The Sunday Painter

About the Gallery
Harry Beer and Will Jarvis established The Sunday Painter in 2009 as an artist-run project space to show the work of their friends and peers. Conceived while the founders were art students at the Chelsea College of Arts and the Camberwell College of Arts, the gallery was originally located in a disused function room of a local pub in Peckham. In 2013, The Sunday Painter found a permanent space and transitioned to a commercial gallery model, with Tom Cole joining the gallery as a partner, representing and exhibiting the work of emerging and mid-career artists from the UK and abroad, including Leo Fitzmaurice, Rob Chavasse, Piotr Łakomy, and Samara Scott. In 2017, the gallery moved to its current space in Vauxhall, opening with gallery artist Cynthia Daignault’s first UK solo exhibition. The gallery’s origins are reflected in its commitment to running an artist-first space and cultivating a program that continually confronts, questions, and evolves with itself and the world around it.

About the presentation
The Sunday Painter presents works by Kate Newby, Emily Kraus, and Ernesto Burgos in a group show that highlights contemporary voices challenging conventional perspectives on space and materiality. Newby’s delicate site-specific interventions put pressure on the limits of sculpture, advocating a heightened perceptual awareness and encouraging us to think about the relationship between humans and the environment. Kraus stretches and rotates her canvases inside a cubic structure to distribute the paint marks, allowing space to move around her body. The resulting large-scale paintings are termed Stochastic, meaning that they are formed of random probability distributions that yield unpredictable results. Burgos manipulates industrial materials such as cardboard, fiberglass, and resin to create gravity-defying sculptures. His tactile approach, akin to sculptural painting, serves as a conduit to explore the dynamics of transformation, mark-making, and movement.