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Christian Furr – Before the Wedding

    Artist Christian Furr was born in Heswall, Wirral in 1966. He became the youngest artist to have ever officially painted Queen Elizabeth II, when in 1995 – at the age of twenty eight – he was invited by the Queen to paint her portrait at Buckingham Palace. The work was commissioned by and […]

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Jay Batlle – Cheese Hound

                                  “CheeseHhound” is one of Batlle’s signature layered compositions from “The Stationery Series,” where he blows up an iconic restaurant’s stationery or menu — examples include St. John, Momofuku, The Odeon, and The Spotted Pig (all at which Batlle […]

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Jay Batlle – Everything Must Go

“Everything Must Go” is one of Batlle’s signature layered compositions from “The Stationery Series,” where he blows up an iconic restaurant’s stationery or menu — examples include St. John, Momofuku, The Odeon, and The Spotted Pig (all at which Batlle has eaten)— then doodles or paints on them with watercolors, oil sticks, wine, coffee, and […]

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Chris Bracey/Christian Furr – Lionheart

Christian Furr says ‘ I visited a castle. Its façade showed an antique carved relief of a lion. Because of this relief, the tower was also called “the Lion Tower”. Above this lion, you could see the coat of arms of king Henry IV of England and in the tower itself  mounted stuffed lions heads […]

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Thomas Doran – 1984

Based on images of HM’s visit to the Liverpool Garden Festival, this started with the less culturally loaded title ‘1985’, as I’d misremembered the year. After some misgivings, ‘1984’ seems appropriate for a picture with hints of authoritarianism, skewed prophecy and two British institutions fractionally displaced in space and time. About the artist Having taken […]

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Stuart Sutcliffe – Hamburg lithograph on Paper

‘Stuart Sutcliffe is Rock ‘n Roll’ – John Lennon Stuart Sutcliffe (June 23rd 1940 – April 10th 1962): Yea Yea Yea Was curated by Richard Prince August 10 – October 14, 2013 Harper’s Books presented an exhibition of twenty-one paintings and works on paper by British artist Stuart Sutcliffe (1940–1962). Curated by Richard Prince, Stuart […]

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Stephen Walter – Map of Liverpool Poster

This drawing leads on from Stephen Walter’s two-year London project completed in 2008, which mapped each borough. Informed by insights and knowledge of his native city and its people, along with further research, the resulting maps touch on the capital’s vastness and tap into its undercurrents. The artist’s initial plan to create something similar for […]

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Stephen Walter – Map of Liverpool

This drawing leads on from Stephen Walter’s two-year London project completed in 2008, which mapped each borough. Informed by insights and knowledge of his native city and its people, along with further research, the resulting maps touch on the capital’s vastness and tap into its undercurrents. The artist’s initial plan to create something similar for […]

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Shauna Richardson – Coyote

Although concept is the foundation of her work, Shauna Richardson presents her ideas in a form that appears to be the antithesis of this. It has long been widely accepted that ‘Anything can be art’. At first glance this notion seems liberating, but perhaps ‘anything’ has its limits. It is this area, around the boundaries […]

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