Vicky and Bill make illustrated slip cast ceramics, were invited to make work in response to the Aberystwyth University School of Art Collections. They were drawn to the works of pioneer studio potter Frances Richards and the printmaker Christine Penn; motifs and narratives from both artists have been interpreted and incorporated into their new work.
Leonor Antunes engages with traditions of modernist art, architecture and design through sculpture made and displayed with the specifics of a given place in mind. The forms and materials of her sculptures reference a history of modernism embedded in the work of its less visible protagonists; overlooked, often female, artists and designers.
Jesse Jones’ new film, performance and sculptural installation, The Tower, is the second part in a trilogy beginning with Tremble. The Tower finds its beginning point not in the witch but the heretic; it conjures the words of women burned as heretics before the first witch trials in the sixteenth century. Jones' work delves into the lost knowledge of […]
An exhibition of works by Eloise Govier, and Penelope Timmis.
Diane Dal-pra’s work, Dissolutions, seduces and disquiets the viewer with its ambiguous composition and detailing. The central theme of her works is the duality of our relationship with possessions. Rituals and superstitions around objects give a sense of stability and permanence, and in turn, the objects we own engulf us and our identities as well as […]
An exhibition of paintings by Anne Marie Betlin.
The paintings in Pam Glick’s focus exhibition are notable for their rhythmic formal play, whereby grid-like patterns are juxtaposed with looping gestural swirls. Reinforcing the rectilinear shape of the canvas, the artist creates an architecture of interconnected vertical and horizontal segments, which she punctuates with arcs, zigs, zips and diagonals. Like the rhythm section in […]
'Slackwater' is Holly Hendry’s first public commission in London: a site-specific work that occupies the vast terrace on the roof of Temple Underground station. 'Slackwater' emerges as an immense sculptural entanglement that weaves together the watery history of its riverside location, with references to the abstract rhythms of the Thames, and liquid movements within the […]
This seven-panel mural depicting 130 women from British history and culture was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery as part of a three-year project to enhance female representation in its […]
This new group exhibition, The Weight of Words, features an international and intergenerational selection of contemporary artists and writers who explore the overlap between sculpture and poetry. The works on display […]
Holly Hendry's Slackwater emerges as an immense sculptural entanglement that weaves together the watery history of its riverside location above Temple Tube, with references to the abstract rhythms of the Thames and liquid movements within the human body. In conceiving the work, Hendry was drawn to changes in the pattern of the river’s surface; after […]
Threads, a major exhibition, features 21 contemporary international artists and makers, who use textiles as their chosen medium. It celebrates material and making, and encompasses processes of weaving and spinning, […]
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 […]
In this immersive new work, A Tree Says , Phoebe Boswell inhabits the Gallery and its surrounding woodlands, engaging the audience in an intergenerational call and response, where trees become […]
Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery, explores the historical life and contemporary significance of Palestinian embroidery. This ancient and beautiful practice remains an important living tradition and the most prominent cultural material […]
Sarah Cunningham explores psychological spaces and multifaceted landscapes, which the artist composes within her layered and generative canvases. This new body of paintings, The Crystal Forest, – including a major triptych and large-scale works, alongside smaller panels – focusses on Cunningham’s abstract forays into kaleidoscopic environments, and imagined forest clearings, which she constructs over time through […]
The exhibition showcases paintings by Maria Prymachenko (1908 – 1997), having been preserved by the artist's family for more than fifty years. This beautiful series, originally conceived as illustrations for a children’s book, reflect life in a small village in the Kyiv region through magical and naïve imagery.
The Belly and the Guts, is a group exhibition bringing together five artists who spent their formative years in Manchester (UK): Louise Giovanelli, Tommy Harrison, Robin Megannity, Fischer Mustin and Rafal Topolewski. The artists in this show reposition painting as primarily a material and physical act, human, real, sensorial and seductive.
Beyond the Gaze – Reclaiming the Landscape, demonstrates the increasing interest in landscape painting within contemporary art. Historically, the genre was predominantly the domain of male painters. When women were present, they appeared as subjects within landscapes, often as workers, mythical figures, muses or nudes. In contrast, this exhibition subverts the traditional tendencies of historical landscape […]
The Blue Hour, an exhibition of work by ten female artists: Aglaé Bassens, Hazel Brill, Cathleen Clarke, Olivia Jia, Laura Lancaster, Rachel Lancaster, Julia Maiuri, Prae Pupityastaporn, Sarah Schlesinger and Jill Tate. The artists explore the contemplative space that the blue hour offers, and present a unique female perspective of solitude and intimacy either from an […]