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Tour and Talk with Gulshan Khan

Artist Tour : 18 October 2025 from 11:00. Join us for a tour and talk with award-winning photojournalist Gulshan Khan....

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Capturing the Zeitgeist

If there was ever cause for celebration, it’s a centenary. One hundred years ago, the ‘Grand Old Lady of Finnish Photography,’ Claire Aho, was born in Helsinki....

The Joyful Woman Collective

Launch event and taster session: 6 November 2025 18:30 - 20:30...

A Tribute to Textiles

Co-curated installation: 20 September 2025 from 11:00 with Lisl Ponger as part of Heritage Open Days...

Garden Party Invitation – Poisoned Futures

Join us in Mortimer Gardens for an early evening gathering beneath the trees to celebrate the summer season and the artists, thinkers and changemakers shaping a better future....

Visible Mending Workshop

Workshop : 31st July 2025, 18:30 - 20:30, Join us for a creative, hands-on session exploring the art of visible mending...

Poisoned Futures?

13.06.25 - 25.10.25 EXHIBITION "Poisoned Futures" - entanglements of climate change featuring Gulshan Khan, Laura El-Tantawy and Lisl Ponger...

Green: Photo Competition

Photography competition to see your work featured in the Art Garden and be in with a chance to win a prize!...

Self portrait (in robe with masks attached) © Claude Cahun. Courtesy of the Jersey Heritage Collections

Hidden Histories: Claude Cahun

For Claude, exploring the limits of male & female identities was not merely a critique of societal gender norms, but rather a highly introspective endeavour...

A Visual Homage to Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska

EXHIBITION 25.04.25 - 01.06.25 Continuing the centenary celebrations of the life of Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska (1872 - 1925)...

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Glitch Feminism is a post-Y2K exploration of femininity, queerness and self

I was born in the summer of 1999, in an unremarkable August of an unremarkable year. Hanging over 1999 was the promise of the new millennium – but first, the glitch.

PlanetHeroines29th May 2021

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New photography exhibition Dancing on Thin Ice on display

Heroine Lisl Ponger explores the eurocentricity of museum collections in new installation, on show at Das Weisse Haus, Vienna until July 3 2021.

Gabby Kynoch28th May 2021

young grandmother © Deana Lawson Centropy

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Guggenheim presents Centropy by Deana Lawson

Contemporary Heroine and The Hugo Boss Prize 2020 winner Deana Lawson is on display at the Guggenheim until October 11, 2021.

Gabby Kynoch25th May 2021

Qiniso The Sails Durban 2019 © Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of the Artist and Stevenson, Cape Town/ Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York

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Tate Modern presents Zanele Muholi’s exhibition

Award winning photographer and Contemporary Heroine Zanele Muholi’s first major UK survey is being held at the Tate Modern until 31st May 2021.

Gabby Kynoch24th May 2021

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In the Shadow of the Pyramids is the latest project from Laura El-Tantawy

For Contemporary Heroine Laura El-Tantawy, disorder and chaos can represent a means of unlocking a deeper understanding of the self

Gabby Kynoch19th May 2021

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5 Artists who Celebrate the LGBTQIA+ Community

On 17th May, we celebrate International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, drawing attention to the prejudice and discrimination people within the LGBTQIA+ community face

Gabby Kynoch17th May 2021

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Bristol Photo Festival 2021

Check out which Heroines are participating in this years Bristol Photo Festival, from group shows to symposiums

Gabby Kynoch17th May 2021

Alix Marie, Héraclès 1, 2018. Postures and Posers

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Hi-Noon presents Postures & Posers

Postures & Posers, which brings together Contemporary Heroines Yushi Li and Alix Marie, opens to the public at FILET Gallery in London from the 15th- 30th May 2021

Gabby Kynoch14th May 2021

Yushi Li, The Feast, inside, 2020. Postures and Posers.

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Heroines Yushi Li and Alix Marie’s works will be presented side-by-side at the upcoming exhibition, Postures & Posers, by Hi-Noon. Interview with Postures & Posers curator, Brenna Horrox, on display at FILET in London from 15th- 30th May 2021.

Gabby Kynoch12th May 2021

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Unearthing Photography’s Roots with Alexander Moore

As museums and galleries in England cautiously prepare to reopen their doors in mid-May, Dulwich Picture Gallery is gearing up to welcome the public back to its newest exhibition Unearthed: Photography’s Roots.

PlanetHeroines12th May 2021