Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025

17 June - 17 August 2025

Main Galleries | Burlington House

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VESTIGIA (TRIPTYCH) and MATIÈRE ET MÉMOIRE have been selected for the RA Summer Show - many thanks to the selection panel. The show is on from 17 Jun to 17 August, and this year's theme is "Dialogues": A message from Farshid Moussavi OBE RA:

“The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025 will be dedicated to art’s capacity to forge dialogues and to afford us sensitivity towards societal concerns, such as ecology, survival and living together. These dialogues can be between people of different races, genders, or cultures; between humans, all species, and the planet; or across different disciplines - art, science, politics, for example. Artists and architects working with different media are invited to submit works that propose what we can connect to and with whom. We invite you to share ideas, objects and ways of working that matter to our common world. Dialogues in any form are welcome, whether they emerge through the artistic process or are found within the content of the work, and will underpin the curatorial approach”.

Held every year without interruption since 1769, the Summer Exhibition showcases a diverse array of contemporary works, including prints, paintings, films, photography, sculpture, and architectural works. It features a mix of art by household names and emerging talent.

Many works will be available to buy and sales will directly support the exhibiting artists and the RA’s charitable work, including training the next generation of artists at the Royal Academy Schools.

New exhibition showcases stories of Exeter’s paper making heritage

Photo Credit: Jim Wileman

Paper and Print: Exploring the history of paper making in Exeter

Saturday 8 to Saturday 15 February, Positive Light Projects, 184-187 Sidwell St, Exeter EX4 6RD

A sculptural paper installation and a fictional sound story are helping to reveal the tales behind Exeter’s paper making past.

Double Elephant Print Workshop will be showcasing the fascinating discoveries made during Paper and Print – a year-long community research project into Exeter’s paper mills. The exhibition is the culmination of the project which has been run by Double Elephant in partnership with Prof Nicola Thomas, Head of Geography at the University of Exeter, and funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Working with a team of volunteer community researchers, they have pieced together stories of the people working in the mills.

A team of 15 researchers visited former mill sites in Exeter and along the Exe and Culm rivers. They talked to residents, descendants of mill owners and former paper mill workers. They collected memories, oral histories and undertook archive research in the Devon Heritage Centre, Exeter Cathedral Library & Archives and The Devon and Exeter Institution.

The stories the uncovered include:

15 year old Susan Johns was badly injured at Countess Wear paper mill in 1865. She lost an arm, and newspaper records show that Topsham timber merchant John Follett led a national campaign to raise money for her. 

George West was born in 1823. He learned his papermaking skills at Bradninch, and then went to the USA where he became known as The Paper Bag King. He was a pioneering papermaker, wealthy businessman and owner of many paper mills. In middle age, he moved into politics and served two terms in the US Congress.

Rodney Coffin has been a Countess Wear resident for 40 years. He lives next to the old mill building, and described how the leat has changed over the years – from teaming with fish and wildlife to an overgrown dried water channel.

The research also uncovered stories of child apprentices learning their trade, the journeying paper-makers travelling between mills, the workers who lost their lives in mill fires, the rag pickers living in the west quarter of Exeter, and those who came to Exeter from India to learn the trade. This evidence of the people who worked in the mills is part of the less visible history of Exeter’s paper industry. 

As part of the project, local families and schools took part in papermaking workshops and events. To deliver the sessions, Double Elephant partnered with Devon Wildlife Trust, who now manage some of the former mill sites.

Two new artworks were commissioned in response to the research:

Vestigia is a composite installation created with paper embossed linocuts by Juliette Losq. The title comes from the Latin for “footprints or traces”, and is intended to suggest the way in which we now encounter the buildings and defunct machinery that once comprised Exeter’s paper mills. Many of these structures are hidden and may be discovered along walking routes once trodden by former mill workers.

Exhibition details

Exhibition title: Paper and Print: Exploring the history of papermaking in Exeter
Dates: Saturday 8 – Saturday 15 February 2025, 11 – 3pm daily 
(closed Mon 10 Feb)
Venue: Positive Light Projects, 184-187 Sidwell St, Exeter EX4 6RD

Paper Heron: a listening event + artist Q&A
Friday 7 February 2025 at Positive Light Projects
7 – 8pm, ticketed event, £5
More details and book your tickets here or via Double Elephant website.

Courtesy of Gillian Taylor PR https://gilliantaylorpr.com/2025/01/23/new-exhibition-showcases-stories-of-exeters-paper-making-heritage/

Currently Exhibiting in RWA Biennial Open 2025: Paper Works

25 Jan – 27 Apr 2025

Venue

RWA, Queen's Road, Bristol

Date

25 Jan – 27 Apr 2025

RWA Biennial Open 2025: Paper Works

Paper Works, the RWA’s Biennial exhibition opening in January,  is all about paper. Selected from an open submission it celebrates paper as a surface for drawing and printmaking and as a sculptural material. Paper is the star of the show revealing itself in many different guises. Hand made paper, different types of Japanese tissue, papier maché, and paper pulp are just some of the materials being used to create drawings paintings sculpture and architectural models. It is manipulated, burnt, cast, folded, walked on and torn. It is used for collage and all types of printmaking from lino to collograph, lithography, etching and woodcut.

The work in the exhibition ranges from powerful visceral charcoal drawings to hangings so delicate as they move in the still air that it almost seems as if they do not exist. There are tiny intimate paintings, exquisite fine line drawings on costly cotton rag paper and expressive vibrant works on packaging cardboard and paper animal feed sacks. If you love paper you will love this show and if you don’t know anything about it come with the RWA on a voyage of discovery. 

'Pictograph' acquired by Southampton City Art Gallery

Southampton City Art Gallery unveils latest donations

Southampton City Art Gallery is displaying a selection of works that have been generously gifted to the Gallery this year

They will become part of the current 'Renaissance to the Present Day' exhibition which shows highlights from the Gallery’s nationally significant collection.

The new, donated acquisitions include:

  • 'Pillbox with Incoming Tide I', 2021, by Julian Perry, which has been gifted by an anonymous donor. In 2022 the City Art Gallery presented a major exhibition of Perry’s work: 'There Rolls the Deep' supported by selected works from Southampton’s collection

  • A series of 'Meteorite Landings' by the Turner-Prize nominated Cornelia Parker, made by heating a 400-year-old iron meteorite until glowing hot and then using it to burn maps of different locations. Commissioned by the Multiple Store, the works were donated by Nicholas Sharp

  • A painting by British artist Juliette Losq and etchings by Sudanese artist, Ibrahim El-Salahi, donated by long-time supporter of the Gallery, Louise Hallett

Councillor Lorna Fielker, Leader of Southampton City Council said: "I am very excited by the latest unveiling of works at Southampton City Art Gallery and incredibly grateful to the generous donors. Art brings people together and it plays a huge role in people’s mental well-being and education. Our gallery puts Southampton on the map and is instrumental in our city’s culture."

Southampton City Art Gallery has an internationally renowned fine art collection spanning eight centuries. These latest acquisitions will add to the Gallery’s contemporary holdings, which include over 30 Turner Prize artists.

Paper & Print Commission, Double Elephant Print Workshop

I’m Excited to begin working on the Paper & Print Commission with Double Elephant Print Workshop. The commi ssion is intended for an artist or collective to create new work that creatively responds to the history of Exeter’s papermills through the research gathered during their 12-month Heritage Lottery funded project, Paper & Print. I will be exploring the project through the theme of the papermaking landscape, reinterpreting fragments of the milling process which have been left as traces within this. I hope to develop my printmaking skills by applying processes new to my work as well as further exploring the possibilities of creating paper sculptures using lamination and forming processes.

Stephen Herbert Award - Bill Douglas Cinema Museum

I’m thrilled to have been awarded the Stephen Herbert Award to carry out research at the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum. My research will focus on raree shows and peepshows. I will look at objects including telescopic and perspective views, and the Replica nineteenth century travelling peepshow: Sergeant Bell's royal raree show. I plan to use this research to inspire one or more new installations.

We are very pleased to announce The Stephen Herbert Award, which will enable a researcher to come to the museum to consult our early cinema or optical media holdings. The award is named after the much loved and hugely influential film historian Stephen Herbert, who very sadly died last year. The award has been kindly gifted to us in Stephen’s name by his partner Mo Heard and we welcome applications that focus on the areas that particularly excited Stephen; the optical media that preceded cinema, such as magic lanterns, illusions, stereoscopes, and animated toys, and the first couple of decades of cinema history in the 1890s and early twentieth century. Material collected by Stephen has been donated to the museum recently, such as his work on magic mirrors and the pioneer Wordsworth Donisthorpe. Applicants could consult these items, or any of the other extensive holdings at the museum from a variety of donors on moving images from the 17th century up to around 1918. Go to www.bdcmuseum.org.uk for more information on our collections.

RSA 198th Annual Exhibition

I am delighted to have a drawing included in the 198th Annual Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition at :

The Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture

The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL

Until 6th June, 2024.

The largest and longest-running annual exhibition of contemporary art and architecture in Scotland.

RSA Upper and Lower Galleries

Free entry 

Open Mon to Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12-5pm

 The RSA Annual Exhibition is the prestigious highlight of our year-round exhibition programme and represents our commitment to supporting excellence in the visual arts in Scotland. Available to view both entirely online and in the magnificent surroundings of the Playfair-designed galleries at the Royal Scottish Academy, the exhibition is the best opportunity to view and purchase works across the breadth of contemporary art in Scotland.

 Now in its 198th year, the RSA Annual Exhibition provides a platform for contemporary painting, sculpture, film, printmaking, photography and installation, alongside work by some of the country’s leading architects. This year’s Convenor is Wendy McMurdo RSA, assisted by Deputy Convenor Jude Barber RSA (Elect).

Assembly at Rye Creative Centre

Assembly is a compelling & timely exhibition curated to reflect a new geography of contemporary art practice as artists shift their focus away from the capital. Members of the artist-led group Contemporary British Painting come together from across the UK & Ireland with invited artists from Rye & the surrounding counties. Rye is uniquely situated at the mid-point of the creative artery that extends along the South Coast from Brighton to Margate linking important public art institutions, independent, & artist-led venues. Assembly creates a platform for engagement & dialogue with an exciting range of artists whose energy, & significant & diverse histories of making, animate this exhibition.

Exhibition dates: 3 -18 May 2024

The Old Gym, Rye Creative Centre, New Rd, Rye TN31 7LS

Preview: Friday 3rd May, 6 pm – 8pm – all welcome

Artist talks: Saturday 4th and 18th May, 3pm – 5pm

Exhibition continues: Thursday – Sunday 10am-5pm and by appointment

email: assembly.rye@gmail.com

Online sales gallery

Exhibitors:

Susan Absolon, David Ainley, Hermione Allsopp, Iain Andrews, Amanda Ansell, Tom Banks, Karl Bielik, Claudia Böse, Day Bowman, Marius von Brasch, Julian Brown, Lesley Bunch, Matthew Burrows, Ruth Calland, Simon Carter, Jules Clarke, Susan Collis, Deb Covell, Lucy Cox, Gordon Dalton, Pen Dalton, Angelina Davis, Jeff Dellow, Lisa Denyer, Natalie Dowse, Rowena Easton, Nathan Eastwood, Geraint Evans, Rosalind Faram, The Baron Gilvan, Luke Gottelier, Susan Gunn, Susie Hamilton, Alex Hanna, Marcus Harvey, Jeb Haward, Vincent Hawkins, Roland Hicks, Suzanne Holtom, Marguerite Horner, Dan Howard-Birt, Barbara Howey, Phil Illingworth, Linda Ingham, Rich Jellyman, Patrick Jones, Peter Jones, Ansel Krut, Bryan Lavelle, Andrew Litten, David Lock, Juliette Losq, Paula MacArthur, David Manley, Enzo Marra, Gavin Maughfling, Donna Mclean, Monica Metsers, Nicholas Middleton, Ruth Murray, Paul Newman, Sikelela Owen, Nicholas Pace, Kim L Pace, Joe Packer, Eugene Palmer, Stephen Palmer, Aimée Parrott, Mandy Payne, Barbara Peirson, Ruth Philo, Alison Pilkington, Danny Pockets, Narbi Price, Freya Purdue, Alessandro Raho, Richard Mark Rawlins Tobit Roche, Greg Rook, Katherine Russell, Boo Saville, Maggie Scott, Claire Shoosmith, Stephen Snoddy, David Sullivan, Geraldine Swayne, Harvey Taylor, Sally Taylor, Molly Thomson, Ehryn Torrell, Casper White, Joanna Whittle, Sean Williams, Sharon Wylde, Caroline Yates.


The Art of Nature, Ham House, Richmond

The Art Of Nature at Ham House and Garden    

10-18 February

Over the centuries, the family at Ham House were keen supporters of artists, including John Constable.

In that tradition, we have invited artists from Surrey and South West London to share their interpretation of 'The Art of Nature'.

Join us this half-term to see works by artists inside the house (open 12-4) and outside in the garden (open 10-4). 

Ham House and Garden, Ham Street. Richmond TW10 7RS

White Condiut Projects - 'An eXhibition of SMALL things with BIG ideas' 2 Dec - 27 Jan 2024 Opening: 1 Dec 5:30 - 9 pm

Greatness can be found in smallness and variations in scale can signify symbolic transformations. 'An eXhibition of SMALL things with BIG ideas' exploits the potential of small scale objects to carry big thoughts that surprise, provoke, hold our attention and make intimate relations to viewers. We are inviting a selected group of contemporary artists working in all media.Curated by Paul Carey-Kent and Yuki Miyake

Abi Freckleton, Adam Dix, Broughton & Birnie, Alice Herrick, Caroline Jane Harris, Charley Peters, Covadonga Valdes, Claudia Carr, Carali McCall, Daniel Rey, Danny Rolph, David Blamey, Dien Berziga, Dillwyn Smith, DJ Roberts, Dominic Beattie, Dunhill and O'Brien, Elena Gileva, Emma Cousin, Enrico Isamu Oyama, Fabio Almeida, Henrietta MacPhee, Hester Finch, Hugh Mendes, Inagaki, Januario Jano, Jost Münster, Julie Cockburn, Juliette Losq, Jyll Bradley, Katrina Blannin, Lana Locke, Laurence Noga, Leonor Antunes, Lisa Pettibone, Marcelle Hanselaar, Marguerite Horner, Miroslav Pomichal, Nao Matsunaga, Nina Gonzalez-Park, Rachel Whiteread, Risa Ueno, Robyn Litchfield, Sarah Pager, Sarah Woodfine, Silvia Lerin, Sophie Smallhorn, Susie Hamilton, Toshimasa Kikuchi, Virginia Verran, Wiebke Leister, Yukako Tanaka



Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Show

I'm delighted to be exhibiting a unique Artist's Book in the RSS Summer Show.  

If you are able to make it along, this is a great opportunity to see a range of artwork and the newly refurbished Dora House, a beautiful 19th-century former Artist's Studio.

Date

17 Jul - 30 Sep

Time

Monday to Friday 11am - 5pm, Saturdays 12 - 5pm

Address

Royal Society of Sculptors, 108 Old Brompton Road, Dora House, London SW7 3RA

Tickets from

Free

Description

We hope you can join us this summer to explore a fabulous showcase of members' and fellows' work at Dora House that will be open to the public from 17 July to 30 September.This year's theme is The Shape of Life, selected by our guest curator Edward Bulmer. A leading interior designer, architectural historian and colour expert, Edward is also the founder of eco-favourite, Edward Bulmer Natural Paints. 

Artists Exhibiting

Amanda Benson MRSS, Amy Douglas MRSS, Andre Wallace FRSS, Anna Gillespie MRSS, Barbara Beyer MRSS, Ben Joiner MRSS,Cathy de Monchaux FRSS, Cesar Cornejo FRSS, Chris Dunseath FRSS, Christy Symington MRSS, Clee Claire Lee MRSS, Colin Kerrigan MRSS, Dave King MRSS, David Aston MRSS, Eleni Maragaki MRSS, Emma Elliott MRSS, Emma Woffenden MRSS, Harriet Hellman MRSS, Harvey Hood FRSS, Isobel Church MRSS, Jane Ackroyd FRSS, Jason deCaires Taylor MRSS, Jonathan Roson MRSS, Julia Vogl MRSS, Julie Light MRSS, Juliette Losq MRSS, Kate Langrish-Smith MRSS, Laura Ellen Bacon MRSS, Linda Hubbard MRSS, Lisa Snook MRSS, Tere Chad MRSS, Marianne Broch MRSS, Mary Anstee-Parry MRSS, Merete Rasmussen MRSS, Michelangelo Arteaga MRSS, Millie Laing-Tate MRSS, Ned Prizeman GBA, Nick Hornby FRSS, Nicola Anthony MRSS, Nicola Turner MRSS, Paul Bonomini MRSS, Paul Tecklenburg MRSS, Richard Hudson MRSS, Robert Worley MRSS, Ronn Beattie MRSS, Sally Hewett MRSS, Saroj Patel MRSS, Simone Kennedy MRSS, Stephanie Douet MRSS, Susan Cutts MRSS, Susan Francis MRSS, Susan Williams MRSS, Terry Jones MRSS, Wen-Hsi Harman MRSS.

Entwined: Plants in Contemporary Painting at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre

18 March to 27 May 2023

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


Entwined is a major new exhibition featuring leading British painters, including winners of the John Moores and Contemporary British Painting Prize. The paintings in this exhibition invite their viewers to look closely at plants. They do this through the widest of ranges of approaches to paint, the selected painters all delight in our extraordinary vegetive world.

This visual feast explores why painting plants matters now, using approaches from lyrical abstraction through to forensic observation of plants in crisis. How might this deep exploration of plants, through paint, help us understand our place in the world now? What does it mean to understand a locale through an intense study of what is growing close at hand?

Some of the paintings’ beauty belies darker and melancholic attributes, plants as symptom of loss, as metaphor for migration, the legacy of colonialism and as a contemporary take on memento-mori. For this invitation to look slowly and the focus on the specificity and minutiae of plants comes, paradoxically, at a moment of wider global trauma both in terms of the pandemic but also its corollary, global heating and alarming biodiversity loss.

The works in the show work with and against the rich traditions of the many and various aesthetic ways of depicting plants, from botanical illustration, to decoration and design, to a reversal and reworking of ideas of landscape painting as immersive rather than a view, and the focus on the fragility of more-than-human life specifically the endangered nature of plant species, is certainly a memento mori, but not just ours.

Artists in Entwined: Amanda Ansell, Bryony Benge-Abbott, Hannah Brown, Graham Crowley, Sam Douglas, Michele Fletcher, Barbara Howey, Linda Ingham, Juliette Losq, Paula MacArthur, Iain Nicholls, Joe Packer, Julian Perry, Narbi Price, Harvey Taylor, Helen Thomas, Judith Tucker and Joanna Whittle.

Entwined is curated by: Judith Tucker, Barbara Howey and Grant Scanlan

Transience @ James Freeman Gallery, London 9 Feb - 4 March


I am delighted to be taking part in a three-person show at James Freeman Gallery with Michael Boffey and Richard Stone. The opening is on 9 Feb, 6.30-8.30 pm. You can request a catalogue in advance of the show here

‘Transience’ is an exhibition on the theme of the ephemeral, explored through the work of three contemporary artists: Juliette Losq, Richard Stone, and Michael Boffey.

Juliette Losq’s paintings depict civilisation dissolving slowly back into nature. Her scenes present the industrial outskirts of urban environments that have been abandoned and gradually find themselves rewilded. In creating her compositions Juliette constructs physical models like miniature theatres or dioramas, with layers of painted paper suggesting both of the accretion of time and the creep of the undergrowth. The works in this show describe such scenes as if contained within tanks underwater, like experiments for capturing disintegration in stasis. This underwater world harks back to ancient superstitions of waterways as places into which offerings would be cast. In these paintings, Juliette imagines our contemporary world as just such another offering: lost to the rivers of time, a relic below the waterline.

Richard Stone captures ephemeral moments in the solidity of ceramic sculpture. Wall-mounted and set within wooden frames, his works depict small sections of fabric in the midst of almost imperceptible movement. These pieces recreate the quiet moments of daily experience, gentle alterations in light and form that are a constant part of our normal sensory landscape but that can only be documented obliquely. Gentle undulations create the illusion of softness; the fabric acts like a veil, concealing what is beneath whilst also hinting at imagined abstract scenes as one shape folds into and coalesces with another. Subtle colour hues lend each work a particular emotional tone, giving a sense of poetic importance to the everyday, to be reimagined as something more remarkable.

Michael Boffey uses bronze to create contemporary versions of floral vanitas. The motif of the flower as an emblem of the fleetingness of life is centuries-old, and was particularly popular in Dutch painting of 1600s. Michael works in a foundry and has developed a means of casting flowers so that despite their fragility he can render them in metal. Presented as wall panels, these short-lived floral compositions are described in a tough and timeless material. Surface cracks and patination add a sense of decay and decadence, but the fragile heart is captured precisely all the same. In combining the vanitas tradition with the classical weight of bronze, Michael’s works speak both of impermanence and solidity at the same time.

Entwined: plants in Contemporary Painting

I’m delighted to be taking part in this group exhibition at Huddersfield Art Gallery, full details of which can be found below.

Huddersfield Art Gallery:

Unit 7The Piazza Centre, Princess Alexandra Walk Huddersfield HD1 2RS

Exhibition dates: 9 November 2022 – 14 January 2023

Opening times: Wednesday - Saturday, 11am - 4pm

Admission free
Private View Saturday 12th November 2.00 – 5.00 pm

Talk by guest curators Barbara Howey and Judith Tucker 2.30 pm

Plant themed poetry reading: Harriet Tarlo

From the artist-curators Barbara Howey and Judith Tucker

The paintings in this exhibition invite their viewers to look closely at plants. They do this through the widest of ranges of approaches to paint, the selected painters all delight in our extraordinary vegetive world. This visual feast explores why painting plants matters now, using approaches from lyrical abstraction through to forensic observation of plants in crisis. How might this deep exploration of plants, through paint, help us understand our place in the world now? What does it mean to understand a locale through an intense study of what is growing close at hand?

Of course, there is a provocation to slow down, to give attention to detail and specificity in all the works. This reflects our renewed relation with nature: those places we have come to value so much, where we go to catch our breath and connect to the more-than-human-world. Some of the paintings’ beauty belies darker and melancholic attributes, plants as symptom of loss, as metaphor for migration, the legacy of colonialism and as a contemporary take on memento-mori. For this invitation to look slowly and the focus on the specificity and minutiae of plants comes, paradoxically, at a moment of wider global trauma both in terms of the pandemic but also its corollary, global heating and alarming biodiversity loss.

The visual conversation that this exhibition engenders, with its focus on the up-close world of plants will be in dialogue with earlier scientific, aesthetic and design representations of plants. The works in the show work with and against the rich traditions of the many and various aesthetic traditions of depicting plants, from botanical illustration, to decoration and design, to a reversal and reworking of ideas of landscape painting as immersive rather than a view, and the focus on the fragility of more-than-human life specifically the endangered nature of plant species, is certainly a memento mori, but not just ours

Amanda Ansell @aansellstudio
Bryony Benge-Abbott @bryonybengeabbott
Hannah Brown @hannahbrownartist
Graham Crowley #grahamcrowley
Sam Douglas @samdouglasstudio
Michele Fletcher @michele_fletcher
Barbara.Howey @barbarahowey5715
Linda Ingham @pathsplantsplaces
Juliette Losq @juliette_losq
Paula MacArthur @paulamacarthur_
Iain Nicholls @iainnicholls
Joe Packer @joe_packer_
Julian Perry @julianperry.info
Narbi Price @narbiprice
Harvey Taylor @harveytaylorart
Helen Thomas @helenthomasartist
Judith Tucker @judithtuckerart
Joanna Whittle. @jowhittleart.

RWA Annual Open Exhibition 8 Oct 2022 - 8 Jan 2023

I’m delighted to be exhibiting four works in the RWA Annual Open - tickets are available here https://www.rwa.org.uk/products/169-annual-open-exhibition

The RWA's renowned Annual Open Exhibition will be returning for its 169th year with a stunning variety of work from emerging and established artists.

This dynamic and varied exhibition invites painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, installation and mixed media submissions and is a showcase of some of the most exciting artists from across the country and beyond. 

All work will be for sale, making the Annual Open a perfect opportunity to discover new artists or invest in well-known names.  

A selection panel assessed every entry and this year over 500 works made it into the final exhibition. The panel this year includes; Academicians' President, Fiona Robinson PRWA, RWA Academicians; Sarah Gillespie, Dorcas Casey, Nicholas Turner and Hamish Young, alongside Mark Golder (collector and benefactor, Golder Thompson Collection), Sue Hubbard (Art Critic, poet and novelist) and our invited artist, Matthew Burrows MBE (founder of the Artists' Support Pledge).

Infinite Beauty - The Arc, Winchester

Date: 9 Sep 2022 - 16 Nov 2022

Price: Free, donations welcome

Venue: The Gallery, The Arc, Winchester

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.  

John Ruskin

https://www.arcwinchester.org.uk/event/infinite-beauty

Infinite Beauty is a unique exhibition that investigates the enduring appeal of nature as a subject for leading British contemporary artists. Victorian artist and art critic John Ruskin promoted nature as an inexhaustible source of truth and beauty and this exhibition demonstrates that this is still very much the case. Yet the fears of ecological disaster driven by climate change and humanity's impact on our environment has given a renewed sense of urgency and purpose to art focused on the natural world. Nature has provided food for the soul during the Coronavirus pandemic but we cannot take it for granted.

The exhibition explores the way in which artists interact with natural forms: plants, animals, habitats and the wider landscape and, in some cases, how their work comments on the ways human activity impacts the ecologies around us. It will feature an eclectic mixture of media, style and approaches with photography, printmaking, ceramics and sculpture helping us to look at our relationship with nature afresh.

Works by leading artists such as Andy Goldsworthy, Chris Drury, Elisabeth Frink, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Richard Long, Darren Almond and Dan Holdsworth will take us from familiar everyday experiences to the ends of the earth among the ice and snow of Antarctica. These will go on display at The Arc's The Gallery, some publicly exhibited for the first time. 

Infinite Beauty is a group exhibition featuring the work of Darren Almond, Edward Bawden, Harry Bertoia, Adam Buick, Rob & Nick Carter, Chris Drury, John Elwyn, Harry Epworth Allen, Beatrice Forshall, Elisabeth Frink, Andy Goldsworthy, Maggi Hambling, Ian Hamilton-Finlay, Eliot Hodgkin, Dan Holdsworth, Paul Kenny, Paul Kershaw, Alice Kettle, Claude Lalanne, Bernard Leach, Richard Long, Juliette Losq, David Mach, John Minton, Dennis Mitchell, David Nash, Michael Olsen, Thomas Reichstein, Tracey Sheppard, Emma Stibbon, Wendy Taylor, Silvy Weatherall and Kim Wilkie.

Elysian Fields at James Freeman Gallery, London, 10 Feb - 5 Mar 2022

Elysian Fields

Stuart Sandford

Juliette Losq

10 February to 5 March 2022

Request PDF Catalogue here

https://www.jamesfreemangallery.com/exhibitions/elysian-fields/

Overview

We are pleased to present ‘Elysian Fields’, an exhibition about the ever-changing relationship between the physical and the digital, explored through the work of two contemporary artists: Juliette Losq and Stuart Sandford.

Juliette Losq’s watercolour paintings depict man-made environments in the process of decline, semi-industrial sites where human occupation has all but departed and nature is regaining control. The intense labour involved in the creation of Juliette’s expansive paintings contrasts with the abandoned subject matter, as if the physical work that once belonged within these structures had found a new role in documenting their change. Juliette’s use of watercolour is unusual in this respect, as the scale and complexity of the works contrasts with the traditional domestic role of the medium. The unexpected is also a theme in the imagery: there is an implicit presence lurking behind the abundance of detail, an unknown future hovering invisible beyond the decay. In this sense Juliette’s paintings are also imaginative theatres where contrasting forces compete: creation versus dereliction; the tangible versus the imaginary; the visually precise versus the undefined. They describe the uncertain moment where humankind is reevaluating its relationship with the physical world before the seemingly limitless possibilities of digital creation.

Stuart Sandford’s sculptures explore the rapidly shifting distinction between the virtual and physical realms by revisiting the Classical tradition of the ideal human form. Stuart finds the contemporary version of the exemplary in the carefully crafted online self-images that serve as subjects for the gay male gaze. He renders these through 3D scanning to create a digital template of the new archetype, to be then made solid in bronze, marble, and basalt using state-of-the-art sculpturing technologies. A life-size figure of Adlocutio, created with the porn star Sean Ford, depicts an alluring male in white lacquered bronze gazing into his phone as if addressing his adoring his many followers. Stuart’s reworking of the classical myth of the Ouroboros, the snake that eats its tail, interprets this as a tale of self-love taken to its narcissistic extreme. Stuart’s sculptures present an unashamed examination of how conceptual and sexual attraction overlap and suggest our new idealism is rendered in the digital realm

The BBA Artist Prize 2021 exhibition at Kühlhaus Berlin

I’m delighted to be participating in a groups show in Berlin, opening 24 June.

Now in its sixth year, the BBA Artist Prize honors emerging artists. Together with an international jury, BBA Gallery has selected 20 artists whose works can be seen in a joint exhibition in the Kühlhaus Berlin. On June 25th at 7 p.m. the jury will announce the four winners as part of the exhibition. The first prize winner will receive a solo exhibition in the BBA Gallery.

All works will be shown at:
Kühlhaus Berlin, Luckenwalder Strasse 3, 10963 Berlin
@kuehlhausberlinofficial

June 24-30, 2021
Open daily from 11.00 - 19.00

VIP Press Preview:
June 23, 16.00 – 20.00

The winner and three runners up will be announced:
June 25, 2021, 19.00
RSVP: pia@bba-gallery.com

COVID regulations
The exhibition will be held in accordance with the current COVID regulations of Berlin. Inhouse Covid19 testing available 23.06. / 25.06

The prize is sponsored by the notebook manufacturer @leuchtturm1917