Artist of the Week

black history month - artist celebrations

alma thomas - year 1

Alma Woodsey Thomas was an African-American artist and teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century.

faith ringgold - year 2

Faith Ringgold is an American painter, writer, mixed media sculptor, and performance artist, best known for her narrative quilts

lubiana himid - year 3

Lubaina Himid CBE RA is a British artist and curator. She is a professor of contemporary art at the University of Central Lancashire. Her art focuses on themes of cultural history and reclaiming identities.

lorraine o'grady - year 4

william t williams - year 5

William T. Williams is an American painter known for his process-based approach to painting that engages motifs drawn from personal memory and cultural narrative to create non-referential, abstract compositions. He was a Professor of Art at Brooklyn College, City University of New York from 1971 to 2008.

El Anatsui

El Anatsui is an African sculptor from Ghana who has become well known for his aluminum sculptures that use repurposed bottle caps. His large scale sculptures use thousands of aluminium bottle caps that are sourced from recycling stations and sewn together using copper wire to create cloth-like flexible sculptures. His work is inspired by the African tradition of textiles. By using recycled materials, Anatsui used his artwork to draw attention to waste and the environment.

Filthy Luker

Inflatable art interventions.

Creates fun and crazy urban installations.

Turn their playful ideas into seriously large sculptures as some kind of personal vendetta against the mundane confines of the city in a heroic effort to make the world a brighter, more surreal place for us all.The pop-up installations never fail to turn heads, raise smiles and create epic scenes that shifts the mundane towards the surreal, the sublime and often the downright ridiculous.

Janet Echelman

Janet Echelman sculpts at the scale of buildings and city blocks. Echelman’s work defies categorization, as it intersects Sculpture, Architecture, Urban Design, Material Science, Structural & Aeronautical Engineering, and Computer Science. Echelman’s art transforms with wind and light, and shifts from being “an object you look at, into an experience you can get lost in.” Her beautiful, delicate forms, are made of netting and engineered collaboratively. They are awe inspiring when viewed suspended in air over bustling cities.

WILLIAM LA CHANCE

William LaChance's work is a combinations of displaced forms and colours taken from graphic design, fashion, art history and nature itself. Brought together using a variety of methods and materials from painting and printmaking to assemblage and sewing. They openly blur the boundary between high art and applied arts.

mr brainwash

Internationally recognised for his humorous take on the historical, Mr Brainwash imaginatively constructs and alters traditional portraits by incorporating cartoonish iconography and graffiti-inspired slogans.

Print Garage

Andrea Marie Breiling

Andrea Marie Breiling uses her everyday experiences to paint in a physical form. She draws inspiration from historical sources, such as gesture from the Abstract Expressionists. Her work is highly energetic and abstract full of intense colour compositions. The work displays a radical and free use of colour and line and she experiments with composition and scale. Her work shows a unique language of colour, line and form.

Wolffia Inc

Wolffia Inc is a British abstract painter. The artist uses a huge range of colour and organic shapes. Even though abstract, there are many layers to her work.

George Condo

George Condo is a famous American painter. His unique and imaginative visual language pays tribute to a vast array of art-historical traditions and genres. He combines inspirations from other famous artists such as Picasso, Twombly and Pollock. Whilst also being inspired by contemporary american culture. His portraits are very distorted and fragmented. Condo’s art is profoundly original.

Coco Dávez

Coco Dávez is a spanish painter and is renowned for her vibrant use of acrylic paint and block colour style. Her 'Faceless' works depict a diverse mix of cultural and historical influencers ranging from celebrities, musicians and artists to film characters and cartoons.

dan baldwin

Dan Baldwin is a british contemporary artist. He is known for his vibrant style that blends the abstract and the figurative to create bold and vibrant pieces of art.

The majority of Dan’s work takes the form of silkscreen prints. Glazes, collage and diamond dust sit on silkscreen surfaces to give an added texture to his work.

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