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Various artworks on display in the Mead Gallery

The Reason for Painting (2023)

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Monday 26 June

The Reason for Painting continued the Mead Gallery’s longstanding examination of abstract painting. It built on previous Mead exhibitions including: Slow Burn (1998), Slipping Abstraction (2007), The Indiscipline of Painting (2012) and Kaleidoscope (2017).

Exhibition dates: 4 May – 25 June 2023

The exhibition also profiled a diverse group of younger artists that came together through their experience of using colour and paint, to experiment and consider the world in which we live today.

The Reason for Painting took inspiration from The University of Warwick’s founding art collection.

The exhibition took inspiration from The University of Warwick’s founding art collection, which was shaped by two informed collectors of art. The University’s architect, Eugene Rosenberg and the building contractor, Alistair McAlpine, who took interest in young artists who were developing international critical acclaim in the field of abstraction, including Jack Bush, Gene Davis and Patrick Heron.

Returning to The Reason for Painting Exhibition itself, the featured artists make work that is rooted in the everyday, including ineffable feelings and emotions, daily conversations and transactions, crossing borders, our local environments, spiritualism, cultural heritage, and routine—making the case that abstract painting and lived experience are inherently intertwined.

Was glad to come here and see these amazing paintings. So mesmerising. Wonderful talents.
Lenny - Visitor to the Mead Gallery

Take A Look

Two piece of artwork on the Mead Gallery wall
Wide angle shot of the Mead Gallery and The Reason for Painting exhibition

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