EXHIBITIONS
Recent: SWANFALL ART ROAR 24 - 29 August 2026 Mall Galleries, The Mall, London, UK
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SWANFALL ROAR - CURATED SECTION: No Hay Banda
Exhibiting Artists: Yeonjin Seo @ttokja, Wu Yingang, Yu Jingfan. Kristian Purcell @kristianpurcell. Monair Hyman, @monairhyman, Qu Meitao @mt_qu No Hay Banda unfolds like a sweet and faintly dangerous dream - a theatre in which seduction and unease, tenderness and threat, pleasure and consequence occupy the same stage. The room moves between the delicacy of the domestic and the suspense of the cinematic, allowing apparently gentle forms to acquire an undertow of danger, while darker gestures retain something strangely alluring. Play becomes a dare; sweetness is never entirely innocent. The title is borrowed from Mulholland Drive, where "No hay banda" - there is no band - exposes the performance as illusion without diminishing its emotional force. Here, this becomes the room's central proposition: knowing that something is constructed does not make what we feel in response to it any less real. Images appear to exceed their frames, time is broken into successive moments and objects inhabit the uncertain territory between prop, image and physical presence. Theatre and reality cease to function as opposites; instead, each continually produces the other. Rather than resolving these contradictions, No Hay Banda remains suspended within them. Desire carries risk, gentleness contains the possibility of violence, and beauty can be both invitation and warning. Like a dream whose fiction is obvious only upon waking, the room asks how readily we surrender to an illusion - and whether recognising the trick ever truly releases us from its spell. Pandora Wang Curator, Swanfall Art |
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FORTHCOMING
KRISTIAN PURCELL - CINEMATIC PORTRAITS The Burnaby Arms, Bedford. 12-September- 18th October EXHIBITION HISTORY SWANFALL ART ROAR 2026 Mall Galleries, The Mall, London, 24 - 29 August WELL HUNG PAINTING PRIZE Well Hung Gallery, 239 Hoxton Street, London, 9th July - 22nd August 2026. BEDFORD TEN The Basement, The John Bunyan Museum, Bedford - 14th July -1 August STAFF & FRIENDS Bedford School, Bedford, 7th November - 12 December 2025 GREEN & STONE SUMMER EXHIBITION The Gallery at Green & Stone, 251 Fulham Road, Chelsea, London, 28 July - 28 August 2025 Gallery Choice Award: 2nd place DRAWINGS & PAINTINGS The Place Theatre, Bedford, 19th November -28th December 2022. KRISTIAN PURCELL Beerfly, St Cuthberts Street, Bedford, October 2019. SOUR PERSIMMONS CHASM Ex-Baldassare (curated by Andy Holden) 28 September 2019 - 9 November 2019 Doom Towns - People & Landscape of Atomic Testing: Andy Kirk & Kristian Purcell Whittemore Gallery, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Centre, UNR, Reno, 22 December 2017 - February 2018 Darren Marsh - Christian Webb - Kristian Purcell Bromham Mill Art Gallery, Bedfordshire July-August 2016. Doom Towns - People & Landscape of Atomic Testing: Andy Kirk & Kristian Purcell Nevada Humanities Program Gallery, 1017 South First Street, Las Vegas, Nevada 31 March - 26 May 2016 Eastern Approaches UH Galleries, Museum of St Albans, St Albans, UK, 6 December 2014 - 11 January 2015 Kristian Purcell - History Paintings, St Peters Church, Bedford 6 - 29 November 2014 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK. 9 June - 17 August 2014 Kristian Purcell - Nevada Test Site Studies, National Atomic Testing Museum (Smithsonian affiliate), Las Vegas, Nevada, US, 6 January-16 May 2014. Open Studios - Bedford Creative Arts, 104 Midland Road, Bedford, UK, 21 - 22 July 2013 'Refused' Hurwendeki, Cambridge Heath Road, Hackney, London, UK. June 2011 Curator and exhibitor |
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