This solo exhibition intersperses new sculptural works throughout the museum, introducing new presences into Soane’s former home. Viktor's practice, spanning sculpture, painting and gilding, draws connections across time and cultures, from ancient Egypt to medieval illumination and indigenous Australian art. In bringing these sources together, she mirrors Soane’s own eclectic approach to collecting objects.

Featuring works from the 1950s onwards, this exhibition will explore Francis Bacon’s deep connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional definitions of the genre. From his responses to portraiture by earlier artists, to large-scale paintings memorialising lost lovers, works from private and public collections will showcase Bacon’s life story. 

Grey Unpleasant Land examines the myth of England as a nation. Combining a range of media – including historical artefacts, speculative narratives, petitions to patrons and a deed of gift – Al-Maria and Ourahmane provide a unique lens through which to investigate the complex and often troubling nature of England’s cultural and historical landscape.

The exuberant and wide-ranging works of the late Phillipine-born artist Pacita Abad make their Canadian debut as part of her first retrospective. This acclaimed exhibition includes more than a hundred artworks showcasing Abad's experiments in different mediums. Much of Abad’s work is defined by her engagement in social justice and her exploration of materials. She is best known for her large-scale hanging trapuntos, a form of quilted painting made of stitched and stuffed canvas.

Claude Monet is world renowned as the leading figure of French Impressionism, the movement that changed the course of modern art. Less known is the fact that some of Monet’s most remarkable Impressionist paintings were made not in France but in London. They depict extraordinary views of the Thames as it had never been seen before, full of evocative atmosphere, mysterious light and radiant colour.