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Haroun Hayward: Path Through Trees

Haroun Hayward, Clockwork Records (Black Mountain), 2025.

9 N Pallant, Chichester PO19 1TJ, United Kingdom

Haroun Hayward grew up amid the Sussex landscape, in a home steeped in his mother’s South Asian and West African textiles. His paintings hold all of that at once. Abstract, rhythmic, densely worked in oil and oil stick on wood panel, they echo embroidery while drawing equally on rave culture, graffiti, and the British landscape tradition. Pallant House Gallery, rich in postwar British holdings—Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland—is now presenting Hayward’s first solo institutional show. —Elena Clavarino

Photo: Damian Griffiths © Haroun Hayward