CALLING

Laura L Bell | Vincent Hawkins | Kristen Healy | Sophie von Hellermann | Lee Johnson | Enzo Marra | Olivia O’ Dwyer | Anne Ryan | Jack Shearing | Sukey Sleeper | Charles Williams

12 July - 13 September 2026

The Lido Open: Calling marks five years of the open call painting prize, presenting works by past winners alongside those by the painters who selected them.

Judged by practitioners, The Lido Open positions selection as a peer act — one grounded in lived studio experience. The exhibition reflects painting as vocation: a sustained commitment shaped by discipline, material intelligence, and conviction. Across diverse approaches, what connects these works is not style but dedication — a shared understanding of painting as something returned to, tested, and affirmed over time.

Bringing together winners and judges, Calling offers a portrait of contemporary painting defined by commitment rather than trend, and by recognition rooted in practice.

Robin Dixon

19 Sept. - 17 Oct. 2026

PV Sat., 19 Sept., 7-9pm

A solo presentation by Robin Dixon of enigmatic and emotive paintings - his work is fresh and confident, whilst also suitably ambiguous to allow the viewer to project their own history, and family history, onto the scenes and characters depicted.

Using film stills and found photography as a starting point, memory and personal history is suggested through layering of characters and landscape, alongside an emotive use of colour. The work touches on the present in relation to the past and how nuanced this can be.

Robin Dixon studied Fine Art at Maidstone College of Art (KIAD), and now lives and works between Gravesend and London. Robin has exhibited in group shows in the U.K and internationally, being selected for the Jerwood Painting Prize exhibition (2007) and the John Moores Painting Prize exhibition (2014). Recent shows include 'An Exhibition of Small Things with Big Ideas', White Conduit Projects, London; ‘Let’s Get Lost’, ’The Wild Thought' at Lido Stores, Margate; The Wells Art Contemporary Open.