shelter 2024 Oil paint and oil pastel on pigmented gesso panel. 84 x 118 cm

Sarah Longworth-West (born 1981) London. Lives and works in Leytonstone, London.

Graduated with an MFA Painting from The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL in 2008; and a BA Fine Art from Newcastle University in 2006.

Longworth-West holds a PGcert HE Art & Design from UAL (2010) and has been a lecturer at Norwich University of the Arts (BA Fine Art) since 2013.

Flat Volume

Curatorial Exhibition Project

A group show, 37 pieces of work from 37 artists. Aimed at contextualising ‘Flat Volume’ and its’ concept within contemporary painting. Stemmed from Paul Nash’s ‘Equivalents for the Megaliths’ 1935 (above); further illustrated by Bruce McLean’s ‘Golden Wonder’ 2014 and Phyllida Barlow’s wealth of drawings and paintings.

In a time where we can be increasingly consumed by screens, the remit of the show is to highlight and absorb the physical forms and objects we are surrounded by and therefore also highlighting our own relationships to our physical haptic environments; how we deal with the importance of ‘object-ness’ and questioning the values of form through painting.

This selection of national and international artists all interrelate by their enduring preoccupation with how volume is conjured, achieved and explored through varieties of strategies, instincts and processes. These include spatial strategies to execute compositional disquiet; absolute (idiosyncratic) specificity of placement; a pull to unusual structures; desire for ‘solid’ forms (within the picture plane).

These works bring to the forefront object/non-objects and in doing so enhance our attention upon the visual fundamentals but through slow(ed) viewing (within the dynamic ‘lived’ and arresting moments of the painting) which allows us to view and interrogate material culture and value systems; our relationship to them and ideally more consciously acknowledge them, however beguiling.

Nicholas Hatfull’s exhibition and catalogue - coming 2025

Curatorial Text - coming 2025

Downloadable Catalogue - coming 2025

Documentation of the A.P.T Exhibition - coming Oct 2025

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