Artist's Table with Alvaro Barrington

This season we are celebrating our 19th Artist’s Table with Alvaro Barrington at his private studio in East London on Monday 10 March 2025. Alvaro will also be creating a very special limited edition only available to attendees which will be announced prior to the event.

Barrington’s multimedia work combines materials including textiles, painting, mixed media, drawing, photography, and print. Barrington began to sew as a way to connect with his Grenadian aunts who were masterful sewists. He has explored the formal action of sewing yarn as an entry into this long tradition of a gendered textile art practice, which was documented orally and passed down by the women in his family. His intimate compositions focus on single subjects in close-up, including faces, body parts, and tropical vegetation. Flamboyant tree and hibiscus flowers, in particular, have become personal motifs for the artist.

CAS has acquired two of Barrington’s works, Lamb of God, 2020 & 1944–1977, 2018 presented to Towner Eastbourne (Towner Art Gallery), 2022/23 gifted by Russell Tovey. Barrington is represented by, amongst others, Emalin Gallery, with whom CAS is collaborating on this event.

I am very pleased to share our save the date with more details to follow soon and ask that you kindly book your tickets (£1,000 per ticket) via martha@contemporaryartsociety.org to ensure your place.