CBP Newsletter: October 2024

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Welcome to the October 2024 CBP newsletter

CBP Painting Prize 2024

Daniel Bell: Caterpillar, acrylic, emulsion, filler and gel on MDF, 24cm x 17cm, 2024 (winner)

And the winner is... Daniel H Bell

We are very pleased to announce that the winner of the CBP Prize 2024 is Daniel H Bell, with the highly commended prize awarded to Olivia Sterling. There was also a special mention to Lothar Götz.

Many thanks to our 2024 judges Louisa Buck, Martyn Cross and Paul Hedge for their joyful enthusiasm, boundless energy and thoughtful consideration in judging this year’s Contemporary British Painting Prize.

The seventeen shortlisted artists were selected by a group of practicing painters, all members of Contemporary British Painting: Natalie Dowse, Rich Jellyman (winner of the 2023 prize), Andrew Litten and Molly Thomson.

The artists: Simon Averill, Ruth Bateman, Daniel H Bell, Eric Butcher, Alison Critchlow, Zavier Ellis, Lothar Götz, Andy Harper, Davina Jackson, Angela Lizon, Lily Macrae, Dougal McKenzie, Harriet Mena Hill, Sophia Rosenthal, Olivia Sterling, Simon Taylor, Polly Townsend.

The exhibition continues in Cardiff until 19 October then tours to London and Sheffield.

Cardiff Exhibition

BayArt, 54B/C, Bute Street, Cardiff CF10 5AF

Exhibition dates: 14 September - 19 October 2024

Opening times: Wednesday and Saturday, 12 - 5pm (or by appointment)

Admission free

London Exhibition

Thames-Side Studios Gallery, Thames-Side Studios, Harrington Way
Warspite Road, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London SE18 5NR
1 – 17 November 2024

Sheffield Exhibition

Huddersfield Art Gallery Curates at Yorkshire Artspace:
Persistence Works, 21 Brown Street, Sheffield S1 2BS
30 November 2024 – 11 January 2025

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Olivia Sterling: Sorry to Use that Word, acrylic on canvas, 180cm x 120cm, 2024 (Highly Commended)

Cover image: Lothar Götz

The Contemporary British Painting Prize 2024 catalogue features the work of the 17 finalists and includes an introduction by Molly Thompson and texts on the Blyth Gallery Exhibition Award and the Judith Tucker Memorial Prize.

The second edition will be launched at Thames-side Gallery on 1st November and will include an essay by Louisa Buck on this year’s prizewinner, Daniel H Bell.

We have a limited number of copies available to order at £12 per copy plus £3.50 P&P (UK only).

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Artist of the month

Kirsty Harris: Buster Jangle, Easy, 50 x 60 inches, 2016

Kirsty Harris

Artist of the Month is an ongoing series where we highlight one of our members. This month we are pleased to introduce artist Kirsty Harris selected and interviewed by Paul Newman.

Kirsty Harris depicts the most iconic man-made event that might take place in a landscape: the detonation of the atom bomb. Often working at scale, Harris confronts her audience with a vision of awe and beauty. Mushroom clouds hang over desolate expanses of the Nevada desert, provoking contemplation at the intersection of humanity, brutality, technology and nature.

Harris's practice is steadfast; her paintings are informed by deep research, and this arduous process is echoed in depictions of a split-second event painted over a period of several months.

- Zavier Ellis for the Saatchi exhibition 2023

Read the interview

Kirsty Harris: Plowshare, oil on linen, 80cm x 60cm, 2024

Solo Exhibitions

Miranda Boulton: Joy Ride, oil and acrylic spray paint on canvas, 150cm x 120cm, 2024

Ghosts and Flowers

Cynthia Corbett Gallery presents 'Ghosts and Flowers' by Miranda Boulton.

Gallery 67, York Street W1H 1QB

Artist's Talk: Saturday 2 November, 2pm - 4pm

Exhibition dates: 28 October - 2nd November 2024

Opening times: 11 am - 6pm

Admission free

Website: www.thecynthiacorbettgallery.com

Model Village

A solo exhibition of large and small paintings by Angelina May Davis.

United Reformed Church, Brighton Road, Long Buckby NN6 7RW

Private view: Sunday 6 October, 2pm - 4pm

Exhibition dates: Thursday 10, Friday 11, Sunday 13, Monday 14, Thursday 17, Friday 18 & Saturday 19 October 2024

Opening times: 10am - 4 pm except Sunday 13 2pm - 4pm

Admission free • Please note: Exhibition not open Mon-Wed

‘Radiance and Shadows’ exhibition and book launch

Susie Hamilton: Exhibition and launch of monograph published by Anomie. Contributors to the book are Anna McNay, Charlotte Mullins, Louisa Buck.

Paul Stolper, 31 Museum Street, London WC1A 1LH

Private view and book launch: 8 October, 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition dates: 7 - 19 October 2024

Opening times: Mon-Sat, 10am - 6pm • Admission free

Artist Talk: Louisa Buck ‘in conversation’ with Susie Hamilton

Talk date: 15 October, 6.30pm - 7.30pm

Anomie publisher's launch:

Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LE

Launch date: 29 October, 6.30pm • Admission free

Two Person Exhibitions

Talking Things

An exhibition of painting by Lesley Bunch and Roland Hicks.

The show’s title, ‘Talking Things’, is derived from a Japanese koan, a riddle from Zen Buddhist practice which is posited to transcend limitations of dualistic thinking, logical reasoning and language. Bunch and Hicks ask questions, voicing subtlety and doubt; Is it real? What cast the shadow? Theirs is a meticulous and slow, seemingly time-warped, approach to what might be called still life.

Bunch paints shadows of borrowed invested objects, which seem to exist outside of time, simultaneously futuristic and primordial, like sealed time-capsules of buried memories.

Hick’s work is a slowed down depiction of a fast creative act, an elastic time-travel of sorts through art history.

Level 5 Sherfield Building, Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ
Private view: 8 October, 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition dates: 18 September - 31 October 2024

Opening times: Mondays to Fridays 10am - 5pm • Admission free

Group Exhibitions

Image: Ben Sadler

Goth in a Landscape

A group exhibition of 28 contemporary artists curated by Charlotte Brisland. As one of the most traditional forms in painting’s history, landscape painting has seen a resurgence in recent years. This exhibition seeks to re-engage with this subject in new and often unexpected approaches.

‘Goth in a landscape’ explores human connectivity to landscape through the medium of paint. Painters have been invited to explore culture, identity and a sense of place connected to landscape through the medium of paint in its broadest capacity.

Artists: Jo Berry, Kate Boucher, Alice Brasser, Charlotte Brisland, Orlanda Broom, Simon Carter, Jo Chate, Graham Crowley, Nancy Diamond, Milli Evans, Nancy Friedland, Anne Griffiths, Lisa Ivory, Dominic Kennedy, Catrin Llwyd, Rob Lyon, Enzo Marra, Aiden Milligan, Mandy Payne, Annette Pugh, Kes Richardson, Ben Sadler, Kate Sherman, Kate Street, Wayne Summers, Catrin Webster, Toby Wills-Hart.

School of Art Gallery, Aberystwyth University, Stanley Road, Aberystwyth SY23 1NG

Exhibition dates: 23 September - 22 November 2024

Opening times: 10am - 5pm • Admission fee

Susie Hamilton: Blackfriars

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize

Exhibition of selected drawings including CBP member Susie Hamilton.

Trinity Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Place, London E14 OJY

Private view: 2 October, 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Exhibition dates: 3 - 16 October 2024 (The exhibition will tour until Oct 2025)

Opening times: 10am - 6pm • Admission free

Natalie Dowse: Crocodile tears 19, 30cm x 30cm, 2024

Rogue Women 3

Rogue Women 3 brings together the work of women artists from Rogue Studios with a broad range of practices, exhibiting both nationally and internationally. The exhibition will showcase their talents alongside 12 invited guest artists from around the UK.

Throughout art history women have been largely invisible, ignored and excluded. Our aim is to place women in the spotlight, show solidarity and to continue to expand our connections with the wider community of women artists.

Rogue Women 3 is organised and co-curated by Margaret Cahill and Jen Orpin with guest curator Leanne Green head of exhibitions at Tate Liverpool.

The exhibition includes work by CBP artists: Natalie Dowse, Donna Mclean and Ruth Murray.

Rogue Artists’ Studios, 2 - 6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU

Private view: Thursday 3 October, 6pm - 9pm.

Exhibition dates: 5 October – Sun 27 October 2024

Opening times: Saturday and Sunday from 12 - 4pm and by appointment during the week.

Admission free

Mary Sewell: Residue, mixed media, 30cm x 20cm, 2024

Beginnings

Sheffield-based artists Sharon Borkowsky, Catherine Higham, and Mary Sewell share an interest for ancient civilisation and the traces left behind. From enigmatic female figures to astroarchaeology, their work and interests dovetail beautifully to create eclectic exhibitions of painting, photography, ceramics and textiles. This micro-exhibition is curated by Sean Williams.

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

Exhibition dates: 6 October - 8 November 2024
Admission free • Please contact Sean at [email protected] for further information and to arrange a viewing.

Ruth Murray: Egg Hanky, oil on linen, 25.4cm x 30.5 cm, 2024. Photo credit: John-Paul Brown.

Un Ouef Is Un Ouef

TJ Boulting is proud to announce our forthcoming group show UnOeuf Is Un Oeuf. Taking the egg as its starting point, it explores ideas that have inspired a myriad of artists from its mythology and symbolism to its aesthetics and form. Each artist featured, from historic to emerging, has found themselves drawn in some way to the potential of the egg, and expressed it across a variety of mediums, from painting to sculpture, photography and performance.

The main centrepiece, that will open the show, is by renowned British artist Sarah Lucas, who has featured the egg several times in her work over the years, notably real fried eggs in her sculpture and photographic self-portraits. Here she will present her performance ‘1000 Eggs: For Women’ which will see women, those who identify as women and men dressed as women, invited to come to the gallery, on Tuesday 8 October 13.00 – 16.00, to throw 1000 eggs against the gallery wall to create a giant abstract painting.

Artists: Liam Ashworth, Roya Bahram, Tim Braden, Gareth Cadwallader, Coco Capitán, Christopher Chiappa, Maisie Cousins, Anna Choutova, Danielle Fretwell, Nettle Grellier, Rachel Howard, Piotr Bury Łakomy, Sarah Lucas, Polly Morgan, Ruth Murray, Dana Powell, Helen A Pritchard, Man Ray, Boo Saville, Chieko Shiraishi, Sheida Soleimani, Olivia Sterling, Katy Stubbs, Francesca Woodman, Rafał Zajko.

TJ Boulting, 59 Riding House Street, Fitzrovia, London W1W 7EG

Private view: Thursday 10 October, 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition dates: 11 October - 16 November 2024

Opening times: Tuesday-Saturday 11am - 6pm or by appointment • Admission free

SARAH LUCAS - 1000 Eggs: For Women - Tuesday 8 October, 1pm - 4pm

Women, those who identify as women, and men dressed as women are invited to take part.

RSVP essential: [email protected] or sign up via website.

For Folk Sake

FFS is an exhibition and curatorial concept deliberately pulling together work by artists from across the breadth and depth of Suffolk, from Lowestoft to Leiston, Saxmundham to Sudbury, Diss and everywhere in between, as a means to link up, unite and celebrate the dynamic and diverse artist practices that populate and lift the cultural landscape of the county, all under one roof. FFS has no overarching theme other than an ambition to bring together a rich mix of significant artists from across the region, as if a kind of maintenance of sorts; a snapshot of current ideas, thinking, concepts, media and materials, punctuating this time; and delivering such outcomes to a broader national/international audience while supporting and creating the conditions for an acknowledgement and further development of artist practices that continue to grow, share, and expand, FOR FOLK SAKE.

The exhibition includes CBP members Amanda Ansell, Ruth Philo, and Graham Crowley alongside Renata Adela, SE Barnet, Les Bicknell, Bob Bicknell Knight, Susan Brinkhurst, Emily Cannell, Jo Chapman, John Christie, Max Clements, Alexander Costello, Karen Densham, Annabel Dover, Edgefield, Laurance Edwards, Hayley Field, Poppy Jackson, Abigail Lane, Sarah Lucas, Jane K Morter, Clare Mynott, Sian O'Keefe, Clare Palmier, Rebecca Riess, Tom Scannell, Hannah Stageman, Michael Stubbs, Srinivas Surti, Jevan Watkins Jones, Simon Wilde, Jane Watt, Emma Withers.

The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk IP19 8BY

Private view: 12 October, 2pm - 4pm

Exhibition dates: 12 October - 9 November 2024

Opening times: 10am - 4pm, Tuesdays to Saturday

Admission free

Ruth Philo: Territorio: Bege, acrylic & graphite on canvas, 30cm x 25cm

Ruth Calland: Look after your trans friends at the beach (feat. Teddy Tinnell),
oil on paper on wood, 76cm x 61cm, 2024

Exeter Phoenix Open

Exeter Contemporary Open is an annual open submission exhibition, established in 2006 and hosted by Exeter Phoenix, a busy, multi-artform venue and contemporary art space situated in Exeter’s historic city centre. The exhibition aims to provide an important national platform for contemporary visual art with an emphasis on supporting emerging talent alongside more established artists.

15 artists have been selected for this year’s Exeter Contemporary Open, selected by Jes Fernie and Tania Kovats and Exeter Phoenix gallery curator Matt Burrows. Includes CBP artist Ruth Calland.

Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter EX4 3LS

Exhibition dates: 13 September - 2 November 2024

Opening times: Monday-Saturday: 10:30am - 5.30pm

Admission free

Lido Open 2024

This will be the fourth annual Lido Open, as selected by gallery owner and curator Kristen Healy and guest judge Vincent Hawkins. 76 artists’ work was selected from over 1,200 entries and will, for the first time, expand into Gallery 1 as well as occupying the entirety of Gallery 2 and will include more artists than ever previously shown in the Lido Open and is a reflection of the competition’s growing scale and reputation.

Includes CBP members: Susan Absolon, Roland Hicks, Paula MacArthur and Donna McLean.

The Lido Stores, 2 Ethelbert Terrace, Margate, Kent CT9 1RX

Exhibition dates: 18 September - 5 October 2024

Opening times: Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm and Sunday - Monday 10am - 2pm

Admission free • The Lido Stores is fully wheelchair and pram accessible

Mandy Payne: Hovering Between Past and Present, spray paint and oil on concrete, 28.5cm x 19cm

The Pearls And The Oyster

The Pearl & The Oyster is an exhibition of female artists which endeavours to nurture and celebrate painters that come to us at The Birley, whether that is studio members already practicing with us, under/post-graduates at the University of Central Lancashire and our neighbouring universities in Liverpool, Manchester, Lancaster, Leeds, Sheffield, St. Helens and Cumbria or established, internationally exhibiting artists.

The exhibition will endeavour to bring painters together to create a positive platform that generates opportunities for all. Participating CBP artists include Jo Whittle and Mandy Payne.

Birley Studios, Market Street, Preston PR1 2QE

Private view: 4 October, times TBC
Exhibition dates: 1 October - 2 November 2024 • Opening times: TBC • Admission free

International Exhibitions

Molly Thomson: Untitled (red), wood, acrylic paint, caster wheel, 39cm x 35cm x 10cm, 2023

Hellweg Konkret lll
3D - Contemporary Explorations in Concrete Sculpture

Group exhibition of work by 39 international artists including Molly Thomson. 3D is part of the exhibition series Hellweg Konkret III. For the third time, cultural institutions from the „Hellweg“ region are joining forces to showcase 'concrete art' in ten exhibitions from spring 2024 to autumn 2025. Hellweg Konkret III is dedicated to the theme of “Space”.

Raum Schroth, Museum Wilhem Morgner, Thomastrasse 1, 59494 Soest, Germany D-59494

Private view: 7 September, 5pm

Exhibition dates: 8 September - 1 December 2024

Opening times: Tues, Wed, Fri 1pm - 5pm; Thurs 1pm - 7pm; Sat, Sun 11am - 5pm • Admission: 5 euros

Forthcoming exhibitions in November

Phil Illingworth: Psychophant II, acrylic, acrylic varnish, PVA, turned beech, MDF, 2020

The Art of Living

This exhibition brings together fourteen artists, predominantly sculptors, including Hermione Allsopp, Sophie Cunningham, Kasia Garapich, Nicky Hirst, Phil Illingworth, Erika Trotzig and Poppy Whatmore. In this former Aston Martin boutique, the group re-purposes the marque’s ‘Art of Living’ strap line as their title, creating an exhibition that directly responds to the luxury brand’s former Mayfair site.

Hypha Gallery, 8-9 Dover Street, London W1S 4LF

Private View: 8 November, times TBA

Exhibition dates: 9 November – 29 November 2024

Special Features

Harriet Tarlo reading her poetry and talking about Judith Tuckers work at Plough Arts.
Photo credit Phil Saunders Beep Media.

SLOW PAINTING

We have just launched our Special Features page on the website which will bring you articles and reviews by our members and guest writers.

In our first feature Peter Stiles writes about how this year’s exhibition SLOW PAINTING, a dual-sited exhibition hosted by The Plough Arts Centre and Studio KIND featuring works by Contemporary British Painting members and guests, was first discussed between him and former Contemporary British Painting chair Judith Tucker, and how it subsequently developed and came into being.

Read the article

Commissions

Gavin Maughfling Studio shot: Left hand panel, 17ft x 9ft, acrylic on canvas.

Set Commission for This Be Thy Hour, O + Festival,
Kingston New York

Gavin Maughfling was commissioned earlier this year by Stephen Pelton Dance to design and paint a backdrop for a new dance work. The piece will be premiered at the O + Festival in Kingston New York on 12 October 2024, before travelling to London in 2025.

The work is taken from a range of sources, including 17th Century Flemish landscape drawings, and the film 'Stranger by the Lake (Alain Giraudie, 2013). It is in two parts, at right angles, and is intended to be read panoramically from left to right. It transitions from monochrome to colour, and from day to night.

Hudson River LGBT Center: 12 October, 5pm - 11pm • Admission ticketed

Website: https://opositivefestival.org/...