Installation View - Featuring Lucy Evetts, Antonio Parker-Rees, Cyrus Shroff and Adam Glibbery Installation View - Featuring Antonio Parker-Rees, Aleksander Mechlinski, Cyrus Shroff, Mandy Franca and Adam GlibberyInstallation View - Featuring Lucy Evetts, Antonio Parker-Rees, Aleksander Mechlinski and Cyrus Shroff Installation View - Featuring Cyrus Shrof, Mandy Franca and Adam GlibberlyInstallation View - Featuring Antonio Parker-Rees, Cyrus Shroff, Adam Glibbery, Aleksander Mechlinski and Lucy EvettsInstallation View - Featuring Adam Glibbery, Aleksander Mechlinski, Lucy Evetts and Antonio Parker-RessInstallation View - Featuring, Aleksander Mechlinski, Lucy Evetts and Antonio Parker-ReesSeven Vessels, 2021, oil on canvas, 183 x 89 cm - Cyrus ShroffLanes, 2019, oil pastel on giclée, 112 x 93.2 cm. - Mandy FrancaTo strike a pose is to pose a threat II, 2022, oil, charcoal, marble dust, portland stone on flax, 22x 22 cm - Aleksander MechlinskiSilage, 2022, aluminium, dibond, magazine cutting, acrylic, hardware, 29 x 20 cm - Antonio Parker-ReesTo strike a pose is to pose a threat I, 2022, oil, charcoal, marble dust, portland stone on flax, 22x 22 cm - Aleksander MechlinskiUntitled, 2022, engraved oil on panels, 23.5 x 17 cm - Adam GlibberyMy Bed is a Stretched Limousine, 2022, oil on canvas, 60 x 30 cm - Lucy EvettsInstallation View - Featuring Antonio Parker-Rees, Cyrus Shroff, Adam Glibbery and Aleksander MechlinskiInstallation View - Aleksander Mechlinski, Lucy Evetts and Antonio Parker-Resslockdown MMXX, 2021	, oil on canvas, 183 x 66 cm and  lockdown MMXXI, 2021 oil on canvas, 183 x 66 cm - Lucy EvettsSleeve, 2021, engraved oil on panel, 42 x 59 cm - Adam GlibberyGait, 2022, aluminium, dibond, magazine cutting, acrylic, hardware, 16 x 17 cm - Antonio Parker-Rees and Tags, Pie, 2020, oil on panel, 30.5 x 40.5 cm - Cyrus Shroff


Paint(consum)ing’ - Was an Exhibition at The Function Suite, 25 West Ham Lane, London, E15 4PH.

It was open from 30/06/22 – 07/07/22.

It featured Lucy Evetts, Mandy Franca, Adam Glibery, Aleksander Mechlinski, Antonio Parker Rees, Cyrus Shroff

Curated by Alexander Harding


Appreciating the multiplicity of images, surfaces and screens within our culture is overwhelming. The vibrancy, and frequency of data that flutters and dives from the phone in your pocket to digital billboards, clashing against buses racing past, can go unnoticed because it is so ever-present. This visual noise is reminiscent of how images across history are now equalised, each as readily available in digital spaces.

The changed distribution and mediation of images has rendered history as a level platform. Painting, in response to this world where everything is available, all the time, provides artists with a methodology to repeat, digest and reflect on images, reproducing them to mediate on their power and referentiality. Like recounting a story again and again or chewing gum until the flavour goes away.

Projecting an image of vitality onto the medium, ‘Painting is eating itself’, through the employment of memetic references, quotations and signs pulled from history. It is a reflection of recent Prosumer capitalism, a Prosumer being an individual that produces as well as one that consumes; think uploading and watching videos on YouTube or scanning your items at a self-checkout.

This instance of painting as a mode of production, including appropriation and the assimilation of idiosyncratic references as part of the art-making process, is indicative of painting itself being an act of consumption.

‘Paint(consum)ing’ is an exhibition exploring contemporary painting practice and it’s expanded fields, reflecting our networked culture and its systems of exchange.


Exhibition photography by Fergus Carmichael