Cityscape/Urban Archives

Artful Dodger

Artful Dodger is widely credited with being one of the first Aerosol Writers/Urban Artists to emerge from the UK, serving as an influence to some of today’s top UK Urban Artists. Over the years, he has evolved professionally to have clients which include the BBC, Channel 4, EA Games, LucasFilm (Star Wars), MTV, The South Bank Show, as well as a well-known breakfast cereal.

On the community arts side of his portfolio, he has a strong background in both organising and facilitating a variety of creative mural projects and workshops. Working mainly in inner cities with disadvantaged youth and other young people (through children’s arts charities such as SP8 Of The Art).

He has also been involved in projects in the US, Italy, France, Spain, Hungary, Romania and Ukraine, as well as all over the UK. One of his projects on the now fallen Aylesbury Estate in SE London, even won an award from the late Princess of Wales.

Employing an eclectic palette of media, ranging from spray-paint and acrylics to pastels and graphics tablets, he takes the inspiration for his paintings from the intrinsic beauty of nature, as well as a vast range of musical styles, urban and pop culture influences. Along with this, he describes his work as being a combination of ‘liquid light’ and ‘visual music’.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Commissions:

Adios Cancer
House of Commons – Portrait of Deputy Speaker
Heathrow Airport
How Hip-Hop Changed the World – C4
London College of Communication
Advent Europe
Flash Film Festival – Barcelona
ExCel Centre – London
BBC
EA Games
LucasFilm (Star Wars)
MTV
The South Bank Show

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Paintings
Prints – Artist
Digital
Wall Panels
Other – Murals

Mediums:

Digital
Mixed Media
Paintings on Canvas & Paper
Photomontage
Spray paint Graffiti
Video/Film

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Cityscape/Urban
Interiors
Music
Portrait/Figurative

Artful Dodger - Bride of Frankenstein - Canvas

Artful Dodger - New-X Workshop - Digital Print

Artful Dodger - New-X Development - Digital Print

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Susan Andreae

Susan Andreae is a sculptor and printmaker based in London.

Having grown up in London, she is fascinated by the complexity of living in the city – the crowds, commuters, architecture and energy of urban life.

She also travels frequently to Southern Italy and is inspired by the simplicity of the ancient architecture and colours of the Mediterranean.

Ideas evolve for Susan Andreae from things she sees and experiences and always from drawings made in situ, which start the creative process. She then experiments with techniques of layering using multiple images superimposed to arrive at a final image, eluding to the passing of time and historical change.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions

Royal Academy, London
Mall Galleries, London
The Salthouse Gallery, St Ives
Hiscox Gallery
Royal West of England Academy
The Affordable Art Fair
Brunel University
Hicks Gallery, London

Selected Commissions

BT
3i plc
MCI Communications
Villeroy & Boch Tableware

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Prints
Sculpture

Sculpture Type:

Interior
Tabletop

Mediums:

Prints – Artist-Etchings
Sculpture – Metal-Cast
Sculpture – Concrete/Plaster/Ceramic

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Landscape
Urban

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Having grown up in London, I am fascinated by the complexity of living in the city – the crowds, commuters, architecture and energy of urban life.

Susan Andreae

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Michelle House

Michelle House is an abstract artist with over 20 year’s experience creating unique textile artworks and digital art prints. Her inspiration comes from the patterns and geometry within architecture. As well as the physical mixing and layering of colours, the texture of cloth and the print process.

Michelle House moved from painting and collage on paper to applying the same approach with textiles. Taking photographs and making drawings, she then edits and designs on a computer, before transferring her photographic images to silkscreens.

Michelle uses screens in conjunction with hand-cut stencils as a palette from which to select and build up her final composition. Using imagery and colour in an abstract way to create focal points, balance and space.

The dye’s and pigments, in combinations of transparent and opaque layers, are screen-printed and painted on to differently textured fabrics, which are then meticulously sewn together to make a single piece, or series of related works.

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions

Bankfield Museum – Halifax
Ruthin Crafts Centre
London Design Festival
Collect – Saatchi Gallery
Dulwich Picture Gallery

Selected Commissions

British Academy
Ham Yard Hotel
Peter Jones
Broomfield Hospital
Hove Polyclinic
Davis Polk Wardwell, Paris
Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Prints
Digital
Wall Panels
Textiles & Rugs

Textile Type:

Textiles
Wall Hangings
Rugs

Mediums:

Collage
Digital
Prints – Artist
Prints – Other

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Architectural
Cityscape/Urban
Interiors

Michelle House - Crafted City - Orange & Pink

Michelle House - Chevron Looking up Reeds

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My inspiration comes from the patterns and geometry within architecture. As well as the physical mixing and layering of colours, the texture of cloth and the print process.

Michelle House

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Mark Godwin

The motif of Landscape has been a major part of the work of Mark Godwin for over 30 years. He has been greatly influenced by the 18th century Romantic notion of the Sublime, and our longing for an emotional encounter with nature.

These paintings are about finding a visual equivalent for his sensation before nature. They are paintings about the poetic idea of landscape. There is a nostalgia, and timelessness about his work, and a conscious blurring of the boundaries between abstraction, and representation. They are landscape of the imagination. They are paintings about feelings.

Mark Godwin began his artist training at Stourbridge College of Art and progressed on to Central School of Art, the Royal College of Art and Cite Internationale des Artistes in Paris. Following his training Mark went onto work as a copperplate printer for Palm Tree Editions, Albion Editions and London Contemporary Art.

Since then Mark has set up his own studio to develop his practice concentrating on painting and printing. He has exhibited extensively and his work has been included in many collections both private and corporate.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Selected Exhibitions

Bruton Street Gallery
Catto Gallery, London
Printmakers Gallery, St. Ives
Reuben Colley Fine Art, Birmingham
Curwen Gallery, London
Chenal Group, France
Documenta Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil

Selected Commissions

Grand Metropolitan
Bank of England
Sumitomo Bank Japan
Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Smithkline Beecham
Morgan Stanley

ARTIST SUMMARY

Categories:

Paintings
Prints

Mediums:

Painitngs on Canvas
Paintings on Paper
Screen Prints
Etchings

Subject Matter:

Abstract
Landscape
Cityscape
Seascape

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These paintings are about finding a visual equivalent for my sensation before nature.

Mark Godwin

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Helen Lack

Helen Lack is a contemporary artist working in the UK and producing large format and statement art. She has a unique style which is energetic, individual and vibrant with an urban edge.

Her work has been described as having a richness of colours with a Pollock style, depicting the Abstract Expressionist movement. This has created a significant level of interest among galleries and collectors. As well as a healthy demand by companies requiring “office art”.

Helen paints by combining many layers and thick brushstrokes using mixed media and drip techniques. She conveys emotion in all her works, which is received by the viewer as intriguing and involving.

Her works are inspired by current events and environmental concerns. Her paintings showing passion and vibrancy as well as reflection and colour to her audience.

Helen Lack has displayed her collections in contemporary shows, collaborated with other artists and curated her own solo exhibitions. All have attracted media interest in the UK and Europe and have received much acclaim.

Her works have been exhibited in many prestigious galleries in London and New York, creating a truly international appeal. In addition, one prestigious gallery has asked for her works in Italy for very high-profile collectors.

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