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The door that creaks
Anna Rocke // Edinburgh 1 - 22 December 2023 exhibition opening Thursday 30th November 2023 6 - 8pm exhibition continues 1/12/23 - 22/12/23 13A Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6QG Read more -
She heard them in the grass and in the leaves
Madeleine Wood // Edinburgh 1 - 22 December 2023 exhibition opening Thursday 30th November 2023 6 - 8pm exhibition continues 1/12/23 - 22/12/23 13A Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6QG Read more
Past
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Bye Bye Cowboy
London 3 - 18 November 2023 co-curated with Anna Choutova with work by Josh Raz, Elsa Rouy, Candida Powell Williams, Thérèse Mulgrew, Mark Corfield-Moore, Sophie Lourdes Knight, Haydn Albrow, Stephen Anthony Davids, Alma Berrow, owvbics, Andrea Gomis, Thomas Martinez Pilnik , L oui Miles, De xter Gonzales, Os car Farmer, Hugo Hagger opening Thursday 2nd November... Read more -
November Eve
Fiona Finnegan // Edinburgh 1 - 26 November 2023 exhibition opening Tuesday 31st October 2023 exhibition continues 01/11/23 - 26/11/23 13A Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6QG Read more -
Prize
Ilona Szalay // Edinburgh 1 - 26 November 2023 exhibition continues 01/11/23 - 26/11/23 13A Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6QG Read more -
felt cute, might delete later
London 5 - 28 October 2023 co-curated with James Owens work by Alice Neave, Maddalena Zadra, Elisabeth Perrault, Francisco G Pinzón Samper, Sophie Birch, Amber Wallis, Mel Arsenault, Laurie Cole, Gommaar Gilliams, Anna Schachinger, Theresa Weber, Esmé Naylor Farrelly, Lachlan Hinwood, Molly Martin, James Owens, Peter Carrick, Holly Mills, Maria Positano, Carl Anderson, Imogen Allen, Anjali... Read more -
Hot Mess
Paige Perkins // Bruton 30 September - 29 October 2023 opening Saturday 30th September 2023 2 - 6 pm exhibition continues 01.10 - 29.10.23 Thursday - Sunday, 11am - 6pm The Old Silk Barn Quaperlake Street Bruton, Somerset BA10 0HB Read more -
When the rocks were soft
Claire Partington // Edinburgh 28 September - 29 October 2023 exhibition opening Thursday 28th September 2023 exhibition continues 29/09/23 - 29/10/23 13A Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6QG Read more -
Art Athina 2023
Athens 14 - 17 September 2023 Presenting new work by Margaret R. Thompson & Zayn Qahtani Zayn Qahtani is a multidisciplinary artist. Her work sways between what is seen and what is felt, compiling a personal mythology along the way. Drawing on ancient cultures and nature’s diverse ecosystems, Zayn forms visual stories which seem to exist... Read more -
Portal
London 11 - 30 September 2023 with work by John Abell, Peter Burns, Plum Cloutman, Freya Douglas Morris, Fiona Finnegan, Jen Wink Hays, Charlotte Keates, Ebba Grahn, So phie Lourdes Knight, Sophie Milner, Chris Oh, James Owens, Paige Perkins, Elisabeth Perrault, Heidrun Rathgeb, Anna Rocke, rocki swiderski, Ilona Szalay, Margaret R. Thompson, Peter Carrick, Kate Walters,... Read more -
Dreamer's Eye
Edinburgh Art Festival 27 July - 27 August 2023 with new work by Plum Cloutman, Zayn Qahtani and Georg Wilson opening Thursday 27th July 6 - 8pm exhibition continues 28th July - 27th August Edinburgh Art Festival 13A Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6QG Read more -
We were the first that ever burst into that silent sea
Ilona Szalay // Bruton 8 July - 27 August 2023 opening Saturday 8th July 2023 2 - 6 pm exhibition continues 09.07 - 27.08.2023 The Old Silk Barn Quaperlake Street Bruton, Somerset BA10 0HB Read more -
Reverdie
Edinburgh 29 June - 23 July 2023 Jen Wink Hays, Danny Leyland, Connie Harrison, Ed Burkes, Rhiannon Salisbury, John Abell and Margaret R Thompson exhibition opening Thursday June 29th 2023 exhibition continues 30/06/23 - 23/07/23 13A Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6QG Read more -
I know not how it falls on me
Rhiannon Salisbury // Bruton 11 June - 2 July 2023 opening Saturday 10th June 2023 2 - 6pm exhibition continues 11th - 25th June 2023 Thursday - Sunday, 11am - 6pm Arusha Gallery The Old Silk Barn Quaperlake Street Bruton, Somerset BA10 0HB Read more -
The Kaleidoscope Turns
Norman Gilbert // Edinburgh 9 - 25 June 2023 exhibition opening Thursday 8th June 6 - 8pm exhibition continues 09.06 - 25.06.2023 13A Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6QG Read more -
You Carry Me
Charlotte Keates // New York 31 May - 29 June 2023 exhibition opening Wednesday 31st May 2023 6 - 8pm exhibition continues 01.06 - 29.06.23 Gallery One High Line Nine 507 W 27th St New York NY 10001 Read more -
Hawthorn and the Feast of Julian
New York Summer Series 17 - 28 May 2023 Jacob Littlejohn, Zayn Qahtani, Margaret R Thompson, Sophie Birch, James Owens, Plum Cloutman, John Abell, Paige Perkins, Anna Rocke, Danny Leyland, Fiona Finnegan and Helen Flockhart Private View Tuesday 16th May 6 - 8pm open daily 10-6pm Gallery One High Line Nine 507 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001 Read more -
Eye of the Collector
Two Temple Place // London 17 - 20 May 2023 Read more -
CATATONIA
Jack Dunnett // Edinburgh 12 May - 4 June 2023 exhibition opening Thursday 11th May 2023 6 - 8 pm exhibition continues 12.05 - 04.06.2023 13A Dundas Street Edinburgh Read more -
The Coordinate Plane
New York Summer Series 4 - 14 May 2023 Laila Tara H, Megan Rea, Ilona Szalay, Sophie Milner, Kate Walters, Pippa Young and Suzy Spence Private View Wednesday May 3rd 6 - 8pm open daily 10-6pm late opening May 11th Gallery One High Line Nine 507 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001 Read more -
For the Roses
Suzy Spence // Bruton 30 April - 28 May 2023 opening Saturday 29th April 2023 2 - 6pm 30th April - 28th May 2023 Arusha Gallery The Old Silk Barn Quaperlake Street Bruton, Somerset BA10 0HB Read more -
Vanitas
Morwenna Morrison // Edinburgh 7 April - 7 May 2023 private view Thursday 6th April 6 - 8pm exhibition continues 07.04 - 07.05.2023 13a Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6QG Read more -
Disquiet Beauty
Elaine Speirs // Edinburgh 8 March - 2 April 2023 exhibition opening Wednesday 8th March 2023 6 - 8 pm exhibition continues 9.03 - 2.04.2023 13A Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6QG Read more -
The Bed in the Corner
Anna Rocke // Bruton 4 March - 2 April 2023 Many of the paintings that encompass The Bed in the Corner depict the mundane, domestic scenes of everyday life. There are kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms. These are intimate spaces, rooms that are comfortable and comforting, places we drift through without giving it much thought. But while many of us are able... Read more -
Remapped
Robert Fry // Edinburgh 27 January - 5 March 2023 opening Friday 27th January 2023 6 - 8pm 28th January - 5th March 2023 Arusha Gallery 13a Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6QG Read more -
The Polar Night
Fiona Finnegan // Bruton 22 December 2022 - 25 January 2023 opening Wednesday 21st December 6 - 8pm 22nd December - 25th January 2023 with exhibiton text by Amy Hale The Old Silk Barn Bruton BA10 0HB Read more -
SHOOKETH
Kirsty Whiten // Edinburgh 9 December 2022 - 6 January 2023 Shooketh, like the ancient, geological landscapes which hold many of the human presences within the collection, points to a larger map of meaning which Whiten invokes us to remember – that humans are not separate from nature, but rather embedded within a cartography of relationships in constant flux, cycle, dependency,... Read more -
Axis Mundi
Rosie McLachlan 8 December 2022 - 6 January 2023 Whiskery tips to the branches and a gaunt darkening in the leaves are a sign of disease. There is a writhe in the trunks, knuckle and burr, a lost-wax grief to fissured bark. This year the buds never looked more mythological - pollen dusting everything... Read more -
Winter Coat
Claire Partington // Bruton 1 - 18 December 2022 1st - 18th December The Old Silk Barn Bruton BA10 0HB Read more -
Unstitching
Sophie Milner // London 25 November - 4 December 2022 One afternoon, after finishing a cup of coffee in her living room, Greta discovered how to unstitch herself. Her clothes, skin and hair fell from her like the peeled rind of a fruit, and her true body stepped out Camilla Grudova , The Doll’s Alphabet opening Thursday 24th November... Read more -
Bell, book and candle
Casper White // Bruton 16 - 27 November 2022 Casper White’s most recent body of work embodies this term, with the process of excommunication herein signifying a shift, or bridge, between the classical norm and the interest and study of works from the post-canonical digital work. The singularity or personal performance shown in these works, particularly those stemming from... Read more -
Down Your Tresses
Nina Royle // Edinburgh 11 November - 4 December 2022 Nina’s work is richly layered, combining dreamlike imagery with a sensuous thingness, an assertive presence in the world. She brings together the real and imagined to approach something intuited about the way we experience life. Every work has the sense of a fleeting point of still clarity in the tidal... Read more -
Kennel Cough
Plum Cloutman // London 7 - 13 November 2022 In Kennel Cough , Cloutman distils this idea of off-kilter domesticity to a sharp point. Her images are small, some no bigger than 13 by 8.5cm. At first glance, they are filled with quotidian activities. Women take baths and couples complete crosswords. But look for longer and a strong sense... Read more -
Drawn from the well
Pippa Young // Bruton 11 October - 13 November 2022 The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink and in drinking understand themselves. Federico García Lorca opening Tuesday 11th October 6 - 8pm... Read more -
The Foretold Sun
John Abell // Edinburgh 8 October - 6 November 2022 Part parable, part folklore, Abell’s otherworldly scenes possess a clear historical character yet contain elements that suggest contemporary relevance. In terms of a sense of time, they are hybrid forms reminding us of the significance of histories ...as a vital concern for the present. - Dr Russell Roberts, 2020 8.10... Read more -
Chronic Fantasies
Ilona Szalay // London 7 - 17 October 2022 new work by Ilona Szalay opening Friday 7th October 6-8pm exhibition continues 8th - 17th October 46 Great Titchfield Street London W1W 7QA Read more -
Husband Material
Anna Choutova and Andrea Gomis // London 7 - 17 October 2022 Anna Choutova and Andrea Gomis present, Husband Material. Their first duo show will reflect the last two years of their collaborative work and over a decade of a wonderful, turbulent and often co-dependant relationship. Anna and Andrea collaborate through indulging in their impulsive and compulsive nature together - manically running... Read more -
Plum Cloutman at Art Athina 2022
16 - 19 September 2022 17.09.22 - 19.09.22 Zappeion Mansion Athens 105 57, Greece Plum Cloutman is a painter and printmaker whose work has been awarded the Catriona White Prize, the Lyon and Turnbull Prize, and was featured in the 2019 Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries exhibition. Having graduated in 2018 from Edinburgh College of... Read more -
The Garden Thief
Georg Wilson // Bruton 15 September - 9 October 2022 The Garden Thief tells the story of an abundant English harvest, from which every morsel is gobbled up. No bush or tree is safe from greedy, sticky mouths, outstretched fingers, beaks, claws, paws. The creatures in these paintings scrump and suck their way through orchards and allotments, to then laze,... Read more -
I take what is mine
New York 2 - 28 September 2022 James Owens, Anousha Payne, Helen Flockhart, Plum Cloutman and Robert Fry opening 1st September 6 - 8 pm 2 - 28th September Gallery 9 High Line Nine 507 W 27th St New York NY 10001 United States Read more -
Chthonia
Rhiannon Salisbury 31 August - 2 October 2022 opening Tuesday 30th August 6 - 8 pm with exhibiton text by Aliya Say Arusha Gallery 13A Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6QG Read more -
Cold Comfort // Bruton
Bobbie Russon 12 August - 11 September 2022 In this new body of work, for her first solo show at Arusha Bruton, Russon looks beyond the dark interiors of her childhood, casting around for alternative objects or belief systems – the stories we tell ourselves which define our personal sense of reality and provide us with hope in... Read more -
Weathering is what I would like to do well
Edinburgh Art Festival 28 July - 28 August 2022 ‘Weathering is what I would like to do well’, writes the Scottish poet Alastair Reid in his 1978 poem Weathering. Weathered objects carry this accumulation of touch: ‘an oak mantel / in the house in Spain, fingered to a sheen’. They are lasting evidence of someone else’s life. - Figguy... Read more -
Obstacle Course // Bruton
Jen Wink Hays 1 July - 7 August 2022 Open Thursday - Sunday, 11-6pm or by appointment Arusha Gallery The Old Silk Barn Quaperlake Street Bruton, Somerset BA10 0HB Read more -
Masterpiece London
30 June - 6 July 2022 A dark, night forest inspired booth, filled with lost men and women; forgotten folklore spirits Presenting new work by Robert Fry, Lisa Wright, Helen Flockhart, Claire Partington and Charlotte Keates Read more -
Love Paintings
Kate Walters 24 June - 24 July 2022 opening Thursday 23rd June 6 - 8 pm Edinburgh with exhibition text by Amy Hale exhibiton continues 24.06 - 24.07.2022 Read more -
Dancing on the Brim of Chaos
Pippa Young // London 10 - 20 June 2022 private view Friday 10th June 6 - 8pm 46 Great Titchfield Street London W1W 7QA Read more -
Nurtured Furrows
Connie Harrison // Edinburgh 27 May - 19 June 2022 private view Thursday 26th May 6 - 8pm 13A Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6QG Read more -
Obstacle Course
Jen Wink Hays 23 - 31 May 2022 private view Monday 23rd May 6 - 8pm 46 Great Titchfield Street London W1W 7QA Read more -
Conjure
20 May - 19 June 2022 Chantal Powell, Bella Hunt & Ddc, Anousha Payne, Anna Hughes, Shinichi Sawada, Bea Bonafini, Rosie McLachlan, Rafaela de Ascanio, Hannah Rowan, Jame St Findlay , Carl Anderson, Ashleigh Fisk, Mel Arsenault, Katia Kesic Co-curated with Chantal Powell, Conjure, is an exhibition devoted to hand built ceramic works that speak to... Read more -
Kindred
Kim L Pace 29 April - 22 May 2022 Opening Thursday 28th April 2022 6-8pm Edinburgh Kim L. Pace is a maker of charged objects, an animator of mirages. Ceramics are ancient and versatile, close to the earth and crafted by hand, vessels and entities that are capable of summoning alternative material realities. Pace coaxes this primeval medium through... Read more -
Thick draws the dark
Charlotte Keates 2 April - 15 May 2022 Clouded with snow The bleak winds blow, And shrill on leafless bough The robin with its burning breast Alone sings now. The rayless sun, Day's journey done, Sheds its last ebbing light On fields in leagues of beauty spread Unearthly white. Thick draws the dark, And spark by spark, The... Read more -
Chemtrails Over Camberwell
Thomas Adam 18 - 28 March 2022 New work by Thomas Adam Opening Friday 18th March 6 - 8 pm London Thomas Adam is a Scottish artist and MA Royal College of Art graduate currently practicing in Edinburgh. Upcoming solo exhibitions include 'Chemtrails Over Camberwell' at Arusha Gallery 19th - 28th of March 2022, London, and '16:9... Read more -
Praxis
London 18 - 28 March 2022 This eclectic and disquisitive group exhibition, conceived by Arusha Gallery’s Creative Director Agnieszka Prendota, explores two ideas related to the exhibition’s title Praxis. Firstly, notions of heritage and background as they might be discerned in the six participating artists’ works – social and cultural traditions from locations as disparate as... Read more -
The Witch's House
Ilona Szalay 17 March - 17 April 2022 In The Witch’s House Ilona Szalay has created a world of beautiful restraint and control out of which spills a bold and uninhibited sexual spirit. The viewer is invited to reflect on what women might do in their own space, unfettered from the world and concerns of men. Yet this... Read more -
PHANTOMS
Catherine Ross 17 March - 17 April 2022 Marcovaldo learned to pile the snow into a compact little wall. If he went on making little walls like that, he could build some streets for himself alone; only he would know where those streets led, and everybody else would be lost there. He could remake the city, pile up... Read more -
Chorus
Edinburgh 18 February - 13 March 2022 Fiona Finnegan, Dereck Harris, Paige Perkins, Ed Burkes, Mohammad Barrangi, Chantal Powell, Leo Robinson, John Stark, Bobbie Russon, Vivien McDermid, Pippa Gatty, Zayn Qahtani The 12 artists in Chorus at Arusha Gallery this spring take their cue from rhythm, harmony, music, or sound – and their art responds to the varied reactions we might... Read more -
A Quickening Spirit
Paige Perkins 14 - 24 January 2022 Paige Perkins paints nature red in tooth and claw, but it is human nature that she principally studies: humanity revealed through different (often animal) guises. There may be something nasty in the woodshed, but there’s worse out beyond the fence at the bottom of the garden, where the wild wood... Read more -
Tearbottle
Emma Douglas 14 - 24 January 2022 private view: 6-8pm Friday 14th January exhibition continues 15th - 24th January 10am - 6pm 46 Great Titchfield Street, London Emma Douglas (b. 1956, London) lives and works in London. Studied Fine Art BA at Middlesex Polytechnic (1976-79); Printmaking at Ecole des Arts Decoratifs Paris (1979-80); and MA Printmaking at... Read more -
Delirium
Ilona Szalay 8 - 14 December 2021 private view Tuesday 7th December 6 - 8pm exhibition continues 8 - 14.12.2021 10 - 6pm 46 Great Titchfield St, Fitzrovia London W1W 7QA Read more -
A Strange Kind of Knowing
curated by Olivia Penrose Punnett 7 - 14 December 2021 Arusha Gallery and Haarlem Gallery are pleased to announce A Strange Kind of Knowing, a touring exhibition of new commissions and recent work exploring the land, seasonal cycles, natural phenomena, intuition and nuance. Artists Verity Birt, Holly Bynoe, Kristina Chan, Fourthland, Susan Hiller, Katja Hock, Coral Kindred-Boothby, Penny McCarthy, Kate... Read more -
WinterFlower
Eleanor Moreton 16 - 24 November 2021 Arusha Gallery is delighted to present WinterFlower by Eleanor Moreton, featuring over 20 new works, centred on a wintery landscape. “Hibernia”, a term meaning “land of winter” features heavily in the titles of these pieces, recalling Moreton’s months spent in Lockdown last year. In these paintings, a family goes about... Read more -
Bearded with Moss
16 - 24 November 2021 THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced... Read more -
Through Great Waters
John Abell 8 November - 19 December 2021 John Abell is an artist of the in between, of the upside down, of shimmering and wild alternative realities. When entering his world, you will meet an eclectic array of recurring characters; curious witches, strangely chill apocalyptic horsemen slinging guitars, electric skeletons and willowy women glowing under the moonlight wearing... Read more -
Quiet Fire
James Owens 9 - 18 October 2021 A fire dances upon the horizon Quiet Fire is a new body of work made in 2021 which continues to explore [my] fascination with nature as a symbol for psychological states. In these paintings, plants creep, dance and communicate in hushed tones. They grow in unlikely settings, pushing up through... Read more -
Cruel Intentions
9 - 18 October 2021 With work by Peter Carrick, Rachel Stanley, Ilona Szalay, Morwenna Morrison, Anousha Payne, Laila Tara H, Eryn Lougheed, Sophie Milner, Kate Walters, Danny Leyland, Plum Cloutman, Freya Douglas-Morris, Ed Burkes, Elizabeth Stewart, Helen Flockhart, Fiona Finnegan, Jack Dunnett, Anna Rocke, Kirsty Whiten, Shelly Tregoning, Casper White, Pippa Gatty, Jade Ching-Yuk... Read more -
Smotherland
Jen Wink Hays 6 - 30 October 2021 I like to work with super simple, blocky, almost childish shapes. I use big, flat brushes and viscous materials that make it nearly impossible to get overly fussy or detailed. Some of the forms are vaguely 3D or seem to reference something from the real world, but these are isolated... Read more -
Waiting on a Harvest Moon
Georg Wilson 17 September - 1 October 2021 Georg Wilson interrogates the gendered roles found in European folklore, by humorously inverting or distorting their narratives. Her most recent works tease out strange, playful moments enacted by sulky, awkward characters who clumsily dominate the compositions – they are called her ‘goblins.’ The goblins roam wild across the English countryside,... Read more -
Norman Gilbert and Charlotte Keates
The Armory Show 9 - 12 September 2021 Patterns and textures carry an ability to transport us into time or an era in a more visceral way, bringing memories and atmosphere to the forefront in a less intellectualised but rather felt way - a mothers paisley shawl, the texture of a handrail, the shape of ferns from that summer. Both Charlotte Keates... Read more -
Hills of Honey
Freya Douglas-Morris 1 September - 3 October 2021 Read more -
Bathing nervous limbs
Edinburgh Art Festival 2021 29 July - 29 August 2021 Ella Walker, Ithell Colquhoun, Naomi Workman, Anousha Payne, Nina Royle, Francesca Blomfield, Emelia Kerr Beale , Kate Walters, Angus McCrum, Jessie Whiteley, George Ridgway, Leo Robinson, Melloney Harvey, Paloma Proudfoot, Bryony Rose, Zoe Williams, Danny Leyland, Tahnee Lonsdale, Jame St Findlay and Natalia González Martín with text by Sukayna Powell... Read more -
Safe As Milk
LONDON 19 - 21 July 2021 Arusha Gallery & Anna Choutova present Safe as Milk London Ilona Szalay, Nettle Grellier, Oriele Steiner, Plum Clouman, Grace Mattingly, Anna Choutova, James Owens, Sophie Vallance Cantor, Anna Rocke, Amélie Peace, Megan Menzies, Georg Wilson, Charlotte Keates, Lindsey Jean McLean, Victor Seaward, Andrea Gomis, Paige Perkins, Natalia Gonzá lez Martin... Read more -
A Constant Hum
Charlotte Keates 14 - 18 July 2021 A gentle pitter patter of rain throughout the jungle Waves of wind washing through the palms. Swaying in a fluttering motion Swathes of green swallow the horison The jungle is far from still New paintings and drawings by Charlotte Keates 10am - 7pm (9pm Thursday)... Read more -
Fixing Eyes with the Unseen
Morwenna Morrison 1 - 25 July 2021 Drawing on a rich array of art historical and contemporary images, as well as personal narratives and philosophical ideas, Fixing Eyes With The Unseen invites us to explore our complex relationship to individual and collective pasts in a series of striking oil paintings that epitomise Morwenna Morrison’s mesmerising aesthetic. Explaining... Read more -
Bloodroot
Mary Herbert and James Owens 7 - 27 June 2021 Bloodroot brings a message of releasing fears and expanding self-worth, especially for those of us who have belief that we are hard to love. Most often, our childhood traumas instilled this in us, causing us to be unable to open fully, or to love fully. Bloodroot gets to the root... Read more -
Beasts
Helen Flockhart and Beth Carter 26 November - 20 December 2020 Sundry Beasts roam these paintings: the minotaur; feared and loathed, rapacious devourer of human flesh, but equally a victim of the circumstances which conspired to create him (wasn't every monster once a child?); lions and serpents which populate re-imaginings of Eve; and a listless centaur cowers in the presence of... Read more -
MIDNIGHT CANDY
Fiona Finnegan 31 October - 21 November 2020 I asked him had he ever seen the faeries, and got the reply, 'Am I not annoyed with them?' - The Celtic Twilight, W.B. Yeats What with things being as Apple Mac/Harry Potter as they are, it comes as no surprise that magic — like feminism/homosexuality/counterculture, and other previous unfathomables—... Read more -
Mercurial Night
Lara Orman 31 October - 21 November 2020 Orman’s practice involves mixed media, automatic drawing and lithography printmaking. She uses these materials to bring to the surface metaphysical issues and paradoxes. Archetypal experiences are drawn from her subconscious environment and translated through the metaphor of landscape. Orman’s artwork serves as a liminal space to explore the relationship between... Read more -
Ancient Deities
co-curated by Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury 10 September - 18 October 2020 Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury | Leo Robinson | Paige Perkins | Byzantia Harlow | Matt Macken | Norman Hyams | Victor Seaward | Lindsey Mendick | Jake Grewal | Lena Brazin | Ella Walker | Tahmina Negmat | Charlotte Edey | Michaela Yearwood-Dan | Jessica Wetherly | Billy Fraser | Alia... Read more -
Bodily Objects
Helena Almeida | Renate Bertlmann | Helen Chadwick | Judy Chicago | Rose English | Alexis Hunter | Carolee Schneemann 17 July - 31 August 2020 In what is an extension of the original online exhibition curated by Philomena Epps, Bodily Objects brings together a selection of work by seven feminist artists - Helena Almeida (1934-2018), Rose English, Renate Bertlmann, Helen Chadwick (1953-1996), Judy Chicago, Alexis Hunter (1948-2014) and Carolee Schneemann (1939-2019) - exploring ideas of surrealism, sexuality, and subversion. “Through avant-garde performance,... Read more -
Some Are Born to Sweet Delight, Some Are Born to Endless Night
Ilona Szalay 12 June - 12 July 2020 'In attempting to write something about the work produced for this show I have floundered and struggled. The famous suffragette quote ‘Deeds not words’ came into my mind as I scrambled around searching for the right words. To speak of injustice and inequity at the moment is akin to stating that the world is... Read more -
Debris Dance
Danny Leyland 2 - 29 April 2020 We have kneaded bread and knapped flint for thousands of years, and very little is left from all the effort In...ASMR Massage videos, screen-grabbed on my phone, I was attracted to the immense audio-visual tactility of the experience. The way the hands in the video squeeze and rub the elastic... Read more
