Body and Identity
BODY AND IDENTITY is the first of CBP’s new structure of annual themes which will run from September to August, sitting alongside our existing exhibitions programme, the Prize and other projects.
Themes can encompass anything related, for example an exhibition, a transcript or recording of an artist-to-artist dialogue, a symposium, a Pecha Kucha, a text, a blog or a collaborative artistic project.
Our aim is to enable a lively discourse about painting and culture, both between CBP members and more widely; this page will be the go-to resource for everything that happens during the year. We hope to reflect and present the astonishingly rich range of painting practices and concepts that exist amongst CBP members.
Explorations might include ideas around the bodily physicality of paint, the relationship between the artist’s body and the act of painting, the body’s vulnerability, the body in space and within phenomenology.
Explorations of Identity may cover many facets including identity and migration, its contingent nature, as well as identities of gender, sexuality, race, class and disability. These are not exhaustive lists! Content is from proposals and submissions from our members.
BODY AND IDENTITY runs from September 2026 to August 2027. The subsequent themes are TRANSLATION AND INFORMATION, and then MATERIALITY AND PROCESS.
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Declarative Language
Declarative Language Declarative Language was a group exhibition presented at Amici Studio in Hastings in collaboration with artist-curators Kelly Jessiman and Alexis Soul-Gray, bringing together artists whose practices have been shaped by sustained caregiving within families of neurodivergent children.
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Daniel H Bell: Strange Nature
by Louisa Buck This essay about the work of Daniel H Bell, winner of the CBP Prize 2024, was published in the CBP Prize 2024 exhibition catalogue. The essay forms part of the prize. ‘Every normal human being (and not merely the ‘artist’) has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely…
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Selfish, Sticky & Successful
An essay by Beth Hughes (independent Curator and Researcher) about the work of Rich Jellyman the winner of the CBP Prize 2023. This essay was published in the CBP Prize 2023 exhibition catalogue. The essay forms part of the prize. ‘Human creativity is a process of variation and recombination’ Susan J. Blackmore, The Meme Machine (1)…
