What can be done with painting: Gillian Ayres
Heong Gallery | Cambridge What can be done with painting: Gillian Ayres in the ‘70s at the Heong Gallery at Downing College, Cambridge, reveals an overlooked period in the career of British painter, Gillian Ayres (1930–2018) The least-explored era of Ayres’s artistic life is the 1970s, a mid-career point of transition from her early phases to her later work. The exhibition at the Heong Gallery, curated by the writer, critic and curator Martin Gayford, reveals this less-explored period of her career, bringing together a selection of works that have seldom, and in some cases never, been seen in public before. Commissioned and photographed June 2025