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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SARAH TAYLOR SILVERWOOD : DAPHNE
Jan 17 - Apr 11, 2020 FINAL WEEK
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.

EMERGENCY 2020
Apr 24 - Jul 5, 2020
A biennial group exhibition of work by emerging artists, selected from an international open call.

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JONATHAN BALDOCK
Mar 13 - Jun 21, 2020
Facecrime explores the potential of clay as a tool for communication.

FRANCES DISLEY
Mar 13 - Jun 21, 2020
Pattern Buffer turns the gallery into a space to dwell and relax.

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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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TIM ETCHELLS : HEARING VOICES
Mar 6 - Apr 18, 2020
Supported by Arts Council England and The Culture Trust Luton. (Closed over Easter: 9-12 April 2020).
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BEYOND THE FRAME
Apr 1 - 8, 2020 FINAL WEEK
East Gallery host the shortlisted entries of the youth photography competition, Beyond the Frame. The 2020 theme is ‘Through My Eyes’.

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

SONIA BOYCE : IN THE CASTLE OF MY SKIN
Jan 25 - Apr 11, 2020 FINAL WEEK
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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MICROPLASTICS RAIN DOWN FROM THE SKY
Mar 30 - Apr 9, 2020 FINAL WEEK

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AND SAY THE ANIMAL RESPONDED?
Mar 20 - Jun 14, 2020
If we listened to animals, what would we hear? What might they say to us about their world?
 
In the midst of the sixth mass extinction and a global climate crisis, And Say the Animal Responded? creates a space for the voice of the animal.

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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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UNREQUITED LOVE
Mar 2 - Apr 16, 2020
A collaborative project and exhibition with BA (Hons) Costume and Performance Design and BA (Hons) Illustration at AUB, in response to Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s Unrequited Love concert.

MORAG MYERSCOUGH : WE MAKE BELONGING
Mar 5 - Apr 23, 2020
'Morag Myerscough: We Make Belonging' provides an understanding of the creative processes behind Myerscough’s work, with the opportunity to experience her studio space, where fragments of past works sit alongside new projects.
 
Morag Myerscough is well known for her large-scale structural installations which bring colour and life to public spaces across the country and internationally. Her work can be seen in Sheffield children’s hospital, Burntwood School, Design Museum, London and recent temporary installations from Aberdeen to Australia and New Zealand where the sense of place is understood and developed in collaboration with the local communities.

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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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SEASIDE PHOTOGRAPHED
Apr 18 - Jun 20, 2020
Curated by Val Williams and Karen Shepherdson. A touring exhibition organised by Turner Contemporary that looks at the relationship between photography and the British seaside from the 1850s to the present.

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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

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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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UNSETTLING FOCUS : MA FINE ART INTERIM SHOW
Mar 25 - May 1, 2020
Robert Adlam, Wasim Asghar, Thomas Best, Lucy Bevin, Liz Clifford, Elizabeth Davies, Mofe Demuren, Noelle Genevier, Michael Kelly, Dawn Langley, Jan Lee, Leena McCall, Kate Madden, Janet McWilliam, Michael Palmer, Dana Phillips, Soniya Purwal, Greta Remeike Nadine Senior, Tianxing Wang, Meng Zhang.

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

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

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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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