Slow Painting presents the work of 19 primarily British and UK-based
artists whose work explores ideas around the concept of 'slowness' and
what it might mean in relation to contemporary painting: how it might be
present in the making of the work, how the works reveal themselves
slowly, and how they fit into the continuum of art history. Acting as a
counterbalance to an increasingly accelerating world, painting offers a
space of pause, contemplation and gradual unfurling, for both the
painter and the viewer. Spanning diverse approaches, from figuration to
abstraction and somewhere in between, Slow Painting surveys painting's
role as a rewarding repository of time. With an original essay by
curator and writer Martin Herbert, this publication also includes a
roundtable discussion between a number of the artists and art critic
Hettie Judah.