Purchase Prize

′Untitled′

by James Lloyd

 
ING Bank London is once again delighted to be sponsoring The Discerning Eye Exhibition. It is the fifth consecutive year in which we have been associated with this important event in the UK's art calendar.

ING Group is one of the world's leading financial institutions. It has offices in 65 countries and some €452.4 billion assets under management. While ING Bank in London is primarily responsible for ING's wholesale banking activities in the UK, ING's other activities in the UK reflect the diversity of the Group's activities in banking, asset management and real estate. Since May of this year, this now includes ING Direct - the world's leading direct savings bank.

Our connection with the visual arts is well established. At our London headquarters we have a fine collection of Modern British art, British watercolours and historical portraits. In our global headquarters in Amsterdam we have an extensive collection of contemporary Dutch art.

We have many groups of visitors to the bank to look at the collection and we also use our exhibition space to show the works of promising young artists who are seeking to make a name for themselves.

As a result of our sponsorship of the annual Discerning Eye Exhibition we have benefited from projects undertaken in partnership with The Discerning Eye and Arts & Business under the latter's New Partners Scheme. We have also embarked on our own project with a number of secondary schools whereby students have made interpretations of pictures in our collection.

We wish The Discerning Eye every success in its 2003 exhibition. ING is proud to support a charity whose dedication to individuality and excellence has ensured, for the twelfth consecutive year. an immensely professional and highly regarded platform for the exhibition of artistic talent from across the country.

Igno van Waesberghe
Head of UK Region

 

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