Disruptive Painting
Curated by Maison Trampoline (Alejandro Luna and John Walter)
Stiwdio Griffith, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Swansea, SA1 3EU
7th February - 12th March 2026
10:00 – 16:30 Monday - Friday
Publication launch and artists' tour of the exhibition 19th February 16:00
Stiwdio Griffith presents Disruptive Painting, a new exhibition curated by Maison Trampoline that brings together fourteen contemporary British and Irish painters whose work has never before been considered side-by-side. The exhibition investigates how disruption operates within painting today - whether as a formal strategy, a conceptual framework, or an intervention in the artist’s own creative routines.
What does it mean for painting—a medium with centuries of history—to be disruptive? Disruptive Painting explores how painters innovate in response to new technologies, shifting social contexts, and the demands of their own practices. Through a taxonomical curatorial approach, the exhibition traces unexpected connections between artists, revealing new patterns, affinities, and divergences across their work.
The exhibition features work by Alejandro Luna, Bex Massey, David Surman, Donal Moloney, Emma Cousin, John Walter, Kate Bright, Lubaina Himid, Lulu Bennett, Mark Jackson, Ross Taylor, Sheila Rennick, Sue Williams, and Vilte Fuller. Together, these artists navigate a range of contemporary strategies - from photorealism, autoethnographic painting, and world-building, to chromatic space, material experimentation, narrative and figurative disruption, collage-thinking, the ongoing project of feminism, genre collision, and the legacies of Abstract Expressionism and Sigmar Polke.
Curated by Maison Trampoline (Alejandro Luna and John Walter)
Stiwdio Griffith, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Swansea, SA1 3EU
7th February - 12th March 2026
10:00 – 16:30 Monday - Friday
Publication launch and artists' tour of the exhibition 19th February 16:00
Stiwdio Griffith presents Disruptive Painting, a new exhibition curated by Maison Trampoline that brings together fourteen contemporary British and Irish painters whose work has never before been considered side-by-side. The exhibition investigates how disruption operates within painting today - whether as a formal strategy, a conceptual framework, or an intervention in the artist’s own creative routines.
What does it mean for painting—a medium with centuries of history—to be disruptive? Disruptive Painting explores how painters innovate in response to new technologies, shifting social contexts, and the demands of their own practices. Through a taxonomical curatorial approach, the exhibition traces unexpected connections between artists, revealing new patterns, affinities, and divergences across their work.
The exhibition features work by Alejandro Luna, Bex Massey, David Surman, Donal Moloney, Emma Cousin, John Walter, Kate Bright, Lubaina Himid, Lulu Bennett, Mark Jackson, Ross Taylor, Sheila Rennick, Sue Williams, and Vilte Fuller. Together, these artists navigate a range of contemporary strategies - from photorealism, autoethnographic painting, and world-building, to chromatic space, material experimentation, narrative and figurative disruption, collage-thinking, the ongoing project of feminism, genre collision, and the legacies of Abstract Expressionism and Sigmar Polke.
March 20, 2026
