Hurvin Anderson

British · b. 1965

Contemporary Art

British painter whose canvases of swimming pools, barbershops, and domestic interiors draw on personal memory and found imagery to create spaces suffused with light and a sense of latent meaning. Anderson's work carries the weight of Black British experience without rhetoric, allowing atmosphere and architecture to do the work.

On now and coming soon exhibitions

Hurvin Anderson

Until Aug 23

First major solo show of over 80 paintings spanning Anderson's full career

"In Anderson's work, the natural world is almost ominously abundant. Greenery seems to suffocate man-made structures, which often appear dilapidated – like ruined temples in a jungle. The sense of melancholy this generates is offset by the pleasure that Anderson evidently derives from manipulating paint. His compositions – some of which flirt, ingeniously, with abstraction – are awash with attractive blotches and drips."

— The Telegraph