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Shara Hughes's (@sharalynne) vast flower paintings currently on show at the @gardenmuseum invite us to reflect on our own feelings, but also find solace in nature in these turbulent times. You can read our full Friday Dispatch on this beautiful show via the link in our bio

Image: Shara Hughes, Hard Hats, 2021. Image courtesy the artist and @PilarCorriasGallery

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@lindersterling's 'Untitled' (1979) sits squarely within the the concerns that have been at the core of Linder's practice for more than 30 years. White goods, cooking utensils and cutlery feature repeatedly as signifiers of the domestic sphere that was for so long considered the appropriate setting for women.

In 'Untitled' the home itself is presented as a teetering monolith, women's faces peering through the windows and doors. Like Alice in Wonderland, the women have become absurdly too large for the buildings and threaten to be no longer confined by them - be they palatial mansions or modest suburban semis.

@hatton_newcastle Gallery's acquisition of Linder's 'Untitled' adds to the continuing story of collage in the UK - one that is important not only for its material radicality, but for its history as a medium for protests and political commentary.

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, with Art Fund support, the support of the Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, the friends of the Hatton Gallery and the Zabludowicz Collection, 2018/19.

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The title of this show at @copperfield_london refers to the medieval practice of depicting dragons on unfamiliar areas of maps, a reference to perspective bias and the need to unlearn colonial attitudes. We take a look for our Friday Dispatch - you can read more via the link in our bio

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This weekend is the @Art_Car_Boot_Fair! We are very excited to bring some very special pieces, including this stunning unique work by Do Ho Suh and another chance to buy a CHOOSE ART T-shirt, raising funds for the organisation. Head to the link in our bio to have a browse ?

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Berni Searle (@bernisearle) works with lens-based media to stage narratives connected to history, memory and place. Using her own body, she addresses racism, the commodification of female body and its power in myth making.

'In wake of' (2014) was created after the 2012 Marikana massacre, in which striking mine workers were shot at close range by the South African police. In this cropped image, Searle's body is covered with coal dust and positioned as if laid out in death. The body is presented as a unit of labor and memorializes women involved in the mining industry.

Manchester Art Gallery's (@mcrartgallery) collection has relatively few works by women artists but many depicting women, especially nude women, created by male artists for male patrons. Searle's work speaks to works in the Gallery's collection, histories and the people of Manchester.

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society through the Valeria Napoleone XX Contemporary Art Society award 2018/19, which supports the acquisition of significant works by a living female artist for a museum collection.

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Lubna Chowdhary's (@lubnachowdhary) shaped tiles, sculptural objects and installations in ceramic constitute a distinctive oeuvre that bridges the discipline of architecture, craft, design, sculpture and painting.

The tableau 'Late in the Afternoon' (2018) evokes the characteristically hybrid architecture of Asian and South Asian cities, with their informal conjunctions of tradition and modernity, and of the rational and spiritual. Their vibrant glazed surfaces carry the softness and irregularity of hand glazing, which contrasts sharply with the technologically precise cut off the ceramic forms.

The work will join Gallery Oldham's (@galleryoldham) existing collection of studio ceramics. Chowdhary grew up just a few miles from Oldham and this work resonates on a local level, evoking the familiar shapes of the North West in combination with the artist's South Asian architectural influences.

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society through the Omega Fund, 2018/19.

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There are three artists presented in @_greengrassi’s latest exhibition, all working in very different ways but brought together by their subject matter: the natural world. @ilaria_puripurini takes a look for our Friday Dispatch - you can read more via the link in our bio

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Kehinde Wiley was chosen by Barack Obama in 2017 to paint his portrait. Adopting the format of portraiture, but with urban subjects, Wiley engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful and sublime in his representation of African-American men.

'Narrenschiff' (2017) is Wiley's first film installation and an exciting development in his practice; it produces an immersive experience for the viewer. His film is an emotionally affecting and visually compelling portrait of a group of Black men at sea, capturing the full spectrum of the human condition. The figures appear one with the ocean, an enduring relationship throughout history. Michel Foucault's 'Madness and Civilization' and Franz Fanon's 'The Wretched of the Earth' are narrated by C.C.H. Pounder.

Through the Collections Fund at Frieze, the Contemporary Art Society acquired three works by Kehinde Wiley for The Box, Plymouth (@theboxplymouth) 2018/19.

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We are very pleased to be able to donate a film and work on paper by @Hannah_Quinlan_ & @RosiebHastings to @TheBoxPlymouth. The artists are a multidisciplinary artist duo, interrogating the iconography of queer culture through sound, moving image, live events and incredibly skilful drawings.

Shown here is one half of a stunning diptych called 'They will flee like chaff scattered by the wind or like dust whirling before a storm' (2020). Reminiscent of technical masters like Hogarth yet quintessentially distinctive in their contemporary style of queer narration, these graphite works focus on the foray of limbs in motion, capturing a sense of urgency and anxiety over the ownership of space. You can read more via the link in our bio

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