Art in the City Exhibition
15th October 2024Painters Hall
Carolyn and I went to the very enjoyable private reception given by the Master Painter-Stainer, to view this year’s Art in the City exhibition at Painters Hall.
Titled “Illusion – The Inquisitive Eye”, the exhibition included a wide range of recent works of art, including paintings, lacework, ceramics and some goblets made of ostrich eggs. The theme was illusory decoration and trompe d’oeil.
Some of the artists were there to explain their works and there was an interesting talk about the curation of the exhibition, whose curation team included the actor Timothy Spall.
Also on display was a portrait by the celebrated Elizabethan/Jacobean artist Robert Peake the Elder, together with a letter from Joshua Reynolds inviting a friend to a Livery Dinner!.
Also showing was a Madonna & Icon painting smuggled out of Ukraine during the second world war, via Nazi death camps, before being restored on the BBC programme “The Repair Shop” (March 2023), together with related family photos and an explanation of its remarkable survival.
A large crowd of Livery friends were there so it was both a social and informative evening.
It was also possible to buy exhibits if you wished, but paying £4,200 for a ceramic replica of a broken traffic cone was a little beyond our budget!