Lesley Bunch, Shadow Sculpture 41, oil on aluminium, 60cm x 50cm, 2025 The London Group, a thriving democratic artists’ collective practising in all disciplines, from painting and sculpture to moving image, digital and performance, is delighted to be exhibiting at Linden Hall Studio. We are all held in a world of plasma screens, the internet,…
Coming this autumn! Flat Volume will open on the 23rd October at APT Gallery, curated by Sarah Longworth-West. I am delighted to take part. “A survey exhibition of 41 pieces of work from 38 artists. Aimed at contextualising ‘Flat Volume’ and its’ concept within contemporary painting. Stemmed from Paul Nash’s ‘Equivalents for the Megaliths’ 1935…
For the past year I have been co-curating an exhibition with Paula MacArthur and Gavin Maughfling, Darkness Visible. We are very happy to announce that it will open soon at APT Gallery London. Darkness Visible is an exhibition of painting, installation, film and performance that takes the simple idea of light emanating from darkness as…
The London Group Annual 2025 will take place at the RWS (Royal Watercolour Society) Gallery from the 6 – 12 Feb, delivering a wide range of work in diverse media including painting, photography, mixed media, video, sculpture, digital and installation. Members will exhibit recent work, or that not previously exhibited, freed from the constraints of…
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…
Photo credit: Sumi Perera I was hugely honoured and delighted to have been awarded the Cornelissen Materials Art Prize at the London Group Open. Thank you so much to The London Group and Cornelissen & Son. It was wonderful to meet Nicholas Walt, and talk brushes, hues, and all things painting. Exhibition dates: 10 –…
Pictured above at the CBP Prize opening at Huddersfield Art Gallery with Highly Commended painter Helen G Blake The Contemporary British Painting Prize is an annual award run by the artist-led group CBP. I was delighted to be the recipient of the 2022 prize selected by judges Hettie Judah, Geraldine Swayne and Grant Scanlan. The exhibition…
29 June – 17 July 2022 Lesley Bunch presents a new and unique body of work which brings together two interrelated series, ‘Shadow Sculpture’ and ‘Shadow Language’. Bunch uses painting and photography to transform shadows, fleeting, unstable and lacking continuity of existence, into images that appear both fixed and sculpted.