art gallery
An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The lon ...
in
St James's
St James's is a central district in the City of Westminster, London, forming part of the West End. In the 17th century the area developed as a residential location for the British aristocracy, and around the 19th century was the focus of the de ...
, central
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
,
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
. The gallery specializes in British art, with a focus on works from the St Ives group and the post-war period.
Overview
The gallery covers 20th and 21st century
British art
The Art of the United Kingdom refers to all forms of visual art in or associated with the United Kingdom since the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 and encompasses English art, Scottish art, Welsh art and Irish art, and forms ...
, mainly art since
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, particularly paintings and sculptures by
St Ives School
The St Ives School refers to a group of artists living and working in the Cornish town of St Ives. It also represents
contemporary art
Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic com ...
ists, holding regular group and solo exhibitions of artists including Robert Fogell,Richard Fox,
Jeremy Gardiner
Jeremy Gardiner (born 26 April 1957) is a contemporary landscape painter who has been based in the United Kingdom and the United States. His work has been featured in books. It has also been reviewed in ''The Boston Globe'', '' Miami Herald'', ...
Keith Milow
Keith Milow (born 29 December 1945 in London) is a British artist. He grew up in Baldock, Hertfordshire, and lived in New York City (1980–2002) and Amsterdam (2002–2014), now lives in London. He is an abstract sculptor, painter and printmak ...
,
Tim Woolcock
Tim Woolcock (born 1952 in Lancashire, England) is a Modern British painter painting in the tradition of the 1950s. His works have been exhibited nationally and internationally and are in private and public collections worldwide. In 2009 the ...
, and Gary Wragg. The gallery has exhibited at the
London Art Fair
The London Art Fair (LAF) is an annual contemporary art fair held at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London.
Overview
The fair displays modern British and contemporary art, from the early 20th century onwards, presented by galleries ...
The gallery was originally founded in 1977 as the Paisnel Gallery and changed its name in 2018. It was first on Fulham Road,
London SW6
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, before moving to 22
Mason's Yard
Mason's Yard is a street in London SW1, England.
Overview
Mason's Yard is a cul-de-sac east off Duke Street in the St James's area of London in the City of Westminster.
White Cube has one of its two London galleries locations here, which o ...
, London SW1, in the early 1990s. The gallery was established at its current location in Bury Street, London SW1, in 2006.
Prunella Clough
Prunella Clough (14 November 1919 – 26 December 1999) was a prominent British artist. She is known mostly for her paintings, though she also made prints and created assemblages of collected objects. She was awarded the Jerwood Prize for pain ...
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Maurice Cockrill
Professor Maurice Cockrill, (8 October 1936 – 1 December 2013) was a British painter and poet.
Born in Hartlepool, County Durham, he studied at Wrexham School of Art, North East Wales, then Denbigh Technical College and later the Univer ...
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John Copnall
John Bainbridge Copnall (1928–2007) was an English artist best known for his abstract expressionist painting of richly coloured stylised realism, often on a grand scale. He was also a teacher of painting for twenty years at the Central School o ...
Jeremy Gardiner
Jeremy Gardiner (born 26 April 1957) is a contemporary landscape painter who has been based in the United Kingdom and the United States. His work has been featured in books. It has also been reviewed in ''The Boston Globe'', '' Miami Herald'', ...
Frederick Gore
Frederick John Pym Gore CBE RA (8 November 1913 – 31 August 2009), was an English painter.
Biography
Gore was born into the world of art; his father, Spencer Frederick Gore, was a painter, President of the Camden Town Group until his earl ...
Barbara Hepworth
Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leadi ...
Ivon Hitchens
Ivon Hitchens (born London, 3 March 1893 – 29 August 1979) was an English painter who started exhibiting during the 1920s. He became part of the 'London Group' of artists and exhibited with them during the 1930s. His house was bombed in 1940 du ...
John Milne
John Milne (30 December 1850 – 31 July 1913) was a British geologist and mining engineer who worked on a horizontal seismograph.
Biography
Milne was born in Liverpool, England, the only child of John Milne of Milnrow, and at first raised in ...
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Keith Milow
Keith Milow (born 29 December 1945 in London) is a British artist. He grew up in Baldock, Hertfordshire, and lived in New York City (1980–2002) and Amsterdam (2002–2014), now lives in London. He is an abstract sculptor, painter and printmak ...
Henry Moore
Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi- abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. As well as sculpture, Moore produced ...
John Tunnard
John Samuel Tunnard (7 May 1900 – 12 December 1971) was an English Modernist designer and painter. He was the cousin of landscape architect Christopher Tunnard.
Life
Tunnard was born in Sandy, Bedfordshire, and educated at Charterhouse Scho ...
Keith Vaughan
John Keith Vaughan (23 August 1912 – 4 November 1977), was a British painter.
Biography
Born at Selsey in West Sussex, Vaughan attended Christ's Hospital school. He worked in an advertising agency until the World War II, when as an intending ...
Frank Avray Wilson
Frank Avray Wilson (3 May 1914 – 1 January 2009) was a British artist, author and vegetarian. He was one of the first British artists to use Tachist or action painting techniques.
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Tim Woolcock
Tim Woolcock (born 1952 in Lancashire, England) is a Modern British painter painting in the tradition of the 1950s. His works have been exhibited nationally and internationally and are in private and public collections worldwide. In 2009 the ...
Bryan Wynter
Bryan Herbert Wynter (8 September 1915 – 2 February 1975)
The gallery produces print and digital publications to accompany its exhibitions, with its online catalogues freely available via the Issuu electronic publishing platform. Examples of exhibition publications include:
* ''Leigh Davis: Pushing Boundaries'' (2022)
* ''St Ives Modern British Contemporary'' (2021)
* ''Leigh Davis: Further into Abstraction'' (2021)
* ''Jeremy Gardiner: South by Southwest'' (2020)
* ''St Ives, Modern British, Contemporary'' (2019)
* ''Jeremy Gardiner: Tintagel to Lulworth Cove'' (2019)
* ''Leigh Davis: A New Perspective'' (2018)
* ''St Ives & Post-War'' (2017)
* ''Gary Wragg: Still Soaring at 70'' (2017)
* ''Jeremy Gardiner: Drawn to the Coast'' (2017)
* ''40 Years On'' (2017)
* ''Jeremy Gardiner: Pillars of Light'' (2016)
* ''St Ives and Post-War'' (2016)
* ''20th Century British Art'' (2015)
* ''John Plumb: A Retrospective'' (2015)
* ''Peter Haigh: Paintings '84–'94'' (2015)
* ''20th Century British Art'' (2014)
* ''Jeremy Gardiner: Exploring the Elemental'' (2013)
* ''Sculptures of Note and Prospect'' (2013)
* ''20th Century British Art'' (2013)
* ''20th Century British Art'' (2012)
* ''Frank Avray Wilson: The Vital Years'' (2011)
* ''20th Century British Art'' (2010)