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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ALEXIS TEPLIN : IT'S MY PLEASURE TO PARTICIPATE
Oct 26, 2019 - Feb 23, 2020
Teplin’s work crosses between painting, performance and film. The artist draws parallels between the process of these art forms.

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SEE PORTRAITS, BE PORTRAITS
Extended to February 2020
Fine Art Gallery.
 
Come and see some of our wonderful portrait paintings chosen by local teachers from Cottesmore St Mary’s and Varndean School. You can even create your own picture using some of the resources in the gallery.

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.

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KATHERINE ROBERTS & SIAN WILSON : TREMBLE | TROMOS
until 16 Feb
A exploration of birth and transformation through sculptural work, drawing and soundscape.

SPA SONGS
until 16 Feb
A musical performance choreographed and performed by artist Fay Zmija Nicolson.

PARADE, A CELEBRATION OF CONTEMPORARY ART TEXTILES
until 16 Feb
15 acclaimed international artists present a survey of recent developments in visual art textiles, showcasing the many ways in which threads and fabrics are being used by contemporary artists.

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MIKHAIL KARIKIS : I HEAR YOU
Sep 28, 2019 - Jan 19, 2020 FINAL WEEK
This autumn sees the launch of a major new commission by Mikhail Karikis that explores the relationship between listening and care. Karikis’ new moving image installation has developed with Project Art Works, an artist-led organisation in Hastings that collaborates with people with complex support needs. Focusing on interactions between carers and non-verbal people who use Project Art Works’ studio spaces, Karikis invites us to pay attention to the sensitive tuning-in of support workers, artists and family members to those they support – a precarious role that is often invisible, misunderstood and undervalued by society.

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

MARC BAUER : MAL ȆTRE / PERFORMANCE
Feb 1 - May 10, 2020

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NANCY NEWBERRY : ARTICLES OF FAITH
Nov 21, 2019 - Feb 1, 2020
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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
Private view Fri Jan 24 6pm - 8pm
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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EDGAR ST STREET ART
Dec 14, 2019 - Jan 30, 2020
Edgar St STREET Art curated by John Quarendon features work by Banksy, Lucy McLauchlan, Ben Eine, Faile, RYCA, D-Face, Copyright, Biff, heroN, Jamie Reid, Dolk, James Joyce, Hush, Nancy Fouts, Pure Evil, Connor Brothers, JJ Adams, Charming Baker, Mr. Brainwash, Shepard Fairey, Blek le Rat and Peter Blake. Also at this time; Electric Cellar kinetic art / Jean Bayham  /  Various Artist

EDEN MICROPLASTICS RAIN DOWN FROM THE SKY
Feb 20 - Mar 28, 2020
Private view Thu Feb 20 6pm - 8pm

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YOU FEEL ME_
Nov 1, 2019 - Feb 23, 2020
Rebecca Allen, Megan Broadmeadow, Anna Bunting-Branch, Phoebe Collings-James, Brandon Covington Sam-Sumana, Aliyah Hussain and Salma Noor.

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DAVID BLANDY : THE WORLD AFTER
Oct 26, 2019 - Jan 26, 2020
Focal Point Gallery is pleased to present ‘The World After’, a newly commissioned work and exhibition by artist David Blandy. Comprised of a film, installation and game, ‘The World After’ is a fictional tale which imagines a world after the Anthropocene era, a time in which humanity’s activities had detrimental effect on earth’s climate and environment. In this future world, human influence on the planet has faded following a catastrophic man-made ecological crisis, with those who remain having to find new ways to survive and form kin.

ROSIE HASTINGS AND HANNAH QUINLAN
Feb 16 - May 31, 2020

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ELIZABETH VICKERS : THE LAST SUPPER
Nov 6, 2019 - Feb 27, 2020
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.

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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.

JAMIE CREWE : LOVE & SOLIDARITY
Feb 7 - Apr 17, 2020
Private view Fri Feb 7 6pm - 8pm
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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OPEN 2020
Jan 18 - Feb 22, 2020
Showcase of works by artists living and working on the Fylde Coast and in any media, including audio, video, painting, sculpture, textiles and ceramics.

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THE AGE OF TURMOIL : BURRA, SPENCER, SUTHERLAND
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.

THE STUDIO AT 4 A.M.
Jan 18 - Mar 29, 2020

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DON MCCULLIN. THE STILLNESS OF LIFE
Jan 25 - May 4, 2020
Private view Fri Jan 24 6pm - 8pm
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
Private view Fri Jan 24 6pm - 8pm
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ALAN DAVIE & DAVID HOCKNEY : EARLY WORKS
Oct 19, 2019 - Jan 19, 2020 FINAL WEEK
Brings together around 45 paintings and works on paper by Alan Davie and David Hockney.

CHRISTINA QUARLES
Oct 19, 2019 - Jan 19, 2020 FINAL WEEK

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THE STRANGE ORDER OF THINGS : YEAR 2 FILM & DIGITAL ART
Jan 14 - 30, 2020

BOB GODFREY : A COLLABORATIVE ACT
Feb 12 - Mar 17, 2020

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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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HOMELANDS : ART FROM BANGLADESH, INDIA AND PAKISTAN
Nov 12, 2019 - Feb 2, 2020
Through photography, sculpture, painting, performance and film, Homelands tells stories of migration and resettlement in South Asia and beyond, as well as violent division and unexpected connections. The exhibition engages with displacement and the transitory notion of home in a region marked by the repercussions of the Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, and the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, as well as by contemporary migration. The artists explore intimate and political histories, often contesting borders, questioning common pasts and imagining new futures.

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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