Scroll
ONLINE MIXED EXHIBITION FEATURING :
Massimo Angei, Simon Averill, Kristoffer Axén, Jean-Baptiste Besançon, Paul Benney, Harriet Bell, Trevor Bell, Jim Carter, Mat Chivers, Gabriel Tendai Choto, Kate Clark, David Cooper, Phoebe Cummings, Claire Curneen, Roy Eastland, Loren Erdrich, Tessa Farmer, Luke Hannam, Andrew Hardwick, Rebecca Harper, Youki Hirakawa, Simon Hitchens, Henry Hussey, Sax Impey, Arthur Lanyon, Andrew Litten, Jamie Mills, Shiri Mordechay, Richard Nott, Simone Pellegrini, Peter Randall-Page, John Robinson, Tim Shaw, Roger Thorp, Jarno Vesala, David Kim Whittaker, Evelyn Williams, Joy Wolfenden Brown, Carlos Zapata.
EXHIBITION ARTWORKS (CLICK IMAGE FOR DETAILS) :
Featured
£5,600.00
Artist : Jean-Baptiste Besançon
Title : Painting 130/97 cm. 2020
Medium : acrylic on canvas
Dimensions : 130 x 97 cm | 51 x 38 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Jean-Baptiste Besançon’s luminous paintings begin as acts of improvisation, not knowing what is to come when he starts to paint. Sometimes there is a magical happening in the first stroke, at other times the act of creating can be more fraught like a fight or more gently persuasive. Each painting's journey is then followed by a period of deep reflection. The painting lives on the linen canvas, brushed, scraped, poured, diluted, projected, transferred and smoothed, where both material and artist leave their mark. Noted for his sensory abstract painting combining subtlety and freedom, Besançon offers simultaneously delicate and emphatic works in which surface, gesture and tone, space and time, chance and consideration collide offering raw and rooted contemplation on the ephemeral and elemental nature of existence: His seductive paintings become a space of quiet questioning and meditation, offering a point of sensory origin, placement, shift and flow.
Jean-Baptiste Besançon was born in Bordeaux in 1985, where he still resides. He studied graphic design in Paris before returning to his home city to pursue his singular approach to painting. He is self-taught, despite familiarity with the medium from a young age where he began experimenting with different techniques and surfaces in his adolescence. Besançon has already held several exhibitions in the Bordeaux region, notably at the Marché de Lerme, at the Galerie Mably, at the Galerie Nova Art Sud. He also participated in the 2016 edition of Bordeaux Fête le Vin in collaboration with the Bernard Magrez Cultural Institute, for the creation of an artistic cube in the Jardin des Arts. Despite his emergence Besançon is already much heralded and in demand with exhibitions across Europe and in collections worldwide. His debut solo exhibition will feature at Anima Mundi in the summer of 2021.
For further information regarding Jean-Baptiste Besançon - CLICK HERE
◁
£12,800.00
Artist : Luke Hannam
Title : Heavenly Bodies
Medium : acrylic on canvas
Dimensions : 274 x 365 cm | 108 x 144 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Luke Hannam describes his work as the result of an ‘ordered chaos’ where poetic paintings are made ‘in the eye of the storm’, where creativity spins wildly, through bursts of impulse around a silent meditative deep well of meaning. Ideas emerge out of an energetic dedication to drawing and a relentless desire to explore images and motifs. His work is instantly recognisable through his strong punch of colour and definite use of line which weaves its way sensuously across the surface, denoting both the delicacy and strength of the form and spirit of the subject. Hannam’s paintings expressively offer a singular view on how what he sees, how he thinks and pivotally how he feels about the human condition and what lies beyond our materiality. His work could be seen to continue the Romantic tradition, embracing reality and mysticism with the wonder of experience.
Luke Hannam was born in 1966 and currently lives in East Sussex, UK. He studied Fine Art in the 1980s and whilst others of his generation faithfully chanted the conceptual mantra of the time, Hannam focussed on perfecting his expressive drawing skills seeking inspiration from the earlier masters. Works have been exhibited and collected internationally, including the collections of Stefan Simchowitz and David Kowitz.
◁
£3,000.00
Artist : Loren Erdrich
Title : Closer To Everything (Far Out)
Medium : water, raw pigment, synthetic dye, colored pencil and watercolor crayon on muslin
Dimensions : 91 x 96 cm | 36 x 38 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Water, the ultimate disobeyer of boundaries, takes a primary material role in Loren Erdrich's process. Synthetic and organic pigments and dyes are applied unbound, mixed solely with water, to surface. The rigidity of the pigment, medium and ground is destroyed by the water. Amidst these destabilized boundaries forms emerge, all the while appearing to move towards dissolution, where the push/pull between deliberate and unintentional movements is savoured. Erdrich’s relationship to and physical use of media has become content, where water gives rise to a world that celebrates fluidity. She leans towards moments which dissolve the separation between outside and inside, they and you, this world and the other-worldly. This type of vulnerability is usually at odds with a society dependent on boundaries to maintain order. Bodies that menstruate, give birth, are penetrated and suffer metamorphoses have long been portrayed as porous and mutable to the point of seeming monstrous. Thus her work imagines a present day in which softness and vulnerability are venerated instead of shamed, where we reconsider porousness and pliability as potential forces of possibility, strength and even protection. Hybridisation (human/animal/environment/other) finds a comfortable foothold here, where each piece resides on a threshold - a merging point of interiority and intersubjectivity, of desire solicited and desire articulated, of existence and extinction. Viewers are invited to straddle worlds - outside the world as we know it, and inside the sense of water dissolving the distance between things.
Loren Erdrich lives and works in New York, NY. She has been awarded residencies at the Jentel Foundation, Burren College of Art, Santa Fe Art Institute, thrice at Art Farm Nebraska, Sculpture Space and the Vermont Studio Center. Recent notable accomplishments include publication in ARTMAZE Mag's Autumn Issue 14, and exhibitions with The Untitled Space, Proto Gomez and Field Projects in New York and Wasserman Projects in Detroit. Erdrich frequently collaborates with the poet Sierra Nelson, coauthoring the award winning I Take Back the Sponge Cake (published by Rose Metal Press) and Isolation (limited edition, 2020). She holds a MFA from the Burren College of Art at the National University of Ireland, a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
◁
£5,800.00
Artist : Rebecca Harper
Title : Spellbind Reflecting
Medium : acrylic on un-primed canvas
Dimensions : 102 x 79 cm | 40 x 31 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Rebecca Harper's paintings are underpinned by intense drawing, demonstrating a mode of reconstructing visual appearances; events, beliefs, dreams, memory and mediated imagery, whereby seamless, sometimes fictional fragmentations are rearranged and presented as plausible happenings. The diasporic condition presents itself in her paintings as an unfolding allegoric commentary on its life-source. The works are a contemplation of transience, a theatre in which human instinct compassionately addresses ideas of settlement, (the fixed image) a reaction to one’s transient restlessness and displacement and a complex dispersion of un-at-homeness and groundlessness. Her often large scale works allow for ‘paintings' potential to play voyeur, allowing distance enough to play the narrator without a need for the images to be fixed, settled or stable. The motives of her works are intended to be contradictory, at once both particular and general, restrained and ornate, whole and fragmented, detectable and imperceptible, relatable and distant, reflecting the complex duality of the human condition.
Rebecca Harper was born in London in 1989 where she still currently lives and works. She studied at UWE Bristol 2008-2011, The Royal Drawing School 2012-2014 and Turps Art School 2016-2018, since 2014 having taught through the Royal Drawing School at various institutions; The Saatchi Gallery, The V&A Museum of Childhood, Cass Arts, Drawing School Central/Selfridges, The Southbank centre, The National Gallery; She was awarded The Michael Moritz residency Tuscany and The Modi Institute of Fine Art, India 2014. Harper is represented in both public and private collections and has exhibited in numerous group shows including Christies London and New York and most recently been included in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018. She has also exhibited at ‘Artist of the Day’ at Flowers Gallery 2018, Supersimetrica Art Fair, The PieFactory/Turner Contemporary - Turner show in Margate and The Turps Gallery London. She is currently Artist in Residence for the Ryder Project at A.P.T in Deptford 2018-1 and recently won the ACS (Artists Collecting Society) Studio Prize 2018. Harper has also been shortlisted for the John Moores Prize 2020.
For further information regarding Rebecca Harper - CLICK HERE
◁
£1,200.00
Artist : Jim Carter
Title : Crow Box
Medium : Raven cuts and scratches, deer bites, blackbird egg yolk, secret cache, wood, black poplar catkins, mistletoe, straw, leaves, soil, raven, jackdaw, crow, finch and jackdaw feathers
Dimensions : 9.5 x 9 x 10 cm | 3.7 x 3.5 x 3.9 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Jim Carter likes to tell animal stories through words, sculpture and ritual. Stories about wildland and wildlife and a deeper sense of their mystery, power and vulnerability in relation to humankind. Uneasy or tragic, irrational or obscure, his stories express a real world of suffering and transcendence: making sculpture from organic materials as a means to express advocacy, wonder or commemoration; shifting to the written word as a way to enter emotional and numinous spaces of memory and dream. Carter wants to be honest in negotiating the complex experiences that arise in relation to a time of climate emergency: there is anger, fear and sorrow, but also opportunities for magic, fertility and renewal.
Jim Carter was born in Worcestershire in 1967. He received an MA with distinction in Art and Environment from Falmouth University and an MSc Award in Ecopsychology, Centre For Human Ecology. Carter is a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists, and his work has appeared in About Place Journal, Unpsychology and Earthlines magazine.
For further information regarding Jim Carter - CLICK HERE
◁
£3,200.00
Artist : Mat Chivers
Title : Cloud Form
Medium : English Alabaster
Dimensions : 12 x 11.5 x 11 cm | 4.7 x 4.5 x 4.3 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Mat Chivers’ artworks examine how the fundamental phenomena that exist below the surface of things informs the way we experience the world around us. For Chivers, the process of making draws on combinations of analogue and digital technologies in works that embody a hybridisation of old-world and contemporary envisioning and production processes. Chivers sculpture often incorporates the use of heavy, solid and dense media such as metal or stone, shifting the context of the raw material to reflect an ephemeral an indeterminate subject matter from cloud formations, waves data or altering climactic statistics. Through the materiality of his sensuous sculptures, drawings, prints and performance, he offers the viewer an alternative view of these notions. The use of indeterminate forms to disrupt a determinate geometric pattern (or vice versa) has a mesmeric effect on our visual perception. From some perspectives the objects seem recognisable, from others they have an ambiguous quality as the forms are visually eroded by the geometry in the base material. This perceptual phenomenon acts as a metaphor for the contemporary digital moment in terms of how envisioning technology gives us a way of seeing elements in the world but simultaneously fragments it, unable to describe the totality of the relationships involved.
Mat Chivers is a British artist born in Bristol, England in 1973. He currently works in Devon. Chivers studied Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University and Escula de belles Artes, Barcelona (1993-6). A formative influence on Chivers’ practice are the years that he spent working and travelling in Southern Europe and Morocco, culminating in a journey overland to Iran, Pakistan, India & Nepal where he spent time in the mountains of the Hindu Kush, Zanskar and Himalaya. On his return to the UK he established a studio in Devon where he is now based but travels regularly on international artist residencies. His placement at the Nirox Residency in South Africa and the Kappatos Residency in Athens both culminated in major solo exhibitions. He has been involved in numerous cross-disciplinary projects with research scientists at The University of Bristol. His site-specific film work ‘Purbeck Vanitas’ was shown in 2012 as part of the commissioned project ExLab in conjunction with the Cultural Olympiad and The National Trust at the coastal UNESCO designated World Heritage site in Dorset. In 2014 he completed 'Axiom' a major public commission for the Mathematical Institute in Oxford. His work also features in many other collections internationally notably including the Berengo Collection, Italy, Crisis UK, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Mochary Collection, USA, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Soho House and The Met Office. Chivers has been included in numerous high profile international exhibitions including ‘Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick’ at Somerset House, 'Air: Visualising the Invisible in British Art 1768-2017’ at the RWA, Bristol, 'A Place In Time’ at Nirox Sculpture Park, South Africa, Premio Fondazione Henraux, Italy, 'Out Of Our Heads' in London, 'The Knowledge' at the Gervasuti Foundation, 54th Venice Biennale and 'Glasstress: White Light/White Heat', Pallazo Cavalli Franchett at the 55th Venice Biennale and a solo presentation at the Venice Biennale the same year titled 'Satyr' in association with Venice Arts Factory.
For further information regarding Mat Chivers - CLICK HERE
◁
£2,200.00
Artist : Shiri Mordechay
Title : Untitled
Medium : watercolour and ink on paper
Dimensions : 40 x 50 cm | 16 x 20 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Shiri Mordechay’s painted works have a cinematic quality, where expansive imagery seemingly passes through time and space, like fleeting scenes in a film or interconnected snippets of dream. Both 2d and 3d painted installation works are made piece by piece, where a narrative unfolds, like a trail of instinct. Imagery seems to arrive with fluidity, through the artist as conduit, moving within an unguarded realm, seemingly free of structured morality or logical confine, conjuring what Julia Kristeva calls an “oceanic feeling”. Mordechay's form of ambiguous realism is revealed through an intuitive rendering of unmediated internal psychology or event, which through her translation offers up a wider metaphysical and perhaps spiritual context. She attains a preservation of the enigma of the unconscious, where constructed ego is eroded or absorbed into something more widely connected, not necessarily at one with beauty, yet seductive none the less, like a forbidden fruit promising to lure us towards darkness or light. As expressed by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Mordechay paints an inner and outer world where nature is "red in tooth and claw”. Acclaimed American art critic Jerry Saltz wrote "Shiri Mordechay gives us a topsy-turvy world of mundane and mad images…It's Charles Adams meets Edgar Allen Poe meets Animal Planet. Mordechay never allows us to look at any one thing; chaos and tumult reign."
Shiri Mordechay was born in Israel and raised in Nigeria. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from School of Visual Arts in New York, where she now lives and works. In 2013, she was named as one of “25 Artists to Watch & Collect” by Artvoices Magazine. Solo exhibitions have occurred in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Italy.
For further information regarding Shiri Mordechay - CLICK HERE
£6,200.00
Artist : Richard Nott
Title : Ecdysis
Medium : mixed media on panel
Dimensions : 60 x 60 x 12 cm | 23.5 x 23.5 x 4.7 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Richard Nott’s paintings are unique. There are no oil or acrylic paints in his studio, he works with industrial materials, bitumen, emulsions and varnishes, building them up layer upon layer, often over intimately drawn or gouged grids, lines or marks, into a textural palimpsest, before courageously scraping or burning them back to reveal what lies underneath. Viewing Richard Nott’s artwork is witnessing a protracted collision of creative and destructive processes. An evolution of matter, exposed, concealed, exposed, concealed, continuously. His paintings become the consequence of years spent where Nott’s history merges with the history of the elements used. He has little interest in illusionistic ‘texture’, the work must be its own entity, have its own story and be its own statement. His objective is to create an organic object that evolves like a living thing with truth and imperfection. His process of working allows for a contemplation of a cycle of existence to become imbued in to the work. Not a beginning with an end but a journey where genesis leads to dissolution, and on once again to genesis. Something eternal akin to alchemy.
Richard Nott is a British artist born in 1963. He currently lives and works in west Cornwall. Nott gained his Fine Art degree at Lancashire Polytechnic and his MA in fine art at Reading University. In 1985 he worked as an assistant to Andy Goldsworthy on site-specific sculptures in the Lake District. He was gallery assistant at the Royal Academy from 1986-7 and at Oldham Art Gallery from 1991-2. He won the South West Arts Visual Arts and Photography Award in 1994. He gained a residency at the 12th International Weeks of Painting in Slovenia. Exhibitions have been extensive and international notable included numerous solo exhibitions at Anima Mundi over a long and fruitful working relationship, ‘Art Now Cornwall’ at the Tate St Ives and Chashama, Avenue of the America’s, NYC.
For further information regarding Richard Nott - CLICK HERE
£7,400.00
Artist : John Robinson
Title : Hermit with Flowers
Medium : oil on canvas
Dimensions : 150 x 120 cm | 59 x 47 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
John Robinson’s technical prowess could be seen to be shared with the great pantheon of masters of the 17th and 18th centuries including artists such as Diego Velazquez and Francisco Goya with a developing unguarded focus on self portraiture adopted by the likes of Rembrandt Van Rijn or more recently Frida Kahlo. However Robinson's figurative works offer a contemporary subversion of the rich tradition of self portraiture. Somber protagonists dominate the canvas, usually presented in theatrical situations which barely mask a more prosaic 'kitchen sink’ vulnerability. They are often, simultaneously absurdly comic and psychologically revealing. Robinson's process often involves private performance, where his actions are then exquisitely rendered, in oil on canvas. For Robinson these paintings embrace personal concern, disclosure and catharsis, for the voyeur the experience appears both elaborately grandiose and awkwardly revealing.
John Robinson was born in Worcester, UK in 1981 where he still resides. He studied Fine Art at Falmouth College of Arts (awarded First class honours) spending most of the time whilst there skipping tutorials to travel to Plymouth to be taught by the notorious and idiosyncratic painter Robert Lenkiewicz, who ignited an interest in how to evoke colour through grey alongside wider interest in occult literature and artwork experienced in Lenkiewicz’s famed private library. Robinson was awarded the Richard Ford Scholarship by the Royal Academy of Arts and spent a summer as artist in residence at the Prado Museum Madrid absorbing the works of Velazquez and Goya alongside the city’s nightlife. He stayed in Madrid for a further decade broken by a year at Central Saint Martins on a Masters degree in fine art. In London he developed his use of ‘the painting’ as a disguise; ‘self portrait as (other…)’. Robinson has exhibited internationally. He has won the Peter Spicer Award for Excellence in Creative Arts (First Place), Richard Ford Award for Painting, Royal Academy, London (First Place), South Square Trust Scholarship for MA study at Byam Shaw school of Art, Central Saint Martins, London, Alfa Romeo Award Art (‘Best of show nominee’) Madrid, Spain, Premio de Pintura Focus-Abengoa, Seville, Spain (Winner) and the Hauser and Wirth Prize, Hauser and Wirth Somerset UK, (First Prize). Works are held in notable collections including University of the Arts London permanent collection, London, UK, Nicolas & Maxinne Leslau collection, London, UK, Focus-Abengoa Foundation, Seville, Spain, Coldwell Banker, Madrid, Spain, Falmouth College of Arts Library, Falmouth UK, Museo del Ferrocarril, Madrid, Spain, Stedlijk Museum Amsterdam Netherlands, Wellcome Collection London UK, British Council Collection UK.
For further information regarding John Robinson - CLICK HERE
£7,000.00
Artist : Claire Curneen
Title : Still Life
Medium : glazed stoneware
Dimensions : 65 cm | 25.5 inch height
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
As one of the UK's foremost ceramic artists Claire Curneen draws us into a world of narrative, where the tension between the real and the imagined is played out before us. Curneen’s sculptures are poignant reflections on the nature of humanity and our precarious place within it. Universal themes of loss, suffering and sacrifice underlie her intricate, porcelain figures, their translucent and fragile qualities offering potent metaphors through which to consider the human condition. Her iconic works have an imposing presence which tap into our desires, fears and mysteries. They are highly visceral, referencing Catholic imagery from the early Italian Renaissance. These figures bear bold narratives of human experiences and explore themes around death, rebirth and the sublime, which are both subtle and dramatic.
Claire Curneen was born in Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland in 1968 and currently lives and works in Wales, UK. Works have been exhibited internationally and appear in many notable Public collections including the Crafts Council, London; Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead; National Museum & Gallery of Wales, Cardiff; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester; National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh; Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales; Cleveland Craft Centre, Middlesbrough; Oldham Art Gallery and Museum, Manchester; York City Art Gallery, York; Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Eire; Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Eire; Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland; Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece; Clay Studio, Philadelphia, USA; Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; Icheon World Ceramic Centre, Gyeonggi-do, Korea; Taipei Ceramics Museum, Taiwan.
◁
£2,400.00
Artist : Arthur Lanyon
Title : Pollinate
Medium : oil stick, watercolour, ink, charcoal on paper
Dimensions : 59 x 42 cm | 23 x 16.5 inch
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Arthur Lanyon paintings are multi-scale combining intuitive figurative motifs with a painterly, gestural, abstracted language. His energetic paintings are sited on a physical and metaphysical cross roads, like a belay between numerous visual and emotional pinnacles. They offer a progressive link between the outside world, the inner architecture of the brain, altered states of consciousness, memory and the unencumbered essence of child’s drawing. Arthur Lanyon is a British artist born in Leicester, England in 1985. He lives and works from a studio near Penzance, Cornwall. Born in to an artistic family, his father was the painter Matthew Lanyon and his grandfather the celebrated, influential and world renowned modernist painter Peter Lanyon.
He won the Hans Brinker Painting Award in Amsterdam in 2007 and gained a first class degree in Fine Art from Cardiff University in 2008. Upon graduating he was featured in Saatchi’s ‘New Sensations’ exhibition. In 2014, his work was in the long-list for the Aesthetica Art Prize and was included in the award’s published anthology. His debut Anima Mundi solo exhibition ‘Return to Whale’ opened in 2016, which was followed by ‘White Chalk Lines in 2018. His latest exhibition ‘Arcade Laundry’ opens in 2020. Works have been exhibited extensively notably including Untitled Art Fair in Miami; Zona Maco, Mexico City; the Saatchi Gallery London; The House of St Barnabas, London; CGK, Copenhagen; Tat Art, Barcelona and Herrick Gallery, Mayfair. Arthur Lanyon paintings are held in private collections worldwide.
For further information regarding Arthur Lanyon - CLICK HERE
◁
£7,500.00
Artist : Tim Shaw
Title : Ketamine
Medium : bronze, edition of 8
Dimensions : 19 x 36 x 23 cm | 7.5 x 14.2 x 9 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Tim Shaw’s sculpture and installation is often dualistic, incorporating current affairs, societal complexity and human conflict with ancient, mythical, metaphysical and primal concerns. Shaw’s powerful oeuvre connects these elements to create wider, timeless portraits of humanity. He is an artist schooled in the traditions of heavy metal casting and academic modelling, however his approach to materials and subjects is totally contemporary. He often creates environments which include sound, light and FX. The tension between tradition and the new, nowness and the ancient, between solidity and breakdown, is an organic part of his worldview, whether he’s looking at the atrocities of Abu Ghraib or the transgression or enlightenment of primitive ritual.
Tim Shaw is a British artist, born in Belfast in 1964. He currently lives in Cornwall.He was elected an Academician at The Royal Academy in 2013 and made a Fellow of The Royal British Society of Sculptors and a Fellow of Falmouth University the same year. Shaw has had a number of significant solo shows throughout the UK, Ireland and internationally. Most recently the major public solo exhibitions ‘What Remains’ and ‘Something is Not Quite Right’ a collaboration between The Exchange and Anima-Mundi, 'Mother the Air is Blue, The Air is Dangerous’ was held in the F.E McWilliam Gallery in Northern Ireland, 'Black Smoke Rising’ toured from Mac Birmingham to Aberystwyth Arts Centre and Back From the Front presents: Shock and Awe – Contemporary Artists at War and Peace at the Royal West of England Academy. He has undertaken a number of public commissions including 'The Rites of Dionysus' for The Eden Project, 'The Minotaur' for The Royal Opera House and 'The Drummer' for Lemon Quay, Truro. A more political side to his work became evident in a number of sculptures responding to the issues of terrorism and The Iraq War. 'Tank on Fire' was awarded the selectors prize at the inaugural Threadneedle Prize in 2008 and the installation 'Casting a Dark Democracy' was reviewed in 2008 by Jackie Wullschlager of The Financial Times as ‘The most politically charged yet poetically resonant new work on show in London’. Shaw has been supported by the Kappatos Athens Art Residency, The Kenneth Armitage Foundation, The British School of Athens,The Delfina Studio Trust through residencies in Greece, Spain and a fellowship in London. Most recently as an Artist Fellow at the Kate Hamburger Centre for Advance Study in the Humanities of 'Law and Culture' In Bonn, Germany where he began work on ’The Birth of Breakdown Clown’ an existential sculptural work utilising sculpture, robotics and AI.
For further information regarding Tim Shaw - CLICK HERE
◁
£3,800.00
Artist : Massimo Angèi
Title : La maestosità del silenzio (The Majesty of Silence)
Medium : oil on canvas
Dimensions : 100 x 80 cm | 39 x 31.4 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Massimo Angèi’s elemental, tempestuous yet ethereal oil paintings reflect varied emotional states whilst remaining open to interpretation. Tableaus and forms are suggested but never fully established, perhaps evoking landscape, weather patterns, natural systems, inner psychology or spiritual connectedness. Veluptuous cloud-like billows intersperse with delicate spiralling marks forming an ecstatic unity reminiscent of both renaissance grandeur and primitive automatic drawing.
Massimo Angèi was born in La Spezia, Italy, he currently lives and works in Sarzana, near the borderline between Liguria and Tuscany. Following art school, he collaborated with various institutions and museums exhibiting early representational depictions of flora and fauna. After finishing his degree at the Fine Arts Academy in Carrara/Painting (Accademia di Belle Arti\Pittura), he participated in his first exhibitions, and the creation of the Idioma group along with Marco Casentini, Fabio Linari, Jacopo Bruno, Andrea Geremia. He then began to work as an independent freelance photographer working for photo agencies including Grazia Neri of Milan, and Bilderberg of Hamburg, publishing his images in both Italian and international magazines. A vivid dream in the spring of 2006 made him realise that his destiny was as a painter, and he vowed to never again abandon it.
For further information regarding Massimo Angei - CLICK HERE
◁
£3,400.00
Artist : David Cooper
Title : Studio Remains
Medium : plaster, ash, coal, charcoal
Dimensions : 58 x 67 x 42 cm | 22.8 x 26.4 x 16.5 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
David Cooper’s work deals with disorder, taking fragments of found, disregarded objects and exploring them inside-out, and outside-in, through a series of unpremeditated and intuitive processes in three dimensional form. The works inquire into a humanity that feels, fears and confronts restriction and control; a state of being often conducive to an abominable sense of desolation and fettered anxiety. These unknown (and unknowable) aspects of the human condition, driven by momentary absences of restraint, stricture and control are embodied. Broken happenings, motivated by instinct, assemblage techniques and random thoughts, naivety and energy are exploited to sculpt the identity of these unfathomable aspects of human experience. His intriguing and expressive portraits, are perhaps deliberately destined to remain curious and incomplete.
David Cooper was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire in 1972. He currently lives and works in Suffolk. Cooper studied fashion at John Moores University followed by an MA in Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins where he went on to become lead designer and head of menswear at Alexander McQueen. More recently Cooper attended Fine Art summer school at the Slade School of Fine Art in 2008. Works have been exhibited extensively in the UK including The Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2014 and most recently as part of Anima Mundi’s ‘Protected by Alarms’.
◁
£11,400.00
Artist : Henry Hussey
Title : Bloodlines
Medium : digitally printed hand wwoven fabric, dyed hessian, dyed yarn, screen-print, embroidery
Dimensions : 300 x 130 cm | 118 x 51 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Henry Hussey artworks are often emotionally and physically raw, yet contrastingly beautiful and intricate, created with force through often paradoxically laboured mediums, including textile, glass, ceramic, paint and film. Whether through an expanding vocabulary of quasi-mythological symbols, or in embellished lines of text extracted from performative situations, Hussey explores personal and national identity in response to aggravating relationships and events. Recent experimentations reveal a deep concern with control and chaos and the sweet spot in between these two distinctive states.
Henry Hussey is a British artist born in London in 1990 where he still resides. Hussey studied Textiles at Chelsea College of Art before completing an MA in Textiles at the Royal College of Art. His work is widely respected and has been exhibited in notable exhibitions including The Textiel Biennale 2017 at Museum Rijswijk in the Hague, a solo presentation at Art Central in Hong Kong, the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2014 at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Royal Academy London and Volta New York and the Young Talent Contemporary Prize at the Ingram Collection in 2016. Hussey has participated in residencies at La Vallonea, Tuscany, Italy in 2018 and will participate in a residency at Palazzo Monti, Milan in 2020. His work is held in collections worldwide including Simmons & Simmons, Hogan Lovells, The Groucho Club and Soho House.
For further information regarding Henry Hussey - CLICK HERE
◁
£2,600.00
Artist : Roy Eastland
Title : Photo Booth Portrait: Dad (1) & (2)
Medium : silverpoint drawing on gesso on board
Dimensions : 21 x 14.5 cm | 8.3 x 5.7 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Roy Eastland's intricate work is centred on drawing, primarily utilising the ancient process of silver point, where marks are made by repeated dragging of a fine silver rod tip across a gesso prepared surface. The metal-point trace is gentle but also indelible. These delicate drawn marks are then scratched at to erase. With each re-working there is the hope that something new will emerge into the drawing revealing a further truth. This happens repeatedly over many many years, with the risk of total loss always present. Evaporating columns of hand-written text are often drawn beneath each of the portrait images. These are made up of lines of remembered speech and family stories which vary in each retelling. Over time, some repeated fragments of sentences remain more clearly visible on the surface than others. Over the time that the works are made, the blueish grey drawn lines become more brownish, an aspect of unpredictability and change-over-time which is also welcomed, additive and allegorical. Production is intricate, dedicated, elusive and often painful, where the material quality of technique and time spent metamorphose into compassionate, frail and ephemeral works which venerate human presence, memory and trace.
Roy Eastland lives and works in Thanet, Kent. He graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1996. Works have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibition including the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, The Jerwood Drawing Prize (on three occasions), The ING Discerning Eye Drawing Bursary, The Zoo Art Fair, Miami Art Fair, The London Art Fair, The BP Portrait Award, The British Art Fair, The Hunting Art Prizes, Margate Rocks, the Turner Contemporary Open, among others.
◁
£1,800.00
Artist : Youki Hirakawa
Title : Shadow of a Film
Medium : burnt film ashes on canvas
Dimensions : 30 x 40 cm | 11.8 x 15.7 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Through his still and installation-based video artwork, Youki Hirakawa explores a mysterious and immeasurable sense of time, loss and longing inspired by archaeology, geology and alchemy. His monochromatic imagery is imbued with a melancholic quality, reconnecting a fragile past with a vivid present casting questions over the future. He creates a kind of video-poetry which summons the voice of the lost. Deftly contrasting static imagery and moving footage, his work recalls its basis in frames per second, through which Hirakawa questions and in turn plays with our sense of time. Hirakawa constructs his artworks as if to reveal hidden memories or narratives contained within the subject, resuscitating sensibilities that may have since been obscured, primarily through progressive human activity.
Youki Hirakawa is a Japanese contemporary artist born in Nagoya, Japan in 1983. He currently lives and works in Toyota, Japan, following a long residency in Berlin, Germany. He was been invited to show at the '48th International Film Festival Rotterdam' and '65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen' in 2019 and has held solo exhibitions internationally, including Ando Gallery, Tokyo, Double Square Gallery, Taipei, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, Minokamo City Museum, Japan. Hirakawa has also been invited to exhibit in international art festivals including Digital Art Festival Taipei 2017, International Contemporary Art Festival Kaunas in 2016, Sapporo International Art Festival 2014 and Aichi Triennale 2013. His inaugural solo exhibition ‘Secret Fire’ at Anima Mundi was held in 2016 and his follow up ‘A River Under Water’ in 2018. In 2017 he was finalist of Sovereign Asian Art Prize. Works are held in numerous public and private collections.
For further information regarding Youki Hirakawa - CLICK HERE
◁
£2,400.00
Artist : Kristoffer Axén
Title : Fireflies
Medium : oil on canvas
Dimensions : 50 x 60 cm | 19.7 x 23.6 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Kristoffer Axén's atmospheric paintings and works on paper are often self-biographical as a means of tapping into the wider human condition. Works revolve around themes including the utopia of childhood, the temporary, dreamlike, quality of reality and the unconscious search for something oblique or unspecified. A sense of nostalgia is often tinged with an overarching feeling of the melancholy of transience. Inspired by cinematic imagery, anonymous photographs from the internet and childhood snapshots, Axén’s paintings and drawings are often bordering the dreamstate and the inner world. While contemporary and historic references include Michael Borremans, Mamma Andersson, Vilhelm Hammershoi and Richard Diebenkorn, his use of textured mechanical pencil for the drawings and the juxtaposed realism with the simplified blocks in his paintings are uniquely his own.
Kristoffer Axén was born 1984 in Stockholm, Sweden where his still resides. He is a self-taught painter, who studied fine-art photography at the International Center of Photography in New York between 2008-2009, a city in which he lived and worked in until 2013. Axén’s work have been exhibited internationally in solo shows in New York, Copenhagen, Stockholm and in numerous group shows around the world, notably at Liljevalchs Spring Show in Stockholm, at Aperture Gallery in New York and at Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland. Axén, is part of many private and public collections such as the ICP collection, Michaelis School of Fine Arts and MONA and he has been published in articles and selections from magazines such as Zoom Magazine, The New York Times and Vogue Italia. .
£0.00
Artist : Jarno Vesala
Title : Soup and a Woman
Medium : sculpture and projected video installation
Dimensions : variable
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Jarno Vesala makes installations, which often consist of empathy inducing, human-like sculpture, sound and projected image. His immersive environments are perplexing, mysterious and unsettling. The work pays with the act of perception, memory and illusion. Recurrent themes are often relate to isolation, loneliness, exclusion and loss which are made manifest and palpable through his rendering.
Jarno Vesala is a Finnish contemporary artist born in Rauma in 1977. He currently lives and works in Nokia, Finland. Vesala graduated as a visual artist at the Tampere University of Applied Sciences' degree program in arts and communication in 2004. She has first exhibited in Tampere in 2003. Vesala's works have been featured in Mänttä's art festivals 2008, Kluuvin galleria 2009, Pirkanmaa triennial 2009 and 2012, Helsinki Art Museum 2011 and Forum Box 2012. He was selected as the Finnish Young Artist of the Year in 2013. In 2014, Vesala won the Turku Biennale Prize with his work with Krister Gråhn. In addition Vesala has featured in numerous exhibitions internationally including 'Out of Our Heads' curated by James Putnam and Vassiliki Tzanakou in 2014, his debut solo exhibition ‘Being There’ at Anima-Mundi in 2016 and the Nordic Delights festival in Soho, London in 2018.
For further information regarding Jarno Vesala - CLICK HERE
£0.00
Artist : David Kim Whittaker
Title : Notes from New York
Medium : two channel sound installation
To Listen : click here
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
David Kim Whittaker artworks consist of mixed media paintings on canvas or panel, painted studies incorporating collage and occasional assemblage ‘still life / portrait’ sculptures and more recently written verse and sound installation. His artworks are a harmonised conflict of delicate figurative and expressive abstract elements. Most of Whittaker’s paintings are based upon a metaphysical interpretation of the human head. The portraits are ambiguous, with the ambitious aim of representing the totality of the human condition, both the universal alongside the personal. The works often juggle dual states of inner and outer calm and conflict, offering a glimpse of strength and fragility, the conscious and the subconscious, the masculine and the feminine. These universal states of conflict clearly identifiable in Whittaker's works are arguably reinforced by Whittaker’s ‘gender dysphoria’ and the personal struggle with a condition that he/she has learned to live with through painting and the endeavour of expressing something bigger than oneself.
David Kim Whittaker is a British contemporary artist born in Cornwall in 1964 where he still resides. Exhibitions have been held internationally, notably including a solo exhibition at the prestigious Fondazione Mudima in Milan in 2017 curated by Joseph Clarke. Works are in numerous museum collections, art foundations and international private collections. Whittaker was further acknowledged in 2011 as the recipient of the Towry Award (First Prize) at the National Open Art Competition in the UK.
For further information regarding David Kim Whittaker - CLICK HERE
£18,000.00
Artist : Trevor Bell
Title : Windance
Medium : ply and mixed media on panel
Dimensions : 117 x 100 cm | 46 x 39 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Trevor Bell's creative interest focussed primarily, on painting’s power to evoke sensation, which for him superseded any illusionistic properties that it might have. Ambitious in scale and dynamic in form, the range of work is diverse, Bell’s oeuvre is a celebration of mutable energy, elemental forces and a quest for contemplative stillness. He achieved significant critical acclaim and recognition for his direct, abstract forms which emphatically represent the conflicting or harmonious physicality found in the natural world to the spiritual concerns which connect all that surrounds us from the micro to the macro.
Trevor Bell was a British artist, born in Leeds, England in 1930. He passed away in 2017 at his home in west Cornwall. Bell was as an important figure within the St Ives post war modernist movement, which achieved international acclaim.He also spent a significant part of his career in the USA, where he became head of art at Tallahassee State University, a role that he approached with zeal alongside the continued production of his expansive paintings and public artworks for which he became known. In 2007 Tate St Ives presented a ‘Beyond Materiality' a solo exhibition of contemporary work shown alongside key works drawn from five decades of painting. Chris Stephens (then head of displays at Tate Britain) said "Bell’s art is, in the loosest sense, spiritual. It evokes, or reflects, an idea of some abstract force that exceeds material reality... The dangers and losses of the modern world would be compensated through the rediscovery of natural order and process, and a renewed sense of individual identity would be established through the exploration of forces larger than ourselves. Bell’s work, one might say, has always derived in one way or another from this new sublime.” In 1955 he was encouraged by a friend and peer, Terry Frost, to travel to St Ives where he would find a place that he could focus on his painting amongst the town’s expanding artistic community. There he joined Ben Nicholson, Peter Lanyon, Barbara Hepworth and Patrick Heron amongst others. Bell’s career was quick to climb. Patrick Heron described Bell as “The best non-figurative painter under 30”. The following year Bell was awarded the honour of the prize for painting at the Paris Biennale. During this year Bell visited the ‘Museum of the Man’ which was to have a profound affect on him. Bells says of this encounter “To see the power of the masks and the actual presence of things, it made me realise that I wanted the work to have an equivalent that would be ‘it’ rather than the ‘illusion of it’, to be the ‘God’ rather than an 'illusion of a God’”. Bell also described an early meeting with Zen monk and teacher Snhunryu Suzuki at the house of Bernard Leach as particularly pivotal. Bell credits Suzuki with describing what he was “feeling" he had to do in painting, these lessons remained with him all his life. Bell stayed in St. Ives for five years constantly developing his technique and painting language, but in 1960 left St Ives and returned to Leeds College of Art as a Gregory Fellow (the youngest to date). It was here the he began to develop his shaped works which began to set him apart from other abstract artists of his generation. John Elderfield (head curator of MOMA New York) said "Bell was making paintings whose interior shapes referred to landscape - but to the forces as much as to the forms of landscape; and it was this concern for what is best described as dynamics which led him naturally into an investigation of the mechanisms of painting itself.” During the 1960s Bell showed work in major exhibitions in the UK and USA and during this time his work was first bought for the Tate collection. Bells idiosyncratic work continued to develop. In 1970, Patrick Heron stated; “One of the most important painters working anywhere today is Trevor Bell... As far as I am concerned [Bell’s paintings] are far and away the most original and successful shaped canvas paintings - which remain paintings - to have been produced anywhere. But the task of justifying this judgment and of explaining, even to myself, the reasons for their very great power and beauty is daunting in the extreme, because so much about their construction, their literal appearance and colour, is unique and therefore outside existing terms of formal comparison and analysis.” In 1972, while on a visit to Florida State University, Bell witnessed at first hand the night-time launch of the Apollo 17 space mission at Cape Canaveral. It was a spectacle that captured and inspired Bell, and became a captivating source for a number of works which followed. These works were included in his solo exhibition at London's Whitechapel Gallery in 1973, having just taken part in a major exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC. Bell located to the USA in 1975 and in 1976 after being appointed by Florida State University to become Professor for Master painting. Bell viewed his time in Tallahassee fondly, here with the provision of a warehouse sized studio and time to really develop his painting he continued to produce ambitious works. Alongside gallery exhibitions, he worked on public art commissions including 'Florida Queen' for the passenger terminal at Orlando airport made in 1981. Bell was included in the 1983 Tate Gallery ‘St Ives 1939-64’ exhibition and in the inaugural Tate St Ives exhibition when it opened in 1993. When he retired from Florida State University in 1996 he returned to Cornwall which had remained a spiritual home. He converted a farmhouse in to large scale studio’s to continue to make work with notable ambition. Bell was made an honoury academician of the Royal West of England Academy, an Honoury Fellow of Falmouth University and Professor Emeritus as Florida State in recognition of his achievements. Support in the US continued with Florida State University ensuring that Bell’s key American works remained prominent. A monograph published by Sanson & Company in 2009 written by Elizabeth Knowles and Chris Stephens communicated the huge breadth of Bell’s work on both sides of the Atlantic. 14 works were acquired by The Tate in 2014 and an acquisition was made in 2015 by the Perez Art Museum in Florida the most recent major acquisitions in a roster that includes a multitude of important public collections here and abroad. His final body of work ‘Beyond the Edge’ made at the age of 85 was a tour de force of purity, balance and the sublime - which encapsulated his philosophical aims for ‘nothing extra’ to intrude in the work. Bell would sum up his ability to encapsulate and distil natures physical and metaphysical complexity with a graceful rawness and often profound simplicity with typical humility by stating that "He was just in the middle”. Most recently Bell collaborated with choreographer Rodger Belman in the states in an exhibition incorporating painting and dance and in the final months of his life he was focussing on a future public solo exhibition 'Trans-Form’, a celebration of key recent and older works, their energies transformed into sound and contemporary dance.
For further information regarding Trevor Bell - CLICK HERE
◁
£11,600.00
Artist : Sax Impey
Title : F8 S Pacific, Following Sea
Medium : charcoal on paper
Dimensions : 110 x 142 cm | 43.3 x 56 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Sax Impey’s paintings and drawings are often large scale, immersive and elemental, incorporating intense detail and dexterity and an expressive, behavioural use of medium. Since 2005, Impey has produced works derived predominantly from experiences at sea. A qualified RYA Yachtmaster he has sailed many thousands of nautical miles around the world. These extensive trips have had a profound impact and subsequent development as an artist. Reconnecting with nature through this powerful element has the almost inescapable effect of calling to question some of life’s existential questions. This epiphanic moment of realisation, of revelation, is at the core of Impey’s oeuvre. Reflecting on and capturing personal moments and making them universal, Impey’s work reaffirms the importance of introspection and confrontation, found specifically when surrounded by the natural world; “A mind can breathe, and observe, and reflect, away from the shrill desperation of a culture that, having forgotten that it is better to say nothing than something about nothing, invents ever new ways to fill every single space with less and less”.
Sax Impey is a British artist born in Penzance, Cornwall in 1969. He currently works from on of the prestigious Porthmeor Studios in St. Ives.After graduating from art college, Impey spent time in East Africa where he participated in film, theatre and performance projects before returning to Cornwall to paint. In 1995 he was elected a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists and in 1997 was awarded a 'Kunstbrucke' residency in Berlin. From 2005, he has collaborated with the cross-cultural, environmental art group Red Earth in the creation of site-specific installations including a multi media performance at Trafalgar Square, London and Birling Gap in Sussex. In 2007 Impey's work was selected for the ‘Art Now Cornwall’ exhibition at the Tate St Ives where he was placed on the cover of the associated publication. The same year he was heralded in The Times as one of the ‘New Faces of Cornish Art’. In 2010 Sax was featured in Owen Sheers's BBC4 Documentary ‘Art of the Sea (In Pictures)’ alongside Anish Kapoor, J. M. W. Turner, Martin Parr and Maggi Hambling among others. His work was selected as a finalist the 2013 Threadneedle Prize and the year before was elected an Academician at the Royal West of England Academy. Impey has had numerous exhibitions with Anima-Mundi securing a long term, fruitful working relationship. His paintings are in multiple collections including The Arts Council, Warwick University, the Connaught Hotel and the collections of Roman Abramovich and Lady Victoria Getty alongside other private collections worldwide.
For further information regarding Sax Impey - CLICK HERE
£1,800.00
Artist : Simon Hitchens
Title : 06.58-19.37/27.03.20/ST252148
Medium : ink on paper
Dimensions : 28 x 38 cm | 11 x 15 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Simon Hitchens drawn and sculptural work explores the interconnectedness between the human and the non-human, as a means to learning about Mankind’s relationship with impermanence. As a climber he maintains an intimate relationship with rock. In the age of the Anthropogenic it seems pertinent to question how we comprehend the geological and human worlds as united, interconnected even. The British Isles have a rich and varied geology, with rocks ageing from the present to some of the oldest on our planet. To be able to comprehend the deep-time of rocks is to ‘shine a light’ upon our own relatively short lifespan and to begin to understand the transient but interconnected nature of what we share with the planet. This work is one of a series of system-based drawings made in, of and about the landscape; the result of a particular set of conditions, in a particular place, over a particular span of time. By relentlessly tracing the moving shadows of a stone throughout an entire day, they record celestial time, geological time and human time as well as the weather patterns unique to that day. They are a meditation on time and space - even the solidity of mountains, given time, will eventually erode into nothing, echoing the broad, shared transience of existence.
Simon Hitchens graduated in Fine Art from the University of the West of England in 1990 and his work has been exhibited around the world since then. He frequently exhibits in solo and group exhibitions, undertaking private commissions and numerous large-scale public commissions. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors in 1998, is an RWA Academician and is the fourth generation of artist in his family.
◁
£15,000.00
Artist : Andrew Hardwick
Title : Pale Blue Sea, Wind, Cloud
Medium : mixed media on panels
Dimensions : 124 x 283 cm | 49 x 111 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Andrew Hardwick's often large scale, sedimentary paintings display his captivation with wilderness zones; both natural and man-made. Playing with and subverting traditional notions of romantic landscape painting and the sublime. The paintings often depict edge-land zones around big industrial conurbations or ports, such as large-scale car storage compounds, redundant factories and polluted waste lands. Other works draw inspiration from the more typically idyllic locations such as Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor. However, these landscapes are also filled with reminders of human interference. Roads cris-cross the moor in deeply scratched lines, a narrow road is etched into an otherwise massive moorland triptych, likewise a real car radiator sits in the surface of a painting’s as if decaying and buried by the earth. His medium of working is also atypical, paintings are heavily layered with different types of paint (often sourced from recycling centre), plaster, plastics, soils, pigments, roofing felt, hay and other unconventional materials. To this rich surface relevant artefacts are often added, creating reminders or triggering memories intrinsic to a particular landscape.The concept of layering in the landscape arrived partly a result of the artist’s childhood, during which his family’s farm was first sliced in half by the M5 motorway and then again by the Royal Portbury Dock. The land once filled with sheep has become a pure edge-land wilderness with detritus of the developments now filling the land. Hardwick’s entire oeuvre makes reference to concepts of change, memory, history and emotion. Ever redolent is the notion that we are but another layer in time.
Andrew Hardwick is a British artist born in Bristol, England in 1961 where he still resides. He achieved an MA in Fine Art at the University of Wales. He is an elected Academician at the Royal West of England Academy. He has featured in four solo exhibitions at Anima-Mundi. Works have been exhibited extensively including numerous public shows and have been collected worldwide.
For further information regarding Andrew Hardwick - CLICK HERE
£2,600.00
Artist : Joy Wolfenden Brown
Title : Over the Storm
Medium : oil on paper
Dimensions : 24 x 37 cm | 9.4 x 14.6 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Joy Wolfenden Brown’s intimate oil paintings feel hauntingly familiar possessing a raw, emotional, honesty. She captures fleeting fragments of memory, moments in time where the inherent vulnerability of the figures depicted, often in isolation, is palpable. These are lovingly yet spontaneously executed reflections on the human condition, which have an unnervingly, yet simultaneously comforting, unguarded quality.
Joy Wolfenden Brown is a British artist born in Stamford, Lincolnshire in 1961. She currently lives in Bude, North Cornwall. She graduated from Leeds University then completed a post-graduate diploma in Art Therapy at Hertfordshire College of Art & Design. She worked as an art therapist for ten years before moving to Cornwall in 1999. Wolfenden Brown has had a number of sell out solo exhibitions and was the First Prize Winner in The National Open Art Competition, 2012. She was also awarded the Somerville Gallery painting prize in 2003 and first prizewinner at the Sherborne Open in 2007. Works were acquired by the Anthony Pettullo Outsider Art Collection in Milwaukee with further works held in collections worldwide. Wolfenden Brown has exhibited internationally with six solo exhibitions at Anima Mundi marking a long and fruitful working relationship.
For further information regarding Joy Wolfenden Brown - CLICK HERE
◁
£7,200.00
Artist : Carlos Zapata
Title : Celtic Mother
Medium : Cornish polyphant stone
Dimensions : 83 x 18 x 18 cm | 32.7 x 7 x 7 in (dimensions not including base)
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Carlos Zapata makes idiosyncratic carved and painted sculpture and installation. His work deals with many challenging and potent themes from poverty, conflict, religion and race, yet paradoxically, the overriding characteristics of the work are of empathy and compassion. Zapata’s work belongs to and takes inspiration from Folk and Tribal Arts from all over the world but specifically from South America, from its indigenous populous and the trade routes and traditions that have fed it over the centuries. Many of his sculptures have evolved from personal experience of living in a foreign land and from his home country where civil issues continue to trouble its people.
Carlos Zapata is a Colombian artist born in 1963. He currently lives near Falmouth, Cornwall. Zapata has exhibited International with works held in numerous private collections and museums around the world.
For further information regarding Carlos Zapata - CLICK HERE
Featured
£6,400.00
Artist : Andrew Litten
Title : Couple
Medium : oil and acrylic on panel
Dimensions : 100 x 60 cm | 39.4 x 23.6 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Andrew Litten's dynamic and gestural figurative paintings express a strong interest in the universal complexity of everyday existence. Dealing with humanistic themes such as love, sensuality, fear, anger, loss, nostalgia, mundanity, personal growth and perceived identity normality or disturbance. Works are created with an unguarded, empathetic attitude, like so many expressionistic artists, a rawness of approach combined with an often viscous application of paint is also key to the extreme experience felt from the work. Gesture and nuance inspire extreme emotive reading, perhaps subversive, tender, passionate, ambivalent, malevolent or compassionate, our response becomes one of allure or repulsion.
Andrew Litten is a British artist, born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire in 1970. He currently works from his studio in Fowey, Cornwall. He is a self-taught artist leaving art college as a teenager having found it to be too restrictive to his aspired method of working. For a decade he created mostly small-scale works using humble domestic or found materials (including envelopes and assembled furniture parts). The work made at this time deliberately challenged ideas of art elitism and art as commodity. He then moved to Cornwall in 2001 and chose to begin exhibiting. Early success came when his work was included in an exhibition titled ‘Nudes’ in New York City, (along with Jacob Epstein and Pierre-Auguste Renoir), where his work was highlighted and reviewed by the New York Times. Shortly after he had four consecutive solo exhibitions each of which included publications at Goldifsh Fine Arts in Penzance, Cornwall. Other notable exhibitions included ‘Move’ at Vyner Street, London, during Frieze Art Week 2007, where his work ‘Dog Breeder’, created as a twisted and emphatic anti-art statement, was exhibited. He was also included in ‘No Soul For Sale’ at Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London in 2010. In 2012 he held a major solo exhibition at Millennium in St Ives, Cornwall and that year was given a guest solo exhibition at L13 Light Industrial Workshop, London. He has also held large-scale solo exhibitions at Spike Island and Motorcade FlashParade in Bristol. Ordinary Bodies, Ordinary Bones was conceived with support from The Arts Council, UK and will be exhibited at Anima Mundi in 2018. Works have been included in numerous international curated mixed exhibitions in Berlin, Dublin, Siena, Milwaukee and New York City and in Venice during the 54th Biennale. Most recently paintings have been exhibited in four major museums in China. Andrew Litten paintings feature in numerous international private and public collections.
For further information regarding Andrew Litten - CLICK HERE
£3,900.00
Artist : Paul Benney
Title : The Story of the Eye
Medium : oil and resin on board in 3D printed locket and clasp
Dimensions : 10 x 7 x 2 cm | 3.9 x 2.6 x 0.8 in (when closed)
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Paul Benney is a multi-disciplined artist whose oeuvre moves beyond clear and definitive categorization although his work could be seen to continue the strong tradition of ‘British Mysticism’ championed by the likes of Samuel Palmer and William Blake. Benney is a polymath, the primary mode of expression being paint, which he handles with profound technical dexterity, but to add to this he is also a goldsmith (skills learned from his father, the celebrated goldsmith Gerald Benney), a sculptor, film maker, a musician and also a perfumer, all of which he is able to carry out with notable esoteric ability and accomplishment.
Paul Benney is a British artist born in London, England in 1959. He currently lives and works from studios in London and Suffolk. Benney rose to international prominence as a member of the Soho and East Village Neo-Expressionist group, whilst living and working in New York City in the 1980s where he worked and exhibited alongside peers Marylyn Minter, Jean-Michel Basquiat and David Wojnarovicz among the many other others who made up the exploding 80s NY art scene. Despite living and working in this extraordinary environment Benney’s painting maintained a uniquely English sensibility. His paintings are notably represented in a plethora of public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Brooklyn Museum, The National Gallery of Australia and The National Portrait Gallery in London, The Royal Collection and The Eli Broad Foundation. He has exhibited in eight BP Portrait Award Exhibitions and twice won the BP Visitors’ Choice Award. Benney's portrait subjects have included HM Queen Elizabeth II, Sir Mick Jagger, John Paul Getty III, 7th Marquess of Bath, The State Portrait for Israel, Lord Rothschild, as well as Ben Barnes for the portrait in the feature film ‘A Portrait of Dorian Grey’ in 2008. Benney was invited to be resident artist at Somerset House in 2010. During his five year residency he held the exhibition ‘Night Paintings’ in 2012 which explored themes that deal more with the subconscious and metaphysical world and drew over 15,000 visitors. In 2017 his epic painting and holosonic sound installation ‘Speaking in Tongues’ was a prominent feature of the Venice Biennale, located at Chiesa San Gallo, just off St Marks’s Square. The paintings from ‘Speaking In Tongues’ were subsequently purchased by a significant US art foundation based in California for permanent exhibition. Paintings are held in multiple collections worldwide.
For further information regarding Paul Benney - CLICK HERE
£2,800.00
Artist : Evelyn Williams
Title : Talking Mouths
Medium : oil on canvas
Dimensions : 25 x 30 cm | 9.8 x 11.8 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
British painter Evelyn Williams, arguably less known that many of her male contemporaries, despite winning the John Moores Prize for sculpture, produced an unrivalled body of work, unguardedly expressing the wide ranging complexities of the human condition. She proved difficult for some to categorise during her life time, but is regarded, along with friends such as Paula Rego, as having forged a path for female artists. Despite failing health she continued painting right up to her death in 2012 at the age of 83. Her tender, intimate and emotional paintings are concerned with the subtleties and complexities of relationships and the human predicament, following her progress through life as child, lover, mother and grandmother. Williams' powerful, haunting paintings which, fully aware that her health was declining rapidly, show the artist facing her own mortality with her customary directness and tenderness. She talked of her work with self-effacement but her words provide epitaphs: "After all the attempts at movement, the pulling and pushing of forms, the agitation – here all goes still and I have a sense of relief the figure is asleep and has found rest”.
Evelyn Williams was born in 1929 and trained at St Martin’s School of Art from the age of 15 and then the Royal College of Art working alongside the older, largely male students, many of them soldiers returning from service in the second world war. In 1961 Evelyn Williams won first prize for sculpture in the John Moores competition and over the years had recognition in many public galleries including a retrospective exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1972. Her work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; New Hall, Cambridge; the National Museum of Wales; the Contemporary Art Society for Wales; and the British Arts Council and later founded a trust in her name which has done modest but important work to support artists, particularly women, and the practice of drawing.
For further information regarding Evelyn Williams - CLICK HERE
£600.00
Artist : Phoebe Cummings
Title : Something Small
Medium : clay, wax
Dimensions : 4 x 4 x 5 cm | 1.6 x 1.6 x 2 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Phoebe Cummings works predominantly using unfired clay to make poetic and performative sculptures and installations that emphasise materiality, fragility, time, creation and decay. Cummings' impressive interventions are often constructed directly on site, allowing an instinctive development of tensions between object and location. Cummings questions what we will carry forward into the future by producing intricate, hand made and exquisitely delicate sculptures based on ancient plants and primitive ritual, imbued with a sense of magic and mysticism. Drawing together elements of English Paganism as well as the aesthetic excess of Baroque and Rococo design, the resultant objects could be considered as dystopian ornaments of a future anthropology or fragile relics of an almost forgotten past.
Phoebe Cummings works predominantly using unfired clay to make poetic and performative sculptures and installations that emphasise materiality, fragility, time, creation and decay. Cummings' impressive interventions are often constructed directly on site, allowing an instinctive development of tensions between object and location. Cummings questions what we will carry forward into the future by producing intricate, hand made and exquisitely delicate sculptures based on ancient plants and primitive ritual, imbued with a sense of magic and mysticism. Drawing together elements of English Paganism as well as the aesthetic excess of Baroque and Rococo design, the resultant objects could be considered as dystopian ornaments of a future anthropology or fragile relics of an almost forgotten past.
For further information regarding Phoebe Cummings - CLICK HERE
£4,400.00
Artist : Simon Averill
Title : Entanglements 1 & 2
Medium : acrylic on panel
Dimensions : 40 x 40 cm | 15.7 x 15.7 in each
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Albert Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance' theory referred to ‘quantum entanglement’, which states that the measurement of one particle will instantly influence another particle, regardless of how far apart they are. This principle has inspired this series of paired paintings by Simon Averill. Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon which occurs when pairs or groups of particles are generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in ways such that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently of the state of the other(s), even when the particles are separated by a large distance—instead, a quantum state must be described for the system as a whole. These works further enhance Averill's reputation for attempting to record elusive, fleeting and transitory phenomena. Produced through a multi layered, process of glazing where methodical and repetitive series' of motifs, are used to describe intangible potentials.
Simon Averill is a British artist born in Brighton, England in 1961. He currently lives and works near Marazion in West Cornwall. Averill studied Fine Art at Brighton Polytechnic and graduated with Honours. In 1986 he established a Printmaking Workshop near Penzance, Cornwall, which he ran until 1990. Since 1989 he has lectured at Falmouth University, where he is now a senior lecturer, specialising in painting and drawing. He has been a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists since the late 1980s. Averill has exhibited widely with exhibitions in the UK, Europe and USA including the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Show, The Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall Galleries, Royal West of England Academy in Bristol, Sherborne House, Plymouth Museum, Plymouth Arts Centre, Truro Museum, Falmouth Art Gallery, Newlyn Art Gallery and the Festival Hall in Chicago, USA.
For further information regarding Simon Averill - CLICK HERE
£2,200.00
Artist : Harriet Bell
Title : Untitled
Medium : pencil and book cutting collage on paper
Dimensions : 70 x 100 cm | 39.3 x 27.5 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Harriet Bell’s artwork is multifaceted ranging from sculptural components, to installation and drawing with collage. Her works are made in private and very rarely shown publicly. There is no specific narrative to the work but Bell often ‘borrows’ words and images and rearranges, casting like seeds. Her objective is to make work that is completely integrated; each piece to contain it’s meaning within but emanating that meaning as a presence around it. There is a sense of a narrative that once again exists beyond words. Bell is an artist who remains suspicious of artist’s statements, feeling that there is a sense that translating the meaning of the work in to the written word distracts from the language that the work itself contains. So her works must be experienced and the results of doing so are profoundly moving and personal. The only words present in the exhibition catalogue for her most recent solo exhibition catalogue were “We all have to leave”, this simple ‘summing up’ leaves little doubt that Bell is an artist who is able to just say it, without having to say much at all, it also gives clear insight in to the preoccupation of her artistic and existential questioning. Her sculpture and installations utilise materials that she finds in hedgerows or pound shops or anywhere for that matter. Harriet Bell is hoarder or collector, which is evident from the specimens she gathers and arranges. Materials such as stones, dried roots held inside milkbottles, empty eggshells, wiry stalks and folded cloth, are all examples from her collections. Like the remains from an archeological dig, works often feels archaic, like a museum archive, of drawers that are brimming with specimens all held under a single pin in categorical lines. Bell's works on paper, like the forensic trace of plant or animal life, incorporating collage with exquisite drawing offer alternative evolutions, of life beyond. Rather like a botanist uses specimens for scientific experiments, Bell then selectively displays her findings and drawings taking us beyond the realms of science and our present understanding of life and what lies beyond. The ever-changing cycle of life. Absence, presence, death and decay, growth and metamorphosis.
Harriet Bell is a British artist born in Turkey in 1950. She has lived and studied in the USA, Jamaica, South America and France, and currently lives in West Cornwall. Despite her reclusive nature Harriet Bell’s works have been exhibited internationally, with major works acquired for private and public collections. Bell was a prizewinner at Jacksonville Museum in Florida in 1980, the Halifax Art Festival Merit Award winner in 1980, the Arkansas Art Centre Purchase Award winner in 1984 and the Jacksonville Museum Purchase Award winner in 1986. She was awarded the State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in 1987 and the SECCA/RHR Southeastern Artists Fellowship in 1989. She has exhibited at the North Miami Museum, Jacksonville Art Museum, South Florida Art Museum, Florida and Cantini Musee in Paris, Provincial Museum Haselt in Belgium, Centre d’Art in Barcelona, Museum of Fine Arts in Miami, the Tate St Ives and extensively throughout the USA, UK and Europe. Her work is in number of art collections including the British Museum, the Florida House of Representatives, Florida State University, The Keleia Collection, City of Orlando, Arkansas Art Centre, Jacksonville Art Centre, The Rouse Company, Vero Beach Centre for the Arts, Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta, Southern Bell.
For further information regarding Harriet Bell - CLICK HERE
£2,800.00
Artist : Roger Thorp
Title : Seven Billion Names Of God… All True
Medium : video in gesso frame (edition of 5)
Dimensions : 30 x 36 cm | 11.8 x 14.2 in
To View Video : click here
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Roger Thorp’s artwork consists of still images exhibited alongside complex, multi-media, immersive and participatory installations. His work effectively transmits an enormous sensitivity towards the earth, humanity and spirituality, becoming a manifestation of deep joy and a proclamation of existence for those who forget where they are going.
Roger Thorp is a British artist born in Chapel-en-le-Frith in Derbyshire in 1955. He currently lives and works in Cornwall. After leaving film school, Thorp started out as a runner in the film industry, moving on to work as producer and pm on music videos for U2, The Clash, Iggy Pop among others. He has also directed programmes for NGO’s such as WWF, ILO and the Red Cross, working in Australia, Mongolia and the USA. He has also made two feature films. Other work by Thorp as a writer/director has been screened in Rome, Barcelona, Copenhagen and London. In 2004 he co-founded the art-house online gallery ‘Littlesong Films’ and in 2015 he founded ‘The Olive Network’ a sophisticated web platform built to foster tolerance and understanding throughout diverse global communities by focusing on the positive long term contributions of charity, the arts and humanities. Thorp exhibits his work internationally.
For further information regarding Roger Thorp - CLICK HERE
£7,800.00
Artist : Simone Pellegrini
Title : Conca gimento
Medium : mixed media on hand made paper
Dimensions : 89 x 174 cm | 35 x 68.5 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Simone Pellegrini’s visionary works appear as timeless artefacts describing complex systems of interconnectivity. The works are made through a process of pressing motifs, painted on to discarded paper fragments, on to a rich parchment-like paper, which is then hand-coloured and distressed with oil to create a rich and deep patination of age and wear. Their compositional arrangements echo an archaic sensibility, depicting dreamlike symbology and structures where figures float or wander either lost or found, consumed or enraptured. Whilst remaining cryptic, Pellegrini’s paintings make tangible elusive philosophical, mystical and spiritual aspects of universal relatedness.
Simone Pellegrini was born in Ancona, Italy in 1972, he is currently based in Bologna. His works have been exhibited internationally and are in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna; the Civic Museum in Monza; Volker Feierabend in Frankfurt; Bologna Fiere; Maramotti Art Collection, Reggio Emilia; Unicredit Art Collection, Milan and Museum Kunstpalast Duesseldorf.
£900.00
Artist : Jamie Mills
Title : Memories of Flight
Medium : bramble, carbon, beeswax, linen, chalk, thread
Dimensions : 30 - 35 cm height | 11.8 - 13.8 in height each
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Jamie Mills lives and work in West Cornwall. He is a musician, sound and visual artist. His practice is underpinned by investigation surrounding the dissemination of gesture between materiality and environments – referencing both internal and external landscapes. These concerns are reinforced by an interdisciplinary approach to working and are made manifest through the renderings of sounds or materials often sourced or retrieved via immersion into nature or borderlands, and with particular reference to his aural works, articulated and manipulated through unorthodox instrumental preparations and the incorporation and processing of field recordings. The term ‘gestalt’ refers to a concept within psychotherapeutic fields, inferring that the nature of a whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Mills’ employment of the mediums of photography, sound and mark-making can be read in this sense whereby a reality is constructed not by the sole surface representation of any individual element alone, but instead there is a sense that the artists reality is presented through the relationships and the spaces between elements. In other terms, it is work that requires both on one hand a stepping away from, and on the other an immersion into, in order to extract an empathetic understanding of the essence of the work that presides from both a conscious and subconscious framework of mind. Universally inherent within his process of rendering, there is a conscious dialogue between, on one hand material intent (or ‘essence’) and on the other, control, (or the relinquishing of control), so as to make work that negotiates thresholds and occupies at times a liminal status. In this sense Mills’ “intuitively composed” sound works, and his images or assemblages become markers to a series of internal journeys or rituals informed by an often poetic dialogue between material, form and environment.
For further information regarding Jamie Mills - CLICK HERE
£2,200.00
Artist : Peter Randall-Page
Title : Pied & Dappled
Medium : ink on paper
Dimensions : 21.5 x 23 cm | 8.5 - 9 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
During the past 25 years Peter Randall-Page has gained an international reputation through his monumental sculpture, drawings and prints which deal with the fundamental nature of existence. His practice remains informed and inspired by the study of natural phenomena and its subjective impact on our emotions. In recent years his work has become increasingly concerned with the underlying principles determining growth and the forms it produces. In his words "geometry is the theme on which nature plays her infinite variations, fundamental mathematical principle become a kind of pattern book from which nature constructs the most complex and sophisticated structures.
Peter Randall-Page is a British artists born in Essex, England in 1954. He currently lives and works in Devon. Randall-Page studied sculpture at Bath Academy of Art from 1973-1977. In 1999, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Plymouth, an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from York St John University in 2009 and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Exeter University in 2010; from 2002 to 2005 he was an Associate Research Fellow at Dartington College of Arts. In 2015 he was made a Royal Academician. Recent commissions include 'Give and Take' in Newcastle which won the 2006 Marsh Award for Public Sculpture, 'Mind's Eye' a large ceramic wall mounted piece for the Department of Psychology at Cardiff University (2006) and a commemorative sculpture for a Mohegan Chief at Southwark Cathedral (2006). Recent projects include 'Green Fuse' for the Jerwood Sculpture Park, Ragley Hall and a major one person exhibition in and around the Underground Gallery at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, June 2009 - April 2010. In 2015 he unveiled ‘The One and The Many’ at Fitzroy place London, An 25 tonne boulder inscribes with origin stories from around the world in native dialect. Over the years he has undertaken numerous large scale commissions and exhibited widely across the globe. His work is held in numerous public and private collections throughout the world including Japan, South Korea, Australia, USA, Turkey, Eire, Germany and the Netherlands. A selection of his public sculptures can be found in many urban and rural locations throughout the UK including London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol, Oxford and Cambridge and his work is in the permanent collections of the Tate Gallery and the British Museum amongst others. As a member of the design team for the Education Resource Centre (The Core) at the Eden Project in Cornwall, Peter influenced the overall design of the building incorporating an enormous granite sculpture, ‘Seed', at its heart.
For further information regarding Peter Randall-Page - CLICK HERE
£1,600.00
Artist : Gabriel Tendai Choto
Title : Child Labourer
Medium : oil and etching on paper
Dimensions : 24 x 31 cm | 9.4 x 12.2 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Gabriel Tendai Choto's artwork combines the twin disciplines of printmaking and painting, primarily in oil on paper. Through his singular technique Choto seeks new pathways into the painted image by taking cues from the surface quality produced by the printmaking process. His evolving, experimental practice involves layering painted areas of naturalism over the delicate compositional architecture of etching, resulting in paintings where physical presence and absence imply a metaphoric liminal state. Sensitive and intimate, these images include close family members, depicting quiet moments of contemplation or affectionate domestic scenes taken from old photographs, progressing in to self portraits where through constructed situations the artist examines his own identity. Choto’s intimate paintings draw on themes of home, pride, identity and diaspora.
Gabriel Tendai Choto was born in 1995 in Harare, Zimbabwe. He was raised in Bradford, and currently lives and works in London, England. After completing his Diploma in Art and Design at Leeds Arts University (formerly Leeds College of Art) in 2012, Choto gained a BAFA in Drawing from Camberwell College of Art (UAL), London, in 2014 and more recently has completed an MFA at Central St Martins, London, UK. Selected group exhibitions include FBA Futures, Mall Galleries, London, UK (2018); Flock, GX Gallery, London, UK (2017); Blxckout Revolution: The Exhibition, 198 Gallery, London, UK (2017); BAME, Hotel Elephant Gallery, London, UK (2016); and Long Live the New Flesh, Tower Gallery, London, UK (2015). In 2018, Choto was selected for the Clyde & Co Art Award.
For further information regarding Gabriel Choto - CLICK HERE
£1,800.00
Artist : Tessa Farmer
Title : Captured Newts
Medium : desiccated newts, insects, mouse bones, plant roots
Dimensions : 20 x 10 cm | 7.9 x 3.9 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Tessa Farmer's highly individualistic sculptural works, made from insect carcasses, plant roots and other found natural materials, are often assembled in hanging installations depicting dystopian battles between insects and armies of tiny winged, skeletal humanoid fairies. Farmer’s swarming tableaus envision the mystical protagonists as an actual species, as Darwinian as any other. Entwining Victorian romanticism with the pragmatism of science. Posed in dramatic battle formations, Farmer’s menagerie wages war against prosaic fauna; each figure, painstakingly hand crafted and adorned with real insect wings, stands less than 1 cm tall. She evidences her specimens as fearsome skeletal fiends and plausible accomplices of a microscopic apocalyptic genocides where we witness nature “red in tooth and claw".
Tessa Farmer is a British contemporary artist born in Birmingham, England in 1978. She currently lives and works in London. Farmer’s unique work has attracted worldwide attention. She received both a BFA and an MFA from The Ruskin, University of Oxford. Subsequently, Farmer has been exhibited and collected widely both nationally and internationally, including at the Saatchi Gallery, London, the David Roberts Collection, London, the Museum of 21st Century Art, Kentucky and The Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania. In 2007 she was Artist in Residence at the Natural History Museum, London. Awards include selection for New Contemporaries in 2004, and a Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary Award in 2005. In 2007 she was nominated for The Times/ The South Bank Show Breakthrough Award and in 2011 was awarded a Kindle Project 'Makers Muse Award.
For further information regarding Tessa Farmer - CLICK HERE
◁
Artist : Kate Clark
Title : She Deserves It
Medium : Pronghorn hide and antlers, clay, foam, thread, pins, rubber eyes
Dimensions : 76 x 30 x 30 cm | 12 x 12 x 30 in
ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS WORK
Kate Clark sculptures invite the viewer to experience an instinctive and primal reaction that encourages further examination of our own humanity. Stitched over a hand-sculpted human face, the material quality of animal hide brings an authenticity to the final sculpture through what the artist describes as a unique energy and presence. Mankind dominates animals while at the same time we also revere and celebrate them. We identify with animals through both our connection with and separation from them. Recognising these contradictions, Clark's fusion of human and animal suggests that our human condition is fully realised only when we acknowledge and reconcile our current state and our natural instincts acknowledging the animalistic inheritance within the human condition. She achieves this through emphasis on the characteristics that differentiate us from the animal kingdom, and, importantly, the ones that unite us. Clark’s sculptures skew of designated classification, encourages the viewer to contemplate the notion of identity, and to celebrate the wider hybridisation and broadening definitions of identity, gender and ethnicity.
Kate Clark lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Cornell University for her BFA and Cranbrook Academy of Art for her MFA and has been awarded fellowships from the Jentel Artists Residency in Wyoming, The Fine Arts Work Center Residency in Provincetown, MA and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Program in New York. She was nominated for a USA Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and an American Academy of Arts and Letters award. Clark was also awarded a grant from The Virginia Groot Foundation in 2013 and a New York Foundation For the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship Award in 2014. She has exhibited in solo museum exhibitions at the Mobile Museum of Art, The Newcomb Art Museum and the Hilliard Museum and in group museum exhibitions at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, The Islip Art Museum, and The Bellevue Arts Museum, MOFA: Florida State University, Cranbrook Art Museum, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, The Winnepeg Art Gallery, the Glenbow Museum, the Musée de la Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, The Art Gallery at Cleveland State University, the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, the Nevada Museum of Art, the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, the Biggs Museum of American Art, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Her work is collected internationally and is in public collections such as the JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, the 21c Collection, the David Roberts Art Foundation in London, and the C-Collection in Switzerland. Clark’s sculptures have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New York Magazine, Art21:Blog, The Village Voice, PAPERmag, The Atlantic, Hyperallergic, NYArts, Huffington Post, Hi Fructose, the BBC World News Brazil, Hey! Magazine, Time Out, ID Paris, Cool Hunting, Wallpaper, Creators Project/VICE, Sculpture Review and many other publications. In addition she was filmed by National Geographic in her studio over a 2 month period for a short documentary about her work.
For further information regarding Kate Clark - CLICK HERE
◁