This exhibition explores the gardens of the Bloomsbury group, Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors, centres on four extraordinary women and the green spaces they surrounded themselves with: writer Virginia Woolf and her garden at Monk’s House; her sister artist Vanessa Bell, whose garden and studio was at nearby Charleston; arts patron and photographer Lady Ottoline Morrell, […]
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 […]
Through a visual language of organic shape and linear structure, Suyi Xu creates a dialogue between the built world and wonder in nature. Her paintings bridge inner and outer worlds. The devotional architecture of gates, cathedrals and cloisters holds intuitive, often mirrored, line and shade patterns of symmetry like butterflies or pine cones, shells or […]
This show by Dayanita Singh, explores in part the intersection of photography and architecture, it includes a major series of wall-based pieces as well as a structural installation.
An exhibition of innovative collage work from venerated artists Helen Frankenthaler, Nancy Grossman, Grace Hartigan, Lilly Fenichel, Perle Fine, Betty Parsons, Sonja Sekula, Yvonne Thomas, and Michael (Corinne) West in an exceptional survey of Abstract Expressionism. The exhibition, Montage, delivers a shrewd exploration of Abstract Expressionism via a curatorial focus on assemblage, collage, and non-canvas artworks, […]
Phantom, is an exhibition of recent paintings and sculptures by Raphaela Simon. Throughout her career, Simon sought to capture the ineffable on canvas. Even when painting a seemingly neutral subject, such […]
The Famous Women Dinner Service is a collection of 50 hand-decorated plates by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, celebrating famous women throughout history. The portraits, subdivided into Women of Letters, Queens, Beauties, Dancers and Actresses – include George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, 10th-century Japanese poet Murasaki and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (pictured with her spaniel Flush); the […]
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 […]
An exhibition of recent works by Emma Haggas.
A survey of Makiko Nakamura’s most recent work completed over the last two years working from her studio in Kyoto. Richly layered with colours and pigments, Makiko's latest work, Stars are Born, continues her meticulous and rigorous process through which she uncovers the emotional content of each painting.
The exhibition title, Orí Inú comes from the Yoruba Metaphysical conception “Orí’ which translates to the head and refers to one's spiritual destiny. Using the calabash as a metaphor, Orí Inú depicts the artist’s attempts to mend the break between her mind and spirit. It thereby demonstrates how reconnecting with one's inner spirit is both […]
Our planet and how humankind shapes and transforms is the subject of Sophie Bouvier Ausländer's artistic research. For Fishing the World, as the title indicates, the artist remains true to her exploration of our planet. The exhibition showcases pieces from her latest series entitled Call Me Ishmael, taking its name from the opening sentence of […]
Hannah Starkey’s large-scale photographs engage with how women are represented in contemporary culture. Her portraits capture moments of everyday life and an expanded female experience. Starkey reveals women in moments of private reflection or social interaction that might otherwise go unseen. The large scale of her images offer monumentality to these instances.
For her inaugural exhibition, We Come From Fire and Return to Fire, Otobong Nkanga presents new sculptural objects, tapestries and a sound installation, as well as wall-hung and floor-based works, combining materials as diverse as clay, rope, glass, wood, textiles, oils and herbs. As an evocation of natural environments, Nkanga incorporates the images and properties of […]
This exhibition, whose title draws inspiration from the allegorical Danse Macabre, or the Dance with Death, includes works across various mediums that are emblematic of Kiki Kogelnik’s exploration of future possibilities, and perils of outer space, and her relationship to the altered and abstracted twentieth-century body. Incorporating work spanning three decades of production, The Dance […]
A retrospective of the work of artist Beatriz Milhazes, who is known for intensely colourful, large-scale abstract canvases. The exhibition, Maresias traces the evolution of her artistic approach over the past four decades. Milhazes is influenced by multiple sources including Brazilian and European modernism, Catholic iconography, Baroque colonial architecture, and the vernacular culture and heritage […]
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 […]
Claudia Martínez Garay's new commission celebrates the artist’s unique perspective and diverse practice with a site-specific installation. Her's is a process of carving out, stencilling, and layering images in site-specific murals or free-standing sculptural. Her practice has grown to encompass painting, sculpture, video, and installation, referencing pre-Columbian aesthetics.
'Looking Backwards, Moving Forwards' is a journey of rediscovery and celebration, which honours the enduring legacy of Clare Shenstone and paves the way for her rightful place in the history […]