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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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Off The Record

Featuring heroines Carrie Mae Weems and Lorna Simpson, the new exhibition takes a critical look at how records can confirm, contest, or hide the truth

Gabby Kynoch21st April 2021

“Red Nails, 2014”, from For Your Eyes Only series © Pixy Liao

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Pixy Liao IG Take-Over

Pixy Liao questions the gender norms within relationships and strives to subvert the narrative

Gabby Kynoch16th April 2021

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Hundred Heroines reviews Art For The Ladylike: An Autobiography through Other Lives. In Art For The Ladylike (2021), Whitney Otto merges biography and memoir to generate a poetic and contemplative account of the women artists who have influenced her. Whitney has written five other books, including The New York Times best-seller How…

PlanetHeroines14th April 2021

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Promise, Witness, Remembrance is a tribute to Black lives lost

Contemporary Heroines María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Lorna Simpson appear in new group exhibition in Louisville, Kentucky

Gabby Kynoch13th April 2021

NADIE, DICCIONARIO DE BOLSILLO ESPAÑOL-INGLÉS series © Mari Mahr. Courtesy of the artist and Boécho Gallery

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Words, Words, Words

Whimsical, tender, elegant; it is difficult to summarise the work of the extraordinary photographer and Contemporary Heroine Mari Mahr in a few words

Gabby Kynoch9th April 2021

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PAUSED: FILM FESTIVAL

We have had the honour of a weekly online film festival, curated Heroine Lisl Ponger, for the past 52 weeks but for now we are hitting pause

Gabby Kynoch1st April 2021

Laxmi with her chelas, Mumbai © Anita Khemka

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An Inexplicable Cord

Heroine Anita Khemka discusses her work with the hijra community in India, her 17 year relationship with muse Laxmi, and her artistic process

Gabby Kynoch31st March 2021

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Surmise & Surpass

Lola Flash, who uses photography to challenge stereotypical representations of gender, sexuality, and race within her series Surmise and passing

Gabby Kynoch31st March 2021

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5 Photographers Who Make Trans and Non-Binary Visible

For Transgender Day of Visibility, Becky Handley has featured five visual artists who are bringing trans and non-binary representation to the forefront

Gabby Kynoch31st March 2021