Camberwell Art Show 2026

Art Show

Camberwell Art Show

Gala Opening - 3rd July

4-12 July 2026

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• Camberwell Art Show Website

About the Piece: ‘Lost Future’

This work speaks directly to the exhibition’s examination of vulnerability and emotional truth. Jesse Thompson approaches portraiture not as representation alone, but as a means of mapping interior experience — the quiet devastation of grief and the tentative movement toward healing. Raw surfaces, unfinished passages and handmade linen grounds become extensions of the emotional state embedded within each work, reflecting hesitation, tenderness and instability.

The painting resist resolution. Instead, it acknowledges grief as ongoing, nonlinear and transformative. Through instinctive colour choices and emotionally charged mark-making, the works reveal how love persists within absence, and how identity itself can be reshaped through mourning. Jesse’s portraits ultimately become acts of remembrance and survival — meditations on the difficult, deeply human task of continuing to live while carrying loss.