Artist of the Month July 2024: Natalie Dowse, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. For July’s artist of the month Natalie Dowse discusses her Mise en scène series. 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…
SLOW PAINTING Surface Tension at Plough ArtsCultural Landscapes at Studio KIND SLOW PAINTING is a dual-sited exhibition hosted by The Plough Arts Centre and Studio KIND featuring works by Contemporary British Painting members and guests. The exhibition includes a tribute to former Contemporary British Painting chair, Judith Tucker. CBP artists: Susan Absolon, David Ainley, Iain…
Lisa Ivory Lisa Ivory’s landscapes are commonly occupied by a Wildman, who occasionally interacts with a female human figure. There is a Rake’s Progress of sorts, with a skeletal Death figure interrupting the discourse between these characters. The Beast attempts sympathetic magic by scrawling images into the landscape. These exchanges occur in a shadowland —…
Benjamin Deakin My recent body of work is largely represented by paintings of modest interiors looking out at Himalayan mountains-capes. These works continue my enduring interest in landscape and mountains as subjects in art but which increasingly use windows and interior space to explore spatial possibilities in painting. By including the mountains as a constant…
The Contemporary British Painting Prize 2024 First Prize £8000 + moreHighly Commended Award £2000Blyth Gallery Exhibition Award£400 exhibitor’s fee for all shortlisted artistsThree exhibitionsTwo full-colour catalogues NEW: The Judith Tucker Memorial Prizein association with Contemporary British Painting Entry is now closed We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has entered…
Graham Crowley I paint shadows. I’m intrigued by luminosity in painting. This is the driving force behind LIGHT INDUSTRY*. I’ve always been fascinated by those of Manet. The way in which the image and the painting (as its own object) can be seen simultaneously – fused together as a singleluminous entity. This remarkable duality is…
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,…
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…
“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 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’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 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 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 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…
Assembly is a compelling & timely exhibition curated to reflect a new geography of contemporary art practice as artists shift their focus away from the capital. Members of the artist-led group Contemporary British Painting come together from across the UK & Ireland with invited artists from Rye & the surrounding counties. Rye is uniquely situated…
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…
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,…
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…
Dr Judith Tucker, 1960 – 2023 In memory of Judith Tucker, her partner the poet Harriet Tarlo is setting up The Judith Tucker Art Prize. We can think of no better tribute to someone who supported other artists so selflessly. If you would like to donate you can do so here: Just Giving Judith Tucker,…
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 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…