Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting Catalogue 2015

A new view on Contemporary British Painting.The Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting has evolved out of a personal mission to re-discover and explore the work of those artists who are continuing to develop and deepen the practice of painting in the United Kingdom in the digital age. A practice which in the past has seen the emergence of such talents at Hans Holbein, Joshua Reynolds, John Constable, J. M. W. Turner, Joseph Wright, Francis Bacon, Paula Rego and...
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A new view on Contemporary British Painting.The Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting has evolved out of a personal mission to re-discover and explore the work of those artists who are continuing to develop and deepen the practice of painting in the United Kingdom in the digital age. A practice which in the past has seen the emergence of such talents at Hans Holbein, Joshua Reynolds, John Constable, J. M. W. Turner, Joseph Wright, Francis Bacon, Paula Rego and Lucian Freud. Initially working with the painter Simon Carter on a series of small scale solo shows from the Crypt in St Marylebone Parish Church, London, a new cohort of interesting painters with common aims began to emerge, painters who include European Sovereign Painters Prize winner Susan Gunn, John Moores Prize winner Nicholas Middleton, Wyss Foundation prize winner Harvey Taylor, Matthew Krishanu, Birtle Prize for Painting winner Simon Burton, 54th Venice Biennale exhibitor Marguerite Horner, Alex Hanna and East London Painting Prize winner Nathan Eastwood amongst many others. From this group and a wider circle of painters we have been getting to know through the shows, the idea for forming this new collection evolved and it is the work of these painters which helps to form the basis of this collection, which currently numbers 75 paintings, all produced in the United Kingdom after the year 2000