Together, Werring’s sculptures, paintings, and monoprints form a cohesive exploration of duality and transformation. His works invite viewers into a space where the familiar becomes unfamiliar, where boundaries between forms dissolve, and where meaning is discovered in spaces that often go unnoticed ..read more

CLYDE HOPKINS - Paintings 2000 - 2017, 15th November - 12th December, Private View 14th November, 6 - 8pm, BLOND CONTEMPORARY, 7 Piccadilly Arcade, SW1Y 6NH ..read more

“… (the paintings are) tough and put together with a cool lightness of hand which conceals the lucid pictorial intelligence which has gone into their making ..read more

The artists here share an interest in imaging. Sifting, gouging and misting produce hallucinations and daydreams, echoes, sleep states, visions and spells - a limitless succession of universes ..read more

This new body of paintings combines aerial landscapes and floating shapes - figuration, colour-fields, texture and abstraction. ‘Kites' are seen from above - painted with brush, roller and airbrush. They are textured and evidence process and changes in direction through overlapping layers. They show clean, machine-like fades and colour blocks that overwrite thoughts, mistakes and past potential futures ..read more

When we talked about his current position relative to his painting, his reference to a previous Stuart Cumberland as the author of the work suggested that there might be rich parallels to be drawn between working with Cumberland’s painting, working with an artist’s estate and questions of authorship around painting and post-conceptual painting in particular ..read more

Blackbird Rook Presents Wail 6 June - 25 July 2024 The TCHC Viewing Room gallery, GU34 3YU Edmond Brooks Beckman John Gibbons Clyde Hopkins Aimee Parrott Phoebe Unwin Private View Tuesday 18th June, 11am - 2pm Aimee Parrott, Ever Becoming Body, 2021 In his combines Robert Longo paired images to create allegories of unreadability – placing faces and figures alongside abstracted landscapes and architectural details, he explored the psychological impact of the viewer’s unsuccessful attempts to make sense of an unreadable narrative. The drive to decode and discover gave the combines weight and ..read more

Blackbird Rook presents Resistance is Held in the Body  Hannah Murgatroyd 4 April - 4 June 2024 The TCHC Viewing Room gallery Alton, GU34 3YU Viewing of the exhibition at TCHC is by appointment Click below for an online viewing room ONLINE VIEWING ROOM   Long Lost Song (detail) Hannah Murgatroyd ..read more

Blackbird Rook and The Good Ship presents PET ZOE SPOWAGE 07.03 - 30.03 Persistence Works, Yorkshire Artspace I finished making this work mid November 2023, and had my son a couple of weeks later in Leeds General Infirmary. The gestation of my child and these paintings shared time. From the start I was using 'Pet' as the title for this body of work: 'Pet' as in a creature you pour your love into; 'Pet' as in the affectionate/patronising touch of an authority (figure?); 'Pet' peeve/theory/name as in 'held dear'. There was something darkly comic about how lightweight the word Pet is in contr ..read more

VALUE VALUE VALUE Curated by Peter Lamb 15th February - 21st March 2024 Birgir Birgisson Shane Bradford Jim Cheatle Peter Lamb Gustav Metzger Tahmina Negmat Aidan O’Sullivan Playpaint Kate Steciw   Kate Steciw, The Waterbearer, 2023, Inkjet prints on canvas, collage on panel, 127 × 101.6 cm ‘Painting's capacity to appear particularly saturated with a lifetime of its own author makes it an ideal candidate for value production’. Isabelle Graw Learn more   Jim Cheatle, Plastic 4, 2023, Giclee prints on Hahnemuhle Museum Etching, 74 × 59 cm   'Value Value Value’ brings together ..read more