Artist Projects & Events

A painting by artist Sarah Jane Moon is one of just 44 portraits selected from 2,538 entries from 84 countries for inclusion in the BP Portrait Award Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

With a total prize fund of £74,000, the exhibition is the most prestigious portrait painting competition in the world and represents the very best in contemporary portrait painting. It has been referred to as the ‘portrait painting Oscars’.

Sarah Jane Moon is an award winning professional painter based in London, who exhibits and teaches regularly in the UK and abroad. Her portraiture frequently explores identity, sexuality and gender presentation.

Moon’s painting of Emergency Medicine Doctor, Youth Advocate and CBBC Television Presenter, Dr Ronx Ikharia, was submitted for judging anonymously by a panel which included writer and presenter Gaylene Gould, artist Gary Hume and author Zoé Whitley.

Moon has been gaining increasing attention this year and this success follows swiftly on from inclusion in the prestigious Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition (9th – 24th May 2019, Mall Galleries, London) where she was selected to exhibit two large portraits.

Moon is also one of few exhibitors who has been invited to teach a Painting Workshop at the NPG during the exhibition run (10th and 11th August).

Troglodyte Antiphon is a new immersive installation at Intercession Gallery by frequent collaborators Sebastian Thomas and Leah Stewart. Using digitally printed images of stone the artists have transformed the gallery space into a facsimile of a cave through which the public can enter and encounter the works. Working with a range of tactile processes, including plaster sculpture, collage, ceramics, textiles, basketry, silk painting and drawing, slow and fast making combine to create fragments of an imaginary civilisation speaking through the detritus left behind.

The exhibition has been kindly supported by The Elephant Trust.

Leah Stewart (b. 1985) works across painting, textiles, sculpture and print. Craft techniques such as natural dyeing, basketry, ceramics, and crochet are used in combination with painting, drawing and traditional apothecary to make installations exploring animism, ritual and our relationship with the natural environment. Recent exhibitions include Wild Service at Kingsgate Project Space, London, A Casual Texture at Outset Contemporary Arts, London and Your Arms Are Full Of Flowers, My Mouth Is Full Of Stones at Lumberjack, London.

www.leahstewart.co.uk