CBP Newsletter: June 2023

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Welcome to the June 2023 CBP newsletter!

CBP Exhibitions

X - Contemporary British Painting

'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. The exhibition has been curated by multiple award-winning artist Narbi Price, and brings together the work of over 80 artists. Featuring names such as Andrew Grassie, George Shaw, HUSH, Biggs & Collings alongside members of Contemporary British Painting and recent graduates, the exhibition explores the huge range of possibilities of what painting can be, from photorealism, through gestural abstraction, tiny intimate studies to big bombastic works, paintings that come off the wall and paintings that will make you question what you’re looking at.

Marking the tenth anniversary of CBP, the exhibition features all 6 previous winners of the Contemporary British Painting Prize showing together for the first time. It also showcases former prizewinners of the John Moores Painting Prize, BEEP Painting Biennale, Culture Awards Visual Artists of the Year, and Turner Prize nominees.

Artists: Susan Absolon, David Ainley, Iain Andrews, Amanda Ansell, John Ball, Richard Baker, Karl Bielik, Biggs & Collings, Claudia Boese, Day Bowman, Marius von Brasch, Julian Brown, Lesley Bunch, Marco Cali, Ruth Calland, Simon Carter, John S Clark, Jules Clarke, Deb Covell, Lucy Cox, Andrew Crane, Gordon Dalton, Pen Dalton, Angelina May Davis, Lisa Denyer, Sam Douglas, Natalie Dowse, Nathan Eastwood, Geraint Evans, Andrew Grassie, Susan Gunn, Susie Hamilton, Abigail Hampsey, Alex Hanna, Kirsty Harris, Roland Hicks, Suzanne Holtom, Marguerite Horner, Barbara Howey, HUSH, Phil Illingworth, Linda Ingham, Brendan Lancaster, Laura Lancaster, Rachel Lancaster, Bryan Lavelle, Andrew Litten, Cathy Lomax, Juliette Losq, Paula MacArthur, David Manley, Enzo Marra, Gavin Maughfling, Peter McArdle, Donna McLean, Monica Metsers, Nicholas Middleton, Ruth Murray, Joe Packer, Stephen Palmer, Mandy Payne, Julian Perry, Ruth Philo, Alison Pilkington, Steve Port, Narbi Price, Freya Purdue, James Quin, Ellen Ranson, Greg Rook, Katherine Russell, George Shaw, Jesse Leroy Smith, Paul Smith, David Sullivan, Matilda Sutton, Harvey Taylor, Sally Taylor, Molly Thomson, Judith Tucker, Casper White, Joanna Whittle, Sean Williams.

Newcastle Contemporary Art, High Bridge Works, 31-39 High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1EW

Exhibition dates: 20 May - 17 June 2023
Opening times: Thursday - Saturday 12 - 5pm

Walk & Talk Exhibition Tour: Saturday 3 June at 2pm
The curator Narbi Price and some of the exhibiting artists will give an informal walking tour of the show.

Closing Event: Friday 16 June, 5pm - 9pm
Admission free for all events

Website: https://www.contemporarybritis...

Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

CBP Prize 2023

CBP Prize: Now open for entries!

The CBP Prize 2023 is now open for entries.

First Prize now £8000 + more
Highly Commended Award now £2000
£400 exhibitor’s fee for all shortlisted artists
Two exhibitions

Find all the details on how to enter on our website. Deadline: 11.59pm Friday 30 June 2023

Apply here

International Exhibitions

Molly Thomson: Painting with wedged interior, acrylic on panel construction, 39 x 28cm, 2022

Trialogue

Three-person show with work by Molly Thomson, Ji Eun Lee and Minh Dung Vu.

Galerie Biesenbach, 1 Etage, Zeughausstrasse 26, Cologne 50667, Germany

Private view: Friday 2 June, 6pm - 11pm

Exhibition dates: 3 June - 1 July 2023

Opening times: Wed - Fri 12 - 6pm, Sat 12 - 4pm and by appointment
Admission free

Website: https://www.galerie-biesenbach...

Ruth Philo: Territorio, Ochre, acrylic and graphite on canvas, 30cm x 25cm, 2022. Photo: Douglas Atfield.

(With)in or (With)out - Borders and Boundaries

"Binnen of Buiten - Grenzen en Begrenzingen"

Motive: "We get on the way, but soon we dash against borders. Boundaries created by others, with custom control, walls or even land mines. Or we collide with norms and morals. And, sooner or later, we are limited by physical or mental restrictions"

Initiative: Drager Meurtant (NL), Jeanine Keuchenius & Petra Senn (D).

Participants: the three organizing artists, plus Katherine Chang-Liu (USA), Brian Dickerson (USA), Nina Fraser (Portugal), Joris van Gennip (NL), Carlo Grassini & Bill Thomas (USA), Sylvia Hubers (NL), Michal Iwanoski (Poland / UK), George Kabel (NL), Max King Cap (USA), Anna-Maria Komorowska (D), Oliver Merce (RO), Dorothee Mesander (GR), Ruth Philo (UK), Martien Vogelesang (NL).

The Milkfactory / De Melkfabriek, Guldenvliesstraat4H, 5211 AM 's Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

Exhibition dates: 24 May - 20 June, 2023

Admission free

Website: www.ruthphilo.co.uk

Solo Exhibitions

Kirsty Harris: Oil paint on lightbox tondo, 80cm x 80cm, 2023

That Lethal Cloud

Kirsty Harris investigates the British nuclear testing programme in her solo exhibition That Lethal Cloud at Studio KIND. Harris’ complicated relationship with the subject stems from her childhood, where weekends were spent alongside her family trawling through muddy fields to chant and sing 'Ban the Bomb' and there is beauty and brutality to be found in the work. Ultimately the audience carries their own presentiments into the space, activating the work with their lived lives.

Studio KIND, Unit 3, Velator Way, Braunton, North Devon EX33 2FB

Private view: Friday 2 June, 5.30pm - 7.30pm

Exhibition dates: 3 - 24 June 2023 with an artist tour on the final day

Opening times: Wed - Sat 12:30pm - 5:30pm

Admission free

Website: https://www.studiokind.org.uk/...

Paul Newman: In Ruin

In Ruin

Stryx gallery’s Pressure Cooker: Soup Pt VI presents: In Ruin by Paul Newman

‘A re-enactment of repetitions and rituals against the backdrop of relentless urban regeneration all around this artists’ studio space and the city in general. The Stryx gallery will present painting, objects and live performance, exploring personal themes in relation to romantic and haunted notions of ruins; of architecture, the body and the mind.’

Open Friday 2 June from 6pm Including artist talk and a live performance: ‘Ghost Rope’ from 6.30pm

Soup pt VI Artist Residency and Development programme, is the latest development of the established Soup residency programme, providing a combined approach to the growth of local artistic talent.

The programme features a host of great artists bringing some very tasty ingredients to the table: @tereza.buskova, @mollycleaver, @ambiedrew, @b4g_lord, @paulhnewman, @lilywales

Stryx, Unit 13 Minerva Works, Fazeley st, Birmingham B5 5RS

Private view: Friday 2 June, 6pm - 9pm

Exhibition dates: 6 - 20 June 2023

Admission free

Website: www.stryx.co.uk

Molly Thomson: Untitled (small void), acrylic on panel construction, 46cm x 43cm x 12cm, 2023

Realignment

Solo exhibition of painting/constructions made in the last year by Molly Thomson.

& Gallery, 3 Dundas Street, Edinburgh EH3 6QG

Private view: Saturday 3 June, 2pm - 4pm

Exhibition dates: 6 June - 1 July 2023

Opening times: Tues - Fri 10am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 4pm and by appointment

Admission free

Website: https://andgallery.co.uk

Freya Purdue: Spangle, oil on canvas, 150cm x 120cm, 2020

Murmurs from the Wide River

‘Murmurs from the Wide River’ brings together works by the painter Freya Purdue that have been developed over the last few years. The title refers to a quiet calling that may be hard to hear at first, but which becomes insistent over prolonged duration, summoning us to address and acknowledge it. This signifies the idea or call of the inner life of humanity that runs like a vein of gold through us, linking us as human beings since time immemorial.

These paintings are visual explorations of soul traces and connections drawn from experiences of both inner and outer life. They are inspired by years of research into spiritual and visual cultures that link with the arts of making, painting, and ritual celebration. The subjects draw on a wide range of sources, from classical themes and histories in painting, to the subtleties of scientific, anthropological, philosophical, and mystical thought. Through the magical process of painting, these streams of research, and the painter’s experience and energy are interwoven to express each work’s distinct voice within the wider river’s flow.

The Cut, 8 New Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 8BY

Private view: Wednesday 14 June, 5pm - 7pm
Mid-show view: Saturday 1 July, 2pm - 4pm
Exhibition dates: 14 June - 22 July 2023
Opening times: Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 4pm
Admission free

Website: www.thecut.org.uk

Sally Taylor: Hexagon Head, graphite acrylic collage on found cardboard, 45cm x 33cm, 2023

HEAD BLOCKER

Solo Exhibition of new work by Sally Taylor.

ARTSHED, Glaisdale, Whitby, YO21 2PZ

Exhibition dates: 20 May - 24 June, 2023
Opening times: Viewing by appointment only.
Phone 07885 544138 for a viewing.

Website: http://francescasimonstudio.co...

Directions: Using what3words turn onto the track off the dale road at ///proof.adopting.sniff
The google pin is C46W+XCG Whitby (54.4124258, -0.8539131

Harvey Taylor: The Sea - Walton Series II, oil on canvas, 100cm x 76cm, 2023

The Sea

Harvey Taylor will be showing a series of paintings that depict the shifting patterns and shapes of the sea along the coast of Essex and Kent. This set of work has been completed over the course of a year.

Oasis, 2 Connaught Avenue, Frinton-on-Sea, Essex CO13 9PW

Exhibition dates: 27 May - 23 June 2023

Opening times: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday mornings, 9.30am to midday

Admission free

Instagram: @theartoffrinton @harveytaylorart

Further information can be obtained from the artist

Stephen Snoddy: Untitled 131 (after Matisse), acrylic, 47cm x 58cm, 2017

TEN

A retrospective of TEN years of work by Stephen Snoddy at Saul Hay Gallery

From 3 - 25 June, Saul Hay Gallery in Manchester will be hosting a new exhibition by renowned artist and Museum Director, Stephen Snoddy. The event, entitled ‘TEN’ is a retrospective of 10 years of work, starting in 2013 when he began to make work again after a long absence from the Studio. It will celebrate across all his mediums – paintings, works on paper, collages, pastels and monotypes.

Snoddy is currently the Director of The New Art Gallery, Walsall and is one of the UK’s most respected Museum Directors having curated many exhibitions at the following gallery spaces, Serpentine Gallery; The Whitechapel; Camden Arts Centre; Leeds City Art Gallery; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin and The Haags Gemeentemuseum. He has worked at Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Southampton City Art Gallery; Milton Keynes Gallery and Baltic, Gateshead.

Saul Hay Gallery, Railway Cottage, Off Castle Street, Manchester M3 4LZ

Private view: Friday 2 June 2023

Exhibition dates: 3 – 25 June 2023

Opening Times: Tuesday – Saturday: 10.30am – 6pm & Sunday: 10.30am – 5pm

Website: www.saulhayfineart.co.uk

Online Solo Exhibitions

Marius von Brasch: Black Sun, oil on linen, 120cm x 120cm, 2022, courtesy of Jenn Singer Gallery.

Black Sun, Braided Time

Marius von Brasch's first solo show of selected paintings and drawings at Jenn Singer Gallery online, opening 3 May and running until 8 June.

'At first glance, the works seem abstract, but upon closer inspection, figures and structures emerge, and stories take shape. The exhibition showcases von Brasch's references to passages, transitions, and cathartic moments of change. These moments are rich with memories, intensities, and anticipations of what could be, with disintegration of stable constructions and other potentials. The works hold tensions of opposing forces, of loss, imagination, and hope; experiences that have become a heightened challenge for many in recent years.' For press release and more info please use link below.

Exhibition dates: 3 May - 8 June 2023

View the exhibition

Group Exhibitions

One World

Hannah Luxton, Joe Packer, Fiona G Roberts

Three British artists whose combined work creates one world.
Curated by Paul Carey-Kent and Vivienne Roberts

Aleph Contemporary, The Bindery, 53 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8HN

Exhibition dates: 16 May - 28 June 2023
Opening times: Mon-fri 10am - 5pm
Admission free

Website: https://alephcontemporary.com

A Movable Feast

A group show of 5 artists: Dragica Carlin, Russel Herron, Joe Packer, Lucy Temple, Justin Weeks.

Rogue Gallery, 65 Norman Road, St Leonard’s TN380EG

Exhibition dates: 19 May - 2 July 2023

Opening times: Thurs - Sat 11am - 5pm, Sun 12 - 4pm

Website: www.rogue-gallery.co.uk

Artists Portraits 110+

A group show, curated by Alice Herrick, to celebrate the launch of her new Artist Portraits 110+ silk scarf, with works by many of the female artists who feature in the portrait series and on the scarf included CBP members Susie Hamilton and Geraldine Swayne.

Alice Herrick’s new ‘Artist Portraits 2021-23’ silk scarf, measuring almost two metres long, will be launched at the exhibition and features 110 portraits.

Stash Gallery, 30 Prescott St, London E1 8BB

Exhibition dates: 18 May - 3 June 2023

Admission free

Website: https://vout-o-reenees.com/eve...

Jenny Sutton: Woodglade Croft, oil on canvas, 50cm x 40cm, 2023

Knowing, Not Knowing, Knowing

This micro exhibition, featuring paintings by Rita Kaisen, Deborah Lee, Jenny Sutton and Sally Weston is part celebration, part exploration of the intriguing process of abstraction – the singular phenomenon, nebulous and exciting, the combination of formal elements to create something coherent and effective in relation to its intention. We present four distinct approaches to the undertaking, representative of the subtle shifts away from the original source to produce a picture that better reflects an internalised response.

This show is curated by Sean Williams.

Prosaic Projects Gallery at Bloc Studios, 198 Arundel Street, Sheffield S1 4RE

Exhibition dates: 3 June - 15 July 2023

Admission free

Please contact Sean Williams at swseanwilliams@gmail.com to arrange to view.

Matthew Krishanu: Girl with Slippers, 2007-2012, acrylic on canvas, 75cm x 60cm (photo Peter Mallet)

Life is More Important Than Art

Taking inspiration from African American writer and novelist James Baldwin (b.1924, USA – d.1987, France), who observed that life is more important than art ... and yet that is why art is important, Whitechapel Gallery presents a free three-month programme of collaborations with artists, performers and thinkers to examine the interface between art and everyday life, and connections between local and global concerns at a time of uncertainty and change.

Visitors are invited to find meaning and create poetic, playful and reflective connections as they explore works by artists including Rana Begum (b. 1977, Bangladesh), William Cobbing (b. 1974, UK), Sarah Dobai, (b.1965, UK), Susan Hiller (b. 1940, USA - d. 2019, UK), Matthew Krishanu (b. 1980, UK), Jerome (b. 1991, UK), Janette Parris (b. 1962, UK), John Smith (b. 1952, UK), Alia Syed (b. 1964, UK), Mitra Tabrizian (b. 1954, Iran), Mark Wallinger (b. 1959, UK), and Osman Yousefzada (b. 1977, UK) spanning sculpture, photography, film and installation.

White Chapel Gallery, 77 – 82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX

Exhibition dates: 14 June – 17 September 2023
Opening times: Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 6pm; Thursdays, 11am – 9pm
Admission free

Website: whitechapelgallery.org

Marguerite Horner: All By-and-By, watercolour on paper, 30cm x 40cm, 2023

REGENERATION

The REGENERATION exhibition is curated by Philippa Beale at The Hansard Studio and is about focusing our energy as artists not on fighting the old, but on building the new; to not try to change the system but create a new one.

Regeneration is about regrowth and the bravery to take action. A moment to embrace the flow of chance! A moment of freedom! A feeling of change in the air!

Marguerite Horner will be exhibiting ‘All By-and-By’ and 'Walking the Black dog' which were inspired by an ineffable experience she had on a journey along the California coast. Light is the presence of energy, darkness of absence, light illuminates and is a fundamental symbol of the source of goodness and the ultimate reality.

This group exhibition is a partnership between Hansard Studio and Kensington and Chelsea Art Week 2023.

The Hansard Studio, 10 Hansard Mews, London W14 8BJ

Exhibition dates: 15 June - 31 August 2023

Admission free

Website: https://www.hansardstudio.com/...

Amanda Ansell: Light the Shadow, oil on canvas, 30cm x 30cm, 2023

The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

CBP artists Amanda Ansell, Juliet Losq, Ruth Philo, Karl Bielik, Mandy Payne, Julian Brown and David Lock have been selected for The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London. This year's exhibition coordinator is the British painter David Remfry R. His theme for the exhibition, which consists variously of works by Royal Academicians, invited artists and the public, is ‘Only Connect’ which comes from E.M. Forster’s 1910 novel Howards End. Sales from the Summer Exhibition directly support the exhibiting artists and the RA's charitable work, including training the next generation of artists in the Royal Academy Schools.

The Royal Academy, Main Galleries, Burlington House, Piccadilly W1J 0BD

Exhibition dates: 13 June - 20 August 2023

Opening times: Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 6pm; Friday 10am - 9pm
Admission: Ticketed £22 - £24.50

Website: https://www.royalacademy.org.u...

Ruth Philo: Phase Magenta, acrylic & graphite on canvas, 30cm x 25cm, 2022. Photo: Douglas Atfield.

Installation Image of Post Nature with JMW Turner's The Festival of the Opening of the Vintage at Macon and Heavy Water Collective's vitrine

PostNatures

CBP member Joanna Whittle is currently exhibiting work at the Graves Gallery Sheffield as part of her ongoing practice within the Heavy Water Collective comprising of Whittle, Maud Haya-Baviera and Victoria Lucas. This exhibition, curated by Victoria Lucas, is centred around JMW Turner’s painting The Festival of the Opening of the Vintage at Mâcon.

PostNatures sees Lucas draw on the constructed composition of Turner’s painting to highlight how imaginary subjects can affect our individual or cultural perceptions of reality. The exhibition features a range of artworks and objects from Sheffield’s collections including works by Rembrandt van Rijn, Francisco Goya, Albrecht Altdorfer, Albrecht Dürer, Odilon Redon and Max Ernst among archaeological and natural artefacts which depict representations of the relationship between women and nature, alongside recent works from Victoria Lucas and the Heavy Water Collective.

The exhibition continues till Saturday 2nd December 2023 and is generously supported by the Ampersand Foundation.

Graves Gallery (Above the Central Library), Surrey Street, Sheffield S1 1XZ

Exhibition dates: 16 March - 2 December 2023

Opening times: Tue–Sat 11am–4pm (Weds 1–6pm) Closed Sun–Mon and Bank Holidays

Admission free

Website: https://www.sheffieldmuseums

Marguerite Horner: 'He taps at My window and Cheer Up My Brothers by Marguerite Horner (top and left) and Village Gosip by David Ferry (bottom right)

Paradise Found: New visions of the Blackdown Hills

A contemporary interpretation by 36 painters, printmakers and photographers walking in the footsteps of the Camden Town Group. Includes work by Marguerite Horner.

Conceived and arranged by Tim Craven, and co-curated by Sandra Higgins and Fiona McIntyre.

Between 1911 and 1925 the Blackdown Hills were a source of inspiration for members of the avant-garde painters of the Camden Town Group. They captured the ancient landscape and its particularity with the progressive French artistic approach of Cezanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh.

36 contemporary artists including past and present members of The London Group (previously the Camden Town Group), will recapture the same sites that were painted by Spencer Gore, Charles Ginner and Robert Bevan of the Camden Town Group. The contemporary works will be exhibited alongside drawings and paintings (together with reproductions of paintings and photographs) created by Gore, Ginner and Bevan.

This project has been made possible through partnerships with the Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Bevan family.

Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Elmfield House, Dowell EX14 1LX

Exhibition dates: 18 March 2023 - 3 June 2023

Opening times: Wed-Sat 10am - 5pm

Admission free

Website: https://www.thelmahulbert.com/...

Simon Carter: River Crossing II, watercolour, 30.5 x 43cm, 2020

East to East

East to East is an exhibition of 30+ artists and makers based in East Anglia, who share their appreciation for the aesthetic and techniques originating in Chinese and Japanese art and craft. They explore how a natural colour palette, handcrafted techniques in glass and ceramics, and structured textiles like weaving have struck a chord in the east of England, finding favour with an audience looking for more sustainable design principles. Includes work by Simon Carter.

The Stables, Houghton Hall, Norfolk PE31 6UE

Exhibition dates: 23 April - October 2023

Opening times: Sunday, Wednesday and Thursdays, plus Saturday July to September, 11am to 4pm

Admission free

Website: https://contemporaryandcountry...

Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now

Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now is a new exhibition raising pertinent questions about who has access to nature, where and how. The exhibition challenges a nostalgic, idyllic and elitist idea of landscape. It embraces and celebrates nature in all its forms, acknowledging that in the 21st century most people in the UK access nature on a regular basis through allotments, community gardens, public parks or even simply through windows and screens.

Arcadia for All? explores the fragility of our environment as a result of human activity. Some of the painting highlight the pressures that capitalism is imposing on nature or offer alternative systems to live off the land collectively. The show also deals with issues around equity, the colonial legacies of landscape and environmental racism.

Arcadia for All? features a wonderfully broad spectrum of artworks by over thirty artists, including Andrew Grassie, Lubaina Himid, Matthew Krishanu, Elizabeth Magill and George Shaw. They all approach nature from many different directions, expanding the notion of landscape painting in new, unexpected and sometimes radical and playful ways. Moreover, the exhibition celebrates the vitality and variety of contemporary painting in all its materiality and visual richness.

The exhibition has been guest curated by Dr Judith Tucker, Senior Lecturer at the School of Design, University of Leeds and Geraint Evans, Pathway Leader MA Painting at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London.

Artists: David Ainley, Hurvin Anderson, Iain Biggs, Louise Bristow, Hannah Brown, Simon Callery, Lara Cobden, Kimathi Donkor, Sam Douglas, Natalie Dowse, Geraint Evans, Mark Fairnington, Andrew Grassie, Dan Hays, Lubaina Himid, Barbara Howey, Matthew Krishanu, Paula MacArthur, Elizabeth Magill, Cara Nahaul, Christopher Orr, Rebecca Partridge, Julian Perry, Narbi Price, Carol Rhodes, Greg Rook, George Shaw, Benet Spencer, Clare Thatcher, Judith Tucker, Phoebe Unwin, Joanna Whittle.

The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds LS2 9JT

Exhibition dates: 26 April – 29 July 2023

Opening times: Tuesday – Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Admission free

Website: https://library.leeds.ac.uk

Day Bowman: Marking Out the Boundaries 3, 140cm x 150cm, 2022

Paradise Found - New Visions of the Blackdown Hills

garde painters of the Camden Town Group.

Curators Sandra Higgins, Tim Craven and Fiona McIntyre have selected work by contemporary artists who will recapture the sites once painted by members of the Camden Town Group including Robert Bevan and Stanislawa de Karlowska. Separated by a century the works will hang alongside each other.

CBP artists Day Bowman, Narbi Price and Marguerite Horner are included in this exhibition.

Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Elmfield House, Dowell Street, Honiton, Devon EX14 1LX

Exhibition dates: 18 March – 3 June 2023
Opening times: Tues - Sat, 10am - 5pm
Admission free

Website: www.thelmahulbert.com

3 June: Closing lecture from Tim Craven ‘The History of the Camden Town Group
Please see website for further details.

Paula MacArthur: All these silent moments, oil on canvas, 100 x 100cm, 2020

At Cross Purposes

At Cross Purposes is a creative project which connects 56 group with invited artists and touring exhibition curated by Dr Frances Woodley.

The play on words of the project title reflects its mix of creative practice, conversation and curation. The purpose of the project is two-fold: firstly, to extend members’ creative practice through partnerships with artists from across geographical, generational, thematic and processual borders and, secondly, to re-identify the 56 group both to itself and to others.

Catalogue with introduction by Dr. Frances Woodley and forward by Bedwyr Williams

Artists: Ken Elias, Morwenna Morrison, Pete Williams, Mark Doyle, Robert Harding, Tim Dodds, Sue Hunt, Paula MacArthur, Dilys Jackson, Keith Brown, Carol Hiles, Jane Rainey, Sue Hiley Harris, Michael Geddis, Corinthe Rizvi, Louise Barrington, Martyn Jones, Martin Finnin, Tiff Oben, Garry Barker, Kay Keogh, Michelle McKeown, Harvey Hood, Molly Thompson, Alison Lochhead, Judith Tucker, Rhodri Rees, Ellen Mitchinson, Peter Spriggs, Christine Roychowdhury, Luis Tapia, Louise Manifold

Oriel Môn, Ynys Môn/Anglesey, Rhosmeirch, Llangefni LL77 7TQ

Exhibition dates: 29 April - 11 June 2023
Opening times: Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 5pm
Admission free

Website: http://56groupwales.org.uk/

The exhibition then tours to:

QSS Studios Gallery, The Arches Centre,11-13 Bloomfield Avenue, Belfast BT5 5AA
7 - 28 September 2023
Tuesday – Thursday 10am - 5pm and by appointment

Elysium Gallery, 210 High Street, Swansea SA1 1PE
11 November - 23 December
Wednesday – Saturday 11am – 6pm

Joe Packer: Duskcluster Luvsong, oil on canvas, 160cm x 120cm, 2022

Silent Stories

SILENT STORIES is an exhibition of work by tutors at the Emily Ball at Seawhite studio. The show not only celebrates the quality of the studio’s tutors but highlights their incredible individuality as artists. SILENT STORIES, curated by Emily Ball, features Emily Ball, Nick Bodimeade, Julian Brown, Simon Carter, Joe Packer and Katie Sollohub.

The Atrium Gallery, Seawhite of Brighton, Star Road Trading Estate, Partridge Green, West Sussex RH13 8RY

Exhibition dates: 15 October 2022 - June 2023
Opening times: By appointment only, Monday - Friday
Admission free

Website: www.emilyballatseawhite.co.uk

Interviews

Day Bowman: Fortress 4, oil, charcoal and conte on canvas, 149cm x 150cm, 2022

RISE ART: Interview with Day Bowman:
Treading Between Abstraction and Figuration

"Scale is important to me. I love working large so that my whole body is gesturally creating the marks and slashes and brushstrokes."

Read the interview

Podcasts

Miranda Boulton in her studio

A Geography of Colour podcast:

Miranda Boulton talking with Ruth Philo

Miranda Boulton is a contemporary British painter who lives and work in Cambridge, UK. She studied Art History at Sheffield Hallam University and at Turps Banana Art School in London.

In 2021 she won the Jacksons Painting Prize. Notable exhibitions include: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2016 & 2019, Creekside Open 2019, ING Discerning Eye 2021 and the Young Masters Autumn Exhibition 2022. She is represented by the Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London.

She describes her paintings as Nature Morte of flora. Her work is a response to historical references within this genre. Art historical images are translated through memory into a contemporary pictorial language, linked through expressive colour, gesture and form. Each painting is an ongoing conversation between past and present, an exploration of new forms from old imagery and narratives.

Painting for Miranda is a complex and endlessly fascinating medium. Amy Sillman sums it up:

‘Making a painting is so hard it makes you crazy. You have to negotiate surface, silhouette, line, space, zone, layer, scale, speed and mass, while interacting with meta-surface meaning text, sign, language, intention, concept and history. You have to simultaneously diagnose the present, predict the future and ignore the past – to both remember and forget. You have to love and hate your objects and subjects, to believe every shred of romantic and passionate mythos about painting and at the same time cast our gimlet eye on it.'

Listen here

Studio Event

Making Ground - A Geography of Colour

Ruth Philo is having a studio event about colour and painting in connection with her project 'Making Ground' and podcast 'A Geography of Colour', a DYCP project supported by Arts Council England. There will be paintings, pigments, time to talk about all things related to colour and tea and cake!

74 Ballingdon Street, Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 2DA

Event date: Saturday 17 June, 3pm

Admission free. Please RSVP to [email protected]

Website: www.ruthphilo.co.uk

Fundraising Event

Day Bowman: Full Flood 6

Daile Galerie with Charity Water Tee Shirt Promotion

Daile Galerie based in Berlin and Paris has teamed up with Charity Water to produce a range of Tee shirts for sale and all proceeds will go Charity Water's work in countiries in need of fresh water.

The Tee shirts will be on sale from early July 2023.

Websites: https://www.dailegalerie.com and https://www.wearitforcharity.c...

Publications

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 235mm
ISBN 978 1 7397818 2 8

We have a limited number of copies available to order at £10 per copy plus £2.75 P&P (UK only).

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Cover image: Lesley Bunch (winner of the 2022 prize).

Paradoxes Catalogue

The catalogue includes the work of all 52 exhibitors with an introduction by Phil Illingworth and an essay by Paul Carey-Kent. It accompanied the exhibition held at Quay Arts from 12 March to 7 May 2022.

Full colour throughout, 120 pages including cover, 235mm x 190mm
ISBN: 978-1-7397818-1-1
Designed by: idprojects.org

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