Tag: Spike Island

  • Donald Locke: Resistant Forms

    Complex, multilayered paintings and sculptures reek of the dark histories of slavery and colonialism in the first major UK retrospective of the Guyanese British artist

  • Sophia Al-Maria and Lydia Ourahmane: Grey Unpleasant Land

    From chamberpots paired with Georgian silver to the reimagining of the story of Jacob and Esau, the two artists, working together for the first time, point up multiple dualities and inequalities

  • Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker

    He was a young Black artist who railed against racism and sickness, both personal and in society. This retrospective, more than 25 years after his untimely death, is a reminder that his work is as relevant today as it was…

  • Ofelia Rodríguez: Talking in Dreams

    Though she lived abroad for most of her life, her exuberant use of colour and fantastical visions show that Rodríguez maintained a persistent and complex dialogue with her Latin American and Caribbean heritage

  • Tanoa Sasraku: Terratypes

    In her works on paper, photographs and bronzes, the young British Ghanaian artist conjures up memories, mythologies and the landscape of rural Britain in this captivating yet perplexingly cryptic show

  • Lucy Stein: Wet Room

    Made during pregnancy and the Covid pandemic, these new works explore motherhood, goddess culture and anxiety

  • Veronica Ryan: Along a Spectrum

    After a residency prolonged by the pandemic, Veronica Ryan delivers a profound and playful selection of works, meditations on the everyday, lovingly recast and reconfigured to draw out new meaning and resonance

  • Pacita Abad: Life in the Margins

    Abad’s exuberant mixed-media trapunto works give a carnivalesque feel to the UK’s first solo exhibition of the artist