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Sartorial Contemporary Art
Sartorial Contemporary Art (2005–2010) was an artist-run gallery founded by Gretta Sarfaty Marchant, artist and curator, as a project-led space in central London, England. Originally based in an 18th-century Georgian house on Kensington Church Street. Sartorial Contemporary Art moved to Kings Cross in October 2008 where it has built a reputation for embracing newly emerging artists. ''The Guardian'' said of the Harry Pye exhibition, ''Me, me, me'', "the gallery space has achieved maturity and it has become a real space within the artistic circuit." Sartorial Contemporary Art in house magazine '' The Rebel'' started in 2005, in collaboration with Harry Pye is released four times a year, usually connected with a current exhibition theme. Exhibitions Among the most remarkable shows in Sartorial Contemporary Art the following are worth mentioning: * ''Water'', Jasper Joffe - book launch & multimedia collaborative exhibition with: Markus Vater, Akiko Usami, Jaime Gili, Paul Hawo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kings Cross, London
Kings Cross is a district on either side of Euston Road, in north London, England, north of Charing Cross. It is bordered by Barnsbury to the north, Clerkenwell and Islington to the east, Holborn to the south and Euston to the west. It is served by two major rail termini, St Pancras and King's Cross. King's Cross station is the terminus of one of the major rail routes between London and the North. The area, which was historically the south-eastern part of the parish and borough of St Pancras, has experienced significant regeneration since the mid-1990s; the introduction of the Eurostar rail service at St Pancras International and the rebuilding of King's Cross station, helped stimulate the redevelopment of the long derelict railway lands to the north of the termini. History Origin The area, historically the south-eastern part of the ancient parish and subsequent Metropolitan Borough of St Pancras, was previously known as Battle Bridge or Battlebridge after an ancien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Jessop
James Jessop (born 1974) is a British contemporary artist. He trained at The Royal College of Art (RCA) and Coventry University. He lectures at City and Guilds of London Art School. His work is influenced by early New York City Subway art and pop culture. He mainly works on large scale canvasses with oil paint, mocking Spoof Horror B-Movie posters.Chris Osburn (23 March 2010"Review: James Jessop’s Beauty and the Beast at High Roller Society" ''The Londonist''. Retrieved 2014-01-05. His diptych painting, ''Fused Foot Star'', is in the collection of the RCA. While working as a security guard, he exhibited in Charles Saatchi's March 2004 ''New Blood'' exhibition. Jessop was shortlisted for the £25,000 Threadneedle Prize at the Mall Galleries, London in 2010. His 2010 solo show, ''Beauty and the Beast'', at High Roller Society in London included some of his largest works to date, designed to make an impact, still fusing street art with more traditional mediums. Jessop has work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Hicks
Nicola Hicks (born 1960 in London) is an English sculptor, known for her works made using straw and plaster. Biography Hicks studied at the Chelsea School of Art from 1978 to 1982 and at the Royal College of Art from 1982 to 1985.Falconer, Morgan"Hicks, Nicola."In Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online, (accessed 12 February 2012; subscription required). Animals are Hicks' primary subject matter, usually sculpted in straw and plaster. This was unusual for an artist in the 1980s, by which time abstract sculpture and installation art had become the norm in the art world. Hicks also works on huge sheets of brown paper on which she works up her dynamic charcoal drawings. Many of the sculptures have subsequently been cast in bronze, often with such subtlety that every detail of plaster and straw is reproduced. Hicks was recognised by Elisabeth Frink, who selected her for a solo exhibition at Angela Flowers Gallery in 1985. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Childish
Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper, 1 December 1959) is an English painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist. Since the late 1970s, Childish has been prolific in creating music, writing and visual art. He has led and played in bands including the Pop Rivets, Thee Milkshakes, Thee Headcoats, and the Musicians of the British Empire, primarily working in the genres of garage rock, punk and surf and releasing more than 100 albums. He is a consistent advocate for amateurism and free emotional expression. Childish co-founded the Stuckism art movement with Charles Thomson in 1999, which he left in 2001. Since then a new evaluation of Childish's standing in the art world has been under way, culminating with the publication of a critical study of Childish's working practice by the artist and writer Neal Brown, with an introduction by Peter Doig, which describes Childish as "one of the most outstanding, and often misunderstood, figures on the British art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinos Chapman
Iakovos "Jake" Chapman (born 1966) and Konstantinos "Dinos" Chapman (born 1962) are British visual artists, often known as the Chapman Brothers. Their subject matter tries to be deliberately shocking, including, in 2008, a series of works that appropriated original watercolours by Adolf Hitler. In the mid-1990s, their sculptures were included in the YBA showcase exhibitions ''Brilliant!'' and ''Sensation''. In 2003, the two were nominated for the annual Turner Prize but lost out to Grayson Perry. In 2013, their painting ''One Day You Will No Longer Be Loved III'' was the subject of Derren Brown's Channel 4 special, ''The Great Art Robbery''. In 2022, with the announcement of Jake Chapman's solo show ''Me, Myself and Eye'', it was disclosed that the Chapman brothers had ended their professional association. Jake Chapman made reference to mutual "seething disdain" and told the ''Guardian'' they were both "sick of the partnership" and were "no longer having fresh ideas together". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Walter (artist)
Martin Walter (born October 23, 1983) is a, Czech-born German professional ice hockey defenceman. He is currently an Unrestricted Free Agent. He most recently played for Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga The Deutsche Eishockey Liga (for sponsorship reasons called "PENNY Deutsche Eishockey Liga") (; English: ''German Ice Hockey League'') or DEL, is a German professional ice hockey league and the highest division in German ice hockey. Founded in ... (DEL). References External links * 1983 births Living people German ice hockey defencemen Hamburg Freezers players Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers players Grizzlys Wolfsburg players {{Germany-icehockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyclops
In Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, the Cyclopes ( ; el, Κύκλωπες, ''Kýklōpes'', "Circle-eyes" or "Round-eyes"; singular Cyclops ; , ''Kýklōps'') are giant one-eyed creatures. Three groups of Cyclopes can be distinguished. In Hesiod's ''Theogony'', the Cyclopes are the three brothers Brontes, Steropes, and Arges (Cyclops), Arges, who made for Zeus his weapon the thunderbolt. In Homer's ''Odyssey'', they are an uncivilized group of shepherds, the brethren of Polyphemus encountered by Odysseus. Cyclopes were also famous as the builders of the Cyclopean masonry, Cyclopean walls of Mycenae and Tiryns. In ''Cyclops (play), Cyclops'', the fifth-century BC play by Euripides, a satyr play, chorus of satyrs offers comic relief based on the encounter of Odysseus and Polyphemus. The third-century BC poet Callimachus makes the Hesiodic Cyclopes the assistants of smith-god Hephaestus; as does Virgil in the Latin epic ''Aeneid'', where he seems to equate the Hesiodic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Grassie
Andrew Grassie (born 1966) is a Scottish artist. Grassie paints highly detailed and self-referential tempera on paper copies of photographs. He was educated at St Martins School of Art and the Royal College of Art.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk Grassie's work of the late 1990s and early 2000s included tempera on paper studies of the gallery interior in which they were exhibited (1997), and small copies of photographs of 1960s minimalist sculpture (2002).Ken Johnson ''The New York Times'', July 12, 2002. In 2004, he won a "Special Merit" award at the 23rd |
Tessa Farmer
Tessa Farmer (born 1978, Birmingham, UK) is an artist based in London. Her work, made from insect carcasses, plant roots and other found natural materials, comprises hanging installations depicting Boschian battles between insects and tiny winged skeletal humanoids. Farmer studied at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, receiving her Bachelor of Arts in 2000 and her Master of Arts in 2003. Subsequent awards include the Vivien Leigh Prize, a sculpture residency in King's Wood, Challock, Kent, and a Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary Award. Her work is in the collections of the Saatchi Gallery and the Ashmolean Museum among others. In 2007, Farmer was artist in residence at the Natural History Museum and was chosen for the final shortlist of The Times/ South Bank Show Breakthrough Award. In 2015, she won the BSFA Award for Best Artwork 2014, for an installation inspired by The Wasp Factory from Iain Banks. Family Her great-grandfather is Arthur Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Davies
Thomas Gerald Reames Davies CBE DL (born 7 February 1945 in Llansaint) is a Welsh former rugby union wing who played international rugby for Wales between 1966 and 1978. He is one of a small group of Welsh players to have won three Grand Slams including Gareth Edwards, JPR Williams, Ryan Jones, Adam Jones, Gethin Jenkins and Alun Wyn Jones. Early life Born in Llansaint, Carmarthenshire, under the local coal miners scholarship scheme he studied at Loughborough University, before studying at Emmanuel College, University of CambridgeDavies (1979), pg 90. and appearing for the University rugby team. Davies taught at Christ's Hospital in Horsham, Sussex from 1971 to 1974Davies (1979), pg 126. when he took up a post with the Sports Council for Wales.Davies (1979), pg 130. Rugby career Davies played club rugby for Cardiff RFC and London Welsh. He captained Cardiff for three seasons in the 1970s, his most famous game for Cardiff probably being a 1977–8 Welsh Cup game against Pont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Mason
Robin Mason (born 1958) is a British painter born in Porthcawl, South Wales. He is head of BA and MA painting at City and Guilds of London Art School. Between 1977 and 1984 he studied painting at Cardiff College of Art, Wolverhampton Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art. He designed a poster for London Transport in 1991. In 2010 he made a painting installation in an isolated 13th-century church, St. Thomas a Beckett in Kent, based in a decade long study and transcription of the Isenheim Altarpiece The ''Isenheim Altarpiece'' is an altarpiece sculpted and painted by, respectively, the Germans Nikolaus of Haguenau and Matthias Grünewald in 1512–1516. It is on display at the Unterlinden Museum at Colmar, Alsace, in France. It is Grünewal ... by Matthias Grünewald. His paintings are held by the Royal College of Art and the London Transport Museum. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
