Passing Wanderers

Soma Bognar, R&F Mo & Leigh Curtis

12 April - 20 April 2025

This exhibition is self-curated by the artists and will feature works that contemplate memory, dreams and imaginary scenes set somewhere between reality and imagination.

 

Soma Bognar

Soma Bognar's artistic practice is an intuitive journey where narrative emerges organically in response to the accidental marks created during the painting process. He begins with abstract forms, often incorporating automatic drawing, which can serve as the foundation for his work. These initial, spontaneous marks invite the painting to unfold on its own, evolving in unexpected directions as layers of colour, figure, and pattern build upon each other.
Soma is a Brighton-based artist and resident at Brighton Art Space, currently participating in the Turps Banana Hastings painting programme.
Soma's paintings have been featured in several notable group exhibitions, including the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in 2023 and 2024. His works are held in private collections across the UK, Europe, Japan, and the USA.

Leigh Curtis

Leigh Curtis’s paintings are based on people and places, real and imagined; often describing difficult situations, though also showing attempts at liberation. The paintings usually go through many versions until an image is arrived at which combines colour, tone and mark-making in a way which works for each subject.
Recent shows include ‘The Return’, Kingsgate Project Space, London, 2022, ‘Man Digging’, Exeter Pheonix, 2023, Modern Mud’, Weald Contemporary, Worthing 2024, ‘Greta Thunder’ Special Animal, London 2024, ‘Nature and Its Vendors’, Harts Lane Gallery, London 2025. Works are held in private collections in the UK and Germany. Education: Slade School of Art (BA) and Royal College of Art (MA)

R&F Mo

R&F Mo (b.1956 Cumberland. UK). Education: City & Guilds Dip AD 1980, RCA MA 1984. CSM MFA 2004, UAL PhD (by practice: Sounding Out; Drawing in response to the outside, environment) 2011. Turps Correspondence 2020-21. Turps OffSite 21-22. Taught drawing from 1986-2022 (at Gloucestershire, Norwich, Southampton & CSM). Practice (sometimes across disciplines), explores narrative, performance & stitch, connecting the seen, the sensed and the dreamed. Co-authored Performance Drawing (Bloomsbury 2020). Works included in the V&A archive collection and can be seen in Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art. I.B. Tauris (2007) & Hyperdrawing I.B. Tauris (2012). Exhibited in A History of Drawing Camberwell Space (2018), TBW Drawing prize 2020, RWS 2022,23,24 & 25. RA Summer show 2021/22/23/24.