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Anton Byrne-Carter is a British painter whose practice explores how images persist through memory, material and time. Drawing on the visual language of European painting, his work investigates how much presence an image can retain while withholding information.

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Working through processes of layering, obscuring and revealing, Byrne-Carter transforms fragments of gesture, colour and form into paintings that resist fixed narratives. Rather than reconstructing historical imagery, he treats it as something continually reshaped through memory and paint, allowing classical references to emerge as echoes rather than illustrations.

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Balancing materiality with restraint, his paintings explore how images continue to evolve long after their original form has disappeared. Through the physical act of painting, he considers memory not as a means of preservation, but as a process of continual transformation, where images dissolve, reappear and are reinterpreted over time.

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Byrne-Carter’s work has been acquired by private collectors across the UK, Europe, UsA, the Middle East and Japan, reflecting a practice that brings the visual traditions of European painting into dialogue with a contemporary language of abstraction.

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Banda Gallery Artist in Residence 2025

Banda Gallery Solo Show 2025 

London - TOAF October 2023

London Artfeed Inaugural Group Show - April 2023 

London - TOAF March 2023

London - TOAF October 2022

London - TOAF March 2022

Manchester - Group Show 2022

North West - Artist in residency 2022

Collectors, UK, Europe, USA, Japan, UAE