Paint Edgy: Contemporary British Painting and Guests previews at the Ropewalk Gallery, Barton on Humber on the 10th of September 2022. The exhibition aims to demonstrate the vitality, ambition, and possibilities of contemporary painting through diverse painterly practices.
The exhibition Paint Edgy: Contemporary British Painting and Guests demonstrates painting at its most inventive and innovative, and reflects a range of concerns with margins, edges, and edginess. This wordplay encompasses the formal concerns of possibilities of painterly edges, and edges of canvas: painting as both object and image. Beyond this, however, it is also metaphorical: edgy as a play on the radical possibilities of contemporary painting, here, in the location of the Ropewalk Gallery, Barton on Humber, right on the very edge of England.
“I have a respect for invention, and I think that’s what attracts me to the margins in all things.” Graham Crowley
The exhibition includes painters from throughout the UK and is curated and coordinated by Judith Tucker and Linda Ingham. The show presents paintings from members of Contemporary British Painting in dialogue with the work of six painters from closer to the locale of the Ropewalk Gallery. A conversation between the works and their authors will offer the opportunity to cast new perspectives on the individual artworks and offer a temperature check of painting in the UK now.
Amanda is showing ‘Ripple Out’, in the exhibition at Ropewalk Gallery. She says, “Accumulated layers of paint, applied many times over, are shaped into an abstract circular form. The experimental method of moving liquid paint repeatedly towards the edges of the canvas, and taking paint to the limit before it spills over, is revealing. The performance prompts another move, another layer, another line, so former films of paint are interrupted and move into a new order. The circling lines eventually settle down and are on the point of converging in a shallow picture space. There is the odd happy accident, an occasional tense moment between myself and the painting as I struggle with the materiality of the paint. What continues to guide me is what my process brings into play; recurring line, free-form arrangement, the act of discovery, abstract expression, and changeable contour. Hopefully, the viewer can respond to the natural energy and rhythm left by the gentle traces of the brushwork.”
Paint Edgy: Contemporary British Painting & Guests is open for eleven weeks from 10th September – 27th November 2022.
The Ropewalk, Maltkiln Road, Barton upon Humber, North Lincolnshire, DN18 5JT.
Opening Times: 10am – 5pm Tuesday to Saturday; 10am – 4pm Sunday
https://www.the-ropewalk.co.uk/
The exhibition catalogue is available to view online here
CBP Exhibiting artists:
Susan Absolon, David Ainley, Iain Andrews, Amanda Ansell, Karl Bielik, Day Bowman, Julian Brown, Marco Cali, Ruth Calland, Simon Carter, Pen Dalton, Jeff Dellow, Lisa Denyer, Sam Douglas, Natalie Dowse, Geraint Evans, Susan Gunn, Susie Hamilton, Alex Hanna, Marguerite Horner, Barbara Howey, Phil Illingworth, Linda Ingham, Rachel Lancaster, Bryan Lavelle, Andrew Litten, Paula MacArthur, David Manley, Enzo Marra, Paul Newman, Joe Packer, Stephen Palmer, Mandy Payne, Barbara Peirson, Ruth Philo, Alison Pilkington, Narbi Price, Freya Purdue, Katherine Russell, David Sullivan, Harvey Taylor, Molly Thomson, Judith Tucker, Joanna Whittle, Sean Williams.
Guest artists: Graham Crowley, Deborah Grice, Richard Hatfield, April Virgoe, Zoe Steele
Contemporary British Painting is an artist-led organisation that explores and promotes current trends in British painting through the activity of our members, exhibitions, talks, and publications and placing work in art museums and collections. Paint Edgy: Contemporary British Painting and Guests is an exhibition drawn from painters from throughout the U.K.
www.contemporarybritishpainting.com
Ripple Out, Oil on canvas. 30x30cm