New works on paper by Justin Mortimer - all available.

These pieces sit at the heart of Mortimer’s practice. Not studies, not afterthoughts - but works in which the image feels unusually raw, immediate and alive. Fragments of figure, surface noise, rubbed-out marks and pasted elements all held in a kind of suspended tension.

They have the same psychological unease and visual intelligence as the larger paintings, but with a freshness that belongs particularly well to paper. Beautiful in reproduction, but exceptionally good in the flesh.

Blackbird Rook and General Assembly present Alien Hand - Alison Blickle (Los Angeles) and Irini Karayannopoulou (Athens) - 6-21 March 2026, 12 Saint George Street W1S. Painting as possession: mythic bodies, glamour and unease, control and release. Studio as visitation.

Blackbird Rook presents Welded Rivers. 12 February - 14 March 2026. Landscapes as systems - channelled, resisted, remade across painting, drawing and ceramics. Featuring Laurie Cole, Jeff Dellow, Charlie Duck, Yoona Kwon and Holly Mills. Curated by Laurie Cole.

Blackbird Rook is pleased to present an online exhibition of paintings by Eric Banks - a painter whose work has unfolded over four decades with rare consistency, seriousness and independence.

January always has a way of sharpening things. The noise drops slightly, the calendar resets, and what matters - or might matter - comes into clearer focus. The art world feels particularly poised right now.

A show that spans forty years shouldn’t feel contemporary in every direction at once, yet What Remains of the Day does exactly that. In pairing Marilyn Hallam and Ellie MacGarry, the exhibition opens up a conversation about how painters organise attention, how interiors become states of mind, and why the language of modernism keeps resurfacing when we think we’ve left it behind. This is a quiet show, but it has a long reach.

This month at Blackbird Rook – Hallam & MacGarry in dialogue, Woolwich Print Fair, and a new essay on collecting with intent.

Jeff Dellow: Extended Fields marks not only a tribute to a lifetime of sustained enquiry, but also a beginning - a renewed recognition of a painter whose subtle mastery continues to shape the conversation around abstraction in Britain and beyond.

Two exhibitions are currently open with Blackbird Rook – one online and one in London – each offering a different way into the possibilities of contemporary painting.