Install views of ‘Apollo Painting School’, shown alongside Louise Giovanelli’s ‘From Here to Here to Here’ at Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK. The exhibition will run until June 28th.
Images courtesy Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool Council. Photos by Brendan McGregor.
Credo, 50 x 60cm, oil on canvas, 2025.
A small painting from late 2025, exploring structure and looseness.
Currently on view at @grundyartgallery in Blackpool, UK through 28 June. Thank you @apollopaintingschool@louise___giovanelli for including my work 💛
Some install shots from ‘Apollo Painting School 2024 & 2025 Cohorts’. Today and tomorrow are the last days to see the show, closing 16 Jan. Thank you to all who have visited, and to @apollopaintingschool and @_aliceamati for making this possible 🩵
Images courtesy of the artists, Apollo Painting School and Alice Amati, London. Photo Tom Carter.
Mirror, 50 x 60cm, oil on canvas, 2025.
Showing as part of ‘Apollo Painting School 2024 & 2025 Cohorts’ @_aliceamati , continuing through 16 Jan.
Images courtesy of the artists, Apollo Painting School and Alice Amati, London. Photo Tom Carter.
Detail of a new work I’ll be showing tomorrow alongside my fellow @apollopaintingschool cohorts! Opening tomorrow evening 7 Jan, 6-8pm at @_aliceamati . The show will continue from 8 - 17 Jan. See you there 🤍
Counterpoint, 50 x 60cm, oil on canvas, 2025.
Earlier this year, as part of the @apollopaintingschool programme, @matthewjholman spoke to us about artist statements and writing about painting.
Louise Bourgeois was an example given: “I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn’t get mad. She weaves and repairs it.”
This is a little painting about repair. Honest, patient repair is often invisible labour, beyond optics, vanity, and illusion. I was thinking about the unseen structures and tensions of this. I was also thinking that in both painting and in life, I would like to be much more like Louise Bourgeois’ exemplary spider.
In a painting, I can put anything in a space, and choose whether these objects behave in accordance with the rules of reality. Where is the light, where does it cast itself, what will evade its reach? You cannot see my wanted repair, I cannot make you see it. But you can read these words. You can see this painting.
Slide 1 and 3: Photo by @michaelpollardphotography
