Alice Barker & Lorena Levi currently on show – RSA New Contemporaries 2023

Animals are perhaps our most dignified friends and companions. Artists have certainly always known this, with the history of art populated by creatures big and small.

Delighted to hear today that Thomas Cameron, who has been showing with the gallery since graduating in 2014, has been shortlisted for RBA RISING STARS!

Artist Günther Förg described painting as a ‘resilient practice’ — always in the now, and expanding rather than ever truly changing. There’s something both comforting and exciting about this. Exciting, because there really are endless possibilities, and comforting because it’s deeply rooting knowing that a contemporary painting can embody all that comes before it in the most subtle of ways. 

This selection of work emphasises texture — the real fun of it. The warp and weft of textile experiments, the hyperreality of fluff, the charisma of hand embroidery… all are among the personal touches that bring to life wonderment at our own sensory capabilities.

It’s a natural human trait to find stories in the world around us. From justifying our experiences with “everything happens for a reason” to pointing out shapes in cloud formations, creating a narrative is both instinctual and imaginative.

Water is a vital nutrient to life on earth: it’s our first building material, making up around 60 percent of the human body. It’s also often no less vital to the act of artistic creation, for example, we could think of the human body as analogous to a body of work, with water as the essential life-force.

Echo and seam in the empathy of forms and colours chiming. The entities – or composites, or individuals – that make up each work transit in a rhythmic scattering, an errant flow.

Zuzanna Salamon’s year has started with the news that she’s been selected to show in the Royal Society for British Artist’s 200th annual show at the Mall Galleries London, for the 3rd year running.

Check out artists on show this month.