Contemporary British Painting

Mountain Size : Contemporary British Painting

1 - 30 November 2019

Preview 1 Nov 5 - 10pm

Pineapple Black, Hillstreet Centre, Middlesbrough TS1 1SU

Gallery opening times

Thu - Sat 10am - 4pm

Karl Bielik / Paula MacArthur / Stephen Snoddy / Amanda Ansell / Judith Tucker / Alison Pilkington / D J Manley / Simon Carter / Narbi Price / Pen Dalton / Matthew Krishanu / Cara Nahaul / Sam Douglas Joe Packer / Mandy Payne / Julian Brown / Sean Williams / Freya Purdue / Greg Rook / Jeff Dellow / Gordon Dalton / Andrew Crane / Barbara Pierson / Natalie Dowse / Paul Newman

Mountain Size features artists from the Contemporary British Painting membership, selected by CBP board member, Gordon Dalton. The exhibition features UK artists whose work has a relationship to landscape, from coast to country, or as a more abstract inspiration. The landscape is a starting point, a subject matter, before the spontaneity, contradiction and decision making begins and the delicate matter of pushing ‘coloured mud around with a hairy stick.’

All the painters involved relate directly to the history, legacy and traditions of painting itself. This does not mean they are divorced from the wider realities around us or a fruitful critical dialogue with other art forms, but that painting itself is important. Large paintings, small paintings, paintings of ‘things’, for these artists, painting itself is mountain sized, a large, seemingly immovable force yet one that is changeable with time, history and the world around us.

Contemporary British Painting is an artist led organisation which explores and promotes current trends in British painting through group exhibitions, talks, publications and the donation of paintings to art museums.

Mountain Size features artists curated from the Contemporary British Painting membership, selected by CBP board member, Gordon Dalton. Mountain Size features artists whose work has a relationship to landscape, as well as to the history, legacy and traditions of painting itself. This does not mean it is divorced from the wider realities around it or a fruitful critical dialogue with other artforms, but that painting itself is mountain sized, a large, seemingly immovable force yet one that is changeable with time.