by Ken Turner | Mar 23, 2025 | News
Mark Wallinger showing at Tension 5 April – 31 May 2025 Tension is honoured to present Gravity is the Weakest Force in the Universe, a solo exhibition by Mark Wallinger. Wallinger is one of the UK’s leading contemporary artists. Having previously been nominated...
by Ken Turner | Jun 27, 2024 | News
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...
by Ken Turner | Sep 8, 2023 | News
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...
by Ken Turner | Aug 23, 2023 | News
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...
by Ken Turner | Mar 15, 2023 | News, Reviews
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....
by Fiona Carruthers | Aug 5, 2022 | News
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...
by Fiona Carruthers | Jul 10, 2022 | News
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...
by Ken Turner | May 2, 2022 | News, Reviews
Landscape of the Future – ‘Don’t Look Away’, a new suite of prints Artist Raf Klein’s work explores the ways our own personal narratives shape the world we inhabit. Whether an idyllic, imagined arcadia of pure perfect nature, or the fantasy worlds of Coney Island and...
by Ken Turner | Nov 29, 2021 | News, Reviews
Staging Time Suzanne Moxhay and Jenny Klein have taken the stage at Tension Fine Art gallery with a series of works that share a progenitor: the photograph. Different as they may be in vernacular and tone, the works from Moxhay and Klein are alike in that they take...
by Ken Turner | Sep 14, 2021 | News, Reviews
Shape Chroma: Tension Fine Art London: Newton and Goethe famously disagreed on the genesis of colour. Most commentary assumes Goethe was wrong. But this is true only if you accept that colour can simply be described by physics and that psychological and conceptual...
