Into the Light: New Talent at the Livery

The Painter-Stainers, one of the great and oldest of the Guilds of London, can date its origins at least to 1283. Set up to protect and promote the interests of painters, stainers and associated decorators, the Company survives and flourishes today. Its core mission is to support the creative arts and art education in the City of London.

This exhibition features artists who have been admitted to the Company recently. It reflects a determined drive to recruit professional practitioners from a wide variety of backgrounds and disciplines from the contemporary art world. This is a sample of the deep well of talent on which the Company can draw.

Pontone Gallery and the Painter-Stainers’ Company both value the hard-won crafts of painting and sculpture. We see the acquisition and deployment of a profound understanding of technique as an exciting and visually sophisticated pathway to gripping outcomes. This cohort of artists, as various and conceptually divergent as they are, all hold this ideal in common, one shared by Pontone and its stable of artists.

 

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