CBP Newsletter: August 2024

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Welcome to the August 2024 CBP newsletter

CBP Exhibitions

SLOW PAINTING

Surface Tension at Plough Arts
Cultural 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.

In the 2019 book ‘Slow Painting’, Helen Westgeest considers the role of painting in a world fuelled by the digital, technological advancement, and information overload. Members of the renowned Contemporary British Painting group were invited to respond to the following text, and The Plough Arts Centre and Studio KIND. have invited artists to contribute, exploring why painting is as important as ever.

‘The fleeting nature of digital mass media appears to have unlocked a desire for more physically stable and enduring pictures, like paintings. Slow Painting charts how, in a world where the constant quest for speed can leave us exhausted, the appeal of this ‘slower medium’ has only grown ...' - Helen Westgeest

The exhibition is part of ‘North Devon Summer of Painting’ which is lead by Barnstaple Museum, hosts of the Turner in Barnstaple exhibition. The event is also support by ArtMakers.

The exhibition runs across both galleries and will commemorate the life of the late Judith Tucker and her incredible contribution to Contemporary British Painting.

Studio Kind, Pannier Market, Butchers Row, Barnstaple EX31 1SY
Plough Arts Centre, 9-11 Fore Street, Great Torrington, Torrington EX38 8HQ

Exhibition dates: 13 July - 17 August 2024 (both venues).

Judith Tucker: Dark Marsh - Silvered Out, oil on linen, 2021

CBP Painting Prize 2024

We are very pleased to announce the short-list for the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2024. The first exhibition and prize giving will take place on Saturday 14th September at BayArt Gallery, Cardiff, and runs to Saturday 19th October 2024.

We would like to thank every single artist that applied to this year's prize.

The shortlisted artists are: 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, Jemima Moore, Sophia Rosenthal, Olivia Sterling, Simon Taylor, Polly Townsend.

Many congratulations!

Over 1200 artists applied to this year’s prize. The four selectors, Natalie Dowse, Rich Jellyman (winner of the 2023 prize), Andrew Litten and Molly Thomson independently selected their choices from all submissions, forming a combined long list of 61 artists. The selectors then met in person to agree the shortlist who will each show three paintings at the CBP Prize exhibitions in Cardiff, London and Sheffield.

Our three judges, Louisa Buck, Martin Cross and Paul Hedge will select both the winner and highly commended artist in Cardiff. This will be announced at opening on Saturday 14th September.

The Blyth Gallery Exhibition Award will be judged by Mindy Lee (CBP Member and Curator at Blyth Gallery, Imperial College London) and announced at the London exhibition on Friday 1st November 2024.

The Judith Tucker Memorial prize will be judged by Lubaina Himid MBE, Griselda Pollock and Harriet Tarlo and announced at the third exhibition in Sheffield on Saturday 30th November 2024.

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Artist of the month

Claudia Böse: Das sich zu Erwartende, oil on canvas,2022

Claudia Böse

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

Claudia is drawn to regions which are borderlands, geographically and psychologically and have been rendered throughout history by artists. Her work is process driven and deeply shaped by its relationship to daily life, a passion for history and art made by women. For August’s artist of the monthClaudia talks about her process...

Read the interview

Claudia Böse: Sandra Blow, mixed media, 30cm x 30cm, 2022

Solo Exhibitions

Graham Crowley: Room 601 - 8, oil on canvas, 110cm x 132cm, 2024

LIGHT FICTION - exhibition extended

Domo Baal is delighted and proud to present Graham Crowley's solo exhibition 'Light Fiction' in the gallery. Crowley is the winner of the 32nd John Moores Painting Prize, which was awarded for his painting 'Light Industry'. His paintings have been selected for the exhibition ten times previously with the first time being in 1976 and in 2008 he was also a jury member for the Prize.

Domo Baal, 3 John Street, London WC1N 2ES

Exhibition dates: Extended opening until the end of August 2024

Opening times: By appointment only please call 07801 703871 to view.

Website: https://www.domobaal.com/exhib...

Paul Newman: Canals & Bridges Installation (detail)

Canals & Bridges

A new reiteration of Paul Newman’s Urban Gothic paintings, featuring works based on an urban walk along the canal under M5 near Smethwick in 2016. This series incorporates elements from 18th -19th c paintings, including; Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows 1831 & Jean-Antione Watteau’s The Embarkation for Cythera 1717.

Paul Newman’s Urban Gothic paintings weave together a tableau of motifs including; 18th & 19th-century landscape paintings with 20th century industry, architecture and cinematic monsters like Frankenstein’s, and the human Fly.

The imagery also draws from memories and experiences throughout the artists life; his father’s Ford Escort van, the museum experience of Romantic era landscape paintings. The work explores themes around relics of heritage, ruin and decay. The characters in the work journey through dreamlike landscapes which are on the periphery change and transformation.

The Jubilee Trade Centre, 130 Pershore Street, Birmingham B5 6ND

Exhibition dates: July / August 2024 (by appointment). Admission free.

Website: https://paul-newman.net/

Group Exhibitions

A Mosaic Path - landscape through painting and process

Inspired by the ecological term for the combination of environments inherent from location to location, A Mosaic Path is a short survey of landscape and place through the eyes of four artists considering such subjects today: Steve Gresham, Richard Hatfield, Linda Ingham, Helen Thomas.

A ‘desire line’ of work observing the relationship between human and non-human ‘nature’ edge across and through Lincolnshire, West Yorkshire Scotland; a specifically painting show, which demonstrates a range of process and approaches.

Curated by Linda Ingham and Studio Eleven Gallery team.

Studio Eleven Gallery, Humber Street Fruit Market, Hull HU1 1TG

Exhibition dates: 12 July - 25 August 2024

Opening times: 11am - 4pm Weds - Sunday

Admission free

Website: www.studioeleven.co.uk

Day Bowman: Study 1 Marking Out the Boundaries, oil, charcoal and conte on canva, 30 x 35cm, 2023

The Mixtape

A group show featuring painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics and photography, bringing together nationally and internationally established artists, exciting graduates, and local artists.

Artists: Amelia Ayers, Maya Bansal, Day Bowman, Emma Cowley, Phoebe Cummings, Stewart Geddes, Lauren Goldie, Lydia Halcrow, Rebecca Hardaker, Jack Hilton, Mimi Joung, Sarah Kirk, Bessie Kirkham, Meg Lillas, Jonathan Loxley, Oliver Murdock, Steve Neville, Phillip Rhys Olney, Hazel O’Sullivan, Alex Relph, Vicky Slater, Solent Works, Jason Stirland, Sarah Wall.

THE VANNER GALLERY, 45 High Street Salisbury Wiltshire SP1 2PB

Private view: 15 August, 6pm - 8 pm

Exhibition dates: 16 August - 14 September 2024

Opening times: Tues - Sat 10am - 5pm

Admission free

Website: www.vannergallery.com

Susie Hamilton: Fiery Pegasus

Digital Art School: Hospital Rooms Exhibition and Auction

In partnership with Hospital Rooms, ‘Digital Art School’ is a new exhibition that will transform Hauser & Wirth London’s North Gallery this summer. The exhibition will culminate in an auction hosted in partnership with Bonhams on 11 September 2024, showcasing works donated by artists across the UK. Susie Hamilton will be showing 2 works including ‘Fiery Pegasus’.

Hauser and Wirth, 23 Savile Row, London W1S 2 ET
Private view: 22 August, 6pm - 8pm
Exhibition dates: 22 August - 11 September 2024
Opening times: 10am - 6pm
Admission free

Website: hauserwirth.com

Joanna Whittle: Forest Shrine (Emergence), oil on postcard, 13.5cm x 8.5cm, 2022

Unnavigated at Whitstable Arts Festival

As part of the Whitstable Arts Festival, co-founded by filmmaker David Broder and artist Kim O'Neil, 'Unnavigated: Visionary Artists Challenge Nicification’ will feature the work of Jake Chapman, Zavier Ellis, Sadie Hennessy, Kim O’Neil, Tim Shaw, Othello De'Souza-Hartley, and CBP member Joanna Whittle. The exhibition offers a disruption to the tranquillity of the seaside town, with works that challenge conventions and elude categorisation. The exhibition will coincide with the screening of films featuring artists who pushed the boundaries to challenge the parameters of painting and the definitions of the art of their time, bringing these concepts into direct discourse with the work of artists in the exhibition.

There will be a programme of associated events throughout the festival, including a series of workshops which you can find out more about and book here: https://www.whitstableartsfest...

11 Horsebridge Road, Whitstable, Kent CT5 1AF

Exhibition dates: 29 August - 8 September 2024

Opening times: 9am-5pm and 10am-4pm on a Sunday

Admission: Exhibition free, events ticketed

Website: https://www.whitstableartsfest...

Mandy Payne: Golden Lane Estate, Spraypaint and oil on concrete

RA Summer Exhibition

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition - Over 1700 works included this year including CBP Members Karl Bielik, Lara Davies, Alex Hanna, Donna Mclean, Sikelela Owen and Mandy Payne.

Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD
Exhibition dates: 18 June - 18 August 2024
Opening times: Tues - Sun 10am - 6pm and Friday 10am - 9pm. Admission ticketed.

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

Andy Cropper: Love-Lust, Love-Lost, acrylic and oil on panel, 50çm x 50cm, 2020

Metro Tour

This exhibition features the work of six Sheffield-based artists - Andy Cropper, Katie Jamieson, Thomas Marriott, Jenny Sutton, Sean Williams and Lynne Wixon.

Together these works form a gentle walking tour around a city, during which we encounter sites of both construction and excavation; places that have remained the same for years, and others that seem constantly in flux. We also see areas that can often be overlooked. The artists explore the urban environment for scenes that could make interesting pictures and have unique stories to tell. It is curated by Sean Williams.

South Street Kitchen, 19-20 South Street, Sheffield S2 5QX

Exhibition dates: 27 June - 16 August 2024
Opening times: 9.30am - 4pm
Please contact Sean Williams at [email protected]

Heavy Water at Sedgwick Museum with Director Liz Hide (left) and their work at Bloc Projects in 2023

Heavy Water at GroundWork Gallery

Heavy Water Collective have responded to GroundWork Gallery’s extraction theme for its summer residency programme, by presenting a body of work that brings together research developed primarily in response to the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences and their archives based at Cambridge University.

The works developed by the Heavy Water Collective entangle the weight of geological temporalities with untold human histories, holding subjects such as folklore and the problematic legacies of empire in a scientific context to re-categorise the world through the wealth of artefacts held in the Sedgwick museum and archives.

The Heavy Water Collective (HWC) is an art collective comprising Victoria Lucas, Maud Haya-Baviera and CBP member Joanna Whittle.

GroundWork Gallery, 17 Purfleet Street, King’s Lynn, Norfolk PE30 1ER
Exhibition dates: 13 July – 7 September 2024
Opening times: Wednesday - Saturday, 11am - 4pm. Admission free.

Website: https://www.groundworkgallery....

Katie Pratt: Dijkstripe, oil on canvas, 190am x 160cm, 2023

Supernova

This group show celebrates the facets of contemporary abstraction, bringing together the works of eight women artists: Tess Jaray RA, Aida Tomescu, Katie Pratt, Carol Robertson, Lucienne O’Mara, Liza Giles, Freya Tewelde, and Diana Copperwhite.

Supernova explores the intricate relationships between space, memory, and perception. Each artist's unique approach contributes to a collective exploration of how we experience and interpret the world around us. From the meticulous layering and erasure of Aida Tomescu’s canvases, to Tess Jaray’s reduction and abstraction of architectural forms, and the geometric discipline and chaotic poetry in Lucienne O’Mara’s grids, the exhibition offers a diverse yet unified vision of contemporary abstraction and the narratives within it.

Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London W1S 3LZ
Exhibition dates: 16 July - 31 August 2024
Opening times: Monday - Saturday 11am - 6pm. Admission free.

Website: https://www.flowersgallery.com

Mikk Murray: 'Ecclesall I', oil and acrylic on birch panel, 110cm x 60cm, 2024

'Open Air - from 'Higher Bandwidth'

This micro-exhibition in the Prosaic Projects Gallery within Bloc Studios in Sheffield features selected work from ‘Higher Bandwidth’, a large, group exhibition which was held at Skelmanthorpe Library and curated by Ruth Heaton. In ‘Open Air’ each of the artists have made work in response to being out in nature, simply being inspired by the phenomena of the world around them and challenging themselves to translate those emotional responses into paint. It features work by Paul Evans, Catherine Higham and Mikk Murray, and is curated by Sean Williams.

Bloc Studios, 198 Arundel Street, Sheffield S1 4RE

Exhibition dates: 17 July - 30 August 2024

Opening times: Please contact @prosaic97 to make an appointment to view. Admission free.

Image: Lee Johnson

Dancing About Architecture

Dancing About Architecture is an exhibition designed to engage the audience in a physical confrontation with art objects in a way that isn’t simply ‘a show’, but more akin to walking down a back alley and stumbling across evidence of recent human activity - including elements of intrigue, delight, repulsion, fear and beauty.

Dancing About Architecture brings together 27 artists whose work brings the physicality of the space into their work, and the physicality of their work into the space “whether they mean to or not”. Includes work by CBP members Karl Bielik, Enzo Marra and Katie Pratt. Curated by Lee Johnson.

HYPHA STUDIOS, 50 Celebration Avenue, London E20 1DW

Exhibition dates: 20 July - 15 August 2024

Opening times: 12 - 6pm. Admission free.

Amanda Ansell: When the Daffodils Bloom Again, oil on canvas, 30cm x 30cm

Summer Contemporary

As part of the summer programme at Snape Maltings, Suffolk, Britten Pears Arts is staging Summer Contemporary. The exhibition includes more than one hundred artists, all with a strong Suffolk connection, exhibiting in several galleries and spaces across the site. Curated by Devi Singh.

Artists include Laurence Edwards, Glenn Brown, Jila Peacock, Fiona Lewis, Maggi Hambling, Roger Hardy, Susan Cox and Nadio Koo, alongside CBP members Amanda Ansell and Ruth Philo.

Snape Maltings, Snape, Suffolk IP17 1SP
Exhibition dates: 20 July 2024 – 1 September 2024
Opening times: 10am - 4pm, Monday to Sunday. Admission free.

Website: https://brittenpearsarts.org/e...

Ruth Philo: Pollen painting 4, acrylic & graphite on canvas, 60cm x 60 cm, 2024. Photo: Douglas Atfield.

The Beautiful East

The Beautiful East, a group exhibition curated by Simon Carter with artists: Richard Allen, Sue Bennett, Olivia Browne, Noah Carter, Ruth Carter, Simon Carter, Richard Hayward, Di Humphreys, Amanda Jenkins, Jevan Watkins Jones, Jane Lewis, Greg Longstaff-Scales, Louisa Longstaff-Scales, Sarah Milne, Ruth Philo, Dan Sceats, Alison Stockmarr, Nancy Taplin, John Wallett, Bryan Whiteley.

Oasis Cafe, Frinton Free Church, Connaught Avenue, Frinton-on-sea, Essex CO13 9PW
Exhibition dates: 31 July - 30 August 2024
Opening times: 9.30am - 12 daily, except Wednesday, Sunday 10am - 12. Admission free.

Website: https://www.frintonfree.com

Poster image: Detail of Painting by Sin Park

Frontiers. Painting in Scotland Now

Co-curated by CBP member Robbie Bushe RSA and Flora La Thangue, Frontiers: Painting in Scotland Now will explore the ways in which artists are pushing the boundaries of the medium of painting and reveal it to be a vital connection between the traditions of the past and ambitions for the future of the visual arts in Scotland.

Exhibitors include: Philip Braham RSA, John Brown, Robbie Bushe RSA, Michael Clarence, Francis Convery RSA, Andrew Cranston RSA, Catharine Davison, Laura Drever, Jack Dunnett, Joe Fan RSA, Moyna Flannigan, Helen Flockhart RSA, Audrey Grant, Derrick Guild RSA, Kevin Harman, Joanna Holisz, Olivia Irvine, Paul Keir, Lizzie Lilley, Lynsey Mackenzie, Lily Macrae, Barry McGlashan, Sin Park, Toby Paterson RSA (Elect), Rowan Paton, Sharon Quigley, Finn Robinson, Catherine Ross, Elaine Speirs, Alasdair Wallace, Kirsty Whiten.

Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, The Mound, Edinburgh EH2 2EL

Private view: Friday 2nd August, 6.30pm - 8pm (by invitation only*)

Exhibition dates: 3 August - 8 September 2024

Opening times: Mon to Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 12-5pm. Admission free.

Website: https://www.royalscottishacade...

*Please note: Private view by invitation only. If you would like an invitation please contact CBP member Robbie Bushe on [email protected]. Invitation numbers are limited by gallery safety capacity.

Summer Exhibition

Summer Exhibition features new art work from some of the artists who have collaborated with The Old School House over the last decade along with new artists who have never exhibited at the gallery.

Artists: Gordon Dalton, Brita Granstrom, Jennifer Muntz, Carrie Jean Goldsmith, Maxine Sutton, Tom Frost and Lucy May Schofield.

The Old School House, Foxton Road, Alnmouth, Alnwick NE66 3NH

Exhibition dates: 25 May - 1 September 2024

Opening times: Mon-Sat 10am - 5pm. Sunday til 4pm. Admission free.

Website: https://@theoldschoolgallery.c...

International Exhibitions

Geraldine Swayne

GRIT

Group Show curated by Alex Roberts includes work by CBP member Geraldine Swayne.

Kunstpunkt, Schlegelstraße 6, 10115 Berlin, Germany

Exhibition dates: 8 - 31 August 2024

Artist Interviews

Sue Kennington: Amnesia, 50cm x 75 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2014. Priseman Seabrook Collection.

Artist to Artist: Ruth Philo interviews Sue Kennington,
Priseman Seabrook Collection

Artist to Artist interview by Ruth Philo with Sue Kennington, published by Robert Priseman for the Priseman Seabrook Collection. The discussion is a deep dive into Sue's painting, colour and practice.

Read the interview

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