Image: Pallant House Gallery, Chichester ; Judd art index
Haroun Hayward’s first solo institutional exhibition, showcasing a new body of work, is scheduled for 30 May–1 November 2026.
Hayward’s work is rooted in his experience of studying the Sussex landscape while drawing on abstract expressionism, 1990s dance music, rave culture, graffiti, and his mother’s South Asian and West African textiles.
The exhibition describes his approach as vibrant and hybrid, blending rhythm and texture through oil-stick techniques that echo embroidery.
The new series was inspired by postwar British art by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Edward Burra, Ceri Richards, Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland, whose work is held in the Gallery’s collection. ‘British Landscapes: A Sense of Place’ is running concurrently with ‘Path Through Trees’.
The exhibition spans Romanticism, Modernism and postwar abstraction, tracing a lineage from Thomas Gainsborough and the golden age of British watercolour to postwar works by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Barbara Hepworth, Paul Nash and Eric Ravilious.
