Jerwood Foundation Supports Euan Uglow Solo Exhibition and Catalogue at MK Gallery

Jerwood Foundation has awarded MK Gallery a total grant of £20,000 to fund the catalogue accompanying the first major survey exhibition of British painter Euan Uglow’s work in over 20 years. This grant builds upon Jerwood Foundation’s previous support of a Vanessa Bell catalogue, which accompanied MK Gallery’s exhibition in 2024.

The Euan Uglow catalogue, comprising of newly commissioned writing by the show’s curator Catherine Lampert and Dr Kate Aspinall, as well as contributions from artists John Stezaker, Ellen Altfest and Robert Dukes, will feature beautiful reproductions of Uglow’s works. As Catherine Lampert says, “The most radical of his pictures continue to set a benchmark for art nominally in the Western tradition.”

Euan Uglow (1932-2000) was a British painter, best known for his portrait, landscape and still life paintings. He was shortlisted for the Jerwood Painting Prize in 1994, the first year the prize was initiated, and the forthcoming exhibition will feature two works on loan from Jerwood Collection: The Blue Towel, 1982-83: and Study for Blue Towel, 1982. These will be shown alongside works from The Government Art Collection, Southampton Art Gallery and Tate.

The exhibition will chart Euan Uglow’s artistic influences from the Italian Renaissance to 19^th Century French Artists such as Paul Cézanne and Georges Seurat and explore his summer painting in France, Italy, Morocco, Turkey and Cypress and include some of the large-scale nudes of the 1970’s and early 1980’s.

Lara Wardle Executive Director and Trustee Jerwood Foundation said:

I am delighted that Jerwood Foundation will be supporting the forthcoming and long overdue UK survey of Euan Uglow’s work at MK Gallery through funding the accompanying catalogue. Euan Uglow was shortlisted for the first Jerwood Painting Prize in 1994, and we will be loaning both of our works by him from the Jerwood Collection as part of our proactive loaning programme.

 

Anthony Spira, Director, MK Gallery said:

It is thanks to Jerwood’s generous grant that MK Gallery can research and commission an extensive Euan Uglow Exhibition Catalogue presenting a lavishly illustrated overview of the artist’s remarkable career, with newly commissioned writing intended to deepen and extend the appreciation of these paintings and drawings to new audiences.

MK Gallery brings world-class exhibitions and events together with pioneering learning and community programmes to Milton Keynes. Euan Uglow exhibition: An Arc from the Eye  will be open from 14 February to 31 May 2026.

For further information please visit MK Gallery.

October 7, 2025