Centred on a series of 2-person painting projects at Kingsgate which ran through 2023, this book begins with new writing commissioned in response to each exhibition. The book then widens its focus with three further essays which attempt to think about how we make and look at painting today, in our moment of painting ubiquity complicated by an anxiety of looking. Particular focus is given to the way that painters look differently at paintings, often by reading the actions and decisions involved in painting-making.

Writers: Bryony Bodimeade, Adam Holmes-Davies, Luke Dowd, Homay King, Dan Howard-Birt, Jillian Knipe, Scott McCracken, Ossian Ward, John Walter, Laura Wormell

Artists: Adam Holmes-Davies, Luke Dowd, Rosie Mullan, Katie Pratt, Sherman Mern Tat Sam, Anna Schapiro, Kate Scrivener, Alice Walter