Written by Robert Fitzmaurice I very nearly missed Threads: Two Generations of Painters through Time. I’m so glad I didn’t. The exhibition took place at OpenHand OpenSpace, Reading Sept 01-07, 2020 and featured 27 works by four painters who share … Read More
A Celebration of Painting: From a Conversation with Joanna WhittleAn essay by Griselda Pollock Joanna Whittle was the winner of the 2019 Contemporary British Painting Prize. This essay, by Griselda Pollock (Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art at the University of … Read More
An essay by Matthew Collings Joe Packer was the winner of the 2018 Contemporary British Painting Prize. This essay, by painter, critic and broadcaster Matthew Collings, has been published in the CBP Prize 2018 exhibition catalogue. The essay forms part of the prize. … Read More
Written by Nicholas Usherwood Narbi Price was the winner of the 2017 Contemporary British Painting Prize. This essay, by writer and critic Nicholas Usherwood, has been written to accompany his solo exhibition ‘All I start will end’ at the Herrick Gallery (26 … Read More
A essay by Terry Greene to accompany exhibition A Road Not Taken.Painting and the metaphor of the journey. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And … Read More
Essay by Andy Parkinson In 2017 the exhibition Colour: A Kind of Bliss brought together six British painters concerned with different approaches to the use of intense energy and luminous qualities of colour. Through varying densities of paint and chroma, … Read More
Essay Terry Greene Abstract art emerged from the United States of America in the 20th Century and has continued to evolve and flourish in 21st Century Britain. Explore some of Terry Greene’s ideas on this subject in his essay “Some … Read More
Essay by Dr Judith Tucker To accompany the exhibition “Contemporary Masters from Britain: 80 British Painters of the 21st Century”, Judith Tucker of the University of Leeds explores the role of the tactile and ‘real’ work of art in an … Read More
Essay by Katrina Blannin to accompany the Slippery and Amorphous Exhibition “For the painter, the codes and languages of painting, like the paint itself, are, by their very nature, slippery and amorphous.” If ‘all the world’s a stage’ then the … Read More
An essay by Terry Greene An essay to accompany the Lines for Agnes exhibition in London. British Painters Julia Ball, Hanna ten Doornkaat, Gemma Cossey, Terry Greene, Sue Kennington, Rebecca Lowe, Jason Miller, Ruth Philo and Marion Piper respond to the … Read More
By David Page In this short article David Page looks at and into the picture space, considering the depth behind, in and before the surface of the painting… Introduction What we used to call Modern Art has set itself a … Read More
Judith Tucker considers ‘postmemorial’ affects and the triangular relationship between language, memory and painting in this illustrated article originally published in ‘Interdisciplinary Essays’ (Rodopi Press, Amsterdam NY 20100). Judith Tucker considers ‘postmemorial’ affects and the triangular relationship between language, memory … Read More
Matthew Krishanu reflects on three approaches to painting figuratively: from life; from photographs; and from memory / imagination in the essay ‘Painting the Figure – a Contemporary Practice Perspective’ as part of a new publication by the Courtauld for their … Read More
Andrew Lambirth considers a recent series of paintings by Simon Carter. ‘Subjects are only starting points. The further I get from the point of departure, the more I can see the painting…’ The theme and viewpoint of this new body … Read More