CBP Newsletter: November 2025

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Welcome to the November 2025 newsletter

Artist of the month

Daniel H Bell

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

Daniel H Bell’s paintings are based on the physicality of humans and other animals. The ambiguous figures that appear in them stem from various personal encounters at home and out in nature. Bell works intuitively, embracing accidents, forging juxtapositions through a mixture of realism, caricature and abstraction.

He pushes together a mixture of substances (acrylic, oil, varnishes, gels) and uses the unpredictability of their interactions to help direct the work. The imagery that Bell creates usually veers toward the recognisable forms of human faces, native wildlife and anything that his subconscious drags up in between. There is always the presence of death and decay, with the fractured, metamorphic quality of his paintings hinting at environmental destruction as much as uncanny horror.

Daniel was awarded the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2024.

Read the interview

Spider, acrylic, oil and varnish on wooden panel, 22cm x 18cm, 2025

CBP Exhibitions

& Still Different Worlds, installation view, works by Kirsty Harris, Michael Gurhy & Paula MacArthur

& Still Different Worlds:

Exhibition and talk by Jennifer Higgie

Jennifer Higgie leads exhibiting artists in a conversation on their work and the themes of the exhibition, inspired by Jennifer Higgie's book, The Other Side.

Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer who lives in London. Her book The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World provided inspiration for the exhibition which explores ideas of the invisible, intangible and ephemeral.

& Still Different Worlds is a group exhibition featuring seven artists working in the UK today, inspired by the words of David Lynch: 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

Something is pressing up from beneath. The surfaces hold back histories and myths; they do not feel like fixed boundaries but rather, thresholds. The artworks share a preoccupation with forces that exceed our control: erosion, detonation, evaporation, spectral return, decomposition, ecological fragility or blinding light. Considering painting 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
Talk: Sunday 2 November, 12 - 2pm *free, booking required via Eventbrite
Exhibition continues to 2 November 2025
Finissage: 2 November, 2pm - 4pm
Opening times: 12 - 5pm, Thursday - Sunday • Admission free

Graham Crowley: Orford Ness, Study 1, 2019, Oil on pegboard, 23 x 18cm

Unquiet Landscapes

Unquiet Landscapes is a collaboration between Contemporary British Painting and Yorkshire Artspace, curated by Joanna Whittle.

“The land will entrance us and in the end bury us, with impartiality. If it seems to have great beauty, that is because of what we are, not because of what it is… The unquiet country is you.” - Christopher Neve, Unquiet Landscape : places and ideas in twentieth-century English painting (1990).

Neve’s influential book 'Unquiet Landscape' provides the starting point for a conversation between artists working with landscape today, and those featured in Neve’s text, many of whom had experienced the trauma of war. Their themes and translation of the experience of landscape being as relevant now as they were then; seeking solace in the natural world and the picturesque is tempered by reality, mortality and fragility, as well as hope. The exhibition takes us on a journey into landscapes that are both real and imagined, psychological and metaphorical, opening up a terrain that reflects our relationship with the landscape today.

“It represents an endeavour not only to explore this continuing dialogue between painting and the landscape; how it inhabits us and our reflections of the world in uncertain and wounded times; but also to expand this dialogue between CBP and the wider discourse of painting and other artforms. The works included represent this wild and roaming landscape always changing and yet always somehow unquietly familiar in our minds.” Joanna Whittle

Artists: Susan Absolon, David Ainley, Jonathan Alibone, Iain Andrews, Amanda Ansell, Richard Bartle, Emma Bennett, Simon Carter, Graham Crowley, Angelina May Davis, Al Daw, Natalie Dowse, Thomas D Fowler, Sarah Grant, Heavy Water, Barbara Howey, Linda Ingham, Lisa Ivory, Christopher Jarrett, Anita Lloyd, Paula MacArthur, Nicholas Middleton, Christopher Neve, Paul Newman, David Orme, Mandy Payne, Julian Perry, Georgia Peskett, Chantal Powell, Narbi Price, James Quin, Conor Rogers, George Shaw, Judith Tucker, Simon Tupper, Jan Valick, Joanna Whittle and Sean Williams.

Yorkshire Artspace, Persistence Works, 21 Brown Street, Sheffield S1 2BS

Private view: 4 December, 5pm - 8pm

Walk & Talk: Thursday 4 December 3pm - 5pm

Finnisgae: Saturday 24th January, 2pm - 4pm

Exhibition Dates: 5 December 2025 - 24 January 2026

Opening times: Thursday - Saturday, 12 - 5pm (Christmas closures 24 Dec - 2 Jan)

Admission free

CBP New Members

We we are excited to announce our new members:

Alison Critchlow, Liz Elton, John Greenwood, Ellen Ranson, Sophia Rosenthal, Sol Golden Sato, Hideatsu Shiba, Paul Smith, Emma Tod and Joshua Uvieghara.

Group Exhibitions

Susie Hamilton: If I only could I’d make a deal with God 1/2

Sound and Vision

War Child presents ‘Sound and Vision’: Running up that Hill, 52 artists curated by Art on a Postcard. Auction of work in aid of War Child. Includes work by CBP member Susie Hamilton.

Iconic Images, 16 Waterloo Place, London SW1Y 4AR

Exhibition dates: 28 October - 13 November 2025

Opening times: 11am - 7pm Mon-Sat • Admission free

Lesley Bunch: Shadow Sculpture 38, oil on aluminium, 40cm x 40cm, 2025

Flex and Fluff

TwoPlusTwo is pleased to announce 'Flex & Fluff', curated by Linda Khatri and Sam Haynes, showcasing emerging and established artists working across a wide range of media within their practices. The exhibition presents an opportunity to engage with the interplay of distinct creative approaches that balance structural tension and delicate playfulness through painting, sculpture, collage, textiles and photography.

Artists: Adam Dix, Belinda Worsley, Caroline McCambridge, Edy Ferguson, Elfyn Lewis, Fiona Grady, Guy Shoham, Hanna ten Doornkaat, Dr Karen David, Kate Bland, Lesley Bunch, Linda Khatri, Lindsay Mapes, Meg Shirayama, Mingzhang Sun, Remi Rough, Sam Haynes, Sandra Beccarelli, Sasha Bowles, Simon Leahy Clark, Stephen Jaques.

ACME Glassyard Studios, 276 Oak Square, Stockwell, London SW9 9AW

Private view: Wednesday 5 November, 6pm - 9pm

Exhibition dates: 6 - 30 November 2025

Opening times: By appointment only: contact @twoplustwo202 • Admission free

Day Bowman: Study 2 Marking Out the Boundaries, oil, charcoal and conte on canvas, 30cm x 35cm, 2024

Soho Open

Soho Housing Association was founded in 1974, its mission to provide affordable housing in central London. 36 Great Pulteney Street has a particular place in their history, being on of the first buildings purchased ass a house provider.

The inaugural Soho Open has no set theme, the selection panel - featuring Paul Carey-Kent, Frances Richardson, Mervyn Metcalf, Monika Bobinska, and Shanti Panchal - have selected up to 100 outstanding works for a dedicated exhibition at Great Pulteney. Includes work by CBP member Day Bowman.

GPS Gallery, 36 Great Pulteney Street, London W1F 9NS

Exhibition dates: 5 November - 23 November 2025

Opening times: Mon - Sat: 11am - 5pm • Admission free

Lesley Bunch: Shadow Sculpture 32, oil on aluminium, 60cm x 50cm, 2025

The London Group Open 2025

The London Group was set up in 1913 by thirty two artists including Walter Sickert, Jacob Epstein, Wyndham Lewis, David Bomberg and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, with the aim of creating a powerful artist-run group to act as a counter-balance to institutions such as the Royal Academy.

113 years on the group continues its work as a platform for contemporary artists. In their 86th Open exhibition The London Group represents a unique opportunity for non-members to exhibit among current members of the collective.

The exhibition includes CBP members Lesley Bunch, Day Bowman and Roland Hicks.

Copeland Gallery, Copeland Park, 133 Rye Lane, Peckham, London SE15 4ST

Private view: 7 November, 6pm - 9pm

Exhibition dates: 8 - 23 November 2025

Opening times: 11am - 5pm daily, with late opening Thursday and Friday until 7pm

Admission free • Website

Roland Hicks: Some Two-Bit Sculptures On A Two-Bit Shelf, acrylic gouache on MDF, coloured paper, cocktail sticks, 2024

Susie Hamilton: Gawain 4

Drawing a Line under Torture

Paul Stolper Gallery has donated Susie Hamilton's painting 'Gawain 4' to this auction/exhibition in aid of Freedom From Torture.

Sotheby’s, 34 New Bond Street, London W1S 2RT

Exhibition date: 10 November 2025

Opening times: 6.30pm - 9pm

Admission free but please reserve a place: Website

Image: Reflections on the Aire – on strike [detail], 1879 by John Atkinson Grimshaw. © Leeds Museums & Galleries, acquired through the Patricia Hurst bequest (Leeds Art Fund)

Don't Let's Ask for the Moon... Nocturnes and Atkinson Grimshaw

John Atkinson Grimshaw's Moonlights from the 1880s brought the Leeds artist success and recognition, even from the crusading modernist American artist James McNeill Whistler.

This new exhibition brings together Leeds Art Gallery’s impressive collection of nocturnal pictures by the celebrated artist, including the latest acquisition Reflections on the Aire - on strike (1879) - likely to be one of the first paintings depicting the consequences of industrial action.

The show aims to shift our perceptions from Atkinson Grimshaw as a painter of place, providing a window of nostalgia onto a Victorian world. Alongside evocative images of nocturnal themes by four contemporary painters - Elizabeth Magill, Selma Makela, Judith Tucker and Joanna Whittle - and neon and photographic works by Roger Palmer, Atkinson Grimshaw can be seen here as a painter of modernity, possessed of a powerful poetry.

Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AA

Exhibition dates: 14 November 2025 - 19 April 2026

Opening times: Monday: Closed Tuesday - Saturday: 10am - 5pm (note: Upper galleries close from 4pm on Saturdays) Sunday: 11am - 3pm • Admission free

Mandy Payne: Much Loved, Much Missed, spray paint and oil on concrete, 20cm x 20cm, 2025

ING DISCERNING EYE

Annual open call exhibition featuring 735 works by 529 artists (including CBP member Mandy Payne) selected by Richard Ansett, Curtis Holder, Rosie Millard, Polly Morgan, Nicholas Scott, Dr Chris Stephens.

MALL GALLERIES, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AS

Exhibition dates: 14 November - 23 November 2025

Opening times: Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm. Sunday 10am - 1pm. • Admission free

Enzo Marra: Sunshine, nail varnish on wood, 9.5cm x 5cm x 1cm, 2025

The Stolen Orange

The Stolen Orange brings together a multitude of painters, sculptors, writers, poets. Makers of all stripes responding to Brian Patten’s poem of the same name. The exhibition includes CBP members: Daniel H Bell, Deb Covell, Enzo Marra, Geraldine Swayne, Gordon Dalton, Paula MacArthur, Paul Smith, Susie Hamilton.

The Stolen Orange is a collaboration between Sarah Shaw and Hal Maughan.

Bond Street Gallery, 4 Bond Street Cottages, Bond Street, Brighton BN1 1RP

Exhibition dates: 15 November - 14 December 2025

Opening times: Mon to Sunday 11am - 6pm • Admission free

The Fry Art Gallery Annual Sale

CBP member Ruth Philo is showing two paintings in Annual Picture Sale at the Fry Gallery as a gallery fundraiser.

Fry Art Gallery, 19a Castle Street, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1BD

Exhibition dates: 15 - 16 November 2025

Opening times: 12 - 4pm • Admission free

Truth or Lies

How does the concept of truth and lies fit with making art?

Does art and creativity depend on the viewer/ consumer for their truth and is that a necessary form of transformation?

Is truth then flexible and can something both be true and a lie, but does lying need intention and is context important?

Does art live in the space between truth and lies and in doing so is it “artful”? Is it illusion, magic?

We offer no answers but simply hope to spark thought.

Artists: Diane Gerrard, Gabriella Hall, Ann Hulland, Fiona Masterton, Valerie Merlo, Rachel Pearcey, Paul Scully, Paul Smith.

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

Private view: 20 November, 6pm - 9pm

Exhibition dates: 21 November - 2 December 2025

Admission free

Small is Beautiful

Flowers Gallery is pleased to present the 43rd edition of the renowned Small is Beautiful exhibition, taking place at their Cork Street galleries and online. Established in 1974, Small is Beautiful invites selected contemporary artists from all disciplines to contribute works with a fixed economy of size, each piece measuring no more than 7 x 9 inches.

Small is Beautiful will feature approximately 140 artists and includes the work of CBP member Susan Absolon.

Flowers Gallery, 21 Cork Street, London W1S 3LZ

Private view: 20 November, 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition dates: 21 November 2025 - 3 January 2026

Opening times: Monday - Saturday 11am - 6pm • Admission free

The Pearls at The Manchester Contemporary

The Pearls are a collective of twenty women painters from across the North of England. Brought together through a shared commitment and interest in the critical discourse in contemporary painting.

Formed through dialogue and mutual support, the group reflects the vitality of women’s painting in the North today: intellectually alert, emotionally resonant, and rooted in lived experience. Each artist brings an individual visual vocabulary of mark, colour, and form, yet their works and experiences speak to one another - quietly and powerfully - about connection, visibility, and endurance.

Exhibiting together at The Manchester Contemporary for the first time, The Pearls present painting as a site of inquiry and solidarity: a space where thought, feeling, and form coalesce, and where collective presence amplifies individual voice in contemporary painting.

Artists: Jayne Simpson, Fiona Stirling, Nancy Collantine, Susan Gunn, Julie Mayer, Roberta Cialfi, Heather Ross, Sarah Grant, Sarah Feimann, Jen Orpin, Joanna Whittle, Hannah Wooll, Lela Harris, Kate Jacob, Ruth Murray, Katie Tomlinson, Ingrid Christie, Matilda Wainwright, Alison Critchlow, Helen Thomas.

The Manchester Contemporary, Manchester Central, Petersfield, Manchester M2 3GX

Private view: 21 November, 5pm - 9pm

Exhibition dates: 21 - 25 November 2025

Opening times: Friday 5pm - 9pm Saturday 10am - 6pm Sunday 10am - 4pm

Advance Ticket Prices: Preview Evening £25+ booking fee. Valid for entry Fri-Sun. Single Day Pass £12+ booking fee. Valid for entry Sat or Sun Two Day Pass £15 + booking fee. Valid for entry on Sat & Sun • Website

Rain and Mud after the Battle Christopher Richard Nevinson (1889–1946) & item from the metalwork collection, both Copyright Sheffield Museums

Gathering Landscapes
150 Years of Collecting at Weston Park Museum

Sheffield’s vast and eclectic museum collections show how humans have gathered and treasured pieces of the world around them. Over 150 years Weston Park Museum has been home to the curious and the beautiful, macabre and magical. In this exhibition, the Heavy Water Collective (artists Maud Haya-Baviera, Victoria Lucas and Joanna Whittle) present a response to this treasure-trove of objects. They explore human connections to the land through a creative gathering of artwork, artefacts and archival material.

Humanity has long sought to make sense of the natural world through art, ritual and the act of collecting. Science, industry and farming have transformed our relationship with the land, with nature and culture often in opposition. Once a sacred place, this landscape is now a lucrative natural resource. Yet humans’ spiritual connection to the land remains. Heavy Water Collective have selected items to make connections which resist ideas of nature as static and separate. Instead, they highlight ritual and meaning, exploitation and loss, hope and resilience. Heavy Water Collective’s artworks appear across the displays.

Weston Park Museum, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TP

Exhibition dates: 28 November 2025 – 2 November 2026

Opening times: Tue – Sat 10am – 4pm | Sun 11am – 4pm. Closed Mondays including Bank Holidays. *Please note: Weston Park Museum will be closed on Tue 11 Nov for staff training.

Admission free

Continuing Solo Exhibitions

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

Exhibition dates: 8 October - 1 November 2025

Opening times: Mon-Sat 10am - 6pm • 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

Continuing Group Exhibitions

Into the Fold

'Into the Fold' draws on the powerful symbolism of the folded letter and the layered history of place.

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

Exhibition dates: 1 October 2025 - 1 January 2026

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

Watercolour Now

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

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, 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)

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: Thurs- Sun 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

Exhibition dates: 18 October - 30 November 2025

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

Cunning Folk

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.

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

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 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.

Standard Entry Adult: £12.00. 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.

Miniature Worlds: Little Landscapes from Thomas Bewick to Beatrix Potter

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 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

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.

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

Exhibition dates: 18 October - 2 November 2025

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

Flat Volume

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

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’.

Includes CBP Artists: Keith Ashcroft, Lesley Bunch and Kirsty Harris.

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

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

The Painted City

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

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.

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

Exhibition dates: 31 October - 22 December 2025

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

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: Tues - Sun 10.00 - 5.00 • 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

Alison J Carr: The In Between (Grace), watercolour, 25cm x 18cm, 2025

Adorned in Dreams

For November, the Prosaic 025Projects Gallery will host Adorned in Dreams, a micro exhibition by Alison J Carr curated by Sean Williams. In the show Carr presents drawings from three series: Crown / Halo, Spirit of a Muse, and The In Between - that explore self-image, transformation, and feminine display. Using her own body as both subject and symbol, Carr renders herself in moments of reflection, poise, and performance. Across these works, she adorns, transforms, and abstracts the figure-tracing stills from her own dance videos, reimagining the chorus girl as contemporary stripper, and positioning herself within sacred geometries of gold. Carr’ s practice reclaims the glamour of performance as a space of self-actualisation and intimacy.

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

Exhibition dates: 5 November - 10 December 2025

Please contact Sean Williams @swseanwilliams to arrange a viewing.

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