The Painting studios here in Battersea play host to an incredibly broad range of artists, all immersed in their own particular take on the possibilities of painting. 


Visitors to the studios this year were able to recognise the cultural and historical stables such as landscape, portraiture and still life, which are being revisited, sampled and exploded employing the visual currencies of realism, abstraction, gestural urgency and systematic process, alongside works created through obsessive engagement, tentative reworking and others punched out with economic confidence. 


In our artists we can witness these tendencies taking a clear position, alongside studio practices that are engaged in taking everything apart. While living together, our community of painters, makers and writers generates a visual culture that cross-fertilises creating hybrids, engaging mutations and new forms of expression, utilising film, photography and sculptural works.


It is so rewarding to work among the energy and the high level of exploration and ambition that our artists generate, modify, erase and redo on a daily basis. This culture continues to be enriched through the generosity of our visiting practitioners, along with recent collaborations and exchange programmes with artists working with us from New York, Chicago and Sydney, as well as collaborations with students from Goldsmiths College and the Royal Academy Schools.