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Stuart Semple No Stairway Acrylic, charcoal & vinyl
Born in 1980 and educated at Bretton Hall, Stuart Semple came to prominence at the start of the millennium through making his distinctive social commentary drawings available via eBay. His paintings have featured in biennales, art fairs and solo exhibitions in Europe, Australia, China and America, and can be found in major international collections including the Getty, Langen, David Roberts and Niarchos foundations.
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His expressive use of colour and composition often contradicts a subtle and purposeful agenda that includes recurring themes of art history, spirituality and alienation.
SAMUEL GOMEZ Cochleas’ Ink & Graphite
Samuel Gomez is an artist and Designer living and working in New York City. He has been acknowledged as one of the Top 25 Artists as voted by the public during Artprize 2013. He was Invited by the Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) to participate in their second curated ‘Artprize Encore Exhibit 2014’. He has participated in several exhibitions around the world in Spain, New York, UK and Berlin, among others. He has been published in many magazines including ‘Sketching from the Imagination’, Hidden Art Treasure, Limmie, Juxtapox, Hi-Fructose, and My Modern Metropolis among others. His work is collected by major Art Collectors and he is a member of The Drawing Centre and The Americas Society in New York. He has worked for over a decade as a Creative Designer & Illustrator for some of the top Design Agencies in New York and Chicago; His designs have been used by many top brands and corporations such as Coca Cola, Pepsi, Limited brands, Dove, Godiva, Gucci, Unilever, Estee Lauder and many others. His work has been published in Print Magazine, How Magazine and Pie Books from Japan. Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, he graduated from the Altos de Chavon/The School of Design (affiliated to Parsons School of Design) in 1999. He then graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Communication Design (BFA) from Parsons in New York.
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Paul normansell Sid and Nancy Gloss paint
Paul’s iconic images of famous faces are summoned through individually painted dots in high gloss enamel paint on sheet aluminium; this meticulous process creates a flawless reflective quality as if they were literally in a glossy magazine. Paul’s many high profile fashion assignments have included a range of portraits of supermodels Kate Moss and Agyness Deyn. In 2008, Paul was personally approached by Brandon Flowers of US rock band The Killers, and asked to create the cover artwork for their third album ‘Day & Age’ which is now multi-platinum. This was named ‘Best Album Cover of the Year.’ by Rolling Stone Magazine. Following a string of sell out shows and media attention Paul has become one of the world’s most sought-after contemporary artists, receiving international acclaim and exhibiting as far afield as Japan, the United States and Australia.
Carlos Martyn Burgos (born 1978) was brought up within two cultures - in the UK & El Salvador - that helped fuel and form his imagination and outlook of the world around him, his work shows the combination of these two worlds. Carlos uses a self developed technique, creating textures, tones and natural hues using tea and its staining properties but is also proficient in a range of other painting and drawing media. Carlos M Burgos is a figurative artist creating surreal curiosities, working mainly with tea as a medium, which often results in an alternative look at the world around us with slight traces of satire. A conceptual realism. Drawing inspiration from social history, literature, music, conversations and general popular culture. Fusing elements of the classical, the expressive, the surreal, beauty, darkness and his love of the human form. He has exhibited in galleries across London. He has also exhibited in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Los Angeles, California, Texas and New Mexico. He also developed storyboards and concept art for Keith Lemon’s summer comedy ‘Keith Lemon: The Film’.
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DALE Grimshaw 2 Worlds Acrylic Paints
Dale Grimshaw was born in the deep dark North of England. He first got into art by painting still life as a young boy and copying punk record covers, fueled by a cheap copy of Constable’s painterly classic ‘The Cornfield’ from Accrington market. After seeing ‘The Stranglers’ daubed on a bus stop wall whilst at primary school he became intrigued by graffiti. His first real foray into this area came in the 80’s, and involved a McDonalds window, a large political slogan & some pink household emulsion. Grimshaw has had a successful gallery career. His paintings often have a psychological narrative to them and deal with subjects such as pain, loss, conflict & isolation in both a personal & political way. He has had five successful solo shows in Signal Gallery, London, one of which, entitled ‘Semi Detached’, was given a full feature in The Independent. Group shows include Berlin, several in the USA and in France. His work has been included in a large number of street art books and magazines, and his reputation outside the gallery has increased over the past few years, with a number of large powerful street pieces attracting very favourable attention.
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Alec Monopoly Taxi Driver Acrylic Paint
Street artist Alec Monopoly takes his name from the transaction based board game in which players buy and sell property, accumulate money, and try to make their opponents go broke. The artist employs the character of Rich “Uncle” Pennybags, the game’s suited mascot, to deliver his critique of capitalist greed. In Monopoly’s tableaux, done on city surfaces or on newsprint and framed, the mustachioed character sprints with a moneybag under one arm, laments the lack of universal health care, and gets beaten by a policeman with a bully club. Monopoly uses a cartoonish style to comment on real-world problems, delivering a simplified and exaggerated message nonetheless justified in its decrial of a broken economic system. The first real figure Monopoly painted was Bernie Madoff, whom he considers the ultimate symbol of financial collapse. He also uses cartoon characters Scrooge McDuck and Richie Rich in his work.
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HELEN VINE
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Helen Vine graduated from Middlesex University with a degree in illustration in 2010. She was awarded a D&AD Student Awards Commendation in the Illustration Category. Working in ink, Helen’s black and white illustrations are reminiscent of Japanese woodblock prints, with intricately drawn Asiatic figures, beautiful yet eerie. Inspired by eastern aesthetics and the iconography of black and white, they create a monochrome realm, depicting the deification of stoic geisha, Japanese gardens, night skies and severed limbs. Helen has been featured on the sites Juxtapoz, Don’t Panic, Visual News, Ape on the Moon, Trend Hunter, Design Week, New Blood and D&AD. She has worked with clothing brand ‘Illustrated People’ on designs for their website, with Topshop in store and online, and with Asos.
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Daniel Brusatin
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Daniel Brusatin was born in Bogota in 1989. He is the son of a Colombian Italian Family and the grandson of one of the country’s most celebrated architects. Being raised amongst his grandfather’s craft and practice was where his love for the arts started. Drawing and painting from a very young age he got involved in as many creative activities as he could. For more than 6 years he was the main artistic director of the theatre Group Camaleon, participating in the Ibero American theatre festival on many occasions. He exhibited his work for the first time at the age of 15, in the renowned contemporary gallery of the city Casa Cuadrada. Days after finishing school he moved to Florence, where he was trained as a fine artist in the Accademia di Belle Arti. His love of materials, production methods and techniques took him to Milan where he studied product design in the Instituto Marangoni. It was during his studies that Daniel experimented with and created his own style working principally as a painter and taking part in three academic and four private shows. In 2009 he started working for the London based artist Brian Clarke as a studio assistant spending his time between England and Italy. In 2012 he spent six months in the Nepalese and Indian Himalayas where, interested in space, time and the perception of reality, he followed, lived with and documented sadhus - ascetic monks of Hinduism. Back in Europe he was offered a studio for two years in Paris where he worked as a painter and was also the conceptual, artistic and photographic director of three short films and one documentary. In January 2013 he was a main artist in Nagart Bogota. At the end of the year he moved to London where from his studio he works as a multidisciplinary artist, experimenting with shape, materials, colour and texture. In his personal work and private commissions he explores the poetical dimensions of the way we perceive beauty, art and life itself.
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BIANCA HAMILTON Love Birds Fine liner pen
Born and raised in London, Bianca studied Graphic Arts and Illustration at the University of East London. Her work has been exhibited in galleries around London and she illustrates for a number of Australian magazines, all of which has led to several private commissions. Her work is inspired by surrealism, a love of drawing and the journey of creating an image on the page. Bianca’s stylized pen strokes and fine detail are consistent throughout her work. She takes daily images and records them in a dream-like vision onto the page where physical boundaries are no longer important. Her work has evolved by taking weird and wacky concepts and daring to do be outrageous aspiring to reach my pinnacle.
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Francesco Jacobello In Utero
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Born in Militello in Val Di Catania, Sicily, Francesco Jacobello grew up surrounded by art and artistic expression. This environment helped shape his own practice while simultaneously allowing his personal and artistic language to develop. A core inspiration behind his work comes from his connection with the environment, and the wish to immortalize expressions and feelings that he is drawn to in certain people, places and situations. Jacobello categorizes his art within a new generation of artists who are influenced by the Italian Classics, but remain connected with the urban feel of contemporary practice in the present art world. To provide a deeper perspective of his art, he shares one of his personal testimonies: ‘Every artist has an unspoken desire to construct a bond between his creations and the public. It is not about fame or recognition, but about telling your story in such a way that it is their story too. By expressing this through the visual arts, this mammoth task becomes a part of one’s daily routine, even though it is something you may not see as your usual daily concern in life.’ Jacobello has exhibited in various venues in the UK and Europe and his works are part of public and private collections around the world including Italy, Australia, England, France, Switzerland, USA (California, New York and Florida), Canada, Germany and Brazil.
Take Another Little Piece of My Heart Pastels and ink
Lizard King Pastels and ink
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CAIO LOCKE Queen of Diamonds Acrylic
A background in etching was formative in the development of Caio’s unique painting style, which applies high levels of detail to a large scale. His early paintings are of landscapes, cityscapes and seascapes in Brazil, inspired by childhood memories in the state of Rio de Janeiro. This influence is still visible in his work, which also incorporates ideas from a wide-ranging source of cultures and locations. His paintings traverse boundaries between imagination and reality, employing both abstraction and the representational to a high degree of precision. The results are compelling imaginary worlds that evoke the sense of a journey into a state of heightened consciousness. Historical, modern and futuristic references collide to induce a sense of temporal illusion, whilst detailed vignettes lend a quality of fractal formations repeating into the infinite. Time, light, energy, atmosphere and human existence within this matrix are constant themes, and his arresting sense of perspective provides a depth in which these elements interact. London-based, and predominantly a painter, Caio’s work has been exhibited internationally in numerous guises. His recent commissions include sculpture designs, music covers, and the beachwear designs for a Brazilian fashion label. His work has received public attention through his participation in major public art projects including London Elephant Parade (2010), Edinburgh Jungle City (2011), FabergÊ Big Egg Hunt (2012) and Stand Tall, Colchester (2013) and more recently for the Chakravarty Cup 2014. His fiberglass designed and painted horse, Mistero, featured in his recent solo show at Hoxton Gallery.