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Welcome to the April 2026 newsletter

Artist of the month

Artissima, Skin & Stones Market 2, 2025. Photo: Charlie Warde.

Liz Elton

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

Liz Elton’s practice considers issues of waste, compost and the recycling of matter. She explores loss and grief; potential and hope; nourishment and care; environment and temporality. Her work is grounded in landscape and still life painting and she employs a wide range of media, from photography, video and print to large-scale sculptural installation.

Her installations are often site-specific and include the innovative use of compostable materials such as bioplastic grounds which are loosely sewn together with silk, coloured with kitchen waste and water miscible paints. While the work will naturally decay and decompose over time it is often embedded with soil and seeds of medicinal plants, vegetables or cover crops suggesting growth, nurture and the potential for new life.

Read the interview

Daugavpils Fortress, Mark Rothko Museum Residency, Ground Falling, cornstarch, veg dyes, brick dust, silk, 400cm x 250cm, 2022

Solo Exhibitions

Poster image David Ainley: The Significance of Unfinished Work, 2026. Photo: Jonathan Casciani.

David Ainley | Hidden Extraction (From Landscape)

A significant aspect of David Ainley's project over decades has been to reinvest contemporary painting and drawing with traces of human labour which has been obscured by conventions adopted in landscape art. Employing multiple layers of monochrome, each one cut and drawn through, an emphasis on process, repetition, chance and order has provided the means of investing Minimalism with this content and its relationship to the pickwork evident on the walls of ancient lead mines around his Derbyshire home. Present-day artisanal mining for hard-won minerals in many parts of the world is brought to mind.

Beam, 33 Seely Road, Nottingham NG7 1NU

Exhibition dates: 19 March - 9 May 2026

Opening times: Thur-Sat, 9am - 5pm or by appointment.

Read Jonathan Casciani's (Director, Beam Editions) here.

Linda Ingham | On Placing

'On Placing' features work spanning 30 years combined with more recent pieces by Linda Ingham. The exhibition includes self-portraiture with landscape and place-based paintings and drawings, mixing media and exploring new combinations of past and present.

Linda Ingham’s process-led practice grows out of her interest in landscape and place. Her work has come to observe human- and non-human relationships; nature in conservation; human ‘placings’ of trees within a built environment, and the perceived ‘value’ of this in a world of climate emergency and war.

From a close observation of fragmented Ash leaves, poised and ‘shadowed’ as individual and group portraits to pieces showing trees in – yet not-in – where they have been placed by humans, Ingham attempts to show their beauty, importance, familiarity, whilst placing them somehow ‘on the edge’.

Spout Yard Gallery, Spout Yard Park, Ludgate LN11 0NW

Private view: Saturday 11 April, 12 - 2pm

Exhibition dates: 1 - 25 April 2026

Opening times: Wednesday, Friday, Saturday 11am - 3pm • Admission free

Andrew Litten: Seeds and Cuttings (with Shadows and New Hopes) Detail

Andrew Litten | Unknown Futures; Hope, Longing, Grief and Other Distortions

Purposefully opening on Good Friday, Anima Mundi are delighted to present ‘Unknown Futures : Hope, Longing, Grief & Other Distortions’ by contemporary British artist Andrew Litten in celebration of the spirit of renewal. Here, Litten presents a profoundly intimate, unguarded and reflective body of work over three floors of the gallery, comprising multi-scale painting, sculpture and works on paper.

Over four years, Andrew Litten has formed a significant body of paintings, sculptures and assemblages shaped by the consistent pressure of loss and uncertainty.The work emerges from endurance, from bearing disturbance and from inhabiting the spaces where grief, longing and hope collide. Born from lived experience, the work reaches into our contemporary world of global turbulence and uncertainty, tracing the fragile, anxious contours of a shared human moment and suggesting through vulnerability a pathway of empathy and connection for us all.

Street-An-Pol, Saint Ives. TR26 2DS

Private view: 3 April, 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Exhibition dates: 4 April - 15 May 2026

Opening times: 10.30am - 4.30pm • Admission free

Ruth Calland: On Lake Malibou, oil on paper on board, 76cm x 61cm, 2026

Ruth Calland | This Is All the Treasure We Can Have or Hold

Ruth Calland’s Pin Ups series engages with the vulnerable ‘monstrous’ desire for freedom to explore their own and other gender-liminal subjectivities, through images from popular culture. Their vivid technicolour scenes depict real people, often based on videos of and by transgender and nonbinary people from around the world on TikTok, as aspirational figures. What the videos have in common, is a gender-affirmative uplifting joyfulness.

The title of the exhibition is a line from the children’s hymn ‘Daisies are our silver, buttercups our gold’ by Jan Struthers, 1931, directly connecting the value and naturalness of human gender expansion with these hermaphroditic flowers. Calland views their own exploration of gender expansiveness as inherently ecological. Their work contributes to the posthuman ecological project of understanding ourselves as part of an ecosystem again, at a time of rapid biodiversity loss and climate change.

Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, John's Place, Bohemia Road, Hastings TN34 1ET

Private view: Saturday 11 April, 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition dates: 4 April - 28 June 2026

Opening times: Tues - Sat 10am - 5pm, Sundays 11am - 4.30pm

Artist Talk and film screening: 27 June, 1pm - 2pm*

Admission free. *The talk on 27 June is £5 entry, £2 concessions, visit the website for tickets.

Simon Carter: Pilgrim, acrylic on canvas, 110cm x 120cm, 2020

Simon Carter | Water and Mud

Solo exhibition featuring work from the last ten years by Simon Carter.

La Roche House, 5A Windsor Avenue North, Belfast BT9 6EL

Private view: 7 May, 6pm - 9pm

Exhibition dates: 7 - 21 May 2026

Opening times: Friday 8 May to Sunday 10 May, 11am-5pm then by appointment

Admission free

Robbie Bushe: The Pianist (study), oil on panel, 2024

Robbie Bushe | Living Rooms

The Irving Gallery present Robbie Bushe with a new body of paintings developed following major national recognition, including prizes at the John Moores Painting Prize, the Contemporary British Painting Prize, and the Jackson’s Painting Prize. In 2023, he was awarded the RSA Blackadder Houston Mid-Career Painting Award, which enabled a sustained period of studio work and the production of this ambitious new series.

These paintings unfold as expansive, cutaway worlds in which cities, interiors, and subterranean spaces are opened up to reveal layered scenes of everyday life. Across each canvas, moments of domestic routine, private activity, and remembered experience sit alongside imagined narratives, inviting the viewer to look slowly and closely as details and connections begin to emerge over time.

Bushe draws on the visual language of technical diagrams, mid-century cutaway illustrations, and comic imagery, creating works that balance clarity with curiosity. The viewer is drawn into these constructed environments, moving across their surfaces and piecing together fragments of story and space.

Irving Gallery, 28 Essex Street, Oxford OX4 3AW

Private view: Saturday 9 May, 5pm - 7pm

Exhibition dates: 7 May - 7 June 2026

Opening times: Wednesday 1pm - 4pm, Thursday 11am - 4pm, Friday 11am - 4pm, Saturdays: 9th May, 16th May, 23rd May, 6th June, 11am - 4pm (closed 30th May)

Admission free

It's back!

After our announcement in 2024 that we're going biennial, The Contemporary British Painting Prize is back for 2026!

We have made an important change this time around - we’re giving artists a head start by announcing the competition early, so they have more time to get their entries ready.

First Prize £8000 + more

Highly Commended Award £2000

Exhibitor’s fee for all shortlisted artists

Plus there are TWO extra prizes this year:
The Judith Tucker Memorial Prize and The YAS Exhibition Award.

MONDAY 11 MAY - Open for entries

MONDAY 8 JUNE - Entry closes

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Group Exhibitions

Making Ground

Making Ground brings together nine artists whose practice finds common ground in an exploration of the relationship between a topographical terrain and a crumpled landscape of the human condition. Their work investigates the friction between habitat and habitation, the intricate relationship between human intervention and mother nature.

Artists: Simon Callery, Graham Crowley, Andrew Ekins, Dan Hays, Kabir Hussain, Harriet Mena Hill, Laura White, Joanna Whittle. Curated by Andrew Ekins.

Thames-Side Studios Gallery, Thames-Side Studios, Harrington Way, Warspite Road, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London SE18 5NR

Exhibition dates: 8 March - 12 April 2026

Opening times: Thursday - Sunday 12 - 5pm

Juliette Losq

Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours Annual Exhibition

The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) 214th Exhibition features over 400 works. This year it includes the work of three CBP Members, Juliette Losq (elected as President in 2025), Marguerite Horner and invited artist Angelina May Davis.

Alongside the work of its elected members the RI welcomes both emerging and established artists who push the boundaries of the medium through traditional and experimental approaches.

Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1

Exhibition dates: 25 March - 11 April 2026

Opening times: Mon-Fri 9.30-5.30. Closed 5 - 6 April • Admission: £7

Poster image Geraldine Swayne: 'ToBoraBoraAsHuppertAsEarhart' enamel and acrylic on aluminium, 2024

Odyssey - The Hastings Contemporary Open

Odyssey celebrates the creative force of Sussex, bringing together artwork by over

150 artists from across the region including CBP member Geraldine Swayne. Each work offers a unique and personal reflection on the theme of odyssey, journeying through time, place, imagination and experience.

The exhibited works were selected from over 2,600 entries, and span painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, textiles, ceramics, sculpture, film and installation, reflecting the ambition, diversity and creative bravery of the region.

The Open: Odyssey is Hastings Contemporary’s first open exhibition, delivered in partnership with Sussex Contemporary.

Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, Sussex TN34 3DW

Exhibition dates: 28 March - 31 May 2026

Opening times: Wednesday - Sunday and bank holidays, 11am - 5pm.

Admission: Under 18s visit for free. Hastings and Rother residents can visit for half price, from £5.

With the swallows

Ceramics by Hannah Watts alongside painting by Julian Brown and mixed media pictures by Karen Radford.

WSJ Gallery, 71 Westbourne Park Road, London W2 5QH

Private view: Wednesday 1 April, 1pm - 7.30pm

Exhibition dates: 1 - 30 April 2026

Opening times: Monday - Friday 10am - 6pm • Admission freed

The Space of Painting

The Space of Painting explores the embodied act of creation as a site where material, gesture, time and perception converge. A place that is constructed and dismantled; layered, fractured and transformed through acts of mark-making and process. Can painting be a site of thought as much as vision, holding traces of labour, memory and doubt while negotiating the crossover between abstraction and representation, presence and absence?

The group exhibition is curated by Ann Bukantas and Phil Porter. A critical text will accompany the exhibition by Phil Porter.

Artists: Susan Absolon, Heather Alderson, Keith Ashcroft, Iain Andrews, Peter Clark, Graham Crowley, Jenny Eden, David Gledhill and Susan Gunn.

Rogue Project Space, Manchester M11 1WP

Private view: Saturday 4 April, 2pm - 5pm

Finissage & Artists In Conversation Symposium: 25 April, 12 - 4pm

Exhibition dates: 4 - 25 April 2026

Opening times: Saturdays 12 - 4pm or by appointment • Admission free

The First Round Proper

The First Round Proper is an exhibition in two parts at BLOC projects, Sheffield that adopts a playful, innovative approach to the curation. Pairing up work in unlikely and serendipitous ways.

Featuring work by nearly 100 artists from across the UK and Europe including CBP artist Alison Critchlow. Organised and curated by @a_bell_is_a_cup Stephen Carley, Kate Jacob and Sean Williams.

BLOC Projects, 171 Eyre Lane, Sheffield, Yorkshire S1 4RB

Private view: THE FIRST HALF: 8 April, 6pm - 8pm

THE SECOND HALF: 22 April, 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition / event dates: THE FIRST HALF - 6 - 14 April 2026

THE SECOND HALF: 17 - 25 April 2026 • Admission free

Paul Newman: The Approach, mixed media 30cm x 42cm, 2026

Tilting at Windmills

Tilting at Windmills presents a contemporary artistic response to Cervantes’ Don Quixote de la Mancha. Inspired by the engravings of Gustave Doré, curator Tom Ranahan has invited a group of artists to explore the novel’s enduring themes - humour, shifting perceptions of reality, and moral complexity.

Artists: Sharon Baker, Joss Burke (France), Robert Chard, Graham Chorlton, Frank Edmunds, Peter Grego, Helen Grundy, Paul Newman, Tom Ranahan, Stephen Earl Rogers, Alastair Scruton, Lee Williams (USA), Emma Woolley. Curated by Tom Ranahan.

The Courtyard Gallery, The Core, Theatre Square, Touchwood, Homer Road, Solihull B91 3RG

Private view: Thursday 9 April, 5pm - 8pm

Exhibition dates: 8 - 25 April 2026

Opening times: Monday - Saturday 9am - 5pm • Admission free

Further events:

Curator talk and artist discussion: Monday 13 April, 11am -12pm

Join curator Tom Ranahan for an introduction to the exhibition, followed by a performance from Ray Rowley and John Kennedy, who will present original sketches inspired by the exhibition’s themes, 12pm -12.30pm

Website

Susie Hamilton: Northern Line (detail)

Drawing Biennial 2026

Drawing Biennial 2026 returns with more than 300 newly commissioned drawings by leading international artists. The free exhibition at Drawing Room culminates in a two-week online auction fundraiser. Includes work by CBP members Susie Hamilton and Benjamin Deakin.

Drawing Room, New Tannery Way, London SE15WS

Exhibition dates: 16 April - 23 June 2026

Opening times: Weds-Sun 12 - 6pm • Admission free

Declarative Language

Declarative Language is a group exhibition curated by Kelly Jessiman and Alexis Soul-Gray, bringing together artists whose practices have been shaped by sustained caregiving within families of neurodivergent children. Emerging from shared lived experience, the exhibition does not centre on disclosure or testimony. Instead, it considers how prolonged responsibility, compressed time and heightened attention act as catalysts for artistic transformation.

For the artists in this exhibition, daily life is structured around unpredictability, adaptation and care. Time becomes fractured and nonlinear; energy is finite. Under these conditions, artistic practice cannot operate according to conventional expectations of productivity or autonomy. Instead, it is reconfigured. Materials, processes and gestures take on heightened significance. Decisions are sharpened. Making becomes precise, intuitive and responsive - a form of thinking and communicating where language alone is insufficient.

Artists:: Edie Flowers, Nicola Hicks MBE, Kelly Jessiman, Mindy Lee, Natasha Macvoy, Kate Montgomery, Anj Smith, Alexis Soul-Gray, Maliheh Zafarnezhad.

Amici Studio, 12 Claremont, Hastings TN34 1HA

Private view: Saturday 11 April, 12 - 4pm

Exhibition dates: 11 April - 9 May 2026

Opening times: Wednesday–Friday 10am – 3pm; Saturday 11am - 4pm; or by appointment

Admission free

'RUBICON' by Joan Ainley & David Ainley

Enfolded Journeys

'Enfolded Journeys' is a touring exhibition of 28 new artists’ books made by artists from many countries in response to themes suggested by the title: travel, displacement, geographies and borders, and migration in recent times and in the past as the effects of such movements of peoples, whether compelled or voluntary, may resound through generations.

Curated by John McDowall and Chris Taylor – and co-selected with artists Karen Babayan and Sophie Loss – the exhibition was launched at The Leeds Library to coincide with the PAGES Artists’ Book Fair in March 2025 since when it has been shown in Appleby and Dunoon. It now reaches Doncaster before travelling in September to Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice.

‘RUBICON’, made by Joan Ainley and David Ainley, is perhaps the simplest production in a remarkable collection of interpretations of the theme and of the artists' book form. The single word RUBICON is printed in uppercase bold type on a strip of card folded between each letter to produce a zig-zag book. It is suggested that the simplicity of this invites engagement with the decisions taken by individuals and groups when embarking on life-changing journeys.

Danum Gallery, Library and Museum, Waterdale, Doncaster DN1 3BZ

Exhibition dates: 15 April - 18 July 2026

Opening times: Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm, Saturday 10am - 4pm, Sunday CLOSED

International Exhibitions

Poster image: Paul Smith

Les Beaux Jour

The exhibition Les Beaux Jours is part of this fragile moment when the season changes, when the life unfolds again. Nature is reorganising and perpetuating itself. This exhibition unfolds as a sensitive experience: A luminous wandering in landscapes that evoke the slowness of summer afternoons.

Artists: Fabienne Auzolle, Laure Boin, Émilie Dumas, Magdalena Kopacz, Ayline Olukman, Frédéric Lacaille, Élia Pagliarino, Swan Scalabre and invited guest Paul Smith.

Galerie La Main De Fer, 2 rue de la Revolution Francaise, 66000 Perpignan, France

Private view: 3 April, 6pm - 9pm

Exhibition dates: 3 April - 31 May 2026

Opening times: 2.30pm - 6.30pm Tuesday to Saturday • Admission free

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

EX NIHILO

Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognise the utility of what is not. - Lao Tzu

EX NIHILO, which includes work by CBP member Lesley Bunch, is an exhibition about the power of negative space, margins and gutters, chasms, quietude, emptiness, stillness, and all things in the unnamable in-between.

The hollow of a bowl is formed by its walls. Emptiness shapes, and is shaped by, its container. Interplay between figure and ground, subject and format, “nothing” and “something”, is the crux of composition. A dynamic silence - an anticipatory vacuum - is hungry for parameters: scale and location to give consequence to vastness, rhythm to cut it into units, lines to draw in its edges. When we pay attention to the stillness, we become aware of the quiet within ourselves. When we look into the void, it draws us in. Absence - negative space- becomes a place for us to enter a work and close the circle of communication between artwork and viewer. It is the dark matter of visual art, holding everything together.

Manifest Gallery, 2727 Woodburn Avenue, Cincinnati 45206, Ohio, USA

Private view: Friday 7 April, 6pm - 9pm

Exhibition dates: 16 April - 15 May 2026

Opening times: Tuesday - Friday 12 -7 pm , Sat 12 - 5pm (and by appointment) • Admission free

David Ainley: Excavation and Relocation 1: Silfurberg (Recto)

Postcards for Seyðisfjörður

The project ‘Postcards for Seyðisfjörður’ draws inspiration from the German-born artist Dieter Roth, who once lived in Seyðisfjörður, and his collaborative postcard exchanges with other international artists. It is travelling to the Icelandic Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark this Spring and will include additional artists following its first showings in Iceland and London.

CBP member artists David Ainley, Ruth Philo, Deb Covell and Katie Pratt were invited to take part in this exhibition of altered / adjusted / intervened postcards alongside many other international artists.

Organised by H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G in collaboration with Sluice and LungA School.

Embassy of Iceland, Copenhagen Strandgade 89, DK-1401 København K

Exhibition dates: 18 April - 4 June 2026

Opening times: Monday- Friday. Weekends closed.

Susie Hamilton: Underground

The Shared Now

Group show of German and UK artists.

Artists: Emma Adler, Vasil Berela, Judith Blum Reddy, Kurt Buchwald, Göran Gnaudschun, Susie Hamilton, Mathilde Tijen Hansen, Susann Maria Hempel, Anna Jermolaewa, Sven Johne, Roman Khimei & Yarema Malashchuk, Christiane Möbus, Marcel Odenbach, Ulf Puder, Baldur Schönfelder, Igor Simic.

Kunstmuseum, Magdeburg, Germany

Private view: 26 April, 5pm - 8pm

Exhibition dates: 28 April - 6 September

Opening times: 10am - 6pm • Admission free

Open Studios

Linda Ingham: Unique hand-finished aquatint, 2026

Linda Ingham - Open Studio

Linda Ingham is opening her studio during the Ropewalk Print Fair, showing her first pieces towards a series of unique prints which link to her Precipice tree paintings.

The Ropewalk, Maltkiln Road, Barton upon Humber, North Lincolnshire DN18 5JT

Dates: 25 - 26 April, 10am - 4pm • 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

Sean Williams: From The Mantelpiece' acrylic on board, 27cm x 20cm, 2026

Making Arrangements III

Making Arrangements III is an exhibition of Still Life painting featuring work by Michael Borkowsky, Ben Cooney, Stephen Lowen and Sean Williams.

It is a continuation of Making Arrangements II (see below), but the objects depicted here are not ones that traditionally appear in this genre. They are playful, surreal and their relationship is puzzling.

"Each time I do a still life, I get very excited and realise there are a thousand things here I can see! Which of them shall I choose? The more I look and think about it, the more I see. These simple little things are unbelievably rich. A lot of people have forgotten that. But you can remind them." - David Hockney.

Exhibition dates: 20 April - 31 May 2026

Greta Vilidaite: From The Pantry, oil on canvas panel, 30cm x 22cm, 2026

Making Arrangements II

Making Arrangements II is an exhibition of Still Life painting at Prosaic Projects Gallery, featuring work by John Brokenshire, Gill Gathercole, Ledlowe Guthrie and Greta Vilidaite.

Still life painting has long been one of the principal genres of art. It can include man-made and natural objects, a celebration of material pleasure. It is also a formal exercise in composing various elements to create an effective and engaging painting; accurately demonstrating an understanding of pictorial space; convincingly rendering form and texture. Occasionally, these parameters can be experimented with and undermined, suggesting a whimsical and playful stance on the part of the author. The space is occasionally distorted to remind us that we are looking at a painting. This micro exhibition is curated by Sean Williams.

Exhibition dates: 8 March - 12 April 2026

Continuing Solo Exhibitions

Narbi Price: Shadow on the Things You Know

Bringing together a compelling body of paintings, Shadow on the Things You Know explores anonymous sites loaded with cultural importance and layered histories. Unpeopled locations offer the opportunity to wonder and wander through shifting landscapes, of pilgrimage to some and indifference to others. History and time is encoded into the making of the paintings and the deeper time and resonances they evoke.

Speaking about the exhibition, Narbi Price explained: “These paintings are linked by a sense of searching, for connection, for history, for belonging. They depict sites which have borne witness to momentous events and unknowable ones. In some ways, they’re about me pursuing something I know I’ll never catch; when I get there it’s already gone and I knew it would be. They’re memories, whispers and stories, made with colours, smudges and smears.”

Queen’s Hall, Beaumont Street, Hexham NE46 3LS

Exhibition dates: 7 March - 30 May 2026

Opening times: Monday to Saturday, 10am - 4pm • Admission free

Iain Andrews: Gehenna, oil and acrylic on canvas, 225cm x 150cm, 2025

Whispers from the Red room

This is Iain Andrews' first solo exhibition in Italy and includes a number of past works alongside recent paintings made over the last two years.

Galleria Gaburro, Via Cerva 25, Milan 20122 Italy 20122

Exhibition dates: 25 February - 30 May 2026

Opening times: Tuesday - Saturday 10am-1pm and 2pm - 9pm Admission free

Continuing Group Exhibitions

Day Bowman: Study 2 Marking Out the Boundaries, oil, charcoal and conte on canvas, 30cm x 35cm, 2025

Stereo

In this exhibition works are presented in pairs – either formal diptychs or pieces which sit well together.

Vanner Gallery, 45 High Street, Salisbury SP1 2PB

Private view: Thursday 12 March, 6pm - 8 pm

Exhibition dates: 12 March - 11 April 2026

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

Katie Pratt: Mateidio, oil on canvas, 137cm x 110cm, 2025. Photo: BJ Deakin Photography.

Mirror City

An exhibition of works by nine contemporary artists: John Hoyland, Mali Morris, Lucienne O'Mara, John Bunker, Alexis Harding, Jacqueline Poncelet, John Gibbons, Katie Pratt and Dominic Beattie curated by Sam Cornish & Dominic Beattie.

JGM Gallery, 24 Howie Street, London SW11 4AY

rivate view: 25 March, 6.30pm-8.30pm

Exhibition dates: 25 March - 1 May 2026

Opening times: Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 6pm

Gordon Dalton: Life is Hard, That's Why No-One Survives, acrylic on canvas, 1700 x 2400, 2019

THE WEIGHT OF BEING: Vulnerability and Resilience in British Art

Curated by Angela Thomas, this exhibition explores artistic expression and mental health. Featuring work by CBP members Gordon Dalton, Nathan Eastwood and Narbi Price.

Two Temple Place, London WC2R 3BD

Exhibition dates: 24 January – 26 April 2026

Opening times: Tuesday, Thursday - Saturday: 11am - 6:00pm, Wednesday Late: 11am - 9pm, Sunday: 11am - 4:30pm, Closed on Monday • Admission free

Barbara Howey: Marsh, oil on board, 51cm x 61cm, 2025

In Proximity

In Proximity brings together recent work by 87 artists based in East Anglia to explore experiences of closeness and includes CBP members, Amanda Ansell and Barbara Howey.

Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich NR1 3JU

Exhibition dates: 14 February - 14 June 2026

Opening times: 10am -5pm • Admission: £15.30 adult and £13.05 children

UNVEILED - presenting the Rugby Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art

Linda Ingham’s painting, Easter Self Portrait with Headband will be shown in this unique exhibition, where every artwork from the extensive Rugby Collection is brought together in a rare and powerful moment in the life of the collection.

Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby CV21 3BZ

Exhibition dates: 21 February - 6 June 2026

Opening times: Tuesday to Friday 10am-5pm, Saturday 10am-4pm, Bank Holidays 10am-4pm, Sundays and Mondays closed.

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

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