Apollo Painting School Group Exhibition
UNITOM Projects, Manchester, UK
19 September – 24 October 2026
‘When Jack Whitten wrote, I want to use the formal as a means to arrive at subject’, his work did not contain recognisable imagery, and yet it was brimming with tangible concepts. Whitten reiterated the importance of looking beyond simple pictorial interpretation. This exhibition brings together 15 artists who engage with the significance of this statement. There are pictures with and without recognisable objects, but through their experimentation with colour, composition, scale, physical structure and surface, these artists are truly bound together. These concerns become tools to enhance, expand or contradict initial readings and drive painting beyond ‘mere’ subject where paintedness itself has equal importance. United further by their unique experience of Apollo Painting School, they have come together at this time, in this place, to celebrate a moment. What is presented here is not the end, merely a pause on the lifelong journey of learning about paint, which as Philip Guston said, ‘you have not chosen, but are on nevertheless’.
Exhibiting artists:
Ally Fallon
Hannah Sophia Guerriero
Isobel Shore
Debbie Lerner
Isaac Jordan
Jamie Kirk
Nora Hreb
Mahrokh Mofid Nakhaei
Catherine Ko Chen
Harry Stevenson Miller
Grace McNerney
Oscar Grasby
Tom White
Lauren Conway
Francis Voss
Poster: Emad Haghi
Exhibition text: Debbie Lerner
