A solo exhibition by Narbi Price, the winner of the 2017 Contemporary British Painting Prize.26 – 30 March 2019: Herrick Gallery 93 Piccadilly, London W1J 7NQ All I Start Will End brings together works by Narbi Price from the last five years. Works from the This Must Be the Place and The Ashington Paintings series are…
30 March – 12 April 2019: Bowery Gallery, 54 Otley Road, Headingley, Leeds LS6 2AL “It is impossible to make paintings of any sort now without an internalized vocabulary of twentieth-century abstraction” – Paul Winstanley Painting The In-Between is a group exhibition featuring new works by six painters who are all making representational paintings and yet…
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. “At the house I grew up in,” Joe Packer says, “You could walk straight out…
Painting as Terrain: Transcription for Panel Discussion and Walk Around with Chair Emma Cameron (EC) and the Artists – Jane Frederick (JF) Jyoti Bharwani (JB) Daphne Leighton (DL) Claudia Boese (CB) Ruth Philo (RP) Mary Romer Greenfield (MR) Alison Downer (AD) Absent. Emma Cameron: In the accompanying essay by Dr. Matthew Bowman titled ‘Ground Graspings- Heideggerian Reflections on Painting as Terrain’,…
The Crypt: 19 January – 25 April 2019Curated by Jyoti Bharwani In a recent solo exhibition of the work by Mary Corse at the Lisson Gallery in London, the curator writes that “Corse combines a philosophical quest for the portrayal of the infinite [with the belief that] humans experience reality through an externally subjective lens,…
A catalogue to accompany the exhibition Painting as Terrain curated by Jyoti Bharwani with an essay by Dr Matthew Bowman. Artists: Alison Downer, Claudia Bose, Daphne Leighton, Jane Frederick, Jyoti Bharwani, Mary Romer Greenfield and Ruth Philo. Download the catalogue.
“The Contemporary British Painting Prize offers us fresh and exciting perspectives on the new, dynamic and idiosyncratic trends being taken by painters in Britain today.” Jessica Twyman, Director, Art Exchange Contemporary British Painting Prize 2018 Joe Packer was announced as prizewinner receiving £2000, an essay on his painting practice written by Matthew Collings, an invitation to…
Huddersfield Art Gallery: 1 Dec 2018 – 2 Feb 2019 The twelve shortlisted artists for the exhibition are:Keith Ashcroft, Lucy Austin, Benjamin Deakin, Kate Dunn, Jenny Eden, Andrew Ekins, Pippa Gatty, Alison Goodyear, Roland Hicks, Rachel Lancaster, Joe Packer, Jonathan West Huddersfield Art Gallery, Princess Alexandra Walk, Huddersfield HD1 2SUPrivate view: Saturday 1 December 2018, 2pm…
The Contemporary British Painting Prize 2018 catalogue features the work of the 12 finalists and includes an introduction by Simon Carter, and an essay Joining and Continuing on the work of Joe Packer (the 2018 prize winner) written by Matthew Collings. The 12 shortlisted finalists for the 2018 Contemporary British Painting Prize 2018 were:Keith Ashcroft, Lucy…
Menier Gallery, London: 7 February – 16 February 2019 ARTISTS: Keith Ashcroft, Lucy Austin, Benjamin Deakin, Kate Dunn, Jenny Eden, Andrew Ekins, Pippa Gatty, Alison Goodyear, Roland Hicks, Rachel Lancaster, Joe Packer, Jonathan West WINNER: Joe Packer Following the exhibition at Huddersfield Art Gallery the second leg of the CBP Painting Prize 2018 takes place at:…
A catalogue to accompany the exhibition New Painting curated by Paula MacArthur and Wendy Saunders with an essay by James Quin. Artists: David Ainley, Iain Andrews, Amanda Ansell, Karl Bielik, Day Bowman, Julian Brown, Simon Burton, Marco Cali, Ruth Calland, Simon Carter, Lucy Cox, Gordon Dalton, Pen Dalton, Natalie Dowse, Fiona Eastwood, Nathan Eastwood, Geraint Evans, Susie…
Contemporary British Painting members’ exhibition.24 November 2018 – 17 January 2019.The Crypt, St Marylebone Church,17 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LT Curated by Paula MacArthur and Wendy Saunders. Private view: 8 January 2019, 6pm – 8pmExhibition dates: 24 November 2018 – 17 January 2019Opening times: Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm. Saturday 9am – 4pm.Sunday closed. Artists: David Ainley, Iain…
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 – 30 March 2019). The essay and the exhibition form part of the prize. “Such…
The Crypt: 8 September – 22 November 2018Curated by Fiona Long. Artists: Benjamin Deakin, David Sullivan, Fiona Long, Nadja Plein, Paula MacArthur, Rhys Trussler, Sasha Bowles and Wendy Saunders. Verbpast tense: subsumed; past participle: subsumed1. include or absorb (something) in something else. Each of the eight painters in this exhibition engage their practice with the…
A catalogue to accompany the exhibition Subsumed: Absorbing Surfaces curated by Fiona Long with introduction by Rhys Trussler. Artists: Benjamin Deakin, David Sullivan, Fiona Long, Nadja Plein, Paula MacArthur, Rhys Trussler, Sasha Bowles and Wendy Saunders. Download the catalogue.
Painting and the metaphor of the journey.The Crypt: 16 June – 6 September 2018 A Road Not Taken is a ‘journey’ of encounters that explores the idea that artists offer us abstractions of experience. By considering the physical act of painting in terms of a journey, the art object describes or embodies the inner territory…
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 looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;…
A catalogue to accompany the exhibition A Road not Taken curated by Stephen Buckeridge & Terry Greene with an essay by Terry Greene. Artists: Tony Antrobus, Karl Bielik, Claudia Böse, Stephen Buckeridge, Susan Cantrick, Catherine Ferguson, Terry Greene, Sue Kennington, Katrin Mäurich, David Webb and Ashley West. Download the catalogue.
Six abstract painters: 28 March – 14 June 2018 This exhibition presents the work of six painters working with abstraction: Hanz Hancock, Patrick Morrissey, Marion Piper, Julie Umerle, Piers Veness and Simon Zabell. Beyond the Surface is part of the Contemporary British Painting exhibition programme at The Crypt in Marylebone Church, curated by Piers Veness…
A catalogue to accompany the exhibition Beyond the Surface curated by Piers Veness. Artists: Hanz Hancock, Patrick Morrissey, Marion Piper, Julie Umerle, Piers Veness and Simon Zabell. Download the catalogue.
28 March – 14 June 2018 A series of events in Leeds to promote discussion and interest in painting in the city. This is a collaborative venture between Contemporary British Painting, Paint Club, Leeds and the University of Leeds. Twenty-seven of the most interesting UK painters exhibiting together in Leeds for the first time. The exhibition demonstrates the vitality,…