By Cross Lane Projects Publications

Published on the occasion of High on Hope featuring artists Mike Fairnington, Gerard Hemsworth, Roy Holt, Rebecca Scott, Bob & Roberta Smith, Mike Stubbs, Jessica Voorsanger, Mark Wallinger and Suzy Willey.

With an introduction to the exhibition by Daniel Sturgis and original texts by Julien Delagrange and Mo Throp.

‘High on Hope’ has been conceived as a memorial exhibition for the artist Gerard Hemsworth (1945-2021). It brings together a selection of Hemsworth’s canvases with that the work by eight other artists whom he taught, on the Master’s programme at Goldsmiths College, London, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The exhibition, which has been devised by the painter Rebecca Scott, focuses on artists whose work she sees as resonating with Hemsworth’s own engagement with a type of “post-conceptual figurative or representational painting”.