Narbi Price - Award-Winning Contemporary Landscape Painter

Narbi Price is an acclaimed contemporary painter based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, whose work delves into the intersection of history, memory, and the urban landscape. His artistic practice focuses on unpeopled sites of specific cultural or personal importance, such as film locations, sites of trauma, or industrial remnants. By using a photographically derived style combined with expressive painterly techniques, Narbi Price explores how collective and personal memories are encoded into the built environment. He achieved significant recognition as the winner of the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2017 and was named North East Visual Artist of the Year in 2018 and 2025. Narbi Price was also a prizewinner in the John Moores Painting Prize and has been featured in the prestigious Phaidon publication Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting. He holds a PhD from Newcastle University, where his research centered on the legacy of the Ashington Group, also known as the Pitmen Painters. This research informed his series The Ashington Paintings, which documents the post-industrial landscape of Northumberland. Recently, his work has addressed the surreal quality of the COVID-19 lockdowns through a series of paintings depicting hazard-taped park benches, as well as the legacy of the Miners' Strike. As a curator and lecturer, Narbi Price is an active figure in the British art scene, serving as a trustee of The Ashington Group collection and Chair of Contemporary British Painting.