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THE PLATFORM GRADUATE AWARD 2018
Sep 28 - Dec 30, 2018
The very best of young & emerging visual artists in the South Coast.

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LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL 2018 AT BLUECOAT SIX ARTISTS SHOWING AT BLUECOAT
Jul 14 - Oct 28, 2018
Liverpool Biennial is the UK biennial of contemporary art. Taking place over 15 weeks across the city in public spaces, galleries, museums and online, the Biennial commissions artists from around the world to make and present work in the context of Liverpool. The 10th edition titled Beautiful world, where are you? invites artists and audiences to reflect on a world in social, political and economic turmoil.
For the 10th edition of the Biennial, Bluecoat will host an exhibition of works by artists from around the world, including: Ryan Gander, Shannon Ebner, Suki Seokyeong Kang, Silke Otto-Knapp, Melanie Smith, Abbas Akhavan, Janice Kerbel.

SERENA KORDA : THE BELL TREE
Sep 8, 2018 - Jul 28, 2019
Bluecoat is delighted to be working with artist Serena Korda and Trust New Art, the National Trust’s programme connecting people to places through contemporary art.
Serena Korda works across performance, sound and sculpture to find and highlight ritual in the everyday, which is developed through encounters, conversations and the researching of abandoned histories.
Set in Speke Hall’s ancient woodlands and grounds, The Bell Tree draws on the hall’s hidden history. Korda reconsiders aspects of communion and tradition, including underexplored feminist narratives or ‘herstories’ and alternative histories of folklore and witchcraft. The public commission is at Speke Hall, with a smaller element installed in Bluecoat's garden.
Speke Hall is free to visit with a National Trust Membership.

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FRANK BRANGWYN’S PRINTS
Jun 5 - Sep 30, 2018
Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956) achieved early fame as a printmaker, and made over 1,000 original prints in his lifetime. His work is characterised by an intense sympathy for the daily labour of humanity. During the 1930s he gave away much of his work, and the Royal Pavilion & Museums holds one of the country’s largest collections of prints by Brangwyn. This display of etchings and lithographs from the Fine Art collection captures the range of his work.

QUEER LOOKS
30 June 2018 to Summer 2019
This fascinating display of outfits and oral histories from LGBTQ individuals from Sussex, from the 1950s to the present day, looks at how individuals construct identities, both personal and collective, through dress.
Local LGBTQ communities have informed the content of this display, including the comedian Zoe Lyons, journalist Sophie Cook and trans campaigner Fox Fisher.

NATIONAL GALLERY MASTERPIECE TOUR : HOLBEIN
Oct 13, 2018 - Jan 6, 2019
A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling is one of Hans Holbein the Younger’s earliest English portraits and it is one of his most engaging and beautiful works. This touching portrait holds many secrets to decode. Alongside this 16th Century Masterpiece, the functions and meanings of portraiture from the period will be explored through a selection of works from our own collection.

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GREAT AND SMALL: ANIMALS IN CRAFT
Jul 28 - Oct 14, 2018
An exhibition for children & families selected from the Crafts Council Collection.

EDUARDO PAOLOZZI
Oct 26, 2018 - Jan 13, 2019
General Dynamic F.U.N. - screenprints and photolithographs from the pop art pioneer.

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GROUNDWORK
May 5 - Sep 30, 2018
With a focus on place and an emphasis on moving image, sound and performance, Groundwork is a season of contemporary work by internationally acclaimed artists, organised by CAST.
Performances, screenings, artist-led field trips and special events are presented in the CAST building in Helston, and at other nearby locations in West Cornwall, throughout September.
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SHOPKEEPERS OF THE WORLD
Sep 8 - 30, 2018
HERMIONE ALLSOP, NOËMI LAKMAIER, ALBERT POTRONY, ALINAH AZADEH.

LUCY BEECH : REPRODUCTIVE EXILE
Sep 15 - Dec 2, 2018
Beech’s new film Reproductive Exile follows the fictional story of a woman embarking in cross-border, assisted reproduction.

A TALE OF MOTHER’S BONES
Oct 6, 2018 - Jan 20, 2019
GRACE PAILTHORPE, REUBEN MEDNIKOFF AND THE BIRTH OF PSYCHOREALISM.

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TOM HACKETT : A BARBECUE OF REGRETS
Sep 22 - Nov 17, 2018
Private view Sat Sep 22 1pm - 4pm
In May 2018 Tom Hackett toured Luton collecting regrets. These will be barbecued at the opening, with some providing material for new sculpture and sound works.
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CORNELIA PARKER: ONE DAY THIS GLASS WILL BREAK
Sep 11 - Oct 17, 2018
One Day This Glass Will Break is an exhibition of large=scale photogravures by Cornelia Parker. The show explores the artist’s fascination with the physical properties of objects, materials and their histories.

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THIS IS THE GALLERY AND THE GALLERY IS MANY THINGS II
Oct 6 - Dec 22, 2018
Private view Fri Oct 5 6pm - 9pm
Ten years after the opening show at Eastside Projects, a new exhibition of birth, rebirth and evolution. Artists include Lady Skollie, Alice Channer, Libita Clayton, Grace Ndiritu – COVERSLUT©, Tabita Rezaire, Samara Scott, Kelly Large. Evening Events: 5 Oct/2 Nov/7 Dec
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LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL: BEAUTIFUL WORLD WHERE ARE YOU?
Jul 14 - Oct 28, 2018
The 10th edition of Liverpool Biennial, Beautiful world, where are you? invites artists and audiences to reflect on a world in social, political and economic turmoil.
Within this context, FACT showcases new and existing works from two artist-filmmakers at very different stages of their career: Agnès Varda and Mohamed Bourouissa.
A new commission by artist Morehshin Allahyari will be hosted online for Liverpool Biennial 2018. Allahyari’s project is co-commissioned with FACT and Whitney Museum of American Art.

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CATHERINE HYLAND : TWENTY ONE
Apr 26 - Oct 28, 2018
Originally commissioned as part of the Radical ESSEX programme, Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of photographic works by Catherine Hyland at Twenty One.

LINDSAY SEERS : EVERY THOUGHT THERE EVER WAS
Sep 8 - Dec 23, 2018
Drawing on philosophical ideas and scientific research, this ambitious project by UK based artist Lindsay Seers considers historical representations of schizophrenia and contemporary insights into the condition achieved through the use of virtual reality.

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SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER 2018
Sep 3 - Nov 3, 2018
A curated selection of work from AUB’s 2018 graduating cohort - committed to the disciplines of art, design, media and performance with a focus on museumology.

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WAYS OF LEARNING, PROGRAMMED WITH LUCY LOPEZ
Sep 7 - Dec 1, 2018
Ways of Learning foregrounds forms of knowledge production that stem from anecdote, informality and collectivity, in contrast to increasingly marketised formal educational systems.
This project will engage with Grand Union as a site for learning, providing a context for a rich programme of events, artworks and communal sharing of knowledge.
Departing from three key works by artists Alex Martinis Roe, Uriel Orlow and feminist action group Mujeres Públicas, Ways of Learning draws from feminisms, generational alliances and indigenous knowledges, as well as forms of solidarity and allegiance which intersect with queer culture.
Ways of Learning is programmed by Lucy Lopez with Grand Union staff. Lopez is Grand Union’s Curator-in-Residence 2018-19.

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GRAYSON PERRY : THE VANITY OF SMALL DIFFERENCES
Sep 28 - Dec 15, 2018

CHRIS PAUL DANIELS : NORTHERN LIGHTS
Sep 28 - Dec 15, 2018

POSTERS FROM THE BLACKPOOL ILLUMINATIONS ARCHIVE
Sep 28 - Dec 15, 2018

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BERLINDE DE BRUYCKERE
Sep 29, 2018 - Jan 1, 2019
Hauser & Wirth Somerset is proud to present its first solo exhibition by Berlinde De Bruyckere. Occupying the Rhoades and Bourgeois galleries, De Bruyckere will present two new bodies of work. The Belgian sculptor embraces a greater level of abstraction, while continuing to deploy her familiar sensitivity for materials. In the first body, wall-mounted works are composed of heavily weathered, semi-decomposed blankets built up in layers, suggesting warmth and protection, but also the vulnerable experiences that lead one to seek shelter. The second, floor-based sculptures, initially resemble piles of blankets, but on closer inspection are revealed to be stacked animal skins. Cast in grey wax, these powerful, organic works combine weight and delicacy to mesmerising effect. Both bodies of work continue to explore the theme of mortality that De Bruyckere has revisited throughout her career.

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LEE MILLER AND SURREALISM IN BRITAIN
Jun 22 - Oct 7, 2018
Lee Miller (1907 – 1977) first entered the world of photography in New York as a model in Vogue in the 1920s. In 1929 she moved to Paris and worked with Man Ray, establishing her own studio and becoming part of the Surrealist milieu. A rich strand of Surrealist practice emerged in Britain in the 1930s and developed in the immediate pre-war period, during which Miller moved to London.
 
This exhibition will explore the creative networks between artists in the UK in the 1930s and 40s through Miller’s lens. Miller’s photographs of and collaborations with Surrealists working in the UK, including Eileen Agar, Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst and René Magritte will be presented alongside their own paintings and sculptures.
 
It will also focus on Miller’s own practice and how she turned her Surrealist eye across disciplines to the worlds of fashion and journalism, revealing and revelling in the strange and extraordinary.

VIVIANE SASSEN: HOT MIRROR
Jun 22 - Oct 7, 2018
Echoing the career of Lee Miller, internationally renowned artist Viviane Sassen (b. 1972) straddles the fashion and fine art worlds. Central to this exhibition is the inspiration of Surrealism, a movement Sassen recognises as one of her earliest artistic influences, seen in the uncanny shadows, fragmented bodies and dreamlike landscapes of her work.
 
Hot Mirror will bring together photographs from several collections made over the last ten years, including the celebrated Flamboya and Parasomnia series (2013), shown alongside new photographs and collages, to create image-poems that draw on the Surrealist strategies of collage to offer new and unexpected juxtapositions.
 
As well as an overview of Sassen’s artistic practice, the exhibition will present a new version of her immersive film installation, Totem.

CELEBRATING 300 YEARS OF THOMAS CHIPPENDALE
Jul 13, 2018 - Feb 25, 2019
2018 marks 300 years since the birth of Yorkshire-born Thomas Chippendale, one of Britain’s most eminent interior designers and cabinet makers.
 
To celebrate this significant anniversary, the gallery is working with one of the finest treasure houses in the North of England, Nostell Priory, a National Trust house with over 100 pieces of Chippendale furniture. The role of artists in influencing interiors will be explored through key loans from both collections and special commissions by contemporary artists.
 
Visitors will see modern and contemporary artworks in Nostell’s historic rooms and the most fashionable furniture of the 18th century within the 21st-century gallery spaces of The Hepworth Wake eld.

THE HEPWORTH PRIZE FOR SCULPTURE
Oct 26, 2018 - Jan 20, 2019
Named to honour the legacy of Wakefield-born artist, Barbara Hepworth, The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture is the UK’s most significant prize to recognise the medium of sculpture.
 
Open to British or UK based artists of any age and at any stage in their career, the £30,000 biennial award celebrates artists who have made a significant contribution to sculpture in its broadest definition.
 
An exhibition of work by the five artists shortlisted for the prize will be presented.

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NEW GEOGRAPHIES
Mar 1 - Dec 1, 2018
An Arts Council England funded project creating a new map of the East of England based on personal thoughts, reflections and stories.
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INSIDE THE ART COLLECTION
Oct 12 - Nov 24, 2018
Showcasing artworks from the eclectic UH Art Collection, many exhibited for the first time.

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POLLY APFELBAUM
Sep 19 - Nov 18, 2018
'Waiting for the UFOs (a space set between a landscape and a bunch of flowers)'.
Ikon’s Autumn exhibition of new work by New York-based artist Polly Apfelbaum will exemplify an art practice that places emphasis on the essential quality of materials, especially colour and texture, whilst asserting the importance of popular culture and craft activity. Her use of various fabrics – stained and dyed – and more recently glazed ceramics, is beguiling and refreshing in its offerings of simple pleasures. In this way, she subtly assumes a political, and feminist, position, challenging pomposity, notions of entitlement and hierarchies in cultural practice – against “high” fine art – to suggest an egalitarianism in society across the board.

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INFORMATION TO COME
Sept+Oct

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WILHELMINA BARNS-GRAHAM : SEA, ROCK, EARTH AND ICE
Jun 13 - Oct 7, 2018
This summer, Jerwood Gallery will explore Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’s faithful depiction of landscape and inherent understanding of nature through four decades of her work in its new exhibition, Sea, Rock, Earth and Ice.

MARK WALLINGER : THE HUMAN FIGURE IN SPACE
Jul 21 - Oct 7, 2018
Jerwood Gallery is delighted to announce that this summer the Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger will be exhibiting at the Hastings beachfront gallery, in a show inspired by seaside setting of the gallery and the 19th-century photographer, Eadweard Muybridge’s pioneering work, The Human Figure in Motion.

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TIME AFTER TIME
Sep 8 - Nov 3, 2018
Bridging both its previous and new city centre homes, Time After Time re-examines some key site-specific installations that were shown at the Gallery between 1993 and 2016 by artists Caroline Bergvall, Victor Burgin, Hamad Butt, John Latham, Charlotte Posenenske, alongside a new work by Walter van Rijn. By remaking these works, the pragmatics of reimagining the ‘original’ temporary installation and the significance of ‘site’ are explored.

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