This exhibition celebrates Wakefield’s progressive approach to collecting ceramics since the 1930s and shines a light on artists exploring the sculptural possibilities of this versatile medium. On display are some of the earliest ceramics to join the collection by Michael Cardew and Samuel Haile. Works from the 50’s by Hans Coper, Bernard and Janet Leach, […]

Flora Yukhnovich' large-sized paintings feature intense red, pink, peach and green colours and an abstracted painterly language. Circular forms and soft contours suggest organic growth, while glowing light and dark contrasts create an illusion of three-dimensional depth. Yukhnovich's work playfully and critically explores different notions of femininity in the history of art and popular culture, looking […]

The Pavilion, by Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, is an exhibition inspired by the history of the site.  She explores how the public engages with archives and artefacts, and their presentation in museum spaces. The Pavilion is a wooden structure comprising a promenade of interrelated viewing booths reminiscent of Victorian ‘cabinets of curiosities’, often considered precursors to museums.  […]

In the shade of the sun contemplates the relationship between politics and aesthetics by a new generation of Palestinian artists. The exhibition comprises new commissions by artists Mona Benyamin, Xaytun Ennasr and Dina Mimi as well as a new sonic performance by Makimakkuk. Moving between mediums that include film, installation, music and gaming, In the shade of […]

Erase and See, an exhibition of work by Sumi Kanazawa. Through an understanding of the contradictions and discrepancies that is contained in our past and present, Kanazawa suggests ways of being more imaginative; about how to live now to problematise distinctions conventionally drawn between individuals, politics and society, between public and private identities.

This exhibition, Fashion Manifesto,  is dedicated to the work of French couturière, Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel.  It charts the establishment of the House of CHANEL, and the evolution of her iconic design style which continues to influence the way women dress today.

The exhibition Victorian Art, Fashion & Design, includes fashion pieces – from Queen Victoria’s monotone mourning dress to the most daringly vivid clothing and accessories – and works by artists including Millais, Ruskin, Rossetti, Turner and Whistler, as well as objects from around the world and some of the earliest colour 'photograms'. It reveals the vital role that colour […]

The Mother & The Weaver takes the unseen mother, a central part of the Foundling Museum’s story, as a point of departure to explore complex ideas around motherhood, childhood, love, loss, sexuality and identity.  This landmark exhibition shows over 40 works from the Ursula Hauser Collection, all by women artists, in conversation with historic objects […]

Voyages is an exhibition of Hélène Amouzou's evocative self-portraits. These hand printed photographs are a crucial document of a migrant who has grappled with notions of freedom, exclusion, and bureaucracy – an attempt to recapture her identity and sense of belonging. Voyages raises important questions: What does it mean to seek refuge? What does belonging feel […]

Rubens & Women, this major exhibition of the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), unites a diverse range of paintings and drawings from throughout the artist's career. The exhibition challenges the popular assumption that the artist painted only one type of woman, providing instead a more nuanced view of the varied and important place occupied […]

A Spirit Inside brings together work of a selection of women artists from The Ingram Collection and The Women’s Art Collection in Cambridge; to showcase artworks borne out of a strength of spirit and touch upon the elemental, fantastical, spiritual and political. The exhibition's title is lifted from a letter written by Carrington explaining why […]

Passage is an exhibition by Merve İşeri, whose work process begins by putting small circular stickers on the canvas to mark points of star constellations.  In this exhibition they are, aries, taurus and ursa minor that are not necessarily in direct correlation with the paintings' context but they provide a structure for Iseri to build her […]

A new exhibition by Fiona Tan, Footsteps (2022) is a 97-minute video installation made by Tan at the invitation of Amsterdam’s Eye Film Museum, and combines archival film footage from the museum’s collection, with a voiceover of letters written to the artist by her father while she was a student in the late 1980s. The […]

A British artist's brash and tender exploration of what makes us human. Sarah Lucas is internationally celebrated for her bold and provocative use of materials and imagery.  Using ordinary objects in unexpected ways, she has consistently challenged our understanding of sex, class and gender over the last four decades. This exhibition presents her practice in […]

A major exhibition by Claudette Johnson, presents a carefully selected group of major works from across her career.  From key early drawings such as the arresting Untitled (Woman with Earring), 1982, which first established her name, alongside recent and new works.  This exhibition offers a compelling overview of Johnson’s pioneering career and artistic development.

A major group exhibition, which explores the relationship between gender and ecology, highlighting the systemic links between the oppression of women and the degradation of the planet. The exhibition features around 50 international women and gender non-conforming artists.   RE/SISTERS is a new exhibition featuring work from emerging and established artists across the fields of photography […]

The Dance of People and the Natural World, is an introduction to Omuku’s work that is seeking to broaden the exposure, and awareness of the vibrant contemporary Nigerian art scene.​ Displaying more than ten pieces​, the show includes works made between 2021 and 2023 that explore Omuku’s love of nature, and the ways in which […]

Nicole Eisenman's exhibition, What Happened,  brings together over 100 works from across the artist’s three-decade career. Encompassing large-scale, monumental paintings alongside sculptures, monoprints, animation and drawings, the exhibition showcases the extraordinary range and formal inventiveness that characterises her practice.  

This archival exhibition presents a selection of Mendelssohn’s poetry and works on paper. Through the confluence of poetry and visual art, Mendelssohn explores—amongst other things—the socio-historical mechanisms which influence the creation and destruction of language in public and private spheres.   Anna Mendelssohn: Speak, Poetess brings together works which examine how iniquities such as war, fascism, and […]

Each Moment Presents What Happens, is a moving image work from Johanna Billing, which continues her interest in improvisation, collaboration and education. Billing’s work explores the idea of performance and the possibility it holds to impact the public and the private, as well as the individual and the collective.

Ikon tours Dreams of Brum, an exhibition of photographic portraits by Maryam Wahid at Handsworth Library. The portraits were taken during a series of creative community workshops with printmaker Haseebah Ali.

This exhibition examines Lee Miller’s life and work through her clothing beginning in Paris in the late 1920s and ending in Sussex in the mid-1950s. It includes outfits that represent key moments in her biography and her creativity. High fashion from 1930s Europe and New York; jodhpurs, bathing wear and folk dress from travel and […]

The Devil is in the Detail offers a rare opportunity to see the complete set of Albrecht Dürer’s Great Passion, one of the most important series of woodcuts in his career. The works on display charts the meteoric rise of the woodcut technique in Europe. Accompanying this historic display is There Goes the Sun, an exhibition […]

And She Built a Crooked House, by Gemma Anderson-Tempini  is a multifaceted installation taking audiences on a journey through the fourth spatial dimension that is part-experimental, part-factual, part-autobiographical. A 19th Century imagined space, the fourth spatial dimension sits alongside the understanding of a fourth dimension of time, providing fertile ground for creativity and innovation for generations. […]

Rosemarie Castoro (1939-2015) lived and worked in New York all her life, becoming a central figure in the city’s Minimalist and Conceptual Art scene while defying that categorization, declaring “I am not a minimalist, I am a maximalist”. The exhibition shows her extensive practice from the 1960s onwards and include painting, work on paper, video, […]

The exhibition Women & Water explores the relationship between women and water in the works of 17 women artists, spanning from the early twentieth century to the present day. The exhibition examines how water has been used by artists both as subject matter and artistic medium to reflect the multiplicity of women’s experiences. Artists: Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, […]

Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris, brings together paintings, watercolours, drawings and sketches, as well as previously unseen archival material and personal belongings. Chronologically tracing Gwen John’s 40-year career, the exhibition places her art in relation to the two cities where she chose to live and work - London and Paris.

Zarina Bhimji makes photographs, films and installations, which engage with themes such as institutional power and subjectivity. Her work grows from observation and felt sense and is rooted in a careful use of colour and light. Embracing slippages and ambiguities, it is evocative rather than descriptive or documentary in its pace, setting and mood.

Otherwhere, Margarita Gluzberg’s exhibition, explores the tensions and reciprocal interplay between the past and the present, memory recall alongside recurring fiction, and the politics of desire. Gluzberg’s practice ranges from drawing, photography, and performance to sound and film installation, while drawing upon historical events and semi-biographical stories in its content, form, and presentation.

This exhibition is a major survey of work by over 100 women artists working in the UK from 1970 to 1990. Through their creative practices, women’s liberation was forged against the backdrop of extreme social, economic and political change. Women in Revolt! will focus on a hugely diverse range of artists and a wide variety of […]

Merikokeb Berhau spent years developing her work and crafting her idiosyncratic visual language that tows the line between pure abstraction and recognisable form. While her work has always had a focus on lifeforms and biomorphic imagery, over the years it started to gravitate towards more vibrant hues, which define her latest paintings. New symbols – […]

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.

This exhibition of Rebecca’s recent work demonstrates how her artistic practice is rooted in traditional Japanese art; how it combines Eastern and Western traditions; and how print processes are central to the conception and execution of her work. The exhibition, In View, is accompanied by the juxtaposition of works selected by the artist, to hang alongside […]

Eleanor Johnson’s latest exhibition, ‘The Feast of Fools’ explores the concepts of excess, power and overindulgence in contemporary society. Here, Johnson uses Marco Ferrari’s 1973 film 'La Grande Bouffe' as a point of departure for her artistic enquiry. Reflecting on the satirical and pungent nature of the movie, Johnson approaches profound and unsettling subjects through […]

If Not Now, When? features 29 remarkable female sculptors, celebrating their contributions to the world of art from the 1960s to now. The exhibition is divided into three chapters and explores time as an everyday lived experience marked by the evolving cycles directly affecting women. Artists include: Phyllida Barlow, Glenys Barton, Keziah Burt, Shirley Cameron, […]

Art in Britain in the aftermath of WWII was a space of contradictions. On the one hand, artists had to make sense of an entirely altered world, one which required a new visual lexicon. On the other, a generation scarred by the war years sought comfort in the familiar, with traditional mindsets persisting that placed […]

This exhibition by Sophia Vari provides an overview of Vari’s work over the past 20 years.  The exhibition includes sculptures in marble, bronze and silver, together with oils, collage and watercolours on canvas. A prominent theme in the exhibition is the power and strength of women; the artist is a believer in a divine feminine […]

This exhibition of new paintings by Christine Ay Tjoe, focusses on the human condition.  Ay Tjoe’s expressive works address themes of philosophy and spirituality, attempting to connect with our most powerful emotions and deep psychological fears.

Artist, activist, writer and eco-feminist Monica Sjöö (1938-2005) was unwavering in her advocacy for gender justice, eco-feminism, matriarchy and social equities. This retrospective exhibition charts her life work and considers the relationship between art, spirituality and politics. The Great Cosmic Mother showcases Sjöö’s large-scale paintings created in response to the wide-ranging feminist and environmental campaigns she […]

Towner Eastbourne is hosting the Turner Prize 2023, the world’s leading prize for contemporary art, as the centrepiece of their centenary celebrations.

Tania Kovats makes drawings, sculpture, installations and large-scale time-based projects that explore our experience and understanding of the natural world.  Best known for her sculptures and drawings, her work encompasses a range of creative strategies, from map-making to writing, and she is also active as a curator, teacher and author. Kovats‘ enduring themes are the […]

This new exhibition by Fiona Tan, Footsteps (2022), is a 97-minute video installation made by Tan at the invitation of Amsterdam’s Eye Film-museum.   It combines archival film footage from the museum’s collection, with a voiceover of letters written to the artist by her father while she was a student in the late 1980s.

Sharing a common thread of combining autobiography and activism, and working across a wide range of media including painting, photography, film, animation, wall drawing and site-specific installation, these practices activate a wide range of conversations around community and belonging, friendship and intimacy, migrant and diasporic storytelling and queer world-making. In The World Belongs to us, […]

The Song of Psyche: Corners of a Soul's Otherworlds, steps into a realm where the ordinary transforms into the extraordinary, and the familiar takes on an otherworldly allure.  Nicola Turner and Edward Bekkerman present in this exhibition, the dialogue of seemingly opposite, albeit intuitional, dreamscapes. The juxtaposition of difference, however, is a key to the […]

From epic visions to intricately envisaged details, this exhibition celebrates some of the finest fantasy creators.  It reveals how their imagined lands, languages and creatures came into being, and delves into the traditions of a genre that has created some of the most passionate and enduring fandoms. Journey from fairy tales and folklore to the […]

An exhibition of Kim Lim’s work offering unparalleled insight into the artist’s life and work.  Space, Rhythm & Light, displays over 100 artworks created over four decades by Lim, alongside extensive archive material, most of which has never been seen publicly before, to show the full breadth of Lim’s work.

Ekkyklema, is an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Jenny Saville.  The project’s title refers to a wheeled platform that was used to move interior scenes into the audience’s view during antique productions of Greek tragic drama, and alludes to the artist’s search for a pictorial language with which to confront our […]

'Aetheric', an exhibition by Byzantia Harlow evolves from her long-standing exploration of spirituality and healing processes. In parallel to her artistic career, Harlow practices as a psychic medium. Harlow’s spiritual beliefs are informed by family history and personal experiences, including a near-death experience as a young child.

Liorah Tchiprout’s exhibition, Two Eyes Wide Open at the Edge of Dawn, explores new beginnings. The exhibition consists of paintings, monotypes and etchings, all portraits of subjects who gaze confidently at the viewer or who turn away lost in thought. The paintings, in muted colours punctuated with evocative pinks, yellows and reds, mark the dawn […]

Alia Farid works in film and sculpture, giving visibility to less commonly recognised histories, which are often diminished by Western hegemony.  Farid’s exhibition brings seemingly disparate sites in relation to each other, creating a trans-regionalism that challenges national boundaries.

This show celebrates the life and legacy of trailblazing British painter Pauline Boty, 1938-1966, in her first posthumous solo exhibition in a decade. Pauline Boty: A Portrait, presents a remarkable opportunity to view Boty’s coveted paintings in unison, alongside a plethora of profound, archival materials.  The exhibition continues the gallery’s explorations of Boty’s pivotal and […]

Elisabeth Frink: A View from Within, focusses on the significant body of work produced by Frink (1930-1993) at her Woolland studio in Dorset, between 1976 and 1993. It explores her artistic process, personal life and the profound influences that shaped her work: human conflict and our relationship with the natural world. The exhibition features sculptures, […]

Featuring over 100 bold and beautiful paintings – including landscapes, still life and portraiture Lucy Harwood’s artworks command the space with their vibrancy and confidence. Bold Impressions, marks the first major exhibition of Lucy Harwood’s work since 1975.  It offers a captivating exploration of the life and career of the artist, a dedicated Post-Impressionist painter […]

Ordered Form, is an exhibition that focusses on Begum’s geometric works created over the past three years.   It presents sculptures, paintings and screen prints, featuring newly created relief works and a panel painting installation, fabricated especially for this exhibition. Also on display are Begum’s studio experiments, maquettes and sketches which provide a fascinating insight into […]