Prunella Clough

Samples, 1960 - 99

organised in partnership with Adrien Delestre Ltd.

Opening 12th February 2026

at 63 Kinnerton Street, London, SW1X 8ED

CLICK HERE to request the exhibition catalogue

CASSIUS&Co. in partnership with Adrien Delestre presents Prunella Clough: Samples, 1960-99, opening at 63 Kinnerton Street, London, SW1X 8ED on Thursday 12th February. The exhibition brings together paintings and works on paper from the 1960s through to the late 1990s, a period in which the artist developed her own mode of abstract object-making, one that ‘sampled’ the industrial and urban landscape of post-war Britain, collapsing it into its constituent, painterly elements of texture, colour and form.

Prunella Clough (1919 - 1999) occupies a distinctive position in the history of Modern British art, one that is connected to many of the most prominent artists of the period but which always maintained its independence. While she was committed to painting all her life she cannot be pinned to a particular school, nor a particular style beyond her own: a unique method of seeking the heart of humble things, and ‘saying a small thing edgily’. 

While Clough’s early industrial paintings of post-war Britain in mechanical browns and greys are well-known, less attention has historically been paid to these later, more abstract works. This exhibition argues for the primacy of this period, not only as an organic extension of her figurative work but even as a process of its refinement, one which can be connected to her war-time role as a cartographer, and which together comprises one of the most enigmatic oeuvres made in Britain in the last century, banal and seductive, alluring and jarring in equal measure. 

Clough regularly exhibited new paintings and prints at her dealers’ galleries throughout her career, and was the subject of one-person surveys at leading public venues, including the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1960 and the Camden Arts Centre in 1996. Yet she never particularly sought fame or fortune, and was always eager for her work to be available to students and fellow artists. In this spirit, we are pleased to publish, alongside the exhibition, a fully-illustrated catalogue that includes contributions from those who knew the artist personally. Prunella Clough, Samples, 1960-99 will be presented alongside a bookshelf exhibition about the urban fabric of London.

Please email fb@cassiusandco.com and adelestre@artfrancais.com if you would like to receive a digital preview and/ or a printed copy of the exhibition’s catalogue.