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Welcome to the September 2025 newsletter

Artist of the month

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Ruth Calland

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



For this month’s interview CBP member Ruth Calland talks about her solo exhibition, ‘This Is All The Treasure We Can Have and Hold’. The exhibition explores notions of transforming and non-binary beings within evocative paintings of figures merging with landscapes. They include ranging references from early 20th century vampire cinema to 21st century TikTok culture.

Read the interview
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This Is All The Treasure We Can Have and Hold, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, 2025

Solo Exhibitions

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Ruth Calland: Look After Your Trans Friends at the Beach (detail), oil on paper on board, 76cm x 61 cm, 2024. Photo: David Harrison.

This Is All the Treasure We Can Have or Hold

The exhibition explores contemporary themes around self-transformation. Ruth Calland celebrates the lives of trans and nonbinary people who they admire, in the ‘Pin-Ups’ series of vibrant oil paintings, with natural settings that emphasise the importance of embracing our true nature. They have also created two new short films that explore the alchemy of gender and its fluctuations.



Other paintings explore the transgressive as expressed in early vampire films, depicting those in the process of transforming, in various states of rapture and/or anxiety. This exhibition invites us to consider the creative power of human possibility beyond binaries.



20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Church Square, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire DN15 6TA

Exhibition dates: 28 June - 20 September 2025

Opening times: Tuesday to Saturday 10am – 4pm • Admission free



Further notes:
Publication Launch Saturday 23 August 2025, 12 - 2pm
Coinciding with Scunthorpe Pride, Ruth Calland will be at the gallery between midday and 2pm launching a new publication accompanying This Is All the Treasure We Can Have or Hold. Refreshments and light snacks will be served. Free Entry. Everyone welcome.

The exhibition will tour to Hastings Museum and Art Gallery in 2026.

Two-person Exhibitions

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Narbi Price: You Don't Know Where it Went. It Was Over in a Flash, acrylic on Canvas, 40 x 50cm, 2025

Going Back Brockens

Going Back Brockens is a major exhibition from award-winning artist Narbi Price and acclaimed writer Mark Hudson, sharing stories of hope and aspiration in mining communities 40 years after the Miners’ Strike.



The show features 43 new paintings by Narbi depicting locations across County Durham connected to the mining industry as they are now, alongside a sound installation created by Mark using interviews recorded with the people of Horden between 1991 – 92, several years after the Miners’ Strike.



The exhibition also features Where We Belong, a series of short films by Carl Joyce inspired by Mark Hudson’s evocative book Coming Back Brockens.



Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Burdon Road, Sunderland SR1 1PP

Private view: 11 September, 5.30pm - 7.30pm

Exhibition dates: 12 September 2025 - 3 January 2026

Opening times: Monday - Saturday, 10am - 4pm • Admission free

Group Exhibitions

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The Properties of Darkness at Sovereign Design House

The Properties of Darkness

Properties of Darkness features the works of the Heavy Water Collective comprising of Heomprising Maud Haya-Baviera, Victoria Lucas, and CBP member Joanna Whittle. Their long term collaborative project, established in 2020, responds creatively to traces of history, situating archive-based research in a contemporary context through the production of artworks. As part of the Cultures of Climate programme, a place-based research festival from the School of Art & Humanities at the University of Huddersfield, the collective have responded to collections held at Heritage Quay and the West Yorkshire Archives Service, developing threads of research that, through sustained dialogue, weave a network of meaning between the resulting artworks for their exhibition at Sovereign Design House.


Sovereign Design House, Queen St South Annexe, Huddersfield HD1 3DH

Closing event: 18 September, 5pm - 7pm

Exhibition dates: 28 August - 18 September 2025

Opening times: Tues - Sat, 10am - 3pm


Walking Tour:

Join Heavy Water Collective on 18 September 4pm - 5pm (before the closing event from 5pm - 7pm) for a walking tour of where the artists will talk about their research processes and resulting artwork and curation of the exhibition.

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Paula MacArthur: Why should it be true, oil on canvas, 70 x 50cm, 2025

Register

The New Road Artists Annual Exhibition features works by over 20 artists working at Rye Creative Centre. This year the show is curated by invited two artists based in Hastings - Jeb and Sharon Haward, who'll exhibit some of their own work alongside the resident artists.


Rye Creative Centre CIC is currently working hard to find a new home. ‘Register’ is a nod to the building’s past as a school and its history of learning and working together.


Exhibitors: Nick Archer, Summer Bourne, Melanie Comber, Nat Dive, Dave Eckold, Jillian Eldridge, Richard Elliott, Caroline Fraser, Luke Hannam, Jeb Haward, Sharon Haward, Angelika Howard, Keith Kettle, Jenny Pockley, Sue Prince, Paula MacArthur, Tara Macdonald, Lenka Medlik, Heather Rajaratnam, Helen Rawlinson, Steph Rubin, Kathy Russell, Sarah Seymour, Sally Shaw, Beverley Thornley, Georgie Watson, Kate Wallis.



The Old Gym, Rye Creative Centre, New Road, Rye, East Sussex TN31 7LS

Private view: 5 September, 5 pm- 8 pm

Exhibition dates: 6 - 14 September 2025

Opening times: 10am - 4pm • Admission free

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Molly Thomson: Proposition (10 discardings and one void), acrylic on panel construction, 33cm x 43cm, 2024

John Moores Painting Prize 2025

Supporting artists from all over the UK - whether they’re undiscovered, emerging or established in their careers - the Prize provides a platform for artists to inspire, disrupt and challenge the British painting scene today. Showcasing the very latest in painting across the UK, the competition culminates in a major exhibition every two years in Liverpool.

Shortlisted for First Prize: Ally Fallon, Davina Jackson, Katy Shepherd, Miranda Webster, Joanna Whittle. The exhibition also includes CBP member Molly Thomson.



Walker Art Gallery, William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 8EL

Exhibition dates: 6 September 2025 - 1 March 2026

Opening times: Tuesday - Sunday 10.00 - 5.00 • Admission free

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Lesley Bunch: Shadow Sculpture 40, oil on aluminium, 60cm x 50cm, 2025

ARTEVOL 2025 : Voices from the Undefined

London Art Collective presents the large-scale international group exhibition “ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined” at Saatchi Gallery London. The exhibition focuses on emerging artists, including CBP member Lesley Bunch, who are shaping the visionary future of contemporary art, collectively examining the motivations and emotional tensions encapsulated by “Evol,” which signifies “Evolution” in the context of today’s art landscape.



The title “ArtEvol” metaphorically represents an emergent artistic movement in a state of flux, formed in the tensions between technology and the body, the self and the other, the real and the fictional. It centres on practices that shift across disciplines, identities, and cultural forms, offering open-ended responses to the complexities of our time.



The exhibition is curated by Nelson Qin, organised by London Art Collective (LAC), and a jury panel composed of curators, artists, critics, and scholars who evaluate the works based on their experimental spirit and contemporary expression.



Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York's HQ, King's Rd, London SW3 4RY

Exhibition dates: 12 - 19 September 2025

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

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Blink and You'll Miss It, Room Share 8

For the 8th iteration of Room Share, BLINK has invited guest curators Helen Barff and Paula MacArthur to curate a room each and recent art graduates will be curating the remaining rooms.


Paula will be exhibiting alongside invited artists Susan Absolon, Aimée Parrott and Jana Zornik. Other exhibitors include Helen Barff, Kate Williams, Mikey Cuddihy, Nadège Mériau, Oona Grimes, Rosa Nguyen, Will Cruickshank.



Min Angel, Dido Hallett and Lucy Soni set up the BLINK artists’ platform in 2021 with the remit as to help artists get their work out of the studio and into shows, circumventing the expenses, disappointments and frustrations of the open call submissions and building a supportive and generous community of artists.



Safehouse 1, 139 Copeland Road, London SE15 3SN

Private view: 19 September, 6pm - 9pm

Exhibition dates: 20 and 21 September 2025

Opening times: 12 - 6pm • Admission free

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Open Return

Artists: Keith Ashcroft, Michael Clarence, Jenny Eden, Sarah Grant, Samuel O'Donnell, Daisy Richardson, Matilda Wainwright, Amy Winstanley.



A Place, 209 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4HZ

Private view: 19 September, 6pm - 9pm

Exhibition dates: 20 September - 3 October 2025

Opening times: Sun 2-4, Tues & Thurs 11-2 & by appointment • Admission free

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Robbie Bushe: Raising the Dead Woods, oil on panel, 50 x 60cm

The September Collection

A group exhibition of gallery and invited artists including eight recent works by CBP member Robbie Bushe.



PRINCE & PILGRIM GALLERY, 82 Hill Rise, Richmond, Surrey TW10 6UB

Private view: 25 September, 7pm - 9 pm

Exhibition dates: 25 September - 31 October 2025

Opening times: Weds, Thurs, Fri & Sat: 11am - 5pm. Sunday 11am-4pm. Monday & Tuesday Closed. Admission free.

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Paula MacArthur: Turning from the dark, oil on canvas, 30 x 30cm

Art Car Boot Fair Online

Following the live event, the Art Car Boot Fair 2025 continues online with over 120 artists offering their work for sale. Includes CBP members Paula MacArthur and Susie Hamilton.



The event starts on Friday 26 September at 12pm. It will be ticketed for the first 2 hours and will be free to enter from 2pm until it closes one week later, at midnight.



Exhibition dates: 26th September - 2nd October 2025

Open 24 hours online.

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Art on a Postcard Winter Auction

Art on a Postcard holds its final Annual Winter Auction for The Hepatitis C Trust with Guest Curators Tabish Khan, Debbie Meniru, Lily Ackerman, Andrew Torr and Ryan Lanji.



This year’s annual Winter Auction signifies the end of an era; after 11 years, it will be the final large-scale auction held by Art on a Postcard and the Hepatitis C Trust. Since its founding in 2002, The Hepatitis C Trust has achieved extraordinary progress, evolving from a small patient-led organisation leading the call for the elimination of hepatitis C into a national, peer-led charity delivering tailored support services to the most marginalised populations within NHS England’s hepatitis C elimination programme. Today, the UK stands on the brink of becoming one of the first countries in the world to eliminate Hepatitis C.



Long-time AOAP favourite artist Andrew Torr has curated a line-up of artists highly popular among AOAP buyers, including CBP members Susan Absolon, Lisa Ivory, Paula MacArthur and Mandy Payne.


The Bomb Factory Marylebone, 206 Marylebone Road, London NW1 6JQ

Private view: 26 September, 6pm - 8 pm • RSVP for private view tickets

Exhibition dates: In person Saturday 27 September (10am - 4pm) and then online on Givergy, 30 September – 14 October

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When placing a bid, please note that you first need to place a regular bid, and then you can set a max bid. 

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Enzo Marra: Pylon, acrylic paint on paper bag fragment, 51 x 31cm, 2021

Works from the Collection of Lady Victoria Beecham

Thames-side Studios Gallery are honoured to host a selection of works from the prominent collection of Lady Victoria Beecham.



A diligent collector for over 40 years, Lady Victoria has carefully crafted a very personal collection of paintings and sculptures from emerging artists that touch on many different themes and approaches. Includes work by CBP member Enzo Marra.



Thames-side Studios Gallery, Unit 4, Warspite Road, London SE18 5NR

Private view: 26 September, 6pm - 9pm

Exhibition dates: 27 September - 12 October 2025

Opening times: Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm • Admission free

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Materiality

No Place Art: Materiality, features CBP artists Enzo Marra, Gordon Dalton, Susan Absolon.



Founded in 2018 and revitalised in 2024, No Place Art curates exhibitions and developmental awards to connect emerging artists with collectors, arts organisations and industry leaders. It draws from the Greek etymology of 'utopia', 'no place', inviting, cultivating and nurturing collaborations that expand professional networks and amplify creative practice.



Edition one, Materiality, brings together 40 painters and 40 printmakers whose work explores the physical and conceptual possibilities of materials today. The exhibition showcases diverse practices spanning painting, print and mixed media. The exhibiting artists were selected from an open call by a distinguished panel of judges: Bronwen Sleigh RSA, Matthew Burrows MBE, Leslie de Canchy, Matthew Olivier, and Conor Rush - each bringing a wealth of expertise across artistic practice, curation, and international art networks.



The Handbag Factory, 3 Loughborough Street, London SE11 5RB

Private view date: 26 September 6pm - 9pm

Exhibition dates: 27 - 29 September 2025

Opening times: 10am - 5pm • Admission free

International Exhibitions

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Kirsty Harris: George, oil on unstretched linen, 145 x 200cm, 2023

i Manifest

A multi-disciplinary Visual Art exhibition, bringing together UK and US artists at this time of global unrest and uncertainty. i Manifest interrogates the concept of manifestation on many levels, focusing on multiple dualities which exist on a continuum of nothing-to-something; real-to-fake; physical-to-AI; sub-conscious-to-conscious; sticky floor-to-glass ceiling. To reflect this blurring of perceptions & boundaries, many of the works contain dream-like qualities reminiscent of a kind of 'new surrealism’. Curated by Perdita Sinclair & Mark Fraser-Betts.


Artists: Jess Parnell, Jodi Gerbi, Kirsty Harris, Mark Fraser-Betts, Olivia Gossett Cooper, Perdita Sinclair.


Westbeth Gallery, 55 Bethune St, New York, NY, USA

Private view: 4 September, 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition dates: 4 - 27 September 2025

Opening times: Weds-Sun 1pm - 6pm • Admission free

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Enzo Marra: Untitled, nail varnish, pill packaging, glue, card, 2025

Rose is a rose is a rose

A pop up exhibition showing the rose is a rose is a rose postcards received from international artists, with selected larger works from both the UK & US. Includes work by CBP member Enzo Marra.


501 5th Ave. Suite 701, New York, NY

Exhibition dates: 6 - 7 September 2025

Opening times: Saturday 1.30pm - 8pm & Sunday 1.30pm - 4.30pm

Continuing Solo Exhibitions

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Suzanne Holtom: A Certain Turbulence, pastel on paper, 25cm x 35cm, 2023

The Dangers of Electricity

Solo exhibition of recent work by Suzanne Holtom


Finch Gallery, London Fields, 12 Sidworth Street, Hackney, London E8 3SD

Private view: Saturday 23 August, 6pm - 9 pm

Exhibition dates: 23 August - 18 September 2025

Opening times: Mon - Thurs 9.30am - 4pm • Admission free

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

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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

Continuing Group Exhibitions

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ADVANCED CONTEMPORARIES II, Phil Illingworth, Portrait of a king in several different positions, 2014, MDF, steel rods, acrylic, enamel paint, varnish 34.4 cm. diam. x 16 cm. Artwork © Phil Illingworth, Photography by Matt Spour, Courtesy of IONE & MANN

Advanced Contemporaries II

IONE & MANN is honoured to present ADVANCED CONTEMPORARIES II, an exhibition curated in collaboration with Paul Carey-Kent. This year’s edition brings together six artists whose work challenges conventions of representation to reach meaningfully simple results - enriched by their conversations with art history as well as life experience.

John Peter Askew, Phil Illingworth, Maria Lalić, Jonathan Parsons, Michael Samuels and Michael Stubbs.


IONE & MANN, 1st Floor, 6 Conduit Street, London W1S 2XE

Exhibition dates: 26 July - 13 September 2025

Opening times: Wednesday - Friday: 11am - 6pm, Saturday: 12noon - 4pm, Tuesday: by appointment • Admission free

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Linda Ingham: Precipice - Pylon IV, Doddington, oil on linen, 101cm x 76cm, 2025

Art of the Now

Art of the Now - an exhibition at Lincoln's Usher Gallery showing work by artists based in Lincolnshire including CBP artist Linda Ingham.



The Usher Gallery, Lindum Road, Lincoln LN2 1NN

Private view: Saturday 19 July, 1.30pm - 3.30pm

Exhibition dates: 20 July - 19 October 2025

Opening times: Thursday - Sunday, 10am - 4pm • Admission free

Continuing International Exhibitions

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One Thing Touches Another

A group painting show curated by Tom Hammick and Emma Hill. Features the work of CBP member Susie Hamilton.



Maya Frodeman Gallery, 66 S Glenwood St, Jackson Hole, Wyoming 83001, USA

Exhibition dates: 31 July - 4 September 2025

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

Curatorial Projects

Mirco exhibitions at Bloc Studios curated by Sean Williams

Bloc Studios, 198 Arundel Street, Sheffield S1 4RE

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

Admission free

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Lisa Watts: Shut Down

Shut Down

Exhibition dates: 27 September - 31 October 2025

Deep in her past, or so it now feels, Lisa Watts produced and performed highly physically demanding art, such as ‘Not a Decorator’ (2018) which had her performing for five weeks, five hours per day. That all changed, as many things did, when Covid hit, however, it was not the virus itself that ended her performance art. It was debilitating Post Vaccination Syndrome, which attacked her body and left her semi paralysed for over three years. No longer can she create intense, demanding performances. Nor can she even hold up her arm for longer than ten minutes to draw at an easel. This is because, her muscles close-down after minor activities – she feels like a robot shutting down, with her throat sagging and eyes dropping. She feels pathetic. This year, she has been learning water colours; wishy washy, wet water colours. This is her first exhibition of her progress and it shows her changing snooty attitude towards these paints. She now enjoys the richness of the colours, painting tiny details from observations of live objects. ‘Shut Down’ is a presentation of her paintings alongside writings from her experience of Post Vaccination Syndrome.

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Peter Griffiths: Cutout IV, cardboard and acrylic spray, 40cm x 20cm

The Rule of Three, Two

Exhibition dates: 24 August - 26 September 2025


This is the second iteration of this idea and features work by Peter Griffiths, Warren Hayes and Catherine Higham. Three paintings by three different artists are hung together on a single wall in order to create new and dynamic relationships between work hung in close proximity. Peter works with abstracted shapes which are either described by stencils or cut-out and reassembled. His palette is one of muted colours, subtle, tasteful shades. Warren's paintings are the result of a rigorous process to which he adheres strictly initially, before employing looser and more experimental ways of applying paint. Catherine's work is a thoughtful, abstract response to her rural environment. Her paintings are inspired by the simple beauty to be found in nature. They feel like a profound meditation on what it means to be alive. The ‘Rule of Three’ is a writing technique where things presented in threes are often funnier, more satisfying or more effective. Fairy tales often feature three wishes, three trials, or three acts in a story’s structure (beginning, middle, end). This pattern is thought to be easily remembered and provides a sense of completeness and resolution. In folklore, the number three is considered powerful and magical, often associated with balance and harmony.

Collections

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The Bloomberg Connects website alongside highlights from the Priseman Seabrook Collections (works by Lesley Bunch, Lucy Cox, Fionn Wilson).

Priseman Seabrook Collections on Bloomberg Connects

The Priseman Seabrook Collections has now joined Bloomberg Connects, presenting aund 200 paintings and 17 audio recordings. The digital guide features 5 themed selections: ‘Women Painting Women’, ‘The Beauty of the Landscape’, ‘Contemporary British Abstract Painting’, ‘British Surrealism’ and ‘Lost Visions of England’.



The guide includes paintings and interviews by CBP members David Ainley, Amanda Ansell, Karl Bielik, Lesley Bunch, Marius Von Brasch, Julian Brown, Simon Carter, Jules Clarke, Lucy Cox, Andrew Crane, Pen Dalton, Lisa Denyer, Sam Douglas, Natalie Dowse, Nathan Eastwood, Wendy Elia, Geraint Evans, Susan Gunn, Susie Hamilton, Alex Hanna, Marguerite Horner, Barbara Howey, Phil Illingworth, Linda Ingham, Bryan Lavelle, Andrew Litten, David Manley, Enzo Marra, Nicholas Middleton, Paul Newman, Stephen Newton, Gideon Pain, Ruth Philo, Barbara Peirson, Freya Purdue, James Quin, Greg Rook, Kathleen Russell, Stephen Snoddy, David Sullivan, Harvey Taylor, Molly Thomson, Ehryn Torrell, Judith Tucker and Sean Williams, alongside artists such as Peter Blake, Matthew Burrows, Wayne Clough, Tracey Emin, David Hockney, Derek Jarman, Andrew Stahl and Fionn Wilson.


Content also includes narrated stories ‘Creative AI’, ‘Crying in Art’ and ‘Banksy Versus Raphael’, as well as ‘The Strange Story of Mary Ellen Carroll and the Exhibition of Nothing’, adapted from a lecture presented at Cambridge University.



Bloomberg Connects is the world’s largest network of museum and cultural apps, providing free access to expert-curated content and guides from over 1,000 institutions worldwide including Paintings in Hospitals, Leeds Art Gallery, MoMA, Yale Center for British Art, Guggenheim Museum and Yokohama Museum of Art.



Access the Priseman Seabrook (PS) Collections on Bloomberg Connects from Monday 1 September. Download the app via the PS website, Google Play or Apple Store.

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