Current Exhibitions

Christopher Le Brun Fifty Etchings 2005. The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge. 20th May to 28th September.
Christopher Le Brun's first major etching project was the series Fifty Etchings published by Paragon Press in 1990. In 2004 he embarked on a second series, which is displayed in full in this exhibition. Made over the course of a year and employing an extraordinary variety of subtle etching techniques, the series revisits a wide range of subjects known from Le Brun's other work (like the painting The Eye's Castle recently acquired by The Fitzwilliam Museum), while also introducing new themes and motifs. The sequence is carefully constructed by the artist, shaping associations and memories of literature and music as well as art. Like the questing rider and travellers in the prints, the viewer is drawn into a metaphysical journey in search of meaning as well as beauty.
Also on show the new painting aquisition: The Eye's Castle

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. 19th June to 17th August.
Two large six part paintings: Tirra Lirra and The City Built to Music.

On Time, East Wing Collection VIII. The Courtauld Institute of Art London.
Lithographs from the Seven Lithographs series.
From 25th January 2008 -26th July 2009.
Catalogue available. See archive/bibliography

New Commissions

Christopher Le Brun is one of 5 artists shortlisted for the Ebbsfleet Landmark commission, a major project to build a 40 to 50 metre high monument in North Kent, south east of London. Futurecity have invited Le Brun, Daniel Buren, Richard Deacon, Mark Wallinger and Rachel Whiteread to submit proposals. It is the biggest commissioned art work of its kind in the UK. The sculpture could stand as high as Nelson's column.
An exhibition of the proposals opens at Bluewater on 27th May.

New Publications

Christopher Le Brun Catalogue for the 2008 solo exhibition published by the New Art Gallery Walsall. Fully illustrated with an introductory essay by Director Stephen Snoddy and an interview with the artist by JJ Charlesworth.

Contemporary Art in Print The publications of Charles Booth-Clibborn and his imprint The Paragon Press 2001-2006.
Published on the twentieth anniversary of the Paragon Press. The thirty-one projects in this volume provide an overview of the British Art scene at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The range of artists stretches across the generations from Alan Davie and the late Terry Frost through to Jake and Dinos Chapman and Gary Hume as well as a younger generation of artists such as Gillian Carnegie and George Shaw.
Includes Christopher Le Brun's Fifty Etchings 2005 fully illustrated plus an essay and commentary by the artist.