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13/11/21

Mixing It Up: Painting Today @ Hayward Gallery, London - 31 contemporary painters from UK

Mixing It Up: Painting Today

Hayward Gallery, London

9 September - 12 December 2021

Hurvin Anderson

Ascent, 2019

Acrylic on paper laid on board

Thomas Dane Gallery. Laura & Barry Townsley, London.

Photo: Rat Hole Gallery

Jadé Fadojutimi

Cavernous Resonance, 2020

Oil and oil stick on canvas

Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London. Photo: Eva Herzog

Lisa Brice

Smoke and Mirrors, 2020

Ink, gesso, synthetic tempera, chalk and oil pastel

and oil on canvas mounted on board, 200 x 330 cm

Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and

Salon 94, New York. Photo: Mark Blower

Mixing It Up: Painting Today brings together 31 contemporary painters whose work freely draws on varied image sources, techniques and traditions in order to fashion fresh and compelling works of art that speak to this moment.

Featuring three generations of artists who live and work in the UK, Mixing It Up: Painting Today highlights the UK’s emergence as a vital international centre of contemporary painting. Reflecting the international character of the UK painting scene, the participating artists come from a diverse range of backgrounds and nationalities: over a third of the participating artists were born in other places, including countries in Africa, Asia, South America and North America. Mixing It Up: Painting Today is also the first survey of contemporary painting in the Hayward Gallery’s history in which the majority of the artists are women.

Louise Giovanelli

Cameo, 2021

Oil on linen, 36 x 25.5 cm

Workplace, London and Gateshead ; Photo: Michael Pollard

Lubaina Himid

The Captain and The Mate, 2017-2018

Acrylic on canvas, 183 x 244 cm

and Hollybush Gardens, London. Photo: Andy Keate

Kudzanai-Violet Hwami

Bira, 2019

Oil on canvas, 150 x 180 cm

Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro

Sophie von Hellermann

Hope and History, 2021

Acrylic on canvas, 200 x 190 cm

Courtesy the artist and Pilar Corrias (London),

Greene Naftali (New York), Sies + Höke (Düsseldorf),

Wentrup Gallery (Berlin). Photo: Ollie Harrop

Rachel Jones

lick your teeth, they so clutch, 2021

Oil pastel and oil stick on canvas, 250 x 160 cm

Photo: Eva Herzog

Whilst this multi-generational group of artists doesn’t constitute a new movement or stylistic tendency, they share a significant interest in mining their medium’s exceptional multiplicity, and exploiting its potential as a format in which things can be mixed up as in no other. They frequently create works that sit in between existing categories and genres, and that fashion unexpected associations between the past and the present. Rather than aiming to craft iconic images, they treat the canvas as a site of assemblage where references converge from diverse sources, including advertising, vernacular and documentary photography, viral memes, fashion, medical manuals and cinema, as well as art history. Using the medium as a platform for speculative thinking and unexpected conversations, their paintings oscillate between observation and invention, depiction and allegory, illusion and materiality. Exploring fissures in our conventional ways of looking and thinking, including our conceptions of gender, race and identity, their paintings hint at different ways of thinking about the relationship between individual and collective identities, as well as between self and other.

Allison Katz

Adult Services, 2019

Oil, acrylic and iridescent pigments on linen, 200 x 160 cm

Courtesy the artist and The Approach, London

Oscar Murillo

manifestation, 2019-2020

Oil, oil stick, cotton thread and graphite on canvas,

velvet and linen, 255 x 155 cm

and David Zwirner. Photo: Jack Hems

Matthew Krishanu

Two Boys (Church Tower), 2020

Oil on canvas, 45 x 35 cm

Photo: Peter Mallet

Ralph Rugoff, Director at the Hayward Gallery, says: “If painting is typically pigeon-holed as the most conservative and traditional of art forms, the artists in Mixing It Up offer evidence for a contrary point of view: that in fact painting - thanks to some of its unique characteristics - may in fact be the medium that accommodates the most conceptually adventurous thinking.”

Mixing It Up: Painting Today features 31 artists: Tasha Amini, Hurvin Anderson, Alvaro Barrington, Lydia Blakeley, Gabriella Boyd, Lisa Brice, Gareth Cadwallader, Caroline Coon, Somaya Critchlow, Peter Doig, Jadé Fadojutimi, Denzil Forrester, Louise Giovanelli, Andrew Pierre Hart, Lubaina Himid, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Merlin James, Rachel Jones, Allison Katz, Matthew Krishanu, Graham Little, Oscar Murillo, Mohammed Sami, Samara Scott, Daniel Sinsel, Caragh Thuring, Sophie von Hellermann, Jonathan Wateridge, Rose Wylie, Issy Wood and Vivien Zhang.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with original texts by Jeremy Atherton Lin, Martha Barratt, Ben Eastham, Emily LaBarge, Rosanna Mclaughlin, Rianna Jade Parker and Ralph Rugoff.

Mixing It Up is curated by Hayward Gallery Director Ralph Rugoff, with Assistant Curator Phoebe Cripps and Curatorial Assistant Thomas Sutton.

HAYWARD GALLERY

Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX

www.southbankcentre.co.uk

05/09/13

Oscar Murillo, SLG, London - First major solo exhibition in the UK

Oscar Murillo: if i was to draw a line, this journey started approximately 400km north of the equator

South London Gallery, London

20 September - 1 December 2013

For his first major solo exhibition in the UK, London-based artist OSCAR MURILLO empties his studio to present its contents in the main gallery space. Stitched canvases, drawings, sculptures and films, tables constructed from copper sheets, used as flooring in previous shows, and floor pieces made from masses of pulped biro drawings continue Murillo's practice of translating various aspects of studio endeavour into matter and then into form.

Oscar Murillo’s practice encompasses painting, sculpture, installation, video and performance. Harvesting the accumulative material conditions of his studio on canvases, fabrics and paper, and mobilising the physical remnants of distinct social situations, he exposes some of the contradictions and complexities apparent across socioeconomic, racial and cultural boundaries. Gestural marks that index artistic labour are layered with dirt, dust and debris, used as materials in their own right, but equally as evidence of the often-invisible tasks and efforts of others which underpin the social and physical fabric of different locales and circumstances.

An active component at the heart of the exhibition is a lottery that references the popularity of this phenomenon in many cultures. Oscar Murillo instigates a situation that highlights some of the intricacies of social and cultural encounters, as he has done in previous exhibitions and events, but this lottery project takes this area of his practice into new territory, raising numerous questions about authenticity, value, and the complex relationship between the public, private and commercial sectors of the art world.

The lottery project begins on Monday 2 September when individually screen-printed lottery tickets, each bearing a different number, will be available to purchase. As tickets are sold, each of them, and their corresponding artist’s proof, are inscribed with the purchaser’s name by a calligrapher before being displayed in the SLG’s first floor galleries throughout the exhibition period. A first, second and third prize, each devised by Oscar Murillo, will be revealed at the prize draw on Friday 18 October, during the week of Frieze Art Fair in London.

OSCAR MURILLO (b. 1986, Colombia) lives and works in London. He completed a BA in Fine Art at the University of Westminster, London, followed by MA in Painting in 2012 at the Royal College of Art, London. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include those at Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; Art Basel; Carlos/Ishikawa, London; MAMA Showroom, Rotterdam; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Serpentine Gallery, London; Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia. Upcoming solo exhibitions include Studio Museum Harlem, New York and The Mistake Room, Los Angeles.

The exhibition is supported by Vicky Hughes and John Smith, and Raimund Berthold at Berthold and Paul Ettlinger. With thanks to Carlos/Ishikawa, London, Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin, and David Zwirner Gallery, New York.

South London Gallery (SLG)

65-67 Peckham Road

London SE5 8UH

www.southlondongallery.org