Jan van der Ploeg

Over the summer break, Sumer will be presenting highlights from its recent program, together with previously unexhibited works from gallery artists. The exhibition includes work by Brook Andrew, Sandra Bushby, Hikalu Clarke, Andrew Hazewinkel, Lara Merrett, and Brontë Stolz.

Sumer is pleased to present Homage to the Circle, an exhibition of new work by renowned Dutch painter Jan van der Ploeg; this is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition comprises a frieze 12 new small paintings (all 2022), together with a large-scale commissioned wall drawing, and a single small painting of matching motif and palette.

Featuring new and recent works by Sandra Bushby, Xin Cheng, Hikalu Clarke, Ruth Cleland, Eleanor Cooper, Henry Curchod, Tjalling de Vries, Miles Hendricks, Yolunda Hickman, Jesse Hogan, Cindy Huang, Matthew...

Sumer is pleased to present Ready or Not, an exhibition of new work by Dutch painter Jan van der Ploeg – his first solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition features a selection of works from the artist’s most recent series of paintings, all of which were produced over the past eight weeks in the artist’s Amsterdam studio whilst under Covid-19 lockdown. These works are accompanied by a new wall painting commissioned specifically for Sumer.

This exhibition brings together the work of Gordon Walters (1919-1995), Julian Dashper (1960-2009) and Jan van der Ploeg (b.1959). These artists' work shares common adherence to the aesthetic conventions of...