Irving Gallery

08/10/2026

There are just two more days to see and experience Laura Porter’s brilliant solo show ‘Holding’ which closes this Saturday 10th October.

The gallery will be open on Friday and Saturday 11am-4pm. Do visit to see this show if you possibly can.

13/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who came along yesterday to the opening of Laura Porter’s solo show ‘Holding’. Such a wonderful busy afternoon, and it was fantastic to see both gallery spaces packed out with people who had come to see Laura’s brilliant exhibition. I was very glad, too, to see a print copy (thanks Laura!) of yesterday’s Guardian, featuring ‘Holding’ at Irving Gallery as one of four exhibitions featured this week, alongside Camden Art Centre and White Cube Bermondsey no less!

The gallery is open today, 11-4, then in the coming week on Thursday and Friday 11-4, or by appointment. The exhibition continues until 10th October, when Laura will be back in Oxford for an artist tour of her show and closing drinks in the gallery (4-6pm).

All the exhibition work is now also available to view and purchase online.

All enquiries to [email protected]

20/08/2026

22/05/2026

Robbie Bushe | Living Rooms
Until 7th June

Open this weekend on Friday, Saturday & Sunday 11am to 4pm daily

with apologies for my lack of video skills…

10/05/2026

Robbie Bushe | Living Rooms - until 7th June

Thank you to everyone who has visited so far, and to all those who joined me and Robbie in the gallery late yesterday afternoon for the opening of this brilliant exhibition. Thank you especially to Robbie who travelled down from Edinburgh to be here, and who spoke so interestingly about his work and practice.

Do visit soon to see this show - it is definitely not to be missed. I will be in the gallery this Wednesday (1-4pm), Thursday (11-4) and Friday (11-4), and Joni Brown will be in the gallery next Saturday and Sunday (11-5) for the first weekend of the Oxford City episode of Oxfordshire Artweeks.

We also open by appointment and I aim to be as flexible as possible - just email me to arrange a visit out of normal opening hours.

All enquiries to [email protected]

09/05/2026

Join us this afternoon from 5pm for the opening of Robbie Bushe’s solo show Living Rooms. Robbie has arrived in Oxford from Edinburgh, and he will be giving an introductory talk about his work at 5pm, with drinks in the gallery until 7pm. It’s a lovely sunny May afternoon - do join us for a glass of fizz/beer/elderflower as we celebrate the launch of this exhibition of Robbie’s brilliant paintings.

01/05/2026

Good morning and happy Beltane! It’s a glorious morning in Oxford. I didn’t join the May morning revellers this morning (next year), but I was out in my garden before 6am looking at the sunlight moving across the chestnut trees, hoping to catch the sound of the Magdalen College choristers drifting this way, which sometimes I can when the breeze is blowing the right way. Not this morning, though, so I stood outside a while listening to the birds: blue t**s, wrens, goldfinch, pigeons and blackbirds, all greeting this beautiful May morning. Là Buidhe Bealltainn!

I’m counting down the days now until I open Robbie Bushe’s solo show ‘Living Rooms’ next week, and I’ve been photographing the exhibition this morning.

The gallery will open again from Thursday 7th May, and Robbie will be heading down from Edinburgh on Saturday 9th May to join us for drinks in the gallery between 5pm and 7pm. We’ll start the Saturday celebrations of his wonderful exhibition with a short artist talk at 5pm, when Robbie will give an introduction to this collection of paintings, followed by drinks, so if you’d like to hear Robbie talk, get here for 5pm!

Robbie Bushe | Living Rooms
7th May to 7th June
Artist Talk & Opening Drinks: Saturday 9th June, 5-7pm. All welcome.

All enquiries to [email protected]

26/04/2026

Robbie Bushe | Living Rooms

Exhibition dates: 1 7th May – 7th June 2026
Opening drinks: Saturday 9th May, 5pm–7pm

Installation day today with for Robbie Bushe | Living Rooms

This brilliant painting is ‘The Pianist’, 2024, oil on canvas, 120 x 140 x 3 cm, with a few details.

We’re still hanging, but more installation photos to follow soon.

Edinburgh-based artist Robbie Bushe RSA has received national recognition, including prizes at the John Moores Painting Prize, the Contemporary British Painting Prize, and the Jackson’s Painting Prize. In 2023, he was awarded the RSA Blackadder Houston Mid-Career Painting Award, which enabled a sustained period of studio work and the production of this ambitious new series of paintings presented in ‘Living Rooms’.

These paintings unfold as expansive, cutaway worlds in which cities, interiors, and subterranean spaces are opened up to reveal layered scenes of everyday life. Across each canvas, moments of domestic routine, private activity, and remembered experience sit alongside imagined narratives, inviting the viewer to look slowly and closely as details and connections begin to emerge over time.

Bushe draws on the visual language of technical diagrams, mid-century cutaway illustrations, and comic imagery, creating works that balance clarity with curiosity. The viewer is drawn into these constructed environments, moving across their surfaces and piecing together fragments of story and space.

Join me and Robbie in the gallery for the opening drinks on Saturday 9th May, 5pm to 7pm.

All enquiries to [email protected]

24/04/2026

Robbie Bushe | Living Rooms

Exhibition dates: 1 7th May – 7th June 2026
Opening drinks: Saturday 9th May, 5pm–7pm

I’m excited to install this exhibition this weekend with Emmett Casley. I couldn’t wait, so I hung one of these incredible oil paintings temporarily (not its final position), and propped a beautiful watercolour up on the shelves too.

Irving Gallery is delighted to present a solo show by Edinburgh-based artist Robbie Bushe RSA. Robbie has received national recognition, including prizes at the John Moores Painting Prize, the Contemporary British Painting Prize, and the Jackson’s Painting Prize. In 2023, he was awarded the RSA Blackadder Houston Mid-Career Painting Award, which enabled a sustained period of studio work and the production of this ambitious new series of paintings presented in ‘Living Rooms’.

These paintings unfold as expansive, cutaway worlds in which cities, interiors, and subterranean spaces are opened up to reveal layered scenes of everyday life. Across each canvas, moments of domestic routine, private activity, and remembered experience sit alongside imagined narratives, inviting the viewer to look slowly and closely as details and connections begin to emerge over time.

Bushe draws on the visual language of technical diagrams, mid-century cutaway illustrations, and comic imagery, creating works that balance clarity with curiosity. The viewer is drawn into these constructed environments, moving across their surfaces and piecing together fragments of story and space.

Join me and Robbie in the gallery for the opening drinks on Saturday 9th May, 5pm to 7pm.

All enquiries to [email protected]