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Now Open | Gwen Evans: Keeping the Vigil  On view at the gallery until Saturday 14th November. Open Thu/Fri 11am-6pm and Saturday 12-5pm or by appointment.

This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery debuting a series of new paintings by the Manchester-based artist. Throughout ‘Keeping the Vigil’ Evans offers a series of enigmatic glimpses into the private worlds of her protagonists, in which familiar domestic spaces become strange and elusive. Recognisable settings such as bedrooms, living rooms and household corridors become rendered through their imitations as uncanny doubles of themselves, forming a backdrop against which quotidian daily routines take on a disquieting atmosphere.

Gwen Evans Keeping the Vigil
8 October - 14 November, 2026

William Hine
311 Camberwell New Road
London SE5 0TF  Photo: @vinx_imagehead taken in Camberwell, London, UK by @gwenevanswork

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Opening on Thursday 8th October | Gwen Evans: Keeping the Vigil. Join us from 6:30-8:30pm for the private view of the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.

Gwen Evans
Keeping the Vigil
8 October - 14 November, 2026

William Hine
311 Camberwell New Road
London SE5 0TF

_ #camberwell #southlondon #privateview #londonart taken in Camberwell, London, UK by @gwenevanswork

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Over the moon to have been awarded the YAS solo exhibition award at the Contemporary British Painting exhibition with @paintbritain. Thank you to the director of @yartspace Georgina Kettlewell for the opportunity!

🎊Huge congratulations also to @bend_laser who received the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2026, @christophercookstudio who received
Highly Commended, @pippagattystudio who won the Judith Tucker Memorial Prize Winner and @melguatelli who came second place.

Thank you to the organisers at CBP, it was fantastic to meet so many wonderful painters and have the privilege of exhibiting alongside them.

Also big thanks to the other prize judges @ryanmosley01, @katherine__lloyd, Harriet Tarlo, @hannahbrownartist and Griselda Pollock plus the selectors @iainandrewsart @danielhbell_artist @rachel__lancaster & @emmatod1.

#paintbritain #contemporaraybritishpainting #cbpprize2026 #painting
@yartspace @huddersfieldartgallery by @gwenevanswork

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Announcing our forthcoming solo exhibition with Gwen Evans on view from 8 October.

Gwen Evans
Keeping the Vigil
8 October - 14 November, 2026

Private View: Thursday 8th October, 6:30 - 8:30PM. All welcome.

William Hine is pleased to present Keeping the Vigil, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Manchester-based artist Gwen Evans on view from 8 October - 14 November, 2026. This will be Evans’ second solo exhibition with the gallery.

Throughout Keeping the Vigil, Evans offers a series of enigmatic glimpses into the private worlds of her protagonists, in which familiar domestic spaces become strange and elusive. Recognisable settings such as bedrooms, living rooms and household corridors become rendered through their imitations as uncanny doubles of themselves, forming a backdrop against which quotidian daily routines take on a disquieting atmosphere.

William Hine
311 Camberwell New Road
London SE5 0TF

Artwork: Gwen Evans, Companion, 2026, oil on canvas, 90 x 110 cm. 📷: Michael Pollard taken in Camberwell, London, UK by @gwenevanswork

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Excited to announce that I’ve made it to the final shortlist and will be exhibiting alongside some amazing painters!
Thank you to selectors @danielhbell_artist @emmatod1 @iainandrewsart @rachel__lancaster 👏

• @paintbritain Congratulations to our 15 shortlisted painters for the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2026! They are:

Andrew Bryant @__andrewbryant__
Christopher Cook @christophercookstudio
Gwen Evans @gwenevanswork
Pippa Gatty @pippagattystudio
Mathew Gibson @mcj.gibson
Caroline Gorick @carolinegorick_painting
Melanie Guatelli @melguatelli
Christopher Hanlon @chrishanlonartist
Jinyong Park @jinyongparkstudio
Ben Sadler @bend_laser
Katy Shepherd @katyshepherdart
Robert Sherratt @artbyrobertsherratt
Michelle Ussher @michelleussher
Haijie Wang @haijiewang99
Kate Wilson @katewilsonarts

Commiserations to those who did not make the shortlist, the submissions were very strong and our judges really had their work cut out for them. You can read more about this in Iain Andrews’ reflections about the selection process on our website through our #linkinbio

The CBP Prize exhibition opens, and is announced (alongside the Judith Tucker Memorial Prize) at Yorkshire Artspace on 19th September 2026.

#cbp2026 #congratulations #painting paintbritain

@yartspace @huddersfieldartgallery @thamessidestudiosse18 by @gwenevanswork

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Pretty pleased to have made it to the long list for Contemporary British Painting 2026 @paintbritain. Thank you to this years selectors. 😀

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• @paintbritain Congratulations to all of the painters longlisted for the CBP Prize 2026!

🥁These are:

Aglaé Bassens
Andrew Bryant
Arthur Lanyon
Ben Sadler
Caroline Gorick
Caroline List
Catriona Pavek
Charlotte Roseberry
Christopher Cook
Christopher Hanlon
David Hancock
David Kiely
David Micheaud
E Haworth
Emma Bennett
Gill Rocca
Graham Silveria Martin
Gwen Evans
Haijie Wang
Hannah Wooll
Harriet White
Harry Hancock
Helen Kincaid
Helen Thomas
Henry Ward
Ian Parker
Jamie Kirk
Jan Valik
Jane Hayes Greenwood
Jane Millican
Jen Metcalfe
Jen Roper
Jinyong Park
John Robinson
Jonathan R Bennett
Joseph Norris
Judith Dean
Kate Wilson
Kathryn Maple
Katy Shepherd
Laurence Noga
Leetzuy
Mark Surridge
Mathew Gibson
Melanie Guatelli
Michelle Ussher
Pippa Gatty
Richard Kenton Webb
Robert Senior
Robert Sherratt
Sam Ng
Sophie Bedingham Smith
Stefan John Orlowski
Sunghoon Park
Tamara Dubnyckyj
Vicky Dale
YiLiu

@janemillican @jen_metcalfe_painter @awkward_jen_ @jinyongparkstudio @johnrobinsonpainter @jonathanrbennett @josephnorrisart @dean.judith @katewilsonarts @kathrynmaple @katyshepherdart @laurence.noga @leetzuy @marksurridgeartist @mcj.gibson @melguatelli @michelleussher @pippagattystudio @richardkentonwebb @robertjasenior @artbyrobertsherratt @sam_ngch @SophelinaSmithson @steforlowski @at_pshi1i3 @tamara_dubnyckyj @dale.vick @elvayiliu

And thank you so much to our selectors who had the very difficult task of putting this list together from so very many strong entries this year.

Iain Andrews @iainandrewsart
Daniel H Bell @danielhbell_artist
Rachel Lancaster @rachel__lancaster
Emma Tod @emmatod1

#paintbritain #cbpprize2026 #painting by @gwenevanswork

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Group exhibition ‘Vow’ continues until the 22nd of February @20albertroad, Glasgow.

Presented by @slugtown_ , the exhibition interrogates notions of intimacy, connection, and adoration, considering how these qualities are negotiated within contemporary life. Across diverse practices including
painting, sculpture, photography, and installation, the works reflect upon how vulnerability can
be both a visual strategy and a political gesture. Together, the artists foreground tenderness,
devotion, and care as active positions, questioning how such gestures might resist dominant
structures and open new forms of relation.

I’m pleased to be exhibiting my paintings ‘Briar’ and ‘Vow’ alongside work by @jadesweeting #anaiscomer and @will_hughes_art_.

Photography by Patrick Jameson. by @gwenevanswork

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8 months ago

‘Housework’, 2025, oil on canvas, 100 x 70cm

Currently being exhibited @monti8_ , Rome in my solo ‘The Space Between’, which closes this Saturday.

Photography:
Artwork @michaelpollardphotography
Exhibition @francescaromanaguarnaschelli by @gwenevanswork

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Very happy to be featured in the December issue of @thefourdrinier.

I enjoyed talking through my new body of work with painter @davidhancock73. Since forming a crit group with other Northwest-based painters, we’ve started to notice some interesting overlaps in our work, and we touch on those in the piece.

Link in bio to have a read. by @gwenevanswork

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Thank you to everyone who made it to the opening of ‘The Space Between’, @monti8_ .

It was such a pleasure to be part of the San Lorenzo Gallery Night, and open my exhibition alongside @monitorgallery @materia_gallery_rome and @galleriagildalavia.

My exhibition continues until the 24th of January. 😀 by @gwenevanswork

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Thank you @y_a_n_ni for writing an accompanying text for my exhibition with @monti8_ and including me this month’s feature @art_verge. 🙌

‘Gwen Evans’s body of work looks like a creative extension of her inner world, which seems to carefully merge calm and luminous depictions fused by simplicity and emotional charge. Her artistic practice keeps her at the borderline of the familiar and the uncanny; converting ordinary domestic settings into metaphors of various emotional states. Whether showing a person hanging his laundry at dusk, or a ghostlike figure of a shadow behind the patterned cloth, Evans depicts compositions where the characters’ subtle gestures contradictorily convey a very powerful potency.’

You can read the full text and feature via the link in my bio. 👆 by @gwenevanswork

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Opening this Thursday 5:30-8pm, @monti8_, Rome.

‘The Space Between’

Reassuring reference points such as facial features are removed or obscured and ambiguous narratives render the characters inscrutable and their intentions unknown. This uncertainty leaves viewers to question whether the paintings capture a moment of quiet repose or the prelude to something more sinister.

Image: ‘Checkpoint’, 2025, oil on canvas 80 x 60 cm

Follow the link in my bio for more information. by @gwenevanswork

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