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By painters for painters Welcome to Contemporary British Painting. Founded in 2013, ‘Contemporary British Painting’ (also known as CBP) is an artist led organisation which explores and promotes current trends in British painting through group exhibitions, talks, publications, and other activities. The group is run entirely by volunteers from within the membership. Our members Our…
Phil Illingworth Phil Illingworth’s painting practice is almost wholly experimental. Driven by concept rather than discrete process, his choice of materials and the quality and method of execution is always very carefully considered. Working across a variety of media and playing with scale and form he explores a broad spectrum of concerns. Much of Phil’s…
Natalie Dowse Mise en scène brings together a number of series based on cinematic tropes: a cut to the cheek framed within the eye of the lens; actors crying for the camera; a woman with a cut lip. I work with a single frame, which I extract from obsessively watching hundreds of hours of film…
Joanna Whittle Joanna Whittle’s paintings explore transient rituals concealed within the landscape, through small-scale paintings which draw the viewer into an uneasy, unpeopled world. The temporary structures depicted sink into flooded land, acting as fragile ruins of the recent past with lights illuminated and the unsettling sense of a recently departed presence. Her shrine works…
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About Contemporary British Painting “…it is our aim to continue sharing our passion about painting as widely as possible.” ‘Contemporary British Painting’ (also known as CBP) is an artist led organisation which explores and promotes current trends in British painting through group exhibitions, talks, publications, and other activities. The group is run entirely by volunteers…
Dear Christine (A Tribute to Christine Keeler) conceived and curated by Fionn Wilson. ARTHOUSE1, 45 Grange Road, Bermondsey, London SE1 3BH Includes CBP members Lucy Cox, Marguerite Horner, Barbara Howey and Cathy Lomax. Exhibition Press Release: Dear Christine, conceived and curated by Fionn Wilson, aims to reclaim and reframe Christine Keeler (1942–2017), a woman castigated for her role in a notorious political scandal…
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 Leeds), has been published in the CBP Prize 2019 exhibition catalogue. The essay forms part of…
The Contemporary British Painting Prize 2019 catalogue features the work of the 12 finalists and includes an introduction by Judith Tucker, and an essay A Celebration of Painting on the work of Joanna Whittle (the 2019 prize winner) written by Griselda Pollock. The 12 shortlisted finalists for the 2019 Contemporary British Painting Prize 2019 were:Louise Bristow, Stephanie…
Joanna Whittle is a painter based in Sheffield. Joanna studied at Central St Martin’s and the Royal College of Art and her work has been included in the Royal Academy Summer Show (2019) and the John Moores Painting Prize (2018). She recently won (jointly) the Harley Gallery Open Prize and the Contemporary British Painting Prise…
Nicholas Middleton: Artist to Artist In-Conversation with Artist Nathan Eastwood
“There can be no better, more sensitive or more serious way than ‘The Contemporary British Painting Prize’ to discover and assess the exciting new directions being taken by painters in Britain today.” Michael Peppiatt, Art Critic and Curator, Paris Contemporary British Painting Prize 2019 Artist Joanna Whittle was the prizewinner of the 2019 CBP Prize, receiving…
The Contemporary British Painting Prize 2019 exhibition tours to its second venue in London.ASC Gallery, The Chaplin Centre, Taplow House, Thurlow Street, London SE17 2DG.7 February – 13 March 2020 – Monday – Friday, 10am – 5pm – Admission free.Artists’ talk 4pm – 6pm led by 2018 prizewinner Joe Packer & private view 6pm –…
Contemporary British Painting Prize 2019 ExhibitionHuddersfield Art Gallery, Princess Alexandra Walk, Huddersfield HD1 2SU 9 November 2019 – 18 January 2020 – Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 4pm – Admission free. Winner announcement and opening: Saturday 9 November, 2pm – 4pmWalk & talk led by Judith Tucker: Saturday 7 December 2pm – 4pm Read the easy by…
Mountain Size. A Contemporary British Painting members show, selected by CBP board member and artist, Gordon Dalton. 1st – 30th November 2019: Pineapple Black, Hillstreet Centre, Middlesbrough TS1 1SU Mountain Size features artists whose work has a relationship to landscape, as well as to the history, legacy and traditions of painting itself. This does not…
Rob Reed: Artist to Artist In-Conversation with Artist Nathan Eastwood