Yngling Projects

Yngling Projects is a new initiative which will run alongside Berntson Bhattacharjee’s exhibition programme and take place in the downstairs gallery space on 45 Berners Street. The programme is dedicated to showcasing work by early career artists currently in art school, by discovering and promoting burgeoning talent in a low pressure environment. The word Yngling, meaning youth in Norse, embraces the spirit of new beginnings and boundless potential. 

 

Reflecting the gallery’s commitment to supporting early career artists, Yngling Projects welcomes experimentation and creativity as well as providing crucial support in navigating the art world. Embodying the dynamic energy of its name, Yngling Projects aims to create a springboard for a new generation of artists to explore, learn, and grow.

 

  • Current

    Isaac Willis, 20 February - 25 March
    Isaac Willis, Domain, 2024, oil on aluminium, acid etch primer, Epoxy putty, oak gall ink, 56 x 45 cm

    Isaac Willis

    20 February - 25 March

    Berntson Bhattacharjee are proud to introduce artist Isaac Willis. Isaac will be taking part in our new Yngling Projects programme in our lower gallery space. 

     

    Isaac Willis (b. 1991, Walton-On-Thames, UK) is currently based in Glasgow,  studying for his Masters in Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art. He received his BA in Fine Art from the University for the Creative Arts in 2014. 

     

    His work uses historical paintings as subject matter for new investigations into contemporary painting. Willis questions topics of ownership, the narrative of women in historical art, heritage, power, and materiality. Crops of old master paintings are juxtaposed with a material surface which draws attention to itself, exposing the material and objecthood of painting. These surfaces, often aluminium, are accompanied by sculptural mounts, such as a crow’s head or a chess piece, which bear the works. Thinking through images and translating the ‘mind's eye’ is a starting point for the paintings which contain different sources of imagery wrestling for space in the picture plane. 

     

    Recent group exhibitions include; ‘Popcorn Machine’, 318 Langside, Glasgow (2024); ‘Ghost Image’, Mannering Road, Glasgow (2024); ‘Resting’, Blyth Gallery at Imperial College, London (2023); ‘Words and Pictures’, Worlding Project Space, London (2023); ‘Inside Job’, Tate Modern, London (2018).

     

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  • Upcoming

    Roanna Holmes-Frodsham, 25 March - 12 April
    Roanna Holmes-Frodsham, Tied Down, 2024, Oil on canvas, 110 x 165 cm

    Roanna Holmes-Frodsham

    25 March - 12 April

    Berntson Bhattacharjee are proud to introduce artist Roanna Holmes-Frodsham. Roanna will be taking part in our Yngling Projects programme in our lower gallery space. 

     

    Roanna Holmes-Frodsham (b. 1996, London) is currently studying a Masters in Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art. She was awarded The James Pantyfedwen Scholarship (2024), and received her BA in Fine Art: Painting from Camberwell College of Arts (2018).

     

    Roanna’s practice is a theatre, curated through painting, sculpture, costumes and film. Her work is born from the metaphors that perform in her home-lands, the Preseli Mountains, where she questions who is the director in this place where land becomes the stage. The wind may become an extension of feelings, and the side-ways rain might soak you in empathy, but to become a puddle is to be the land’s material. 


    Recent group exhibitions include; ‘Sweet Loss’, Spark Festival, Airside Hong Kong (2024); ‘Dusty’, City Gallery, Glasgow (2024); ‘Popcorn Machine’, 318 Langside, Glasgow (2024); ‘Mordros Dros Y Mor’, The Peckham Pelican, London (2024); ;Burning Things;, Videotage, Hong Kong (2023); ‘Belonging is a Feeling’, Avalon, London (2022); ‘Hannwfn’, The Peckham Pelican, London (2022).