October 2026 | Gallery 1

Isabel Mũnoz-Newsome
'The Other Place'

7 - 31 Oct 2026

Isabel Muñoz-Newsome is a British - Chilean painter living and working in London. She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art receiving an MA in Painting (2025) awarded with the Zsuzi Roboz Scholarship. She received a BA in Theatre Design from Wimbledon School of Art.

Her paintings test the boundary between image and sensation, gesture and imagination. Forms dissolve into undulating piles of colour, wading between figuration and abstraction. In her compositions, figural forms are encountered in various states - from sensual and exuberant to more intimate moments of fall and recovery and often somewhere in between.

The gesture contains the force of the subject and there is a palpable enjoyment in her brush work. It moves sinuously, like muscle contractions, sending flesh rippling in surges of colour, confronting simultaneously the muck of the body and the euphoria of embodiment.

Painting is a place to question the status quo. Finding ways to discuss what exists adjacent to language. There is a low and fizzing noise, a warm drone that could be said to be humming in her works.

Rooted in a deep understanding of form and space through observational drawing and painting, the resulting compositions take flight into a particular and unnamed place. It could be a dark stage, a closed room or a plateau: ‘The Other Place’.

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Blue Shop Gallery | 72 Brixton Road, Oval

October 2026 | Gallery 2

Lucy Ray
'I’ll have to remember it differently'

7 - 31 Oct 2026

Lucy Ray (b.1983, Yeppoon, Australia) is an Abu Dhabi based artist, she has a DIP in Fine Art from TAFE Queensland and a BBEnv in Interior Design. This year, she began an MFA at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

She has attended several residencies, including The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of Taos, New Mexico and the Vermont Studio Centre, Johnston, Vermont.

Her work has twice been selected for Blue Shop Gallery’s annual Works on Paper exhibitions and their 2024 group show ‘When the Curtain Falls’ as well as at this London Art Fair 2025. This year, she had her debut solo show, ‘For Those Who Came in Late’ with Flinders Lane Gallery.

Working across various media, from graphite on paper to oil on panel and pastel on canvas, Ray’s work encompasses reconstructed compositions drawn from the experiences and memories of places she has inhabited or visited, resulting in images that evoke a strange nostalgia. Collectively, these works construct a world characterised by familiarity, unease, and tension, subtly alluding to events whose occurrence remains ambiguous.

More recently, her practice has incorporated influences from American genre painting and the Arts and Crafts movement. Focusing on surface, texture, and traditional, labour-intensive methods. This slow, deliberate process responds to contemporary culture’s emphasis on speed and fast consumerism, foregrounding the value of the handmade.

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Blue Shop Gallery | 72 Brixton Road, Oval