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Keith Ashcroft

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Painter & founder @oastudiossalford Salford
Co-director @oceansapartgallery

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WIP on a wall in Salford @oastudiossalford

#tclethbridge #magnetite #calgarth #clay #salford taken in OA Studios by @keithashcroft

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6 days ago

Here’s a thing…a shrewd and insightful write up by Paul Cordwell @paulcordwell1 about mine and Andrew’s @andrewboats ongoing visual and audio exploits in the studio. Available to look at on Paul’s blog, ‘Letters Stolen From the Alphabet’ - where you can also find various other writings and musings on contemporary art. Worth checking out. Link in bio. Thanks Paul!🙏 taken in OA Studios by @keithashcroft

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7 days ago

Some wips on a studio wall in Salford @oastudiossalford taken in OA Studios by @keithashcroft

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22 days ago

Some snippets from yesterday’s visit to @rogueartists_studios Project Space to see the ERMM exhibition. Some absolute gems.

Featuring regular @oceansapartgallery exhibitors @newtondavidr @paulanewton9 and my old friend Emrys Morgan. The exhibition closes today. taken in Rogue Artists' Studios & Project Space CIC by @keithashcroft

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a month ago

Keith Ashcroft, Both/And, Distemper on canvas
OBJECT SUBJECT - Curated by exhibiting artist Josie Jenkins, Object Subject is a group painting exhibition of works in which objects are either clearly present or ambiguously implied. Moving away from conventional still-life expectations, the exhibition considers how meaning emerges through the placement, treatment and interpretation of objects within painting.
 Dates: 12th August – 6th September 2026

Exhibiting Artists:
Keith Ashcroft - @keithashcroft
Richard Baker - @richardbakerpainting
Jenny Eden - @jennyrutheden
Neill Fuller - @neillfuller
Caroline Gorick - @caroline_gorickpainting
Josie Jenkins - @josiejenkinsartist
Anna Ketskemety - @annaketskemety
Georgia Peskett - @georgiapeskett
Sarah Poots - @sarah_poots
Jayne Anita Smith - @jayneanitasmith
Louise West - @louisewestartist

Lea Bridge Gallery, Lea Bridge Library, London, E10 7HU

Lea Bridge Gallery - Open to proposals for group shows, see link in bio
Gallery Director @keaneartstudio by @keithashcroft

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2 months ago

Next show @oceansapartgallery - curated by @jennyrutheden and @darthbracey
Details below.

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PAINTERWRITER

Saturday 12th September to Saturday 3rd October 2026.
PV Friday 11th September, 6-8pm.

PainterWriter is a group painting exhibition that investigates how painters’ own practices influence the forms, concerns and tropes that appear in their writing. It is a two-fold exhibition, presenting paintings by twenty-one painter-writers alongside an example of their writing made across and within the production of paintings.

Although painting has long been interpreted by art historians, theorists, critics and art writers, what we call the ‘painter‑writer’– the painter who writes – is a central yet critically overlooked figure. Their co‑extensive writing‑with‑making materially reshapes painting’s meanings and values from ‘inside practice’.

By analysing this field, PainterWriter seeks to reveal the distinctive insights painters bring to writing and to highlight a significant but under‑acknowledged area within painting discourse.

Andrew Bracey @darthbracey
Graham Crowley #grahamcrowley
Karen David @karensdavid
Jenny Eden @jennyrutheden
Catherine Ferguson @cmferguson_paintings
Rebecca Fortnum @rebecca_fortnum
Melissa Gordon @melissajohannegordon
Abi Hampsey @abihampsey
Jo McGonigal @jomcgonigal
Dougal McKenzie @dougal.b.mckenzie
Christian Mieves @christian_mieves
David Osbaldeston @david.studio.o
Tom Palin @palin.tom
Katie Pratt @katiepratt_artist
Assunta Ruocco @assuntaruocco_studio
David Ryan @davidryan364
George Shaw @georgeshaw_artist
Daniel Sturgis @danielsturgis.studio
Chester Tenneson @chestertenneson
Alun Williams @alunbrooklyn
Laura Wormell @laura.wormell

Curated by Andrew Bracey & Jenny Eden taken in Oceans Apart by @keithashcroft

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2 months ago

‘Movement No.1 (Myth Frontier) oil on canvas, 100cm x 120cm, 2026. taken in St Helens, Merseyside by @keithashcroft

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3 months ago

‘Movement No.1 (Myth Frontier)’ oil on canvas, 100cm x 120cm, WIP.

Been working on this painting for a while now for a group show in Paris next month. Feel like it’s possibly doing something interesting, but I’m not wholly convinced by it yet…or haven’t quite caught up with it. It’s changed a lot over the last few weeks. It may change some more!

The title of the painting partly came about after a chat with my good pal Dave Newton about Westerns. Dave pointed out that an earlier version of the painting reminded him of the end scene of the 1956 John Ford film ‘The Searchers’, (which was a precursor for the European Westerns to follow). Makes complete sense, the painting having been constructed and felt out via a series of composite parts grafted and fictionalised within an inch of their life - feels like a kind of Spaghetti Western with no tangible sense of linear time or narrative beginning, middle or end. taken in St Helens, Merseyside by @keithashcroft

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3 months ago

Next show at Oceans Apart. Opens this Saturday, 4-6pm. All welcome.

@oceansapartgallery presents…

SLIP
13th June - 4th July, 2026
Open Saturdays, 12-4pm
PV Saturday 13th June 4-6pm, all welcome

SLIP brings together ten artists whose practices explore the boundaries and possibilities of paint, extending beyond the flat surface and into clay.

Clay is Just Thick Paint, a phrase often attributed to Peter Voulkos, proposes ceramic surfaces as sites for painterly experimentation. In this understanding, painting and sculpture converge: wet clay, slips, and glazes are handled like impasto, built up, scraped back and reworked to create expressive forms where colour, texture, and shape become one. Together, these works propose a porous boundary between disciplines, where painting does not end at the edge of the canvas but continues, materially and spatially, into the round.

@hannahbrownartist
@robertacialfi
@charlie.duck
@rebeccaelves
@mariellehehir
@linda_hemmersbach
@bethan_lloyd_worthington
@ruthmurrayartist
@matthewrichardsonartist
@lottie.stoddart

Curated by Ruth Murray & Linda Hemmersbach

Image: Bethan Lloyd Worthington, Nocturne, 2021, Stoneware with slip, dendritic mochaware technique, parian, onglaze painting, h12cm x w13cm x d7cm

Image credit: Kristian Day Gallery

#oceansapartgallery #petervoulkos #contemporarypainting #contemporaryceramics salford taken in Oceans Apart by @keithashcroft

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4 months ago

The Space of Painting.
Looking forward to this! Great to be showing work at Rogue Project Space @rogueartists_studios alongside an amazing group of artists.

Opens Saturday 4th April from 2-5pm. All welcome!

The Space of Painting brings together the work of 9 painters practising across a range of idioms, all of whom engage with expanded conceptions of space beyond the formal or compositional constraints of painting itself.

Maurice Blanchot’s The Space of Literature (1955) reveals strange paradoxes in the act of writing and the creation of a literary work. In trying to make something other from language, its ‘work’ is that which stands apart and distinct from its material source and represents the effort of writing to separate from that which contains it.

This is also the task of painting, because painting is intrinsically an act which creates something other from the world, our perception and experience. The endeavour to create this something other is to go beyond perception into the space of painting, which the work in this exhibition exemplifies. In the realisation of their vision, these artists are engaged in a material discourse with indeterminacy.

Featuring work by:
Susan Absolon @susan.absolon
Heather Alderson @heathera077
Iain Andrews @iainandrewsart
Keith Ashcroft @keithashcroft
Peter Clarke @petestudio4
Graham Crowley
Jenny Eden @jennyrutheden
David Gledhill @davidgledhillartist
Susan Gunn @susangunnartist

Curated by @traincurator
Exhibition essay @philip_a_porter

PV: Sat 4th April, 2-5pm.
Exhibition continues until 25th April.
Opening times: Fridays and Saturdays 1-5pm and by appointment - contact philporter114@gmail.com

The Space of Painting
Rogue Project Space
Manchester
M11 1PU
@rogueartists_studios taken in Rogue Artists' Studios & Project Space CIC by @keithashcroft

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7 months ago

Study for A Figure, oil on canvas, 2036.

#anglosaxonurn #tclethbridge #magnetite #salford #oastudiossalford taken in OA Studios by @keithashcroft

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8 months ago

Ceramic Flesh, oil on canvas, 2026.

#anglosaxonurn #magnetitie #tclethbridge #thefigure taken in OA Studios by @keithashcroft

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8 months ago