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STRATFORD UNITARIAN GALLERY
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Matthew Webber
New Paintings
9-29 May 2026
I call my process ‘Unpainting’ – multiple layers of oil and acrylic are methodically applied over a period of months or sometimes years, creating a dense block of imagery and paint, which is subsequently scraped, sanded and jet-washed away. This reversal of the process creates new and accidental connections and relationships, as each stage of the making reveals itself – all the way back to the very first mark.
The method of making these works often resembles sculpture or carving more than painting. Long-buried colours and structures emerge through the surface, creating an intricately interwoven network of lines and motifs in which both the city and the woodland landscape in which the work had its origin now reappear.
At this stage the multiple layers of accumulated paint will either coalesce to form a finished work of art, or disappear completely, to be started again from scratch.
Dominic Marshall
Out of My Head…
9-29 April 2026
Dominic entered the dance profession in 1981 and has had a long and varied career which includes performing, choreography,
directing and teaching which continues to this day.
During his career he has intermittently continued to paint until the pandemic. Like
many people used the downtime to reconnect with pastimes which led to his most consistent and prolific period of painting and branching from Acrylics into Oils.
Concentrating on surreal narratives and hopefully containing an emotional truth.
Alison Neville
Architectural Etchings
14-21 March 2026
Born in Zimbabwe in 1945, Alison moved to the UK in 1962. She studied at Gloucestershire College of Art, Portsmouth University and London University. From 1974 to 1976 she studied printmaking at Boston University USA. Alison specializes in etchings of architectural subjects.
Debatable Lands by Angela Forrester
Agate 1 (neon 2), by Kathy Rooney (detail)
Fankle Art Collective
Intersect
30 October - 21 November
Intersect brought together ten artists, who work across painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, collage, photography, and film and video. ‘To meet and cross at a point’ is to intersect and this was Fankle’s fourth exhibition together, the fourth exploration of interconnecting ideas at a single point in place and time. Diverse ideas jostled within the space of the Unitarian Gallery, connecting and seeking out common ground.
Fankle is a multidisciplinary art collective formed in 2023 by emerging artists from the Middlesex University MA Fine Art and MA Printmaking programmes. The name ‘Fankle’, a Scottish word for entanglement, reflects the complex web of ideas they draw together, as well as the varied generational and geographic origins of Fankle members, with threads extending from London to Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Berlin, Munich, Baghdad, Tehran and Mexico City. Artists exhibiting in Intersect: Natalie Dee | Phil Dunn | Angela Forrester | Freddy McBride | Carolyn Murphy | Iliana Ortega-Alcázar | Jan Pimblett | Hanan Tawfiq | Kathy Rooney | Luke Anthony Rooney For more information, check out www.fankle.art and @fankle.art on Instagram.
A Scream of Swifts, by Carolyn Murphy (detail)
Chris Thomas
People, Places and Consequences
4th-25th October
People, Places and Consequences was an exhibition of work with three themes: portraiture, landscape and narrative. Portraiture has been a recurring theme in Chris’ work over the years. All the pieces were from direct observation in the life room and endeavour to utilise the shape, size and format of the paper the head occupies. The landscapes are depictions of Southern England and have their origins in the tradition of representing and engaging with the pre-historic monuments of the area. The third theme is narrative and the representation of key events in a story or the epitomising of the prevailing idea in a narrative.
Ziynet
Abstract Emotive Art
An Exhibition
May 24th-14th June
Ziynet's Abstract Emotive Art is a symbol of the spiritual aspects of herself, which represents the many facets of her personality; depicted through Geometric shapes, colours and intricate, highly decorative, and detailed work with symbols of interacting shapes, form and colour.
Mark Allnutt
Beyond the Grid:
The Rhythm of the City
6th-31st March
If it articulates the ordered structure of modern cities, Mark’s work also acknowledges the fragmentation and chaos of urban life. He celebrates the innumerable and interdependent urban units (streets, parks, houses, plots of land etc.) which form the social organism of our municipal environment.
Geoff Wilkinson
East End Journey
5-26th October 2024
Geoff’s latest project focuses on this ever changing area of London, photographing streets, buildings and atmosphere before it disappears.
Drawings from Lives
Christopher Thomas
19-28 September 2024
Image left: Leo, chalk pastel on sugar paper
The Brightest
of Colour
Kim Wilson
11 May – 1 June 2024
Pastel and Acrylic work
SU Gallery
Spring Exhibition
A group show featured works by Alison Neville, Eleanor Pearce, Paul Romane, David Carapiet, Lorraine Peacock, Christopher Thomas, Marta Hajdukiewicz, Suan Foley, Celia Mansell, Chris Brown, Rav Basra and Studio MSN.
13 – 27 April 2024
Thanks to everyone who came to the Finnisage event at S.U Gallery including the performers @robbiedesroches @isherwoodfran and us @thesmokeremains. Many thanks to photographers @phoenixleaderlaw___official @lydiathornley and @inawebymarta
Drawing Classes
With Eleanor Pearce
A fun and accessible Drawing Course.
18 January to 29 February 2024
Look Now
Suan Foley & Celia MansellA joint exhibition of paintings.
18 November – 7 December 2023
Eleanor Pearce
Works on PaperThe Stratford Unitarian Gallery presents a collection of recent drawings by Eleanor Pearce, exploring the territory between observation and imagination. Created between the life room and studio settings, the works combine elements of direct observation, transformed through a process of spontaneity within the drawing process.
7 – 21 October 2023
SU Gallery
Spring ExhibitionA group show featuring works by Alison Neville, Eleanor Pearce, Sabella Mahlangu, Paul Romane, David Carapiet, Bronwen Williams, Duart Da Silva-Sylvans, Lorraine Peacock, Chris Thomas, Marta Hajdukiewicz & Chris Brown
20 May – 17 June 2023
House of Snows
Paintings of the Nepal Himalaya by Chris Thomas
10 March - April 1 2023
Expoobident
From Artscape
3 February-23 February 2023
Ragworks
GILLIAN LAWRENCE
15 October - 15 November 2022
Fabric artworks by textile artist Gillian Lawrence.
Travels in Africa
by ALISON NEVILLE
11th September - 1st October 2022
The Other Side of
the Underneathby David Carapiet
11th June - 9th July 2022
ASH by BERKAY BUGDAN
April 14 until May 2021.
86 Istanbul. Illustration at Maryland Institute College of Art. +15 years in industry along with gallery/fine art work. Currently set up in London.
berkaybugdan.com
Welcome to my World
Fifi is.. Living Art
12 March to 2 April 2022
I am here I am the work I am my Art body mind and spirit… Welcome to my World
FiFi is… Living Art has finally come together 6yrs of work from a life time of growing thinking being I am here you are here.
There is no there...
Duart Bel Silva
6 to 27 November 2021
There is no there, there ....
“The trouble with Oakland is that when you get there, there isn't any there there.”
Gertrude Stein - Anybodys Autobiography
Gertrude Stein had lived in Oakland when she was a child: on returning, many years later, when Oakland had grown about 10 times, the farm where she had lived had been replaced by streets of houses. When she tried to go back there, there was “no there, there”.
SACRED SPACES
Alison Neville
9th to 25th September 2021
Etchings, drawings ceramics from journeys to amazing places
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