The presentation of two exhibitions especially conceived to be in dialogue with each other. Lygia Clark: The I and the You and Sonia Boyce: An Awkward Relation, which explores pivotal moments in the artists’ careers, where each began experimenting with participatory practices. By pairing the two artists in this way, audiences are invited to reflect on both the similarities and differences […]
Letizia Battaglia's photographic career began in the early 1970s, when she was in her forties. She documented everyday life, alongside the brutal reality of the Mafia and their victims in Sicily, during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. Her images are some of the best-known records of life in the shadow of the Mafia. In […]
Busywork, is a suite of new paintings by Ginny Casey. Her contemporary, surrealist paintings capture invented spaces that are occupied by objects distorted and rendered uncanny: tools, household items, and the occasional disembodied hand. In her richly coloured still lives, inanimate objects appear alive and suggest psychological or dream states.
Fabian Treiber’s exhibition, Bruised, features a new suite of large scale diptychs and small scale mixed media paintings on nettle substrates. The exhibition title reflects narratively unstable situations in the paintings and their precarious swell within.
Retables, is an exhibition of new work by Fabienne Verdier, which employs individual abstract motifs, painted with her iconic large-scale brushes, to evoke individual phenomena of the natural world. Her research takes her deeper into the complex connections between the energies and forms of nature, drawing comparisons between splayed tree branches with forks of lightning, […]
Margot Samel's exhibition Narcissister, focusses on race, gender, and sexuality through a constant renegotiation of the self, and its inherent performative nature within contemporary society against heteronormative structures of surveillance and policing.
Entitled Human Stories: Unreported Uprisings, Ines Dalal presents a series of powerful photographic essays documenting the protests of striking workers in the UK. Dalal shares an unpublished contemporary archive and commentary of the prevailing British social landscape, at a time when the country came very close to mobilising a General Strike.
Aziza Kadyri’s practice blends forms and materials, including experimental costume design, textiles, performance, installation art and virtual and augmented reality. In her exhibition, Spinning Tales, Kadyri uses technology and various artistic disciplines, such as multilayered language forms, to explore the Eurasian region's critical heritage, complex contemporaneity and current nation-state layout.
In her work Lauren Halsey merges past, present and future via her interest in iconography connected to the African diaspora, Black and queer icons and architecture. Halsey cites the collective sonic and visual layering associated with funk music as the blueprint for her approach to making, traversing time and drawing on a wide range of […]
Play Interact Explore, is an exhibition developed by Lucy Cran and Bill Leslie, in collaboration with community groups in Eastbourne and Brighton. The exhibition explores play, collaboration and materials. Featuring large, tactile sculptural objects and colourful assemblages, everything in the space is interactive. Lively, exciting and curiosity-filled, Play Interact Explore is designed to support and encourage taking […]
The title of this exhibition ‘Deepest Dreams & Waking Moments’ alludes to the fleeting nature of Marzia Colonna’s subject matter and the distillation of her life experience. Based on chance encounter, her memory, and a period of contemplation, Colonna mentally sets the scene and begins to paint the papers that will build her vision. This […]
Two Shoes are not a Pair, is an exhibition of oil paintings on panels and plywood, which Katerina Lukina shares with Andrei Pokrovskii.
This exhibition, The Flood, features photographs by Bettina von Zwehl, whose aim is to rekindle wonder and curiosity as critical tools for exploring new ideas and practices.
Gebrochenes Pferd, the exhibition of new works by Alexandra Bircken, refers to the sculptural tradition of the equestrian statue, which for centuries epitomised the dignified representation of rulers, emperors, kings, and conquerors.
Discover the vibrant textile works of Magorzata Mirga-Tas. Mirga-Tas is known for her textile collages created with materials and fabrics that are mainly gathered from family and friends. Her visual storytelling comes from a feminist perspective and challenges stereotypical representations of Roma people. Often working in collaboration with other women, she sews pieces of clothing, […]
Now in her 80s, Vija Celmins is best known for her obsessive, detailed images of ocean waves and the star-filled night sky. She is recognised for her highly executed drawings and her practice in printmaking, her delicate images are based on photographs of the sea, deserts, the night sky and other natural phenomena. This exhibition […]
This major new exhibition, Land, Sea and Sky, brings together three artists who, although working more than 200 years apart, are connected through their close observation of nature and skilful use of materials. Margaret Pollard, a multi-media artist and photographer, presents Three Drops of Blood, a recent body of work, which draws on two years […]
A retrospective exhibition of artworks by Everlyn Nicodemus. It includes drawings, collages, paintings and textiles from the last 40 years of the artist’s life, as well as new works created especially for this show. This inspiring experience is made possible because Nicodemus won the prestigious Freelands Award in 2022. She is an artist, writer and […]
Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) was a pioneering modernist painter and founding member of the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of influential English artists, writers and intellectuals in the first half of the twentieth century. This exhibition, A World of Form and Colour, is her largest ever solo show, and provides an in-depth overview that includes drawings, paintings, ceramics […]
Featuring thirty artworks, the exhibition, Painted Dreams, reveals Evelyn de Morgan’s progression as an artist, and her technical mastery as one of the most impressive artists of the late Victorian era. Discover De Morgan’s exploration of challenging subjects and painterly responses to enduring social and political issues of the day, such as feminism, inequality, war […]