WINSTON

BRANCH

OBE:

Out

of

the

Calabash

Goodman Gallery opens its first exhibition with Caribbean British artist Winston Branch OBE (b. 1947), presenting a new body of abstract paintings that probe the relationship between colour, light and space. The exhibition coincides with the gallery’s announcement of global representation of Branch, developed in partnership with Varvara Roza Galleries. It positions the artist, long admired for his vivid painterly language, firmly within contemporary art’s widening conversations around cultural collaboration and diasporic creativity.

Branch arrived in Britain from Saint Lucia in the 1960s at the age of twelve, later studying at the Slade School of Fine Art under Frank Auerbach, Euan Uglow, Keith Vaughan and Michael Andrews. London’s ferment of underground movements shaped his early practice, as the city became a nexus of counterculture and artistic innovation. Over the decades he worked in London, California, Germany and Italy, each location imprinting itself on his experiments with colour and spatial rhythm.