Paint Edgy: Contemporary British Painting and Guests
“I have a respect for invention, and I think that’s what attracts me to the margins in all things.” writes the painter Graham Crowley. The exhibition Paint Edgy: Contemporary British Painting & Guests demonstrates painting at its most inventive and innovative, and refl ects 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 of 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.
Contemporary British Painting is an artist led organisation which 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 & Guests is an exhibition drawn from painters from throughout the U.K. Curated and coordinated
by Judith Tucker (vice-chair of CBP) and Linda Ingham (CBP member and Ropewalk studio holder). The selection of paintings is invited from the whole membership of ‘Contemporary British Painting’ in dialogue with the work invited painters from closer to the locale of the Ropewalk Gallery. The exhibition demonstrates the vitality, ambition and possibilities of contemporary painting through diverse painterly practices. The conversation between works will offer opportunity to cast new perspectives on the individual works and overall offers a temperature check of painting in the U.K. now.
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