| Stuart Pearson Wright at the Riflemaker Gallery in London |
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LONDON.- Stuart Pearson Wright’s second solo exhibition at Riflemaker features a series of meticulously-crafted works whose technical virtuosity flirts with high mannerism and heroic realism. The scene is set somewhere between Bow, Dagenham, Ancient Greece and William Shakespeare’s Denmark. Painting the human figure in an era when it was not always seen as a legitimate part of contemporary art, and a winner the BP Portrait Award (2001) aged just twenty-six , Wright (b. Northampton 1975) has spent much of his career attempting to subvert traditional portrait painting. “Stuart Pearson Wright’s work is masterly and contemporary, as well as slightly unnerving and surreal” - Sarah Howgate, contemporary curator, National Portrait Gallery, London. These new works emphasise the artist’s pre-occupation with the motif of the smile and its traditional role in the history of portraiture as well read full article
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