Beardsmore Gallery

‘I discover my subject by walking through the city.  This tends to be a slow, gradual process and has taken the form of an eastwards drift along and under the elevated roads of the A40 Westway and has now reached Paddington Basin – these new paintings are based on the spaces around the fringes of [...]

Welcome to our Winter Exhibition paintings and prints :  Mark Cazalet, Michael Druks, Peter Freeth, Liam Hanley, Jason Hicklin, Atta Kwami, Yuji Oki, Rebecca Salter, Sally Temple, Bob White, Lisa Wright sculpture & ceramics :  Clive Bowen, Seth Cardew, Richard Gilbert, Sarah Scampton, Gabriel Sempill wood :  Jarek Hulboj, Kenny Menczer The gallery can be [...]

The book which accompanies this exhibition of Rebecca’s recent work includes poems by Anthony Anaxagorou. ‘I heard the actor Damian Lewis read Anthony’s poem – Himself – on BBC TV’s Newsnight.  In barely five lines, Anthony draws a spare yet elegant comment on his world.  I had never thought of attempting to introduce poetry to [...]

The focus of Pamela Clarkson’s work has shifted from expressive abstraction of a particular place, usually landscape, to a more formal use of images of objects, found seen, glimpsed and remembered in and around life in Kumasi Atta Kwami’s abstract paintings relate to and comment upon the vibrant realistic traditions of commercial sign-painting in Kumasi.  [...]

This exhibition is a challenging coda to the two-part original ‘meta–’survey in Ruskin Gallery last autumn. In miniature format, it celebrates a rich scene in contemporary British abstract painting, particularly focusing on a generation of artists whose careers of up to forty years or more have been spent exclusively tuning their personal interpretation of visual [...]

Jason Hicklin’s drawings and etchings are horizontal explorations of landscape in black and white, and in an infinite vocabulary of greys.  From 2004 to 2008 Hicklin walked the isolated coasts of Donegal and Islay.  He is drawn to these magnificent, desolate places.  It is here he pitches his tent, working in his sketchbooks in the [...]