Ruth Murray Ruth graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2008, and was the Derek Hill Scholar at the British School at Rome. Her notable exhibitions include Northern Stars at the A Foundation, Saatchi’s 4 New Sensations, The Creative Cities Collection at the Barbican and the BP Portrait Award. She was awarded an Elizabeth…
Artist of the Month March 2023: Rachel Lancaster, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Rachel Lancaster’s practice is focused on painting and its intersections with the languages of cinema, music and photography. Photographic ‘stills’ from found moving imagery, alongside an archive of her own photographs are selected from, edited and then translated into oil paintings. Lancaster’s…
“I do hope that viewers and the entrants alike gain a desire to see more of each other’s practices, building frameworks of understanding, allowing us to see every artist’s practice as equally worthy and worth engaging with.” Casper White, joint CBP panel selector for the 2022 prize Contemporary British Painting Prize 2022 Artist Lesley Bunch was…
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Artist of the Month February 2023: Simon Carter, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. My work is based on the stretch of Essex coast where I live and have my studio. This coast is where the gardened landscape of East Anglia starts to fall, literally, into the spare and elemental spaces of the North Sea; where…
Artist of the Month January 2023: Nicholas Middleton, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Fundamental to my practice is the image. In a world of proliferating images, examination of how the image, tethered to reality, is constructed, processed, displayed, has underpinned my approaches as a maker of images, through painting and its histories. CBP: Your painting…
Artist of the Month December 2022: Suzanne Holtom, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. ‘There is an overriding interest in the creative tension between content and structure in my work. I do think in terms of narratives and themes to each series of paintings, but the actual process of making is also the key idea. There…
Contemporary British Painting Prize 2022 Catalogue Showing works by all 17 exhibitors in the 2022 painting prize. Introduction by Casper White, selector, and an essay by judge and art critic Hettie Judah on the winning artist Lesley Bunch. Full colour throughout, 88 pages including cover, 190 x 235mmISBN 978 1 7397818 2 8 We have…
Artist of the Month November 2022: Casper White, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Casper’s work centres on the history and intimacy of portraiture, where fleeting and unexpected moments become a place for reflection. Recently Casper’s work has focused more directly on the relationship between the subject and viewer, magnifying moments and highlighting expressions in different…
Lesley Bunch Overall my paintings are a visual language resisting verbal interpretation, untied to literal meaning, an ‘absented presence’. They sit silently in the globalised, unanchored, over-information that we increasingly drift in. For my Shadow Sculpture series I borrow ‘casting objects’ that are invested with their lenders’ emotions, memories, and sense of identity. I interview…
Artist of the Month October 2022: Stephen Snoddy, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. “Snoddy wants viewers to look at the relationships between his works, and how he carries lines and formats from one picture over to another. He sometimes regards two consecutive paintings as a diptych, with left and right-hand panels forming parts of a…
Paint Edgy: Contemporary British Painting and Guests Coordinated by Judith Tucker and Linda Ingham “I have a respect for invention, and I think that’s what attracts me to the margins in all things” writes the painter Graham Crowley. The exhibition Paint Edgy: Contemporary British Painting & Guests demonstrates painting at its most inventive and innovative,…
Paint Edgy: Contemporary British Painting and Guests Coordinated by Judith Tucker and Linda Ingham “I have a respect for invention, and I think that’s what attracts me to the margins in all things” writes the painter Graham Crowley. The exhibition Paint Edgy: Contemporary British Painting & Guests demonstrates painting at its most inventive and innovative,…
Artist of the Month September 2022: Susan Absolon, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. The motifs in Susan Absolon’s paintings are hard to pin down. They avoid declaring their origin or context, and sit somewhere on the path between the figurative and the abstract. A love for the material qualities of paint and working with colour,…
We are very pleased to announce the two exhibitions for the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2022. The first will open at Huddersfield Art Gallery and the second at Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London. The 17 finalists are: Daniel H Bell, Sophie Birch, Helen G Blake, Andrew Bryant, Lesley Bunch, Michelle Conway, Seungjo Jeong, Bernadette Kiely, Helen…
Artist of the Month August 2022: Paula MacArthur, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. The current focus of Paula MacArthur’s work is crystals and jewels, these are explorations of colour and light, a contemporary response to Dutch 17th century Pronkstilleven painting – ostentatious still life. Solitary, precious stones are captured in the spotlight, displayed as icons…
Vitalistic Fantasies at the Elysium Gallery is an expanded version of the exhibition originally planned for 2020 BEEP Painting Biennial, featuring works by 51 painters from the artist led group Contemporary British Painting curated by Paula MacArthur and Casper White. Download the online catalogue with an essay by Dr. Catrin Webster (7Mb). Artists: Susan Absolon, David…
We are delighted to announce that Vitalistic Fantasies is opening at Elysium Gallery Swansea. An expanded version of the exhibition originally planned for 2020 BEEP Painting Biennial will open on 4 June with works by painters from the artist led group Contemporary British Painting curated by Paula MacArthur and Casper White. The title of this…
Artist of the Month May 2022: Judith Tucker, selected and interviewed by Paul Newman for CBP. Judith Tucker’s work explores the meeting of social history, personal memory and geography; Night Fitties explore the play of light and dark and the uncanny transformations of the chalets on the Humberston Fitties that take place after hours as well as notions…
“… an exhibition which exemplifies the Contemporary British Painting Prize, which affirms the vigour and innovation in the painted mark and celebrates the continuing evolution of this language to reflect the times” Joanna Whittle, 2019 winner and joint selector of the 2021 prize Contemporary British Painting Prize 2021 Artist Susan Absolon was the prizewinner of the…