate with a physical free flowing quality. They are influenced by the drawings she makes of fleeting moments of figures in motion, often dancers in rehearsal and live performance as her source material, she probes what it means to be human. Inspired by the energy, vitality and stamina of the finely tuned […]

Alchemy is an inaugural exhibition of abstract paintings by, Rosannagh Scarlet Esson. The exhibition brings together Rosannagh's dynamic explorations into the chemistry of paint, metals, pigment and the elements, including brand new works produced at her studio in the past year in lockdown.

A special showing of the late Chilean artist and activist Lotty Rosenfeld’s 1979-80 video work Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimento (A Mile of Crosses on the Asphalt). It is on view in the gallery's microproject space, and commemorates Rosenfeld’s life and work following her death last year.

A Certain Blue Enters Your Soul is Katrin Fridriks’ newest body of work, which focuses on the centrality of blue to our universal histories. Comprised of 14 new major works and accompanied with a text by the writer Sebastian Di Giovanni; this exhibition highlights the significance of blue throughout the world and its history. It is inspired […]

For her debut exhibition, conceptual artist Mika Tajima presents new paintings, textile works, and sculptures that focus on psychic and bodily energy under the regulation of techno-capitalism. The exhibition connects the industrial production of energy and computational power to the maintenance of a fully realised productive self. Among other linkages, Regulation renders a relationship between a commercial […]

The Nostalgia for the Infinite, is an exhibition by Jessica Rankin. Featuring new, mixed media paintings and works on paper, marks a significant shift within the artist’s practice. Known for her large-scale embroideries, collages and watercolours that combine celestial maps and landscapes with text, Rankin’s recent works focus more specifically on the language of painting. While […]

An exhibition of her works.  Vanessa Gardiner is a landscape painter, who captures scenes of the Cornwall coastline, by taking drawings directly from the location, such as Tintagel Place, Pentaghlion Cliff and many other vantage points.  She paints these scenes to bring out their permanency, using layers of paint.  Her paintings have a serenity and […]

What Was My Own features over thirty new highly detailed, meticulous drawings, both large and minute in scale, derived from film stills. A sense of unease and melancholy pervades Marie Harnett’s new work, as we are offered glimpses into scenes that present an emotion or history that is suddenly intimate and familiar to us.

Alice Anderson’s oeuvre hybridises the worlds of technology and ancestral cultures. Her works include sculptures, paintings and drawings generated through dance-performances, each with ritual at their essence. For this exhibition, Hyperlinks, Anderson presents performative works created through repetitive gestures, some coupled with rapid breathing (the technique of hyperventilation), which gives her access to a state of […]

Working across a range of media Melanie Smith explores notions of modernity in relation to art history and contemporary society. She has consistently addressed a number of interrelated themes encompassing the aesthetics of abstraction, urbanization, colonialism and, more recently, nature and entropy, working through a blurring and blending of the worlds of painting, cinema, and […]

The exhibition, Rising Heat, is accompanied by a new video with Anne Hardy; a selection of unique photograms that were produced in 2020 and form a new series titled The Depth of Darkness, the Return of the Light. The materials used in the production of these works were gathered from the River Thames foreshore while the artist was […]

'Mind Fields', marks the first exhibition of the work of Vivian Lynn (b. Wellington, NZ, 1931 - d. Wellington, 2018). "Our bodies are mediated by cultural codes, as are our daily lives. My interest is in dislocating and transgressing these codes in a way that makes them tangible. The different bodies, the biological, imaginary, socio-economic, political […]

Penny Goring's, No Escape from Blood Castle, is the second iteration of this body of work; the first of which was entitled Escape from Blood Castle. Goring makes drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos, and poems that access recurring personal trauma visions, and by layering these with grief, anxiety, imagination and rage, the subsequent invented mythologies become explorations […]

Gabriella Sanchez is a multidisciplinary artist, whose practice is largely influenced by her background in graphic design. The elements of typography, text, form and color play a central role in her visual vocabulary, referencing artists who also utilize script in their work. Gabriella's work, whether it is the use of metallic fonts on her canvases […]

The Bourdon Street Chemist by Lucy Sparrow is the artist’s seventh major installation. It marks her return to the UK after four years of exhibiting her faux-reality felt worlds abroad. Created with Sparrow’s characteristic painstaking research and attention to detail, the walls of this gallery are transformed into a fully-stocked chemist, handmade completely in felt. In […]

Museé Imaginaire is an ongoing series by Ann-Marie James made directly onto the pages of a first edition of French novelist and art theorist Andre Malraux’s seminal publication from 1952. Museé Imaginaire, or ‘the museum without walls’ as it is often translated, brings together imagery of art and antiquities from all over the world into one tome, calling […]

'Megaflora' is an exhibition of new works by sculptor Alice Channer.   The exhibition takes, as it’s starting point a bramble stem. It is also making an appearance in Rosanna Mclaughlin’s short story, ‘Ripple and Void’ specially commissioned to partner the work.  

Other Forms of Travel, is an exhibition of new vision boards and internet manipulations by search engine artist and the self-proclaimed “internet imperialist” Gretchen Andrew.  The show includes new vision boards from the series "Best MFA" and "Map of the EU".  Other Forms of Travel unleashes two new series that reprogram the artificial intelligence underlying the […]

"The object aimed at by this series of handbooks is the recall of the designer and craftsman to a saner view of what constitutes originality by setting before them something of the experience of past times, when craft tradition was still living and the designer had a closer contact with the material in which his […]

Taking its title from Yuko Tsushima’s story of the same title, Julia Adelgren’s exhibition. The Watery Realm, uses water as a poetic protagonist, and chimes with the more folkloric events of Tsushima’s story. Her work hones in on the interplay of light and reflection on the surface of water, whilst rendering water as a perpetually unknowable body, […]