CBP Newsletter: August 2025

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Welcome to the August 2025 newsletter

Artist of the month

Phil Illingworth

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

This month’s interview discusses Phil Illingworth’s solo exhibition Juggernaut. ‘Bringing together works spanning more than fifteen years alongside new, never-before-seen work, Juggernaut presents a potent and timely exhibition by Phil Illingworth. Featuring drawing, drawing and painting in the expanded field, sculpture, and film, this body of work marks a compelling evolution in Illingworth’s practice - yet retains a clear and urgent thread that runs through it all: a profound unease with the social and political forces shaping our lives.’

Read the interview

Installation view of 'Juggernaut' exhibition, image courtesy of Platform-A gallery, photograph Rachel Deakin.

Group Exhibitions

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.

ADVANCED CONTEMPORARIES was conceived by Paul Carey-Kent to highlight and celebrate artists whose practices, spanning decades, are deserving of attention now, making this a counterpoint to all the prizes / shows / lists that are fixated on youth and/or the simple fact of having recently graduated from an art school. What, after all, does it mean to be ‘contemporary’? Is it linked to youth? 'Contemporary' is defined as ‘living’ or ‘occurring in the present’. John Peter Askew, Phil Illingworth, Maria Lalić, Jonathan Parsons, Michael Samuels and Michael Stubbs have been occurring in the present for over forty years, making relevant, materially fresh and visually exciting works – all with formal beauty, typically of some rigour, but also plenty of ideas. A rare achievement of long-term commitment, belief and quiet dedication, marks them as Advanced Contemporaries.

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

Artwork (detail) Sam Owen Hull. Poster design Peter Davis

A Small Space

A Small Space is an ongoing series of exhibitions that reimagine where and how art is experienced. The collective seeks out unconventional or overlooked spaces, moving beyond the traditional white cube gallery model. Previous exhibitions have taken place in a clothes shop, an architect’s office, and an empty shop window, with locations spanning Stockport, London, Manchester, Bali, and now Macclesfield.

The collective is made up of practicing artists from across Greater Manchester who share organisational roles within the group that was founded and is led by artist Jen Orpin.

For the current exhibition at the Silk Museum in Macclesfield, the show is co-curated by artist members Hannah Wooll, Emmer Winder, and Julie Cassells, bringing together a dynamic selection of contemporary works in a unique heritage setting.

ARTISTS: Rachael Addis, Margaret Cahill, Julie Cassells, Nan Collantine, Peter Davis, Sarah Feinmann, Ruth Fildes, Susan Gunn [guest artist], Emma Jackson, Laura Nathan, Sophie Nixon, Jen Orpin, Sam Owen Hull, Laura Pedley, Sandra Robinson, Michelle Taube, Stephanie Trow, Jude Wainwright, Emmer Winder, Hannah Wooll.

The Silk Museum, Park Lane, Macclesfield, SK11 6TJ

Exhibition dates: 5 July - 23 August 2025

Opening times: Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat - 10am - 4pm

Meet The Artists Day: Saturday 16 August, 12noon - 4pm • Admission free

Amanda Ansell: Shadow of Leaves, oil on canvas, 30cm x 30cm, 2025

Summer Contemporary

As part of this year’s vibrant summer programme at Snape Maltings, Britten Pears Arts presents Summer Contemporary - a major visual arts exhibition featuring work by over one hundred artists. Spanning multiple galleries and spaces across the site, the exhibition celebrates a rich diversity of contemporary practice. Included in this year's lineup is CBP artist Amanda Ansell.

Rooted on the Suffolk coast, Britten Pears Arts is a unique cultural charity born from the creative partnership of composer Benjamin Britten and tenor Peter Pears. Today, the organisation champions music, visual art, and heritage through a dynamic programme that nurtures talent, promotes well-being, and ensures the arts remain accessible to all. All artworks are for sale, with proceeds supporting the charity’s cultural initiatives.

Snape Maltings, Snape, Suffolk IP17 1SP

Exhibition dates: 26 July - 31 August 2025

Opening times: 10am - start of the evening performance

Admission free • Website

Molly Thomson: Possible types of slippage 3, acrylic on panel construction, 59cm x 32cm, 2025

Surface Tensions

Three-person exhibition with work by Stephane Ehrenhofer, Molly Thomson and Derek Wilson.

&Gallery, 3 Dundas Street, Edinburgh EH3 6QG

Private view: Saturday 2 August, 2pm - 4pm

Exhibition dates: 2 - 30 August 2025

Opening times: Tuesday to Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 4.00pm

Admission free

Lesley Bunch: Shadow Sculpture 41, oil on aluminium, 50cm x 60cm, 2025

The London Group at Linden Hall Studio 2025

We are all held in a world of plasma screens, the internet, mobile phones, and the zeitgeist of global money markets. Where images, information, and gratification are instantly accessible. The London Group, an artists’ collective from the early 20th century, is a peripatetic organisation which is now exhibiting at the Linden Hall Studio.

Exhibiting Artists: Moich Abrahams, Ade Adesina, Wendy Anderson, Jemma Appleby, Jonathan Armour, Victoria Bartlett, Bryan Benge, Barbara Beyer, Slawomir Blatton, Paul Bonomini, Lesley Bunch, Clive Burton, Paul and Laura Carey, Jacqueline Yuen-Ling Chiu, Robert Clarke, Peter Clossick, Gary Clough, Sandra Crisp, John Crossley, Martin Darbyshire, Stathis Dimitriadis, Angela Eames, James Faure walker, Marenka Gabeler, Tricia Gilman, Alexandra Harley, Aude Hérail Jäger, Julie Held, Alexander Hinks, Chris Horner, Gillian Ingham, Matthew Kolakowski, Jockel Liess, Jeff Lowe, Hannah Luxton, Charlotte C Mortensson, Ian Parker, Sumi Perera, Steve Pettengell, Alexander Ramsey, David Redfern, Tom Scase, Tommy Seaward, Suzan Swale, David Tebbs, Paul Tecklenberg, Lisa Traxler, Joshua Uvieghara, Bill Watson, Neil Weerdmeester, Tisna Westerhof, Susan Wilson, Erika Winstone, David Wiseman, Carol Wyss.

Linden Hall Studio, 32 St. George's Road, Deal CT14 6BA

Private view: Saturday 9 of August, 2pm - 4pm

Exhibition dates: 9 - 30 August 2025

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

David Sullivan: Asylum, oil on canvas over board, 31cm x 23cm, 2023

Zuckertüte

Zuckertüte is a decorated cardboard cone which families in Germany fill up with treats to give to their young ones starting school.

It is also the title of this late summer group show of painting and sculpture in Norwich, with an exciting cluster of 32 artists, mostly Norfolk based, with some especially welcomed from further afield. The exhibition has been organised by Nick Powell (painter and fan of all things German) with participants invited to submit two works for this grouping as well as an offering for the exhibition Zuckertüte, a cornucopia of sorts, especially crafted for this occasion.

Artists: Harriet Atkinson, Ingrida Bagdonaite, Simeon Banner, Anna Brass, Desmond Brett, Ruth Butler, Lucy Cade, Brian Cheeswright, Lara Cobden, Haley Craw, Jan Crombie, Russell Eade, Paul Fenne, Gawain Godwin, Tricia Hall, Anna-Lise Horsley, Michael Horsley, Alex Howard, Clare Jarrett, Paul Kuzemczak, Alida Kuzemczak-Sayer, Harry Malt, Anna MacRae, James Metsoja, Frank Nitsche, Kevin Phillips, Marion Piper, Nick Powell, Andy Rhodes, David Sullivan, Juju Vail, Robin Webb and ‘Neuanfang’ by John Osbourne

St Margaret’s Gallery, St Benedicts Street, Norwich NR2 4TU

Private view: Monday 18 August, 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition dates: 19 - 23 August 2025

Opening times: Tuesday 19 - Thursday 21 10am - 4pm, Friday 22 10am - 6pm, Saturday 23 10am-5pm • Admission free

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

The Dangers of Electricity

Solo exhibition of recent work by Suzanne Holtom

In the 1970s, short films were made in an attempt to warn and educate us on safety, protection and social responsibility, the title references the Government Information Film ‘The Dangers of Electricity’. In 1964 the local MP for Walsall put forward a motion to try and stop the construction of pylons on Barr Beacon. He didn’t succeed. He used the memorable line ‘These Monsters are no playthings’. The work presented draws on landscapes of the West Midlands, which encompasses geological time, post-industrial histories, personal experiences and memory. Located in the uncertain spaces between towns and cities, these landscapes have been indelibly marked by people and our technological and industrial developments. Compositional structures also makes reference to the ‘Weltlandschaft’ or ‘World Landscape’ tradition in art, in which the viewpoint is often bird-like, creating the potential for a great stretching in space and time to unfold. I take certain local motifs such as quarries, mines and pylons, and try to give them a mythical status. The post-industrial landscape continues to transform from one state to another. The scars and wounds of deeply embedded histories of natural extraction and social exploitations are ever present. And yet today, these transformed sites support an abundance of nature. For me, these landscapes suggest the instability of experienced events, an instability which seems to point to the future.

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

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

The Rule of Three, Two

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.

The exhibition is curated by Sean Williams.

Bloc Studios, 198 Arundel Street, Sheffield S1 4RE

Exhibition dates: 24 August - 26 September 2025

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

Admission free

International Exhibitions

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

Continuing Solo Exhibitions

Phil Illingworth: J’etais un imposteur (detail)

Juggernaut

Bringing together works spanning more than fifteen years alongside new, never-before-seen work, Juggernaut presents a potent and timely exhibition by Phil Illingworth. Featuring drawing, drawing and painting in the expanded field, sculpture, and film, this body of work marks a compelling evolution in Illingworth’s practice - yet retains a clear and urgent thread that runs through it all: a profound unease with the social and political forces shaping our lives.

The title, Juggernaut, refers to the colossal deity-bearing chariot - under the wheels of which, legend has it, devotees hurled themselves in ritual self sacrifice. In Illingworth’s hands, it becomes a metaphor for the overwhelming systems, ideologies, and collective delusions to which individuals are blindly devoted, or by which they are unflinchingly crushed.

This exhibition follows on from Illingworth’s 2016 solo show Apocalypso, which unfolded in the immediate wake of the Brexit referendum. The echoes are intentional. Now, his work channels a deepening sense of dislocation and helplessness in the face of growing injustice and division. Again naming this latest exhibition after one of its own central works, Illingworth emphasises the inescapable forward motion of these forces - the juggernaut that flattens nuance, resists resistance, and demands reflection.

Juggernaut is both a reckoning and a call to witness: an immersive, multi-disciplinary experience that asks what we sacrifice, knowingly or not, to the relentless machinery of modern life.

Platform-A Gallery, Middlesbrough Railway Station, Zetland Road, Middlesbrough TS1 1EG

Private view: 3 July, 6-8pm

Exhibition dates: 3 July - 7 August 2025

Opening times: Tues - Fri 10am - 4pm and by appointment • Admission free

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.

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

Continuing Group Exhibitions

Kate Whateley: Untitled, acrylic, matchsticks, acrylic gel and cardboard on board, 35cm x 25cm, 2025

The Rule of Three

The Rule of Three' is a micro exhibition at Prosaic Projects Gallery in Sheffield. It features work by Jack Kettlewell, David Orme and Kate Whateley, three artists who recently participated in 'Simulcast', a large group show of contemporary painting curated by Ruth Heaton and Kate Jacob at Fronteer Gallery. The show is curated by Sean Williams.

Bloc Studios, 198 Arundel Street, Sheffield S1 4RE

Exhibition dates: 14 July - 18 August 2025

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

Admission free

Amanda Ansell: Vortex, oil on canvas, 30cm x 30cm, 2025. Photography: Douglas Atfield.

The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025

CBP Members Amanda Ansell, Day Bowman, Susie Hamilton, Alex Hanna, Juliet Losq have been selected for this year's Summer Exhibition.

Royal Academy Main Galleries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD

Exhibition dates: 17 June - 17 August 2025

Opening times: Tues-Sun, 10am - 6pm and Fri, 10am - 9pm

Admission: Ticketed

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

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