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)
