JOHN BARTLETT – LONDON SUBLIME
2012-11-26John Bartlett’s extraordinary narrative paintings are fixated on the paranoia of modern urban life. This major mid-career show includes the artist’s large-scale canvasses alongside more intimate, everyday scenes which capture contemporary London in all its messed up glory.
Bartlett revisits and adapts traditional genres of painting to evoke the world we live in today. Throughout the exhibition he will be creating a large wall drawing on the subject of the August 2011 riots entitled ‘Rise of the Invisible’. This new work will echo the monumental ‘History Painting’, a depiction of the Poll Tax Riots currently on display at the Museum of London.
Opposite – 36 Vanishing Points, 2003-5
Exhibition runs through to January 20th, 2013
Guildhall Art Gallery
Guildhall Yard
London
EC2V 5AE
