X Contemporary British Painting

Newcastle Contemporary Art

High Bridge Works

High Bridge 

Newcastle upon Tyne 

NE1 1EW 

20 May - 17 June 2023

Thursday - Saturday 12 - 5pm

An extensive painting exhibition X – Contemporary British Painting is curated by award-winning artist Narbi Price and brings together the work of over 80 artists, including George Shaw, Andrew Grassie, HUSH, Biggs & Collings, alongside members of the Contemporary British Painting organisation (CBP) and innovative emerging artists. 

The exhibition explores the huge spectrum of what painting can be, from photorealism through gestural abstraction, tiny intimate studies to big bombastic works, paintings that come off the wall and paintings that make you question what you’re looking at. 

The exhibition marks the tenth anniversary of CBP and features all previous winners of the Contemporary British Painting Prize. It also showcases prizewinners and nominees of the Turner Prize, the John Moores Painting Prize, BEEP Painting Biennale, and Culture Awards Visual Artists of the Year. 

Join us on the opening night on Saturday May 20th from 7pm, as part of The Late Shows to be the first to view the work, accompanied by DJ sets by Opal Tapes founder Bishop and Maxïmo Park frontman Paul Smith. 

Exhibiting artists: 

Susan Absolon, David Ainley, Iain Andrews, Amanda Ansell, John Ball, Richard Baker, Karl Bielik, Biggs & Collings, Claudia Boese, Day Bowman, Marius von Brasch, Julian Brown, Lesley Bunch, Marco Cali, Ruth Calland, Simon Carter, John S Clark, Jules Clarke, Deb Covell, Lucy Cox, Andrew Crane, Gordon Dalton, Pen Dalton, Angelina May Davis, Lisa Denyer, Sam Douglas, Natalie Dowse, Nathan Eastwood, Geraint Evans, Andrew Grassie, Susan Gunn, Susie Hamilton, Abigail Hampsey, Alex Hanna, Kirsty Harris, Roland Hicks, Suzanne Holthom, Marguerite Horner, Barbara Howey, HUSH, Phil Illingworth, Linda Ingham, Brendan Lancaster, Laura Lancaster, Rachel Lancaster, Bryan Lavelle, Andrew Litten, Cathy Lomax, Juliette Losq, Paula MacArthur, David Manley, Enzo Marra, Gavin Maughfling, Peter McArdle, Donna McLean, Monica Metsers, Nicholas Middleton, Ruth Murray, Joe Packer, Stephen Palmer, Mandy Payne, Julian Perry, Ruth Philo, Alison Pilkington, Steve Port, Narbi Price, Freya Purdue, James Quin, Ellen Ranson, Greg Rook, Katherine Russell, George Shaw, Jesse Leroy Smith, Paul Smith, David Sullivan, Matilda Sutton, Harvey Taylor, Sally Taylor, Molly Thomson, Judith Tucker, Casper White, Joanna Whittle, Sean Williams. 

Contemporary British Painting is an artist led organisation which explores and promotes current trends in British painting through the activity of our members, exhibitions, talks and publications, and placing work in art museums and collections. The group is run entirely by volunteers from within the membership. In 2016 we founded The Contemporary British Painting Prize, an annual prize promoting the best of contemporary painting produced in the UK.