On Selecting Gordon Dalton gives a few thoughts on selecting the long list for the 2023 Contemporary British Painting Prize I’m writing this having just pressed a big red button marked ‘Finish Judging’ on the CuratorSpace online platform where over 1100 artists submitted … Read More
Artist of the Month July 2023: Paul Newman, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. For this month’s artist of the month article something of a different approach. Through a set of circumstances and a conceptual link to the performance aspects of … Read More
X – Contemporary British Painting Catalogue X – Contemporary British Painting is a vibrant, exciting free exhibition of painting, the likes of which has not been staged in the North East in decades. Taking place at Newcastle Contemporary Art and curated … Read More
Artist of the Month May 2023: Enzo Marra, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Enzo Marra’s creative practice is concerned with the direct exploration and pictorial analysis of the disparate concepts that enter his head. CBP: Initial words in response to … Read More
Saturday 20th May – Saturday 17th June 2023 X – Contemporary British Painting is a vibrant, exciting free exhibition of painting, the likes of which has not been staged in the North East in decades. Opening on May 20th at … Read More
Artist of the Month April 2023: Ruth Philo, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Ruth’s paintings explore abstraction, through colour, light and surface, often emerging from encounters with place and walking. Her work combines elements of internal and external worlds to … Read More
Donna Mclean I’d like to have a strong identity as a painter without committing to one theme so my subject matter is varied.It pleases me to put things together that have no business being together, to create something appealing that … Read More
Sally Taylor My work affirms a desire to understand more about human relationships, specifically my own interaction with others. They are equally about a balance between formal concerns and the communication of emotional resonance. Using found materials enables the superimposition … Read More
Gavin Maughfling In his current work Gavin Maughfling examines vulnerability and power within queer relationships. The paintings take a range of sources as their starting point, including film stills, personal archives, and memory. Their locations include outdoor spaces in which … Read More
Geraldine Swayne I am a painter and experimental musician. My paintings aren’t deliberately sensationalist, but my work has a filmic atmosphere and dreamlike quality, with uneasy undertones. I work largely from photographs rather than life, choosing images that give me … Read More
Jesse Leroy Smith Family is a central theme of my work, an ever-evolving set of relationships in which emotion, desire and identity are tangible, fluid and vivid. I collate scrapbooks in which friends, family and heroes montage with film stills, … Read More
Roland Hicks Roland Hicks makes paradoxical paintings and objects that look like minimal abstract assemblages – apparently slightly crudely stapled together from offcuts of various types of chipboard. Sometimes these pieces also create a simple illusion of a three dimensional … Read More
Kirsty Harris I explore nuclear explosions as cultural, historical and iconic symbols. Referencing the scale, beauty and abhorrent nature of the atom bomb I delve into the periphery of the subject, the myths, characters and surrounding evidence. I works across … Read More
Juliette Losq Juliette Losq’s paintings depict civilisation dissolving slowly back into nature. Her scenes present the industrial outskirts of urban environments that have been abandoned and gradually find themselves rewilded. In creating her compositions Juliette constructs physical models like miniature … Read More
Julian Perry My works explore the good and the bad in man’s complex and often dysfunctional relationship to the landscape. Brownfield sites, nature reserves, caravan parks and allotment sheds have all been subjects for shows. Recent works have looked at … Read More
Angelina Davis Angelina May Davis’s paintings are fabrications, plundering imagery from childhood TV and art history. She is interested in thinking about the past and what shapes us, using the transformative act of painting to reflect on history and culture … Read More
Abigail Hampsey Abigail sees the relationship with the rural landscape around her; full of its folk lore, its peoples and its histories as special… but not unique. In exploring her own environment Abigail seeks to use this as a lens … Read More
Marius von Brasch Von Brasch’s work highlights the power of unconscious filters that shape perception. Imagination, affects and memories, which pervade social life, history and the life of the soul, play a significant role in the emergence of each painting … Read More
Ruth Murray My paintings are about the experiences of women and most of my paintings are of women in a scene. Sometimes I use these women to evoke feelings of alienation and paranoia, or to explore issues around one’s self-conception … Read More