Contour Lines

Contour Lines

In collaboration with Tom Cole, the gallery is delighted to announce ‘Contour Lines’ a group exhibition featuring Rana Begum, Lubna Chowdhary, Prunella Clough, Elizabeth Fritsch, Kate Newby, Vicken Parsons, Jacqueline Poncelet and Max Wade.

Opening Reception: Thursday 30th January 2025, 6-8pm.

The exhibition explores how different narratives of real, imagined and metaphysical landscapes and places are communicated through pattern and abstraction in a range of mediums, including ceramics, textiles and paint.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a text by George Vasey.

The exhibition is the second in a series of four collaborative exhibitions between the gallery and Tom Cole. Their partnership for the exhibitions builds on the spirit of collaboration that has characterised the gallery’s exhibition programme to date. The exhibition series highlights historical and conceptual overlaps across an intergenerational range of artists with materially rich practices.

Artist Biographies

Rana Begum’s (b.1977, Bangladesh) recent solo exhibitions include: Kate MacGarry, London (2024); Ordered Form, St Albans Museum + Gallery, St Albans, UK (2023-24); Dappled Light, Concrete at Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE and The Box, Plymouth, UK (2023); Dappled Light, Pitzhanger Manor, UK (2022) and Mead Gallery, UK (2021); Infinite Geometry, Wanås Konst, Sweden, (2021); A Conversation with Light and Form, Tate St Ives, Cornwall, UK (2018), following the Tate St Ives Artists Programme residency at Porthmeor Studios.
Her work has been included in group exhibitions at The Whitechapel Gallery, London (2023); Desert X, Palm Springs, USA (2023); Dhaka Art Summit, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh (2023); Creative Folkestone Triennial, Kent, UK (2021); Gemeente Museum, Den Haag, The Netherlands (2016); Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK (2018) and The 11th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea (2016). Begum’s installation Catching Colour was launched as part of The Line in London (2022).

Lubna Chowdhary’s (b. 1964, Tanzania) recent solo exhibitions include: Pluriverse, Graves Gallery, Sheffield Museums (2024); Disjunctions, Gallery Isabelle, Dubai (2023); Erratics, MIMA, Middlesborough (2022); Erratics, Peer Gallery, London (2021); Code Switch, Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai (2021); Certain Times, Art Basel Hong Kong (2019). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Hampi Art Labs India, IN (2024); Abu Dhabi Art with Gallery Isabelle, UAE (2023);  Milton Keynes Gallery, UK (2023); Pilar Corrias Gallery, London (2023); Touchstones Rochdale, UK (2023); Marlborough Gallery, London (2023); Annely Juda Fine Art, London (2022); Hayward Gallery, London (2022); Kiran Nader Museum of  Art, New Delhi, IN (2022); Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE (2022) and M+, Hong Kong, CN (2021). Chowdhary’s work is included in public collections including: Arts Council England Collection, UK; Government Art Collection, UK;  MIMA Middlesborough, UK;  M+ , Hong Kong, CN; Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AUS; Fiorucci Foundation, IT; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK; Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE;  Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai, UAE; Sheffield Museums, UK; Leicester City Museum, UK, Kiran Nadar Museum, New Delhi, IN

Prunella Clough (1919 – 1999) studied at Chelsea School of Art (1937) and Camberwell School of Art (1946-49). Clough has been exhibited in solo exhibitions since the 1940s, a selection of recent solo exhibitions include: Machines for Seeing, Chateau Shatto, LA, USA (2022); Prunella Clough, A Small Thing Edgily, Berlin, DE (2021); Prunella Clough: Pushing Stones Up Hills, Osborne Samuel, London (2021); Prunella Clough, Flowers Gallery, London (2021); Prunella Clough: A Centenary, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK (2019-20); Prunella Clough: Blast, P.P.O.W, New York, USA (2019); Annely Juda Fine Art, London (2017, 2012, 2009, 2008, 2003, 2000, 1998, 1993); Prunella Clough: Unknown Countries, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings UK (2016). Clough’s work is included in public collections such as: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, BC; Cambridge Arts Trust, UK; The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Scottish National Gallery of Art, Edinburgh, UK; The Arts Council of Great Britain, London; The British Council, London; The British Museum, London; Contemporary Art Society, London; Government Art Collection, London; Tate Gallery, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Museo de la Solidad Salvator Allende, Santiago, CL; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AUS; Toledo Art Museum, Ohio, USA and Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, AT.

Elizabeth Fritsch’s CBE (b. 1940, UK) selected solo exhibitions include: Dynamic Structures: Painted Vessels, National Museum Cardiff, Wales (2010); Elizabeth Fritsch, The Fine Art Society, London (2008); Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath (2007); Elizabeth Fritsch: Memories of Architecture, Part II, Galerie Besson, London (2000) and Metaphysical Vessels, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, USA (2000). Selected group exhibitions include: TEFAF New York with Adrian Sassoon, USA (2024); TEFAF, Maastricht with Adrian Sassoon, The Netherlands (2024); Frieze Masters with Adrian Sassoon, London (2023); Pavilion of Art & Design London with Adrian Sassoon, London (2023); Masterpiece London with Adrian Sassoon, London (2022); A House of History, Parham House, Sussex, UK (2021) and Salon of Art & Design with Adrian Sassoon, New York, USA (2017). A major survey exhibition of Fritsch’s work will be hosted at The Hepworth Wakefield in March 2025.

Kate Newby (b. 1979, New Zealand) lives and works in Texas. Her recent solo exhibitions include: We are such stuff, Laurel Gitlen, New York (2022); COLD WATER, Fine Arts, Sydney (2021); Nothing in my life feels big enough, Cooper Cole, Canada (2019); Wild was the night, Institut d'Art Contemporain, France (2019); A puzzling light and moving, lumber room, Portland, OR (2019); I can't nail the days down, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2018); and All the stuff you already know, The Sunday Painter, London (2018). She has been included in group exhibitions at: Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2022); Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2019); 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018); Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg (2018); and SculptureCenter, NY (2017), among others. In 2012, she won the Walters Prize, New Zealand’s largest contemporary art prize, and in 2019 was awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant. Newby was recently awarded the 13th edition of the Ettore e Ines Fico Prize at Artissima 2022. Kate has undertaken residencies at The Chinati Foundation (2017), Artpace (2017), Fogo Island (2013), and the International Studio & Curatorial Program ISCP (2012).

Vicken Parsons’ (b. 1957, UK) recent solo exhibitions include: Kristof De Clercq Gallery, Belgium (2022); RX Gallery, Paris (2021); Cristea Roberts Gallery, London (2020); Jesus College, Cambridge (2018); Ivorypress, Madrid (2017); Alan Cristea Gallery, London (2012, 2016); Christine Koenig Galerie; Vienna (2016); New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury (2014) and Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (2014). Her recent group exhibitions include: Royal Academy of Arts, London (2018); Foundling Museum, London (2016); Turner Contemporary, Margate (2016); Tate Britain, London (2015); Southampton City Art Gallery (2010). Her work is held in a number of important public collections including: Tate; Government Art Collection; Arts Council; Jerwood Collection, London; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; and Belvedere Museum, Vienna.

Jacqueline Poncelet (b. 1947, Belgium)  lives and works between London and the South Wales Valleys. Her recent solo exhibitions include: Watching Trees Lounge, Swansea Museum and Art Gallery, Swansea, UK (2006); every which way, M2 Gallery, London (2003); Blue and Green Should Never be Seen, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK (1996); The Decorative Sublime, The Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK (1995). Her recent group exhibitions include: Super Abundant, Turner Contemporary Project Space, Margate, UK (2009); Well Meaning Cultural Commodities, Barrett Marsden Gallery, London (2008); Paradise Lost, with Carol NcNicoll, Barrett Marsden Gallery, London (2005); Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London (2004); Domestic Landscape, Bath, UK (2003); Independence Show, South London Art Gallery, London (2003) and 30/30 Vision, Crafts Council Gallery, London (2003). Poncelet is represented in important public collections throughout the world, including: Tate Modern; the Victoria and Albert Museum; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Max Wade’s (b.1985, UK) recent solo exhibitions include; NADA Miami, FL, USA (2024); Dodge and Burn, Maya Frodeman Gallery, Wyoming, USA (2024); Go Bang, Sid Motion Gallery, London (2023); Whisper Down the Lane, Sid Motion Gallery, London (2021); Sowing the Soil with Salt, Sid Motion Gallery, London (2020); Platform: London, hosted by David Zwirner (online 2020); Wind for the Sails, Messums Wiltshire, Salisbury (2020); Between the Dog and the Wolf, Sid Motion Gallery, London (2019); For Tina, curated by Roxie Warder hosted at Cob Gallery, London (2019).
Recent group exhibitions include: Across the Pond: Contemporary Painting in London, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, USA ( 2024); Searching Minds with Carole Gibbons and Roy Oxlade, Sid Motion Gallery, London (2024); Abstract Colour, Marlborough Gallery, London (2023). Stand with Ukraine, Hales, London (2022).