What happens when that eye leans ever closer into the screen and begins to watch and learn from the digital? All bets are off. What we see can have been reconfigured and reimagined in any number of ways. There is no need for truth, logic or limits.
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.
