CBP Newsletter:October 2025

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Welcome to the October 2025 newsletter

CBP Exhibitions

And Still Different Worlds

Contemporary British Painting is pleased to present ‘& Still Different Worlds’ a group exhibition featuring members and guests: Miranda Boulton, Martyn Cross, Sam Douglas, Michael Gurhy, Kirsty Harris, Paula MacArthur and Donna Mclean.

“I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper…there is goodness…but another force, a wild pain and decay, also accompanies everything.” - David Lynch

The meaning arrives late and unannounced in these works, and while the canvas, stretchers, linseed oil, soot & heavy metals don’t move, they do hold time. This pause allows the surface to become unfamiliar, unfurling and summoning suggestion. Considering painting and sculpture as an object or monument, the mark-making becomes almost stubborn, confidently holding its ground at the eye of the storm.

Thames-side Studios Gallery, Harrington Way, Warspite Road, London SE18 5NR
Private view: Friday 17 October, 6pm - 9pm
Exhibition dates: 18 October - 2 November 2025
Artist talk: 2 November, 12 - 2pm • Finissage: 2 November, 2pm - 4pm
Opening times: 12 - 5pm, Thursday - Sunday & by appointment • Admission free

Artist of the month

David Manley

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

In this interview David Manley talks about his painting responses to landscape experience. Manley’s practice is plural, hard to categorise and pin down. Supports and media are determined by the perceived needs of each series, from ad hoc provisional assemblages as painting grounds, to modest same size panels that form a long term series in response to each town and village across Leicestershire.

David discusses three strands of his work in his studio; Hortus Fabulus, Landscapes & Memories and Ritual at the Heart of England.

Read the interview

Lucens Rupes Silvae #1, mixed media, 94cm x 86cm x 5cm, 2025 (from Hortus Fabulus series)

Solo Exhibitions

Emma Tod: Shy Electron, oil on linen, 50cm x 42cm, 2025. Photo Benjamin Deakin.

Shy Electron

Sourced from the internet, television, art history and fleeting everyday encounters, Emma Tod’s visual fragments are recombined, erased and unsettled. Through this process, peripheral events are brought into focus while central narratives dissolve. The result is a landscape of ambiguous territories - half-recognised, half-imagined - where the edges of meaning remain open and unresolved.

This sense of entanglement runs throughout Tod’s practice, which draws on quantum physics and feminist theory to reimagine our relationship to images, time and the material world. The titles of the paintings offer further clues: scientific and ecological references - from the Ampullae of Lorenzini, electroreceptors used by fish to sense invisible fields, to atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements recorded on the day of completion - anchoring the works within broader networks of knowledge.

Coleman Projects, 94 Webster Road, London SE16

Exhibition dates: 27 September - 26 October 2025

Opening times: Friday, Saturday, Sunday 12 - 6pm • Admission free

Underground

Underground is a solo exhibition by Susie Hamilton at Paul Stolper Gallery that accompanies the launch of her book 'Underground' drawings and paintings from the London Tube, published by Hurtwood.

Paul Stolper, 31 Museum Street, London WC1A 1LH

Private view and book launch: 28 October, 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition dates: 8 October - 1 November 2025

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

Gavin Maughfling: Enclosure, oil on Canvas, 61cm x 71cm, 2025

Floating Worlds

Gavin Maughfling

Sponsored by Art Academy London

The title of this exhibition is borrowed from the Japanese term Ukiyo, used to describe the pleasure-seeking pursuits and locales of Edo Japan. These paintings depict scenes of past family life and intimate domestic experiences. The image of floating refers to sensations of transience, and the evasive mirage our recollection finds in reaching for what has irretrievably gone.

It perhaps also responds to a more specific and contemporary desire, in darkening times, to float free, and to escape into a reverie of a better epoch, or to retreat into a floating world of intimacy and lovemaking. Taking the concept further, the sensation could be seen to refer to the impermanence and fluidity inherent in our experience of events while we are in them, so that figure and landscape, body and body, are all dissolved in light and sound and touch, and in spoken words and hidden thoughts.

There is a sense of loss, and an awareness amongst the protagonists that they are on the brink of the end of their familiar world, which it can be argued is found in the woodcuts of Hokusai and Hiroshige - and this sense of impending loss is seen in hindsight, when that loss has already occurred.

Art Academy, 185 Park Street London SE1 9BL

Private view: 16 October 2025, 5pm - 8pm

Exhibition dates: 16 - 19 October 2025

Opening times: Thursday and Friday 9am - 4pm, Saturday 10am - 4.30pm, Sunday 10am - 3pm

Admission free

Group Exhibitions

Planted

This group show draws together practices that are connected through the exploration of paint, plants and landscape in one way or another. So many painters respond to and are influenced by “growing things”, gardens, landscapes, trees, weeds in cracks and all the others of this ilk. There is something about attention within this enquiry and many more ripples to this idea: the environmental crisis, the landscape tradition in painting, the relationship between human beings and plant beings, relationship to place, ancient practices of animism and the role of image making within these, the urban and nature, plant medicine, paint itself- historically often derived from plants, how painters are planted in our practices, how a painting practice plants us in the world…… and many more.

Artists: Roberta Cialfi, Sandy Grant, Sarah Grant, Marielle Hehir, Elisa Hudson, Catrin Llwyd, Ruth Murray, Alice Neave, Jon Ridge, Tom Scotcher, Helen Thomas and Matilda Wainwright.

The FG Gallery, Boots Green Lane, Nr Knutsford WA16 9NQ

Exhibition dates: 27 September - 12 October 2025

Opening times: Weekends 11am - 4pm, and by appointment • Admission free

Into the Fold

Inspired by the Montcalm Royal London House's rich history as the former Royal Mail headquarters, this exhibition explores themes of communication through folding, layering, and concealment. 'Into the Fold' draws on the powerful symbolism of the folded letter and the layered history of place. The collection features a curated selection of works that embody these concepts in diverse and compelling ways.

This exhibition is available for viewing both in-person at the Montcalm Royal London House and through Rise Art's exclusive online gallery.

Artists: Ruth Philo, Sabrina Brouwers, Taya de la CruIz, Jo Hummel

Montcalm Royal London House, 22-25 Finsbury Square, London EC2A 1DX

Private view: 1 October, 6pm - 8.30pm

Exhibition dates: 1 October 2025 - 1 January 2026

Opening times: Please see hotel website • Admission free - ticket via Eventbrite

Exhibition poster artwork: Susan Gunn, Monochrome I (detail), 2007

Beneath The Surface

Beneath The Surface is presented and curated by Mill Artists Collective in collaboration with Mark Devereux Projects curated by Hannah wooll, Stephen Milner and Tyra Till.

Housed in the historic Buttermarket, at the very heart of Macclesfield’s town centre, the show promises a rich, multi-layered experience for audiences. Expect to encounter painting, sculpture, moving image, immersive VR, participatory works, and large-scale installation.

Artists: Sue Asbury, Jacki Clark, Erika Groeneveld, Susan Gunn, Rachel Ho, Emma Lloyd, Stephen Milner, Aimee Spilsted, Mike Thorpe, Tyra Till and Hannah Wooll.

Buttermarket, Market Place, Macclesfield SK10 1EA

Private view: 4 October, 5pm - 8pm - (Free - Pre-booking required)

Exhibition dates: 4 October - 12 October 2025

Opening times: 11am - 4pm Daily • Admission free

MAC Symposium: Wednesday 8 October, 2pm - 4pm (Free - Pre-booking required)

Instagram: @mill_artists_collective

Charlotte Verity: CV 4 7, 2025, watercolour monotype. 23.5cm x 21cm. Image Stephen White and Co.

Watercolour Now

Watercolour Now explores the distinctive qualities of painting in watercolour. Selected by the artist Simon Carter, the exhibition brings together an exciting range of contemporary approaches to watercolour in the Timothy Gurney Gallery at Norwich Castle. The eight artists featured share a fascination with how watercolour can capture diverse and often fleeting relationships with light, colour, landscape and history.

Artists: Simon Carter, Christoper Le Brun, Alf Löhr, Barbara Nicholls, Melanie Russell, Mark Stewart, Charlotte Verity and James Faure Walker.

Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Castle Hill, Norwich NR1 3JU

Exhibition dates: 4 October 2025 - 1 March 2026

Opening times: 10am - 5pm daily

Admission: Ticketed entry to Castle (please see website for details)

Sally Taylor: Head Wanting to Become a Hexagon, acrylic, graphite, found objects, ink, collage on found cardboard, 45cm x 43cm, 2025

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize has an established reputation as the UK’s foremost open exhibition for drawing. Established in 1994 by artist and Professor Anita Taylor. The exhibition provides an important platform for artists, designers, makers, architects and other drawing practitioners as a catalyst within their careers, and champions the role, breadth, and value of drawing in creative practices today.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust - and 2025 marks the 8th year of their generous support for the annual open drawing exhibition. Eighty-three drawings have been shortlisted for The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 including work by CBP members: Juliette Losq and Sally Taylor (Sally has been shortlisted on eight occasions and a prize-winner in 2014).

A fully illustrated catalogue will accompanying the exhibition alongside an education pack. A one-day Drawing Symposium as well as an Educator’s Evening will be held on Thursday 9 October 2025. Juliette Losq be delivering a talk and workshop as part of the Symposium.

Trinity Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Place, London E14 0JY

Opening and Prizegiving: Wednesday 8 October 2025

Exhibition dates: 9 October - 19 October 2025 (prior to UK tour) • Admission free

Cahoots

Cahoots is a group exhibition of painting that brings together alumni of the University of Brighton, artists connected to the Freelands Foundation, and others working within Brighton’s wider artistic community. Co-curated under the platform Lee Scully by artist Tabby Li and current Freelands Studio Fellow at the University of Brighton, Toby Rainbird, the exhibition celebrates the shared networks that underpin contemporary painting in Brighton and beyond.

Featuring small-scale works by fourteen artists, Cahoots offers a playful snapshot of contemporary approaches to painting, highlighting the fluidity of practice and the ways artists connect through parallel paths and divergent methods.

Artists: Kirsty Bell, Michael Clarence, Ben Coleman, Alex Crocker, Pippa El-Kadhi Brown, Grant Foster, Olivia Guillot, Daniel Pettitt, Toby Rainbird, Georgina Stone, Lydia Stonehouse, Rosie Tuff, Joshua Uvieghara, Henry Ward

Phoenix Art Space, Project Space, 10–14 Waterloo Place, Brighton BN2 9NB

Private view: Thursday 9 October, 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition dates: 8 - 19 October 2025

Opening times: Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 5pm • Admission free

Unsettled Grounds

A diverse, landscape based exhibition involving established and emerging artists: Alice Boot, Joe Cornish, Lucy Crouch, Kane Cunningham, Hannah Guy, Patti Lean, Debbie Loane, Molly Newham, Rebecca O'Hooley, Mandy Payne, Graham Williamson, Richard Wincer and Rachel Wood, working in a variety of media.

Old Parcels Office, Railway Station Car Park, Westborough, Scarborough YO11 1TU

Private view: Saturday 11 October, 2pm - 4pm

Exhibition dates: 11 October - 2 November 2025

Opening times: Thursday- Sunday 11am - 4pm • Admission free

Sean Williams: The Highlight of Our Journey, acrylic on board, 28cm x 23cm, 2025

Simulcast II

Hot on the heels of Simulcast I at Fronteer Gallery in Sheffield earlier this year comes Simulcast II at Gage Gallery, bringing together a second iteration of work from a group of contemporary artists based across the UK.

Participating artists: Emma Bennett, Karl Bielik, Stephen Carley, Nan Collantine, Andy Cropper, Loukas Georgiou, Bryan Eccleshall, Alison Edmonds, Ruth Glasheen, Rob Hall, Cynthia Harrison-Orr, Ruth Heaton, Catherine Higham, Jonathan Hooper, Kate Jacob, Helen Jones, Jack Kettlewell, Mikk Murray, David Orme, Bob Partridge, Georgia Peskett, Jenny Sutton, Helen Thomas, Dominic Vince, Katya Robin, Gary Simmonds, Kate Whateley, Sean Williams, Lynne Wixon. Curated by Ruth Heaton and Sean Williams.

Gage Gallery, Sheffield S3 8DB

Private view: 11 October, 4pm - 6pm

Exhibition dates: 11 - 18 October (closed 13)

Opening times: 12 - 4pm • Admission free

Please contact Sean Williams @swseanwilliams for further information

Enzo Marra: Birdwatcher, enamel paint hammerite nail varnish canvas, 21cm x 15cm, 2024

Cromer Open 2025

An exciting exhibition featuring work by national and international artists selected from the Cromer Open call for submissions 2025.

The exhibition itinerary includes CBP members: Enzo Marra and Katie Pratt.

Cromer Artspace on the Prom, West Promenade, Cromer NR27 9FA

Private view: Thursday 16 October, 5pm - 7pm

Exhibition dates: 15 October - 31 October 2025

Opening times: 11am – 4pm • Admission free

Day Bowman: Vertical Landscape 9, oil, charcoal and conte on canvas, 30cm x 25cm

The Dorset Open 2025

Dorset Visual Arts (DVA), in proud partnership with Dorset Museum & Art Gallery (DMAG), is delighted to launch a brand-new major open art competition - marking a landmark first collaboration between these two leading cultural institutions. The exhibition is being hosted by DMAG, produced by DVA with support from Dorchester Arts, Arts in Hospitals and Evolver Magazine. Includes work by CBP member Day Bowman.

Dorset Museum & Art Gallery, High West Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1XA

Private view: Friday 17 October, 5pm - 7pm

Exhibition dates: 18 October - 30 November 2025

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

Cunning Folk

The Old School Gallery presents Cunning Folk, a group exhibition co-curated with printmaker Stephen Fowler and illustrator Moira Frith.

Cunning Folk is an exploration of the witch archetype. The show features a collection of works by a group of artists who each interpret the theme in their own unique way, from historical and mythological perspectives to contemporary and abstract takes.

The exhibition invites viewers to consider the many facets of the witch, an ever-evolving figure in human culture. The works on display are inspired by a wide range of influences, including whimsical magic in popular culture, the dark history of the witch trials, and the ancient traditions of wise women and healers. Other pieces delve into the more abstract concepts of the unknown, the human relationship with nature, and the power of intuition.

Artists: Emma Carlow, Emma Crockatt, Marion Elliot, Desdemona McCannon, Ruby McCannon, Kevin Petrie, Mr Zeel, Lauren Drescher, Tessa Layzelle, Alex Sickling, Ruth Murray, Dale Maloney, Stephen Fowler, Hannah Dyson, Lynne Hepburn

The Old School Gallery, Foxton Road, Alnmouth NE66 3NH

Private view: Saturday 18 October, 6pm - 8pm - RSVP: [email protected]

Exhibition /dates: 16 October - 17 November 2025

Opening times: Mon to Sat 10am -1 5pm Sun 10:am - 4pm • Admission free

Juliette Losq: Kong, the Cave Serpent and Claude Glasses, ink and watercolur on paper, mounted on canvas

The Landscape Open

CBP member Juliette Losq will be exhibiting in the Landscape Open at Salisbury Museum, a new annual opportunity for artists working contemporaneously within the distinguished genre of landscape painting.

The exhibition contains a diverse range of landscapes in a multitude of styles and media, reflecting the multifaceted relationships artists have to place, and the range of talented artists working within the established genre.

80 artworks have been selected for the group exhibition from nearly 2,000 works that were submitted. The winning artist will be awarded £1,000, as well as a solo show at the Salisbury Museum.

The Salisbury Museum, The King's House, 65 The Close, Salisbury SP1 2EN

Exhibition dates: 18 October 2025 – 25 January 2026

Opening times: 7-days a week from 10am - 5pm.

Admission Prices: Family: £30.00 (2 adults and up to 4 children) Donation/Gift Aid* / £27.25 Standard Entry Adult: £12.00 Donation/Gift Aid* / £10.90 Standard Entry Child: (5 to 15 yrs) £6.00 Donation/Gift Aid* / £5.40 Standard Entry Under 5’s: FREE Museum Members: FREE – for details click here Adults with disabilities: £8.90 – carer has FREE entry. Children with disabilities have FREE entry.

Joanna Whittle: Hollow tree with stays, oil on panel, 10cm x 10cm, 2020 (Photo Credit, Will Roberts)

Miniature Worlds: Little Landscapes from Thomas Bewick to Beatrix Potter

Miniature Worlds: Little Landscapes from Thomas Bewick to Beatrix Potter explores the intricate beauty of small-scale landscapes across three centuries of British art. The exhibition has a particular focus on vignette format illustrations and the changing relationship between text, illustration, and publishing.

Highlights of the exhibition include seven highly detailed watercolours by JMW Turner, whose 250th birthday is being celebrated this year, a dramatic and diminutive drawing by John Martin, and nine intricate watercolours by Beatrix Potter. The exhibition includes over 130 objects, 90 of which are loans from other UK collections.

The exhibition features paintings and prints by artists including JMW Turner, Beatrix Potter, Thomas Bewick, William Blake, Agnes Miller Parker, Eric Ravilious, Joanna Whittle, and more.

Laing Art Gallery, New Bridge Street, Newcastle NE1 8AG

Exhibition dates: 18 October 2025 - 28 February 2026

Opening times: Monday - Saturday, 10am - 4.30pm Closed Sunday and Bank Holidays

Admission charges apply - please see website for details

Rogue Women 4

This October sees the return of Rogue Women after three previous successful exhibitions. Rogue Women 4 brings together the work of 40 women artists from Rogue Studios with a broad range of practices, exhibiting both nationally and internationally. The exhibition will showcase their talents alongside 10 selected guest artists from around the UK including CBP artist Alison Critchlow.

Throughout art history women have been largely invisible, ignored and excluded. Our aim is to place women in the spotlight, show solidarity and to continue to expand our connections with the wider community of women artists.

This year we are pleased to announce that Yvonne Hardman, head of collections and programs at Leeds Museums and Galleries will be helping us curate the show. Rogue Women is organised and co-curated by Jen Orpin and Margaret Cahill.

Rogue Artists’ Studios CIC, 2-6 Barrass Street, Openshaw, Manchester M11 1PU

Private view: 18 October, 2pm - 5pm

Exhibition dates: 18 October - 2 November 2025

Opening times: Saturdays and Sundays from 12 - 4pm and by appointment during the week.

Admission free

Lesley Bunch: Shadow Sculpture 6, oil on wooden panel, 40cm x 40cm, 2020

Flat Volume

A large group exhibition of 41 works from 38 artists, aimed at contextualising ‘Flat Volume’ within contemporary painting. The concept of ‘Flat Volume’ was influenced by Paul Nash’s ‘Equivalents for the Megaliths’ 1935 and Phyllida Barlow’s wealth of painted ‘coloured drawings’.

In a time where we can be increasingly consumed by screens, the remit of the show is to highlight and absorb the physical forms and objects we are surrounded by and therefore also highlighting our own relationships to our physical haptic environments; how we deal with the importance of ‘object-ness’ and questioning the values of form through painting.

Curated by Sarah Longworth-West • Essay by Nicholas Hatfull • Supported by Norwich University of the Arts

Artists: Larry Achiampong, Keith Ashcroft, Mohammed Qasim Ashfaq, Craig Barber, Phyllida Barlow, Desmond Brett, Lesley Bunch, Matthew Burrows MBE, Jennifer Caroline Campbell, Peter Chalmers, Louisa Chambers, Ben Cove, Stevie Dix, Michele Fletcher, Rebecca Foster-Clarke, Neil Gall, Lyndsey Gilmour, Kirsty Harris, Ian Hartshorne, Nicholas Hatfull, Celia Hempton, James Irwin, Ben Jamie, Yumi Katayama, Yun Kyung Jeong, Chloe Le Tissier, Sarah Longworth-West, Scott McCracken, Damien Meade, Fay Nicolson, Charley Peters, Sarah Poots, Lorna Robertson, Carl Rowe, Sarah Ryder, Alaena Turner, Ben Westoby, Mădălina Zaharia.

A.P.T. Gallery, Deptford, London SE8 4SA

Private view: Thursday 23 October, 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition dates: 23 October - 9 November 2025

Opening times: Thursday to Sunday 12 - 5pm • Admission free

Barbara Howey: Marsh-September, oil on board, 51cm x 41cm, 2024

CASS ART Prize

The competition aims to champion contemporary art from across the UK and the Republic of Ireland, with a prize awarded to the overall winner of the competition and additional prizes being awarded to runners up. The exhibition includes work by CBP member Barbara Howey.

Copeland Gallery, Unit 9, Copeland Park, 133 Copeland Rd, London SE15 3SN

Exhibition dates: 24 October - 1 November 2025 • Admission free

Mandy Payne: Ventilation Shafts At Golden Lane, Spray paint and oil on concrete, 30cm x 30cm

The Painted City

An exhibition of urban landscapes by Michelle Heron, Ryan Everson, Jen Orpin, Mandy Payne, and Andrew Torr.

In a world increasingly mediated by technology, where quick consumption and throwaway experiences are the norm, The Painted City brings together five painters who choose to slow down and look closely. Through direct observation and lived experience, they explore the urban environment as a space filled with memory, meaning, and emotional weight.

Each artist offers a grounded, intimate view of the built world. Their paintings draw attention to the quiet presence of shopfronts, rooftops, motorways, housing estates, and overlooked corners of the city. These are not imagined spaces, but real ones; seen, remembered, and reinterpreted through paint.

Well Hung Gallery, 239 Hoxton Street, London N1 5LG

Private view: Thursday 30 October, 6pm - 9pm

Exhibition dates: 31 October - 22 December 2025

Opening times: Tues - Fri: 10am - 5pm, Sat: 12 - 4pm. Sun & Mon: Closed.

Admission free

Continuing Two-person Exhibitions

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

Exhibition dates: 12 September 2025 - 3 January 2026

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

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

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

John Moores Painting Prize 2025

Showcasing the very latest in painting across the UK, the competition culminates in a major exhibition every two years in Liverpool.

The exhibition includes CBP members Joanna Whittle and 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

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

Exhibition dates: 20 September - 3 October 2025

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

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

Exhibition dates: 25 September - 31 October 2025

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

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: 26 September - 2 October 2025

Open 24 hours online.

Art on a Postcard Winter Auction

Art on a Postcard holds its final Annual Winter Auction for The Hepatitis C Trust. 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

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

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

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

Works from the 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

Exhibition dates: 27 September - 12 October 2025

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

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

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

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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