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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”...
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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.
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Mabon’ is the first in an ongoing series of international mixed online exhibitions following this rhythm of the seasons, known as ‘the wheel of the year’. This ‘calendar’ provides a cue for the duration of each show, and inevitably flavours the selection of works presented…
Anima Mundi Charity Print Donations to Funding Neuro in Memory of Little Daisy Brooks and Ethan Cass
The donation has been made in the loving and lasting memory of Daisy Brooks from Bures, Essex and Ethan Cass from Pendeen in Cornwall who tragically lost their lives to DIPG…
Anima Mundi’s major online international mixed exhibition featuring the work of 40 international artists, is now available to view on our website alongside the online catalogue, images, texts and video…
Anima Mundi are delighted to launch ‘Beyond Ourselves’ a major mixed online exhibition featuring 39 international artists.
Sax Impey was profiled in ‘ContemporaryIdentities’, an independent quarterly international online magazine covering contemporary art from around the world.
'Ode to a Nightingale' is now open online. It was curated in response to the extraordinary crisis moment of lockdown that we find ourselves in and is our most international exhibition to date.
Anima Mundi are delighted to announce Sax Impey’s participation in The Ancient Mariner Big Read, where Colridge’s classic will be transformed in to a powerful online fable for the 21st Century. This milestone event will feature 40 days of broadcasts by renowned voices and selected works by international artists culminating in one final symphonic piece.
Sax Impey’s ‘Light Between Squall’s’ has been acquired by the historic five star Sherborne Hotel in Dublin. Acclaimed interior designer Guy Oliver selected the work, following previous placements of Impey works at the Connaught Hotel Mayfair
Sax Impey was included in the controversial exhibition 'Cash is King’ at the Saatchi Gallery including book launch. The exhibition featured works of art executed on global currency.
Sax Impey has returned from an epic sea voyage which took him from Panama to Chile via the Galapagos and Easter Island. The voyage covered 5000+ nautical miles and took over 2 months
Not surprisingly, Sax Impey’s major current solo exhibition ‘The Boatman Calls’ has been greeted with an incredible response from our visitors to the opening on Friday, 8th September.
Samuel Bassett, Richard Nott, Sax Impey and Arthur Lanyon all feature in 'The Collective' at The House of St Barnabas, Soho Square, London. The exhibition opened on 7th July 2017
Anima-Mundi curate ‘From Silence’ at Herrick Gallery, Mayfair
Sax Impey’s painting and video works are included in ‘In Search of the Miraculous’ alongside Francis Alÿs, Chris Burden, Mat Collishaw, Simon Faithfull, Andrew Friend, Gunnar Jónsson, Antti Laitinen, Jessica Ramm, Carolina Redondo, James Thurgood and Guido van der Werve…
Sax Impey’s video work ‘Veil’ is included in the exhibition ‘Interspace’ at Erarta Museum, St Petersburg, Russia…
Sax Impey and Andrew Hardwick are included in the major RWA exhibition ‘The Power of the Sea: Making Waves in British Art 1790-2014’ alongside JMW Turner, John Constable, Peter Lanyon, Joan Eardley, John Piper, Paul Nash, Henry Moor and Walter Langley…
Sax Impey’s storm is being shown publicly at Southwark Park Galleries from 29 April - 21 May 2012