CURRENT EXHIBITS [182]

Phoebe Cummings has been awarded the second Camden Arts Centre Ceramics Fellowship. The Fellowship supports artists extending the possibilities of working with clay. It offers space and resources to research, develop and produce new work while engaging in discussions around contemporary ceramics. Cummings creates sculptural installations which change over time. She approaches clay as a sculptura...   [more]

Film in Space is a group exhibition selected by British artist-filmmaker Guy Sherwin. The exhibition focuses on expanded cinema, a film movement which came to prominence in Britain in the early 1970s, at the time Sherwin started making films. The movement was closely associated with the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative, an organisation set up in 1966 by artist-filmmakers to exhibit and produce...   [more]

Opening: December 14th, 2012   5:45 PM - 8:30 PM

SURFACE is a group exhibition exploring a variety of approaches to surface through painting, textiles, collage, drawing, print and objects, crossing the boundaries between fine art, craft and design. The exhibition will demonstrate the notion of surface, including pattern, repetition, texture, patina and material, as well as the deeper meanings and wider contexts beyond an object’s physical surface.�...   [more]

Opening: February 12th   6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

second reflection / symmetrical contents STURTEVANT and SECONDEDITIONS 22.01.13 – 9.03.13 CHELSEA space presents an exhibition by American artist STURTEVANT and UK-based partnership SECONDEDITIONS featuring installed video works and objects. The result of a correspondence between STURTEVANT and SECONDEDITIONS initiated in 2002, the exhibition follows two strands of thought: second reflection, th...   [more]

Opening: January 22nd   6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Chisenhale Gallery presents a newly commissioned work by the Canadian, Glasgow based artist Corin Sworn. This will be Sworn’s largest and most ambitious exhibition to date and comprises a film presented as part of an installation with synchronised lighting and sound. The Rag Papers (2013) explores the socially constructed nature of attention and the implications of reuse and appropriation as they reconfi...   [more]

Opening: February 7th   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

British artist Stephen Nelson makes strange and highly personable objects and constructions, often playfully domestic and comedic, using a wide variety of salvaged materials selected for their colour, texture and character. Working with anything from sea worn plastic toys, clay pipes, wire, painted drift wood to cloth, carpet and leather, Nelson’s sculptures have an improvised and makeshift att...   [more]

The Contemporary Art Society recently purchased a moving image work, Bore Song (2011) by British artist Louisa Fairclough for Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum. The piece relates to a spectacular Gloucestershire phenomenon — the Severn Bore, a large tidal wave that surges up the River Severn — and will be shown with a companion work at Camden Arts Centre during February, with related drawings...   [more]

Tommaso Corvi-Mora is pleased to present an exhibition of work by five renowned British Studio Potters: Simon Carroll, Walter Keleer, Janet Leach, Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie and Julian Stair.  Over recent years many contemporary artists have shown a renewed interest in clay as a medium. This has sparked a debate in the ceramics world, touching upon several issues: the boundary between art and...   [more]

Opening: January 11th   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Celebrating new and emerging design talent, the Design Museum’s annual Designers in Residence programme supports designers at an early stage in their career. Now in its fifth year, the residency demonstrates the museums commitment to showcasing and supporting the next generation of design talent. Selected via an open-call, this years residents will be Freyja Sewell, Harry Trimble and Oscar Medley-Whitf...   [more]

Opening: September 5th, 2012   11:00 AM - 7:30 PM

Bringing together almost 200 objects from around the world, Unexpected Pleasures celebrates the work of contemporary jewellers who have challenged the conventions of jewellery design. Curated by jewellery designer and maker Dr. Susan Cohn, the exhibition offers a survey of contemporary jewellery presented through a number of themes: Worn Out - celebrating the experience of wearing jewellery, Lin...   [more]

Opening: December 5th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:45 PM

The Design Museum has the UK’s only collection devoted exclusively to contemporary design and architecture. This new permanent collection display reveals intriguing insights in the most exceptional of everyday objects.   The opening of the museum’s permanent collection marks an essential milestone in the journey towards the future of the Design Museum at its new home in Kensington, where...   [more]

Opening: January 30th   10:00 AM - 5:45 PM

Late Night opening Friday 22 February and Friday 29 March until 8pm The exhibition explores whether the languages of drawing and sculpture are intertwined or simply parallel. Drawing has always been an essential tool to the sculptor, and many sculptors have carried their experimentation with materials into work on paper.  For many sculptors there is a clear demarcation between the two disciplines, and...   [more]

Opening: February 13th   6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Flowers Gallery presents Boyd & Evans Paintings, the exhibition will comprise works from 1970s to the present day. Boyd & Evans' longstanding artistic collaboration began in 1968 and was celebrated with an extensive and well received survey of their work at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham in July 2012. With a creative career that spans over four decades Boyd & Evans' work has been through many notewort...   [more]

Opening: February 16th   2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Flowers Gallery present an exhibition uniting two iconic bodies of work by their most recently represented artists; Nicola Green and Simon Roberts. The exhibition precedes major solo exhibitions by both artists to be presented later this year. Viewers are encouraged to examine the role of the artist in recording political events and election campaigns through two different mediums and starkly contr...   [more]

Opening to the public on the 13th February Flowers Gallery is pleased to exhibit new paintings and monotypes by Claerwen James. James painted during her undergraduate degree in Zoology at Oxford University, she took a Ph.D but accepted that painting, not science, was really the focus of her creative life. James retrained at Slade School of Fine Art, graduating from the painting department in 2003 with...   [more]

Alexandra Makhlouf lives and works in her native South Africa. During 2007 and 2008, Alexandra suffered with only 10% vision. Literature took on a new and significant meaning for her: the words and pages became foggy mysteries between what she describes as stabs of light and physical pain. Audio-books were especially important to her during this time. She listens to them while working. She use...   [more]