Painter Nick Goss makes you the agent in Tin Drum show at London's Josh Lilley Gallery

Exhibition Preview: Nick Goss – tin Drum, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, until November 22 2012

Having been part of the Newspeak: British art Now show at the Saatchi Gallery last year, hotly-tipped young painter Nick Goss returns with portraits of rehearsal spaces and the artist’s studio, partly inspired by the indie band, My sad Captains, he plays in.

“He has that rare ability to make work that is both critically and commercially successful,” says Josh Lilley, who calls Goss, who he spotted at the Royal Academy in 2009 and provided with his first solo show a year later, an “outstanding painter”.

“He conveys in his art a sense of time stopping. Nick’s subjects become not the posters on the wall, the drum kit on the floor or the maquettes he portrays, but rather a realisation that you are the agent in activating the painting.

“An opportunity is provided to immerse yourself in a moment – one that can go on and on.”

• Josh Lilley Gallery, Riding House Street, London.  Open Tuesday-Saturday 11am-6pm. Admission free. Follow the gallery on Twitter @JLilleyGallery.

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