#ArtThursdays

Turps Off-Site Programme Leavers Show @ Thames-Side Gallery

Tempo, Sam King @samking_art

We are excited to release our next Art Thursday blög störy! - featuring Turps Banana, who are delighted to invite you to the Turps Off-Site Programme Leavers Show at Thames-Side Studios Gallery.

The exhibition brings together thirteen Off-Site Programme painters who are leaving their artist-led painting programme course this year.

Turps is an artistic organisation who run Turps Magazine - a publication "about painting written by painters".

Turps also runs a school, named Turps Art School, where they seek to teach aspiring painters "within a supported studio could flourish in a climate where there is growing disquiet about the quality of painting tuition, inadequate tutorial input and isolation in traditional studio set ups."

The Off-Site Programme is held here at our very own Thames-Side Studios.

We had a chance to survey some of the work in the gallery space the Friday before the official opening. Being able to see the amount of talent housed in the studios which we never get to see was unreal and an exciting experience.

A selection of residents at Thames-Side Studios exhibiting in the Gallery space

Carefully curated into a treasure trove of artworks and creations, the exhibition was made by all the studio holders that were available to interact with on the day. Along with a physical directory so people could come into and find their way around the gallery space, the journey along the walls was intertwined by spotting the style of each exhibitor and their artworks. Most artists had at least two pieces on show throughout the space.

Quality Times, Jasminka Letzas @jasminka.letzas

Quality Times, Jasminka Letzas (close-up) @jasminka.letzas

Limbless but not Defeated by Ingrid Petersen @ingrid.petersen.148

Untitled (Landscape), Tom Morgan @morgan.tom

 

Nothing I ain't scared of (film still), Ethan Caflisch @ethancatflisch

 

 

Kitchen sink drama, Catherine Lette @catherineletteart

 

Humpty Dumpty, Catherine Lette @catherineletteart

 

Humpty Dumpty (close up), Catherine Lette @catherineletteart

 

Auto Trance Portrait of a Marriage, Melissa Alley @melissa__alleyy

 

These are just a few of our favourite paintings from the show that we have highlighted in this post.