Exhibitions

Current

Alicia Reyes McNamara
Feast 2 Mar - 1 Apr 2023 Alicia Reyes McNamara's new works continue their research into Mexican and Aztec mythology and visual cultures, and how it informs contemporary Latinx identities. Reyes McNamara’s recent paintings and works on paper revolve around the deity of Tlazoltéotl, an Aztec goddess who was originally an earth-mother goddess associated with fertility, sexuality,... Read more

Alicia Reyes McNamaraWorks on Paper
Works on Paper 15 Mar - 1 Apr 2023 Alicia Reyes McNamara's new works continue their research into Mexican and Aztec mythology and visual cultures, and how it informs contemporary Latinx identities. Reyes McNamara’s recent paintings and works on paper revolve around the deity of Tlazoltéotl, an Aztec goddess who was originally an earth-mother goddess associated with fertility, sexuality,... Read more

Past

Permindar Kaur
The Room 25 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 Writing on Permindar Kaur's recent solo exhibition at The Art House in Wakefield the art critic Hettie Judah observed: 'Blending the soft with the spiky, comfort with threat, the domestic with hints of something wild, Permindar Kaur's sculptures explore the subtleties of belonging.' Since her emergence into the British art... Read more

Matthew Krishanu
Playground 9 Nov 2022 - 21 Jan 2023 At first glance the works in ‘Playground' seem innocent enough: children climbing playframes, balancing on walls, going for walks and generally exploring the environment around them. It’s the kind of exploration that seems a part of the natural process of growing up. Fun, even. But look again and there are... Read more

Winners
Lydia Blakeley 15 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 'So the winner takes it all, And the loser has to fall' (Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus) The universal human urge to win has many different explanations. Theories put forward include the rush of dopamine; our neurochemical or evolutionary inheritance from our ancestors; the psychological reinforcement that we feel upon... Read more

Through a Glass, Darkly
Vilte Fuller, Farnaz Gholami, Naira Mushtaq 7 - 30 Jul 2022 Through A Glass, Darkly' features the works of three artists, Vilte Fuller, Farnaz Gholami and Naira Mushtaq, who make paintings that draw on, but deliberately mis-remember, nudge and alter photographic source material that purportedly speaks of cultural histories, memories and the 'authentic'. Each artist makes work from the diaspora, having... Read more

When the Knife Hits the Plate, Scream!
Nell Brookfield 26 May - 25 Jun 2022 In Alan Hollinghurst's celebrated novel 'The Line of Beauty', not a huge amount happens. We seemingly drift, like the protagonist, from social event to social event, with an increasing feeling of unease. The protagonist is rather obsessed with aesthetics, and ultimately the reader realises that it is that obsession which... Read more

Mesopotamian Dramaturgies & fiction
Kutlug Ataman 12 Apr - 21 May 2022 Kutluğ Ataman had two solo exhibitions at Niru Ratnam Gallery from 12 April to 15 May 2022. At Gallery 1, Ataman presents 'Mesopotamian Dramaturgies', part of an ongoing series that reflects on the history and present of the region centred on Eastern Turkey where Ataman is now based, as well... Read more

Little kiosk of bone juice
Vilte Fuller 9 Mar - 2 Apr 2022 Vilte Fuller makes paintings that draw on her influences that include her Lithuanian background, Eastern European foodstuffs, Korean cinema, Chinese jade sculptures and aliens, amongst other things. She creates a distinctive visual landscape, each individual painting seems to be a small vignette of a larger whole with recurring characters, landscape... Read more

AFTERMATH
Jala Wahid 26 Jan - 5 Mar 2022 To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognise it 'the way it really was'. It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger' Walter Benjamin One of the starting points for Jala Wahid's new exhibition 'AFTERMATH' were the archives of... Read more

Game Face
Emma Cousin 5 Oct - 27 Nov 2021 'The face is not an envelope exterior to the person who speaks, thinks, or feels.' Deleuze and Guattari, 'A Thousand Plateaus' 'I'll keep going until my face falls off' Barbara Cartland In the episode 'Seasonal Beatings' of the British television comedy, 'Peep Show', one the show's protagonists, Mark, has his... Read more

Annex: Drawings
Emma Cousin 5 Oct - 27 Nov 2021 Read more

The air is subtle, various and sweet
Adham Farmawy 2 Sep - 2 Oct 2021 What is it to exist? To stand here now in this place?' Adham Faramawy poses this question early in the film that forms the central part of their installation 'The air is subtle, various and sweet' (2021). Voiced over by the artist the installation is a meditation on cultural belonging,... Read more

Jan Agha & Roo Kaur Dhissou
15 Jul - 7 Aug 2021 Jan Agha and Roo Kaur Dhissou both make work that playfully complicates ideas around cultural authenticity. Both provide maverick strategies as to how to navigate cultural histories from the perspective of the diaspora. Their works often seemingly draw on specific histories, but in fact in different ways each artist complicates... Read more

Jan Agha: Works on Paper
Annex 7 Jul - 7 Aug 2021 Read more

From within
Alicia Reyes McNamara 3 Jun - 10 Jul 2021 Alicia Reyes McNamara produced their recent series of paintings and works on paper after researching Mexican and Irish mythology and in particular the recurrence of water myths within those two discourses. McNamara was struck by how many times feminine goddesses were a central part of these myths, yet were largely... Read more

Annex: Works on Paper
Alicia Reyes McNamara 2 Jun - 3 Jul 2021 Read more

How it Happened
Amy Steel 29 Apr - 29 May 2021 Amy Steel paints the processes of becoming and transformation. In her painting 'Leap', a woman is suspended above a starfish, her limbs spread out to mimic the form of the invertebrate beneath her. The visual congruence between the figure and the starfish suggest a desire for transformation, for one to... Read more

Classics
Lydia Blakeley 2 Nov 2020 - 24 Apr 2021 For her solo exhibition 'Classics' Lydia Blakeley has made paintings based on the pictures of food seen in recipe books and magazines, paintings of young men wearing leisurewear and portraits of television chefs. Together the works re fl ect on English society and its class system. This is a system... Read more

Picture Plane
Matthew Krishanu 16 Sep - 24 Oct 2020 Matthew Krishanu's solo exhibition 'Picture Plane' consists of paintings where subtle shifts in register between different parts of the painted surface imbue his subject matter with a sense of ambiguity and detachment. Through this Krishanu questions the position of his subjects in relation to traditions that were largely the legacy... Read more

Suture
Kobby Adi, Lydia Blakeley, Jala Wahid 15 Jul - 29 Aug 2020 “Are you alive? I touch you. You quiver like a sea-fish” H.D ‘The Pool’ (1915) “Suture’s purpose is the stitching together of human consciousness in narrative” George Butte, ‘Suture and Narrative: Deep Intersubjectivity” (2017) “I use ‘identity’ to refer to the meeting point, the point of suture, between on... Read more

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