CAI GUO-QIANG : GUNPOWDER ART AT THE ASHMOLEAN
Oct 24, 2019 - Apr 19, 2020
Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang is best known for his gunpowder explosion events staged in public spaces worldwide. This exhibition focuses on the artist's smaller scale works, exploring the presence of Chinese culture in his art through the medium of painting, drawing and gunpowder on canvas, paper and silk.
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PHILIP GUSTON : LOCATING THE IMAGE
Nov 23, 2019 - Mar 8, 2020
Discover the world of internationally acclaimed American artist Philip Guston in the first solo exhibition of his work in Oxford. The exhibition highlights the importance of working on paper for Guston's artistic practice, and explores the inspiration he drew from historic art and literature.
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SARAH TAYLOR SILVERWOOD : DAPHNE
Jan 17 - Apr 11, 2020
Focusing on the Greek myth of Daphne and Apollo, this exhibition challenges the way that historical story structures can shape contemporary social narratives and relations of power.

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QUEER LOOKS
Continues to March 2020
Fashion & Style Gallery.
 
This fascinating display of outfits and oral histories from LGBTQ individuals from Sussex, from the 1960s to the present day, looks at how individuals construct identities, both personal and collective, through dress.

ANITA CORBIN : 100 FIRST WOMEN
Feb 15 - Jun 7, 2020
Discover and celebrate 100 pioneering women of the 21st century in this major exhibition by acclaimed photographer Anita Corbin.

QUEER THE PIER
To Feb 2022
This community curated display peers into local LGBTIQA+ history. Celebrating the lives of the writers, artists, performers, activists and ordinary people who have made Brighton & Hove so fabulous, their stories are brought to life with film and photography, fashion and drag and oral histories.

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BOB BICKNELL-KNIGHT : BIT ROT
Feb 28 - Apr 26, 2020
Broadway Studio and Gallery are delighted to present Bit Rot, a solo exhibition by artist, curator and writer Bob Bicknell-Knight.
 
Working in a number of mediums, Bicknell-Knight’s work responds to the hyper consumerism of the internet, exploring ideas of surveillance capitalism, utopian and dystopian ideologies and the digitisation of the self.
 
Bit Rot, also known as bit decay, data rot and data decay, is the slow deterioration in the performance and integrity of data stored on storage media. The process occurs overs many years, due to imperfect insulation on flash drives, floppy disks losing their magnetic orientation and by storing CDs and DVDs in warm, humid environments, causing them to physically and visually rot.

JOHN VINCENT : A GARDEN FUTURICITY
Feb 28 - Apr 26, 2020
Taking inspiration from H.G. Wells’ ‘The Time Machine’, Ballard’s ‘Drowned World’ and Jarman’s ‘The Last of England’, A Garden Futuricity by artist John Vincent is a fictional construction of a future world ravaged by war and climate change. Set in Letchworth Garden City, the work poses the question: what if the global issues frequently reported finally reached this quiet town?
 
The exhibition takes the form of two distinct works – a large scale wall-based digital print and a video work. The site-specific print depicts an imagined view looking out from the gallery space through a hole blown from the wall. The wall is a barrier breached to reveal a surrealistic dystopian vision of catastrophic proportions - a parallel universe of a world flooded and in ruins with many familiar buildings damaged or destroyed altogether.

RORY MENAGE : FOREST
Feb 28 - Apr 26, 2020
"The word 'forest' inevitably denotes a romantic escape away from urbanity with its grime, fumes and noise. With these sculptures I am trying to make a clear connection between the tissue and structure of our bodies with that of trees. It’s really exciting for me to show these new works in Letchworth Garden City, with this town’s history so steeped in a human quest for civility in the countryside." Rory Menage

HANNAH BROWN & CHRISTOPHER ORR : THIS MUDDY EDEN
Feb 28 - Apr 26, 2020
Taking its title from a line in a book on Victorian Utopias, 'This Muddy Eden' brings together two ostensibly figurative artists, Hannah Brown and Christopher Orr, who both draw from and play with conventions of art history. To the casual eye, both artist’s work could appear wholly conventional, dark figurative landscapes that wouldn’t look out of place hung next to a John Constable or J.M.W. Turner. Viewers that invest a little more time, however, will find something more perplexing and unusual in the works.

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ZADIE XA : CHILD OF MAGOHALMI AND THE ECHOES OF CREATION
Feb 1 - May 4, 2020

Showcasing a major new multimedia project, Zadie Xa creates a sub-aquatic marine environment, inviting audiences to enter into an immersive world by way of atmospheric lighting, surround-sound, large-scale video projections, sculptures and costumes.

MARC BAUER : MAL ȆTRE / PERFORMANCE
Feb 1 - May 10, 2020
Marc Bauer’s Mal Ȇtre / Performance is a new body of work commissioned jointly by Drawing Room and De La Warr Pavilion and is the artist’s first solo exhibition in a UK public gallery.

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MAPPING THE BROADS
Jan 28 - Mar 21, 2020
Working with the Broads Authority and within the larger Heritage Lottery funded project Water, Mills and Marshes, NUA’s Illustration lecturers Glyn Brewerton, Neil Bousfield and Peter Nencini present a selection of pieces from their project Mapping the Broads.

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LINDSEY MENDICK : THE YELLOW WALLPAPER
Jan 25, 2019 - Apr 11, 2020
EOP Members Solo Show

SONIA BOYCE : IN THE CASTLE OF MY SKIN
Jan 25 - Apr 11, 2020
With guest artists: Anna Barham, Kate Cooper, Lindiwe Matshikiza, Harold Offeh, Flora Parrott, Luc Pheles, Alberta Whittle.
 
'In the Castle of My Skin' is a solo show of new commissions and existing work by Sonia Boyce, with work by seven other artists co-curated with Boyce. The exhibition is built through improvisation techniques and riffs on ways of playing in urban space. It takes shape across a large new sculptural display system that houses works by Boyce and artists including Kate Cooper, Harold Offeh, Flora Parrott and Alberta Whittle alongside selected works from the Middlesbrough Collection. The sculpture is based on the crystalline form of the mineral pyrite, known as Fool’s Gold, and is clad in wallpapers made by Boyce since the early 1990s.

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EDEN : JAYNE DYER & WAYNE WARREN WITH GUESTS
Feb 20 - Mar 30, 2020
JAYNE DYER & WAYNE WARREN WITH GUESTS, with the University of Worcester and curated by The Art House Curatorial Group.
 
Also off-site at Worcester Cathedral, Chapter House and within The Commandery grounds (one night only).

DRAWING ROOM
Feb 27 - Mar 3, 2020 FINAL WEEK
Palacio Santa Barbara, Madrid with Pitt Studio, John M Robinson, Tony Squance.

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ROSIE HASTINGS AND HANNAH QUINLAN : IN MY ROOM
Feb 15 - May 30, 2020
As a new body of work, ‘In My Room’ develops the artists’ enquiry into the politics, histories and aesthetics of queer spaces and culture. This enquiry builds on their travels across the UK whilst making ‘UK Gay Bar Directory (UKGBD)’ 2016, a vast project documenting the systematic closure of LGBTQA+ dedicated social spaces. To Quinlan and Hastings, it became apparent through this research that the gay scene caters predominantly to white gay men. This prompted them to consider how this scene strengthens the historic male access to capital and power within the urban landscape.

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ELIZABETH VICKERS : THE LAST SUPPER
Nov 6, 2019 - Feb 27, 2020 FINAL WEEK
TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth Off–Site Arts Programme in association with WestBeach, showcasing the work of staff, students and graduates from AUB.
 
WestBeach Restaurant has been working with TheGallery since the inaugural Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival in September 2011, and has since participated in showcasing TheGallery’s Off-Site Arts Programme.

THE CREATIVE EXCHANGE
Feb 17 - Mar 19, 2020
The Creative Exchange is a celebration of our Alumni and the diverse creative careers of Arts University Bournemouth graduates over the last decade.

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COOKING SECTIONS: THE EMPIRE REMAINS SHOP FRANCHISE AGREEMENT
Jun 14, 2019 - Jun 1, 2022
A rotating programme of small-scale visual and sound installations in the future home of Grand Union.
 
The Empire Remains Shop Franchise Agreement is an invitation for institutions, collectives, or individuals to construct their own counterpart: to reflect on imperial legacies and the commodification of their own structures and infrastructures.

ALBERTA WHITTLE : NO MUDDER COUNTRY HERE
Jan 17 - May 1, 2020
This new commission, No Mudder Country Here, will be displayed as a hand-painted billboard on the side of Junction Works, viewable 24/7 by passers-by.
 
Alberta uses visual, textual and spoken language in her interdisciplinary practice as a way to challenge and interrogate constructed representations of history and society. Alberta’s ongoing research refers to the legacy of colonialism, particularly the Windrush scandal, and the hostile implications of this for migrants in a contemporary political context. Her creative practice is motivated by the desire to work collectively towards radical self-love. Informed by diasporic conversations, Alberta considers radical self-love and collective care key methods in battling anti-blackness. Her practice involves choreographing interactive installations, using film, sculpture and performance as site-specific artworks in public and private spaces.

JAMIE CREWE : LOVE & SOLIDARITY
Feb 7 - Apr 17, 2020
Grand Union (Birmingham) and Humber Street Gallery (Hull) have co-commissioned ‘sister’ exhibitions of new work by Jamie Crewe comprising videos, sculptures and writing – 'Love & Solidarity' in Birmingham, and 'Solidarity & Love' in Hull. This new body of work takes inspiration from Radclyffe Hall’s 1928 novel 'The Well of Loneliness', using the ambiguous tensions it stirs to think about repulsive kinships: with places, cultures, histories, communities, and individuals. The book is a portrait of Stephen Gordon: a masculine lover of women, who wants to be a country gentleman like her father. The book thwarts her desires, and has been an influence on many Anglophone queer and lesbian women, regarded both as a stirring representation and a regrettable antique. It has also been interpreted in the field of transgender studies, with some critics arguing that Stephen might be better understood as a trans man.
 
Humber Street Gallery exhibition runs Saturday 18 January – Sunday 29 March 2020

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GARTH GRATRIX : SHY GIRL
Jan 18 - Mar 28, 2020
Shy Girl is Garth Gratrix’s first solo exhibition in the North West.
 
Gratrix works internationally as a curator, director, and interdisciplinary artist, whose practice incorporates sculpture, installation and mixed media.
 
Often referential of Queer culture and aesthetics, Gratrix’s work exists within a simultaneously proud and problematic context of local identity, making its prominent display here in his birthplace of Blackpool, exceptionally fitting.

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QUENTIN BLAKE : WE LIVE IN WORRYING TIMES
Opens 4/4

STEPHEN CHAMBERS : THE COURT OF REDONDA
Opens 4/4

VICTOR PASMORE : LINE & SPACE
Opens 4/4

THE AGE OF TURMOIL : BURRA, SPENCER, SUTHERLAND
Jan 18 - Mar 22, 2020

THE STUDIO AT 4 A.M.
Jan 18 - Mar 22, 2020

QUENTIN BLAKE : AIRBORNE
Jan 18 - Mar 22, 2020

ANNE RYAN : EARTHLY DELITES
Jan 18 - Mar 29, 2020
Anne Ryan is a contemporary artist creating highly coloured, constructed paintings that focus on figures engaged in a variety of activities – her subjects dance, party, pose and generally indulge themselves in scenarios that draw on diverse sources from visual culture and the world around her. Ryan has said: ‘I’m interested in the marginal, the minor, that’s where there might be something still to say or leave unsaid in painting.’ Accordingly Ryan might be inspired as much by imagery of indie rock gigs and popular cinema as by classical figurative painting and sculpture. Ryan is creating new work for this major exhibition at Hastings Contemporary, using materials and processes that have been developed during the past few years including her ‘cutouts’ – sculptural painted works made from card, collage, canvas, ceramic and metal.

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DON MCCULLIN. THE STILLNESS OF LIFE
Jan 25 - May 4, 2020
An exhibition presenting over 70 landscape photographs, mapping Sir Don McCullin CBE’s intimate relationship with the local landscape of Somerset and continued passion for global travel since the 1960s.
 
This personal survey depicts scenes from across the United Kingdom, Europe and further afield, revealing McCullin’s innermost feelings through powerful compositions of wild heavens, haunting vistas and meditative still lifes.
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NOT VITAL. SCARCH
Jan 25 - May 4, 2020
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BILL BRANDT / HENRY MOORE
Feb 7 - May 31, 2020
The photographer Bill Brandt and the sculptor Henry Moore first met during the Second World War, when they both created images of civilians sheltering from the Blitz in the London Underground.
 
This major exhibition brings together over 200 works highlighting the relationships between sculpture, photography, drawing and collage revealed through Brandt and Moore’s shared interests in the subjects and themes of labour, society, industry, the British landscape and the human body.

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BOB GODFREY : A COLLABORATIVE ACT
Feb 12 - Mar 17, 2020
The exhibition celebrates the work of Bob Godfrey, a pivotal figure in British animation and in establishing the animation course at UCA.
 
The artefacts on display unravel the underlying collaborative aspect of Godfrey’s work. While studio animation is a collaborative process, Godfrey’s work and interests extended beyond the field of animation. The comradery and strength of will runs throughout his life from his Second World War service in No. 47 (Royal Marine) Commando to the relentless battle to see his animated films brought to life. The success of his Oscar winning animated short Great (1975) lead to the development of other films that were never completed. His animated musicals about Jumbo the elephant (P.T. Barnum’s circus) and Shakespeare offer delightful insights to the magical potential of these films.

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LARRY ACHIAMPONG : WHEN THE SKY FALLS
Jan 25 - Mar 21, 2020

MANY VOICES, ALL OF THEM LOVED : CURATED BY DR SARAH HAYDEN
Feb 1 - Apr 11, 2020

LINDSAY SEERS : EVERY THOUGHT THERE EVER WAS
Feb 8 - Apr 11, 2020

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KARST GRADUATE RESIDENCY EXHIBITION 2019/20
Feb 29 - Mar 1, 2020
Private view Fri Feb 28 7pm - 10pm
Dates: PV Friday 28th February, 7-10pm. Runs until Sunday 1st March. Open Sat and Sun from 11am-5pm.
 
Tove Barnes presents new work created during her five-month residency at KARST.

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LINDERISM
Feb 15 - Apr 26, 2020
A new solo exhibition of work by the artist. Most well known for her photomontage, this exhibition explores the diverse range of Linder’s practice. It explores Linder as performance artist, zine-maker, musician, documentary-photographer, collaborator, muse, guru, medium and body-builder.
 
Through the use of the Kettle’s Yard Archive, Linder also approaches Helen Ede’s elusive presence in Kettle’s Yard. Linder reinstates Helen through the creation of ‘House of Helen’, a brand of products available in the shop. A series of new commissions engage all five senses and see Linder staging interventions in all areas of Kettle’s Yard.

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