Haroun Hayward: Path through Trees at Pallant House Gallery

Hales is delighted to present Path through Trees, Haroun Hayward’s first solo institutional exhibition, now on view at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK through 1 November 2026. The exhibition showcases a new body of work developed following a joint residency with Pallant House Gallery and West Dean College.

 

Rooted in his experience studying the Sussex landscape, Hayward combines ideas from abstract expressionism, 1990s dance music, rave culture, graffiti, and his mother’s South Asian and West African textiles. His vibrant, hybrid approach blends rhythm and texture, using oil stick techniques that echo embroidery.

 

This series of new works was inspired by post-war British artists such as Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Edward Burra, Ceri Richards, Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland in Pallant House Gallery’s collection, and which can be seen in the major exhibition British Landscapes: A Sense of Place, on view at Pallant House Gallery concurrently with Path through Trees.

 

Offering a bold and contemporary response to British landscape painting, Path through Trees highlights Hayward’s distinctive visual language and expanding practice.