A major group exhibition Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood plunges into the joys and heartaches, mess, myths and mishaps of motherhood through over 100 artworks, from the feminist avant-garde to the present day. The exhibition addresses diverse experiences of motherhood across three themes: Creation, which looks at conception, pregnancy, birth and nursing; Maintenance which […]
In their exhibition, The Fine Line, artists Macarena Rojas Osterling and Lizi Sanchez examine the relationship between writing and drawing. They intricately explore the gestures and bodily expressions underlying mark-making, observing our connection with language beyond mere communication. The artists focus on the movement inherent in the act of writing, questioning its essence and its […]
In celebration of Women’s History Month and the arrival of spring, the exhibition, The Three Graces, is a contemporary re-examination of this timeless mythological theme. The exhibition demonstrates the enduring relevance […]
Jess Allen’s exhibition considers space, time and the inevitable transformation of present into past. This Is Now captures a series of fleeting moments in which shadows and figures overlap to represent […]
After the Rain, an exhibition comprising new works including paintings, sculptures and a site-specific installation by Yuki Nakayama. The exhibition explores the dynamic relationship between space, play and decision-making in […]
An Idea of a Life, responds to everyday histories of the women-led community who lived in Barking Abbey from c.666AD through to the early 16th Century. This exhibition tells stories […]
In Mirror, Mirror, Renata de Bonis explores the veiled passageways between life's sunlit moments and the shadowy depths of sorrow. Her paintings evoke a delicate dance between the outside and the in, where draped curtains transcend their material form to become sacred veils, revealing the intertwined nature of human existence and domestic comfort.
Pretend You Are an American Cowgirl and You Love Me, explores conceptions of fantasy, care, and authenticity. Across her multidisciplinary practice, which includes sculpture, print, sound, and film, Darya Diamond conceives of the body as a ‘primordial workplace’, often through the prism of sex work and other forms of invisible labour.
The exhibition draws its title from a poem by Henry David Thoreau, Low Anchored Cloud. The connection with the natural environment is a primary concern of Lydia Gifford's most recent body of work while maintaining a critical engagement with paintings, which verge into three-dimensional forms. These sculptural and fragile objects, respond to gestures woven through layers, […]
700 Nights of Winter. In her new paintings, Li Hei Di explores primal, sexual urges with her signature fluid application of paint. Balanced on a knife edge between abstraction and representation, her paintings feature figures that swim in and out of view beneath diaphanous veils of paint; each layer offers a different world, or a […]
We do not Sleep, is the title of an exhibition by artists: Layla Andrews, Elissa Cray, Tracey Emin, Laura Footes, Joline Kwakkenbos, Gabriela Max, Lindsey Mendick, Vanessa Raw, and Mercedes Workman.
Polly Braden: Leaving Ukraine is an intimate portrait of women, forced to leave their homes following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. In this new series of work we see the extraordinary journeys undertaken by mothers, daughters, teenagers and babies in arms.
Sylvia Snowden: Painting Humanity, presents a selection of work from a career that spans six decades, the exhibition includes large early paintings through to more recent works. Snowden works with […]
Manual Labour is an immersive environment, comprising film, sculpture, print and sound, the exhibition explores the process of becoming a mother, and its creative and destructive power. The exhibition includes […]
This exhibition showcases over thirty years of Parsons’ practice, including paintings on canvas and paper and sculptures dating from 1950 to 1980, marking the first time an overview of the breadth of Parsons’ practice is shown in London. The exhibition presents Parsons first and foremost as an artist, rather than contextualising her legacy based on […]
Showcasing more than 150 rare vintage prints, Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In, spans the career of both artists – and suggests new ways to look at their work, and the way photographic portraiture was created in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Wayfinding, is an exhibition by Amelia Bowles, which sits between sculpture, painting and architecture. Making use of the activity of light, colour and form, she claims the void and what is immaterial to facilitate the conditions for a series of physiological, cognitive and perceptual encounters.
In 1963, fashion illustrator Barbara Hulanicki established a mail-order company selling affordable fashion appealing to a new generation of young women, which she named Biba. The Biba Story explores how it became the world’s first lifestyle label, sparking a revolution in how people shopped, and how Biba earned its spot as the fashion brand of […]
Leilah Babirye’s exhibition Obumu (Unity) features new sculptures made at YSP specifically for this exhibition, largely from materials found onsite. The seven sculptures were carved using a chainsaw and chisels from trees that had reached the end of their life on site.
Vanessa Garwood uses acrylic for her paintings as it seems to provide a purer process and a greater sense of immediacy to her work. Her interest involves humans and human activity, and for over twenty years she painted portraits, nudes and dancers. Now she draws more from fantasy, infusing unbounded imagination with figures from real […]