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Turps painter is currently showing in the Royal Hibernian Academy as part of Resolve 26 - the RHA School’s major group ...
01/06/2026

Turps painter is currently showing in the Royal Hibernian Academy as part of Resolve 26 - the RHA School’s major group exhibition of emerging artists.arts

The exhibition features 76 works by students and recent graduates of the RHA School’s Resolution programme, curated by Colin Martin RHA and Dorothy Smith ARHA. All works are available for purchase, with proceeds supporting the RHA School.

Admission is always free.
26 May – 7 June 2026
RHA Gallery, 15 Ely Place, Dublin 2
Tues–Sat 11–5 | Sun 12–5 | Wed late 11–7

Painting image:
Fionnuala Lanigan
No Edge, Only Continuum
Oil on Canvas
100 x 160 cm
2026

Three Turps painters are in this exhibition curated by and part of the .stoddart Rock, Paper, ScissorsSaturday 6th Jun...
01/06/2026

Three Turps painters are in this exhibition curated by and part of the .

stoddart


Rock, Paper, Scissors

Saturday 6th June: 11:00 - 17:00
Saturday 13th June: 11:00 - 17:00

St. Gabriel’s Church, Havant Road, London, E17 3JF

A group exhibition of nine contemporary artists showing works underneath a canopy made by the congregation of St Gabriel’s church. This exhibition brings together artists whose practices use cardboard and paper—materials commonly associated with impermanence – exhibited amongst the stone pillars of the church. Here, a dialogue between fragile, transient objects and an architecture designed for endurance takes place.





elbourne
anusharamchand.studiostoddart


Turps painter is showing in ECHOES OF BEAUTYCurated by . On until mid July in Madrid. | | | |
28/05/2026

Turps painter is showing in ECHOES OF BEAUTY
Curated by . On until mid July in Madrid.


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Turps painters .stoddart and are showing next month in SLIP 13th June - 4th July, 2026Open Saturdays, 12-4pmPV Saturda...
26/05/2026

Turps painters .stoddart and are showing next month in

SLIP
13th June - 4th July, 2026
Open Saturdays, 12-4pm
PV Saturday 13th June 4-6pm, all welcome

SLIP brings together ten artists whose practices explore the boundaries and possibilities of paint, extending beyond the flat surface and into clay.

Clay is Just Thick Paint, a phrase often attributed to Peter Voulkos, proposes ceramic surfaces as sites for painterly experimentation. In this understanding, painting and sculpture converge: wet clay, slips, and glazes are handled like impasto, built up, scraped back and reworked to create expressive forms where colour, texture, and shape become one. Together, these works propose a porous boundary between disciplines, where painting does not end at the edge of the canvas but continues, materially and spatially, into the round.


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stoddart

Curated by Ruth Murray & Linda Hemmersbach

Image: Bethan Lloyd Worthington, Nocturne, 2021, Stoneware with slip, dendritic mochaware technique, parian, onglaze painting, h12cm x w13cm x d7cm

Image credit: Kristian Day Gallery

Turps painter is showing in the upcoming exhibition at SafeHouse1.The Bones of ItPV Sat 6th 2-8pmIn this show a group o...
26/05/2026

Turps painter is showing in the upcoming exhibition at SafeHouse1.

The Bones of It
PV Sat 6th 2-8pm

In this show a group of artists respond to the SafeHouse in terms of completeness, incompleteness, fragility, toughness, things made and things showing the process of their making.

Safehouse 1
139 Copeland Rd
London SE15 3SN

Open
Sat 6th June 11-8pm
Sun 7th June 11-5pm

Artists








Karima Noren
simons.artist

Turps painter .absolon has a solo show coming up in Margate 4-8 June .Hang-UpsSusan AbsolonJoseph Wales Studios2a Dane ...
25/05/2026

Turps painter .absolon has a solo show coming up in Margate 4-8 June .

Hang-Ups
Susan Absolon

Joseph Wales Studios
2a Dane Hill
Margate CT9 1QP

4 June, 4-6pm
5-8 June, 11-6pm

Poster image:
Choker, 2025, oil on paper



Turps painter has a solo show opening next week in Margate. A Black Cloud Held LightlyLaura L Bell The Lido Stores30 M...
24/05/2026

Turps painter has a solo show opening next week in Margate.

A Black Cloud Held Lightly
Laura L Bell
The Lido Stores
30 May - 28 June 2026
Opening reception Saturday, 30 May, 7-9pm

Laura L Bell was the Lido Open 2025 winner, selected by Sophie Von Hellermann and Kristen Healy.

Turps mentor has a solo show opening Saturday !Barbara NichollsAfter Sweden23rd May - 3rd JulyOpening event 3-7pm Satur...
22/05/2026

Turps mentor has a solo show opening Saturday !

Barbara Nicholls
After Sweden
23rd May - 3rd July
Opening event 3-7pm Saturday 23rd May.

Barbara Nicholls will exhibit recent large watercolours originating from her residency at the Nordic Watercolour Museum

Programmed by
Free and all welcome

Turps painter ‘s solo show ‘A Skeleton to share’ is on through June 13th . Image:Devil of a din202630.5 x 21.5cmGouache...
21/05/2026

Turps painter ‘s solo show
‘A Skeleton to share’ is on through June 13th .

Image:
Devil of a din
2026
30.5 x 21.5cm
Gouache and colour pencil on paper

Turps painter has a solo show now on !‘Miranda Boulton: Chain of Flowers’, an exhibition of oil paintings, is in the Co...
18/05/2026

Turps painter has a solo show now on !

‘Miranda Boulton: Chain of Flowers’, an exhibition of oil paintings, is in the Colman Project Space at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery until 6th December.

‘Boulton’s practice explores ideas around memory and time, referencing the traditions of still life painting and abstraction with a mixture of vigorous and delicate marks.’

“Miranda Boulton’s recent work is the outcome of a very particular conversation between artists
and across time, realised through close observation and research. Miranda came to Norwich to meet Dr. Giorgia Bottinelli and to look at the 19th century still-life paintings of Emily Stannard, a prominent female member of the Norwich School. Stannard’s flower studies had in turn been inspired by the study of Dutch 17th century still-life painting in the Netherlands. Miranda followed, travelling to Amsterdam to see the works that Stannard had viewed some 200 years before. And so historical sources, spanning some 400 years, echo through Miranda’s work, providing the deep foundations for something brilliant and new; her marvellous paintings will be very much at home in the galleries of Norwich Castle.”

- Amanda Geitner, Director of East Anglia Art Fund

Miranda Boulton: Chain of Flowers
Colman Project Space
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
16 May – 6 December 2026

2. ‘Garlands and Wreaths II’, 2025
150 x 120cm
Oil and acrylic spray paint on canvas.
Image courtesy of the artist and Patricia Fleming Gallery

3. Miranda Boulton in her studio, Hackney Wick, London 2025

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