COMING
STATES OF BECOMING
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Verity Woolley, Mina Courtauld, Camilo Parra, Kate Burnett, Raoul Coombes.
Opening 28 February to 11 April 2026
Private view: Friday 27 February, 6-8pm
VESTRY STREET GALLERY Floor 1, 6-8 Vestry Street, London N1 7RE
States of Becoming brings together five painters whose practices converge around painting as an unfolding process of fluid activity rather than a vehicle for fixed representation. Instead of approaching painting as a predetermined outcome, these artists regard the act of painting as an open-ended investigation: a negotiation between gesture, time, and memory — exploring how images and meanings emerge anddevelop through time.
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All five artists approach painting as an exploratory practice—an activity that unfolds through repetition, hesitation, and the layering of actions across time. The works invite viewers to consider how meaning is not imposed but continually negotiated, demonstrating how painting can be both a site of memory and a state of becoming.
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@veritywoolley@c.a.m.i.l.o.p.a.r.r.a@kateburnett_@raoulcoombes#minacourtauld#vestryst #newexhibition #comingsoon #statesofbecoming
OPEN STUDIO / Poets Corner Art trail
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9th-10th & 16th-17th May 2026
11am - 6pm
177 Railton road, London SE24 0LU
Recent paintings displayed in my studio, alongside drawings and prints.
This year we have our own Poets corner Art trail, including local artists:
Brixton Tate Library
7th - 30th May 2026
PV 7th May 6-8pm
Brixton Oval, London SW2 1JQ
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Recent paintings
PAST
TURPS BANANA LEAVERS SHOW 2025
16th-24th May, 2025 / Private view - 16th May
Thameside studio gallery, Harrington Way, Warspite Road, London SE18 5NR
Over the last few years I've been lucky to be part of the Turps Banana mentoring programme. As my involvement comes to an end, my paintings will be shown in the Leavers exhibition at Thameside studios. Here I'll be exhibiting works created during the last months of the programme.
OFF/CENTRE
10th - 11th May, 2025 (Private view 10th May 3-7pm)
The Safehouse, 139 Copeland Rd, London SE15 3SN
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OPEN STUDIO / Poets Corner Art trail
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Sat 10th & Sun 11th May, 2025
11am - 6pm
177 Railton road, London SE24 0LU
Recent paintings displayed in my studio, alongside drawings and prints.
This year we have our own Poets corner Art trail, including local artists:
@kevinbickham
@martingrover
@kateboweart
@victoria_wainwright_art
@lucydukeart
@etta_mac
HOMING
3rd-6th April, 2025 (Private view - 3rd April)
The Safehouse, 139 Copeland Rd, London SE15 3SN
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Four artists come together to explore the idea of ‘Homing’ and its wider context, using the act of painting & making as a vehicle to ‘roam’ and ‘home’.‘Homing’, meaning to return to, to belong, to focus attention to and a need for security. We see this idea explored alongside a questioning of domesticity, a sense of yearning, a leveling of sorts and ideas stemming from Freud’s ‘Unhomely’. The works form both a journey and a homecoming, a moving away but also a returning to. The act of painting itself channeling the tension between a desire to settle and a desire to explore, requiring impulse, instinct and intuition. But are these impulses driving us
