PAINTERWRITER

 

Saturday 12th September to Saturday 3rd October 2026.

PV Friday 11th September, 6-8pm.

 

PainterWriter is a group painting exhibition that investigates how painters’ own practices influence the forms, concerns and tropes that appear in their writing. It is a two-fold exhibition, presenting paintings by twenty-one painter-writers alongside an example of their writing made across and within the production of paintings. 

 

Although painting has long been interpreted by art historians, theorists, critics and art writers, what we call the ‘painter‑writer’– the painter who writes – is a central yet critically overlooked figure. Their co‑extensive writing‑with‑making materially reshapes painting’s meanings and values from ‘inside practice’. 

 

By analysing this field, PainterWriter seeks to reveal the distinctive insights painters bring to writing and to highlight a significant but under‑acknowledged area within painting discourse. 

 

Andrew Bracey 

Graham Crowley 

Karen David 

Jenny Eden 

Catherine Ferguson 

Rebecca Fortnum 

Melissa Gordon 

Abi Hampsey

Jo McGonigal 

Dougal McKenzie 

Christian Mieves 

David Osbaldeston 

Tom Palin  

Katie Pratt 

Assunta Ruocco 

David Ryan 

George Shaw 

Daniel Sturgis 

Chester Tenneson 

Alun Williams 

Laura Wormell 

 

Curated by Andrew Bracey & Jenny Eden