Ruth Bateman’s paintings are a rare encounter – Her mark-making resonates below language. You can almost feel the air shift: the shimmer of heat, the sound of crickets in the grass, stars flickering above a line of foliage. Scintillation, saturation, sensation. She has been shortlisted for both the 2024 Contemporary British Painting Prize and Sky […]

Three artworks to bring you home.

Since his sold-out MA degree show in 2021, Andrew Szczech has continued to gain serious attention. Most recently, his work was selected by a London curator associated with Sarabande, the ICA, and Forbes 30 Under 30 – a sign of growing recognition within the contemporary art world. Andrew’s recent paintings draw on fragments of late-Victorian wallpaper from […]

Artworks keep arriving in quiet alignment – unconnected in origin, yet clearly in conversation. This post introduces Synchronistic Curation: a space to hold artistic entanglement and what returns together.