Current Exhibitions
Studio 1.1 This Year's Model '21, part 1, 57a Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, London E2 7DJ, 6-31 May, Thursdays - Sundays 12-6 & by appointment.
Artists: Sarah Knill-Jones, Mircha Ivens, Vanessa Mitter, Anna Kolosova, Salma Caller, Louisa Chambers, Alex Daw, Ariane Severin, Peter Roseman, Ruth Philo, Emma Tod, Rachelle Allen-Sherwood, Chris Long, Veronica Slater, Johanna Melvin, Stephen Buckeridge, Paul Cole, John Hughes, Liz Griffiths, Ruth Calland, Heidi Ferid, Rebecca Byrne, Bol Marjoram, Sandra Lane, Martina O'Shea, Siobhan Beaton
Artists: Sarah Knill-Jones, Mircha Ivens, Vanessa Mitter, Anna Kolosova, Salma Caller, Louisa Chambers, Alex Daw, Ariane Severin, Peter Roseman, Ruth Philo, Emma Tod, Rachelle Allen-Sherwood, Chris Long, Veronica Slater, Johanna Melvin, Stephen Buckeridge, Paul Cole, John Hughes, Liz Griffiths, Ruth Calland, Heidi Ferid, Rebecca Byrne, Bol Marjoram, Sandra Lane, Martina O'Shea, Siobhan Beaton
Future Exhibitions
HERE, 25 June - 25 July 2021, The Art Station, 48 High Street, Saxmundham, Suffolk, IP17 1AB, open Saturdays and Sundays 10-4 or by appointment. Admission is free but must be booked online. Curated by artists Clare Palmier and Jane Watt HERE is the launch exhibition of the Art Station and celebrates new and recent work by emerging and established contemporary artists with a strong connection to Suffolk and East Anglia.
Artists: SE Barnet, Les Bicknell, Stuart Bowditch & Ruth Philo, Frances Brennan, William Card, William Cobbing, Graham Crowley, Mikey Cuddihy, Laurence Edwards, Edgefield Dance Company, Maddie Exton, Emily Godden, Kabir Hussain, Ann-Marie James, Simon Keep, Abigail Lane, Anna Mac, Clare Palmier, Emily Richardson, Lol Sargent, Srinivas Surti, Jane Watt, Emma Withers, Loula Yorke.
Artists: SE Barnet, Les Bicknell, Stuart Bowditch & Ruth Philo, Frances Brennan, William Card, William Cobbing, Graham Crowley, Mikey Cuddihy, Laurence Edwards, Edgefield Dance Company, Maddie Exton, Emily Godden, Kabir Hussain, Ann-Marie James, Simon Keep, Abigail Lane, Anna Mac, Clare Palmier, Emily Richardson, Lol Sargent, Srinivas Surti, Jane Watt, Emma Withers, Loula Yorke.
Cley 21 Nowhere, Cley Contemporary Art, Cley Next the Sea, Norfolk, 1 July - 1 August 2021 curated by Amanda Geitner, director of the East Anglian Art Fund
Current Projects
HERE , The Art Station, 48 High Street, Saxmundham, IP17 1AB. The forthcoming launch exhibition HERE celebrates new and recent work by emerging and established contemporary artists with a strong connection to Suffolk and East Anglia, 25 June - 25 July 2021
Pasture is a new project space initiative by painter Ruth Philo and sound recordist Stuart Bowditch based in Braybrooks, an old dairy in Ballingdon, next to the ancient water meadows in Sudbury, Suffolk. They offer a space for artists, musicians, writers and other creatives to come and think, make work and immerse themselves in the surrounding landscape. Set in the Stour Valley, historically inspirational to artists such as Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable, Cedric Morris, Lett Haines and John Nash, they aim to nurture and inspire work by creative people responding to the local, social and political landscape of today. Residencies have been delayed by COVID19, but hope to start during summer 2021.
A British Council Artists' International Development Fund grant enabled Ruth and Stuart to research their project Fabric: Silk Road , a cultural, travel and ethnographic project involving exchanging silk from the silk weaving companies in Sudbury with silk manufacturers and museums in China. They made a month-long trip to China in October 2018, meeting their Chinese partner Artall Cultural Industries, visiting sericulture plants, silk mills and museums, the travelogue of their journey can be found here.
The proposed second part of the project includes a journey along the Silk Road from Xi'an, China back to the UK, visiting silk mills, making a film and colllecting silk samples along the route, currently postponed due to Covid. The film will be shown at venues along the English Silk Road, with a Q & A and silk handling and there will be an accompanying touring exhibiton.
The proposed second part of the project includes a journey along the Silk Road from Xi'an, China back to the UK, visiting silk mills, making a film and colllecting silk samples along the route, currently postponed due to Covid. The film will be shown at venues along the English Silk Road, with a Q & A and silk handling and there will be an accompanying touring exhibiton.
We Are The Weather, an arts and health research project by Stuart Bowditch and Ruth Philo, explores internal and external weather and connections with mood and mental health. It uses the Manchester Colour Wheel, devised by Professor Peter Whorwell and Doctor Helen Carruthers to initiate conversations about mental health and explore ways of developing a sense of equilibrium and wellbeing in connection with support offered by a range of mental health organisations and providers.
An initial residency at the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout, Suffolk in 2017 explored colour, light and sound with participants on the beach. The external weather was brought into the Lookout through a camera obscura, a cyanometer was used to assess sky colour and daily weather recorded by participants as painted postcards. They also registered their internal weather or mood using the Manchester Colour Wheel. The colours from the colour wheel were translated into light and sound with a projection of a light piece from the Lookout Tower at night, in effect exchanging the internal and external weather.
An initial residency at the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout, Suffolk in 2017 explored colour, light and sound with participants on the beach. The external weather was brought into the Lookout through a camera obscura, a cyanometer was used to assess sky colour and daily weather recorded by participants as painted postcards. They also registered their internal weather or mood using the Manchester Colour Wheel. The colours from the colour wheel were translated into light and sound with a projection of a light piece from the Lookout Tower at night, in effect exchanging the internal and external weather.
Recent Exhibitions & Events
The ArtTop10 Lockdown Interviews Exhibition, The Cello Factory, 33-34 Cornwall Road, Waterloo, London SE1 8TJ, 16 -25 April 2021, 11-3, Saturdays 11-5.
The artists in the Lockdown Interviews Exhibition were interviewed virtually by ArtTop10 via Zoom during the first lockdown. The interviews have a looser and more open quality than is usual with artists explaining more fully their practices and techniques. There was never a plan to have an exhibition at the time of the interviews which gives a relaxed quality to the choice of artists involved in this show. To date the exhibition has been online but now there is the opportunity to see the work 'in the flesh' at the Cello Factory.
Artists: Andrew Stahl, Alexander Hinks, David Wiseman, Freya Purdue, Gordon Dalton, Graham Crowley, Harriet Tarlo, Joanna Whittle, Judith Tucker, Marco Cali, Marius von Brasch, Melissa Kime, Mona Osman, Narbi Price, Natalie Dowse, Paula MacArthur, Phil Illingworth, Robert Dunt, Ruth Philo, Sharon Beavan, Simon Ogden, Simon Streather, Susie Hamilton and Suzanne Holtom.
The artists in the Lockdown Interviews Exhibition were interviewed virtually by ArtTop10 via Zoom during the first lockdown. The interviews have a looser and more open quality than is usual with artists explaining more fully their practices and techniques. There was never a plan to have an exhibition at the time of the interviews which gives a relaxed quality to the choice of artists involved in this show. To date the exhibition has been online but now there is the opportunity to see the work 'in the flesh' at the Cello Factory.
Artists: Andrew Stahl, Alexander Hinks, David Wiseman, Freya Purdue, Gordon Dalton, Graham Crowley, Harriet Tarlo, Joanna Whittle, Judith Tucker, Marco Cali, Marius von Brasch, Melissa Kime, Mona Osman, Narbi Price, Natalie Dowse, Paula MacArthur, Phil Illingworth, Robert Dunt, Ruth Philo, Sharon Beavan, Simon Ogden, Simon Streather, Susie Hamilton and Suzanne Holtom.
The ArtTop10 Lockdown Interviews Exhibition An online exhibition curated by Robert Dunt, featuring artists interviewed during lockdown.
Vitalistic Fantasies, a Contemporary Bitish Painting exhibition, curated by Paula MacArthur at the Cello Factory, 33-34 Cornwall Road, Waterloo, London SE1 8TJ, 2-8 December 2020. Catalogue here with essay by Catrin Webester
Vitalistic Fantasies, a Contemporary British Painting exhibition, part of the BEEP Painting Biennial 2020, College Street Gallery, 16 College Street Swansea, SA1 5HB, 3 - 31 October 2020. Curated by Paula MacArthur, this exhibition brings a visual conversation to ideas discussed in Isabelle Graw's book The Love of Painting. A catalogue with essay by Catrin Webster accompanies the exhibition. This exhibition is now online due to COVID19 restrictions.
Welcome to our impossible open studio, 32 painters from around the UK virtually come together for the first time in a labyrinthine studio complex – come in and explore … experiencing a painter’s studio might usually be a physical and messy experience so this time why not enjoy floating through what is a blend of video game and virtual show? In each studio space you’re given a yes/no choice of two further doors to step through, but it’s an open studio in more ways than one – so you’d better check the weather forecast, you may need an umbrella and please wash your hands before entering here.
32 selected painters from Contemporary British Painting have own their space in this virtual studio and you can explore their work in progress and working environment. The show considers unresolved, unfinished or recalcitrant works, paintings which still ask questions of their makers, these works have not yet answered Yes or No but still say Maybe. The title of the show is taken from Gerhard Richter’s reference to his working process as a series of Yes/ No decisions with a final Yes to end it all. The work included focuses on the kind of decisions that all painters undertake when embarking on a painting, from the initial idea stage to the resolved and exhibited work, you will see revealed some of the uncertain moments that paintings go through, an insight into the layered time consuming process that so often lies hidden underneath that final Yes decision. The works bring painting as thought to the fore. Whatever idiom these painters use, they have all taken a risk, they have chosen to place an uncertain work into the public domain, paintings which are in-between, still open ended and fluid with that unpredictable final Yes still to come. Catalogue
32 selected painters from Contemporary British Painting have own their space in this virtual studio and you can explore their work in progress and working environment. The show considers unresolved, unfinished or recalcitrant works, paintings which still ask questions of their makers, these works have not yet answered Yes or No but still say Maybe. The title of the show is taken from Gerhard Richter’s reference to his working process as a series of Yes/ No decisions with a final Yes to end it all. The work included focuses on the kind of decisions that all painters undertake when embarking on a painting, from the initial idea stage to the resolved and exhibited work, you will see revealed some of the uncertain moments that paintings go through, an insight into the layered time consuming process that so often lies hidden underneath that final Yes decision. The works bring painting as thought to the fore. Whatever idiom these painters use, they have all taken a risk, they have chosen to place an uncertain work into the public domain, paintings which are in-between, still open ended and fluid with that unpredictable final Yes still to come. Catalogue
Art on a Postcard, Winter Auction, 5 - 19 November 2020, Raising money for the Hepatitis C Trust. You can bid here
Natural Beauty, 13 June - 26 September 2020, North House Gallery, The Walls, Manningtree, Essex, CO11 1AS
Beyond Other Horizons: Contemporary Paintings made in Britain and Romania, Iasi Palace of Culture, Iasi, Romania, 1 March - 14 June 2020. PV 3 March 2020, curated by Peter Harrap, artist-curator in residence at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies UCL and Anna McNay, art critic and journalist. There will be a British Council Symposium on 3 March.
Art Top Ten, Lock Down Artist's Interview Ruth Philo with Robert Dunt here
Mycorrhiza and Extancy, Survival Strategies, Sluice Artist-Led Culture, at AMP Gallery, 1 Acorn Parade, London SE15 2TZ, 17-24 January 2020. Artists: Bettina Weiß, Jaime Jackson, Simon lee dicker, Stephen Harwood, Sally Payen, Anne Carnein, Ruth Philo, Eleanor Morgan, Andrew Seto, Alistair Gentry.
Mycorrhiza is here employed as a framework to explore the ecosystems and survival strategies within creative and organisational spheres. This exhibition explores the connective filaments that interweave creative networks by exploring sex, hibernation, deep time and breakdown. Mycorrhiza and Extancy draw parallels between ecology and politics, the many as one, the wood-wide-web, systems of decomposition and recycling. Mycelium is used to detoxify polluted industrial spaces as it has the ability to flourish in uninhabitable environments. The non-commercial arts in this country similarly operate in – and are shaped by -– a hostile environment, this exhibition and the current issue of the Sluice magazine is a celebration of the sectors continued extancy.
Mycorrhiza is here employed as a framework to explore the ecosystems and survival strategies within creative and organisational spheres. This exhibition explores the connective filaments that interweave creative networks by exploring sex, hibernation, deep time and breakdown. Mycorrhiza and Extancy draw parallels between ecology and politics, the many as one, the wood-wide-web, systems of decomposition and recycling. Mycelium is used to detoxify polluted industrial spaces as it has the ability to flourish in uninhabitable environments. The non-commercial arts in this country similarly operate in – and are shaped by -– a hostile environment, this exhibition and the current issue of the Sluice magazine is a celebration of the sectors continued extancy.
Terrace: A Hand Stuffed Mattress, curated by Karl Bielek, at William the Fourth, 816 High Road, Leyton, London E10 6AE, PV Thursday 7 November 2019, 6-9 pm, show runs until 8 December 2019, Monday-Friday 4-10 pm, Saturday & Sunday 12-10 pm
Between Us: A biennial exhibition and exchange, bringing together artists from East Anglia and China to grow conversations and share visual communication across cultures in two venues:
Ex Marks the Spot, 3-7 King Street, Great Yarmouth NR30 2NF, Exhibition opens 18 September 10.30am & continues 19-28 September 2019, Thursday-Saturday, 12 noon - 6pm
University of Suffolk, Waterfront Building, 19 Neptune Quay, Ipswich, IP4 1QJ Exhibition opens Wednesday 18 September, 1.30pm, & continues 19-28 September 2019 weekday 9-4 & weekends 10-4
Ex Marks the Spot, 3-7 King Street, Great Yarmouth NR30 2NF, Exhibition opens 18 September 10.30am & continues 19-28 September 2019, Thursday-Saturday, 12 noon - 6pm
University of Suffolk, Waterfront Building, 19 Neptune Quay, Ipswich, IP4 1QJ Exhibition opens Wednesday 18 September, 1.30pm, & continues 19-28 September 2019 weekday 9-4 & weekends 10-4
Path, North House Gallery, The Walls, Manningtree, Essex CO11 1AS. PV Saturday 6 July - 24 August 2019. A Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Stour Valley Path as part of the River Stour Festival 2019 with Norman Ackroyd RA, Neil Bousfield, May Cornet, Jason Hicklin RE, Melvyn King, Kit Leese, Jane Lewis, Sarah Milne, Ruth Philo, Oliver Soskice, Dina Southwell, Jasper Startup, Linda Theophilus.
Ruth Philo The Colour in Anything at M2 Gallery, @ 2c Kings Grove, London SE15 2NB, 23 May - 4 July 2019.
A series of paintings that begin with walking, as a sensory process, feeling, seeing, hearing, thinking … noticing aspects of place, terrain, colour, light, temperature and weather. A dialogue between thoughts and senses through the experience that continues into painting, instinctive, unconscious and personal. Rather than depicting the world the paintings convey a sensory experience through abstraction, using the language of colour, surface, and gesture as touch to evoke feeling and memory.
A series of paintings that begin with walking, as a sensory process, feeling, seeing, hearing, thinking … noticing aspects of place, terrain, colour, light, temperature and weather. A dialogue between thoughts and senses through the experience that continues into painting, instinctive, unconscious and personal. Rather than depicting the world the paintings convey a sensory experience through abstraction, using the language of colour, surface, and gesture as touch to evoke feeling and memory.
Alive in the Universe at the Venice Biennale, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Calle de la Racheta, 3764, 30121 Venezia VE, Italy, 8 May - 4 June 2019, 10am - 6 pm each day. Two one minute films If Blue Could Be Happiness & The Sea Today are included in a daily showreel of 200 films and The River Runs Through Us film by Ruth Philo & Stuart Bowditch will be shown on 14 May with work by Issam Kourbaj, Judy Goldhill, Felicity Faulkner and Jeremy Kidd.
Made in Britain: 82 Painters of the 21st Century, Curated by Robert Priseman, Anna McNay, Małgorzata Taraszkiewicz-Zwolicka and Małgorzata Ruszkowska-Macur, features 82 British artists from the Priseman-Seabrook collection.
Artsits: David Ainley, Iain Andrews, Amanda Ansell, Louis Appleby, Richard Baker, Karl Bielik, Claudia Böse, John Brennan, Julian Brown, Simon Burton, Ruth Calland, Emma Cameron, Simon Carter, Maria Chevska, Jules Clarke, Wayne Clough, Ben Coode-Adams, Ben Cove, Lucy Cox, Andrew Crane, Pen Dalton, Alan Davie, Jeffrey Dennis, Lisa Denyer, Sam Douglas, Annabel Dover, Natalie Dowse, Fiona Eastwood, Nathan Eastwood, Tracey Emin
Geraint Evans, Paul Galyer, Pippa Gatty, Terry Greene, Susan Gunn, Susie Hamilton, Alex Hanna, David Hockney, Marguerite Horner, Barbara Howey, Phil Illingworth, Linda Ingham, Silvie Jacobi, Kelly Jayne, Matthew Krishanu, Bryan Lavelle, Andrew Litten, Cathy Lomax, Paula MacArthur, David Manley, Enzo Marra, Monica Metsers, Nicholas Middleton, Andrew Munoz, Keith Murdoch, Paul Newman, Stephen Newton, Gideon Pain
Andrew Parkinson, Mandy Payne, Charley Peters, Ruth Philo, Alison Pilkington, Narbi Price, Robert Priseman, Freya Purdue, James Quin, Greg Rook, Katherine Russell, Stephen Snoddy, Ben Snowden, David Sullivan, Harvey Taylor, Molly Thomson, Ehryn Torrell, Judith Tucker, Philip Tyler, Julie Umerle, Marius von Brasch, Mary Webb, Sean Williams and Fionn Wilson
The National Museum, Gdańsk, The Green Gate, ul. Długi Targ 24, 80-828 Gdańsk, Poland
Exhibition dates: 14 March - 2 June 2019
Summer season: 1 May - 30 September | Tues - Sun 10.00 - 17.00 | Mon - closed.
Winter season: 1 October - 30 April | Tues - Sun 9.00 - 16.00 | Mon - closed.
Supported by the British Council and The Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk. Catalogue here
Artsits: David Ainley, Iain Andrews, Amanda Ansell, Louis Appleby, Richard Baker, Karl Bielik, Claudia Böse, John Brennan, Julian Brown, Simon Burton, Ruth Calland, Emma Cameron, Simon Carter, Maria Chevska, Jules Clarke, Wayne Clough, Ben Coode-Adams, Ben Cove, Lucy Cox, Andrew Crane, Pen Dalton, Alan Davie, Jeffrey Dennis, Lisa Denyer, Sam Douglas, Annabel Dover, Natalie Dowse, Fiona Eastwood, Nathan Eastwood, Tracey Emin
Geraint Evans, Paul Galyer, Pippa Gatty, Terry Greene, Susan Gunn, Susie Hamilton, Alex Hanna, David Hockney, Marguerite Horner, Barbara Howey, Phil Illingworth, Linda Ingham, Silvie Jacobi, Kelly Jayne, Matthew Krishanu, Bryan Lavelle, Andrew Litten, Cathy Lomax, Paula MacArthur, David Manley, Enzo Marra, Monica Metsers, Nicholas Middleton, Andrew Munoz, Keith Murdoch, Paul Newman, Stephen Newton, Gideon Pain
Andrew Parkinson, Mandy Payne, Charley Peters, Ruth Philo, Alison Pilkington, Narbi Price, Robert Priseman, Freya Purdue, James Quin, Greg Rook, Katherine Russell, Stephen Snoddy, Ben Snowden, David Sullivan, Harvey Taylor, Molly Thomson, Ehryn Torrell, Judith Tucker, Philip Tyler, Julie Umerle, Marius von Brasch, Mary Webb, Sean Williams and Fionn Wilson
The National Museum, Gdańsk, The Green Gate, ul. Długi Targ 24, 80-828 Gdańsk, Poland
Exhibition dates: 14 March - 2 June 2019
Summer season: 1 May - 30 September | Tues - Sun 10.00 - 17.00 | Mon - closed.
Winter season: 1 October - 30 April | Tues - Sun 9.00 - 16.00 | Mon - closed.
Supported by the British Council and The Academy of Fine Arts, Gdansk. Catalogue here
Contemporary British Painting: An Exhibition of Thirty-Four Painters at the Hostry, Norwich Cathedral, The Close, Norwich, NR1 4DH, 25 April - 16 May 2019, PV Friday 26 April 5.30 - 8 pm. Catalogue here
Painting as Terrain: Jyoti Bharwani, Claudia Boese, Alison Downer, Jane Frederick, Daphne Leighton, Ruth Philo & Mary Romer Greenfield at The Crypt, St Marylebone Parish Church, 17 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LT, 18 January - 26 April 2019, PV 22 January 6-8pm, Panel Discussion 16 February 1-2.30pm with artists, chaired by Emma Cameron, Artist & Art Psychotherapist. Read the catalogue here, with essay by Dr Matthew Bowman
New Painting, Contemporary British Painting members' exhibition, The Crypt, St Marylebone Parish Church, 17 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LT, 24 November 2018 - 17 January 2019 Catalogue here
LOCAL ANYWHERE Sluice Members Show 2018: Daniel Anhut, Ben Coode Adams, Day Bowman, Gemma Cossey, Stephen Harwood, André de Jong, Fernando León-Guiu, Michaela Nettell, Ruth Philo, Mark Scott-Wood & Sarah Trillo, Sluice HQ, 171 Morning Lane, Hackney Central, London, E9 6JY, 6-28 December 2018, PV Thursday 6 December 6.30-9pm
Paintlounge BERLIN, Painting salon & conversations at Sluice Exchange 2018, Kühlhaus, Luckenwalder Straße 3, 10963 Berlin, Germany, 16-18 November 2018
The First Biennial Sino-British Contemporary Art Exhibition, Yantai Art Museum, Yantai, China, 25 September - 12 October 2018, supported by the British Council and Contemporary British Painting. Ruth will also be undertaking a residency there in September.
Estuary, North House Gallery, The Walls, Manningtree, CO11 1AS. 30 June - 25 August 2018, Mixed exhibition of work inspired by the Estuary of the River Stour. Open on Saturdays 10am–5pm or by appointment
The River Runs Through Us Exhibition & Film Launch, Boat House Gallery, Flatford, East Bergholt, Suffolk CO7 6UL, 30 June 2018 Exhibition continues until 26 August & there are film screenings along the river during the summer
Brentwood Stations, Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Michael E. Komechak Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1 June – 31 July 2018
Ruth Philo There is no hiding, distemper on linen, 2016
The Hearth Project, Charity Auction, 35 North Contemporary Fine Art, 35 North Road, Brighton, BN1 1YB, 23 - 31 March 2018
This Year's Model part I, Annual Members Show 2018: Does the Body Rule the Mind? ... Studio 1.1 Gallery, 57A Redchurch Street, London E2 7DJ, 5 - 28 January 2018.
Duck or rabbit? Old crone or beautiful woman. The games the mind and eye can play are notorious. And then there's muscle memory. Are de Kooning's last paintings (made while supposedly of unsound mind) invalid? Someone has certainly decided they have less 'value' on the art market? Or are they just the most beautiful things he has ever produced? Is there a duality? A contradiction? Or is it just where you start from? Where do you want to get to? Well I wouldn't start from here ...
'But we cannot cling
to the old dreams anymore
no we cannon cling
to those dreams
Does the body rule the mind
or does the mind rule the body?
I dunno...'
The Smiths 'Still Ill'
Duck or rabbit? Old crone or beautiful woman. The games the mind and eye can play are notorious. And then there's muscle memory. Are de Kooning's last paintings (made while supposedly of unsound mind) invalid? Someone has certainly decided they have less 'value' on the art market? Or are they just the most beautiful things he has ever produced? Is there a duality? A contradiction? Or is it just where you start from? Where do you want to get to? Well I wouldn't start from here ...
'But we cannot cling
to the old dreams anymore
no we cannon cling
to those dreams
Does the body rule the mind
or does the mind rule the body?
I dunno...'
The Smiths 'Still Ill'
Contemporary British Painting: Testcard P, The Crypt, St Marylebone Parish Church, 17 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LT, 30 September 2017 - 11 January 2018, Private View 3 October 6-8pm & Panel Discussion Friday 17 November 2-5pm.
Contemporary Masters from Britain: 80 Painters of the 21st Century, at Yantai Art Museum, Yantai, China, 7 July-3 August 2017, Artall Gallery, Nanjing, China, 10-23 October 2017, Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing, China, 24-31 October 2017, Tianjin Academy of Fine Art, Tianjin, 1 December 2017 - 10 January 2018
Yves Beaumont & Ruth Philo Landskips Studio 1.1 Gallery, 57A Redchurch Street, London, E2 7DG, 6-29 October 2017. PV Thursday 5 October 6-9pm. The exhibition announces the publication of a monograph on Belgian painte Yves Beaumont with essays by Keran James and Michael Keenan
PIY Paintlounge at Sluice Biennial, London 2017 at 12 Bohemia Place, Mare Street, London E8 1DU, 1 - 3 October 2017 12am-6pm, preview 30 September 2017 3-9pm and opening talk at 4pm. PIY Paintlounge is a collaborative project between paintbritain and PaintUnion; the event includes a salon exhibition, fundraiser and series of conversations on contemporary painting. I will be speaking on Tesday 3 October at 12.30 with Katrina Blannin and Nadine Feinson, details of talks are listed below.
Paint Ground Ruth Philo, Solo Show, Westminster Reference Library, 35 St Martin's Street, London, WC2H 7HP. 31 July - 5 August 2017. Opening view Tuesday 1 August 5.30-8.30 with talks on contemporary abstraction at 6pm followed by drinks, all welcome.
Anything Goes, Art Bermondsey Project Space, 183 - 185 Bermondsey Street, London, SE1 3UW, 25 July - 5 August 2017. Private View 26 July 6-9pm
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Contemporary Masters from the East of England, East Anglian Art Fund, The Cut, Halesworth, Suffolk. 25 April - 27 May 2016
PV Saturday 29 April 2017, 12-2pm, all welcome
This showcases a number of new and emerging artists of both national and international significance, featuring work by John Moores Prize winner Nicholas Middleton, 54th Venice Biennale exhibitor Marguerite Horner, East London Painting Prize Winner Nathan Eastwood, Kettle’s Yard exhibitor Amanda Ansell, Leverhulme Trust awardee David Sullivan, Digswell Arts Fellow Freya Purdue and Mary Webb who received a solo show at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in 2011, amongst many others. It draws 35 works from the Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting which is housed in North Essex. It is the only art collection in the United Kingdom dedicated to painting produced in Britain after the year 2000.
Catalogue
PV Saturday 29 April 2017, 12-2pm, all welcome
This showcases a number of new and emerging artists of both national and international significance, featuring work by John Moores Prize winner Nicholas Middleton, 54th Venice Biennale exhibitor Marguerite Horner, East London Painting Prize Winner Nathan Eastwood, Kettle’s Yard exhibitor Amanda Ansell, Leverhulme Trust awardee David Sullivan, Digswell Arts Fellow Freya Purdue and Mary Webb who received a solo show at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in 2011, amongst many others. It draws 35 works from the Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting which is housed in North Essex. It is the only art collection in the United Kingdom dedicated to painting produced in Britain after the year 2000.
Catalogue
The Colour Blue: talk by Ruth Philo, artist talk by Sarah Milne & poetry reading by Pam Job at the Sentinel Gallery, Wivenhoe, Friday 24 March 2017, 6.30pm. Contact the gallery to book tickets
Seascape, Skyscape & the Colour Blue: work by painters Sarah Milne, Tony Foster, Ruth Philo, Sarah Spencer & prints by Emma Buckmaster, The Sentinel Gallery, Chapel Road, Wivenhoe, Essex CO7 9DX. 4 - 26 March 2017, Opening Reception 4 March 11-4, open Wednesday - Sunday 10 - 5
Stone's Throw: Book & Exhibition Launch, Mosaic Stanza Group & Colchester Artists at the Minories, 74 High Street, Colchester, CO1 1UE, 11 March 3-4pm.
Last of Countless Thoughts, Ruth Philo
Stone's Throw: Book & Exhibition Launch, Mosaic Stanza Group & Colchester Artists at The Minories, 74 High Street, Colchester, CO1 1UE. 11 March 2017 3-4pm, part of the Essex Book Festival - free event, no booking required. Exhibition continues until 19 March.
30 x 30 x 34 Contemporary British Painting: 34 Painters, The Crypt, St Marylebone Parish Church, 17 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LT, 8 November 2016 - 4 January 2017
Contemporary British Painting: Summer Exhibition, The West Gallery, Quay Arts, Sea Street, Newport Harbour, Isle of Wight, PO30 5BD. 30 July - 15 October 2016
Download catalogue here
‘Looking Up’, Studio 1.1 Selected Members Show, 57A Redchurch Street, London E2 7DG, private view 4 August 6-9pm
5 – 28 August 2016
with Mark Bell, Anna Jung Seo, Anne Parfitt, Emma Coop, Eugenia Cuellar, Sarah Knill-Jones, Gemma Cossey, Lorraine Robbins, Marianne Shorten, Olha Pryymak, Soozy Roberts, Julie Caves, Wayne Clough, Emma Tod, Hitomi Kammai, Wendy Saunders, Ruth Philo, David Sullivan, Paula MacArthur, Heidi Ferid, Fernando Leon-Guiu, Stephen Buckeridge, Etienne de Villiers, Sacha Meaden, Madi Acharya-Baskerville, Richard Harris, Russell Terry, Kelly Sweeney, Deborah Westmancoat, Cool Diabang Mory.
PING, The Minories Galleries, 74 High, Street, Colchester, CO1 1UE 14 May - 19 July 2016
to the lighthouse, film by Stuart Bowditch and Ruth Philo showing on the Big Screen Southend, Focal Point Gallery, The Forum,Elmer Square, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1NB in Arcadia for All as part of Radical Essex, 29 April - 15 July 2016
Press Release
PING, The Minories Galleries, 74 High Street, Colchester, CO1 1UE. 14 May - 9 July 2016
Soheila Sokhanvari 'Two serious ladies'
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2015, Falmouth Art Gallery, Municipal Buildings, The Moor, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 2RT, 23 April - 4 June 2016
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Paint Collective: Ways of Seeing, Boat House Gallery (NT), Flatford, East Bergholt, Suffolk, CO7 6UL 5 March - 24 April 2016
Join us for a sociable, relaxing and creative session enabling you to slow down, enjoy and absorb the atmosphere of Flatford. You will be looking at Constable's treatment of the local landscape, famous for being the location of his painting the Hay Wain. Bring drawing materials if you have them but there will also be some available on the day.
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Constable: Study of Cirrus Clouds 1822 V & A
Workshops The Colour Blue: Skying & Painting Skies Looking at Constable on 17 March 2016 at Ipswich Art School Gallery, Upper High Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 3NE, part of ART:SCIENCE:LIFE http://www.ipswich.gov.uk/sites/default/files/asl_flyer.pdf
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2015, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury Christ Church University, St Peters Street Canterbury, Kent, CT1 2BQ, 11 February - 9 April 2016
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Vanessa Jackson
ART/Converters, Studio 1.1 Gallery, 57A Redchurch Street, London E2 7DG, 4 - 28 February 2016
Studio 1.1's Biennial Fundraiser, all works donated kindly by past and future artists for sale at the astonishing price of £200
with (and counting and in no particular order)
STEPHEN HARWOOD, DAVID TURNER, PLAYPAINT, SARAH LESLIE, MATTHIAS NEUMANN, VANESSA JACKSON RA, EUGENIA CUELLAR, ROSS WALKER, MICHAELA ZIMMER, JULIA KEENAN, CHRISTOPHER CAMPBELL, ALBERT IRVIN RA, LISA McKENDRICK, SUE KENNINGTON, PATRICK GALWAY, DAVID BEN WHITE, CLARE PRICE, YVES BEAUMONT, CALUM F KERR, JAY CLOTH, JOHN TINEY, PAUL SAVAGE, STUART BARNES, STEPHEN BUCKERIDGE, NICHOLAS LOCKYER, DOMINGO ARJONILLA, GRETCHEN GERAETS, LOUISE ROBBINS, SARAH KNILL JONES, EMA O’DONOVAN, ETIENNE DE VILLIERS, CAMILLA BRUETON, PIPPA GATTY, BRUCE INGRAM, MARIANNE SHORTEN, GEMMA COSSEY, CHRISTOPHER BOND, DANIEL LEHAN, GRAHAM CARRICK, MARTA BOROS, RICHARD BATEMAN, GASPER JEMEC, PETER SYLVEIRE, FERNANDO LEON-GUIU, PAIGE PERKINS, MARY RENNER, ALISON LUMB, JOHN & SISSY HUGHES, DAVID MICHEAUD, ANDY HARPER, SACHA MEADEN, DOMINIQUE ROMEYER, RUTH PHILO, MARCUS COPE, JACQUELINE UTLEY, J. A. NICHOLLS, COLIN ALLEN,
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Studio 1.1's Biennial Fundraiser, all works donated kindly by past and future artists for sale at the astonishing price of £200
with (and counting and in no particular order)
STEPHEN HARWOOD, DAVID TURNER, PLAYPAINT, SARAH LESLIE, MATTHIAS NEUMANN, VANESSA JACKSON RA, EUGENIA CUELLAR, ROSS WALKER, MICHAELA ZIMMER, JULIA KEENAN, CHRISTOPHER CAMPBELL, ALBERT IRVIN RA, LISA McKENDRICK, SUE KENNINGTON, PATRICK GALWAY, DAVID BEN WHITE, CLARE PRICE, YVES BEAUMONT, CALUM F KERR, JAY CLOTH, JOHN TINEY, PAUL SAVAGE, STUART BARNES, STEPHEN BUCKERIDGE, NICHOLAS LOCKYER, DOMINGO ARJONILLA, GRETCHEN GERAETS, LOUISE ROBBINS, SARAH KNILL JONES, EMA O’DONOVAN, ETIENNE DE VILLIERS, CAMILLA BRUETON, PIPPA GATTY, BRUCE INGRAM, MARIANNE SHORTEN, GEMMA COSSEY, CHRISTOPHER BOND, DANIEL LEHAN, GRAHAM CARRICK, MARTA BOROS, RICHARD BATEMAN, GASPER JEMEC, PETER SYLVEIRE, FERNANDO LEON-GUIU, PAIGE PERKINS, MARY RENNER, ALISON LUMB, JOHN & SISSY HUGHES, DAVID MICHEAUD, ANDY HARPER, SACHA MEADEN, DOMINIQUE ROMEYER, RUTH PHILO, MARCUS COPE, JACQUELINE UTLEY, J. A. NICHOLLS, COLIN ALLEN,
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This Year's Model 2016, Studio 1.1 Gallery, 57A Redchurch Street, London E2 7DG, 7 - 31 January 2016
selected by Howard Dyke, Kate Lyddon and studio1.1, London).
with
TOM BANKS, ESMOND BINGHAM, MIRANDA BOULTON, GRAHAM CARRICK, EUGENIA CUELLAR, MATTHEW HERRING, GASPER JEMEC, SUE KENNINGTON, PAULA MACARTHUR, EMA O’DONOVAN, PAIGE PERKINS, RUTH PHILO, MARION PIPER, PLAYPAINT, SHARON SWAINE, DAVID SULLIVAN, ETIENNE DE VILLIERS, JACQUELINE UTLEY, WILLIAM WRIGHT
selected by Howard Dyke, Kate Lyddon and studio1.1, London).
with
TOM BANKS, ESMOND BINGHAM, MIRANDA BOULTON, GRAHAM CARRICK, EUGENIA CUELLAR, MATTHEW HERRING, GASPER JEMEC, SUE KENNINGTON, PAULA MACARTHUR, EMA O’DONOVAN, PAIGE PERKINS, RUTH PHILO, MARION PIPER, PLAYPAINT, SHARON SWAINE, DAVID SULLIVAN, ETIENNE DE VILLIERS, JACQUELINE UTLEY, WILLIAM WRIGHT
Thomas Gosebruch: Untitled 2
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2015, THE WILSON, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Clarence Street, Cheltenham, GL50 3JT, 21 November 2015 - 24 January 2016
Contemporary British Painting Group Show, The Crypt, St Marylebone Parish Church, 17 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LT, 3 November 2015 - 2 January 2016
Art on a Postcard: Secret Auction in aid of the Hepatitis C Trust & Exhibition at Soho Revue, 14 Greek Street, London, W1D 4DP, 9-12 November 2015 http://theauctionroom.com/auctions/149
Lines for Agnes, The Crypt, St Marylebone ParishChurch, 17 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LT, 1 September - 30 October 2015 http://www.contemporarybritishpainting.com/wordpress/?p=4347
ISSUU online publication Lines for Agnes: 9 Contemporary Painters (click title for link)
ISSUU online publication Lines for Agnes: 9 Contemporary Painters (click title for link)
Closing Panel Discussion, moderated by Susan Mumford, with artists including Jason Miller, Ruth Philo, Marion Piper & Hanna ten Doornkaat., 31 October, the Crypt, St Marylebone Parish Church, 17 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LT. This considers contemporary painting in the show in the light of Agnes Martin's work. Book through Eventbrite
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2015, Jerwood Space, London SE1, 16 September - 25 October 2015, and continues on tour until June 2016
http://jerwoodvisualarts.org/jerwood-drawing-prize-2015
http://jerwoodvisualarts.org/jerwood-drawing-prize-2015
Stations of the Cross, SE9 Container Gallery, Footscray Road, Eltham, SE9 2SU, 12 September - 24 October 2015, Saturdays 11-3.
To the Lighthouse, a collaborative residency with Stuart Bowditch at grove projects, Bury St Edmunds, with an opening on 19 September showing work in progress on digital film, sound and light installations http://www.groveprojects.org/projects.html
Cuckoo Farm Open Studios as part of Colchester & Tendring Open Studios, 12 & 13 September, Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester
Click here to download a digital Open Studios guide http://www.colchesteropenstudios.org/uploads/files/pdfs/CaTOS_2015.pdf
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD, 8 June - 16 August 2015
The painting 'All that is Countless Moments' is included in the Royal Academy Selections Abstract Thinking & Think Pink
Painting & Walking; Walking & Painting talk at Firstsite, Colchester: Ruth Philo, Simon Carter & Caroline Wendling on Wednesday 29 July 2015 at 6.15pm, as part of the John Virtue The Sea exhibition programme
http://www.firstsite.uk.net/page/painting-and-walking-walking-and-painting
http://www.firstsite.uk.net/page/painting-and-walking-walking-and-painting
Eastern Light, Harwich Festival of the Arts 2015, Old Bank Studios, Kings Quay Street, Harwich, CO12 3ER, 24 June - 5 July 2015
Image: Gill Ord
ART/Converters! Studio 1.1, 57A Redchurch Street, London, E2 7DG 2-26 April
Annual Fundraiser, all works £200. Artists who have contributed include
ALEXANDER BUHLER, ALICE PEILLON, ANDREW GRAVES, ANDREW SETO, BENJAMIN DEAKIN, BRIDGET JACKSON, CHARLES WILLIAMS, CHRISTOPHER BOND, CLAUDIA BOESE, DAVID SMALL, JOSHUA RAFFELL, JULIE UMERLE, KARL BIELIK, KATE LYDDON, LUCIA VERA, LUCINDA OESTREICHER, MANDY WILLIAMS, MANUELA VIEZZER, MARCUS COPE, MARIANNE MORILD, MICHAEL BARTLETT, MICHAELA ZIMMER, MARTIN GAYFORD, MICHAEL HAMMOND, NATASHA KAHN, NATHAN EASTWOOD, OONA GRIMES, PETER SYLVEIRE, RACHELLE ALLEN SHERWOOD, RALPH DOREY, KERAN JAMES, REBECCA MEANLEY, RICHARD BATEMAN, ROBERT CERVERA, ROBIN SEIR, ROSS WALKER, ROXY TOPIA & PADDY GOULD, RUTH CALLAND, RUTH PHILO, SACHA MEADEN, SARAH KNILL-JONES, SARAH McNULTY, STEPHANIE MORAN, STEPHEN BUCKERIDGE, STUART BARNES, WILLIAM STEIN
Annual Fundraiser, all works £200. Artists who have contributed include
ALEXANDER BUHLER, ALICE PEILLON, ANDREW GRAVES, ANDREW SETO, BENJAMIN DEAKIN, BRIDGET JACKSON, CHARLES WILLIAMS, CHRISTOPHER BOND, CLAUDIA BOESE, DAVID SMALL, JOSHUA RAFFELL, JULIE UMERLE, KARL BIELIK, KATE LYDDON, LUCIA VERA, LUCINDA OESTREICHER, MANDY WILLIAMS, MANUELA VIEZZER, MARCUS COPE, MARIANNE MORILD, MICHAEL BARTLETT, MICHAELA ZIMMER, MARTIN GAYFORD, MICHAEL HAMMOND, NATASHA KAHN, NATHAN EASTWOOD, OONA GRIMES, PETER SYLVEIRE, RACHELLE ALLEN SHERWOOD, RALPH DOREY, KERAN JAMES, REBECCA MEANLEY, RICHARD BATEMAN, ROBERT CERVERA, ROBIN SEIR, ROSS WALKER, ROXY TOPIA & PADDY GOULD, RUTH CALLAND, RUTH PHILO, SACHA MEADEN, SARAH KNILL-JONES, SARAH McNULTY, STEPHANIE MORAN, STEPHEN BUCKERIDGE, STUART BARNES, WILLIAM STEIN
Towards Abstraction, Gallery Argentum at KI Europe, 148-153 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6PJ, 30 January - 26 My 2015
The Sentinel Gallery Opening Exhibition, Chapel Road, Wivenhoe, Colchester, CO7 9DX, 14 March -18 April 2015
'Station of the Cross 1, Christ condemned to death' David Ainley
Contemporary British Painting, 'Stations of the Cross', Brentwood Cathedral RC, Brentwood, 18 February - 3 April 2015
http://www.dioceseofbrentwood.net/news/ViewPost.aspx?ID=1001
http://jerichotree.com/2015/02/17/the-brentwood-stations-of-the-cross-1-religion-and-art-in-dialogue/
http://www.dioceseofbrentwood.net/news/ViewPost.aspx?ID=1001
http://jerichotree.com/2015/02/17/the-brentwood-stations-of-the-cross-1-religion-and-art-in-dialogue/
@PaintBritain, Ipswich Old Art School Gallery, 15 November 2014 - 8 March 2015.
Artists : David Ainley, Iain Andrews, Amanda Ansell, Julian Brown, Simon Burton, Simon Carter, Jules Clarke, Ben Cove, Andrew Crane, Pen Dalton, Lisa Denyer, Sam Douglas, Annabel Dover, Natalie Dowse, Wendy Elia, Fiona Eastwood, Nathan Eastwood, Paul Galyer, Terry Greene, Susan Gunn, Alex Hanna, Marguerite Horner, Barbara Howey, Linda Ingham, Sue Kennington, Matthew Krishanu, Bryan Lavelle, Monica Metsers, Nick Middleton, Andrew Munoz, Stephen Newton, Kirsty O’Leary-Leeson, Gideon Pain, Ruth Philo, Alison Pilkington, Robert Priseman, Freya Purdue, Greg Rook, Katherine Russell, David Sullivan, Harvey Taylor, Judith Tucker, Julie Umerle, Mary Webb, Sean Williams
Image: Matthew Krishanu 'Girl with a Book'
The Priseman-Seabrook Collection at Huddersfield Art Gallery, Princess Alexandra Walk, Huddersfield HD1 2SU,
1 November 2014 - 14 March 2015.
Artists include: Alison Pilkington, Iain Andrews, Paul Galyer, Jemima Watts, Monica Metsers, Annabel Dover, Andrew Munoz, James Quin,Lisa Denyer, Amanda Ansell, Fiona Eastwood, Been HeadSimon Burton, Emma Cameron, Simon Carter, Barbara Howey, Gideon Pain, Matthew Krishanu, Anne-Marie Kolthammer, Kelly Jayne, Wendy Elia, Silvie Jacob, Linda Ingham, Natalie Dowse, David Sullivan, Susannah Douglas, Greg Rook, Judy Tucker, Katherine Russell, Jules Clarke, Nicholas Middleton, Nathan Eastwood, Alex Hanna, Stephen Newton, Pen Dalton, Susan Gunn, David Ainley, Claudia Boese, Terry GreeneJulian Brown, Sue Kennington, Ben Cove, Andrew Crane, Bryan Lavelle, Mary Webb, Ruth Philo, Freya Purdue,Julie Umerle, Kirsty O’Leary Lesson, Marguerite Horner, Harvey Taylor, Sam Douglas, Robert Priseman, Sean Williams
The catalogue for the exhibition can be found here Priseman-Seabrook Collection catalogue
Press for this exhibition from the Yorkshire Art News http://yorkshireartnews.com/2014/11/06/priseman-seabrook-collection-in-huddersfield/
1 November 2014 - 14 March 2015.
Artists include: Alison Pilkington, Iain Andrews, Paul Galyer, Jemima Watts, Monica Metsers, Annabel Dover, Andrew Munoz, James Quin,Lisa Denyer, Amanda Ansell, Fiona Eastwood, Been HeadSimon Burton, Emma Cameron, Simon Carter, Barbara Howey, Gideon Pain, Matthew Krishanu, Anne-Marie Kolthammer, Kelly Jayne, Wendy Elia, Silvie Jacob, Linda Ingham, Natalie Dowse, David Sullivan, Susannah Douglas, Greg Rook, Judy Tucker, Katherine Russell, Jules Clarke, Nicholas Middleton, Nathan Eastwood, Alex Hanna, Stephen Newton, Pen Dalton, Susan Gunn, David Ainley, Claudia Boese, Terry GreeneJulian Brown, Sue Kennington, Ben Cove, Andrew Crane, Bryan Lavelle, Mary Webb, Ruth Philo, Freya Purdue,Julie Umerle, Kirsty O’Leary Lesson, Marguerite Horner, Harvey Taylor, Sam Douglas, Robert Priseman, Sean Williams
The catalogue for the exhibition can be found here Priseman-Seabrook Collection catalogue
Press for this exhibition from the Yorkshire Art News http://yorkshireartnews.com/2014/11/06/priseman-seabrook-collection-in-huddersfield/
Playpaint 'Set double off on'
THIS YEAR’S MODEL, Studio 1.1, Redchurch Street, London E2 7DG. 2015 Annual Members’ Show selected by Studio1.1 with Marcus Cope and Robin Seir
8 January – 1 February 2015
with Esmond Bingham, Rosie West, Peter Sylveire, Stephen Buckeridge, David Sullivan, Etienne de Villiers, Domingo Arjonilla, Robert Cervera, Madi Acharya-Baskerville, Roxy Topia and Paddy Gould, Evan Thomas, Graham Carrick, Ruth Philo, Sue Kennington, Charley Peters, Aindreas Scholtz, Geraldine Swayne, Silvia Lerin, Amanda Benson, David Turner, Lorraine Robbins, Helen Ashton, Sacha Meaden, Ben Deakin, playpaint, William Wright, Rebecca Fortnum, Jules Clarke, Anne Parfitt, Gasper Gemec, Rebecca Meanley and Eugenia Cuellar
Exhibitions Archive (click title for link)