OPEN CALL UNPUBLISHED PHOTO 2024 - Entries for the 2024 edition of the international UNPUBLISHED PHOTO contest - Young photographers born between 1994 and 2006 have the chance until April 15th to submit their portfolios.
OPEN CALL UNPUBLISHED PHOTO 2024 - Entries for the 2024 edition of the international UNPUBLISHED PHOTO contest - Young photographers born between 1994 and 2006 have the chance until April 15th to submit their portfolios.
OPEN CALL UNPUBLISHED PHOTO 2024 - Entries for the 2024 edition of the international UNPUBLISHED PHOTO contest - Young photographers born between 1994 and 2006 have the chance until April 15th to submit their portfolios.
OPEN CALL UNPUBLISHED PHOTO 2024 - Entries for the 2024 edition of the international UNPUBLISHED PHOTO contest - Young photographers born between 1994 and 2006 have the chance until April 15th to submit their portfolios.
Renowned British fashion photographer, Rankin, has partnered with Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTi) on a brand new campaign that aims to prevent acid attacks. He has created a Look Book – an essential fashion industry guide to latest styles and fabrics – using acid attack survivor Patricia Lefranc as his model.
Renowned British fashion photographer, Rankin, has partnered with Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTi) on a brand new campaign that aims to prevent acid attacks. He has created a Look Book – an essential fashion industry guide to latest styles and fabrics – using acid attack survivor Patricia Lefranc as his model.
Renowned British fashion photographer, Rankin, has partnered with Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTi) on a brand new campaign that aims to prevent acid attacks. He has created a Look Book – an essential fashion industry guide to latest styles and fabrics – using acid attack survivor Patricia Lefranc as his model.
Renowned British fashion photographer, Rankin, has partnered with Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTi) on a brand new campaign that aims to prevent acid attacks. He has created a Look Book – an essential fashion industry guide to latest styles and fabrics – using acid attack survivor Patricia Lefranc as his model.
Renowned British fashion photographer, Rankin, has partnered with Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTi) on a brand new campaign that aims to prevent acid attacks. He has created a Look Book – an essential fashion industry guide to latest styles and fabrics – using acid attack survivor Patricia Lefranc as his model.
Renowned British fashion photographer, Rankin, has partnered with Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTi) on a brand new campaign that aims to prevent acid attacks. He has created a Look Book – an essential fashion industry guide to latest styles and fabrics – using acid attack survivor Patricia Lefranc as his model.
Renowned British fashion photographer, Rankin, has partnered with Acid Survivors Trust International (ASTi) on a brand new campaign that aims to prevent acid attacks. He has created a Look Book – an essential fashion industry guide to latest styles and fabrics – using acid attack survivor Patricia Lefranc as his model.
TUPAC - THE LEGEND - A new Maxi Coffee Table Book Shot by Michel Haddi . The launch of this limited edition (500 worldwide), numbered book features quotes from Tupac himself who in 1993 was lensed by Haddi. Haddi is currently based in London where he also manages a publishing house, MHS publishing, which publishes his own books. Price: £100,00 ISBN: 978-0-9930347-7-0 ..... https://mhspublishing.com/publications/the-legend-tupac
TUPAC - THE LEGEND - A new Maxi Coffee Table Book Shot by Michel Haddi . The launch of this limited edition (500 worldwide), numbered book features quotes from Tupac himself who in 1993 was lensed by Haddi. Haddi is currently based in London where he also manages a publishing house, MHS publishing, which publishes his own books. Price: £100,00 ISBN: 978-0-9930347-7-0 ..... https://mhspublishing.com/publications/the-legend-tupac
TUPAC - THE LEGEND - A new Maxi Coffee Table Book Shot by Michel Haddi . The launch of this limited edition (500 worldwide), numbered book features quotes from Tupac himself who in 1993 was lensed by Haddi. Haddi is currently based in London where he also manages a publishing house, MHS publishing, which publishes his own books. Price: £100,00 ISBN: 978-0-9930347-7-0 ..... https://mhspublishing.com/publications/the-legend-tupac
The exhibition entitled Zeitsprünge (Leaps in Time) - at The Ernst Leitz Museum Wetzlar - will run until September 27- 2023. The exhibition offers a fascinating and unexpected insight into Rankin’s exceptional oeuvre. Some of his best pictures, taken over the past three decades, will be on display. The exhibition includes many iconic portraits and celebrity shots that have made it into the annals of photographic history: colourful beauty images and classic fashion spreads, as well as examples of his profoundly conceptual series. Titled Zeitsprünge (Leaps in time), motifs from the 1990s to the 2000s enter into a dialogue with brand new and never-before-published pictures from 2023. Coinciding with the opening of his new show in Wetzlar, is HUNGER magazine´s new issue, Timeslice. The issue is a standalone collector´s edition, championing the past work and continuing legacy of its editor-in-chief Rankin. Some of the images such as the portraits of Lisa Vicari, Rachel Weisz, Stefflon Don, Will Poulter, Eddie Marsan, Nadine Leopold, Lily Nova, Sibyl Buck will be featured in both the magazine and the show.
The exhibition entitled Zeitsprünge (Leaps in Time) - at The Ernst Leitz Museum Wetzlar - will run until September 27- 2023. The exhibition offers a fascinating and unexpected insight into Rankin’s exceptional oeuvre. Some of his best pictures, taken over the past three decades, will be on display. The exhibition includes many iconic portraits and celebrity shots that have made it into the annals of photographic history: colourful beauty images and classic fashion spreads, as well as examples of his profoundly conceptual series. Titled Zeitsprünge (Leaps in time), motifs from the 1990s to the 2000s enter into a dialogue with brand new and never-before-published pictures from 2023. Coinciding with the opening of his new show in Wetzlar, is HUNGER magazine´s new issue, Timeslice. The issue is a standalone collector´s edition, championing the past work and continuing legacy of its editor-in-chief Rankin. Some of the images such as the portraits of Lisa Vicari, Rachel Weisz, Stefflon Don, Will Poulter, Eddie Marsan, Nadine Leopold, Lily Nova, Sibyl Buck will be featured in both the magazine and the show.
The exhibition entitled Zeitsprünge (Leaps in Time) - at The Ernst Leitz Museum Wetzlar - will run until September 27- 2023. The exhibition offers a fascinating and unexpected insight into Rankin’s exceptional oeuvre. Some of his best pictures, taken over the past three decades, will be on display. The exhibition includes many iconic portraits and celebrity shots that have made it into the annals of photographic history: colourful beauty images and classic fashion spreads, as well as examples of his profoundly conceptual series. Titled Zeitsprünge (Leaps in time), motifs from the 1990s to the 2000s enter into a dialogue with brand new and never-before-published pictures from 2023. Coinciding with the opening of his new show in Wetzlar, is HUNGER magazine´s new issue, Timeslice. The issue is a standalone collector´s edition, championing the past work and continuing legacy of its editor-in-chief Rankin. Some of the images such as the portraits of Lisa Vicari, Rachel Weisz, Stefflon Don, Will Poulter, Eddie Marsan, Nadine Leopold, Lily Nova, Sibyl Buck will be featured in both the magazine and the show.
The exhibition entitled Zeitsprünge (Leaps in Time) - at The Ernst Leitz Museum Wetzlar - will run until September 27- 2023. The exhibition offers a fascinating and unexpected insight into Rankin’s exceptional oeuvre. Some of his best pictures, taken over the past three decades, will be on display. The exhibition includes many iconic portraits and celebrity shots that have made it into the annals of photographic history: colourful beauty images and classic fashion spreads, as well as examples of his profoundly conceptual series. Titled Zeitsprünge (Leaps in time), motifs from the 1990s to the 2000s enter into a dialogue with brand new and never-before-published pictures from 2023. Coinciding with the opening of his new show in Wetzlar, is HUNGER magazine´s new issue, Timeslice. The issue is a standalone collector´s edition, championing the past work and continuing legacy of its editor-in-chief Rankin. Some of the images such as the portraits of Lisa Vicari, Rachel Weisz, Stefflon Don, Will Poulter, Eddie Marsan, Nadine Leopold, Lily Nova, Sibyl Buck will be featured in both the magazine and the show.
The exhibition entitled Zeitsprünge (Leaps in Time) - at The Ernst Leitz Museum Wetzlar - will run until September 27- 2023. The exhibition offers a fascinating and unexpected insight into Rankin’s exceptional oeuvre. Some of his best pictures, taken over the past three decades, will be on display. The exhibition includes many iconic portraits and celebrity shots that have made it into the annals of photographic history: colourful beauty images and classic fashion spreads, as well as examples of his profoundly conceptual series. Titled Zeitsprünge (Leaps in time), motifs from the 1990s to the 2000s enter into a dialogue with brand new and never-before-published pictures from 2023. Coinciding with the opening of his new show in Wetzlar, is HUNGER magazine´s new issue, Timeslice. The issue is a standalone collector´s edition, championing the past work and continuing legacy of its editor-in-chief Rankin. Some of the images such as the portraits of Lisa Vicari, Rachel Weisz, Stefflon Don, Will Poulter, Eddie Marsan, Nadine Leopold, Lily Nova, Sibyl Buck will be featured in both the magazine and the show.
The exhibition entitled Zeitsprünge (Leaps in Time) - at The Ernst Leitz Museum Wetzlar - will run until September 27- 2023. The exhibition offers a fascinating and unexpected insight into Rankin’s exceptional oeuvre. Some of his best pictures, taken over the past three decades, will be on display. The exhibition includes many iconic portraits and celebrity shots that have made it into the annals of photographic history: colourful beauty images and classic fashion spreads, as well as examples of his profoundly conceptual series. Titled Zeitsprünge (Leaps in time), motifs from the 1990s to the 2000s enter into a dialogue with brand new and never-before-published pictures from 2023. Coinciding with the opening of his new show in Wetzlar, is HUNGER magazine´s new issue, Timeslice. The issue is a standalone collector´s edition, championing the past work and continuing legacy of its editor-in-chief Rankin. Some of the images such as the portraits of Lisa Vicari, Rachel Weisz, Stefflon Don, Will Poulter, Eddie Marsan, Nadine Leopold, Lily Nova, Sibyl Buck will be featured in both the magazine and the show.
This week, during His Majesty The King’s forthcoming coronation, on Saturday 6 th May at 12pm GMT, the Internationally successful Italian artist known as Raul aka Marco Lullo, a self-confessed Anglophile, (originally from the city of Pescara, central Italy) together with his London based gallery West Contemporary Editions will release 74 completely unique hand painted original works on paper, one for each year of HM The King’s life, with 15% of the total of all sales benefiting a registered charity close to both the artist and The King himself, The Princes Trust (see release for more info). Raul works between the UK, Europe and travel is not simply afforded to him as a result of his multi-national success as one of the continent’s most impressive emerging artists - but it is in fact a part of the process itself. The artist travels the world studying different cultures in the constant research of symbolic languages, energy and meanings that he then transmits to his public through his art. Raul develops his passion for art regularly, painting on any material he finds in his innumerable travel adventures. From walls to paper, from glass to plastic, from newspaper to lined notebook used in schools, anything is possible for Raul if the surface permits it. Raul has seen the opportunity of the forthcoming coronation of His Majesty King Charles III as an occasion to honor the United Kingdom and his relationship with one of his adopted nations, whilst creating an incredibly unique series of works that will be based around the ‘crown’ motif popularized by and that pay homage to one of the art world’s favourite sons, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and inspired as a hybrid of the artist’s signature nomadic symbols and presented in a quintessentially Keith Haring-esque style (both inspirational heroes of Raul). Fittingly, both artists are considered art royalty themselves defining the important New York art scene of the 1980’, a period and style Raul holds dear, as a child of the decade himself. The ‘Crown’ collection will be released exclusively on Saturday 6th May at 12pm GMT via www.west-contemporary-editions.com The ‘Crown’ artworks will be available in 8 different colour editions, offering 8 different colourways of crown. A completely hand painted/drawn edition of 10 of each colour of blue, purple, pink, green, yellow, black or orange each priced at £500 + VAT, and a gold edition of just 4, each completely unique priced at £999 + VAT with a total of 74 editions all in all
This week, during His Majesty The King’s forthcoming coronation, on Saturday 6 th May at 12pm GMT, the Internationally successful Italian artist known as Raul aka Marco Lullo, a self-confessed Anglophile, (originally from the city of Pescara, central Italy) together with his London based gallery West Contemporary Editions will release 74 completely unique hand painted original works on paper, one for each year of HM The King’s life, with 15% of the total of all sales benefiting a registered charity close to both the artist and The King himself, The Princes Trust (see release for more info). Raul works between the UK, Europe and travel is not simply afforded to him as a result of his multi-national success as one of the continent’s most impressive emerging artists - but it is in fact a part of the process itself. The artist travels the world studying different cultures in the constant research of symbolic languages, energy and meanings that he then transmits to his public through his art. Raul develops his passion for art regularly, painting on any material he finds in his innumerable travel adventures. From walls to paper, from glass to plastic, from newspaper to lined notebook used in schools, anything is possible for Raul if the surface permits it. Raul has seen the opportunity of the forthcoming coronation of His Majesty King Charles III as an occasion to honor the United Kingdom and his relationship with one of his adopted nations, whilst creating an incredibly unique series of works that will be based around the ‘crown’ motif popularized by and that pay homage to one of the art world’s favourite sons, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and inspired as a hybrid of the artist’s signature nomadic symbols and presented in a quintessentially Keith Haring-esque style (both inspirational heroes of Raul). Fittingly, both artists are considered art royalty themselves defining the important New York art scene of the 1980’, a period and style Raul holds dear, as a child of the decade himself. The ‘Crown’ collection will be released exclusively on Saturday 6th May at 12pm GMT via www.west-contemporary-editions.com The ‘Crown’ artworks will be available in 8 different colour editions, offering 8 different colourways of crown. A completely hand painted/drawn edition of 10 of each colour of blue, purple, pink, green, yellow, black or orange each priced at £500 + VAT, and a gold edition of just 4, each completely unique priced at £999 + VAT with a total of 74 editions all in all
This week, during His Majesty The King’s forthcoming coronation, on Saturday 6 th May at 12pm GMT, the Internationally successful Italian artist known as Raul aka Marco Lullo, a self-confessed Anglophile, (originally from the city of Pescara, central Italy) together with his London based gallery West Contemporary Editions will release 74 completely unique hand painted original works on paper, one for each year of HM The King’s life, with 15% of the total of all sales benefiting a registered charity close to both the artist and The King himself, The Princes Trust (see release for more info). Raul works between the UK, Europe and travel is not simply afforded to him as a result of his multi-national success as one of the continent’s most impressive emerging artists - but it is in fact a part of the process itself. The artist travels the world studying different cultures in the constant research of symbolic languages, energy and meanings that he then transmits to his public through his art. Raul develops his passion for art regularly, painting on any material he finds in his innumerable travel adventures. From walls to paper, from glass to plastic, from newspaper to lined notebook used in schools, anything is possible for Raul if the surface permits it. Raul has seen the opportunity of the forthcoming coronation of His Majesty King Charles III as an occasion to honor the United Kingdom and his relationship with one of his adopted nations, whilst creating an incredibly unique series of works that will be based around the ‘crown’ motif popularized by and that pay homage to one of the art world’s favourite sons, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and inspired as a hybrid of the artist’s signature nomadic symbols and presented in a quintessentially Keith Haring-esque style (both inspirational heroes of Raul). Fittingly, both artists are considered art royalty themselves defining the important New York art scene of the 1980’, a period and style Raul holds dear, as a child of the decade himself. The ‘Crown’ collection will be released exclusively on Saturday 6th May at 12pm GMT via www.west-contemporary-editions.com The ‘Crown’ artworks will be available in 8 different colour editions, offering 8 different colourways of crown. A completely hand painted/drawn edition of 10 of each colour of blue, purple, pink, green, yellow, black or orange each priced at £500 + VAT, and a gold edition of just 4, each completely unique priced at £999 + VAT with a total of 74 editions all in all
29 Arts In Progress Gallery Presents the works of Toni Meneguzzo, Michel Haddi, Rankin, Gian Paolo Barbieri and at Photo London 10 – 14 May 2023 | STAND G27 | Courtyard Pavilion, Somerset House Milan based gallery - 29 ARTS IN PROGRESS will once again exhibit at this years Photo London 2023 edition featuring unconventional colour works by Italian master of fashion photography Gian Paolo Barbieri, unposed black and white portraits by French photographer Michel Haddi, large format Polaroids of ethereal women by the eclectic Italian Artist Toni Meneguzzo, and rare Polaroids of iconic ‘90s supermodels by British photographer Rankin.
29 Arts In Progress Gallery Presents the works of Toni Meneguzzo, Michel Haddi, Rankin, Gian Paolo Barbieri and at Photo London 10 – 14 May 2023 | STAND G27 | Courtyard Pavilion, Somerset House Milan based gallery - 29 ARTS IN PROGRESS will once again exhibit at this years Photo London 2023 edition featuring unconventional colour works by Italian master of fashion photography Gian Paolo Barbieri, unposed black and white portraits by French photographer Michel Haddi, large format Polaroids of ethereal women by the eclectic Italian Artist Toni Meneguzzo, and rare Polaroids of iconic ‘90s supermodels by British photographer Rankin.
29 Arts In Progress Gallery Presents the works of Toni Meneguzzo, Michel Haddi, Rankin, Gian Paolo Barbieri and at Photo London 10 – 14 May 2023 | STAND G27 | Courtyard Pavilion, Somerset House Milan based gallery - 29 ARTS IN PROGRESS will once again exhibit at this years Photo London 2023 edition featuring unconventional colour works by Italian master of fashion photography Gian Paolo Barbieri, unposed black and white portraits by French photographer Michel Haddi, large format Polaroids of ethereal women by the eclectic Italian Artist Toni Meneguzzo, and rare Polaroids of iconic ‘90s supermodels by British photographer Rankin.
29 Arts In Progress Gallery Presents the works of Michel Haddi, Rankin, Gian Paolo Barbieri and Toni Meneguzzo at Photo London 10 – 14 May 2023 | STAND G27 | Courtyard Pavilion, Somerset House Milan based gallery - 29 ARTS IN PROGRESS will once again exhibit at this years Photo London 2023 edition featuring unconventional colour works by Italian master of fashion photography Gian Paolo Barbieri, unposed black and white portraits by French photographer Michel Haddi, large format Polaroids of ethereal women by the eclectic Italian Artist Toni Meneguzzo, and rare Polaroids of iconic ‘90s supermodels by British photographer Rankin.
West Contemporary Presents XX Leading artists in sustainability, street art, sculpture, photography and mixed media are the highlights of celebration of British fine art at London-based Spring pop up art exhibition, ‘XX’, in Fitzrovia. LONDON (UK) - A motley crew of twenty of the U.K’s leading names in fine art are to descend on the capital for the first time collectively for a unique group show at the end of March 2023 as a celebration of British artistic excellence and to celebrate the twentieth birthday of one of London’s veteran gallerists. West Contemporary, formed as Beautiful Crime Gallery in 2003, started life at the turn of the 21st century as the new millennium wave of British street art found its way from urban walls to gallery spaces with the emergence of the likes of Banksy in post Brit-pop Britain. Beautiful Crime Gallery became an innovative fixture in this movement as the first online street art original gallery, combining a new home for original works from the burgeoning street scene with a bricks and mortar home in Shoreditch, East London that became a staple of shows, first exhibitions for emerging names and art events of note. Leaving in 2019 to graduate into an international art consultancy (West Contemporary) and an online gallery (West Contemporary Editions), the institution of art is now bringing together two-decades of partnerships under one room for the group show; ‘XX’. Amongst the names featured in the show are Lauren Baker, considered the leading British female neon and mixed media artist, a London-based Northern artist known for her work in environmentalism and empowerment and that has created installations at The V&A, Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Lauren is an Ambassador for One Tree Planted, as well as Save Wild Tigers, and in 2023 will accomplish her goal of curating the planting of 8888 trees. In 2015, Baker created a Steinway piano encrusted with half a million crystals that sold for £420,000. Dan Rawlings, like Baker, pays homage to the natural world via his works highlighting nature’s resilience around humankind’s creations. Probably best known for his manipulation of metal and light conceived with intricate hand-plasma cutting. Projects include Future Returns a plasma-cut oil tanker housed inside a 19th century church, and Short Haul, an elaborately hand cut light aircraft shown at the Urban Nation Museum in Berlin during the 2019 Biennale. Rawlings has exhibited internationally and at the likes of Glastonbury and The Chelsea Flower show and is now considered one of the most exciting names in British art. This is his first show with West Contemporary. Socially-minded London-based artist Robi Walters transforms discarded materials into beautiful works of art as a recycling practice that has attracted collectors in Sir Paul McCartney, Mary J Blige and Usain Bolt. Emerging from a difficult start in life and a time in social care, Robi’s artistic practice echoes his own life. The process of taking discarded objects and making them beautiful and ‘wanted’ has taken him to the forefront of domestic art and an Artist-in-Residence placement with Aston Martin. Fin DAC, notably the only artist to be commissioned by the Frida Kahlo Foundation, is now considered one of the top 5 street artists in the world. The long-time West Contemporary collaborator is known for his mural works around the globe. Since quitting a design/marketing role aged 45 just over a decade ago, the self-taught, non-conformist urban artist has defined and perfected an atypical spray paint style he has dubbed ‘Urban Aesthetics’. His collections are known for selling out within two minutes of release and his murals can be seen in Melbourne, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Paris, London and beyond. In a field where opportunities for female artists have been notoriously difficult to come by, internationally renowned sculptor Beth Cullen-Kerridge has moulded a well-earned space for herself as a leading light of British fine art and sculpture. Having worked with the universally admired Sir Anthony Caro and alongside Sir Normal Foster on the Millenium Bridge, Cullen-Kerridge’s pedigree is impeccable. Following a period establishing her Michelin-starred restaurants alongside TV-chef Husband, Tom – Beth is entering a period of her career where she is rightly earning the plaudits her work deserves. As arguably the world’s most important music photographer and documentarian, Denis O’Regan’s storied career is one of many highlights. As the person on earth to have taken the most photographs of David Bowie, the Artist-in-Residence for the Royal Albert Hall is also widely known for his work alongside The Rolling Stones, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet. O’Regan had the honour of photographing the last ever Queen show featuring Freddie Mercury, alongside being the only official photographer of Live Aid and a Royal-appointment as the man behind the camera for the Concert For Diana. Official placements for The Who, Kiss, Neil Diamond, Pink Floyd, The Bee Gees and Thin Lizzy cemented the London-based artist with a front seat in the tour bus of musical royalty and a heavyweight in British fine art. West Contemporary are proud to use this opportunity and group exhibition to introduce The Cameron Twins. Born in 1999, the collaborative artist duo of identical twins Abigail and Phebe work together in a range of different media including screen print, digital montage, photography, casting, sculpture and installation .Their work has an overall strong and garish style using an over-saturated bright colour palette to create a surreal quality and incorporates many familiar, recognisable, fun images and pop-culture references from childhood, such as Barbie, Trolls and My Little Pony. Considered by the gallery as one (or two) of the most interesting and expressive emerging artists in the U.K, this is a first major show opportunity for the recent graduates to exhibit alongside internationally successful artists. ‘XX’, titled as the roman numerals for ‘20’, will feature original artworks, limited edition pieces, unseen new releases and classic works across a wide range of medium including sculpture and will be open to the public for five days over March and April 2023 at Gallery Different, Fitzrovia, London. Full Artist List: Alexander de Cadenet, Beth Cullen-Kerridge, Bex Leigh, Carne Griffiths, Chloe Natalia, Day-z, Denis O’Regan, Fin DAC, Gabriella Anouk, Jim Threapleton, Lauren Baker, Mark Beattie, Raul, Robi Walters, Russell Marshall, The Cameron Twins, The Connor Brothers, Wildcat Will, Willkay. ‘XX’ is a group show by West Contemporary and will be held at Gallery Different, 14 Percy St, London W1T 1DR between Tuesday 28th March to Saturday 1st April 2023. The show is open to the public.
West Contemporary Presents XX Leading artists in sustainability, street art, sculpture, photography and mixed media are the highlights of celebration of British fine art at London-based Spring pop up art exhibition, ‘XX’, in Fitzrovia. LONDON (UK) - A motley crew of twenty of the U.K’s leading names in fine art are to descend on the capital for the first time collectively for a unique group show at the end of March 2023 as a celebration of British artistic excellence and to celebrate the twentieth birthday of one of London’s veteran gallerists. West Contemporary, formed as Beautiful Crime Gallery in 2003, started life at the turn of the 21st century as the new millennium wave of British street art found its way from urban walls to gallery spaces with the emergence of the likes of Banksy in post Brit-pop Britain. Beautiful Crime Gallery became an innovative fixture in this movement as the first online street art original gallery, combining a new home for original works from the burgeoning street scene with a bricks and mortar home in Shoreditch, East London that became a staple of shows, first exhibitions for emerging names and art events of note. Leaving in 2019 to graduate into an international art consultancy (West Contemporary) and an online gallery (West Contemporary Editions), the institution of art is now bringing together two-decades of partnerships under one room for the group show; ‘XX’. Amongst the names featured in the show are Lauren Baker, considered the leading British female neon and mixed media artist, a London-based Northern artist known for her work in environmentalism and empowerment and that has created installations at The V&A, Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Lauren is an Ambassador for One Tree Planted, as well as Save Wild Tigers, and in 2023 will accomplish her goal of curating the planting of 8888 trees. In 2015, Baker created a Steinway piano encrusted with half a million crystals that sold for £420,000. Dan Rawlings, like Baker, pays homage to the natural world via his works highlighting nature’s resilience around humankind’s creations. Probably best known for his manipulation of metal and light conceived with intricate hand-plasma cutting. Projects include Future Returns a plasma-cut oil tanker housed inside a 19th century church, and Short Haul, an elaborately hand cut light aircraft shown at the Urban Nation Museum in Berlin during the 2019 Biennale. Rawlings has exhibited internationally and at the likes of Glastonbury and The Chelsea Flower show and is now considered one of the most exciting names in British art. This is his first show with West Contemporary. Socially-minded London-based artist Robi Walters transforms discarded materials into beautiful works of art as a recycling practice that has attracted collectors in Sir Paul McCartney, Mary J Blige and Usain Bolt. Emerging from a difficult start in life and a time in social care, Robi’s artistic practice echoes his own life. The process of taking discarded objects and making them beautiful and ‘wanted’ has taken him to the forefront of domestic art and an Artist-in-Residence placement with Aston Martin. Fin DAC, notably the only artist to be commissioned by the Frida Kahlo Foundation, is now considered one of the top 5 street artists in the world. The long-time West Contemporary collaborator is known for his mural works around the globe. Since quitting a design/marketing role aged 45 just over a decade ago, the self-taught, non-conformist urban artist has defined and perfected an atypical spray paint style he has dubbed ‘Urban Aesthetics’. His collections are known for selling out within two minutes of release and his murals can be seen in Melbourne, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Paris, London and beyond. In a field where opportunities for female artists have been notoriously difficult to come by, internationally renowned sculptor Beth Cullen-Kerridge has moulded a well-earned space for herself as a leading light of British fine art and sculpture. Having worked with the universally admired Sir Anthony Caro and alongside Sir Normal Foster on the Millenium Bridge, Cullen-Kerridge’s pedigree is impeccable. Following a period establishing her Michelin-starred restaurants alongside TV-chef Husband, Tom – Beth is entering a period of her career where she is rightly earning the plaudits her work deserves. As arguably the world’s most important music photographer and documentarian, Denis O’Regan’s storied career is one of many highlights. As the person on earth to have taken the most photographs of David Bowie, the Artist-in-Residence for the Royal Albert Hall is also widely known for his work alongside The Rolling Stones, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet. O’Regan had the honour of photographing the last ever Queen show featuring Freddie Mercury, alongside being the only official photographer of Live Aid and a Royal-appointment as the man behind the camera for the Concert For Diana. Official placements for The Who, Kiss, Neil Diamond, Pink Floyd, The Bee Gees and Thin Lizzy cemented the London-based artist with a front seat in the tour bus of musical royalty and a heavyweight in British fine art. West Contemporary are proud to use this opportunity and group exhibition to introduce The Cameron Twins. Born in 1999, the collaborative artist duo of identical twins Abigail and Phebe work together in a range of different media including screen print, digital montage, photography, casting, sculpture and installation .Their work has an overall strong and garish style using an over-saturated bright colour palette to create a surreal quality and incorporates many familiar, recognisable, fun images and pop-culture references from childhood, such as Barbie, Trolls and My Little Pony. Considered by the gallery as one (or two) of the most interesting and expressive emerging artists in the U.K, this is a first major show opportunity for the recent graduates to exhibit alongside internationally successful artists. ‘XX’, titled as the roman numerals for ‘20’, will feature original artworks, limited edition pieces, unseen new releases and classic works across a wide range of medium including sculpture and will be open to the public for five days over March and April 2023 at Gallery Different, Fitzrovia, London. Full Artist List: Alexander de Cadenet, Beth Cullen-Kerridge, Bex Leigh, Carne Griffiths, Chloe Natalia, Day-z, Denis O’Regan, Fin DAC, Gabriella Anouk, Jim Threapleton, Lauren Baker, Mark Beattie, Raul, Robi Walters, Russell Marshall, The Cameron Twins, The Connor Brothers, Wildcat Will, Willkay. ‘XX’ is a group show by West Contemporary and will be held at Gallery Different, 14 Percy St, London W1T 1DR between Tuesday 28th March to Saturday 1st April 2023. The show is open to the public.
West Contemporary Presents XX Leading artists in sustainability, street art, sculpture, photography and mixed media are the highlights of celebration of British fine art at London-based Spring pop up art exhibition, ‘XX’, in Fitzrovia. LONDON (UK) - A motley crew of twenty of the U.K’s leading names in fine art are to descend on the capital for the first time collectively for a unique group show at the end of March 2023 as a celebration of British artistic excellence and to celebrate the twentieth birthday of one of London’s veteran gallerists. West Contemporary, formed as Beautiful Crime Gallery in 2003, started life at the turn of the 21st century as the new millennium wave of British street art found its way from urban walls to gallery spaces with the emergence of the likes of Banksy in post Brit-pop Britain. Beautiful Crime Gallery became an innovative fixture in this movement as the first online street art original gallery, combining a new home for original works from the burgeoning street scene with a bricks and mortar home in Shoreditch, East London that became a staple of shows, first exhibitions for emerging names and art events of note. Leaving in 2019 to graduate into an international art consultancy (West Contemporary) and an online gallery (West Contemporary Editions), the institution of art is now bringing together two-decades of partnerships under one room for the group show; ‘XX’. Amongst the names featured in the show are Lauren Baker, considered the leading British female neon and mixed media artist, a London-based Northern artist known for her work in environmentalism and empowerment and that has created installations at The V&A, Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Lauren is an Ambassador for One Tree Planted, as well as Save Wild Tigers, and in 2023 will accomplish her goal of curating the planting of 8888 trees. In 2015, Baker created a Steinway piano encrusted with half a million crystals that sold for £420,000. Dan Rawlings, like Baker, pays homage to the natural world via his works highlighting nature’s resilience around humankind’s creations. Probably best known for his manipulation of metal and light conceived with intricate hand-plasma cutting. Projects include Future Returns a plasma-cut oil tanker housed inside a 19th century church, and Short Haul, an elaborately hand cut light aircraft shown at the Urban Nation Museum in Berlin during the 2019 Biennale. Rawlings has exhibited internationally and at the likes of Glastonbury and The Chelsea Flower show and is now considered one of the most exciting names in British art. This is his first show with West Contemporary. Socially-minded London-based artist Robi Walters transforms discarded materials into beautiful works of art as a recycling practice that has attracted collectors in Sir Paul McCartney, Mary J Blige and Usain Bolt. Emerging from a difficult start in life and a time in social care, Robi’s artistic practice echoes his own life. The process of taking discarded objects and making them beautiful and ‘wanted’ has taken him to the forefront of domestic art and an Artist-in-Residence placement with Aston Martin. Fin DAC, notably the only artist to be commissioned by the Frida Kahlo Foundation, is now considered one of the top 5 street artists in the world. The long-time West Contemporary collaborator is known for his mural works around the globe. Since quitting a design/marketing role aged 45 just over a decade ago, the self-taught, non-conformist urban artist has defined and perfected an atypical spray paint style he has dubbed ‘Urban Aesthetics’. His collections are known for selling out within two minutes of release and his murals can be seen in Melbourne, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Paris, London and beyond. In a field where opportunities for female artists have been notoriously difficult to come by, internationally renowned sculptor Beth Cullen-Kerridge has moulded a well-earned space for herself as a leading light of British fine art and sculpture. Having worked with the universally admired Sir Anthony Caro and alongside Sir Normal Foster on the Millenium Bridge, Cullen-Kerridge’s pedigree is impeccable. Following a period establishing her Michelin-starred restaurants alongside TV-chef Husband, Tom – Beth is entering a period of her career where she is rightly earning the plaudits her work deserves. As arguably the world’s most important music photographer and documentarian, Denis O’Regan’s storied career is one of many highlights. As the person on earth to have taken the most photographs of David Bowie, the Artist-in-Residence for the Royal Albert Hall is also widely known for his work alongside The Rolling Stones, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet. O’Regan had the honour of photographing the last ever Queen show featuring Freddie Mercury, alongside being the only official photographer of Live Aid and a Royal-appointment as the man behind the camera for the Concert For Diana. Official placements for The Who, Kiss, Neil Diamond, Pink Floyd, The Bee Gees and Thin Lizzy cemented the London-based artist with a front seat in the tour bus of musical royalty and a heavyweight in British fine art. West Contemporary are proud to use this opportunity and group exhibition to introduce The Cameron Twins. Born in 1999, the collaborative artist duo of identical twins Abigail and Phebe work together in a range of different media including screen print, digital montage, photography, casting, sculpture and installation .Their work has an overall strong and garish style using an over-saturated bright colour palette to create a surreal quality and incorporates many familiar, recognisable, fun images and pop-culture references from childhood, such as Barbie, Trolls and My Little Pony. Considered by the gallery as one (or two) of the most interesting and expressive emerging artists in the U.K, this is a first major show opportunity for the recent graduates to exhibit alongside internationally successful artists. ‘XX’, titled as the roman numerals for ‘20’, will feature original artworks, limited edition pieces, unseen new releases and classic works across a wide range of medium including sculpture and will be open to the public for five days over March and April 2023 at Gallery Different, Fitzrovia, London. Full Artist List: Alexander de Cadenet, Beth Cullen-Kerridge, Bex Leigh, Carne Griffiths, Chloe Natalia, Day-z, Denis O’Regan, Fin DAC, Gabriella Anouk, Jim Threapleton, Lauren Baker, Mark Beattie, Raul, Robi Walters, Russell Marshall, The Cameron Twins, The Connor Brothers, Wildcat Will, Willkay. ‘XX’ is a group show by West Contemporary and will be held at Gallery Different, 14 Percy St, London W1T 1DR between Tuesday 28th March to Saturday 1st April 2023. The show is open to the public.
West Contemporary Presents XX Leading artists in sustainability, street art, sculpture, photography and mixed media are the highlights of celebration of British fine art at London-based Spring pop up art exhibition, ‘XX’, in Fitzrovia. LONDON (UK) - A motley crew of twenty of the U.K’s leading names in fine art are to descend on the capital for the first time collectively for a unique group show at the end of March 2023 as a celebration of British artistic excellence and to celebrate the twentieth birthday of one of London’s veteran gallerists. West Contemporary, formed as Beautiful Crime Gallery in 2003, started life at the turn of the 21st century as the new millennium wave of British street art found its way from urban walls to gallery spaces with the emergence of the likes of Banksy in post Brit-pop Britain. Beautiful Crime Gallery became an innovative fixture in this movement as the first online street art original gallery, combining a new home for original works from the burgeoning street scene with a bricks and mortar home in Shoreditch, East London that became a staple of shows, first exhibitions for emerging names and art events of note. Leaving in 2019 to graduate into an international art consultancy (West Contemporary) and an online gallery (West Contemporary Editions), the institution of art is now bringing together two-decades of partnerships under one room for the group show; ‘XX’. Amongst the names featured in the show are Lauren Baker, considered the leading British female neon and mixed media artist, a London-based Northern artist known for her work in environmentalism and empowerment and that has created installations at The V&A, Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Lauren is an Ambassador for One Tree Planted, as well as Save Wild Tigers, and in 2023 will accomplish her goal of curating the planting of 8888 trees. In 2015, Baker created a Steinway piano encrusted with half a million crystals that sold for £420,000. Dan Rawlings, like Baker, pays homage to the natural world via his works highlighting nature’s resilience around humankind’s creations. Probably best known for his manipulation of metal and light conceived with intricate hand-plasma cutting. Projects include Future Returns a plasma-cut oil tanker housed inside a 19th century church, and Short Haul, an elaborately hand cut light aircraft shown at the Urban Nation Museum in Berlin during the 2019 Biennale. Rawlings has exhibited internationally and at the likes of Glastonbury and The Chelsea Flower show and is now considered one of the most exciting names in British art. This is his first show with West Contemporary. Socially-minded London-based artist Robi Walters transforms discarded materials into beautiful works of art as a recycling practice that has attracted collectors in Sir Paul McCartney, Mary J Blige and Usain Bolt. Emerging from a difficult start in life and a time in social care, Robi’s artistic practice echoes his own life. The process of taking discarded objects and making them beautiful and ‘wanted’ has taken him to the forefront of domestic art and an Artist-in-Residence placement with Aston Martin. Fin DAC, notably the only artist to be commissioned by the Frida Kahlo Foundation, is now considered one of the top 5 street artists in the world. The long-time West Contemporary collaborator is known for his mural works around the globe. Since quitting a design/marketing role aged 45 just over a decade ago, the self-taught, non-conformist urban artist has defined and perfected an atypical spray paint style he has dubbed ‘Urban Aesthetics’. His collections are known for selling out within two minutes of release and his murals can be seen in Melbourne, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Paris, London and beyond. In a field where opportunities for female artists have been notoriously difficult to come by, internationally renowned sculptor Beth Cullen-Kerridge has moulded a well-earned space for herself as a leading light of British fine art and sculpture. Having worked with the universally admired Sir Anthony Caro and alongside Sir Normal Foster on the Millenium Bridge, Cullen-Kerridge’s pedigree is impeccable. Following a period establishing her Michelin-starred restaurants alongside TV-chef Husband, Tom – Beth is entering a period of her career where she is rightly earning the plaudits her work deserves. As arguably the world’s most important music photographer and documentarian, Denis O’Regan’s storied career is one of many highlights. As the person on earth to have taken the most photographs of David Bowie, the Artist-in-Residence for the Royal Albert Hall is also widely known for his work alongside The Rolling Stones, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet. O’Regan had the honour of photographing the last ever Queen show featuring Freddie Mercury, alongside being the only official photographer of Live Aid and a Royal-appointment as the man behind the camera for the Concert For Diana. Official placements for The Who, Kiss, Neil Diamond, Pink Floyd, The Bee Gees and Thin Lizzy cemented the London-based artist with a front seat in the tour bus of musical royalty and a heavyweight in British fine art. West Contemporary are proud to use this opportunity and group exhibition to introduce The Cameron Twins. Born in 1999, the collaborative artist duo of identical twins Abigail and Phebe work together in a range of different media including screen print, digital montage, photography, casting, sculpture and installation .Their work has an overall strong and garish style using an over-saturated bright colour palette to create a surreal quality and incorporates many familiar, recognisable, fun images and pop-culture references from childhood, such as Barbie, Trolls and My Little Pony. Considered by the gallery as one (or two) of the most interesting and expressive emerging artists in the U.K, this is a first major show opportunity for the recent graduates to exhibit alongside internationally successful artists. ‘XX’, titled as the roman numerals for ‘20’, will feature original artworks, limited edition pieces, unseen new releases and classic works across a wide range of medium including sculpture and will be open to the public for five days over March and April 2023 at Gallery Different, Fitzrovia, London. Full Artist List: Alexander de Cadenet, Beth Cullen-Kerridge, Bex Leigh, Carne Griffiths, Chloe Natalia, Day-z, Denis O’Regan, Fin DAC, Gabriella Anouk, Jim Threapleton, Lauren Baker, Mark Beattie, Raul, Robi Walters, Russell Marshall, The Cameron Twins, The Connor Brothers, Wildcat Will, Willkay. ‘XX’ is a group show by West Contemporary and will be held at Gallery Different, 14 Percy St, London W1T 1DR between Tuesday 28th March to Saturday 1st April 2023. The show is open to the public.
West Contemporary Presents XX Leading artists in sustainability, street art, sculpture, photography and mixed media are the highlights of celebration of British fine art at London-based Spring pop up art exhibition, ‘XX’, in Fitzrovia. LONDON (UK) - A motley crew of twenty of the U.K’s leading names in fine art are to descend on the capital for the first time collectively for a unique group show at the end of March 2023 as a celebration of British artistic excellence and to celebrate the twentieth birthday of one of London’s veteran gallerists. West Contemporary, formed as Beautiful Crime Gallery in 2003, started life at the turn of the 21st century as the new millennium wave of British street art found its way from urban walls to gallery spaces with the emergence of the likes of Banksy in post Brit-pop Britain. Beautiful Crime Gallery became an innovative fixture in this movement as the first online street art original gallery, combining a new home for original works from the burgeoning street scene with a bricks and mortar home in Shoreditch, East London that became a staple of shows, first exhibitions for emerging names and art events of note. Leaving in 2019 to graduate into an international art consultancy (West Contemporary) and an online gallery (West Contemporary Editions), the institution of art is now bringing together two-decades of partnerships under one room for the group show; ‘XX’. Amongst the names featured in the show are Lauren Baker, considered the leading British female neon and mixed media artist, a London-based Northern artist known for her work in environmentalism and empowerment and that has created installations at The V&A, Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Lauren is an Ambassador for One Tree Planted, as well as Save Wild Tigers, and in 2023 will accomplish her goal of curating the planting of 8888 trees. In 2015, Baker created a Steinway piano encrusted with half a million crystals that sold for £420,000. Dan Rawlings, like Baker, pays homage to the natural world via his works highlighting nature’s resilience around humankind’s creations. Probably best known for his manipulation of metal and light conceived with intricate hand-plasma cutting. Projects include Future Returns a plasma-cut oil tanker housed inside a 19th century church, and Short Haul, an elaborately hand cut light aircraft shown at the Urban Nation Museum in Berlin during the 2019 Biennale. Rawlings has exhibited internationally and at the likes of Glastonbury and The Chelsea Flower show and is now considered one of the most exciting names in British art. This is his first show with West Contemporary. Socially-minded London-based artist Robi Walters transforms discarded materials into beautiful works of art as a recycling practice that has attracted collectors in Sir Paul McCartney, Mary J Blige and Usain Bolt. Emerging from a difficult start in life and a time in social care, Robi’s artistic practice echoes his own life. The process of taking discarded objects and making them beautiful and ‘wanted’ has taken him to the forefront of domestic art and an Artist-in-Residence placement with Aston Martin. Fin DAC, notably the only artist to be commissioned by the Frida Kahlo Foundation, is now considered one of the top 5 street artists in the world. The long-time West Contemporary collaborator is known for his mural works around the globe. Since quitting a design/marketing role aged 45 just over a decade ago, the self-taught, non-conformist urban artist has defined and perfected an atypical spray paint style he has dubbed ‘Urban Aesthetics’. His collections are known for selling out within two minutes of release and his murals can be seen in Melbourne, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Paris, London and beyond. In a field where opportunities for female artists have been notoriously difficult to come by, internationally renowned sculptor Beth Cullen-Kerridge has moulded a well-earned space for herself as a leading light of British fine art and sculpture. Having worked with the universally admired Sir Anthony Caro and alongside Sir Normal Foster on the Millenium Bridge, Cullen-Kerridge’s pedigree is impeccable. Following a period establishing her Michelin-starred restaurants alongside TV-chef Husband, Tom – Beth is entering a period of her career where she is rightly earning the plaudits her work deserves. As arguably the world’s most important music photographer and documentarian, Denis O’Regan’s storied career is one of many highlights. As the person on earth to have taken the most photographs of David Bowie, the Artist-in-Residence for the Royal Albert Hall is also widely known for his work alongside The Rolling Stones, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet. O’Regan had the honour of photographing the last ever Queen show featuring Freddie Mercury, alongside being the only official photographer of Live Aid and a Royal-appointment as the man behind the camera for the Concert For Diana. Official placements for The Who, Kiss, Neil Diamond, Pink Floyd, The Bee Gees and Thin Lizzy cemented the London-based artist with a front seat in the tour bus of musical royalty and a heavyweight in British fine art. West Contemporary are proud to use this opportunity and group exhibition to introduce The Cameron Twins. Born in 1999, the collaborative artist duo of identical twins Abigail and Phebe work together in a range of different media including screen print, digital montage, photography, casting, sculpture and installation .Their work has an overall strong and garish style using an over-saturated bright colour palette to create a surreal quality and incorporates many familiar, recognisable, fun images and pop-culture references from childhood, such as Barbie, Trolls and My Little Pony. Considered by the gallery as one (or two) of the most interesting and expressive emerging artists in the U.K, this is a first major show opportunity for the recent graduates to exhibit alongside internationally successful artists. ‘XX’, titled as the roman numerals for ‘20’, will feature original artworks, limited edition pieces, unseen new releases and classic works across a wide range of medium including sculpture and will be open to the public for five days over March and April 2023 at Gallery Different, Fitzrovia, London. Full Artist List: Alexander de Cadenet, Beth Cullen-Kerridge, Bex Leigh, Carne Griffiths, Chloe Natalia, Day-z, Denis O’Regan, Fin DAC, Gabriella Anouk, Jim Threapleton, Lauren Baker, Mark Beattie, Raul, Robi Walters, Russell Marshall, The Cameron Twins, The Connor Brothers, Wildcat Will, Willkay. ‘XX’ is a group show by West Contemporary and will be held at Gallery Different, 14 Percy St, London W1T 1DR between Tuesday 28th March to Saturday 1st April 2023. The show is open to the public.
West Contemporary Presents XX Leading artists in sustainability, street art, sculpture, photography and mixed media are the highlights of celebration of British fine art at London-based Spring pop up art exhibition, ‘XX’, in Fitzrovia. LONDON (UK) - A motley crew of twenty of the U.K’s leading names in fine art are to descend on the capital for the first time collectively for a unique group show at the end of March 2023 as a celebration of British artistic excellence and to celebrate the twentieth birthday of one of London’s veteran gallerists. West Contemporary, formed as Beautiful Crime Gallery in 2003, started life at the turn of the 21st century as the new millennium wave of British street art found its way from urban walls to gallery spaces with the emergence of the likes of Banksy in post Brit-pop Britain. Beautiful Crime Gallery became an innovative fixture in this movement as the first online street art original gallery, combining a new home for original works from the burgeoning street scene with a bricks and mortar home in Shoreditch, East London that became a staple of shows, first exhibitions for emerging names and art events of note. Leaving in 2019 to graduate into an international art consultancy (West Contemporary) and an online gallery (West Contemporary Editions), the institution of art is now bringing together two-decades of partnerships under one room for the group show; ‘XX’. Amongst the names featured in the show are Lauren Baker, considered the leading British female neon and mixed media artist, a London-based Northern artist known for her work in environmentalism and empowerment and that has created installations at The V&A, Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Lauren is an Ambassador for One Tree Planted, as well as Save Wild Tigers, and in 2023 will accomplish her goal of curating the planting of 8888 trees. In 2015, Baker created a Steinway piano encrusted with half a million crystals that sold for £420,000. Dan Rawlings, like Baker, pays homage to the natural world via his works highlighting nature’s resilience around humankind’s creations. Probably best known for his manipulation of metal and light conceived with intricate hand-plasma cutting. Projects include Future Returns a plasma-cut oil tanker housed inside a 19th century church, and Short Haul, an elaborately hand cut light aircraft shown at the Urban Nation Museum in Berlin during the 2019 Biennale. Rawlings has exhibited internationally and at the likes of Glastonbury and The Chelsea Flower show and is now considered one of the most exciting names in British art. This is his first show with West Contemporary. Socially-minded London-based artist Robi Walters transforms discarded materials into beautiful works of art as a recycling practice that has attracted collectors in Sir Paul McCartney, Mary J Blige and Usain Bolt. Emerging from a difficult start in life and a time in social care, Robi’s artistic practice echoes his own life. The process of taking discarded objects and making them beautiful and ‘wanted’ has taken him to the forefront of domestic art and an Artist-in-Residence placement with Aston Martin. Fin DAC, notably the only artist to be commissioned by the Frida Kahlo Foundation, is now considered one of the top 5 street artists in the world. The long-time West Contemporary collaborator is known for his mural works around the globe. Since quitting a design/marketing role aged 45 just over a decade ago, the self-taught, non-conformist urban artist has defined and perfected an atypical spray paint style he has dubbed ‘Urban Aesthetics’. His collections are known for selling out within two minutes of release and his murals can be seen in Melbourne, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Paris, London and beyond. In a field where opportunities for female artists have been notoriously difficult to come by, internationally renowned sculptor Beth Cullen-Kerridge has moulded a well-earned space for herself as a leading light of British fine art and sculpture. Having worked with the universally admired Sir Anthony Caro and alongside Sir Normal Foster on the Millenium Bridge, Cullen-Kerridge’s pedigree is impeccable. Following a period establishing her Michelin-starred restaurants alongside TV-chef Husband, Tom – Beth is entering a period of her career where she is rightly earning the plaudits her work deserves. As arguably the world’s most important music photographer and documentarian, Denis O’Regan’s storied career is one of many highlights. As the person on earth to have taken the most photographs of David Bowie, the Artist-in-Residence for the Royal Albert Hall is also widely known for his work alongside The Rolling Stones, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet. O’Regan had the honour of photographing the last ever Queen show featuring Freddie Mercury, alongside being the only official photographer of Live Aid and a Royal-appointment as the man behind the camera for the Concert For Diana. Official placements for The Who, Kiss, Neil Diamond, Pink Floyd, The Bee Gees and Thin Lizzy cemented the London-based artist with a front seat in the tour bus of musical royalty and a heavyweight in British fine art. West Contemporary are proud to use this opportunity and group exhibition to introduce The Cameron Twins. Born in 1999, the collaborative artist duo of identical twins Abigail and Phebe work together in a range of different media including screen print, digital montage, photography, casting, sculpture and installation .Their work has an overall strong and garish style using an over-saturated bright colour palette to create a surreal quality and incorporates many familiar, recognisable, fun images and pop-culture references from childhood, such as Barbie, Trolls and My Little Pony. Considered by the gallery as one (or two) of the most interesting and expressive emerging artists in the U.K, this is a first major show opportunity for the recent graduates to exhibit alongside internationally successful artists. ‘XX’, titled as the roman numerals for ‘20’, will feature original artworks, limited edition pieces, unseen new releases and classic works across a wide range of medium including sculpture and will be open to the public for five days over March and April 2023 at Gallery Different, Fitzrovia, London. Full Artist List: Alexander de Cadenet, Beth Cullen-Kerridge, Bex Leigh, Carne Griffiths, Chloe Natalia, Day-z, Denis O’Regan, Fin DAC, Gabriella Anouk, Jim Threapleton, Lauren Baker, Mark Beattie, Raul, Robi Walters, Russell Marshall, The Cameron Twins, The Connor Brothers, Wildcat Will, Willkay. ‘XX’ is a group show by West Contemporary and will be held at Gallery Different, 14 Percy St, London W1T 1DR between Tuesday 28th March to Saturday 1st April 2023. The show is open to the public.
West Contemporary Presents XX Leading artists in sustainability, street art, sculpture, photography and mixed media are the highlights of celebration of British fine art at London-based Spring pop up art exhibition, ‘XX’, in Fitzrovia. LONDON (UK) - A motley crew of twenty of the U.K’s leading names in fine art are to descend on the capital for the first time collectively for a unique group show at the end of March 2023 as a celebration of British artistic excellence and to celebrate the twentieth birthday of one of London’s veteran gallerists. West Contemporary, formed as Beautiful Crime Gallery in 2003, started life at the turn of the 21st century as the new millennium wave of British street art found its way from urban walls to gallery spaces with the emergence of the likes of Banksy in post Brit-pop Britain. Beautiful Crime Gallery became an innovative fixture in this movement as the first online street art original gallery, combining a new home for original works from the burgeoning street scene with a bricks and mortar home in Shoreditch, East London that became a staple of shows, first exhibitions for emerging names and art events of note. Leaving in 2019 to graduate into an international art consultancy (West Contemporary) and an online gallery (West Contemporary Editions), the institution of art is now bringing together two-decades of partnerships under one room for the group show; ‘XX’. Amongst the names featured in the show are Lauren Baker, considered the leading British female neon and mixed media artist, a London-based Northern artist known for her work in environmentalism and empowerment and that has created installations at The V&A, Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Lauren is an Ambassador for One Tree Planted, as well as Save Wild Tigers, and in 2023 will accomplish her goal of curating the planting of 8888 trees. In 2015, Baker created a Steinway piano encrusted with half a million crystals that sold for £420,000. Dan Rawlings, like Baker, pays homage to the natural world via his works highlighting nature’s resilience around humankind’s creations. Probably best known for his manipulation of metal and light conceived with intricate hand-plasma cutting. Projects include Future Returns a plasma-cut oil tanker housed inside a 19th century church, and Short Haul, an elaborately hand cut light aircraft shown at the Urban Nation Museum in Berlin during the 2019 Biennale. Rawlings has exhibited internationally and at the likes of Glastonbury and The Chelsea Flower show and is now considered one of the most exciting names in British art. This is his first show with West Contemporary. Socially-minded London-based artist Robi Walters transforms discarded materials into beautiful works of art as a recycling practice that has attracted collectors in Sir Paul McCartney, Mary J Blige and Usain Bolt. Emerging from a difficult start in life and a time in social care, Robi’s artistic practice echoes his own life. The process of taking discarded objects and making them beautiful and ‘wanted’ has taken him to the forefront of domestic art and an Artist-in-Residence placement with Aston Martin. Fin DAC, notably the only artist to be commissioned by the Frida Kahlo Foundation, is now considered one of the top 5 street artists in the world. The long-time West Contemporary collaborator is known for his mural works around the globe. Since quitting a design/marketing role aged 45 just over a decade ago, the self-taught, non-conformist urban artist has defined and perfected an atypical spray paint style he has dubbed ‘Urban Aesthetics’. His collections are known for selling out within two minutes of release and his murals can be seen in Melbourne, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Paris, London and beyond. In a field where opportunities for female artists have been notoriously difficult to come by, internationally renowned sculptor Beth Cullen-Kerridge has moulded a well-earned space for herself as a leading light of British fine art and sculpture. Having worked with the universally admired Sir Anthony Caro and alongside Sir Normal Foster on the Millenium Bridge, Cullen-Kerridge’s pedigree is impeccable. Following a period establishing her Michelin-starred restaurants alongside TV-chef Husband, Tom – Beth is entering a period of her career where she is rightly earning the plaudits her work deserves. As arguably the world’s most important music photographer and documentarian, Denis O’Regan’s storied career is one of many highlights. As the person on earth to have taken the most photographs of David Bowie, the Artist-in-Residence for the Royal Albert Hall is also widely known for his work alongside The Rolling Stones, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet. O’Regan had the honour of photographing the last ever Queen show featuring Freddie Mercury, alongside being the only official photographer of Live Aid and a Royal-appointment as the man behind the camera for the Concert For Diana. Official placements for The Who, Kiss, Neil Diamond, Pink Floyd, The Bee Gees and Thin Lizzy cemented the London-based artist with a front seat in the tour bus of musical royalty and a heavyweight in British fine art. West Contemporary are proud to use this opportunity and group exhibition to introduce The Cameron Twins. Born in 1999, the collaborative artist duo of identical twins Abigail and Phebe work together in a range of different media including screen print, digital montage, photography, casting, sculpture and installation .Their work has an overall strong and garish style using an over-saturated bright colour palette to create a surreal quality and incorporates many familiar, recognisable, fun images and pop-culture references from childhood, such as Barbie, Trolls and My Little Pony. Considered by the gallery as one (or two) of the most interesting and expressive emerging artists in the U.K, this is a first major show opportunity for the recent graduates to exhibit alongside internationally successful artists. ‘XX’, titled as the roman numerals for ‘20’, will feature original artworks, limited edition pieces, unseen new releases and classic works across a wide range of medium including sculpture and will be open to the public for five days over March and April 2023 at Gallery Different, Fitzrovia, London. Full Artist List: Alexander de Cadenet, Beth Cullen-Kerridge, Bex Leigh, Carne Griffiths, Chloe Natalia, Day-z, Denis O’Regan, Fin DAC, Gabriella Anouk, Jim Threapleton, Lauren Baker, Mark Beattie, Raul, Robi Walters, Russell Marshall, The Cameron Twins, The Connor Brothers, Wildcat Will, Willkay. ‘XX’ is a group show by West Contemporary and will be held at Gallery Different, 14 Percy St, London W1T 1DR between Tuesday 28th March to Saturday 1st April 2023. The show is open to the public.
West Contemporary Presents XX Leading artists in sustainability, street art, sculpture, photography and mixed media are the highlights of celebration of British fine art at London-based Spring pop up art exhibition, ‘XX’, in Fitzrovia. LONDON (UK) - A motley crew of twenty of the U.K’s leading names in fine art are to descend on the capital for the first time collectively for a unique group show at the end of March 2023 as a celebration of British artistic excellence and to celebrate the twentieth birthday of one of London’s veteran gallerists. West Contemporary, formed as Beautiful Crime Gallery in 2003, started life at the turn of the 21st century as the new millennium wave of British street art found its way from urban walls to gallery spaces with the emergence of the likes of Banksy in post Brit-pop Britain. Beautiful Crime Gallery became an innovative fixture in this movement as the first online street art original gallery, combining a new home for original works from the burgeoning street scene with a bricks and mortar home in Shoreditch, East London that became a staple of shows, first exhibitions for emerging names and art events of note. Leaving in 2019 to graduate into an international art consultancy (West Contemporary) and an online gallery (West Contemporary Editions), the institution of art is now bringing together two-decades of partnerships under one room for the group show; ‘XX’. Amongst the names featured in the show are Lauren Baker, considered the leading British female neon and mixed media artist, a London-based Northern artist known for her work in environmentalism and empowerment and that has created installations at The V&A, Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Lauren is an Ambassador for One Tree Planted, as well as Save Wild Tigers, and in 2023 will accomplish her goal of curating the planting of 8888 trees. In 2015, Baker created a Steinway piano encrusted with half a million crystals that sold for £420,000. Dan Rawlings, like Baker, pays homage to the natural world via his works highlighting nature’s resilience around humankind’s creations. Probably best known for his manipulation of metal and light conceived with intricate hand-plasma cutting. Projects include Future Returns a plasma-cut oil tanker housed inside a 19th century church, and Short Haul, an elaborately hand cut light aircraft shown at the Urban Nation Museum in Berlin during the 2019 Biennale. Rawlings has exhibited internationally and at the likes of Glastonbury and The Chelsea Flower show and is now considered one of the most exciting names in British art. This is his first show with West Contemporary. Socially-minded London-based artist Robi Walters transforms discarded materials into beautiful works of art as a recycling practice that has attracted collectors in Sir Paul McCartney, Mary J Blige and Usain Bolt. Emerging from a difficult start in life and a time in social care, Robi’s artistic practice echoes his own life. The process of taking discarded objects and making them beautiful and ‘wanted’ has taken him to the forefront of domestic art and an Artist-in-Residence placement with Aston Martin. Fin DAC, notably the only artist to be commissioned by the Frida Kahlo Foundation, is now considered one of the top 5 street artists in the world. The long-time West Contemporary collaborator is known for his mural works around the globe. Since quitting a design/marketing role aged 45 just over a decade ago, the self-taught, non-conformist urban artist has defined and perfected an atypical spray paint style he has dubbed ‘Urban Aesthetics’. His collections are known for selling out within two minutes of release and his murals can be seen in Melbourne, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Paris, London and beyond. In a field where opportunities for female artists have been notoriously difficult to come by, internationally renowned sculptor Beth Cullen-Kerridge has moulded a well-earned space for herself as a leading light of British fine art and sculpture. Having worked with the universally admired Sir Anthony Caro and alongside Sir Normal Foster on the Millenium Bridge, Cullen-Kerridge’s pedigree is impeccable. Following a period establishing her Michelin-starred restaurants alongside TV-chef Husband, Tom – Beth is entering a period of her career where she is rightly earning the plaudits her work deserves. As arguably the world’s most important music photographer and documentarian, Denis O’Regan’s storied career is one of many highlights. As the person on earth to have taken the most photographs of David Bowie, the Artist-in-Residence for the Royal Albert Hall is also widely known for his work alongside The Rolling Stones, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet. O’Regan had the honour of photographing the last ever Queen show featuring Freddie Mercury, alongside being the only official photographer of Live Aid and a Royal-appointment as the man behind the camera for the Concert For Diana. Official placements for The Who, Kiss, Neil Diamond, Pink Floyd, The Bee Gees and Thin Lizzy cemented the London-based artist with a front seat in the tour bus of musical royalty and a heavyweight in British fine art. West Contemporary are proud to use this opportunity and group exhibition to introduce The Cameron Twins. Born in 1999, the collaborative artist duo of identical twins Abigail and Phebe work together in a range of different media including screen print, digital montage, photography, casting, sculpture and installation .Their work has an overall strong and garish style using an over-saturated bright colour palette to create a surreal quality and incorporates many familiar, recognisable, fun images and pop-culture references from childhood, such as Barbie, Trolls and My Little Pony. Considered by the gallery as one (or two) of the most interesting and expressive emerging artists in the U.K, this is a first major show opportunity for the recent graduates to exhibit alongside internationally successful artists. ‘XX’, titled as the roman numerals for ‘20’, will feature original artworks, limited edition pieces, unseen new releases and classic works across a wide range of medium including sculpture and will be open to the public for five days over March and April 2023 at Gallery Different, Fitzrovia, London. Full Artist List: Alexander de Cadenet, Beth Cullen-Kerridge, Bex Leigh, Carne Griffiths, Chloe Natalia, Day-z, Denis O’Regan, Fin DAC, Gabriella Anouk, Jim Threapleton, Lauren Baker, Mark Beattie, Raul, Robi Walters, Russell Marshall, The Cameron Twins, The Connor Brothers, Wildcat Will, Willkay. ‘XX’ is a group show by West Contemporary and will be held at Gallery Different, 14 Percy St, London W1T 1DR between Tuesday 28th March to Saturday 1st April 2023. The show is open to the public.
The 29th March sees the new issue of Style Magazine go onto global newsstands with a British special issue - and British art duo Gilbert and George gracing the front cover shot by celebrity photographer- Charlie Gray. The issue amongst other Brit orientated content features a 13 page shoot on both Brit Talent - entitled Make Britain Beautiful Again - The Future of the Kingdom featuring actors, Harry Melling, Ben Aldridge, Jessica Henwick, Sam Clemmett and Alastair Webber - Producer- musician and animator studio producer of Good Morning Kevin - Son of Andrew Lloyd, The Royal Ballet's newcomer award winner Noam Duran, Eco Artist Dan Rawlings (part of a new show opening in London - West Contemporary- XX), Presenter, producer Ryan Lanji, Poet and Musician -James Maessiah, Model- Social Mover Creative -Sheerah Ravindren, Poet Charly Cox, John Booth - Artist and co-founder of Super Group For the full story pick up a copy of Style Magazine on global newsstands from tomorrow and style.corriere.it
West Contemporary Presents XX Leading artists in sustainability, street art, sculpture, photography and mixed media are the highlights of celebration of British fine art at London-based Spring pop up art exhibition, ‘XX’, in Fitzrovia. LONDON (UK) - A motley crew of twenty of the U.K’s leading names in fine art are to descend on the capital for the first time collectively for a unique group show at the end of March 2023 as a celebration of British artistic excellence and to celebrate the twentieth birthday of one of London’s veteran gallerists. West Contemporary, formed as Beautiful Crime Gallery in 2003, started life at the turn of the 21st century as the new millennium wave of British street art found its way from urban walls to gallery spaces with the emergence of the likes of Banksy in post Brit-pop Britain. Beautiful Crime Gallery became an innovative fixture in this movement as the first online street art original gallery, combining a new home for original works from the burgeoning street scene with a bricks and mortar home in Shoreditch, East London that became a staple of shows, first exhibitions for emerging names and art events of note. Leaving in 2019 to graduate into an international art consultancy (West Contemporary) and an online gallery (West Contemporary Editions), the institution of art is now bringing together two-decades of partnerships under one room for the group show; ‘XX’. Amongst the names featured in the show are Lauren Baker, considered the leading British female neon and mixed media artist, a London-based Northern artist known for her work in environmentalism and empowerment and that has created installations at The V&A, Tate Britain and Tate Modern. Lauren is an Ambassador for One Tree Planted, as well as Save Wild Tigers, and in 2023 will accomplish her goal of curating the planting of 8888 trees. In 2015, Baker created a Steinway piano encrusted with half a million crystals that sold for £420,000. Dan Rawlings, like Baker, pays homage to the natural world via his works highlighting nature’s resilience around humankind’s creations. Probably best known for his manipulation of metal and light conceived with intricate hand-plasma cutting. Projects include Future Returns a plasma-cut oil tanker housed inside a 19th century church, and Short Haul, an elaborately hand cut light aircraft shown at the Urban Nation Museum in Berlin during the 2019 Biennale. Rawlings has exhibited internationally and at the likes of Glastonbury and The Chelsea Flower show and is now considered one of the most exciting names in British art. This is his first show with West Contemporary. Socially-minded London-based artist Robi Walters transforms discarded materials into beautiful works of art as a recycling practice that has attracted collectors in Sir Paul McCartney, Mary J Blige and Usain Bolt. Emerging from a difficult start in life and a time in social care, Robi’s artistic practice echoes his own life. The process of taking discarded objects and making them beautiful and ‘wanted’ has taken him to the forefront of domestic art and an Artist-in-Residence placement with Aston Martin. Fin DAC, notably the only artist to be commissioned by the Frida Kahlo Foundation, is now considered one of the top 5 street artists in the world. The long-time West Contemporary collaborator is known for his mural works around the globe. Since quitting a design/marketing role aged 45 just over a decade ago, the self-taught, non-conformist urban artist has defined and perfected an atypical spray paint style he has dubbed ‘Urban Aesthetics’. His collections are known for selling out within two minutes of release and his murals can be seen in Melbourne, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Paris, London and beyond. In a field where opportunities for female artists have been notoriously difficult to come by, internationally renowned sculptor Beth Cullen-Kerridge has moulded a well-earned space for herself as a leading light of British fine art and sculpture. Having worked with the universally admired Sir Anthony Caro and alongside Sir Normal Foster on the Millenium Bridge, Cullen-Kerridge’s pedigree is impeccable. Following a period establishing her Michelin-starred restaurants alongside TV-chef Husband, Tom – Beth is entering a period of her career where she is rightly earning the plaudits her work deserves. As arguably the world’s most important music photographer and documentarian, Denis O’Regan’s storied career is one of many highlights. As the person on earth to have taken the most photographs of David Bowie, the Artist-in-Residence for the Royal Albert Hall is also widely known for his work alongside The Rolling Stones, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet. O’Regan had the honour of photographing the last ever Queen show featuring Freddie Mercury, alongside being the only official photographer of Live Aid and a Royal-appointment as the man behind the camera for the Concert For Diana. Official placements for The Who, Kiss, Neil Diamond, Pink Floyd, The Bee Gees and Thin Lizzy cemented the London-based artist with a front seat in the tour bus of musical royalty and a heavyweight in British fine art. West Contemporary are proud to use this opportunity and group exhibition to introduce The Cameron Twins. Born in 1999, the collaborative artist duo of identical twins Abigail and Phebe work together in a range of different media including screen print, digital montage, photography, casting, sculpture and installation .Their work has an overall strong and garish style using an over-saturated bright colour palette to create a surreal quality and incorporates many familiar, recognisable, fun images and pop-culture references from childhood, such as Barbie, Trolls and My Little Pony. Considered by the gallery as one (or two) of the most interesting and expressive emerging artists in the U.K, this is a first major show opportunity for the recent graduates to exhibit alongside internationally successful artists. ‘XX’, titled as the roman numerals for ‘20’, will feature original artworks, limited edition pieces, unseen new releases and classic works across a wide range of medium including sculpture and will be open to the public for five days over March and April 2023 at Gallery Different, Fitzrovia, London. Full Artist List: Alexander de Cadenet, Beth Cullen-Kerridge, Bex Leigh, Carne Griffiths, Chloe Natalia, Day-z, Denis O’Regan, Fin DAC, Gabriella Anouk, Jim Threapleton, Lauren Baker, Mark Beattie, Raul, Robi Walters, Russell Marshall, The Cameron Twins, The Connor Brothers, Wildcat Will, Willkay. ‘XX’ is a group show by West Contemporary and will be held at Gallery Different, 14 Percy St, London W1T 1DR between Tuesday 28th March to Saturday 1st April 2023. The show is open to the public.
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