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.