High on Hope: Introduction

Catalogue Essay for the exhibition 'High on Hope' at Cross Lane Projects 23 July - 24 September 2022.

The exhibition High on Hope has been conceived as a memorial exhibition for the artist Gerard Hemsworth (1945–2021). It brings together a selection of Hemsworth’s canvases and the work of eight other artists whom he taught, on the part-time Master’s programme at Goldsmiths College in South London, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The exhibition, which has been devised by the painter Rebecca Scott, focuses on artists whose work she sees as resonating with Hemsworth’s own engagement in a type of “post-conceptual !gurative or representational painting”.