In the studio with Dexter Dalwood English Painting

Dexter Dalwood’s inaugural exhibition with Lisson Gallery, 'English Painting', represents a return to the artist’s homeland and to the subject of what it might mean to be an ‘English’ painter. From the distance of his Mexican studio, Dalwood re-considers his attachments with English art history and the culture of his youth, growing up in 1970s and ’80s Britain. The question of whether national identity can be determined or distilled through art is explored in this new group of paintings that consider the legacies of traditional genres, such as landscape or the lowlier practice of horse portraiture, all the way up to twentieth-century movements including the Bloomsbury Group and Pop Art.

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