Exhibitions

Psychic Anemone

Bea Bonafini, Charlotte Edey and Zoe Williams 18 Nov 2021 - 22 Jan 2022 Cob Gallery is proud to present Psychic Anemone, a group exhibition of mixed-media work by Bea Bonafini, Charlotte Edey and Zoe Williams that brings together ceramic sculpture, painting, large-scale tapestry and charcoal drawings and marks the completion of the gallery’s ten-year anniversary programme, which has focused on female-identifying artists. These... Read more

Historia de una relación amorosa

Alida Cervantes 14 Oct - 13 Nov 2021 Cob Gallery is proud to present a new solo exhibition by Alida Cervantes, a Mexican artist whose work combines painterly exuberance with a perceptive critique of the structures of power and domination. Raised between Tijuana and San Diego, Cervantes emerged into consciousness in a space fraught by in-betweenness. The sense... Read more

Neither Here Nor There

Mark Corfield-Moore 9 Sep - 9 Oct 2021 Cob Gallery is proud to present a new solo exhibition by Mark Corfield-Moore in which painting, weaving and writing are fused together to illuminate subtle rhymes and resonances of the artist’s diasporic identity: the material and symbolic threads gathered up on the threshold between here and there. Born in Bangkok... Read more

Waitless Beyond Blue

Hilda Kortei 5 Aug - 4 Sep 2021 Cob Gallery is proud to present Hilda Kortei’s debut solo exhibition, ‘Waitless Beyond Blue’: a powerful statement of arrival from an exciting young artist. Painting primarily on unstretched, unprepared calico, Kortei’s abstract imagery is grounded in a subversive resistance to conventional ideas of finality and value. The ‘work’, she contends,... Read more

The Smell of Calpol on a Warm Summer's Night

Scarlett Carlos Clarke 1 - 31 Jul 2021 Gallery Exhibitions Cob presents Scarlett Carlos Clarke’s debut solo exhibition, The Smell of Calpol on a Warm Summer’s Night. In this richly imagined articulation of all the strangeness and anxiety of our present moment, Carlos Clarke meditates on the new intensities of domesticity, motherhood and isolation, and the uneasy blend of immediacy... Read more

Under The Shell

Tahnee Lonsdale 27 May - 26 Jun 2021 Cob Gallery is proud to present a new solo exhibition of work by Tahnee Lonsdale: twelve oil paintings whose swooping angularity fuses an intimate sense of personal vulnerability with an awareness of emotional experience as a form of public rite. Ode and tonic to this year of upheaval, they mark... Read more

Hot Water

Frances Waite 29 Apr - 22 May 2021 Cob Gallery presents Hot Water, the UK debut solo exhibition of American artist Frances Waite , and the second to feature in the gallery’s 10-year anniversary programme. Waite's graphite drawings are characterised by confrontational voyeurism, often weaponised by the artist to dissemble patriarchal structures. Depicting transgressive behaviour in startling verisimilitude,... Read more

White Bread

Olivia Sterling 18 Mar - 24 Apr 2021 Gallery Exhibitions Cob Gallery is proud to present ‘White Bread’, a gallery exhibition of work by Olivia Sterling, and the inaugural exhibition in Cob’s tenth-anniversary programme focusing on artists whose work reflects the gallery’s core values, combining traditional media with distinctive and original new voices. Born in Peterborough in 1996 and graduating... Read more

Go On Then

Tomo Campbell 8 - 30 Oct 2020 Gallery Exhibitions Cob is proud to welcome Tomo Campbell back for his second solo exhibition at the gallery, Go on then. With its title that could be taken in a variety of ways – an offhand remark or conversational fragment that could sit in a number of contexts – Go on then... Read more

English Filth

Cat Roissetter 10 Sep - 3 Oct 2020 Gallery Exhibitions The title of Cat Roissetter’s new solo exhibition at Cob Gallery, ‘English Filth’, has as much to do with the material on and with which she works – oil-soaked paper, repeatedly worked into with lines and blocks of graphite colour – as it does with a specific idea of English... Read more

Of Course You Are

Diane Dal-Pra 16 Jul - 5 Sep 2020 Gallery Exhibitions ‘Of Course You Are’ the title of Diane Dal-Pra’s debut solo exhibition, is the response to a preceding question, the demand for approval and the response an affirmation to the subject delivered despite the masking of each large scale portrait. Dal-Pra’s principal concern is that of identity, the choices we... Read more

Tonight Lounge

Lorena Lohr 5 Dec 2019 - 18 Jan 2020 Gallery Exhibitions “I suppose I am always looking at how symbols in typography, signage, and the arrangements on facades and interiors, come together as an abstract universal language. The emotional subject is much the same anywhere in the developed world, displayed through deliberate or accidental markers, repeated motifs appearing and reappearing through... Read more

Vacancy

Joe Sweeney 5 - 30 Nov 2019 Gallery Exhibitions Cob Gallery is proud to present Joe Sweeney’s third solo show, Vacancy: a ‘show of exhaustion’ that offers a subversive take on the theory and practice of masculinity in contemporary society, bodied forth through the juxtaposed visual languages of the urban British scape and the American wasteland. Partly inspired by... Read more

I've Always Been A Weeper At The Cinema

Faye Wei Wei 2 Oct - 2 Nov 2019 Gallery Exhibitions Cob Gallery are pleased to present Faye Wei Wei’s second London solo exhibition- ‘I Have Always Been A Weeper At The Cinema’, featuring a new suite of paintings, created over a summer in Berlin. Filled with iconography and steeped in the romanticism that Wei Wei’s paintings have become known for,... Read more

If You Don’t Want My Peaches (You Better Stop Shaking The Tree)

Nina Mae Fowler 5 - 28 Sep 2019 Gallery Exhibitions Cob Gallery is proud to present If You Don’t Want my Peaches, You Better Stop Shaking The Tree ­– Nina Mae Fowler’s latest solo exhibition of new large-scale and composite drawings and mixed-media works, accompanied by an installation of rare works in colour. The first to follow Fowler’s recent National... Read more

Paintings For The Temple Of Love

Curated by Faye Wei Wei 20 Jun - 20 Jul 2019 Gallery Exhibitions Omari Douglin⁣ Simone Kennedy Doig⁣ Matthias Garcia⁣ Ryo Koike⁣ Mariann Metsis⁣ James English Leary⁣ Oliver Pearce⁣ Lowe Poulter⁣ Faye Wei Wei⁣ Nicole Wittenberg “…and I was drawing her… and if you draw somebody carefully—you fall in love—and then you get unhappy, because you are married with somebody else. Maybe... Read more

One, Two, Three, Four

Casper Sejersen 11 May - 15 Jun 2019 Gallery Exhibitions Cob Gallery is proud to present One, Two, Three, Four, a debut exhibition and body of personal works from Danish photographer Casper Sejersen. Visually alluring and often deeply disquieting, Sejersen has become known for a transcendent photographic style marked by his often dreamlike placement and characterisation of figures and objects.... Read more

MUMMY’S BOY

Thomas Langley 16 - 27 Apr 2019 Gallery Exhibitions PARTICIPATING GALLERIES: CHARLIE SMITH LONDON COB GALLERY FRESTONIAN GALLERY MARIAN CRAMER PROJECTS UNION GALLERY An exhibition of new paintings by Thomas Langley. In collaboration with five contemporary galleries, Langley shows works from his on-going series ‘Mummy’s boy’, for the first time in a dedicated solo exhibition. Having started this nonsensical... Read more

For Tina

Max Wade 7 Feb - 16 Mar 2019 Gallery Exhibitions Cob Gallery is proud to present For Tina, an exhibition of large-scale abstract paintings and woodcuts by artist Max Wade, curated by Roxie Warder. Produced over the past three years, the works on display in For Tina are based on sketch-book drawings made from direct observation of everyday objects and... Read more

Through The Looking Glass

Group Exhibition 6 Dec 2018 - 26 Jan 2019 Gallery Exhibitions _ Alice Anderson · Becky Beasley · Zadok Ben David · Paul Benney · Emmanouil Bitsakis · Antony Cairns · Alexander Calder · James Capper · Lynn Chadwick · Jake & Dinos Chapman · Charlotte Colbert · Susan Collis · Mat Collishaw · Adeline de Monseignat · India Dewar ·... Read more

Roadblocks

Shadi Al-Atallah 8 Nov - 1 Dec 2018 Gallery Exhibitions A graduate of Camberwell College of Arts, Shadi Al-Atallah is a figurative mixed-media artist whose own queer, mixed-race identity is bodied forth in vigorous, complex work that engages boldly with non-normative identities, composite cultural affiliations, spirituality and mental health. Cob Gallery is proud to present Al-Atallah’s debut solo show, Roadblocks.... Read more

NEW WORK PART III: SUBJECT

Group Exhibition 3 Oct - 3 Nov 2018 Gallery Exhibitions EVE ACKROYD · JUNO CALYPSO · JESSICA CRAIG-MARTIN · KATRIEN DE BLAUWER · NINA MAE FOWLER · ROXANNE JACKSON · CATHY LOMAX · JULIETTE MAHIEUX-BARTOLI · AKSINIYA MISUTA · CRISTINA PLANAS · ALEX PRAGER · RHIANNON SALISBURY · STEPHANIE SARLEY · NICOLE WITTENBERG · FAYE WEI WEI “Beauty will be... Read more

The Detachable Head Serves as a Cup

Paloma Proudfoot 6 - 29 Sep 2018 Gallery Exhibitions Cob Gallery is proud to present Paloma Proudfoot’s debut UK solo exhibition The Detachable Head Serves as a Cup. Presented as a sculptural installation, the exhibition features a new series of ceramic works, many of which were created in direct response to the artist’s encounters whilst on the Thun Ceramic... Read more

NEW WORK PART II: MATERIAL

GROUP EXHIBITION 21 Jun - 28 Jul 2018 Gallery Exhibitions CAROLINE ACHAINTRE · ALICE ANDERSON · SAM AUSTEN · ANTONY CAIRNS · FERNANDO CASASEMPERE · XAVIER ROBLES DE MEDINA · NICK DOYLE · WILLA HILDITCH · HENRY HUDSON · KRISTINA HORNE · AGATA INGARDEN · ANN CATHRIN NOVEMBER HØIBO · RASMUS SØNDERGAARD JOHANNSEN · THOMAS LANGLEY · CAROLINE LARSEN ·... Read more

Muscular Notions

Group exhibition curated by Joseph Bond 6 - 16 Jun 2018 Gallery Exhibitions Phoebe Davies · MJ Harper · Adama Jalloh · Beth Kettel · Abondance Matanda · Olivia Norris · Olu Ogunnaike · Ruth Sutoyé · Rosa Johan Uddoh · CBT (Tamar Clarke-Brown & Isaac Kariuki) Muscular Notions assembles eleven multidisciplinary artists probing intimate movement within public spheres as a means of... Read more

The Sudden Walk

Joseph Goody 9 May - 2 Jun 2018 Gallery Exhibitions This new exhibition of works by young London-based artist Joseph Goody finds a space between intention and conformity. Wide, abrupt brush strokes overlap and abut one another in large-scale works that are the result of a meticulous process of revealing and concealing. In leaving the remnants and shadows of stripped... Read more

There

Tomo Campbell 11 Apr - 5 May 2018 Gallery Exhibitions Cob is pleased to present, There, Tomo Campbell's first solo exhibition at the gallery. The work on show walks a characteristic tightrope between pinpoint precision and cool ambiguity: limpid, vivid compositions of interlocking form and colour toy with the grammar of aesthetic representation just as the show's title disrupts the... Read more

Seed

Alba Hodsoll 15 Mar - 7 Apr 2018 Gallery Exhibitions Alba Hodsoll returns to Cob Gallery this March with her new solo show, Seed. Following 2017's POV, this new exhibition sees the artist developing her interest in the interactions between sexuality, eroticism and aesthetic pleasure. Working in two and three dimensions, Hodsoll concentrates on producing moments of unexpected friction and... Read more

NEW WORK PART I: FORM

Group Exhibition of new work 14 Feb - 10 Mar 2018 Gallery Exhibitions Katja Angeli · Cristina BanBan · Dominic Beattie · Asger Carlsen · Vanessa da Silva · Realf Heygate · Joseph Goody · Sif Norskov · Laurence Owen · Tristan Pigott · Paloma Proudfoot · George Rouy · Will Spratley · James Tailor Cob Gallery is pleased to... Read more

Loose Change

Joe Sweeney 14 Dec 2017 - 13 Jan 2018 Gallery Exhibitions Cob Gallery presents Joe Sweeney’s second solo exhibition 'Loose Change', which features new sculpture, print and light works. ‘Loose Change’ compounds Sweeney’s poignant, often black-humoured excavation of a prosaic British grittiness and is presented as an all encompassing installation born from his obsession with the mundane. Sweeney appropriates from... Read more

HAMMERSMITH POEM AND LOVE LETTERS TO KAZIMIR MALEVICH

Robert Montgomery 27 Oct - 25 Nov 2017 Gallery Exhibitions Cob Gallery is pleased to present Hammersmith Poem and Love Letters to Kazimir Malevich - a major exhibition of new paintings and light works by Robert Montgomery. In a bold return to painting, these works galvanise Montgomery’s recent artistic objective that calls for a political and aesthetic re-invigoration of the... Read more

Some Work

Jason Shulman 29 Sep - 21 Oct 2017 Gallery Exhibitions 'He's a poacher of the imagination, he distorts and sticks a finger right through the rafters of your brain, without you realising it, sans pomp, and with the accuracy and precision of a scientist.' - Harriet Verney. Following the success of Jason Shulman's Photographs of Films series, COB gallery presents... Read more

The Belly And The Members

Group exhibition curated by Antonia Marsh 5 - 23 Sep 2017 Gallery Exhibitions Claire Barrow · Sid Charity · Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark · Michael Genovese · Jack Greer · Chase Hall · Alba Hodsoll · Louis Morlet · Olu Ogunnaike · Hamish Pearch · Photocopy Club · Matilde Soes Rasmussen · Bennet Schlesinger · Will Spratley · Emma Thomas · Laura Watters ·... Read more

Girassol

JONAS PEQUENO 19 - 30 Jul 2017 Gallery Exhibitions Artist Curator Talk Sunday 23rd July 3pm Cob Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition entitled Girassol, displaying a selection of Jonas Pequeno’s work curated by Jessica Draper. Men have historically linked themselves to Gods. Artists in particular. And yet Jonas Pequeno questions the link between Man, God and Nature... Read more

Juicy Bits

Tristan Pigott 8 Jun - 1 Jul 2017 Gallery Exhibitions The kind of people that Tristan Pigott depicts are our real contemporaries. People who are attuned to the way that self-image is constantly chopped up, repackaged and beamed back at us through the wires and lenses of modern culture; the way that identity is always on ‘exhibition’, long before an... Read more

While I'm Still Warm

Nina Mae Fowler 5 - 27 May 2017 Gallery Exhibitions Sustaining her infectious interest in Hollywood’s golden age, the selection of works that form Nina Mae Fowler’s latest exhibition both revel in the era’s sheer visual richness and take a cool-headed look at its sometimes lurid inner workings. Steeped in both the glamour and grotesquery of stardom, the show brings... Read more

Anemones and Lovers

FAYE WEI WEI 13 - 29 Apr 2017 Gallery Exhibitions Young British painter Faye Wei Wei graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in the summer of 2016. Her bold, poetic works revolve around religious iconography and classical myth, centring on love rituals and the theatricality of masculine and feminine tropes. Wei Wei’s painting is deeply idiosyncratic: although it... Read more

Planes

Samuel Zealey 16 Mar - 8 Apr 2017 Gallery Exhibitions Samuel Zealey’s sculptures combine playfulness with precise engineering and a highly developed material sensitivity. They radiate a lively aesthetic intelligence, alert to the ways in which art and creativity can engage with questions about culture, technology and sustainability. Zealey’s new exhibition centres on his Folded Steel Plane Series — a... Read more

POV

Alba Hodsoll 8 - 25 Feb 2017 Gallery Exhibitions Piecing together bodily fragments, Hodsoll constructs the forms in her compositions out of negative space. Entangled figures appear out of gaps, creases, slits and cracks, and the spaces between them represent painted expressions of intimacy. Previously focused on the depiction of a single nude, the artist recently introduced a second... Read more

As The Cosmos Unfolds

Millie Brown, Victoria Fornieles, Kate Heath, Craig Lawrence, Lina Iris Viktor, Walter & Zoniel 10 Nov - 3 Dec 2016 Gallery Exhibitions From ashes to the astral plane, all matter is formed from the same basic components: the same essential elements and energies cast into variant forms. This is a truth that permeates spiritual thinking. Conscious of this interconnectedness, the harmonic polyphony of the cosmos and the latent energy present within all... Read more

Stutter

Kingsley Ifill 14 Sep - 1 Oct 2016 Gallery Exhibitions The Cob Gallery is proud to present Kingsley Ifill’s debut solo show ‘Stutter’, an exhibition of striking composite works curated by filmmaker and photographer Tom Beard. Excavating defunct technologies and commandeering outmoded techniques, Ifill’s distinctively analogue style generates a startling effect in a world characterised by the faultless and infinitely... Read more

Desire Peaks

Hannah Bays 8 - 25 Jun 2016 Gallery Exhibitions ‘It is the will of the machine to connect to others’ The Cob Gallery is proud to announce the debut solo exhibition of recent Royal Academy graduate Hannah Bays, with a body of new paintings. Contemplating ‘desire’ as the crux of the creative process, Bays is interested in human drives... Read more

Photographs of Films

Jason Shulman 12 May - 4 Jun 2016 Gallery Exhibitions Photographs of Films is a series of photographs which capture the entire duration of a movie in a single exposure. The films range from cinema classics such as Citizen Kane, The Wizard of Oz, Deep Throat and 2001: A Space Odyssey to more niche movies such as Digby, The Biggest... Read more

The Art of Thought

Sam Kaprielov 14 Apr - 7 May 2016 Gallery Exhibitions THE MIND – the most potent tool known to mankind. It is used by the philosopher to ponder metaphysics and by the artist to create visual images that lead to thought and inspiration. So it is only fitting that the two fields of human endeavour should be brought together as... Read more

Take Away

Joe Sweeney 22 Mar - 2 Apr 2016 Gallery Exhibitions Take Away is a show that is rooted in British behaviour: Inspired by market slang, Sweeney’s work finds comedy in the colloquial. Through quick observation, Take Away encourages a pause for thought on the daily interactions that we don’t always pay attention to. Drawn from Sweeney’s impression of his home... Read more

Dead Natural

Tristan Pigott 6 - 8 Nov 2015 Gallery Exhibitions In his latest solo exhibition at Cob Gallery, Tristan Pigott – along with the help of gallerist Rory Kirk-Duncan – proudly presents a selection of new paintings. The exhibition is his first solo show off the back of the success of his inclusion in both the BP Portrait Award and... Read more

Points of Contact

Marie Kaus, Adeline de Monseignat 8 - 31 Oct 2015 Gallery Exhibitions The Cob Gallery is proud to present a duo show by artists Adeline de Monseignat and Marie Kaus. From photography to performance, Points of Contact presents new work exploring the personal, archaeological and philosophical concept of the horizon. Inspired by the sight of the American Southwest’s horizon during a residency... Read more

Keeping Up With The Kapulets

Sarah Maple 5 - 20 Jun 2015 Gallery Exhibitions Kim Kardashian and ‘The Daily Mail’ headlines have become immortalised as artworks in a public Gogglebox experience by Sarah Maple in her latest solo exhibition, held this June at London’s Cob Gallery. Sarah Maple will wire up the gallery space to capture the reactions to her work, which includes her... Read more

A Complete Examination of Middlesex

Bruce Gilden 22 - 31 May 2015 Gallery Exhibitions “What I’m searching for when I walk the streets are people I can engage with: somebody whose face, and particularly eyes, screams a story.” – Bruce Gilden Cob Gallery and Next to Nothing are excited to exhibit award winning Magnum photographer and recognised ‘Godfather’ of street photography Bruce Gilden. It... Read more

The Top Ten

Hayden Kays 2 - 11 Apr 2015 Gallery Exhibitions Hayden Kays’ art performs an immaculate fusion of Pop Art aesthetics with YBA sensibilities. His point of reference is the relationship between the present moment in mass culture and the ghosts of the past which still haunt our way of doing and thinking about art. Hayden is a painter, sculptor... Read more

Ocean Sands

Lorena Lohr 10 Feb - 7 Mar 2015 Gallery Exhibitions Photographer Lorena Lohr presents Ocean Sands , her first solo gallery show, at Cob Gallery this February. Following on from her solo presentation at the Rochelle School (December 2013) and several more intimate displays in underground bars around London, Ocean Sands will showcase a collection of new prints. These works... Read more

Orbits of Existence

Walter & Zoniel 9 - 19 Oct 2014 Gallery Exhibitions The Cob Gallery and Carrie Scott are proud to present two series by the artists Walter Hugo & Zoniel: Life With and Nature of Interdependence. In Walter Hugo & Zoniel’s work, the techniques and processes of early photography are transformed into a crucible of creativity. Archaic methods like Ambrotypes, Tintypes,... Read more

Go Figure

Gabriella Boyd · Simon Foxall · Darrell Hawkins · Kate Lyddon · Alice McCabe · Luke Waller 2 - 24 Aug 2014 Gallery Exhibitions Go Figure, an exhibition curated by Roxie Warder, brings together six young UK based artists working predominately with the human form. The work on display overlaps in various thematic and formalistic ways, challenging the conventions of figurative painting. Go Figure signifies how younger artists view the importance of the human... Read more

Pastiche, Parody and Piracy

Group Exhibition 20 Jun - 5 Jul 2014 Gallery Exhibitions Artist Miriam Elia, Curator Camilla Ellingsen Webster and Cartoonist Jeremy Banx seek to demonstrate the importance of appropriation in art and satire. After the threat of Elia’s book ‘We Go to the Gallery’ being pulped by Penguin UK, the team were inspired to celebrate the historical creative act of ‘Pastiche,... Read more

Slow Light

Wendy Bevan 8 - 31 May 2014 Gallery Exhibitions This May at the Cob Gallery, the photographer and musician Wendy Bevan presents Slow Light, a collection of new and unseen self-portraits presented in the form of an audio-visual installation. As the camera is turned on the artist herself, we are seduced into a synaesthesiac realm where materiality, substance, and... Read more

That's Right Mister And How's Your Fairytale Coming Along?

Nina Mae Fowler 11 Oct - 16 Nov 2013 Gallery Exhibitions ‘That’s Right Mister, and How’s Your Fairy Tale Coming Along’ is the first large-scale installation of sculpture and drawings that Nina Mae Fowler has exhibited in the UK. Steeped in the saturated glitz of golden-era Hollywood, Fowler’s work explores the contrast of the surface’s shimmer and an anxiety over the... Read more

Lament For The Walking Dead

Phoebe Collings-James 14 Sep - 5 Oct 2013 Gallery Exhibitions The Cob Gallery is delighted to announce Phoebe Collings-James solo show Lament for the Walking Dead , a fluent eruption of unexpected spectres and sticky sexuality. The multi-disciplinary exhibition draws its name from the 1970 Archie Whitewater song. As the centre of the show the artist presents the sculptural piece... Read more

In Dreams

Millie Brown, Phoebe Collings-James, Adeline de Monseignat, Nancy Fouts, Nina Fowler, Neal Fox, Hayden Kays, Kate McCgwire, Robert Montgomery 7 Jun - 27 Jul 2013 Gallery Exhibitions “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind” - Sigmund Freud A universal phenomenon, dreams have provided a source of inspiration for mankind. Although many have declared their ideas and interpretations of why we dream, there is still no definitive... Read more

God Save The Village Green

Dmitri Galtizine 8 Feb - 16 Mar 2013 Gallery Exhibitions Out in the country, Far from all the soot and noise of the city, There’s a village green.. The Cob Gallery is pleased to announce Dmitri Galitzine’s first solo exhibition in London. God Save the Village Green reveals an overlooked England outside our cities, taking the hand of the amateur,... Read more

What The Cat Dragged In

Tom Beard 5 - 27 Oct 2012 Gallery Exhibitions Cob Gallery is excited to announce the first solo show from London photographer Tom Beard, What The Cat Dragged In. From his first commission at the age of seventeen, Beard found himself in the thick of the musical explosion that reinvigorated the London scene in the mid-noughties. He was everywhere... Read more

I Did It By Own

Miriam Elia 7 - 28 Sep 2012 Gallery Exhibitions The Cob Gallery is excited to present ‘I Did it By My Own,’ the first solo show from London based artist and comedienne Miriam Elia. The exhibition presents Miriam as a maverick who straddles both the worlds of contemporary art and comedy, uniquely blending collage, installation, sculpture, books and live... Read more

The Show Trial of Mark Kennedy and Mark Stone

Simon Farid 3 - 10 Aug 2012 Gallery Exhibitions ‘The Show Trial…’ is a video installation and live-performance project looking at the recent events surrounding PC Mark Kennedy, an undercover policeman who lived for seven years as an activist called ‘Mark Stone’, infiltrating groups of environmental activists all over Europe and forming a romantic relationship with a female activist.... Read more

The Yellow Wallpaper

Eve Ackroyd, Becky Allen, Gabriella Boyd, Adeline de Monseignat, Suzannah Pettigrew and Flora Robertson 22 Jun - 21 Jul 2012 Gallery Exhibitions The Yellow Wallpaper features new works by six female artists made in response to ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, a Gothic short story written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Artists Eve Ackroyd, Becky Allen, Gabriella Boyd, Adeline de Monseignat, Suzannah Pettigrew and Flora Robertson will present works in a variety of media at... Read more

Sunday

Mark Melvin 15 Mar - 19 Apr 2012 Gallery Exhibitions The Cob Gallery presents an exhibition of recent works by British artist Mark Melvin. ‘Sunday ’ features a range of installation pieces in which Melvin examines the human condition through the lens of popular culture. Using wit and wordplay, Melvin reappropriates familiar songs and idioms to explore time, repetition, and... Read more

Developing Shadows

Walter & Zoniel 6 - 29 Oct 2011 Gallery Exhibitions The Cob Gallery presents an exhibition by the innovative British artist Walter Hugo. Developing Shadows consists of a series of photographic works that push the boundaries of art, photography and science. Self-taught, Walter Hugo creates one-off pieces of art using his individually developed technique, photographic fresco. The works in this... Read more

Surreal Women

Wendy Bevan 17 Jun - 30 Jul 2011 Gallery Exhibitions British artist Wendy Bevan presents an entirely new collection of painterly femme fatales in her first UK solo show. Entitled The Pain of Desire, the exhibition explores the theatricality of female desire, and the inner pain suffered through pursuit of prescribed and aspirational notions of identity and success. Beautiful yet... Read more

Gold

Todd DiCircio 7 - 21 May 2011 Gallery Exhibitions Internationally acclaimed artist Todd DiCiurcio celebrates the best of the New York music scene in his dynamic new series featuring the likes of Kings of Leon, Adam Green and The English Beat. Todd DiCiurcio has quickly made his mark on the New York art scene with his dynamic portraits of... Read more

The Divided Self

Jonny Briggs, Beatrice Haines, Keith Coventry 11 Mar - 24 Apr 2011 Gallery Exhibitions The Divided Self showcases two emerging artists, Beatrice Haines and Jonny Briggs alongside YBA Keith Coventry. The exhibition has been conceived in collaboration with Guts for Garters and their first theme of the year, The Royal We. Both exhibitions explore the polarity between our public and private identity, whether in... Read more