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Tension Graduate Prize 2024

Tension Graduate Prize 2024

Left to Right: Tranasha Hyman, Laura Madeley, Ken Turner, Matt Hale : Tension Graduate Prize 2024.                                 Photo Courtesy of Belinda Lawley, www.belindalawley.com     Tension Graduate Prize 2024 Matt Hale and I spent an enjoyable afternoon...
Paul Carey-Kent’s Gallery Of The Week

Paul Carey-Kent’s Gallery Of The Week

Still from William Cobbing: ‘screensaver’, 2022/23 – video, looped Article by  Paul Carey-Kent First appeared in Fad Magazine 6 September 2023 Tension Fine Art has operated since 2019 in the somewhat unlikely locality of Penge in South-East London. There may not be...
Crossings : Divides Review

Crossings : Divides Review

Crossings : Divides Jenny Timmer 6th – 15th July 2023 Essay by Carrie Grainger    Sitting in a quirky exhibition space in South London, artist Jenny Timmer’s work unearths playful, primitive and ominous glimpses from her own experiences in remote parts of Africa...
John Bunker ebook Launch

John Bunker ebook Launch

We are proud to announce the publication of John Bunker’s ebook. Published to co-inside with the current show by the same name running at Tension Fine Art, ‘our dust is blowing along the road’ is the first published monograph on artist John Bunker....
Tension Graduate Show 2022

Tension Graduate Show 2022

Tension Graduate Prize 2022  The Tension Graduate Prize has been awarded since 2019 to emerging artists selected from a shortlist of M.A. students graduating at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. The selectors for 2022 were artist and director of...
Ken Turner & John Bunker in Conversation

Ken Turner & John Bunker in Conversation

Soliloquy Ken Turner 11th June – 16th July 2022 Artist and writer John Bunker in converstion with Ken Turner  at Tension 9th July 2022   First impressions on entering the gallery are of a body of work teetering on the edge of chaos. I am instantly reminded...