Curated by Antonia Jackson: 13 January – 29 March 2018 This exhibition, hosted by Contemporary British Painting, brings together artists Helen Bermingham, Tom Down, Susie Hamilton, Antonia Jackson, Nicole Price and Ed Saye who explore the idea of time and memory through their painting practice ranging from the figurative to the semi abstract. Download The Landscape…
At Sluice Biennial 2017 PIY PaintLounge is a salon exhibition, fundraiser and series of conversations with over 40 contemporary painters and arts professionals talking about painting as a part of Sluice Biennial 2017. Press and VIP Viewing 12 -3pm Saturday 30th SeptemberPublic Preview 3 – 9pm PaintLounge opening talk at 4pm Saturday 30th September with painter Sara Berman, artist Jude Cowan Montague, collector Valeria…
Curated by Marco Cali: 30 September 2017 – 11 January 2018 Artists: Iain Andrews, Amanda Ansell, Louis Appleby, Richard Baker, Karl Bielik, Day Bowman, Marco Calí, Ruth Calland, Lucy Cox, Pen Dalton, Natalie Dowse, Fiona Eastwood, Pippa Gatty, Susan Gunn, Susie Hamilton, Alex Hanna, Marguerite Horner, Barbara Howey, Phil Illingworth, Matthew Krishanu, Bryan Lavelle, Andrew…
A solo exhibition by Cathy Lomax.Swindon Museum and Art Gallery: 6th – 30th September 2017 Cathy Lomax won the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2016 and her solo exhibition, The Blind Spot, which features new paintings that examine looking and being looked at, is part of her award. The Blind Spot refers to our inability…
The Contemporary British Painting Prize 2017 catalogue features the work of the 12 finalists and includes an introduction by Robert Priseman. Read the essay A Moral Life: Place and Memory on the work of Narbi Price (the 2017 prize winner) written by Nicholas Usherwood. The 12 shortlisted finalists for the 2017 Contemporary British Painting Prize 2017 were:Michael Ajerman, Jake Clark, Jadé Fadojutimi, Louise…
“A much-needed showcase of contemporary British painting. We hope it will endure for years to come.” Mark De Novellis, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections, Orleans House Gallery, Richmond Contemporary British Painting Prize 2017 Narbi Price was announced the prizewinner receiving a £2000 purchase prize with his painting ‘Untitled Yard Painting (Albert)’ entering The Priseman-Seabrook Collection of 21st…
The Stables Gallery, Orleans House, Riverside, Twickenham, London TW1 3DY25 August – Sunday 22 October 2017 ARTISTS: Michael Ajerman, Jake Clark, Jadé Fadojutimi, Louise Giovanelli, Juliette Losq, Cara Nahaul, Simon Parish, Narbi Price, Alli Sharma, Joan Sugrue, Molly Thomson and Helen Turner. WINNER: Narbi Price. The twelve shortlisted artists were selected by a group of practising painters: Julian Brown, Matthew Krishanu, Nicholas Middleton and Cathy Lomax (winner of the Contemporary British Painting Prize…
Westminster Art Library: 31 July – 5 August 2017Solo exhibition by Ruth Philo These paintings explore walking and paint. The slow physical act of walking the ground and the equally physical act of making a painting: sourcing pigments, stretching canvas, priming grounds and painting a flat surface to make the physical presence of a painting….
Works by members of Contemporary British Painting selected by Anna McNay25 July – 5 August 2017 Despite, and perhaps because of, the global, mass and social medial world in which it exists, contemporary British painting is and remains something complexly personal, defined as much by its breadth and multiple individualities as by any pervading style or…
Paintings by Jules ClarkeWestminster Reference Library Exhibition Space: 3 July – 8 July 2017 As part of an ongoing series of solo shows featuring artists from the Contemporary British Painters group, Jules Clarke will be showing new work from 3-8 July. The fluidity of paint is used to describe one moment becoming another; an unstable world explored…
Curated by Marco Cali – The Crypt: 1 July – 28 September 2017Artists: Amanda Ansell, Emily Ball, Simon Carter, Keith Murdoch. Read a transcript from the panel discussion.Download a pdf catalogue. Over the last few years, Contemporary British Painting has staged a program of exhibitions in the crypt of St Marylebone Church. Most of us live in…
A catalogue to accompany the exhibition Drawing into Landscape curated by Marco Cali. Artists: Amanda Ansell, Emily Ball, Simon Carter, Keith Murdoch. Download the catalogue.
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, saturation and de-saturation, their paintings realise direct emotive forms resulting in both subtly and vibrancy….
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 Notes on Contemporary British Abstract Painting”. … “before the work conveys reality it must achieve…
Marguerite Horner talks about winning an award in the 2017 National Open Art awards for her painting of the Eritrean church in the 2014 Calais Jungle refugee camp.
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 ‘unreal’ world. Between us: British painting in China At the time of writing this essay…
Exhibition by Julian BrownWestminster Art Library: 3 – 8th April 2017 Julian Brown was born in 1974 and trained at The Royal Academy Schools. Of his paintings Julian says ‘The imagery in my work is very heavily influenced by childhood visions and the folk art from my mother Polish heritage. Both of these worlds have a handmade geometric…
Curated by Lucy Cox and Freya PurdueThe Crypt: 5 April – Friday 30 June 2017 Julian Brown | Lucy Cox | Jeff Dellow | David Manley | Andy Parkinson | Freya Purdue “Colour is a kind of bliss . . . like a closing eyelid . . . a tiny fainting spell.” Roland Barthes Read…
Susie Hamilton: Have you always painted the human figure? When did you start painting the fragmented figure? David Lock: Yes, although at Reading Uni I went through a period of abstraction, but during my MA at Goldsmiths the figure came back. I began layering different body parts from magazines on to acetate film. Later I…
Rearranging Curves by Amanda AnsellWestminster Reference Library: 30th January – 4th February 2017 Amanda Ansell was born 1976 in Sudbury, Suffolk and studied at the Norwich School of Art and Design (1995-1998) and The Slade School of Fine Art (1998-2000). This rare and intimate solo exhibition showcases a series of brand new abstract paintings by Ansell…
Curated by Charley PetersThe Crypt: 18th January – 24th March 2017 Lisa Denyer | Ian Goncharov | Phil IIlingworth | Sarah Longworth-West | Lee Marshall | Laurence Noga | Playpaint | Clare Price Panel discussion Saturday 18th March 2-4pm: Painter, Curator and Director of Turps Gallery Juan Bolivar in conversation with Merge Visible artists Lisa…