2 December to 18 December 2025 ‘Quote & Curate‘
‘Turner’s Afterglow’ (2025) Acrylic and mixed media on canvas h: 76 (cm) w: 76 (cm) will be for sale as part of a winter exhibition curated by Angela Murray at Design Centre East in London’s Chelsea Harbour.
This body of work explores the uneasy dialogue between human progress and the persistence of the natural world. The triptych (Reclaimed Earth) anchors the series with a sense of scale and turbulence, drawing on Turner’s paintings of industrialisation settling into the landscape and ‘progress’, while holding open the possibility of renewal. A meditation on the early light of industrial change: colour and atmosphere recalling Turner’s engagement with progress and its wake.
Materially and conceptually, the works consider speed and change. The plasticity and immediacy of acrylic paint, its capacity for quick layering, scraping and translucent glazes, is deliberately employed as a metaphor for rapid development and the transient, often aggressive, rhythms of progress. Yet within those hurried marks the slow logic of accretion is visible: histories of overpainting, revision and return that echo the continuing, sometimes hopeful persistence of nature.
Venue Quote & Curate,
First Floor Design Centre East, Design Centre Chelsea Harbour, London, SW10 0XF
Date 2nd December – 18th December 2025 10am-5pm Monday to Friday