NEWPORT STREET GALLERY
NEWPORT STREET
SE11 6AJ
Martin Eder: Parasites
To 13 January 2019
Eder’s paintings examine beauty and ugliness, depicting kittens and wide-eyed puppies alongside uncompromising nudes and more sinister and surreal encounters. Featuring over forty works, the exhibition is Eder’s largest solo show to date. ‘I look for beauty in filth. You find the most interesting colours at motorway service areas and in the bushes. A mixture of crisp packets, trainers, vomit and tufts of hair. These are colour combinations that artists seldom look at. Poetry lies hidden beneath the kitchen sink. The world is raging under my fingernails.’ – Eder in conversation with Thomas Girst, 2018.
HAYWARD GALLERY
SOUTHBANK CENTRE
BLEVEDERE ROAD
SE1 8XX
Space Shifters
To 6 January 2019
Space Shifters brings together artwork by over 20 international artists on the theme of space disruption and alteration. This major thematic exhibition features works that alter or disrupt our sense of space and reorient our understanding of our surroundings in ways that are by turns subtle and dramatic. Featuring pioneering sculptures from the 1960s – often minimal in nature and concerned with light, volume and scale – this exhibition also includes large-scale installations, ambitious architectural interventions and a number of site-specific commissions that respond to the gallery’s brutalist architecture and provide a dramatic and fitting conclusion to Hayward Gallery’s 50th anniversary year.
Space Shifters at The Hayward Gallery
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TATE BRITAIN
MILLBANK
SW1P 4RG
Figure Totem Beast:
Sculpture in Britain in the 1950s
To 4 February 2019
Reflecting the anxieties of the Cold War, artists used new processes and materials to make work that was often uncompromising, immediate and brutal. One critic described it as a ‘Geometry of Fear’. This exhibition in the Duveen Galleries features younger artists including Lynn Chadwick, Elizabeth Frink and Eduardo Paolozzi alongside older artists such as Jacob Epstein and Henry Moore. It also shows how the approach taken by the young British artists can be measured against the work of international artists. This includes entries to a competition to design a monument to the ‘Unknown Political Prisoner’ in 1953.
Turner Prize 2018
To 6 Jan 2019
The Turner Prize returns to Tate Britain for its 34th edition. The prize is awarded to a British artist for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in the preceding year as determined by a jury.
Edward Burne-Jones
To 24 February 2019
Born in 1833, Burne-Jones rejected the industrial world of the Victorians, looking instead for inspiration from medieval art, religion, myths and legends. He made spectacular works depicting Arthurian knights, classical heroes and Biblical angels – working across painting, stained glass, embroidery, jewellery and more. With his friend William Morris he was a pioneer of the arts and crafts movement, which aimed to bring beautiful design to everyone.
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TATE MODERN
BANKSIDE
SE1 9TG
020 7887 8888
Dorothea Tanning
27 February to 9 June 2019
Over a seven-decade career, Dorothea Tanning pushed the boundaries of surrealism. The first major retrospective of Tanning’s work in the UK since her death in 2012 at the age of 101, this exhibition will tell the story of Tanning’s seven-decade career: from her enigmatic early paintings, such as the self-portrait Birthday 1942, to her pioneering stuffed-textile sculptures. Tanning wanted to depict ‘unknown but knowable states’: to suggest there was more to life than meets the eye. She first encountered surrealism in New York in the 1930s. In the 1940s, she married fellow painter Max Ernst and they moved to the Arizona desert. Although surrounded by a vast landscape, many of her paintings from this time depict claustrophobic and unsettling domestic spaces.
Pierre Bonnard, The Colour of Memory at The Tate Modern
Pierre Bonnard
The Colour of Memory
23 January to 6 May 2019
This is the first major exhibition of Pierre Bonnard’s work in the UK since the much-loved show at Tate 20 years ago. It will allow new generations to discover Bonnard’s unconventional use of colour, while surprising those who think they already know him. Born 1867, Bonnard was, with Henri Matisse, one of the greatest colourists of the early 20th century. He preferred to work from memory, imaginatively capturing the spirit of a moment and expressing it through his unique handling of colour and innovative sense of composition. The exhibition concentrates on Bonnard’s work from 1912, when colour became a dominant concern, until his death in 1947.
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LONDON GLASSBLOWING
62 – 66 BERMONDSEY STREET
SE1 3UD
020 7403 2800
Christmas at London Glassblowing
To 24 December
Pieces chosen specially by Peter Layton are on display throughout the Christmas period. In the spirit of a traditional Christmas Open House, studio pieces will also be available at generously discounted prices. Flameworker Philip Vallentin is back with his demonstration of lamp-worked tree decorations. Delivered with talent and humour, Philip’s demonstration is a highlight of the season.
