Narbi Price – Artist Talk
Narbi Price is a British painter, curator, and academic whose practice makes a distinctive contribution to contemporary British painting.
He is the recipient of major honours including prize winner in the John Moore’s Painting Prize (2012), winner of the Contemporary British Painting Prize (2017), and Visual Artist of the Year at The Journal Culture Awards (2018). Narbi is also Chair of Contemporary British Painting and trustee of the Ashington Group Collection.
Educated at Northumbria (BA Fine Art) and Newcastle (MFA, PhD), his practice often begins with photographs of sites linked to historical or cultural events — ordinary urban locations, landmarks of social memory — which he then reimagines in paint, navigating between representation and abstraction.
As a curator he has worked to reanimate overlooked traditions, most notably through his PhD research “Repainting the Pitmen”, which explored the legacy of the Ashington Group (Pitmen Painters), including curating exhibitions of unseen works.
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