
Opening reception:
Friday, 3 November
Join us and the artists for opening drinks
18.00 – 20.00 uur
Free entry
Curated by Scottish artist Caroline Walker, The Painted Room brings together UK-based artists exploring the interior through a spectrum of distinctive styles, capturing moments of dramatic tension in the domestic sphere, quiet scenes steeped in nostalgia, and gestural, impressionistic representations of life behind closed doors. As an artist concerned with domestic spaces and the underrepresented labour of women in the workspace, Walker has assembled a group of artists whose work resonates with her own, creating a new dialogue on the role of the interior in contemporary painting.
The artists in The Painted Room all approach the wide-ranging subject of interiors in their work using distinctive approaches to paint handling and individual creative voices, from naturalistically observed spaces, to highly constructed and meticulously executed interiors. The interiors include private scenes of homelife, a film set located in a museum that was once a house, the interior of a cafe and other much less locatable spaces, some suggesting the idea of an interior rather than anywhere specific. What they all share, though, is a sense of the everyday, of interiors that envelop the stuff of daily life, and the purpose of capturing this in paint is either to document, elevate, imbue with narrative or transform the way we see these spaces.
“The paintings in the exhibition explore the possibility of the interior; as a place of refuge from which to view the outside world, a personal space for memory and longing through the objects which inhabit it, or a site of constructed reality.” – Caroline Walker, 2023
A new publication will be published on the occasion of this exhibition, available in December 2023. For pre-orders please click here.
Participating artists:
Gareth Cadwallader
Minyoung Choi
Andrew Cranston
Anna Freeman Bentley
Nick Goss
Hettie Inniss
Cece Philips
Elena Rivera-Montanes
Mike Silva
Caroline Walker