‘There’s a meadow next to where I live – I walk through it on the way to the studio and do a lot of thinking there.’
Billy Crosby, 2025
Union Gallery is delighted to present The Meadow, Billy Crosby’s first major solo show in London to date. The exhibition presents a brand-new series of paintings from the artist’s studio in south-east London.
The singular work of Billy Crosby intuitively connects the complex relation of painting to current global discourse around the subject of machine learning and its impact on socio-political and personal futures. Crosby guides us into this novel landscape by adopting ‘new tech’ as a natural partner in paint, quieting the hysteria surrounding AI and its potential consequences. Crosby offers a deeper painterly means to probe these concepts at the dawn of their realisation.
‘The Meadow signifies a gentle, liminal place of emergence; of rest and threshold, wildness and openness. It implies a context of entangled life, diverse intelligences and larger patterns.’ BC
The eponymous Meadow operates on a suspended plane of speculative contemplation. Here we encounter the fruits of Crosby’s lived experience filtered through a recursive dialogue with generative AIs, trained on the artist’s previous work.
Billy Crosby: The Meadow press release
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