CBP Newsletter: May 2025

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Welcome to the May 2025 newsletter

Solo Exhibitions

The Foliate Bosses

For the 76th Aldeburgh Festival Julian Perry has been commissioned to create an exhibition with the composer Stevie Wishart. Perry and Wishart’s collaboration is rooted in their mutual commitment to ancient forms as the inspiration from which they create contemporary visuals and music. Perry’s paintings have a huge debt to Northern Renaissance painting (Grunewald, Durer) and Wishart is a world expert on the 12th Century music of Hildegard of Bingen.

Perry has spent the last 15 years studying costal erosion as emblematic of the wider environmental crisis. For this project, Wishart will be creating original music inspired by Hildegard of Bingen. Tying her music to the very landscape that inspired Perrys paintings, Wishart will be integrating within the music her recordings of endangered Suffolk birds - Bitterns, and Nightingales.

Snape Maltings, Snape, Suffolk IP17 1SP

Private view: Saturday 24 May, 6pm - 8pm & Saturday 14 June, 2pm - 4pm

Exhibition dates: 24 May - 29 June 2025 • Opening times: 10am - 5pm

Performance & Talk: Monday 23 June: Stevie Wishart will be performing her original music in Building 7. Followed by talk by Julian Perry about the project.

Exhibition Free. Performance £8, please book via website.

*Please note: The show is spread across three venues at the Snape Maltings, therefore, visitors will need to follow a map to find all the installations.

Suzanne Holtom: Beacon with Signals, oil and thread on canvas, 220cm x 180cm, 2024.

Photograph by Sam Roberts.

And Hills Bore Scars

In her solo exhibition at New Art Gallery Walsall, Suzanne Holtom explores the landscape tradition in painting, presenting recent work specific to the West Midlands landscapes of her childhood. This mapping of place encompasses geological time, social histories, personal experiences and memory.

New Art Gallery Walsall, Gallery Square, Walsall WS2 8LG

Exhibition dates: 29 March - 29 June 2025

Opening times: 10am - 5pm Tuesday to Saturday and 12 - 4pm Sunday • Admission free

Two Person Exhibitions

Laura Lancaster: Shaking Through, oil on linen, 60cm x 50cm, 2023. Photo: Tom Carter, Courtesy the Artist and Workplace, UK

Rachel Lancaster: Always Already, oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm, 2024. Photo: Courtesy the Artist and Workplace, UK

Remember, Somewhere

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art is pleased to present a survey of works by Laura Lancaster and Rachel Lancaster. Identical twins and prolific painters, the Lancasters have carved out distinct painting styles and have exhibited nationally and internationally. This exhibition at Baltic will be the first institutional exhibition showing the sisters’ paintings side by side, and the exhibition location, in North East of England, where they were born and still live and work in their shared studio in Ouseburn, Newcastle.

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead NE8 3BA

Exhibition dates: 12 April - 12 October 2025

Opening times: Wednesday - Sunday 10am - 6pm • Admission free

Group Exhibitions

BayArt Open 2025

BayArt presents the Open 2025 - an exhibition bringing together 25 artists working across a range of disciplines. The show offers a snapshot of current exciting artists and their practices.

Artists: Isobel Shore, Joe Warrior-Walker, Lou Adams, Morgan Dowdall, Luke Skiffington, Gawain Barnard, Daniel Lazenby, Máire Kennan, Adam Charlton, Sid Lloyd, Luke Roberts, Cecile Johnson Soliz, Siobhan McLaughlin, Aneira Thomas, Billy Kang, Jingshan Ding, Tom Evans, Andrezza Vieira, Mindy Lee, Tamara Dubnyckyj, Gavrick Sawyer, Nate Davies, Solomon Charles-Kelly, Edward Jones.

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

Exhibition dates: 18 April - 31 May 2025

Opening times: Wed & Sat 12 - 5pm • Admission free

David Manley: Agathos Daimon

Landscape In Our Time

Contemporary reflections on Landscape by five Derbyshire Artists: David Manley, Billy Bye, Karen Smith, Phil Smith and Marie La Starza.

The Wireworks Project, Matlock Road, Ambergate, Derbyshire DE56 2HE

Private view: Saturday 3 May, 11am - 4pm

Exhibition dates: 26 April - 4 May 2025

Opening times: 11am - 5pm • Admission free

Poster image by Sir John Tenniel.

VICE VERSA

Twelve free form and twelve hard edge painters in an exhibition as survey by means of comparison, contrast and potential dialogue between the two different kinds of abstraction.

Hard edge: Georgie Bates, Helen G Blake, Sara Breinlinger, Julie Caves, Philip Cole, Chris Daniels, Lothar Goetz, Nick Johnson, Johanna Melvin, Jost Münster, Playpaint, Imogen Wetherell.

Free form: Karl Bielik, Miranda Boulton, Michele Fletcher, Geoff Hands, Nicky Hodge, Diane Howse, Michael Kaul, Stephen Keane, Sue Kennington, Mandy Leonard, Jon Ridge, Rupert Whale.

Lea Bridge Road Pavilion, Lea Bridge Library, London E10 7HU

Private view: Wednesday 7 May, 6pm - 8.30pm

Exhibition dates: 7 - 31 May 2025

Opening times: 10am - 4pm daily • Admission free • Website

The Incidentals

Curated by Sarah Sparkes and Jane Millar.

The Incidentals is a group exhibition featuring eight independently curated rooms in Bell House.

Artists' products gather to form heaps on the floor, or thrown on to hooks, waiting to be sorted, used or worn. In these rooms no artworks are displayed as final or fixed, there are no frames or plinths. In this way the curators present art works in a state of liminality, of flux, and therefore as having agency and personhood.

Artists: Vanya Balog, Helen Barff, John Bunker, Paul Cole, Alison Cooke, Karen David, Rebekah Dean, Roland Hicks, Sandra Lane, Simon Leahy-Clark, Chris Marshall, Campbell Mcconnell, Jane Millar, Robert Rivers, Kate Squires, Sarah Sparkes, Carrie Stanley, Helen Turner, Poppy Whatmore, Lucy Woollett, Belinda Worsley.

Bell House, 21 College Rd, London SE21 7BG

Private view: 9 May, 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition dates: 10 - 11 and 17 - 18 May 2025 • Opening times: 11am - 6pm

River Stories

A group exhibition curated by Sarah Milne at the Granary, (National Trust), Flatford, Suffolk - set in the heart of Constable’s landscape by the River Stour.

Artists: Debbie Ayles, Wendy Brooke-Smith, Sally Burch, Ruth Carter, Simon Carter, Cathy Constable, Julie Cuthbert, Jill Desborough, Payne Gunfield, Mel King, Jane Lewis, Ruth Lyne, Sarah Milne, Hilary Owers, Ruth Philo, Daphne Sandham, Anne Schwegmann-Fielding, Clare Smee, Lisa Stevens, Felicity Young, Nat Young.

The Granary, Flatford East Bergholt CO7 6UL

Private view: 9 May, 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition dates: 9 - 18 May 2025

Opening times: 10am - 4pm • Admission free

Courses

Marius von Brasch: Untitled V, oil on canvas, 80 x80 cm, 2025

Painting and Alchemy

This course introduces participants to both the intriguing symbolism of Renaissance alchemical imagery and how to make paintings or drawings in response to what the pictures, motifs and colours trigger in us as individuals. It invites the participants to actively engage with these ancient pictures and develop their own contemporary visuals.

The course closely relates to Marius von Brasch’s practice as a painter, who is passionate about supporting individual (not pre-conceived) approaches to painting.

Hawkwood College, Painswick Old Road, Stroud GL6 7QW

Course dates: 29 May - 1 June 2024

Prices & booking.

International Exhibitions

Sluice Seyðisfjörður Expo

Ruth Philo with ‘A Geography of Colour’ is taking her project ‘Bláar kortamyndir : Blue Cartographies’ to Iceland, as part of the Sluice Seyðisfjörður Expo ‘World Building’ in partnership with LungA School. The expo involves a number of different artist led groups and ‘revolves around the concept of world-building as a means to explore how we build worlds within our own. How these re-imagined, alternative worlds reflect back at us our dissatisfaction with the world as-is and points towards utopic/dystopic alternates. We recognise the danger of the current historical moment, and also its potential.’

Ahead of the Expo, Ruth is doing a short residency at the LungA School, an art school there, where she is making paintings that look at our deeper connections with the colour blue in relationship with this landscape and culture. The paintings will be exhibited during the exp at the Blue Church, Seyðisfjörður and there will also be an interview with a painter there for the podcast ‘A Geography of Colour’.

The events take place across various venues, Seyðisfjörður

Exhibition dates: 23 - 25 May 2025

Opening times: 10am - 6pm • Admission free • Website

Continuing Group Exhibitions

Paul Newman: Rumination Beetle in Mel Square, acrylic, oil & collage on board, 42cm x 60cm and reproduced and enlarged for display board, 2025. Photographed by Owen de Wisser.

Surreal Solihull

'Surreal Solihull' exhibition is now open and free to visit along Solihull High Streeton outdoor display boards. Exploring Surrealism and Solihull, it also celebrates the life and work of pioneering British Surrealist Emmy Bridgwater, and her legacy today. Featuring 29 artists inspired responses to the theme including CBP member Paul Newman.

Solihull High Street and Drury Lane, Solihull B91 3SR

Exhibition dates: March - May 2025
Website

Frinton Stations

Artists: Sally Taylor, Jevan Watkins Jones, Robert Priseman, Mick Hutchins, Louise de la Hey, Chris Duffett, Ruth Philo, Simon Carter, Claire Scott, Mark Cazalet, Matthew Burrows, Jose Augusto Castro, Jennifer Pitchers and Max Clements.

Art:Oasis, 2 Connaught Avenue, Frinton, Essex CO13 9PW

Exhibition dates: 5 April - 16 May 2025

Opening times: Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri 9.30am - 12 noon

Sun 10am - 12 noon • Admission free

Marguerite Horner: Upon this Rock, watercolour on paper, 2025

Collector's Cornucopia

Sandra Higgins Art presents this group exhibition at the Milsom Place Gallery. The exhibition includes work by CBP member Marguerite Horner.

Milsom Place Gallery, Unit 11 (upstairs), Milsom Street, 41, Milsom Street, Bath BA1 1DN

Exhibition dates: 9 April - 2 May 2025

Opening times: Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 11am - 4pm. Closed Monday.

Sean Williams: I Have Seen A Swan, acrylic on board, 28cm x 23cm, 2024

About Town

This micro exhibition in the Prosaic Projects Gallery within Bloc Studios in Sheffield features paintings by Andy Cropper, Pia Dowse, Thomas Marriott, Oliver Walton and Sean Williams, five painters who find artistic inspiration in their immediate, urban environment.

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

Exhibition dates: 20 April - 24 May 2025

Please contact Sean Williams @swseanwilliams to arrange a viewing

The Mirror at Night

Group show curated by Peter Suchin and Chris Tosic based on a poem by Mallarmé, included work by CBP member Susie Hamilton.

Cross Lane Projects, 6-8 Vestry Street, London N1 7RE

Exhibition dates: 26 April - 7 June 2025

Opening times: To be announced • Admission free

Plant Power

Artists: Anna Dumitriu, Anne Geene, Deborah Gardner, Barbara Howey, Caroline Hyde-Brown, Raji Salan, Aurora Sciabarra, Aindreas Scholz, Harriet Tarlo, Julie Tocqueville, Judith Tucker.

Groundwork Gallery, 17 Purfleet Street, PE30 1ER

Exhibition dates: 6 March - 14 June 2025

Opening times: Wed - Sat 11am - 4pm • Admission free

Julian Perry: House at Easton Bavents, oil on panel, 20cm x 20cm

A World of Water

Featuring artworks by Maggi Hambling, Julian Perry, Eva Rothschild RA, Julian Charrière, John Crome, Ólafur Elíasson, Josh Kline, George Vincent, Hendricus Theodorus Wijdeveld, and more!

Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ

Exhibition dates: 15 March - 3 August 2025

Opening times: 9am - 6pm • Admission: Pay if and what you can basis.

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