CBP Newsletter: September 2024

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Welcome to the September 2024 CBP newsletter

Artist of the month

Abigail Hampsey in her studio

Abigail Hampsey

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

Abigail Hampsey’s practice is interested in the overall exploration of landscape. Landscapes of the mind, of narrative and of the world around her. Now once again living in the landscape of her youth, the artist is for the first time painting these landscapes, not from memory as before but firsthand. Such paintings are conceived during long walks and runs into the unfolding fields and fells that surround her. Documenting what she sees with drawings, writing and photography almost obsessively.

Read the interview

Abigail Hampsey: False summit at Stickle Tarn, oil on canvas,122cm x 87cm, 2024

CBP Painting Prize 2024

We are pleased to announce the opening of the first CBP Prize 2024 exhibition in Cardiff with the prize giving on Saturday 14 September.

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 prize judges for 2024 are: Louisa Buck, Martin Cross and Paul Hedge. The winner will receive £8000, a catalogue essay on their work, an invitation to become a

member of Contemporary British Painting as well as a selector for the next CBP Prize.
The judges will also select the recipient of the Highly Commended Award of £2000.

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

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

Prize winner announcement & opening event: Saturday 14 September 2024, 2pm - 5pm

Exhibition dates: 14 September - 19 October 2024

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

Admission free

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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

Solo Exhibitions

Ground Evolution

2017 saw a 'Ground Breaking' Event situated on the site of Old Granada Studios where the foundations of Factory International would be built. Susan Gunn's practice has involved the use of sedimentary rock and natural earth pigment. The Manchester International Festival event was inspiration for the Ground Evolution Triptych. Gunn collected earth, granite and concrete from the disturbed ground and recycled the material to create a monumental elegy to the site of creativity and change. The concept of the artwork was to create a lasting metaphor of the evolved material and the changing face of creativity and industry in the city.

Factory International, Aviva Studios, Water Street, Manchester M3 4JQ

Exhibition dates: 20 September - 30 November 2024

Opening times: 10am - 1pm daily during Aviva Studios open times
Aviva Studios is a public space, prior to visiting, please check website as open times vary occasionally. • Admission free.

Two Person Exhibitions

Iain Andrews: De Costa (The Creation of Eve)

Divine Comedies

Iain Andrews and Carolein Smit will be showing new paintings and sculptures at James Freeman Gallery in Islington, London from 5 September to 28 September. The exhbition takes its title from Dante's epic poem, and looks at the relevance of Dante today in fuelling contemporary art and sculpture.

James Freeman Gallery, 354 Upper Street, London N1 0PD

Private view: Thursday 5 September, 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Exhibition dates: 5 - 28 September 2024

Opening times: Tuesdays to Saturdays - 11am - 6.30pm

SILENT DISCO '24

SILENT DISCO is an annual invitational group show organised by Graham Crowley in his

studio. This year the exhibition includes CBP members Joanna Whittle, Julian Perry

and Graham Crowley.

87 High Street, Wickham Market, Suffolk IP13 0RA

Exhibiton dates: 24 August - 7 September 2024

Open by appointment. Email: [email protected]

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

Georgia Peskett: 'Lapis Blue', mixed media on silk, 15.5cm x 30cm, 2024

Within

This exhibition features the work of 4 artists: Lucy Cade, Lin Cheung, Kate Jacob & Georgia Peskett. Within is the visual representation of the inner worlds that shape these 4 artists perceptions, experiences and desires. This is the language of memory, state of mind, and the senses; distorting and subverting imagery to create a language to suit themselves. Immersed in the experience of painting they break from reality, court chaos to give form and voice to the things that words cannot. In these personal realms they reclaim, resolve and reinvent.

This micro-exhibition is curated by Kate Jacob & Sean Williams.

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

Exhibition dates: 5 - 28 September 2024

Opening times: Please contact Sean Williams @swseanwilliams to arrange a viewing
Admission free

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.

Exeter Phoenix, Bradninch Place, Gandy Street, Exeter EX4 3LS
Private view: Thursday 12 September, 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition dates: 13 September - 2 November 2024

Opening times: Monday-Saturday: 10:30am – 5.30pm • Admission free

Ruth Calland: Some Kens have pUss!£3 and that's amazing (#mx.gialu), 2024

Room Share 6

The artists’ platform BLINK, founded in 2021 by Min Angel, Lucy Soni and Dido Hallett is showing their sixth iteration of Room Share this September in Safehouse, a semi-derelict Victorian house in London. For this show BLINK have invited two guest curators, Eleanor Bedlow and Lee Johnson to join them in each curating a show in one of the five rooms of this once domestic house. Includes work by CBP members Ruth Calland and Lara Davies.

BLINK, Safehouse 1, 139 Copeland Road, London SE15 3SN

Private view: Friday 13 September, 6pm - 9pm

Exhibition dates: 14 and 15 September 2024

Opening times: 12 - 6pm • Admission free

Lesley Bunch: Shadow Sculpture 15, oil on aluminium, 50cm x 50cm, 2021

Stillness in Movement

‘Not known, because not looked for

But heard, half heard in the stillness

Between two waves of the sea’

from Four Quartets by T S Eliot

These three lines from Eliot’s epic poem were the starting point of The London Group’s latest, and perhaps most evocative exhibition, Stillness in Movement.

Its themes and offshoots are explored by 74 London Group members - the stillness before dawn; chance encounters that are frozen time; the anticipation and pause before a performance; the stillness between breaths. CBP artists Lesley Bunch and Jeff Dellow are exhibiting in Part 1.

Bermondsey Project Space, 183-185 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3UW

Private views: Part 1: 18 September and Part 2: 25 September, 6pm - 9pm

Exhibition dates: Part 1: 17 - 21 September and Part 2: 24 - 28 September 2024

Opening times: Tues - Sat 11am - 6pm • Admission free

Paula MacArthur: And always is the time, oil on marble, 22.5cm x 28cm, 2021

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

Private view: Saturday 21 September, 7pm - 9pm

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: Windows at Wendover, Spray paint and oil on marble

Goth in a landscape

A group exhibition of 28 contemporary artists curated by Charlotte Brisland including CBP members Graham Crowley, Lisa Ivory, Simon Carter and Mandy Payne. 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.

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

Exhibition dates: 23 September - 22 November 2024

Opening times: 10am - 5pm • Admission fee

Enzo Marra: Small peak, tempera on canvas, 30.5cm x 30.5cm, 2024

Joanna Whittle: Gateway (Oak) ( t X C l v Q P n i), Oil on copper, 15cm x 21cm, 2024 (detail)

Unnavigated at Whitstable Arts Festival

As part of the Whitstable Arts Festival, founded by filmmaker David Broder UNNAVIGATED, will feature the work of Emma Bennet, Zavier Ellis, Othello De'Souza-Hartley, Sadie Hennessy, Tim Shaw and CBP member Joanna Whittle.

The exhibition will coincide with screenings of films featuring artists including Frida, Gauguin, Pollock. Loving Vincent, Caravaggio and Woman in Gold, bringing these into direct discourse with work in the exhibition. There will be a programme of associated events throughout the festival, including an Artist Panel and Q&A on 31 August at 2pm at the Horsebridge Arts Centre. You can find out more about the exhibition, Q&A, films and other events with details of how to 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 • Exhibition Free, other events ticketed

The Mixtape

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

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

Exhibition dates: 16 August - 14 September 2024

Opening times: Tues - Sat 10am - 5pm • Admission free

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 including Susie Hamilton.

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

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 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.

Frontiers. Painting in Scotland Now

Cocurated 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.

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

Exhibition dates: 3 August - 8 September 2024

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

Forthcoming exhibitions in October

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

Open Studios

Annual Open Studios at Rye Creative Centre

Paula MacArthur is taking part in the annual Open Studios event at Rye Creative Centre alongside fellow studio holders Nick Archer, Alfie Caine, Jillian Eldridge, Luke Hannam, Jenny Pockley, Steph Rubin, Sarah Seymour, Beverley Thornley and more.

A rare opportunity to explore the entire building, view the annual studio holders' exhibition in the Old Gym Gallery, talk first-hand to the artists and to view their work in the environment in which it was created, with the added bonus of being able to buy directly from the artists.

Rye Creative Centre, New Road, Rye, East Sussex TN31 7LS
Private view: Friday 20 September, 5pm - 8pm

Open Studio date: Saturday 21 September

Opening times: 10am - 4pm • Admission free • Ground floor studios are accessible

Paula MacArthur's studio will also be open by appointment 23-29 September, contact [email protected]

Residencies

Ruth Murray in her studio, Manchester UK. Credit: Lasma Poisa.

Barossa Valley International Women's Residency

The Barossa Women’s Artist in Residence 2024 has been awarded to Manchester, UK artist Ruth Murray. Ruth will spend five weeks in the Barossa, SA Australia, commencing early September.

The Barossa Women’s Artist Residency Project, driven by The Barossa Council and the Barossa Regional Gallery, aims to provide established female artists an opportunity to experiment and grow their practice within the environs of the Barossa region, creating work in the context of and in response to 'place'.

Art Fairs

Miranda Boulton: From Now to Then, 100cm x 120cm, Oil and acrylic spray paint on canvas, 2023

British Art Fair

British Art Fair Group presentation by Cynthia Corbett Gallery includes work by Miranda Boulton.

Saatchi Gallery, London, SW3 4RY
Private view: Thursday 26 September, 11am - 9pm

Exhibition dates: 26 - 29 September 2024

Opening times: 26 & 27 September 11am - 9pm, 28 September 11am - 6pm, 29 September 1pm - 5pm • Admission ticketed

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