East England Art

Photo: Robert Cripps Gallery, Magdalene College

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Notes on Colour

23 Jun 2026 – 12 Sept 2026

There is an ineffable, beyond-language quality to colour that cannot be easily pinned down.

The Robert Cripps Gallery presents Notes on Colour, an exhibition which brings together the work of three contemporary artists, Vicken Parsons, Jeff McMillan and David Batchelor, for whom colour has been an abiding preoccupation over many years.

These three artists make works which employ different materials, take different forms and address different questions, yet are linked by a deep and prolonged interest in the complexity, unpredictability, and sheer sensuous pleasures of colour. Each artist's work rests on the edges of abstraction, without being fully abstract: a place where colour has space to breathe, without being entirely detached from the material world.

Curated by Annushka Shani, a curator, writer and practising psychoanalyst.

Access is via the Porters' Lodge on Magdalene Street, and entrance is to the gallery only.