Lesley Bunch, Shadow Sculpture 38, oil on aluminium, 40cm x 40cm, 2025 Coming soon to ASC Glassyard Studios: Flex and Fluff, curated by Linda Khatri & Sam Haynes and hosted by TwoPlusTwo. Flex & Fluff explores the tension and harmony between strength and softness, structure and spontaneity. Through diverse media and playful contrasts, the exhibition…
Shadow Sculpture 40, oil on aluminium, 60cm x 50cm, 2025 Shadow Sculpture 40 will be included in the large-scale international group exhibition ArtEvol 2025 : Voices from the Undefined, organised by London Art Collective at Saatchi Gallery. “The exhibition will focus on emerging artists who are shaping the visionary future of contemporary art, collectively examining the…
Lesley Bunch, Shadow Sculpture 41, oil on aluminium, 60cm x 50cm, 2025 The London Group, an artists’ collective practising in all disciplines from painting and sculpture to moving image, digital and performance, will soon be exhibiting at Linden Hall Studio. ‘We are all held in a world of plasma screens, the internet, mobile phones, and…
Flat Volume, opening on the 23rd October at APT Gallery will be a survey exhibition of 41 pieces of work from 38 artists aimed at contextualising ‘Flat Volume’ and its concept within contemporary painting, with reference to Paul Nash’s ‘Equivalents for the Megaliths’ 1935 and Phyllida Barlow’s wealth of ‘coloured drawings’. In a time where…
Shadow Sculpture 34, oil on aluminium, 60 x 50cm, 2024 Darkness Visible, co-curated by Lesley Bunch, Gavin Maughfling, and Paula MacArthur, was first proposed by the late artist, lecturer and former Chair of Contemporary British Painting Judith Tucker. Exhibiting artists explore the potential of light and dark in painting, installation, performance, and film to examine…
The London Group Annual 2025 will take place at the RWS (Royal Watercolour Society) Gallery from the 6th to 12th of February, presenting work in diverse media including painting, photography, mixed media, video, sculpture, digital and installation. Jockel Liess’ 4 digital photographs ‘pattern study 1, 10, 12 & 17’, giclée prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper,…
The John Ruskin Prize is the fastest growing multi-disciplinary art prize in the UK. With the values of the radical polymath John Ruskin at its core, the prize has a growing reputation for supporting and promoting artists, designers and makers whose work defies easy categorisation. Visual literacy charity The Big Draw together with the prize…
Nicholas Walt and Lesley Bunch at the London Group Open 2023, photo credit: Sumi Perera Shadow Sculpture 29 has been awarded the Cornelissen Materials Art Prize at the London Group Open exhibition, which will take place from the 10th to the 26th of November 2023 at Copeland Gallery, London.
Artist of the Month is an ongoing series where Contemporary British Painting (CBP) highlight one of their members. This month Lesley Bunch is interviewed by fellow member Paul Newman. ‘Reproduced in my paintings, each shadow becomes a manifestation of, or ‘remains‘ of, my exchange with the lender…I am interested in the moment when the painting takes on a…
This Contemporary British Painting Prize 2022 Catalogue essay was written by judge, writer and art critic Hettie Judah on the winning artist Lesley Bunch. The catalogue contains works by all 17 exhibitors in the 2022 painting prize, with an introduction by selector Casper White. ISBN 978 1 7397818 2 8