The Space Of Painting

T H E  S P A C E  O F  P A I N T I N G

Exhibition dates | 4-25 April 2026

Curated by Ann Bukantas

Preview | Saturday April 4 | 13.00 - 17.00

OPEN | Friday’s & Saturday’s 13.00 - 17.00

By appointment | Please contact philporter114@gmail.com

T H E S P A C E O F P A I N T I N G

Curated by Ann Bukantas

Text by Phil Porter

The Space of Painting brings together the work of 9 painters practising across a range of idioms, all of whom engage with expanded conceptions of space beyond the formal or compositional constraints of painting itself. 

Maurice Blanchot’s The Space of Literature (1955)reveals strange paradoxes in the act of writing and the creation of a literary work. In trying to make something other from language, its 'work' is that which stands apart and distinct from its material source and represents the effort of writing to separate from that which contains it.

This is also the task of painting, because painting is intrinsically an act which creates something other from the world, our perception and experience. The endeavour to create this something other is to go beyond perception into the space of painting, which the work in this exhibition exemplifies.  In the realisation of their vision, these artists are engaged in a material discourse with indeterminacy.

ARTISTS: Heather Alderson | Susan Absolon | Iain Andrews | Keith Ashcroft

Peter Clarke | Graham Crowley | Jenny Eden | David Gledhill | Susan Gunn

The Space of Painting

Rogue Project Space

Manchester

M11 1PU

Text | Phil Porter