Presented in conversation with, but separate to Louise Giovanelli’s solo exhibition From Here to Here to Here, this exhibition platforms emerging painters from the 2024 and 2025 cohort of Apollo Painting School.
The exhibition assembles a range of approaches to painting that reflect its continued relevance as a critical and evolving medium. While points of contact emerge between the practices, each artist speaks with their own singular language. Moving through abstraction and figuration, fictional constructs and personal memory, painterly openness and spatial rigour, the exhibition forms a constellation of distinct practices that offer a snapshot of emerging contemporary painting in the UK today.
(2024) Ally Fallon, Hannah-Sophia Guerriero, Isaac Jordan, Deborah Lerner, Isobel Shore.
(2025) Catherine Ko Chen, Nora Hreb, Jamie Kirk, Mahrokh Mofidnakhaei.
Founded by gallerist and curator Alice Amati, artist Louise Giovanelli and artist and academic Dr. Ian Hartshorne, Apollo Painting School is an independent, non-profit training programme dedicated to developing an alternative model of learning for emerging painters.
Operating between Manchester in the UK and Latina in Italy, Apollo Painting School foregrounds decentralisation, exchange and access, positioning painting within communities and contexts outside of capital cities and their dominant cultural circuits.
Through intensive studio practice and professional development the programme builds sustained bridges between art education and the contemporary art world.