The arrangement of objects, sculpture, and images into immersive installation has become a constant for Anthea Hamilton, whose work frequently mines heterogeneous image sources; this includes The Prude. For the prude, modesty becomes extreme. The prude will not permit themselves, or others, sensuous enjoyment in life. Hamilton's interest in the literary figure of "the prude" in […]
An exhibition of works by Luchita Hurtado. I Die I will be Reborn traces the trajectory of Hurtado’s expansive, 80-year career and reveals the scale, experimentation and playfulness of her impressive oeuvre. Untitled, 1969Oil on canvas(C) 2018 Luchita HurtadoPhoto Credit: Jeff McLane
This exhibition celebrates the work and life of Lee Krasner (1908–1984), a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism. The first major presentation of her work in Europe for more than 50 years, Living Colour tells the story of a formidable artist, whose importance has too often been eclipsed by her marriage to Jackson Pollock. Discover Krasner’s spirit […]
Obedience and Defiance, is an exhibition of Paula Rego's works spanning her entire career since the 1960s; her first major retrospective in England for over 20 years. The exhibition includes previously unseen paintings and works on paper from the artist’s family and close friends, which reflect Rego’s perspective as a woman immersed in urgent social […]
This comprehensive exhibition, is the first museum survey of Riley’s work to be held in the UK for 16 years, and the largest exhibition of her work to be shown in Scotland. Spanning over 70 years of work, it places particular emphasis on the origins of Riley’s practice and traces pivotal moments across her acclaimed […]
The Bird in Borrowed Feathers’, is a solo exhibition by the Dutch photographer Hellen van Meene. Her work is renowned worldwide for its distinctive photographic approach. Working in analogue and principally in small format, she focuses on the experiences of young people at the stage between adolescence and adulthood.
The exhibition Her Ground: Women Photograph the Landscape highlights the contributions made by women to contemporary photography, and address ideas of how landscape can be viewed through the female gaze. The exhibition sets out to raise questions around how we define our landscape today, and touches on notions of visibility, ownership, identity, and social or political agency. Artists exhibiting include: Lisa Barnard, Maja Daniels, […]
From her early naturalistic style – honed during her studies in France – to her highly abstracted self-portraits, this exhibition will present Schjerfbeck for the first time to UK audiences.
This retrospective exhibition, I am a Wanderer, organised in close collaboration with the artist, focusses on three distinctive areas of Kiki Smith’s practice: small sculptures created from the mid-1980s to present day; a selection from her printmaking, and the intricate Jacquard tapestries produced since 2012. Kiki Smith, Sky, 2012. Jacquard tapestry ©Kiki Smith. Courtesy Timothy Taylor, […]
A major retrospective exhibition devoted to the work of celebrated British artist Bridget Riley. The exhibition looks closely at the origins of Riley’s perceptual paintings and traces pivotal, decisive moments in her acclaimed career. It features the artist’s iconic black-and-white paintings of the 1960s, early representational paintings, expansive canvases in colour and recent wall paintings, […]
During the 1930s, Dora Maar’s provocative photomontages became celebrated icons of surrealism. Her eye for the unusual also translated to her commercial photography, including fashion and advertising, as well as to her social documentary projects. In Europe’s increasingly fraught political climate, Maar signed her name to numerous left-wing manifestos – a radical gesture for a woman at that time. In middle […]
Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance is an ambitious retrospective of the Portuguese artist’s work that brings politics to the fore. Spanning Rego’s career from the 1960s through to 2012, the […]
Until the 20th C, many women spent most of their adult years pregnant, but pregnancies are seldom apparent in surviving portraits. Portraying Pregnancy brings together images of women – mainly British – who were depicted at a time when they were pregnant (whether visibly so or not). Through paintings, prints, photographs, objects and clothing from the […]
Unbound: Visionary Women Collecting Textiles celebrates seven pioneering women who saw beyond the purely functional, to reveal the extraordinary artistic, social and cultural importance of textiles, and costume, which gives us a beautiful and intensely human insight into our history. This major collaborative project explores the innovative approaches of Edith Durham (1863 –1944), Louisa Pesel (1870 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
'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 […]
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 […]
‘Lost Summer’ is a solo exhibition of new work by Alys Tomlinson. The Lost Summer series consists of Tomlinson ́s recent prom portraits photographed in June 2020 as lockdown eased and […]