paint talk

There's a real world outside is now open, @bonjourostende @ahwnn_bonjourostende To recieve a list of available works, email [email protected] Thank you to everyone who came to the opening, it was a great evening, and a huge thank you to @alice__mac @joana.galego @isaac.nugent for your assistance with the curation and installation of the show. There's a real world outside, a group show of work by Max Dreezen (BE), Simon Foxall (UK), Joana Galego (PT), James Gardner (CA), Paul Housley (UK), Ben Jamie (UK), De Klup (BE), Lindsey Jean McLean (UK), Holly Mills (UK), Tahmina Negmat (UZ), Karolina Ptaszkowska (PL), and Simon Verougstraete (BE). Show runs from 29th October until 20th November. For enquiries please email, [email protected] or [email protected] A Horse With No Name Gallery, -1 Bonjour Ostende, Leopold 1 Plein, Ostende, Belgium @max_dreezen @simonfoxallart @joana.galego @james_of_gardens @paul.housley @benjamie @deklup @lindseyjeanmclean @hollyveramills @tahmina.negmat @simonverougstraete

Paint Talk and Staffordshire Street, @staffordshirest are delighted to present, A Painting Show. A Painting Show is a group exhibition bringing together twenty eight artists, with works spanning a vast spectrum of approaches to painting and image making. The show includes work by Karolina Albricht, Lulua Alyahya, Ned Armstrong, Klaas Op De Beeck, Veronika Bezdenejnykh, Sophie Birch, Max Boyla, Luke Burton, Ethan Caflisch, Noemi Conan, Ruby Dickson, Grant Foster, Jake Freeman, Alex Gibbs, Alex Gilmour, Lily Hargreaves, Madelynn Green, Sophie Lourdes Knight, Holly Mills, Andras Nagy-Sandor, Paige Perkins, Francisca Pinto, Karolina Ptaszkowska, Olivia Sterling, Heidi Ukkonen, Ryan Winnen, Fen De Winter, and Salome Wu. Private View: Thursday 30th May, 6-8pm 49 Staffordshire St, London, SE15 5TF The show runs until 16th June. Events There will be a discussion panel with Madelynn Green, Karolina Albricht, Ethan Caflisch, and Ned Armstrong on Thursday 6th June, from 7-9pm in the gallery. There will be live music in the gallery on the 7th, 14th and 16th June, details to follow. There will be workshops in the gallery on the 8th, 9th and 14th June, details to follow. @karolinaalbricht @plsthanx @ned__armstrong__ @klaasopdebeeck @vero_nika_bez @bophiesmirch @actually_maxboyla @luke_p_burton @ethancaflisch @noemiconan @rubyevedickson @foster_grant @itsjakefreeman @alex___gibbs @a_gilmour @beanbagbod @madelynnmaegreen @sophielourdesknight @hollyveramills @andrasnagysandor @paigeperkins7 @franciscapinta @karolina_ptaszkowska @oliviaster @ukkon @ryanwinnen @fendewinter @salome___wu

Paint Talk and Staffordshire Street present, A Painting Show A Painting Show seeks to reflect and embody the endless possibilities of paint. Expansive, immersive abstraction, a varying trail of graphic language, observed reality, canvases turned in on themselves, portraits, patterns, all manner of heads, architectural structures, collaged, stitched, scored, dense surfaces, saturated colour, coupled with the precise rendering of matter. The scale of approach and matter are wide and sweeping. The show includes work by Karolina Albricht, Lulua Alyahya, Ned Armstrong, Klaas Op De Beeck, Veronika Bezdenejnykh, Sophie Birch, Max Boyla, Luke Burton, Ethan Caflisch, Noemi Conan, Ruby Dickson, Grant Foster, Jake Freeman, Alex Gibbs, Alex Gilmour, Lily Hargreaves, Madelynn Green, Sophie Lourdes Knight, Holly Mills, Andras Nagy-Sandor, Paige Perkins, Francisca Pinto, Karolina Ptaszkowska, Olivia Sterling, Heidi Ukkonen, Ryan Winnen, Fen De Winter, and Salome Wu. 49 Staffordshire St, London, SE15 5TF The show runs until 16th June. @karolinaalbricht @plsthanx @ned__armstrong__ @klaasopdebeeck @vero_nika_bez @bophiesmirch @actually_maxboyla @luke_p_burton @ethancaflisch @noemiconan @rubyevedickson @foster_grant @itsjakefreeman @alex___gibbs @a_gilmour @beanbagbod @madelynnmaegreen @sophielourdesknight @hollyveramills @andrasnagysandor @paigeperkins7 @franciscapinta @karolina_ptaszkowska @oliviaster @ukkon @ryanwinnen @fendewinter @salome___wu 📸 @lerouxdocu

@foster_grant here 1947-present) Andrzej Jackowski I’m ending here, where it began for me. Jackowski was my tutor at Brighton and he was a huge influence on myself and many generations of painters that came through that school. When I think of the immigrant lens that Mohammed Sami powerfully depicts, Jackowski is doing this, and through a distinct melding of dream with reality — which is of course, our true quantum reality. Andrzej has a show @purdyhicksgallery currently — go and see 🥰 Thanks to @mark__connolly for inviting me to share these painters with you.

@foster_grant here — 1917-1943) Charlotte Salomon Chance found her eponymous collection of gouches, Life? Or Theatre? in the hands of a doctor who managed to save them from the Nazis. Tragically, Salomon died like so many others, brutally in Auschwitz in 43. This collection of gouaches amounts to several hundred works which read as a story board of sorts, with the resplendent imagination of an epic novelist.

@foster_grant here  (1898-1967) Magritte’s Vache paintings   Bad painting. What’s bad? Is pleasure bad? Surely not. I feel an intense sense of pleasure when I look at Magritte’s vache (cow) paintings. The wet line oozes fluency, in a language of opposites which signify a profound equality. The colour is often acidic and heightened, heralding the short-lived psychedelic revolution but ushering in Martin Kippenberger and subsequently Rene Daniels, thirty or so, odd years later.  Apologies for the crop with the final image…

@foster_grant here… (1918-2015) Carol Rama’s watercolours from the 1940s… Vilified by the fascist Italian government of the time, these watercolours were censored as “obscene” — however they eschew the fascistic tendency to depict an idealised body — to reveal realities and private truths of pain, vulnerability and abjection. Erased from art history until relatively recently — I have a book somewhere that I must find.

@foster_grant here… (1922-2004) Leon Golub’s late paintings on velum… Rage, sexual violence, and the abuse of power by corrupt politicians. Leon Golub is more relevant than ever. I found his work in an old book in a library and clung to it for many years. His paintings with oil-stick on velum feel like an antithesis to his gargantuan banner like paintings, hung from hooks, battered, bruised, scrapped with a meat clever and left unstretched. The velum works were made towards the end of his life and offer the viewer an opportunity to reflect on what one can achieve, with a touch of humour, and within the limitations of a body, that’s destined to burn out quietly like a star.

Hi, Grant Foster here @foster_grant . I’m a painter who graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2012. I have a strong relationship to paper and most of the paintings I’m going to post over the coming days have been made on paper — and have a connection to the mid-twentieth century. Here’s a few installation shots of my current show “Home to My Teenage Bedroom” at @phoenix_artspace and runs until 13th April

@gwennan_thomas takeover This is my last post for the takeover, so thought I’d share this painting “Island” from 2022. I was looking at Japanese Picture Scrolls at the time so it is heavily influenced by these and also focused on capturing something essential. With Island, I also wanted to look at the experience of being a bicultural person and its relationship with nostalgia. I remember reading that Walter Benjamin considered that “the disease of the expatriate is nostalgia.” I’ve always been interested in colour palettes that have a certain nostalgic quality to them and where the colours are just so slightly off. Island, Oil on Calico, 33x21cm, 2022 by Gwennan Thomas Thank you again to @mark__connolly for inviting me.

@gwennan_thomas takeover Loved this František Kupka piece from @guggenheim_venice . Saw this a number of years ago now. I first encountered works by Kupka as a teenager @mamcstrasbourg and had a bit of a lightbulb moment. I’m always struck by the use of colour and light in his work.

@gwennan_thomas takeover I really enjoyed these paintings by @agatazychlinska @galeria_esta as part of @warsawgalleryweekend 2024. I love experiencing a slowing down of observation and appreciate when a painting holds my attention. I’m aware that I visually consume a lot of things very fast (like most people now). I really appreciate it when something forces me to take time and slow down. I thought these two paintings had such an interesting tension. Sometimes I get a sensation when looking at a painting that feels like a “twang”- A bit like an elastic band. For me, this happens when a painting is not “easy” and holds conflicting elements that make it visually interesting and complex.