New Contemporaries returns to the South London Gallery for the fifth consecutive year with Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022. This year’s exhibition features 47 of the UK’s most exciting artists emerging from art schools and alternative peer-to-peer learning programmes. The 2022 cohort were selected by internationally renowned artists James Richards, Veronica Ryan and Zadie Xa from […]
Inspired by Compton Verney Gallery’s striking portrait of Sir Thomas Knyvett (c.1569), ‘Tudor Mystery: A Master Painter Revealed’ is the world’s first exhibition devoted to an important, talented – but almost completely forgotten – painter at the court of Elizabeth I. Although the artist’s name has been lost, his recognisable approach to capturing a […]
As part of The Devil’s Porridge Museum’s Disability: Past and Present project, a new exhibition: ‘The Health of the Munition Worker: A Disability History of the World Wars on the Solway Military Coast’, will be on show from 1st November 2022 – 31st March 2023. […]
The winners of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize were announced at Cromwell Place on the 25th of October 2022. Clémentine Schneidermann took first place for the series Laundry Day which depict the artist’s neighbour hanging laundry in the garden of her home in South Wales. Taken during another […]
In celebration of the Barnes Foundation centennial, the institution commissioned Once Again . . . (Statues Never Die), an immersive five-screen installation by artist and filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien, CBE RA (b. London, 1960). The work explores the relationship between Dr. Albert C. Barnes, who was an early US collector and exhibitor of African material culture, and […]
Previously misattributed, Richmond Barthé’s Seated Man in a Landscape goes on display at the National Trust’s Belton House after new research confirms both the artist and sitter. The sitter has been identified as Lucian Levers, who was employed as Barthé’s helper at Lolaus, the artist’s house and studio in St Ann Parish, Jamaica. Read about the research here.
Philip Mould & Company, London, free entry Monday to Friday, 9.30am-6pm Sarah Biffin was born into a farming family in Somerset in 1784, where her baptism records state that she was ‘born without arms and legs’. Teaching herself to write and draw from a young age, Biffin rose to fame as an artist and established […]
Pallant House Gallery is pleased to announce the major exhibition of the British artist Glyn Philpot R.A. (1884-1937) in almost 40 years (since the 1984 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery). It brings together over 80 paintings, drawings and sculptures, many unseen in public for decades, charting the artist’s development from Edwardian swagger portraits to […]
In this landmark project renowned artists give 25,000+ looked-after children visibility after 280 years, commemorating the lost faces of children given into care between 1741-1954. Permanently revolutionising the Foundling Museum’s 280-year-old collection, it commissioned five major artists to create portraits of five exceptional sitters – former pupils of the Foundling Hospital – to hang alongside […]
