WILD UNCOVERED London
Simon Max Bannister David Filer Emily Lamb
To purchase an item from this catalogue please call Georgina Lamb on 07790175455 or call DSWF on 01483 272323 “Today, one species becomes extinct every hour. Wildlife around the world is being decimated by an awesome onslaught of threats ranging from habitat destruction and pollution to hunting and poaching. Wildlife crime is estimated to be worth a staggering US$10 billion annually, second only to the illegal trade in drugs. Man has slaughtered 98% of the world’s black rhinos... we have wiped out more than half of Africa’s elephants and three sub species of tiger have disappeared forever. We must act now, we need your support today, tomorrow will be too late.” David Shepherd CBE FRSA The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF) is a small wildlife charity with a big impact. The Foundation supports a range of innovative and far reaching projects to protect endangered wildlife such as tigers, elephants and rhinos throughout Africa and Asia.
DSWF urgently needs your help to: • • • • •
send undercover agents in to the field to investigate illegal wildlife crime train and supply anti-poaching patrols pay for vital community outreach and education programmes put countless other critically important projects in to action support our campaigns such as www.tigertime.info
DSWF raises fund in a variety of ways but art is unique to the Foundation as is its Founder, David Shepherd. DSWF’s Art for Survival programme is supported by three generations of the Shepherd family and a host of artists from around the world. The annual Wildlife Artist of the Year competition is now an important event in the wildlife art calendar and the Global Canvas Art Competition for children attracts entries from as far afield as Russia and Zimbabwe. David Shepherd’s grand-daughter Emily and her friends Simon and David are important ambassadors for a new generation of wildlife lovers and artists. A percentage of sales from ‘Wildlife Uncovered’ will go to support DSWF wildlife conservation field projects.
David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation Saba House, 7 Kings Road, Shalford, Guildford, Surrey, GU4 8JU Email: dswf@davidshepherd.org Tel: 01483 272323 www.davidshepherd.org & www.tigertime.info DSWF is a charity [Registered number 1106893] and a Company limited by guarantee [4918382]
Simon Max Bannister David Filer Emily Lamb
WILD UNCOVERED London
12 - 15 November 2014 (11-7pm) Preview 11 November RSVP only (6-9pm) The Old Truman Gallery F Block G4 15 Hanbury Street Brick Lane London E1 6QL
A percentage of sales will help to save wildlife through the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation All works subject to minor variants Please contact Georgina Lamb for sales and information T: 07790 175455 E: gl@emilylamb.co.uk
Splintered “We are only talking to ourselves. We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and the stars. We have broken the great conversation. By breaking that conversation we have shattered the universe. - Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth� I find my material of commercial timber to be a paradoxical choice. So efficient are the rip saws of industrialisation; they have sliced through our heritage, felled our custodianship and our soul connection to the landscape. A fragile balance is broken. After spending much time in the Sabi Sand Reserve I have seen how monoculutres fracture the great forests and endanger the lifeblood: the water, the soil, the plants and the animals. The offcuts, sawdust and fragments that remain become the suggestion of the call that has no voice. Can we reimagine the wild in our midst and realign its broken fragments?
Simon Max Bannister is a South African visual artist focussed on sculpture. He is currently based at Londolozi Game Reserve as artist in residence.While keeping a diversity in materials, his language is unique, passionate and self-taught. He has realised multiple private commissions, works for wine estates, game reserves and educational facilities. His passion for the environment has also inspired an immersive collaborative workshop of land art walks. He has participated in events such as Infecting the City, Site_Specific, AfrikaBurn, The South African National Arts Festival and was recently awarded the 2013 Wildlife Artist of the Year title by the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation.
Last Glance Free standing sculpture Material: Timber and Steel Dimensions: 1300mm x 3000mm x 100mm
Mistaken Outlaw Wall mounted sculpture Material: Timber and Steel Dimensions: 1300mm x 800mm
Fly Away with Me Free standing sculpture Material: Timber and Steel Dimensions: 800mm x 800mm x 350mm
Motivation Theory Wall mounted sculpture Material: Timber and Steel Dimensions: 2300mm x 800mm x 150mm
Primitive Guardian Free standing sculpture Material: Timber and Steel Dimensions: 500mm x 800mm x 350mm
Unnatural Selection Free standing sculpture Material: Timber and Steel Dimensions: 500mm x 700mm x 500mm
This year has been an exciting one in terms of my spectrum of work. My passion lies in the details of the wildlife kingdom that may at times go unnoticed; the curious tilt of a giraffe’s head, the maternal stare of a lioness, and just the beauty of this extraordinary world’s creatures. I have included pieces in this exhibition that are pure expressions of delight in the characteristics and personalities of the various species, a simple translation of what I can only define as ‘Innocence’. That said, I have also found myself bringing in more and more, the contrast and relationship between man and beast. What is man without his beasts? I have tried to explore and portray the juxtaposition between the two, often combing various raw elements to create a singular beautiful image. I have used a lot of skull imagery this year - man will survive, we always do, but it is our relationship with the animal kingdom that will inevitably define us and determine the fate of our animals. I hope you enjoy my work as much as I have revelled in the joy of creating it. I was born in Zimbabwe in 1986, and after achieving an Honours degree in Information Design at the University of Pretoria in 2008, began drawing full time in the highly competitive and somewhat precarious field of wildlife art. For as long as I can remember I have had a deep fascination and empathy for animals – I could spend hours just sitting watching a single creature. It is not just their beauty and shape that grabs me, but their every move, the smallest tilt of their head, even the slightest shifting of their weight – but most of all… it’s their eyes; it is said that the eyes are the windows to the soul – could this be more evident than in the wandering gaze of a giraffe or the primal stare of a pangolin?
Every single report card I have ever had has, at some point, included the phrase ‘day dreams far too often…..’ In a way, I believe that this is actually a huge contributing factor in my work; from the smallest dung beetle to the lumbering elephants, every animal becomes a character, a personality, each interlinking with the last. As strange as this sounds, herein lies the problem in selling my work – to me, they are no longer just drawings but projections of my very imagination. In terms of what inspires me, it’s quite difficult to pinpoint one exact thing, but rather a single moment that triggers a response – be it a moment in the wild, a song, or in the case of my most sentimental drawing; a dream. I have dabbled in all mediums but have settled on graphite pencil as I find that when reduced to black and white, you strip the subject matter down to its basic shades and are left with an intense, powerful piece of art. When portraying the true beauty of wildlife, you often find variety of textures in one subject, from the silky smoothness of an elephants tusk, to the almost granulated leather covering his trunk. As a result, the highest quality Fabriano paper is used and carefully fixed to preserve the tiniest of details. I hope you enjoy my work and see what makes each piece, an original David Filer.
Mara Graphite pencil Dimensions: 440mm x 370mm
Neville Graphite pencil Dimensions: 450mm x 200mm
Tatenda Graphite pencil Dimensions: 1300mm x 680mm
Sveyva Graphite pencil Dimensions: 715mm x 420mm
Bones Graphite pencil Dimensions: 600mm x 280mm
When innocence smiled Graphite pencil Dimensions: 500mm x 300mm
Madhuve Graphite pencil Dimensions: 610mm x 395mm
Maha rajah Graphite pencil Dimensions: 760mm x 520mm
Mombe Musikana Graphite pencil Dimensions: 1150mm x 600mm
Amai Pachedu Graphite pencil Dimensions: 800mm x 510mm
Persephone Graphite pencil Dimensions: 920mm x 580mm
Moyo Graphite pencil Dimensions: 400mm x 280mm
Potsi
Tatu
Piri
Graphite pencil
Graphite pencil
Graphite pencil
Dimensions: 290mm x 210mm
Dimensions: 290mm x 210mm
Dimensions: 290mm x 210mm
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more, From all I may be, or have been before, to mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal� Lord George Gordon Byron As Africa is my unwavering mistress, and through art as my first love, I feel privileged to be able to share what it is that inspires and feeds my soul.
Following a successful and rich experience at school and college in both art and textiles, Emily studied Art Foundation for a year at Falmouth University, Cornwall. She realised her strength in Fine Art and passion for portraying the animal kingdom which led her to produce her very first solo show with the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF) to help save wildlife. Whilst her art gained momentum she also chose to study, alongside her commissions and exhibitions, at Lavender Hill Studios, London. This was the foundation and technical training she had always searched for. Emily has supported DSWF’s ‘Art for Survival’ Programme donating paintings for various fundraising exhibitions and auctions, and also supports several other conservation initiatives. She believes in a fresh, progressive and dynamic approach to her art, which is supplemented by regular trips abroad to Africa and Asia, seeking new reference and consequently feeding her passion for conservation. Emily currently lives between Africa and Cornwall.
Samburu Mixed media Dimensions: 1530mm x 1220mm
Karimojong 1 Mixed media Dimensions: 1520mm x 1220mm
Masaai Pride Mixed media Dimensions: 3000mm x 1500mm
Sable Mixed media Dimensions: 2000mm x 2000mm
Karimojong 2 Mixed media Dimensions: 1520mm x 1220mm
Uganda Mixed media Dimensions: 1530mm x 1220mm
Kidepo Mixed media Dimensions: 1350mm x 1220mm
Gabon Mixed media Dimensions: 1530mm x 1220mm
African Sketch Books lioness heart Mixed media Dimensions: 2000mm x 2000mm
Presence Mixed media Dimensions: 1500mm x 1000mm
Barefoot Warriors
I See You
Mixed media
Mixed media
Dimensions: 150mm x 210mm
Dimensions: 150mm x 210mm
Brothers
Knowing
Mixed media
Mixed media
Dimensions: 150mm x 210mm
Dimensions: 150mm x 210mm
Shy
Delicate Dawn
Mixed media
Mixed media
Dimensions: 150mm x 210mm
Dimensions: 150mm x 210mm
Curious Crossing Mixed media Dimensions: 2100mm x 150mm
Bloodlines
Painted Realm
Mixed media
Mixed media
Dimensions: 1700mm x 1200mm
Dimensions: 1200mm x 700mm
Regal Blood Mixed media Dimensions: 600mm x 900mm
Mighty Passage Mixed media Dimensions: 1300mm x 900mm
Wild Path
Pattern Language
Mixed media
Mixed media
Dimensions: 1300mm x 900mm
Dimensions: 1700mm x 1200mm
Mentor Mixed media Dimensions: 700mm x 700mm
Bandhavgarh
by Mandy Shepherd Oil & Watercolour Dimensions: 450mm x 300mm
With special thanks to: Andre Pienaar Richard Eyre and Bite Andrew Niemann Shane O’Neill Graeme & Mel Lamb Alison Thomas And last but not least the artists who are so generously donating 50% of sales to the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation
To purchase an item from this catalogue please call Georgina Lamb on 07790175455 or call DSWF on 01483 272323