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How can art be used to disrupt and challenge patriarchal systems?

Discover artworks which incorporate used textile fragments or reference textile traditions to demonstrate the ways in which cloth holds memory

How do you perform your identity? The artists in this room reflect on how gender and identity are constructed and …

Explore photographs depicting everyday life in airports, alongside words and phrases which draw attention to the built environment of those …

‘I use time but in a different way, I create my own way to deal with time.’ A display of …

‘A Dadaist film for the digital age, which will eviscerate the interventions and reassemble them in random order’ Justin Edgar

The first public exhibitions bring new audiences and new status to British art. This gallery recreates the spectacle of these …

The grand portraits in this room tell stories of migration and power. They date from the last years of Henry …

Prosperity in Victorian Britain helps art become spectacularly popular. Dramatic images from life and literature attract blockbuster audiences

These are tumultuous times. Wars and revolutions, technology and trade transform lives across the globe. The art in this room …

This is a time of profound change: civil war, regicide and political revolution take place. New ideas are born and …

These two works look at spaces and practices traditionally associated with women in South Asia, exploring shifting habits and values …

At first glance this room presents a glamorous image of 18th-century society. However, the lives and places pictured give clues …

London is the largest city in Europe, a hub of global trade and commerce. Artists such as William Hogarth show …

In the years leading up to war, a new generation of British experimental artists emerges who challenge traditional artistic practices

In the 19th century thanks to the railway, artists start to work outside in natural settings with varied light and …

In the early years of the 20th century, British artists explore new representations of female identity, investigating the changing relationships …

British artists recalibrate their work in the aftermath of the First World War as they imagine how they could play …

Artists in Britain turn away from Victorian values, finding inspiration in individual experience and ‘art for art’s sake’

The men and women of the Pre-Raphaelite circle question mainstream Victorian culture and ideas