Noble and Common

Stand: 111

Noble and Common present

Beacon: Landscape as News, booth 111 at Manchester Contemporary 2025. The theme of this years TMC is art writing and news, our presentation will explore how landscapes function as signals,warning, guiding, and recording cultural or political change.

Noble and Common is a new gallery dedicated to new approaches to landscape painting. We work with artists whose practices engage with place, not just as scenery, but as subject, tension, and process. Our focus is on works that challenge and expand the conventions of landscape. We present paintings that are as much about perception and time as they are about terrain. 

With prices ranging from £200 to £8000, Noble and Common offers access to rigorously curated, original paintings by early, mid-career and established artists. We believe in supporting long-term practices and cultivating informed, committed collectors at every stage.

Our name, Noble and Common, references two varieties of hops; ‘noble’ and ‘common’ used to brew beer in Europe and the UK respectively. Housed in Worcester’s historic Hop Market, we draw from this context to ground our commitment to both tradition and experimentation.

Location

Worcester
Chris Shaw Hughes
My current work explores the ‘site of trauma’. I’m interested in how some places are ‘defined’ by the events that happen within them, and whether the aura of trauma remains, either in the places, or i …
Katherine Di Turi
Di Turi (Caracas, 1972) is fascinated by the transformation of function of photographic images over time – an image of the interior of a home changes from a simple documentation of the space to a test …
Piers Veness
In his abstract paintings, Piers Veness (Portsmouth, 1974) fuses nature and geometry to create monumental forms.  Hard-edged shapes give a sense of depth that is heightened by his tonal palette, which …
Elisha Enfield
b. 1989, Milton Keynes, UK Elisha Enfield is an award-winning UK-based artist. Her work delves into the layered histories of human rituals, examining the shifting boundaries between absence and presen …
Lewis Graham
Lewis Graham (b.2001) born in Birmingham, and currently living and working in Worcester, Graham's work is about a relationship with place and landscape, in particular the Client Hills south west of Bi …
Ispahani Mukah
Ispahani Mukah is a Cameroonian-born visual artist based in Birmingham, widely recognised for his evocative biro drawings. His work explores the human form with intimacy and depth, capturing the quiet …
Angelina May Davis
Angelina May Davis‘ paintings are fabrications, plundering imagery from childhood TV and art history. She is interested in thinking about the past and what shapes us, using the transformative act of p …
John Timberlake
John Timberlake‘s (b.1967) practice and research as a fine artist engages principally with photography, painting and drawing, underpinned by the legacies and dialogics of conceptualism. Drawing on the …
Isaac Jordan
Isaac Jordan (b. 1998), draws inspiration from varied sources, including stills from 1970s science-fiction films. His practice is centred on the creation of imagined spaces and revolves around the dev …
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