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Lara Davies

Lara Davies Lara’s paintings are a direct response to the environment she inhabits. Her paintings act as photograms, absorbing the life around her, be it the communal existence of her shared house in London, or the wilderness of the Highlands when she is bike-packing. Paint is applied in thin layers to create a mottled surface,…

Angelina May Davis: Artist of the Month

Angelina May Davis: Artist of the Month

Artist of the Month May 2024: Angelina May Davis, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Angelina May Davis’s paintings are fabrications, plundering imagery from childhood TV and art his-tory. She is interested in thinking about the past and what shapes us, using the transformative act of painting to reflect on history and culture as well as…

2023 Contemporary British Painting Prize

2023 Contemporary British Painting Prize

“The work of a painter is a solitary procedure. It is a privilege to have been allowed this insight into the work and compulsions of so many dedicated artists practicing over the breadth of the country.” Susan Gunn, joint CBP panel selector for the 2023 prize Contemporary British Painting Prize 2023 Artist Rich Jellyman was the…

Jenny Eden

Jenny Eden Emerging from a process of close making and the complex relationship between two active ‘objects of being’, my paintings embody the potential for visual and psychological oscillation. The exchange between painter and painting arrives at curious and insubstantial ‘part-objects or creatures’ and atmospheric spatial-fields, where ‘thingly’ qualities operate simultaneously on and in the…

Katie Pratt

Katie Pratt Katie Pratt’s paintings generate emergent patterns that emanate from chaotic beginnings and then – through the painting process – develop an idiosyncratic internal logic. Systems are designed in response to chance and gestural features in the painted ground. Each painting develops its own set of rules that accumulate over time and give rise…

Mindy Lee

Mindy Lee I make autobiographical paintings exploring intimate family moments around motherhood, family, death, and a shifting sense of self. They often flicker between love and loss, play and conflict. I use these fluctuations to move from the familiar into something strange and more uncertain. Figures are loosely formed and fragmented, leaving them open and…

Robbie Bushe

Robbie Bushe I reimagine places and invent narrative scenarios within a cinematic context, often celebrating the tropes found in science fiction film and TV. I paint from memory, deduction and invention embracing the physical act, helping me recall half-forgotten events and imagery. My early work focused on domesticity and modern family life. I grew up…

Miranda Boulton

Miranda Boulton Boulton is fascinated by Flower Paintings from Art History. She re imagines a genre once seen as superficial, feminine and slight. Flowers make sense to her, they cover the monumental and the everyday, alive, beautiful, decaying, dying, haunting, life affirming, poignant, reassuring, always at the height of their beauty they fade away. Circling…

Julian Brown: Artist of the Month

Julian Brown: Artist of the Month

Artist of the Month April 2024: Julian Brown, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Julian Brown is an artist who creates visual kaleidoscopes in an array of colourful patterns, grids and curves. His playful, folk art inspired work draws upon his childhood visions with a poignant awareness of his Polish heritage and a particular love for…

Monica Metsers: Artist of the Month

Monica Metsers: Artist of the Month

Artist of the Month February 2024: Monica Metsers, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Monica’s work reflects a lifelong infatuation with fantasy and the surreal. She is currently exploring depiction of place, particularly the landscapes she is repeatedly drawn to, those of both the Lake District and The West Coast and Islands of Scotland. She visits,…

Gavin Maughfling: Artist of the Month

Gavin Maughfling: Artist of the Month

Artist of the Month January 2024: Gavin Maughfling, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. 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 nature serves as witness…

CBP Prize 2023 Catalogue

CBP Prize 2023 Catalogue

Contemporary British Painting Prize 2023 Catalogue Showing works by all 16 exhibitors in the 2023 painting prize. Introduction by Gordon Dalton, selector, and an essay by judge, independent Curator and Researcher Beth Hughes on the winning artist Rich Jellyman. Full colour throughout, 82 pages including cover, 190 x 235mmISBN 978-1-7397818-4-2 We have a limited number…

Rich Jellyman

Rich Jellyman Rich Jellyman makes paintings that reference internet culture and incorporate technology in the selection of subject matter. Utilising images that display a certain kind of internet sensibility – disposable phone photos, surreal mashups taken from Reddit threads, bad photoshop, memes, AI and video game glitches. His most recent series of paintings are anthropomorphic…

Susan Gunn: Artist of the Month

Susan Gunn: Artist of the Month

Artist of the Month November 2023: Susan Gunn, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. “In Susan Gunn’s paintings there is a subtle tension between the golden section formalism of their geometry and the unruliness of the free-form cracking. They each balance control and abandon, deliberation and chance. This is not the frivolous feminine but the ferocious…

Greg Rook: Artist of the Month

Greg Rook: Artist of the Month

Artist of the Month October 2023: Greg Rook, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Greg Rook’s paintings explore the rich visual history, curious cultural politics and often complex ideologies of those who seek to start a new life or wish to lead alternative lifestyles. From pioneers travelling to new continents to those wanting to stay put…

CBP Prize 2023 Exhibitions – Huddersfield and London

CBP Prize 2023 Exhibitions – Huddersfield and London

We are very pleased to announce the two exhibitions for the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2023. The first will open at Huddersfield Art Gallery and the second at Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London. The 16 finalists are: Karolina Albricht, Robbie Bushe, Benjamin Deakin, Marcus Jefferies, Rich Jellyman, Lee Johnson, Allyson Keehan, Lee Maelzer, Melanie Miller, David…

Emotional Spectres: Lesley Bunch’s Abstracted Objects
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Emotional Spectres: Lesley Bunch’s Abstracted Objects

An essay by Hettie Judah (writer and art critic) about the work of Lesley Bunch the winner of the CBP Prize 2022 This essay was published in the CBP Prize 2022 exhibition catalogue. The essay forms part of the prize. “…it is usually not an object’s presence but far more often its absence that clears the…

Lesley Bunch: Artist of the Month

Lesley Bunch: Artist of the Month

Artist of the Month September 2023: Lesley Bunch, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Lesley Bunch won the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2022. Lesley talks about her enigmatic ‘Shadow Sculpture’ painting series which are based on the creation of shadows with ‘invested objects’ lent by other people.  Reproduced in my paintings, each shadow becomes a…