An enigmatic, multi-layered installation, and set in a once busy fashion store, DISARM is infused with a contradictory sense of desire, conflict and lost aspiration, wittily referencing the ‘runway’ as a site for aircraft as well as a theatrical fashion space. Drawing on the military history written into Chester’s fabric, it suggests conflict is neither distant […]
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 […]
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 […]
Elaine Bolt is a ceramic artist, who works with clay and mixed media, creating works and compositions guided by a sense of narrative and steeped in the context of her local surroundings. Her work includes sculptural work, hand-built wall pieces and thrown vessels, made in porcelain and stoneware and mixed-media.
Marina Abramović Hon RA, has earned worldwide acclaim as a performance artist. She has consistently tested the limits of her own physical and mental endurance in her work, subjecting herself to exhaustion, pain and even the possibility of death. This major exhibition presents key moments from Abramović’s career through sculpture, video, installation and performance. Works such […]
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 […]
Ridykes’ Cavern of Fine Inverted Wines and Deviant Videos, features the work of over 30 “très gay” contemporary visual artists working across film, video installation, sculpture and performance. Within this deeply non-binaried proposition, 'Ridykeulous' deploys their signature use of humour and subversion of language to critique the art world and hetero-patriarchal culture at large.
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 […]
Drawing inspiration from Umberto Eco's essay on handwriting, The Resistance of Pen and Paper brings together a group of artists from North Africa, the Middle East and Israel, who use calligraphy and written language to reflect on issues around identity, gender politics, cultural heritage and displacement. The artists included in the exhibition are: Nasrollah AFJEI, Maliheh AFNAN (1935 - […]
An exhibition with recent works by Minjung Kim , Rebecca Salter PRA, and Diogo Pimentão All three artists primarily work with paper and explore its boundaries in their idiosyncratic ways. Paper as a medium and its endless possibilities and variations have been at the core of the gallery's program since its inception. Boldly challenging this […]
The exhibition, Africanesse, showcases Angèle Etoundi Essamba’s groundbreaking series of vintage silver gelatin prints: black and white photographs of non-professional models, who range from family members to friends and acquaintances of the artist, to acquaintances she encountered on the streets of Amsterdam.
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 […]
Magill’s paintings are enigmatic and evocative psychological takes on the traditional landscape genre. The exhibition ‘By This River’ is in homage to Brian Eno’s song of the same title, with each painting named after a line from the song. Rich with fragmented forms and kaleidoscopic patterning, the images are formed by Magill’s imagination, memories and […]
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.
An exhibition celebrating the love of landscape. Four Strings’ showcases how 4 different artistic voices Sarah Manolescue, Alex McIntyre, Judith Brenner, and Sarah Ollerenshaw transcribe and respond to how the lavers and chords of landscape are seen and experienced.
In her current collection, Shapeshifters, P J Crook explores several conjoined themes around physical transformations, merging classical literature and modern contexts to produce a feast of colour, form and narrative.
Rose Hilton is a singular painter of sensuous, vividly coloured and exotically exquisite images, who spent a lifetime challenging herself. A major collection of her LateWorks are on display, showing all aspects of Rose's output from her intimate studio studies to monumental oil paintings.
Aida Tomescu is an abstract painter, whose career spans over 40 years. Her works combine a vital physical presence with a powerful handling of scale, to create what she describes as "living structures", self-forming from within. The title of this exhibition, With the Crimson Word, is a quotation from a poem by Paul Celan. Tomescu […]