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 […]
This exhibition, Fashion Manifesto, is dedicated to the work of French couturière, Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel. It charts the establishment of the House of CHANEL, and the evolution of her iconic design […]
The exhibition Victorian Art, Fashion & Design, includes fashion pieces – from Queen Victoria’s monotone mourning dress to the most daringly vivid clothing and accessories – and works by artists including Millais, Ruskin, […]
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, […]
The Dance of People and the Natural World, is an introduction to Omuku’s work that is seeking to broaden the exposure, and awareness of the vibrant contemporary Nigerian art scene. […]
Ikon tours Dreams of Brum, an exhibition of photographic portraits by Maryam Wahid at Handsworth Library. The portraits were taken during a series of creative community workshops with printmaker Haseebah Ali.
This exhibition examines Lee Miller’s life and work through her clothing beginning in Paris in the late 1920s and ending in Sussex in the mid-1950s. It includes outfits that represent […]
The Devil is in the Detail offers a rare opportunity to see the complete set of Albrecht Dürer’s Great Passion, one of the most important series of woodcuts in his career. […]
Rosemarie Castoro (1939-2015) lived and worked in New York all her life, becoming a central figure in the city’s Minimalist and Conceptual Art scene while defying that categorization, declaring “I […]
Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris, brings together paintings, watercolours, drawings and sketches, as well as previously unseen archival material and personal belongings. Chronologically tracing Gwen John’s […]
This exhibition is a major survey of work by over 100 women artists working in the UK from 1970 to 1990. Through their creative practices, women’s liberation was forged against […]
The drawings and paintings on show are the work of six women who worked as war artists during the First World War. They provide an interesting perspective on women’s roles during the war, and on the relationships between men and women in a variety of wartime situations.
This exhibition of Rebecca’s recent work demonstrates how her artistic practice is rooted in traditional Japanese art; how it combines Eastern and Western traditions; and how print processes are central […]
Artist, activist, writer and eco-feminist Monica Sjöö (1938-2005) was unwavering in her advocacy for gender justice, eco-feminism, matriarchy and social equities. This retrospective exhibition charts her life work and considers […]
Towner Eastbourne is hosting the Turner Prize 2023, the world’s leading prize for contemporary art, as the centrepiece of their centenary celebrations.
Sharing a common thread of combining autobiography and activism, and working across a wide range of media including painting, photography, film, animation, wall drawing and site-specific installation, these practices activate a wide range of conversations around community and belonging, friendship and intimacy, migrant and diasporic storytelling and queer world-making. In The World Belongs to us, […]
From epic visions to intricately envisaged details, this exhibition celebrates some of the finest fantasy creators. It reveals how their imagined lands, languages and creatures came into being, and delves […]
An exhibition of Kim Lim’s work offering unparalleled insight into the artist’s life and work. Space, Rhythm & Light, displays over 100 artworks created over four decades by Lim, alongside extensive archive material, most of which has never been seen publicly before, to show the full breadth of Lim’s work.
'Aetheric', an exhibition by Byzantia Harlow evolves from her long-standing exploration of spirituality and healing processes. In parallel to her artistic career, Harlow practices as a psychic medium. Harlow’s spiritual […]
Liorah Tchiprout’s exhibition, Two Eyes Wide Open at the Edge of Dawn, explores new beginnings. The exhibition consists of paintings, monotypes and etchings, all portraits of subjects who gaze confidently […]
This show celebrates the life and legacy of trailblazing British painter Pauline Boty, 1938-1966, in her first posthumous solo exhibition in a decade. Pauline Boty: A Portrait, presents a remarkable […]
Featuring over 100 bold and beautiful paintings – including landscapes, still life and portraiture Lucy Harwood’s artworks command the space with their vibrancy and confidence. Bold Impressions, marks the first […]
Elisabeth Frink: A View from Within, focusses on the significant body of work produced by Frink (1930-1993) at her Woolland studio in Dorset, between 1976 and 1993. It explores her […]
Ordered Form, is an exhibition that focusses on Begum’s geometric works created over the past three years. It presents sculptures, paintings and screen prints, featuring newly created relief works and […]
Diana Copperwhite's selection of new paintings marks an extension of the artist's use of abstraction to explore notions of memory, and perception against the visual chaos of twenty-first century life. Painting for Copperwhite is a means of systematising information, which she describes as "giving the unseen world visual form." Derived from her lifelong interest in […]
Working between painting, drawing, textile and sculpture, Matilda Sutton weaves together narrative through image and object. Her exhibition Bristling brings together a new body of work, which expands on a core impulse in Sutton’s practice; to investigate the boundaries of the body and the self.
Pasquarosa Marcelli (1896 - 1973), known simply as 'Pasquarosa', exhibited in the 1920s. A century later her work, From Muse to Painter', returns to the capital in a new show featuring […]
Conversation Galante brings together a diverse group of painters whose works celebrate conversation, playfulness and intimacy. Collectively, their paintings conjure an imaginary forum distinct from the politics of the city or the court, where gender, identity and societal roles are unfixed. This group exhibition consists of works by: Nina Chanel Abney, Ana Benaroya, Katherine Bradford, France-Lise McGurn, Sofia Mitsola, GaHee Park, Henning […]
"Duet", is a two-person show featuring the works of Nancy Shaver and Sherman Sam, which brings together the artists' paintings and sculpture. "Duet" considers the potentialities of material beyond the role of conventional narrative. Contrasting redefinition with resistance, the exhibition parallels the artists' explorative and unbounded approaches in developing personal modes of meaning.
The exhibition ‘Artificial Emotions’ by Li Shurui, refers to the simulation or replication of human-like emotions in artificial systems such as AI, robots, or virtual agents and the goal behind creating artificial emotions is often to enhance human-machine interaction, improve user experience, or develop more empathetic and responsive technologies. The artist states, “For me, any visual […]
Reflecting the movement of the oceans and rivers that have been used to transport cotton, yarn and enslaved people throughout history, Lost Threads traces the paradoxes of textile production and circulation by […]
Olivia Bax unveils exciting developments to her practice in the form of mobile, dynamic works. A new body of table sculptures is presented on custom-built furniture, alongside three wall works […]
North of the Sun, is an exhibition based on Heidrun Rathgeb's time spent at artist residencies in Hardanger Fjord, Norway. Finding inspiration in what she describes as "the poetry of a fleeting moment", her luminous egg-tempera paintings evoke the extraordinary light of the summer landscape, as well as the evocative details of life in the […]
In her exhibition When I Draw, Shuvinai Ashoona makes drawings which engage with the complexities of life, land and community in the Canadian Arctic, through fantastical motifs and modes of […]
The exhibition, Chinwag, presents an array of Alice Irwin’s new works, including colourful, multi-layered screenprints and etchings, complemented by sketches and preparatory studies that offer insights into her meticulous creative process. […]
The exhibition, The Lightclub of Batavia, showcases a combination of new and existing works by Sinta Tantra. It features iridescent gold and Prussian blue paintings that adorn the Manor’s walls and […]
The Time of Our Lives focuses on the pioneering drawing practices of women artists, and their impact on feminist activism from the 1980s until today. The exhibition showcases the work […]
Shuvinai Ashoona makes drawings which engage with the complexities of life, land and community in the Canadian Arctic, through fantastical motifs and modes of storytelling. In her exhibition When I […]
Bitch Magic, is an exhibition that brings together a cross-generational group of women and non-binary artists who align with 'the feminine', and whose work offers radical feminist perspectives through themes associated with folklore, the magical, or the esoteric. The works in the exhibition span a variety of media-sound installation, performance, painting, drawing, photography and sculpture.
Judith Godwin’s work, Expressions of Life, comprises a focused survey of works dating from the 1950s to the end of the century. Associated at the start of her career with the Abstract Expressionist movement, this show of Godwin’s work richly illustrates the artist’s enduring influence over the landscape of American art despite the challenges she […]
Gillian Lowndes (1936-2010) was one of the most daring and original artists of the post-war period. Trained as a potter, her work hovers between craft and fine art, pottery and […]
Ania Tomaszewska-Nelson is a versatile artist. Currently, her practice involves making video art as well as painting.
'Fruitful Lands' narrates the story of a mystical realm, where utopia and dystopia are intertwined in the lyrical portrayal of human nature Colette La Vette's practice borrows attributes from Rococo […]
Uman's ebullient visual vocabulary reflects her expansive cross-cultural experiences. With nods to self portraiture and fictional topographies. Her paintings fluidly navigate in-between realms to explore both the physical and spiritual, […]
The exhibition, Thinking of You, I Mean Me, I Mean You, by Barbara Kruger features a unique selection of site-specific installations covering the walls and floor of the gallery spaces, […]
Anna Perach explores the dynamics between personal and cultural myths. Her work engages with historical narratives through the depiction of enigmatic female characters that dwell precariously at the threshold between […]
A solo exhibition surveying 50 years of work by Jacqueline Poncelet. Her work is characterised by a restless exploration of materials and making that is evident throughout her practice. In the Making presents works from different eras side by side, offering experiences of the artist’s inquiry and rigorous exploration of process across diverse bodies of […]
Monica Sjöö (1938 – 2005) was a co-founder of the Goddess movement and this exhibition traces her deep commitment to gender and environmental justice. The artist, self-described as a ‘radical […]
Light, memory and the history of photography are some of the abiding themes in this show which brings together several new bodies of work and a moving image piece. These […]
Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950 - 1970, is a major new exhibition, which connects the work of over 50 women from across the globe through a shared language of radical abstraction following World War II. Features: Carla Accardi; Novera Ahmed; Ruth Asawa; Maria Bartuszová; Lynda Benglis; Louise Bourgeois; Maria Theresa Chojnacka; Lygia Clark; Saloua […]
Ziping Wang continues to explore everyday themes, reflecting the exhibition's title, Small Talk, which considers day-to day social situations. In an intuitive development of Wang's visual practice, Small Talk becomes […]
An exhibition of works by Alexis Hunter (1948-2014), a pivotal figure in the British Feminist Movement. 10 Seconds focuses on Hunter’s most iconic works produced in the 1970’s, when she was […]
Spanning over 60 years of contemporary sculpture, this exhibition highlights ways in which artists draw on familiar experiences of movement, flux and organic growth. Inspired by sources ranging from a dancer’s gesture to the breaking of a wave, from a flow of molten metal to the interlacing of a spider’s web, the artworks in When Forms […]
Let’s go on singing! presents new and existing work in which Zineb Sedira expands on her exploration of cinema as a tool for joyful resistance and draws on the archive […]
Aria Dean: Abattoir, is an exhibition of the artist’s recent work, which explores the foundational relationship between modernity and death on conceptual and material levels.
This group exhibition brings together works by international artists and collectives, who use the camera to challenge and move beyond traditional protest photography. The exhibition, Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest, explores feminism and activism from an international and contemporary perspective. It looks at different approaches to feminism from the past 10 years, and highlights shared concerns including […]
Hydriotaphia, is a new collection of ceramic offerings; urns, shrines and spirit houses fired in the subterranean tomb-like anagama kiln, an ancient type of wood fired kiln brought to Japan from China […]
Love-in-a-Mist, is an exhibition of new work by Alice Kemp and Yuichiro Kikuma. This is the first time Alice and Yuichiro’s work is presented in dialogue, you are invited to […]
Maria Bell-Salter’s paintings of tulip beds and herbaceous borders immerse the viewer in vitality and colour – sometimes strong and vibrant, sometimes subtle with undefined mystery in the depths. They […]
Jemima Stehli's work explored themes of sexuality and the gaze throughout her practice. She is best known for her photographic works, which explore performativity and complicity in the representation of […]
The relationship between performativity and the gaze has always been central to Jemima Stehli’s artistic practice. Her photographic works of the late 1990s and early 2000s often cite well-known imagery by […]
In her exhibition, Regeneratrix, Yulia Pinkusevich presents recent paintings from two ongoing bodies of work, The Sakha Series and The Isorithm Series, which excavate the layers of her cultural identity as a former […]
HUNROD GOLD, is a collaboration between Michèle Lamy and Loree Rodkin, both influential figures in contemporary jewelry design. Lamy and Rodkin have masterfully crafted this collection of rings as an […]
Outi Pieski's paintings and installations explore several themes, including the culture and identity of the Sámi people – who live in the region of Sápmi. In many of her projects, she incorporates duodji (the traditional craft practices of the Sámi people) using materials such as wood and textile. For Pieski, duodji is also a way […]