A dual-sited exhibition at Studio KIND. and The Plough Arts Centre 

by Contemporary British Painting members and guests

Saturday 13th July – Saturday 17th August 2024

Private view: Friday 12th July, 6-8pm at Studio KIND

Open: Wednesdays to Saturdays, 12-5pm

Marius’ painting Lovers will be exhibited at Studio KIND, Cultural Landscapes

In the 2019 book ‘Slow Painting’, Helen Westgeest considers the role of painting in a world fuelled by the digital, technological advancement, and information overload. Members of the renowned Contemporary British Painting group have been invited to respond to the following text, and The Plough Arts Centre and Studio KIND. have invited local artists to contribute, exploring why painting is as important as ever.  

‘The fleeting nature of digital mass media appears to have unlocked a desire for more physically stable and enduring pictures, like paintings. Slow Painting charts how, in a world where the constant quest for speed can leave us exhausted, the appeal of this ‘slower medium’ has only grown ...

Our culture today is marked by the ever-growing presence of images, and because their rate of circulation also keeps going up, we are increasingly discouraged from engaging in critical reflection on the individual image. By contrast, the world of painting represents a long tradition of works of art that stimulate contemplation on strategies in visual communication .....

Although quite a few art critics expected painting to disappear in the digital age—much in the same way as anticipated after the invention of photography—current developments in photography, video, and new media art indicate a revived interest in visual strategies developed in painting. Moreover, the fleeting images of digital mass media seem to have fostered a longing for physical and more stable pictures, such as paintings. And for the last several years, during which “ever faster” became harder to attain, we have been witnessing a growing interest in “slowness” of different kinds (e.g., slow food), as well as a desire for more reflection on all sorts of stimuli in our increasingly digital daily environment.’

Helen Westgeest, Slow Painting. 

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We will also be celebrating the life and work of Judith Tucker, the previous chair of CBP, who was instrumental in the organisation of the exhibition before her untimely death in 2023. In her work, Judith brought together personal memory, social history and geography through painting, drawing and writing.  

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The exhibition will be accompanied by a programme of events in collaboration with Barnstaple Museum, who will be showing ‘Turner in Barnstaple’ throughout summer. 

​The Plough Arts Centre will be hosting a special event on Saturday 13th July in the Gallery, where artists will give in-person introductions to their work. 

Many of the 50 artists will be travelling from all corners of the UK to join this special event, so it is a unique opportunity and not to be missed!

1 pm                  Opening talk and poetry reading by Harriet Tarlo, commemorating the life of Judith Tucker and her contribution to Contemporary British painting.

1.30 pm.             SLOW PAINTING: Surface Tension An introduction by the artists to works on display.

2.15 pm              Break - Refreshments will be available in the Foyer.

2.45 pm               SLOW PAINTING: Cultural Landscapes  Introductions from artists exhibiting in the gallery at Studio KIND.

4 pm - 5 pm        Feel free to ask questions and mingle in the gallery!

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“I hope that learning to accept complication will enhance our ability to empathize with the opposition’s point of view and lead to a willingness to accommodate for it. It is the walking back from extreme posturing and simple, quick outcomes that allows for a pathway to messy compromise. I am arguing for ending ‘winners and losers’ as the only acceptable outcome to all issues.” – Elaine Heumann

We live in an era where balance has come to represent a kind of utopia; an expression of the desire to find better circumstances for the broadest spectrum of the population. 

Political resistance has been driven towards opposite poles, reducing our nuanced idiosyncrasies, geographical conditions, diverse doctrines, and interests. Multipolar brings together artworks highlighting income inequality and social, political, and ecological emergencies.

Embracing openness, flexibility, and a humanistic conscience has the potential to bring about a more sustainable future where we can reconsider our relationship with the planet and each other, achieving empathy without having to share the same ways of thinking. 

Questioning the parameters on which our relationships with other individuals and communities have been founded could prove helpful for living in an uncertain future. Conversation and the ability to reconsider our assumptions will lead us away from linear and hierarchical world views.

Social conflicts such as racism, injustice, extractivist projects, and global warming are connected. Perhaps by first conceiving of ourselves as an endangered species, we can open up the possibility of ending the abusive systems against nature and each other. 

Kindness and generosity towards those with opposing views may serve as a powerful method of understanding our contemporary landscape and may provide the opportunity for us to embrace the beauty within the nuances and complexities of the everyday.

– Itzel Vargas Plata, Chief Curator at Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City

NADA is pleased to present Multipolar, an online exhibition curated by Itzel Vargas Plata, Chief Curator at Museo Universitario del Chopo.

The fifth edition of NADA Curated brings together 21 artists from NADA’s international community, now live on newartdealers.org through September 30th.

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“Multipolar brings together artworks highlighting income inequality and social, political, and ecological emergencies. Embracing openness, flexibility, and a humanistic conscience has the potential to bring about a more sustainable future where we can reconsider our relationship with the planet and each other, achieving empathy without having to share the same ways of thinking.” – excerpted from the curatorial statement by Itzel Vargas Plata.

Participants

Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa (Clages, Cologne); Marius von Brasch (Jenn Singer Gallery, New York); Okoye Chukwuemeka John (Mitochondria Gallery, Houston); Ariamna Contino (Nunu Fine Art, New York); Peter Gallo (Sean Horton (Presents), New York); Carol Greenan Bouyoucos, (Mount Kisco, New York); Alex Hernández-Dueñas (Nunu Fine Art, New York); Youki Hirakawa (Nagoya, Japan); Ann Lewis, Providence, RI; Michele Lorusso, Mexico City and Los Angeles, CA; Aly Ogasian and Shona Kitchen, Los Angeles, CA; Odeyemi Oluwaseun (Mitochondria Gallery, Houston); Natalie Ortiz, Brooklyn, NY; Paola Oxoa (MOTHER Gallery, Beacon); Cozette Russell, Lee, NH; Ashkan Sanei (O Gallery, Tehran); Zach Seeger, Long Island City, NY; Iván Sikic, New York, NY; Gustavo Villegas (The Ant Project, Miami); Ana Vizcarra Rankin, Wilmington, NC

Happy to be part of this!
Contemporary British Painting @paintbritain X

Announcing ‘X - Contemporary British Painting’, a special show at Newcastle Contemporary Art @visitnca marking our 10th year.

Curated by #NarbiPrice, it brings together the work of over 80 artists, exploring the huge range of possibilities of what painting can be.
 
For the first time, this free exhibition features all 6 previous winners of the Contemporary British Painting Prize, also showcasing former John Moores Painting Prize, BEEP Painting Biennale & other award holders.
 
Join us on Sat May 20th 7pm, as part of @thelateshows with DJ sets by @opaltapes founder Bishop & @maximoparkofficial frontman @thinkinginpictures.
 
X - Contemporary British Painting 
Newcastle Contemporary Art
High Bridge Works
31-39 High Bridge
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 1EW
Sat May 20th- Sat June 17th
Thurs - Sat, 12-5pm & by appointment

‘Jenn Singer is delighted to present Black Sun, Braided Time, the gallery’s first solo exhibition of paintings by German-born, UK-based painter Marius von Brasch.

The online exhibition features a collection of von Brasch's oil paintings and drawings on paper, which exude an energy that can only be compared to the dance of a blazing fire or the pressing storm surge of a turbulent ocean.

At first glance, the works seem abstract, but upon closer inspection, figures and structures emerge, and stories take shape. The exhibition showcases von Brasch's references to passages, transitions, and cathartic moments of change. These moments are rich with memories, intensities, and anticipations of what could be, with disintegration of stable constructions and other potentials. The works hold tensions of opposing forces, of loss, imagination, and hope; experiences that have become a heightened challenge for many in recent years.

In creating his work, Marius von Brasch takes inspiration from ancient mythic role models including Osiris, Orpheus, Persephone, and Psyche. These figures had to gain access to a region where they would lose their identity and power to the depth of the 'underworld' to retrieve a nurturing quality and knowledge that could be shared back in daylight on earth.

The black sun is an image for a necessary stage on the way to more consciousness and renewal of life energy, the blackening before the reddening or greening, which refers to new life in nature.’

To read more of the press release and see the show (from 3rd May ‘23) please use this link

The Waiting Place is a collaborative project and group exhibition curated by Ann-Marie James and Emily Godden. It combines mail art, a physical exhibition at The Art Station, an Instagram account and an online exhibition in a unique online environment.

It is a project about waiting, made during a global pandemic, at a time when we are all collectively waiting in so many ways. Waiting for things to get back to normal, for things to change completely, waiting for a cure, waiting to get sick, waiting to get better. Waiting for news from loved ones, and news from government. Waiting for test results, waiting to find work, and waiting in particularly long socially distanced queues at the supermarket.

A large group of artists and creative practitioners were each sent a letter of invitation to take part. Every contributor was provided with a postcard and on the back was an extract from a children’s book called Oh, the Places You’ll Go! by Dr Seuss. It describes the journey of life, and was the last book published by Dr Seuss during his lifetime.

The Waiting Place physical exhibition at The Art Station is open 12-7pm on Wednesdays and 12-5pm on Saturdays, or by appointment from Wednesday 19 May until Saturday 12 June 2021.

Entrance is free and via bookable tickets online. Bookings are limited to groups of 6 due to current Cover-19 restrictions.

Book your tickets here

The Waiting Place is commissioned by The Art Station and supported by Arts Council England.

Curated by Jo Hummel
Text by Marius von Brasch

Sara Dare
Jo Hummel
Freya Purdue
Hanna Ten Doornkaat
Marius von Brasch

Link to supporting text here

Preview: 6th December 2019 6 - 8 pm

Exhibition runs from 7 - 14 December 2019

Opening times:
Saturday 7 December 11-4pm
Sunday 8 December 11-4pm
And then by appointment until 14 December.
For appointments please email info@johummel.com or call 07533760716

Studio 2A, The Ark, Embankment Road, Bembridge, Isle of Wight, PO35 5NR

I’m very happy to host this exhibition of Ella Clocksin’s new series of paintings at my studio at Rookley Manor, Isle of Wight. I have always had a special connection to her work and feel that her new body of work, which relates to our visual, internal and existential connection with nature, makes an important contribution to what a lot of us think currently about.

The opening will be Sat 15th No 2019 6.30pm, Ella will talk about her work in discussion with myself. There will be something small to eat and drinks afterwards so as to make contact and spend some time together. Please let me know if you intend to come so that we can prepare refreshments; there will be a Facebook event later on where you can select ‘Going’ (link to follow).

She says about her new work: ‘Forests in myth and story are both frightening and exciting. It is all too easy to get lost in the woods. They are places of testing and transformation. Of being lost. And found.
The project site is the ancient tracts of Wytham Woods, dating from the last Ice Age. Wytham is a University of Oxford research centre for woodland eco-systems.
The project touches on the ways we exist alongside, but also as part of, our landscape. We are part of the ecology we inhabit.
And the paintings are notations of that experience - neurological and sensory, poetic and metaphoric - of being deep in the woods. The painting practice responds directly to a living ecology, as the external landscape intersects with the internal landscape.’

Ella Clocksin, an artist, writer and tutor, lives and works in Oxford.

Private View October 22nd 7-9pm

My next show of paintings and drawings at Yellow Edge Gallery, a new gallery opened by artist Steve Buggle in Gosport. I believe Steve’s gallery project, nurtured by his enthusiasm and knowledge, will become an important venue here in the South. Link to the gallery here.

My upcoming show is called Liminal. The paintings and drawings are mapping thresholds, which deal with dynamics of contemporary identity that concern the perception of reality, the filters of associations, affects and memories, personal and impersonal. Continuously in motion, perceptions shape and shift the borders of identity and spread directly into the networks of society. While seemingly building stable images, they reflect the self between imagination and observation, between various screens and forces outside and inside. 

'Made in Britain' will run from the 14th March to 2nd June 2019. The opening reception is on the 14th March at 6pm. Talks and exchanges with the Gdansk Academy of Fine Arts are also planned for the 15th and 16th March and there will be a finishing event on the 2nd June.

The show itself will take place over three floors at The Green Gate, which is one of the main tourist attractions situated in the heart of this beautiful fairy-tale city. 

Marius von Brasch and Freya Purdue

New paintings and drawings

14 to 31 March 2019

Private View Thursday 14 March 2019 from 6pm to 8pm

Talk Saturday 23 March 2019 2pm

Open Thursday to Sunday from 12noon to 5pm

According to Ian Buchanan in a recent text, there is a move in the current mode of appreciation of art toward the small screen of mobiles and other electronic devices, which provide a somehow perfect and self-reflective antidote for boredom.

Von Brasch and Purdue propose their visuals - in the face of the ‘new’, the fleeting mass commodity - as possible anchors for absorption, contemplation and non-expectation in the anonymity of the gallery.

Both artists contextualise their works with aspects of ancient and modern painting, symbolism and alchemical influences, so as to weave historical strands dealing with a similar interest in the dynamics of contemporary Becoming.

A catalogue will be available with an introduction written by artist and writer Ella Clocksin.
There will be talk by Freya and Marius about the works and the ideas behind on
Saturday 23 March 2pm, Ella will facilitate this talk.