Hurvin Anderson first painted a Birmingham-based barbershop in 2006. Over the last 15 years, Anderson has repeatedly reworked the same barbershop in a multitude of ways to explore key painting styles, shifting from figuration to abstraction, and experimenting with the classic genres of still life, landscape and portraiture.
The exhibition focuses on Anderson’s Barbershop series of paintings as a lens through which to understand his wider practice and central concerns of memory, identity and nationhood.
Salon Paintings opened at The Hepworth Wakefield this summer, 26 May–5 November 2023, and after Hastings Contemporary will travel to Kistefos Museum, Norway, April–October 2024.
