"SUMARRIA LUNN is the brainchild of Will Lunn and Vishal Sumarria, an art-dealing duo with a shared experience that reaches far beyond their years. Together, these two are bringing a new brand of art show to London, combining intimate shows at private addresses - with - larger and more adventurous shows". -Dazed and Confused, 2009

Will Lunn organised his first exhibition, including two internationally renowned artists, aged just seventeen. He has previously worked at BISCHOFF/WEISS before moving on to manage William Angel Gallery, which he left to set up SUMARRIA LUNN with Vishal Sumarria at twenty. He is engaged in ongoing study at the Courtauld Institute of Art and prior to becoming a curator and gallerist, he has exhibited his own work under a pseudonym both in England and abroad.

Vishal Sumarria is a graduate of the Central School of Speech & Drama and the College of Fine Arts, UNSW (Sydney). He organised his first show while studying in Sydney, curating an exhibition of contemporary Australian art in Mumbai. He has previously worked at Artspace Visual Arts Centre (Sydney), co-managed William Angel Gallery and managed BISCHOFF/WEISS. He is co-founder of Young Professionals in the Arts, a networking group created to foster connections for creative and visual arts professionals.

"Enough of games, we aspire to a serious rigor"
(Le Corbusier)

Bucking the increasingly stale trend for pure conceptualism, SUMARRIA LUNN aims to support those artists whose work marks a return to artistry while maintaining conceptual thought, and without resorting to the decorative. There has been a tendency to site artistry and conceptual thought at opposite ends of the spectrum; in reality these elements are in no way mutually exclusive, and nor should they be.

While critics and academics have long fought over the question of what can be considered art, what recent developments have taught us, if anything, is that in our post modern state almost anything can be considered art. Therefore our approach is to try to establish the “validity” of an artist. We feel that the combination of ability, rigor, and ingenious concept culminate in work we can believe in, work we want to present.