Art in the City 2025

Art in the City 2025

‘London’s Dreaming’

This year’s ‘Art in the City’ exhibition, ‘London’s Dreaming’, featured 38 Company artists, from whom Curators, Tim Wright and Yuki Aruga, selected over one hundred works that ranged over a wide variety of practices. The exhibition ran from October 8^th to 11^th, welcoming a huge number of visitors, both domestic and international.

The participating artists ranging from recent graduates (our Fine Art Scholars and Decorative Surfaces Fellows) through to established artists with international careers, all possessed a plethora of differing artistic concerns across the realms of landscape, figurative painting, symbolism, intricate sculptural contrivances, abstraction, photographic manipulations, portraits, explorations of technique and proposals of mysterious and esoteric narratives.  

We are delighted to report that over £12,000 worth of work was sold, to the benefit of both the artists and the Company. This is no insignificant achievement and is a testament to the high quality of the work on display.

Staging this exhibition owes much to The Painter-Stainers’ Arts Society and to the volunteers who helped with the hanging and organisation of the exhibits. The support of the Master, Clerk, Assistant Clerk and Hall Manager were essential.

We hope that Art in the City and other associated events will continue to act as the focus for the professional reputation of the artist members of the Company, and promote the perception of the Painter-Stainers’ Company as the spiritual home of art in the City of London.

Tim Wright

November 2025