TEMWA PRESENTS ART FOR AFRICA: LONDON THURSDAY 24TH NOVEMBER 2016
A contemporary urban art auction raising funds to tackle the Malawian food crisis. Featuring work from some of the freshest and most exciting artists working in the UK today.
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ART FOR AFRICA: LONDON THURSDAY 24TH NOVEMBER 2016 We held our first art auction in Bristol 13 years ago, in the summer of 2003, and since then the Art for Africa series has gone from strength to strength, raising tens of thousands of pounds to fund our work supporting vulnerable communities in rural Malawi - now one of the poorest countries in the world. Art has always had a place close to our hearts, and we are so lucky to have the continued support of some of the UK’s finest contemporary and urban artists. Right now, our work is even more vital than ever before, as the communities of rural Malawi continue to suffer the effects of a devastating food crisis which has left many of the people we work with barely able to feed themselves or their families. You can read more about our emergency food distribution programme, and how we’ve refocused our existing projects to provide longer-term solutions in the face of climate change, overleaf. Once again we’ve been blown away by the generosity of all the artists who’ve donated their work to our cause. We hope you have a fantastic time and are successful in bidding on whatever catches your eye tonight!
OUR COMMUNITY CENTRE IN USISYA, PAINTED BY RENOWNED BRISTOL STREET ARTIST FELIX “FLX” BRAUN
TEMWA Founded in 2003, Temwa works in a remote area of rural northern Malawi. Nkhata Bay North comprises a network of 145 villages with a total population of 55,000. These isolated communities live with limited electricity, no running water and high levels of HIV/AIDS. With impassable muddy roads in the rainy season and a ferry that only arrives once a week, the Malawian government has admitted that these people’s needs are being neglected. Whilst Temwa’s projects aim to benefit every member of the communities they serve, we focus primarily on reaching vulnerable families – those affected by HIV and AIDS, female or child-headed households, and families hosting orphans. Temwa has grown organically from the needs identified by the communities we serve: we believe they must remain at the centre of all that we do. All decisions concerning the development of Temwa’s projects are made by the communities themselves. We aim to provide the resources to enable these people to lift themselves out of poverty and to create lasting change for their own futures. This has resulted in a range of holistic and interconnected projects covering different programme areas including: agriculture, forestry, health, education and microfinance. Through our projects we train villagers to grow a variety of vegetables and fruit to improve the nutrition in their diet; we plant trees to combat the devastating effects of deforestation; we run HIV testing clinics and work to combat the stigma surrounding those who test positive; and we build school blocks and fund students through their secondary school education. At Temwa, we recognise that lasting change takes time and can only be achieved through empowering the people of Nkhata Bay North with the skills and capacity to manage their own destiny. Our projects offer longterm solutions and, as such, we have made a long-term commitment to the communities we serve by offering programmes that run for several years at a time.
To find out how you can get involved, visit www.temwa.org.
RAISING FUNDS TO TACKLE THE MALAWIAN FOOD CRISIS
According to government estimates, as many as 6.5 million people in Malawi, or 40% of the population, are in urgent need of humanitarian food assistance and will remain so until at least early 2017. The drought, which has so badly hit the country, has pushed food prices up to a five year high, having affected more than 30% of the country’s cultivated land. Food security therefore remains a key concern for Temwa and the communities of Nkhata Bay North. In early 2016, we carried out an emergency food distribution programme that reached 1,000 households. However, without the resources or the remit to repeat this, we’ve come up with another way to support our beneficiaries through these precarious times. We have redesigned our agriculture and forestry programmes to better provide individual households and their communities with the knowledge to adapt to extreme weather events and the longer-term effects of climate change, for example by learning about crop diversification, inter-cropping and agro-forestry techniques. Following a week-long climate change training workshop for staff and key volunteers at our Mzuzu headquarters in June, our team in Malawi is now sharing this knowledge with our 160 Lead Farmers, who in turn are sharing this know-how within their communities throughout the Nkhata Bay North region. The more funding we can raise, the more people we will be able to reach through these new mitigation and adaption activities – so please do be generous this evening!
AUCTION INFORMATION Paradise by Way of Kensal Green, 19 Kilburn Lane, London W10 4AE Thursday 24th November 2016 Viewing from 6pm Dinner 7.30pm Auction starts 9pm prompt For general enquiries pre-auction, email heather@temwa.org
BUYING AT ART FOR AFRICA You can bid in person, online, by phone, or by leaving a reserve/absentee bid. See opposite page for full details on how to place a bid.
PAYMENT If your bid is successful, you can pay by cash, cheque, or bank transfer. Please speak to one of the team to arrange payment. You’ll need to pay the hammer price before collecting your purchase(s). If you’re not collecting your purchase(s) on the night, you’ll be given a receipt acknowledging payment, and you can arrange collection or delivery for a later date.
COLLECTING PURCHASES If you’re not taking your purchase(s) home with you on the night, you can collect them within one week, either from The Paradise, or from the Temwa office in central Bristol. Please speak to a member of the Art for Africa team to arrange collection.
DELIVERY Please speak to a member of the Art for Africa team if you’d like to arrange for your purchase(s) to be delivered to you. Please note that you will need to cover the postage and packaging costs.
DINNER GUESTS Please ensure you arrive by 7pm, ready for dinner to be served at 7.30pm. Please speak to a member of the Art for Africa team or the Paradise restaurant staff if you have any dietary requirements.
EVENING GUESTS The artwork is available for viewing from 6pm – 8.30pm. Please ensure you arrive no later than 8.30pm in order to register to bid; the auction starts at 9pm prompt in the restaurant space. During dinner you are welcome to enjoy a drink in the Paradise’s public bar.
FURTHER INFORMATION Please note that the colours printed in this catalogue or displayed on the auction screen are not necessarily a true reflection of the item, and we cannot be held liable for any inaccuracies or omissions in the catalogue.
BIDDING GUIDE There are four ways to bid at this auction: in person, online, by phone, or by leaving a reserve/absentee bid.
BIDDING IN PERSON You don’t need to register in advance to bid, but please ensure you register when you arrive, in order to receive a bidding paddle. If you are not joining us for dinner, please ensure you arrive no later than 8.30pm in order to register.
LIVE INTERNET BIDDING Bid, watch and listen online via our online partners, Proxibid: www.proxibid.com/temwa
PHONE BIDDING Live phone bidding is available; please contact us on 0117 403 1426, 07980 652 177 or heather@temwa.org to arrange this.
RESERVE BIDS We can execute bids on your behalf if you’re unable to attend the night. Please contact us on 0117 403 1426, 07980 652 177 or heather@temwa.org to arrange this. Please note that we cannot accept liability for any errors or omissions when executing phone or reserve bids.
LOT NO: 1 ARTIST: CHEBA AND INKIE TITLE: WIZARD DIMENSIONS: 42CM X 59CM MEDIUM: GICLEE PRINT WITH ADDED GLITTER SPRAY ON FINE ART 320GSM PAPER; LIMITED EDITION OF 75; SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTISTS ESTIMATED VALUE: £100 Cheba began painting the streets of Bristol, his hometown, in the early 2000s. Shortly after picking up a spray can, he quickly became addicted to painting the city’s landscape and has been a long-standing figure in Bristol’s thriving street art culture. His style can be described as free-flowing, tactile and futuristic spray can expressionism. His recent body of work is inspired both by space and an ongoing interest in the contrast between nature and the urban environment. On canvas, he combines the graffiti staple of spray paint with more traditional media such as oil, acrylic, and ink. Inkie is one of the most notorious and prolific graffiti writers to emerge from the 80s Bristol scene. He began working as part of the Crime Incorporated Crew in 1983 with Felix and Joe Braun, and has since painted alongside 3D, Nick Walker and Banksy. He was at the head of the many artists arrested in 1989’s ‘Operation Anderson’, the UK’s largest-ever graffiti bust, and has been denounced as Banky’s right-hand man by the Daily Mail – while simultaneously being lauded by The Times. Inkie’s diverse inspirations include Mayan architecture, William Morris, Mouse and Kelly, Alphons Mucha, the Arts and Crafts Movement and Islamic geometry. His work has been exhibited worldwide and been published in numerous books and magazines, including Banksy’s Bristol, Children of the Can, Graffiti World, GQ, Rolling Stone, and Dazed & Confused.
LOT NO: 2 ARTIST: DAVID WALKER TITLE: UNKNOWN (WYNWOOD) DIMENSIONS: 39CM X 74CM MEDIUM: HAND FINISHED PRINTERS PROOF - GICLÉE PRINT ON 315GSM COLD PRESS ARCHIVAL PAPER; DATED AND SIGNED BY ARTIST BOTTOM RIGHT HAND CORNER, FRAMED ESTIMATED VALUE: £450 Working in portraiture, painting freehand, using only spray paint and without the aid of brushes, David has developed a signature multi-layered style. Incorporating both sophisticated and dumb mark making, he creates countless scrawled lines and abstract areas that weave through clashing colours, translucent drips and decaying letterforms. The results are visually rich portraits that fuse photo realism, abstraction and graffiti art sensibilities with a raw energy that comes from the medium. David’s work is exhibited in the UK and internationally, and aims to challenge preconceptions about fine art and urban art painting within the gallery confines and the public domain. Over recent years David has shown work in Berlin, Hong Kong, LA, Lisbon, London, New York and Paris, and his paintings have been shown alongside the leading figures in the urban contemporary and street art movement.
LOT NO: 3 ARTIST: HUSH TITLE: HALO DIMENSIONS: 60CM X 60CM MEDIUM: 16 COLOUR SCREEN PRINT, GLOSS UV VARNISH AND HAND-APPLIED 22CT GOLD LEAF; EDITION 41/50; SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY ARTIST; FRAMED ESTIMATED VALUE: £450 HUSH takes influence from graphic novels, animation and the evanescent quality of street art. His mix of animeinspired characters and pop-infused imagery creates a fascinating commentary on urban culture and has been described as ‘Urban Abstract Pop’. HUSH originally trained as a graphic designer and illustrator at Newcastle School of Art and Design, but his love of street art stems from his youth, when he did some graffiti and made posters for rave/dance nights. He was fascinated by how graffiti was influencing styles and fonts, but without being fully accepted as its own art form. Today, his interest in street art is evident in its influence on his gallery work. HUSH has worked throughout Europe, Asia and the USA, drawing on diverse cultural influences which come through in his work. His central focus is the female form, in particular iconic and Pop Art renditions, from the geisha to anime manga. He is also interested in the contrasts between old and new and the fusion of Eastern and Western culture. His technique combines street art approaches with traditional art practices, influenced by his extensive global travels. His mixed-media pieces are an amalgamation of painting, screen-printing, spray-painting and collaging of graphic novels and comics. HUSH’s work has featured is numerous publications and has been exhibited at galleries and fairs around the world – HUSH really is a truly global artist.
LOT NO: 4 ARTIST: XENZ TITLE: SWALLOW TAIL DIMENSIONS: 15CM X 20CM MEDIUM: SPRAY PAINT, DATED AND SIGNED BY ARTIST ON BOTTOM RIGHT ESTIMATED VALUE: £250 - £350 Xenz, also known as Graeme Brusby, has his artistic roots in graffiti, which he first took up in his hometown of Hull in 1987. He lived in Bristol for a decade through the late 90s and early 2000s, which was an intensely creative and influential period in his career as a painter. Today, he is based in London, where he makes his living as a studiobased artist and muralist. His work can be found in private collections all over the world.
LOT NO: 5 ARTIST: MAU MAU TITLE: SMOKE SIGNALS FOX DIMENSIONS: 60CM X 60CM MEDIUM: SPRAY PAINT AND ACRYLIC ON CANVAS ESTIMATED VALUE: £250 - £350 UK artist Mau Mau has been painting street pieces for over 15 years. Combining stencils and freehand, his languid style and distinctive characters make his work instantly recognisable. Constantly painting all over the world, Mau Mau’s art brightens up spots from Bangkok klongs to Hackney canals, Glastonbury Festival to the Trenchtown frontier, and Devon barns to the Berlin Wall. One of the standout street art talents to gain recognition in the wake of the Banksy frenzy, Mau Mau has never been one to shy away from the big issues. His designs document the times and come wrapped in dark humour. His canvasses have been auctioned at the major houses, including Sothebys and Bonhams, and his print releases sell out in minutes.
LOT NUMBER: 6 ARTIST: K•GUY TITLE: WAR HOLE DIMENSIONS: 62.5CM X 62.5CM MEDIUM: FOUR-COLOUR HAND STENCIL AND SPRAY PAINT WITH TWO-COLOUR SILKSCREEN ON 400GSM FABRIANO PITTURA ART BOARD (FRAMED); SIGNED, NUMBERED AND BLIND STAMPED; 1/1 ARTIST PROOF UNIQUE COLOURWAY ESTIMATED VALUE: £425 London-based visual artist K-Guy has been a key member of the street and urban art scene for over a decade with his provoking art and his incisive observations and visual comments about life in the 21st Century. Politicians, religious leaders, fast food outlets, celebrity, and entire economic systems have all come under his perceptive cross-hairs - often to much discomfort. One of his most spectacular street installations was his memorial shrine to the boom economy when the markets crashed in 2008 - a traffic-stopper for nearly three days outside the Bank of England, which made international news. K-Guy’s hallmark is a questioning intelligence, meticulous execution and a willingness to take risks. Not everyone gets it, but for those who do, his appeal is apparent and enduring, and he has built up a large fan base alongside an enduring appreciation by collectors worldwide. He will typically work using discarded rubbish and obsolescent objects as the basis for his work - alongside a healthy dose of mischief - which is usually found in his subversive missions on the streets.
LOT NUMBER: 7 ARTIST: BEN ALLEN TITLE: PSYCHEDELIC SKULL NO. 6 DIMENSIONS: 80CM X 90CM MEDIUM: GICLÉE PRINT WITH TWO LAYERS OF SCREEN PRINT VARNISH, REVEALING A MATT STAIN GLASS WINDOW PATTERN; HAND TORN PAPER EDGES. EDITION OF 30. SIGNED BOTTOM RIGHT. NUMBERED AND STAMPED BOTTOM LEFT. ESTIMATED VALUE: £475 Free-spirited, UK-based artist Ben Allen is most well-known for his controversial pop paintings. Using a collage style of unlikely juxtapositions, his dynamic paintings are complex mash-ups of popular culture that critique the day-to-day dull and mundane, challenging the media’s view on sexuality and inspiring a sense of freedom. Inspired by underground surfing and skateboard street scenes, Ben’s art manages to capture the elusive zeitgeist and his clients now include Vans, Converse, Amy Winehouse Foundation, Levis, Virgin, Jamie Oliver, Channel 5, Nokia, Bracher Emden and Proporta. His work can now be found in private collections across the world, including those of Jade Jagger, Stephen Dorff, Sophie Ellis Bexter and Richard Branson, and have been featured in numerous magazine titles including Huck, Design Week, The Observer, The Times, Elle Déco, Plus1, Time Out, Loaded and GQ. “On one hand you’re confronted with contemporary Pop Art, on the other side, there’s more of a cultural connection to old world civilizations that throng with ritual, mysticism, spirituality and meaning. The two sides don’t make easy bedfellows but I wonder if Ben’s intention was to contrast the depth, complexity and mystery of the old and the surface and transparency of the new?”
LOT NUMBER: 8 ARTIST: MR JAGO TITLE: OIRU DIMENSIONS: 100CM X 100CM MEDIUM: ACRYLIC AND SPRAY PAINT ON CANVAS; DATED AND SIGNED ON REVERSE ESTIMATED VALUE: £2,000 - £3,000 Living and working in Bristol, Mr Jago (Duncan Jago) is often described as a veteran of urban art. His childhood, spent in a small Suffolk village, was characterised by an intense interest in graffiti and comic books. This passion for art led him to study illustration at the University of the West of England, in Bristol. It was there that Mr Jago would meet the other members of what would become the now renowned Scrawl Collective. Following immediate commercial success, which led to collaborations with some of the world’s biggest international brands, Mr Jago’s early, doodle-derived mark making evolved, taking the idioms of spray painting to a level of sophistication rarely seen in the medium. Indeed, there is maturity and depth in Mr Jago’s use of colour that hints at the mineral traces left by geological time, or the complex nebulae of deep space revealed by Hubble’s keen eye. Most recently, his work has further evolved through the introduction of oil and impasto techniques, confounding his classification as either an urban or a fine artist. Mr Jago’s work has been exhibited extensively worldwide and is held in both public and private collections.
LOT NUMBER: 9 ARTIST: WILL BARRAS TITLE: THE ROACHES’ DESTINY DIMENSIONS: 70CM X 90CM MEDIUM: ACRYLIC AND SPRAY PAINT ON COLLAGED PRINTED AFRICAN FABRIC AND LEATHER ESTIMATED VALUE: £1,200 Will became one of a new crop of artists working within Bristol’s renowned street art scene, leading to him appearing in the book Scrawl, and becoming a founding member of the Scrawl collective. Originally published in 1999, Scrawl was a seminal book documenting a new movement in street art, graphics, and illustration. “There is a fluidity and energy in Will’s work that, although constantly changing, has always existed in a world entirely of his own making. His figures appear to be in a state of perpetual metamorphosis - caught for a brief moment between one manifestation and the next, always at the mercy of the swirling forces that surround them. From his early scanned and reworked doodles through to his recent rich, mixed media work, Will has mastered every medium with a dynamism constant in all his work” - Felix Braun, author of Children of the Can.
LOT NUMBER: 10 ARTIST: CHINA MIKE TITLE: DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN DIMENSIONS: 115CM X 85CM MEDIUM: ACRYLIC ON CANVAS ESTIMATED VALUE: £1,200 China Mike’s paintings are a celebration of mark making, colour and the impulses of creative process. Whatever the subject matter, he always tries to capture a sense of spontaneity and honesty through mark making, not concerning himself with the artifice of beauty, instead allowing colour and form – through creative reaction – to produce their own aesthetic quality, one that feels less forced, deliberate or artificial. His work mostly focuses on figurative motifs but often tries to subvert the natural familiarity of any subject matter with a shroud of ambiguity. He paints with a variety of media, as each different one provides a breadth of possibilities with which to make his unique mark.
LOT NO: 11 ARTIST: LEIGH HAMMETT TITLE: BOWIE DIMENSIONS: 34CM X 44CM MEDIUM: OIL ON PAPER, FRAMED (NOT GLAZED). SIGNED AND DATED TO FRONT ESTIMATED VALUE: £650 Leigh Hammett is a self-trained artist. He lives and works in the heart of East Anglia - an area known as Constable Country - but the vivid imagery and colours used in his works are far removed from Constable’s gentle, restrained landscapes. As a painter of bespoke portraits, usually of his own design, he has a clear and uncomplicated vision of his subjects, using fresh and vibrant colours and often giving a meaningful twist to well-known images. His styles include themed, formal, informal, highly rendered, or loose oil sketches. His use of media and materials includes charcoal, pencil, ink, and gold leaf, but his first love is oil paint. This, combined with his precise knowledge and recreation of the past masters’ use of materials, enhances and complements his contemporary style of portraiture.
LOT NO: 12 ARTIST: RUSSELL MARSHALL TITLE: KINGMAN CLUB CMYK DIMENSIONS: 50X70CM MEDIUM: FIVE COLOUR SCREEN PRINT ON FABRIANO 300GSM VINTAGE LOOK PAPER; SIGNED, NUMBERED AND STAMPED BY ARTIST ESTIMATED VALUE: £350 Russell Marshall is an award-winning journalist, newspaper designer and art director living and working in London. His work reflects 25 years in the British tabloid industry. Use of colour, production techniques and choice of images stem from the golden days of the red top press: when stars were really stars, when news was really news and when the best pictures and the best stories made the best front pages. Russell’s work features iconic images that deserve to be seen again, bold CMYK colours that leap off the page, plus the odd cheeky one liner to make you smile...
LOT NO: 13 ARTIST: CHEBA TITLE: STAR DOME DIMENSIONS: 76.2CM ROUND MEDIUM: SPRAY PAINT, OIL, INK AND LAYERED RESIN ON WOOD ESTIMATED VALUE: £900 Cheba began painting the streets of Bristol, his hometown, in the early 2000s. Shortly after picking up a spray can, he quickly became addicted to painting the city’s landscape and has been a long-standing figure in Bristol’s thriving street art culture. He has since gone on to showcase his work at over 40 exhibitions across the world, including five solo shows. His work has been featured in publications including Graffiti World, The Art of Rebellion, Children of the Can, and Banksy’s Bristol. Cheba’s style, filled with movement, can be described as free-flowing, tactile and futuristic spray can expressionism. His recent body of work is heavily inspired by space, especially images from the Hubble Telescope, but also an ongoing interest in the contrast between nature and the urban environment. On canvas, he combines the graffiti staple of spray paint with more traditional media such as oil, acrylic, and ink. His recent abstract nebula-like paintings are created from layer upon layer of various media and poured resin, sometimes freestyle and sometimes based on real nebulae. Using a number of experimental techniques creates thick paintings that appear almost sculptural. His tactile pieces are difficult to capture on film, with each work appearing differently from various angles.
LOT NUMBER: 14 ARTIST: GOLDIE TITLE: 3 PEACE SUITE DIMENSIONS: 90CM X 53.4CM MEDIUM: 10 COLOUR SCREEN PRINT ON SOMERSET TUB SIZED SATIN 410GSM PAPER; SIGNED BY ARTIST ESTIMATED VALUE: £500 . PRINT KINDLY DONATED BY EDDIE LOCK Music pioneer, contemporary and graffiti artist, drum ‘n’ bass icon, DJ, actor and producer - Goldie is a total original, a multi-talented complex shape shifter, who’s sold more than 3 million records worldwide whilst maintaining a lifelong passion for art. His style began on the streets of Birmingham and Wolverhampton, where a desire to express himself became externalised in the bright jarring colours and dimensionally challenging motifs of the modern caveman: graffiti. He has since produced artistic works with 3D (Massive Attack) and Sarah Gregory, and his client list for private commissions includes Neneh Cherry, Noel Gallagher, Bjork, James Lavelle, Nellee Hooper, Kevin Spacey, The Sex Pistols, Snow Patrol, Pete Tong, Ed Sheeran and Jason Statham - a list as prolific as his creativity. Goldie has gained recognition for his prolific works academically with the awards of honorary degrees in the last seven years for Arts & Music, Professor Thames Valley University (London), Doctor of Social Sciences at Brunel University (London) and Doctor of Design and Art (Wolverhampton). Perhaps one of the greatest tributes to Goldie’s work is that he was recently voted by the public into the Top 60 of the ‘New Elizabethans’, the most influential leading figures in HM Queen Elizabeth II’s reign, alongside luminaries and public faces that are a major part of history including David Attenborough, Margaret Thatcher and Sir Edmund Hillary. In a nutshell, Goldie is self-creativity, new life, mystical union – otherwise known as alchemy.
LOT NO: 15 ARTIST: BANKSY TITLE: TOXIC MARY DIMENSIONS: 70CM X 50CM MEDIUM: SCREEN PRINT ON PAPER; EDITION 450/600; UNSIGNED; FRAMED COMES WITH CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY ESTIMATED VALUE: £3,500 - £5,000 Graffiti artist, film director, painter and all-round mysterious being, Banksy is one of the most famous artists of our time and needs little introduction. Spawned by the Bristol underground scene, his name is now synonymous with street art worldwide. His infamous stencilled graffiti combines political and social commentary, dark humour, and witty epigrams, appearing on the walls, pavements and bridges of many cities. Fuelled by a dislike for the government’s view that graffiti is vandalism, his work has sparked heated debate on the issue for many years.
LOT NO: 16 ARTIST: PAUL MCGOWAN TITLE: FLORAL ANARCHY DIMENSIONS: 100CM X 100CM MEDIUM: HAND-TINTED PRINT ON 100% COTTON RAG; FRAMED ESTIMATED VALUE: £2,200 - £3,000 Paul McGowan studied art at Falmouth, Winchester and Bath School of Art. His work has often created controversy and has regularly been featured in the international press, including The Guardian, The Times, Creative Review, and the BBC. His work is collected across the world and he is renowned as a serial collaborator, often producing works released under different identities. In 2010, McGowan stopped all interaction with the media after his ‘Knuckle Buster’ studio was raided by thieves, resulting in the loss of two decades’ worth of archived work. After cancelling upcoming exhibitions in order to focus on producing a new catalogue of work, McGowan released ‘Trigger Finger’, featuring a series informed by children who are victims of war, raising funds and awareness for the charity War Child. Trigger Finger is subversive, comprising vivid images depicting children constructed biomorphically using weapons of violence into visions of horror. McGowan also continued working closely with American guitarist Gary Lucas, releasing an audiovisual collaboration, and producing a series of artwork for Gary Lucas and Gods and Monsters titled ‘Ordeal of Civility”.
LOT NO: 17 ARTIST: MODE 2 TITLE: HORIZONS DIMENSIONS: 80CM X 120CM MEDIUM: PASTEL AND ACRYLIC ON LINEN WITH CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION. ESTIMATED VALUE: ¤9,600 / C.£8,500 Born in Mauritius in the late 60s, Mode 2 moved to London in the 70s, at a time when punk had just started its own cultural revolution, whilst reggae and dub were ever-present in the neighbourhood ‘blues’ parties. Mode 2 spent his youth deep in comics, sci-fi, fantasy literature, and role-playing games – all of which, alongside the ever-present music coming from the radio, TV and the street, were reflected in what he drew or painted: comic strip characters, figurines, even oil portraits and landscapes. During the 80s, Mode 2 began to make a name for himself as a street artist, and was a key member of The Trailblazers and The Chrome crews, before finding worldwide fame after his work featured on the cover of the book “Spraycan Art”. Whilst sometimes using his work to express harsh realities, in the form of graphic and explicit imagery, Mode 2 always tries to include a sense of hope and positivity, aiming to inspire and empower others, communicating to them an energy to overcome some of the obstacles of daily life. More recently, he has returned to the roots of hiphop, focusing on the links between its different component disciplines: the musical, the visual, and the corporeal. Although best-known for his work with a spray can, Mode 2 is interested in culture more generally, and its impact on society as a whole. In today’s world, he believes, culture is the only tool with which to engage youth in education, and is more generally a way of warding off many social ills whilst inspiring and empowering people. This piece is titled ‘Horizons’ as with Mode 2 coming from a small island like Mauritius, where perspectives for the future were pretty limited, he and many other children often used to wonder who the people in those planes flying high above our heads were? Where they were going? What luck they had to be born in a situation where they could afford to fly away.
LOT NO: 18 ARTIST: TIM FOWLER TITLE: SOPHIA LOREN DIMENSIONS: 89CM X 90CM INCLUDING FRAME MEDIUM: OIL AND SPRAY PAINT ON ALUMINIUM; FRAMED. SIGNED AND DATED. ESTIMATED VALUE: £1,500 Tim Fowler is an up and coming artist whose practise is currently focused around portraiture; his recent body of work in particular is based on iconic characters of the silver screen. The work is very recognisable and this is partly due to his strong use of colours and mixed media approach to painting. Fowler graduated with a degree in Contemporary Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam in 2007 and is now based in Leicester.
LOT NO: 19 ARTIST: ELMO HOOD TITLE: HOW CHEAP IS YOUR LOVE DIMENSIONS: 45CM X 33CM MEDIUM: GICLÉE PRINT ON 300 GSM TEXTURED STOCK; SIGNED, NUMBERED AND EMBOSSED; FRAMED ESTIMATED VALUE: £145 Born in Southampton in 1989 and a resident of London since 2010, Elmo Hood is one of the most promising and exciting painters to arrive on the art scene in recent years. Self-taught, he turned to painting as coping mechanism after a family bereavement in 2011 - and hasn’t looked back. Working in portraiture, painting free hand and with stencils, Elmo has been able to create a unique and colourful style by combining spray paint and acrylic. Using layer upon layer of graffiti tags, symbols and paint splashes, he creates visually rich portraits and figurative pieces. Elmo also works in oil paint, using pallet knives to create textured work, which is fascinating to touch as well as view. Elmo’s work fuses pop and graffiti art in a way that is consistently turning heads in the art world. He first saw his popularity boom following a collage he created out of two playing cards in 2013 which went viral overnight. His works that involve playing cards tell a story a love, heartbreak and betrayal – humanising cards into something much more. Elmo’s work is exhibited in the UK and internationally, including galleries in London, Paris, New York, Ibiza and Munich, and has been auctioned in the Houses of Parliament.
LOT NO: 20 ARTIST: SICKBOY TITLE: CRACK STEPPING DIMENSIONS: 50CM X 70CM AND 70CM X 100CM MEDIUM: A TWO PART, FIVE-COLOUR SCREENPRINT ON FABRIANO SMOOTH STOCK; SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST. ESTIMATED VALUE: £400 A leading artist to emerge from Bristol’s infamous graffiti scene, Sickboy’s humorous works have cemented his place in the upper echelons of the British street art movement. He is one of the first UK artists to use a logo in place of a tag, and his red and yellow street logo known as ‘The Temple’ and his Save the Youth slogan can be seen on walls and wheelie bins worldwide. Sickboy has built up one of the largest bodies of street art works in UK history, which has led to him being tipped by the leading financial press as one of the movement’s most bankable artists. His major London solo show in 2008 and audacious stunts - including the caged heart installation dropped outside the Tate Modern last year - have landed him global recognition.
LOT NO: 21 ARTIST: PARIS TITLE: CLOUD GARDEN 2016 DIMENSIONS: 90CM X 90CM MEDIUM: SPRAY PAINT, ACRYLIC & MARKER ON CANVAS; SIGNED AND DATED BY THE ARTIST BOTTOM RIGHT HAND CORNER ESTIMATED VALUE: ÂŁ850 An English conceptual graffiti artist, Paris rose to global fame in 2011 when he worked alongside Coldplay to create a massive piece of spray can art for the cover of their fifth studio album, Mylo Xyloto, as well as providing artwork for subsequent world tours. Paris regularly participates in British music events, most recently creating work for the public and private areas at Glastonbury Festival 2016. His work can easily be identified, with its unique combination of atmospheric colours, detailed and highly stylised line work and space age effects, especially cracks and shines. Paris is currently cataloguing the vast archive of work he has created from the late 1980s to the present day. This process has helped inform his latest works on paper and canvas, with plans for a major retrospective in 2017. Although in the past it has been notoriously difficult to track down Paris paintings for sale, his work in all sizes will soon be available exclusively at artparis.co.uk
LOT NO: 22 ARTIST: JIM STARR TITLE: HARPY EAGLE STUDY DIMENSIONS: 40CM X 30CM MEDIUM: MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS; SIGNED ON REVERSE ESTIMATED VALUE: £300 - £400 There is something super seductive about Jim Starr’s work that defies capricious trends and ‘now’ art vogues. His genius lies in his ability to beguile the viewer – his visual voice never shouts but whispers, drawing you closer like a confidant. Using a mixture of original screen printed material, his own photography, free-hand drawings and collected collage, Jim creates original and often complex hand-pulled prints, each one uniquely different. Every single one of his prints has something special about it: they can vary from five layers to forty and can take weeks or many months to execute. Having printed on denim, silk, surfboards and many other surfaces, Jim’s bigger images are printed onto canvas, reworked and refined using acrylics and spray paint. Jim’s screenprints and paintings have been exhibited in hundreds of international shows, and have gone under the hammer alongside some of the world’s most celebrated contemporary artists. Jim’s love of travel and his insatiable appetite for incongruity and ‘managed dissonance’ flows through his images. East meets West, white trash nestles with glitterati, good versus evil – and everything in between. In addition to his numerous gallery and show exhibits, Jim has painted and drawn on location worldwide and was an expedition artist for BSES Expeditions on four trips.
LOT NO: 23 ARTIST: MASON STORM TITLE: THE NEW SLIM SHADY DIMENSIONS: 42CM X 59CM MEDIUM: GICLEE PRINT ON ARCHIVAL PAPER ESTIMATED VALUE: £275 Mason Storm is a famously mysterious self-taught artist from London. He’s a qualified barrister who’s worked as a journalist researching terrorism, intelligence and espionage, often freelancing as an intelligence analyst. As an artist, he is possibly best-known for his trademark mask – which allows him to keep separate his two potentially conflicting personas – and his 2010 publicity ploy in which he threatened to reveal the face of Banksy in an oil painting. Mason is unafraid to address challenging and controversial subjects, raising awareness of religious and political hypocrisy with his often provocative pieces. Since taking up art professionally in 2010, Mason has built up quite a following and his work can be found in exhibitions and private collections across the globe.
LOT NO: 24 ARTIST: THOM TAFIKA ARTS TITLE: UNTITLED DIMENSIONS: 47CM X 60CM MEDIUM: MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS ESTIMATED VALUE: £80 Thom comes from a family of artists and is based in Usisya, one of the communities where Temwa works. Over the last few years, Thom – along with his family – has worked with Temwa on a number of community art projects. In 2011, Bristol-based artist Felix ‘FLX’ Braun travelled to Malawi to complete a community art project, working alongside Thom and a group of artists from the local community to paint murals in and around the Usisya Community Centre.
THANK YOU: The Art for Africa series is incredibly important for Temwa, providing much-needed funds to support our projects in rural Malawi, and I would like to thank everyone who has worked so hard to make tonight a success. I’ve only just returned from Malawi, where the communities we support are really suffering the ongoing impacts of drought and a chronic lack of food. Earlier this year the government declared a national state of emergency and it’s truly heartbreaking to see people struggling to feed themselves and their families – but it’s events like this, and supporters like you, who give me such hope for the future of Temwa, and of Nkhata Bay North. First and foremost, a heartfelt thank you to all the artists who have so kindly donated their work for free - without you, Art for Africa simply couldn’t happen. Thanks also to the team of volunteers who’ve worked tirelessly both tonight and over the past weeks to make the event happen, to our dedicated and hardworking interns, and to our trustees for their ongoing support and guidance over the years. A special thank you to the following individuals and organisations who have so generously donated their time, expertise or products: Heather Smith for her tireless work on the creation of the catalogue and the event.
Jake Davis, graphic designer, for designing the catalogue free of charge, and for all the work he does pro bono in support of Temwa. Visit jakedavisdesign. co.uk to see more of his work. Khali Ackford for taking photos of the artwork in this catalogue. Khali is a Bristol-based photographer specialising in portrait and event photography; visit khaliphotography.com to find out more. Adam Dickens from the social enterprise Taking Pictures Changing Lives: Adam has travelled to Malawi on multiple occasions to capture our work on film, helping us to share our stories visually and bringing our projects to life here in the UK. Visit tpcl. co to see more of his stories. Everyone at The Paradise and the Columbo Group, particularly Shelley, for her ongoing support of Temwa and her hard work in making tonight happen. Averys of Bristol for supplying the champagne reception, and all the companies who donated to our goodie bags: Pukka Teas, The Raw Chocolate Shop, Finders Health, Planet Organic. Finally, thank you for supporting Temwa by joining us at The Paradise, or by buying art online: everything we raise from this auction really does make a difference to the lives of people in Malawi. Jo Hook – Co-Founder & UK Director
As a small charity, we rely on the incredible generosity of so many people, without whom we truly wouldn’t be where we are today. By coming tonight or bidding online, you’re already helping us to raise muchneeded funds to keep our projects going – but, if you’d like to continue your support for us, here are just some of the ways in which you could get involved:
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From abseiling off a cliff-face to running a half marathon, and from cycling round the West Country to tackling England’s highest peaks – we’ve got a challenge for everyone! Get fit, meet new people, and try something you might never otherwise have chance to – all whilst raising invaluable funds for Temwa.
Whether you want to give us a one-off gift or set up a monthly direct debit, every last penny you donate makes a real difference to the communities we support. You can donate online (via Virgin Money Giving) at bit.ly/sponsortemwa or email us on info@ temwa.org and we can help you set up a donation.
We’ll be launching our 2017 catalogue of fundraising events soon, so be sure to check online at temwa. org/events, follow us on Facebook, or email heather@ temwa.org to join the mailing list and be the first to hear what we’ve got coming up next year!
CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS
VOLUNTEER YOUR TIME OR EXPERTISE Maybe you’re an admin whizz who can help out in our office, a music lover who wants to help behind the scenes of our fundraising events, or you can just donate a few hours here and there to cheer on our marathon runners – whatever your schedule, passion or skill, we’d love to hear from you! Email heather@ temwa.org and we can take it from there.
If you think your organisation might like to partner with us or get involved in any way, we’d love to hear from you! Email jo@temwa.org to get the conversation started.
RAFFLE FIRST PRIZE
Will Barras ‘Untitled’ Spray paint on canvas
SECOND PRIZE Paris Watercolours
THIRD PRIZE Tim Fowler Print
FOURTH PRIZE
Dinner for two at The Blues Kitchen – London’s home of soul food and live music
FIFTH PRIZE
Xenz Pack of five ‘Robin’ cards, signed by the artist Thanks to our generous supporters for donating these prizes!
Cover Image - China Mike Design - Jake Davis