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Nahem Shoa Queen Tiye, 2023 Acrylic on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Nahem Shoa is a contemporary artist born in Notting Hill where he still lives and works. Nahem has an international reputation as a painter of contemporary multicultural life. Until 2007 Nahem painted from life giant heads of people from black and ethnic backgrounds. 19 of Nahem's portraits are in major museum collections. Nahem then turned to other subjects that drew on 'unreal' sources, photograph, TV and film as well as memory, creating hugely multi-layered paintings bursting with incident, including floods and nuclear explosions. Education Manchester College of Art Post-grad Royal Drawing School Select Exhibitions/Awards Winner of Royal Society of Portrait painters, Face of Britain at Southampton City Art Gallery, Into The Light at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Black Presence, The Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, Seen and Not Seen at Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, We are Here at The Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, Into The Wild Abyss, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Youth Culture, The Box, Plymouth, Royal Academy, Summer Show, London BP portrait awards, National Portrait Gallery. Lord Leighton Prize, London, Elizabeth Greenshields Award, What's New, Manchester City Art Gallery, Modern Art, Hatton Gallery Newcastle, V&A, London, Facing Yourself, Bury City Art Gallery, 100 years of Collecting, The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle. Gallery Representation Gallery East Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork All the sitters in these paintings are friends, who have sat for all my major museums exhibitions and collections in England. My aim in to readdress the negative images of black people in museums, with my powerful portraits of Black British Londoners. I am already known as the Lucian Freud of Multiculturalism. The four postcards are my decorative, with a bit of imagination thrown in. The portrait of Queen Tiye, is from a 3000-year-old Egyptian portrait of grandmother of Tutankhamun, it is the first realistic portrait in western art and it of a black woman. I just gave her a modern haircut. Please google my name or check me out on Wikipedia.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Nahem Shoa The Poet and The Night Sky, 2023 Acrylic on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Nahem Shoa is a contemporary artist born in Notting Hill where he still lives and works. Nahem has an international reputation as a painter of contemporary multicultural life. Until 2007 Nahem painted from life giant heads of people from black and ethnic backgrounds. 19 of Nahem's portraits are in major museum collections. Nahem then turned to other subjects that drew on 'unreal' sources, photograph, TV and film as well as memory, creating hugely multi-layered paintings bursting with incident, including floods and nuclear explosions. Education Manchester College of Art Post-grad Royal Drawing School Select Exhibitions/Awards Winner of Royal Society of Portrait painters, Face of Britain at Southampton City Art Gallery, Into The Light at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Black Presence, The Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, Seen and Not Seen at Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, We are Here at The Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, Into The Wild Abyss, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Youth Culture, The Box, Plymouth, Royal Academy, Summer Show, London BP portrait awards, National Portrait Gallery. Lord Leighton Prize, London, Elizabeth Greenshields Award, What's New, Manchester City Art Gallery, Modern Art, Hatton Gallery Newcastle, V&A, London, Facing Yourself, Bury City Art Gallery, 100 years of Collecting, The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle. Gallery Representation Gallery East Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork All the sitters in these paintings are friends, who have sat for all my major museums exhibitions and collections in England. My aim in to readdress the negative images of black people in museums, with my powerful portraits of Black British Londoners. I am already known as the Lucian Freud of Multiculturalism. The four postcards are my decorative, with a bit of imagination thrown in. The portrait of Queen Tiye, is from a 3000-year-old Egyptian portrait of grandmother of Tutankhamun, it is the first realistic portrait in western art and it of a black woman. I just gave her a modern haircut. Please google my name or check me out on Wikipedia.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Hetty Haxworth Yellow, 2023 Screen print and collage on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Hetty Haxworth was born in Oxford in 1971. She graduated from Glasgow School of art in 1993, and has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad for the past 30 years. Her work has been shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, The Scottish Society of Artists and selected touring shows to Ohio, Australia, LA, Denmark and Brussels. She now lives and works from a studio in Fettercairn, in rural Aberdeenshire. Education Glasgow School of Art Select Exhibitions/Awards SOLO AND TWO PERSON SHOWS 2022 Double Solo show at Printroom, Suffolk 2021 Double Solo show at Tatha Gallery with Wilhelmina Barns-Graham 2019 Solo show at Glasgow Print Studio 2017 Two person show at Brechin Town House Museum, Angus 2015 Solo show at o3 Gallery, Oxford 2014 Solo show at Glasgow Print Studio 2011 Two person Exhibition, Brechin Town House Museum, Brechin, Angus 2008 Exhibition at Lennox Gallery, Fulham - London 2007 Solo show at Watermill Gallery, Aberfeldy 2006 Solo show at Roomspace Gallery - Glasgow Two person show at Liscious Interiors - Oxford 2005 Solo show at Glasgow Print Studio - Glasgow Solo show at Peacock Visual Arts - Aberdeen 2004 Solo show at Dundee Contemporary Arts - Dundee 2003 Solo show at 39 Essex Street - London 2002 Solo show at Jelly Leg'd Arts Centre - Reading Two person show at Liscious Interiors - Oxford 2001 Solo show at Glasgow Print Studio - Glasgow Two person show at The Wiseman Gallery - Oxford 2000 Two person show at The Jelly Leg'd Chicken Gallery - Reading Two person show at Liscious Interiors - Oxford 1999 Solo show at Glasgow Print Studio - Glasgow 1998 Two person show at House for Artlovers - Glasgow SELECTED SHOWS 2023/20/18/13/10/9/8 Work selected Royal Academy Summer Show, London 2023 Group show at Tatha Gallery, Newport-on -Tay Group show at Wiseman Gallery, Oxford 2022 Group show at Watermill Gallery, Aberfeldy Work selected by RSA to show at The British Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery Work selected for Printmaking show with Fidra Fine Art, Gullane Work selected to show at Borders Art fair with Scottish Society of Artists 2021 'Mono,' a celebration of one-off printmaking, at Glasgow print studio 2020 Exhibitor in Reduct, Abstraction and geometry in Scottish Art, RSA 2019/20 Exhibitor at Great Print Exhibition 6 at Rheged Centre Gallery, Penrith Continue reading Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The ever- changing colours and shapes of the Aberdeenshire landscape are an important source of inspiration. This work is inspired by the reflections on a lake near my studio and the study of delicate ice formations.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Hetty Haxworth Blue Screen print and collage on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Hetty Haxworth was born in Oxford in 1971. She graduated from Glasgow School of art in 1993, and has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad for the past 30 years. Her work has been shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, The Scottish Society of Artists and selected touring shows to Ohio, Australia, LA, Denmark and Brussels. She now lives and works from a studio in Fettercairn, in rural Aberdeenshire. Education Glasgow School of Art Select Exhibitions/Awards SOLO AND TWO PERSON SHOWS 2022 Double Solo show at Printroom, Suffolk 2021 Double Solo show at Tatha Gallery with Wilhelmina Barns-Graham 2019 Solo show at Glasgow Print Studio 2017 Two person show at Brechin Town House Museum, Angus 2015 Solo show at o3 Gallery, Oxford 2014 Solo show at Glasgow Print Studio 2011 Two person Exhibition, Brechin Town House Museum, Brechin, Angus 2008 Exhibition at Lennox Gallery, Fulham - London 2007 Solo show at Watermill Gallery, Aberfeldy 2006 Solo show at Roomspace Gallery - Glasgow Two person show at Liscious Interiors - Oxford 2005 Solo show at Glasgow Print Studio - Glasgow Solo show at Peacock Visual Arts - Aberdeen 2004 Solo show at Dundee Contemporary Arts - Dundee 2003 Solo show at 39 Essex Street - London 2002 Solo show at Jelly Leg'd Arts Centre - Reading Two person show at Liscious Interiors - Oxford 2001 Solo show at Glasgow Print Studio - Glasgow Two person show at The Wiseman Gallery - Oxford 2000 Two person show at The Jelly Leg'd Chicken Gallery - Reading Two person show at Liscious Interiors - Oxford 1999 Solo show at Glasgow Print Studio - Glasgow 1998 Two person show at House for Artlovers - Glasgow SELECTED SHOWS 2023/20/18/13/10/9/8 Work selected Royal Academy Summer Show, London 2023 Group show at Tatha Gallery, Newport-on -Tay Group show at Wiseman Gallery, Oxford 2022 Group show at Watermill Gallery, Aberfeldy Work selected by RSA to show at The British Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery Work selected for Printmaking show with Fidra Fine Art, Gullane Work selected to show at Borders Art fair with Scottish Society of Artists 2021 'Mono,' a celebration of one-off printmaking, at Glasgow print studio 2020 Exhibitor in Reduct, Abstraction and geometry in Scottish Art, RSA 2019/20 Exhibitor at Great Print Exhibition 6 at Rheged Centre Gallery, Penrith Continue reading Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The ever- changing colours and shapes of the Aberdeenshire landscape are an important source of inspiration. This work is inspired by the reflections on a lake near my studio and the study of delicate ice formations.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Hetty Haxworth Green Screen print and collage on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Hetty Haxworth was born in Oxford in 1971. She graduated from Glasgow School of art in 1993, and has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad for the past 30 years. Her work has been shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, The Scottish Society of Artists and selected touring shows to Ohio, Australia, LA, Denmark and Brussels. She now lives and works from a studio in Fettercairn, in rural Aberdeenshire. Education Glasgow School of Art Select Exhibitions/Awards SOLO AND TWO PERSON SHOWS 2022 Double Solo show at Printroom, Suffolk 2021 Double Solo show at Tatha Gallery with Wilhelmina Barns-Graham 2019 Solo show at Glasgow Print Studio 2017 Two person show at Brechin Town House Museum, Angus 2015 Solo show at o3 Gallery, Oxford 2014 Solo show at Glasgow Print Studio 2011 Two person Exhibition, Brechin Town House Museum, Brechin, Angus 2008 Exhibition at Lennox Gallery, Fulham - London 2007 Solo show at Watermill Gallery, Aberfeldy 2006 Solo show at Roomspace Gallery - Glasgow Two person show at Liscious Interiors - Oxford 2005 Solo show at Glasgow Print Studio - Glasgow Solo show at Peacock Visual Arts - Aberdeen 2004 Solo show at Dundee Contemporary Arts - Dundee 2003 Solo show at 39 Essex Street - London 2002 Solo show at Jelly Leg'd Arts Centre - Reading Two person show at Liscious Interiors - Oxford 2001 Solo show at Glasgow Print Studio - Glasgow Two person show at The Wiseman Gallery - Oxford 2000 Two person show at The Jelly Leg'd Chicken Gallery - Reading Two person show at Liscious Interiors - Oxford 1999 Solo show at Glasgow Print Studio - Glasgow 1998 Two person show at House for Artlovers - Glasgow SELECTED SHOWS 2023/20/18/13/10/9/8 Work selected Royal Academy Summer Show, London 2023 Group show at Tatha Gallery, Newport-on -Tay Group show at Wiseman Gallery, Oxford 2022 Group show at Watermill Gallery, Aberfeldy Work selected by RSA to show at The British Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery Work selected for Printmaking show with Fidra Fine Art, Gullane Work selected to show at Borders Art fair with Scottish Society of Artists 2021 'Mono,' a celebration of one-off printmaking, at Glasgow print studio 2020 Exhibitor in Reduct, Abstraction and geometry in Scottish Art, RSA 2019/20 Exhibitor at Great Print Exhibition 6 at Rheged Centre Gallery, Penrith Continue reading Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The ever- changing colours and shapes of the Aberdeenshire landscape are an important source of inspiration. This work is inspired by the reflections on a lake near my studio and the study of delicate ice formations.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Matthew Eguavoen Sadiq Acrylic on cartridge paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Matthew Imuetiyan Eguavoen (b.1988, Edo State) lives and works in the city of Lagos, Nigeria. Matthew Eguavoen is a contemporary artist with a singular style. Far more expressive than the traditional portrait, the Lagos-based artist uses color and composition to raise questions about gender, race and history, particularly linked to Nigeria and Africa. In his portraits, Matthew uses a combination of oil paint, acrylic paint, charcoal, and graphite pencils to document stories that encompass the emotions and demeanor of his muse to the viewer of his work. He depicts the vulnerability and openness associated with expressing the feelings of love, as well as the apprehension of protecting one's self from heart break and ulterior motives. His work addresses the lack of awareness on mental health, especially depression. Due to the stigma associated with mental health, conversations about depression are not often had, hence information, and resources required to deal with depression are sparse and the effect of societal pressures and timelines seton youths to achieve certain goals by a specific age (marriage, financial goals, family responsibilities). Eguavoen, wants to give voice to the impact of Slavery in Africa and its people. The extinction of African traditional values and the growing sensation of religion in Africa, importation of western moral and cultural values. He attended the University of Port Harcourt, where he obtained a Bachelors in Science for Civil Engineering and Structures. In his final year at the university, Matthew decided to pursue his passion for creating art through self-study, where he continued his artistic development. Matthew didn't start painting till he was 25 years. Matthew ́s works are featured in collections across West Africa, USA, Europe, and North America. Education Bachelor in Civil Engineering, The University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria Select Exhibitions/Awards SOLO SHOWS 2022 23. PM/AM, London. Egbé Okpá. Afikaris, Paris. GROUP SHOWS 2023 Color Coded. BODE Gallery, Berlin 2022 Voyage. Nothing At All art space, Hong Kong. Shout Plenty. Presented by African Artists' Foundation in collaboration with Alliance Française, Ikoyi. Classique! Afikaris, Paris. Smiling & Suffering Together (With Onguene Tassi). Out of Africa Gallery, Barcelona. What Now? PM/AM, London. 2021 It's Not Only a Portrait. Galería Badr El Jundi, Marbella, Málaga. 40 under 40. WHATIFTHEWORLD X Krone. A collaboration with BMW Young Collectors Co., an initiative of FNB Art Joburg, at Twee Jonge Gezellen wine estate Tulbagh. I No Be Gentleman (At All O). ADA, Accra. MUSEUM SHOW 2023 AFRICA SUPERNOVA, KUNSTHAL KADE MUSEUM, Schulting Art Collection, Netherlands 2022 The New African Portraiture, Shariat Collection, Kunsthalle Krems Museum, Austria Gallery Representation I do not have a representation at the moment; however, I do actively collaborate with these three (3) Galleries; PM/AM Gallery, London Afikaris Gallery, Paris Badr El Jundi Gallery, Madrid. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 1. Womanhood "In a world where gender roles are constantly in flux and in one that increasingly understands gender and biological sex as two distinct realms, I often find myself wondering about the nature of womanhood. What does it mean to be a woman? We no longer make sense of what it means to be a woman through a set of physical characteristics or personality traits, nor through fixed societal roles. But if being a woman is not determined by these dimensions, is there some other element that is shared by all women?" 2. More like family This piece was created to acknowledge people in my life who have supported and nourished me mentally and emotionally, most especially in my career, and have continually my back one without asking for their act of kindness to be repaid. 3. Sadiq Sadiq is a Social Media friend whom I respect because of how he has continually lived his life without being confined to societal standards. He has continued to be expressional, most especially with issue in relation to gender, and i have used this piece to represent that part of him. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Matthew Eguavoen Womanhood Acrylic on cartridge paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Matthew Imuetiyan Eguavoen (b.1988, Edo State) lives and works in the city of Lagos, Nigeria. Matthew Eguavoen is a contemporary artist with a singular style. Far more expressive than the traditional portrait, the Lagos-based artist uses color and composition to raise questions about gender, race and history, particularly linked to Nigeria and Africa. In his portraits, Matthew uses a combination of oil paint, acrylic paint, charcoal, and graphite pencils to document stories that encompass the emotions and demeanor of his muse to the viewer of his work. He depicts the vulnerability and openness associated with expressing the feelings of love, as well as the apprehension of protecting one's self from heart break and ulterior motives. His work addresses the lack of awareness on mental health, especially depression. Due to the stigma associated with mental health, conversations about depression are not often had, hence information, and resources required to deal with depression are sparse and the effect of societal pressures and timelines seton youths to achieve certain goals by a specific age (marriage, financial goals, family responsibilities). Eguavoen, wants to give voice to the impact of Slavery in Africa and its people. The extinction of African traditional values and the growing sensation of religion in Africa, importation of western moral and cultural values. He attended the University of Port Harcourt, where he obtained a Bachelors in Science for Civil Engineering and Structures. In his final year at the university, Matthew decided to pursue his passion for creating art through self-study, where he continued his artistic development. Matthew didn't start painting till he was 25 years. Matthew ́s works are featured in collections across West Africa, USA, Europe, and North America. Education Bachelor in Civil Engineering, The University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria Select Exhibitions/Awards SOLO SHOWS 2022 23. PM/AM, London. Egbé Okpá. Afikaris, Paris. GROUP SHOWS 2023 Color Coded. BODE Gallery, Berlin 2022 Voyage. Nothing At All art space, Hong Kong. Shout Plenty. Presented by African Artists' Foundation in collaboration with Alliance Française, Ikoyi. Classique! Afikaris, Paris. Smiling & Suffering Together (With Onguene Tassi). Out of Africa Gallery, Barcelona. What Now? PM/AM, London. 2021 It's Not Only a Portrait. Galería Badr El Jundi, Marbella, Málaga. 40 under 40. WHATIFTHEWORLD X Krone. A collaboration with BMW Young Collectors Co., an initiative of FNB Art Joburg, at Twee Jonge Gezellen wine estate Tulbagh. I No Be Gentleman (At All O). ADA, Accra. MUSEUM SHOW 2023 AFRICA SUPERNOVA, KUNSTHAL KADE MUSEUM, Schulting Art Collection, Netherlands 2022 The New African Portraiture, Shariat Collection, Kunsthalle Krems Museum, Austria Gallery Representation I do not have a representation at the moment; however, I do actively collaborate with these three (3) Galleries; PM/AM Gallery, London Afikaris Gallery, Paris Badr El Jundi Gallery, Madrid. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 1. Womanhood "In a world where gender roles are constantly in flux and in one that increasingly understands gender and biological sex as two distinct realms, I often find myself wondering about the nature of womanhood. What does it mean to be a woman? We no longer make sense of what it means to be a woman through a set of physical characteristics or personality traits, nor through fixed societal roles. But if being a woman is not determined by these dimensions, is there some other element that is shared by all women?" 2. More like family This piece was created to acknowledge people in my life who have supported and nourished me mentally and emotionally, most especially in my career, and have continually my back one without asking for their act of kindness to be repaid. 3. Sadiq Sadiq is a Social Media friend whom I respect because of how he has continually lived his life without being confined to societal standards. He has continued to be expressional, most especially with issue in relation to gender, and i have used this piece to represent that part of him. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Matthew Eguavoen More Like Family Acrylic on cartridge paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Matthew Imuetiyan Eguavoen (b.1988, Edo State) lives and works in the city of Lagos, Nigeria. Matthew Eguavoen is a contemporary artist with a singular style. Far more expressive than the traditional portrait, the Lagos-based artist uses color and composition to raise questions about gender, race and history, particularly linked to Nigeria and Africa. In his portraits, Matthew uses a combination of oil paint, acrylic paint, charcoal, and graphite pencils to document stories that encompass the emotions and demeanor of his muse to the viewer of his work. He depicts the vulnerability and openness associated with expressing the feelings of love, as well as the apprehension of protecting one's self from heart break and ulterior motives. His work addresses the lack of awareness on mental health, especially depression. Due to the stigma associated with mental health, conversations about depression are not often had, hence information, and resources required to deal with depression are sparse and the effect of societal pressures and timelines seton youths to achieve certain goals by a specific age (marriage, financial goals, family responsibilities). Eguavoen, wants to give voice to the impact of Slavery in Africa and its people. The extinction of African traditional values and the growing sensation of religion in Africa, importation of western moral and cultural values. He attended the University of Port Harcourt, where he obtained a Bachelors in Science for Civil Engineering and Structures. In his final year at the university, Matthew decided to pursue his passion for creating art through self-study, where he continued his artistic development. Matthew didn't start painting till he was 25 years. Matthew ́s works are featured in collections across West Africa, USA, Europe, and North America. Education Bachelor in Civil Engineering, The University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria Select Exhibitions/Awards SOLO SHOWS 2022 23. PM/AM, London. Egbé Okpá. Afikaris, Paris. GROUP SHOWS 2023 Color Coded. BODE Gallery, Berlin 2022 Voyage. Nothing At All art space, Hong Kong. Shout Plenty. Presented by African Artists' Foundation in collaboration with Alliance Française, Ikoyi. Classique! Afikaris, Paris. Smiling & Suffering Together (With Onguene Tassi). Out of Africa Gallery, Barcelona. What Now? PM/AM, London. 2021 It's Not Only a Portrait. Galería Badr El Jundi, Marbella, Málaga. 40 under 40. WHATIFTHEWORLD X Krone. A collaboration with BMW Young Collectors Co., an initiative of FNB Art Joburg, at Twee Jonge Gezellen wine estate Tulbagh. I No Be Gentleman (At All O). ADA, Accra. MUSEUM SHOW 2023 AFRICA SUPERNOVA, KUNSTHAL KADE MUSEUM, Schulting Art Collection, Netherlands 2022 The New African Portraiture, Shariat Collection, Kunsthalle Krems Museum, Austria Gallery Representation I do not have a representation at the moment; however, I do actively collaborate with these three (3) Galleries; PM/AM Gallery, London Afikaris Gallery, Paris Badr El Jundi Gallery, Madrid. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 1. Womanhood "In a world where gender roles are constantly in flux and in one that increasingly understands gender and biological sex as two distinct realms, I often find myself wondering about the nature of womanhood. What does it mean to be a woman? We no longer make sense of what it means to be a woman through a set of physical characteristics or personality traits, nor through fixed societal roles. But if being a woman is not determined by these dimensions, is there some other element that is shared by all women?" 2. More like family This piece was created to acknowledge people in my life who have supported and nourished me mentally and emotionally, most especially in my career, and have continually my back one without asking for their act of kindness to be repaid. 3. Sadiq Sadiq is a Social Media friend whom I respect because of how he has continually lived his life without being confined to societal standards. He has continued to be expressional, most especially with issue in relation to gender, and i have used this piece to represent that part of him. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Gertie Young RWS Air Berlin Collage, gouache and pencil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.)   This lot has been curated by AOAP About Gertie was born in Nottingham and moved to London in 1968 to study at Hornsey School of Art. Over the years she continued to paint, filling sketchbooks and always searching for her own visual language. She takes her subjects from surrounding life - holidays, household objects, walking or gardening. Gertie has firmly established her position as an artist in the UK, having participated in a variety of National competitions and exhibitions such as: the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition, the National Open Art competition, the RWS' Contemporary Watercolour Competition, the Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition, the Sunday Times Watercolour competition, the New English Art Club exhibition, the Royal Society of British Artists exhibition, the Royal Institute of painters in watercolour exhibition and the Royal Watercolour Society where, after becoming a member she also became the society treasurer. Her paintings can be found in private collections in the USA, Oman, Germany, France and Spain as well as here in the UK. Each of Gertie's paintings is like a little journey that makes its way out into the unknown. The images that arise are based on a mixture of observation, emotional memory and imagination. Ultimately her pieces often deal with the meeting of opposites: whether near or far, natural or man-made, mundane or celestial, personal or global. Fairy stories, poems, dreams, imaginary or real objects and places provide her with a constant stream of ideas. Gertie spends most of her time pushing back reality. Education Hornsey Art College Select Exhibitions/Awards Memberships include: Member of the Royal Watercolour Society Awards include: Contemporary watercolour competition Seawhite award winner, National Open Art competition winner, Sunday Times watercolour competition winner, Julian Barrow award Exhibitions include: Chelsea Art society, Royal Institute of painters in watercolour, New English Art Club, Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, RA Summer Exhibition Gallery Representation Bankside Gallery, London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My pieces often deal with the conjunction of opposites; whether near or far, natural or man-made, mundane or celestial. Each painting is like a little journey into the unknown. They are unplanned and assemble themselves as I paint.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Gertie Young RWS Fly Dubai Gouache and pencil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Gertie was born in Nottingham and moved to London in 1968 to study at Hornsey School of Art. Over the years she continued to paint, filling sketchbooks and always searching for her own visual language. She takes her subjects from surrounding life - holidays, household objects, walking or gardening. Gertie has firmly established her position as an artist in the UK, having participated in a variety of National competitions and exhibitions such as: the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition, the National Open Art competition, the RWS' Contemporary Watercolour Competition, the Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition, the Sunday Times Watercolour competition, the New English Art Club exhibition, the Royal Society of British Artists exhibition, the Royal Institute of painters in watercolour exhibition and the Royal Watercolour Society where, after becoming a member she also became the society treasurer. Her paintings can be found in private collections in the USA, Oman, Germany, France and Spain as well as here in the UK. Each of Gertie's paintings is like a little journey that makes its way out into the unknown. The images that arise are based on a mixture of observation, emotional memory and imagination. Ultimately her pieces often deal with the meeting of opposites: whether near or far, natural or man-made, mundane or celestial, personal or global. Fairy stories, poems, dreams, imaginary or real objects and places provide her with a constant stream of ideas. Gertie spends most of her time pushing back reality. Education Hornsey Art College Select Exhibitions/Awards Memberships include: Member of the Royal Watercolour Society Awards include: Contemporary watercolour competition Seawhite award winner, National Open Art competition winner, Sunday Times watercolour competition winner, Julian Barrow award Exhibitions include: Chelsea Art society, Royal Institute of painters in watercolour, New English Art Club, Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, RA Summer Exhibition Gallery Representation Bankside Gallery, London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My pieces often deal with the conjunction of opposites; whether near or far, natural or man-made, mundane or celestial. Each painting is like a little journey into the unknown. They are unplanned and assemble themselves as I paint.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Tomas Harker Drosophila Oil on canvas Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by Ell Pennick About Tomas Harker's works address the nature of meaning in conditions of mediated experience and hyperreal saturation. Over the last several years, the artist's practice has increasingly blurred the lines between fairytale and reality, often by subtly manipulating notions of the uncanny. The mythologies leaking into his recent works are not simply an exploration of fantasy, however; rather, they act as a point of entry to the abstract network of thoughts through which they come into being, suggesting that a real-world circumstance is not quite what it seems. Existing on the fringes of popular culture, Tomas's practice often draws from a variety of image production and distribution systems in an attempt to make sense of a cosmic order becoming increasingly disordered. His paintings reflect the increasing murkiness and confusion of contemporary life, whilst remaining mindful of the dynamics of power benefiting from uncertainty. In spite of their relationship to complex, significant systemic and social issues, Tomas's work manages to retain a lightness of touch, a sense of irreverence, through the inclusion of mythical aesthetics. Unlike magical realism, however, his paintings act as thought experiments - providing the viewer with material by which interpretative systems can be created. They insist that we move beyond defined aesthetic language and into a mode of thinking capable of establishing connections between disparate chunks of metaphor, reference and symbolism as a means of better understanding the physical sensations capable of dominating experience, opinion and existence. Tomas's works therefore venture into a new realm, where representations of the unreal are presented as symbols, or emissaries, of alternate understandings. Education 2018-2020 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London 2015-2018 BA Fine Art, Leeds Arts University, Leeds Select Exhibitions/Awards Selected solo exhibitions include: Multiple Choice Fairytale Ending, The Sunday Painter, London, UK (2023) I haven't been Sleeping, Screw Gallery, Leeds, UK (2021); Third Nature, Copeland Gallery, London, UK (2021); A Sea in Suspense, Bo.lee Gallery, London, UK (2019). Group exhibitions include: New Ancients, Guts Gallery, London, UK (2023); The Artist is Present, Guts Gallery, London, UK (2022) Apotrope, Cob Gallery, London, UK (2022); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London, UK (2021); There's something about Painting, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium (2019); Cite, Bo.lee gallery, London, UK (2018); Syzygy, Leeds Arts University, Leeds, UK (2018). In 2018, Harker was awarded the Ingram Collection purchase prize. Gallery Representation The Sunday Painter   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Gertie Young RWS Chalkhill Blue Pencil, gouache, collage and sweet papers on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Gertie was born in Nottingham and moved to London in 1968 to study at Hornsey School of Art. Over the years she continued to paint, filling sketchbooks and always searching for her own visual language. She takes her subjects from surrounding life - holidays, household objects, walking or gardening. Gertie has firmly established her position as an artist in the UK, having participated in a variety of National competitions and exhibitions such as: the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition, the National Open Art competition, the RWS' Contemporary Watercolour Competition, the Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition, the Sunday Times Watercolour competition, the New English Art Club exhibition, the Royal Society of British Artists exhibition, the Royal Institute of painters in watercolour exhibition and the Royal Watercolour Society where, after becoming a member she also became the society treasurer. Her paintings can be found in private collections in the USA, Oman, Germany, France and Spain as well as here in the UK. Each of Gertie's paintings is like a little journey that makes its way out into the unknown. The images that arise are based on a mixture of observation, emotional memory and imagination. Ultimately her pieces often deal with the meeting of opposites: whether near or far, natural or man-made, mundane or celestial, personal or global. Fairy stories, poems, dreams, imaginary or real objects and places provide her with a constant stream of ideas. Gertie spends most of her time pushing back reality. Education Hornsey Art College Select Exhibitions/Awards Memberships include: Member of the Royal Watercolour Society Awards include: Contemporary watercolour competition Seawhite award winner, National Open Art competition winner, Sunday Times watercolour competition winner, Julian Barrow award Exhibitions include: Chelsea Art society, Royal Institute of painters in watercolour, New English Art Club, Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, RA Summer Exhibition Gallery Representation Bankside Gallery, London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My pieces often deal with the conjunction of opposites; whether near or far, natural or man-made, mundane or celestial. Each painting is like a little journey into the unknown. They are unplanned and assemble themselves as I paint.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Gertie Young RWS Gone Before Winter Gouache, pencil, collage and cold wax on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Gertie was born in Nottingham and moved to London in 1968 to study at Hornsey School of Art. Over the years she continued to paint, filling sketchbooks and always searching for her own visual language. She takes her subjects from surrounding life - holidays, household objects, walking or gardening. Gertie has firmly established her position as an artist in the UK, having participated in a variety of National competitions and exhibitions such as: the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition, the National Open Art competition, the RWS' Contemporary Watercolour Competition, the Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition, the Sunday Times Watercolour competition, the New English Art Club exhibition, the Royal Society of British Artists exhibition, the Royal Institute of painters in watercolour exhibition and the Royal Watercolour Society where, after becoming a member she also became the society treasurer. Her paintings can be found in private collections in the USA, Oman, Germany, France and Spain as well as here in the UK. Each of Gertie's paintings is like a little journey that makes its way out into the unknown. The images that arise are based on a mixture of observation, emotional memory and imagination. Ultimately her pieces often deal with the meeting of opposites: whether near or far, natural or man-made, mundane or celestial, personal or global. Fairy stories, poems, dreams, imaginary or real objects and places provide her with a constant stream of ideas. Gertie spends most of her time pushing back reality. Education Hornsey Art College Select Exhibitions/Awards Memberships include: Member of the Royal Watercolour Society Awards include: Contemporary watercolour competition Seawhite award winner, National Open Art competition winner, Sunday Times watercolour competition winner, Julian Barrow award Exhibitions include: Chelsea Art society, Royal Institute of painters in watercolour, New English Art Club, Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, RA Summer Exhibition Gallery Representation Bankside Gallery, London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My pieces often deal with the conjunction of opposites; whether near or far, natural or man-made, mundane or celestial. Each painting is like a little journey into the unknown. They are unplanned and assemble themselves as I paint.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Rosemary Burn Phone On A Postcard Marker pens and watercolour on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Part of my intention is to make unusual the usual; the everyday visual experiences which we all encounter and mostly dismiss as unimportant, not worth a second glance. The works are crafted from moments; those snippets of time from which I can find a story in the background, such as a dripping bath tap and the light carried in the ripples, a fly on the wall, the fleeting expression on a face, a nameless place. For me, these happenings underpin our existence; big events, highs and lows, come and go but the insignificant and fleeting remain and repeat, like a constant hum in the background. The nature of each brushstroke, and the texture of the paint also play an important part in the translation of the seen, into a blurring between the representational and the semi abstract, the patterns which often escape our notice. I work every day searching for an alchemy between paint, subject and moment. When I studied at Chelsea School of Art, I was making sculpture, but the intention behind the work was similar. Works from those times include a bicycle abandoned on its side with its back wheel perpetually turning, so the scene of an accident was kept alive for an infinite length of time, a remote-controlled leg of lamb, a huge flying saucepan which had come to rest skewered by the sword of a swordfish held upright by a fisherman (both plaster casts). Although my life is a busy one with many commitments - I am also a classical pianist, (and I teach the piano and violin), not being creative in some way every day has never been possible for me. I love every minute! Education Chelsea School of Art MA Trinity College of Music LTCL piano (performer) Select Exhibitions/Awards 2023 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 2023 Anniversary 10x10 ArtCan, Hansard Studio, London 2023 Chroma 2 Artcan, America Square Conference Centre, London 2023 The Power of Pencil, Artcan 10th anniversary exhibition 2023 Figurative Art spring exhibition, Open Gallery Halifax 2023 Artists on the Rise, exhibitions and online auctions, curated by Chinwe Russell Art Gallery 2022 Royal Society of Marine Artists, Mall Galleries London 2022 Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral 2022, Paris International Art Fair 2022, Artexpo, New Yotk 2022, Contemporary Art Masters Virtual Art Fair 2022, Van Gogh Gallery, Madrid 2021, Figurative Art Now, The Federation of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London 2021, Gallery representation, Tom Zaw Fine Art, Hoddesdon, Herts 2021, Publication in Spotlight magazine, Circle Foundation for the Arts 2021, Gallery representation, Alessandro Berni Gallery, New York 2021, Canvas - Mixing Identities, London International Art Fair, THE LINE, contemporary art space, London 2020, Royal Institute of Oil Painters exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2019, Royal Institute of Oil Painters exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2019, Florence Biennale, Fortezza da Basso, Florence 2019, Art Screen TV Digital Exhibition, Gallerie du Marche Prestige, Montreux, Switzerland 2018, Royal Society of Oil Painters exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2018, Gallery representation, New Blood Art 1990, Group exhibition, Art Now, London 1990, 27 Artists before the roof falls in, Art East, London 1984, International Garden Festival, International Garden Festival, Liverpool 1990, Christie's Inaugural, Christie's, London Gallery Representation New Blood Art Singulart Saatchi Art Tom Zaw Gallery, Hoddesdon Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I wanted to create an artwork which had a subject similar in scale to the postcard - I thought a phone on a postcard seemed colourful and quirky, and I liked the idea of the mixed forms of communication - the all-encompassing phone of today humbled by reducing it to a drawing on a postcard.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Keith Milow Cross D/01/23 Iron powder on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Born in London in 1945 Lived in New York 1980-2002 Lived in Amsterdam 2002-2014 Lives in London since 2014 Education Camberwell School of Art, London, 1962-1967 Royal College of Art, London, 1967-1968 Select Exhibitions/Awards AWARDS: 1976 Calousts Gulbenkian Foundation Award 1979 Arts Council of Great Britain, major award 1979 First Prize, Eastern Arts National Exhibition 1983 Edward Albee Foundation Award 2015 Royal Academy Charles Wollaston Award (nominee) 2017 Pollock-Krasner Award SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: Arts Council of England, UK, British Museum, London Contemporary Arts Society, London, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY 53 solo exhibitions between 1968-2017. Numerous group exhibitions   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Keith Milow Cross D/02/23 Iron Powder on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Born in London in 1945 Lived in New York 1980-2002 Lived in Amsterdam 2002-2014 Lives in London since 2014 Education Camberwell School of Art, London, 1962-1967 Royal College of Art, London, 1967-1968 Select Exhibitions/Awards AWARDS: 1976 Calousts Gulbenkian Foundation Award 1979 Arts Council of Great Britain, major award 1979 First Prize, Eastern Arts National Exhibition 1983 Edward Albee Foundation Award 2015 Royal Academy Charles Wollaston Award (nominee) 2017 Pollock-Krasner Award SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: Arts Council of England, UK, British Museum, London Contemporary Arts Society, London, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, Metropolitan Museum, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY 53 solo exhibitions between 1968-2017. Numerous group exhibitions   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Tomas Harker Cyclorrhapha, 2023 Oil on canvas Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by Ell Pennick About Tomas Harker's works address the nature of meaning in conditions of mediated experience and hyperreal saturation. Over the last several years, the artist's practice has increasingly blurred the lines between fairytale and reality, often by subtly manipulating notions of the uncanny. The mythologies leaking into his recent works are not simply an exploration of fantasy, however; rather, they act as a point of entry to the abstract network of thoughts through which they come into being, suggesting that a real-world circumstance is not quite what it seems. Existing on the fringes of popular culture, Tomas's practice often draws from a variety of image production and distribution systems in an attempt to make sense of a cosmic order becoming increasingly disordered. His paintings reflect the increasing murkiness and confusion of contemporary life, whilst remaining mindful of the dynamics of power benefiting from uncertainty. In spite of their relationship to complex, significant systemic and social issues, Tomas's work manages to retain a lightness of touch, a sense of irreverence, through the inclusion of mythical aesthetics. Unlike magical realism, however, his paintings act as thought experiments - providing the viewer with material by which interpretative systems can be created. They insist that we move beyond defined aesthetic language and into a mode of thinking capable of establishing connections between disparate chunks of metaphor, reference and symbolism as a means of better understanding the physical sensations capable of dominating experience, opinion and existence. Tomas's works therefore venture into a new realm, where representations of the unreal are presented as symbols, or emissaries, of alternate understandings. Education 2018-2020 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London 2015-2018 BA Fine Art, Leeds Arts University, Leeds Select Exhibitions/Awards Selected solo exhibitions include: Multiple Choice Fairytale Ending, The Sunday Painter, London, UK (2023) I haven't been Sleeping, Screw Gallery, Leeds, UK (2021); Third Nature, Copeland Gallery, London, UK (2021); A Sea in Suspense, Bo.lee Gallery, London, UK (2019). Group exhibitions include: New Ancients, Guts Gallery, London, UK (2023); The Artist is Present, Guts Gallery, London, UK (2022) Apotrope, Cob Gallery, London, UK (2022); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London, UK (2021); There's something about Painting, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium (2019); Cite, Bo.lee gallery, London, UK (2018); Syzygy, Leeds Arts University, Leeds, UK (2018). In 2018, Harker was awarded the Ingram Collection purchase prize. Gallery Representation The Sunday Painter   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Richard Spare Spring Bullfinch (Detail), 2023 Drypoint and watercolour on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Richard Spare is a painter and printmaker. After studying painting at Maidstone College of Art in the 1970s, Richard embarked on a career that has seen him edition work for a number of leading contemporary artists including David Hockney, Robert Ryman and Jasper Johns among others. He has exhibited his own work internationally and has often displayed work in our own Summer Exhibition over the years. He first came to Hockney's attention in 1977 working as his assistant. During their time together, Spare took charge of setting up an etching studio for him and observed Hockney creating sets for a Glyndebourne production of The Magic Flute. A decade later, Spare was working with Jasper Johns in New York, proofing and editioning complex carborundum prints. Today, Spare focuses on producing his own work, drawing on themes of nature and travel. Based in Charlton, he works from a converted Victorian coach house. A homage to the art of printmaking, this specially designed studio is home to his lovingly restored antique etching presses. Education Maidstone College of Art 1971 - 1974 Select Exhibitions/Awards 2001-21 13 tours of Japan totalling over 200 solo exhibitions 2012 Guest International Artist, Melbourne, Australia Solo Exhibitions in: Australia, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom Selected Group Exhibitions RA Summer Exhibitions. 1973-2023 44 Artworks selected for 30 Summer Exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts, London Invited Artist at: 2016 The Original Print Show curated by Norman Ackroyd CBE RA, Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk, Yorkshire 2014-15 Painter Printmakers - The Six-Month Launch Exhibition of RA Art Sales, The Keeper's House, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2005 The Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2003 The Winter Print Fair, The Friends Room, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1997 The Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London Gallery Representation Public Collections Art in Healthcare Aston University Berlin Central and Regional Library British Library Cartwright Hall Art Gallery Chelmsford Museum Federation University Australia Hastings Museum and Art Gallery Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia Hunterian Art Gallery Imperial Health Charity Leeds Art Gallery Maidstone Museum Museum of London Museum of the Home Penlee House Gallery and Museum Royal Cornwall Museum Trevelyan College, Durham University University College London Hospitals Trust Victoria and Albert Museum. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 'Chat' detail, a glimpse into Richard's London Garden, where birds meet for a chat on the garden bench he renovated. Spring Bullfinch detail, a welcome spring visitor to the magnolia tree in Richard's London Garden. Honeysuckle detail, honeysuckle winds its way through the jasmine and clematis in Richard's front garden in London. A heavenly scent on a summer evening. All three are cropped from original drypoint and watercolour prints and are unique.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Richard Spare Chat (detail), 2023 Drypoint and watercolour on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Richard Spare is a painter and printmaker. After studying painting at Maidstone College of Art in the 1970s, Richard embarked on a career that has seen him edition work for a number of leading contemporary artists including David Hockney, Robert Ryman and Jasper Johns among others. He has exhibited his own work internationally and has often displayed work in our own Summer Exhibition over the years. He first came to Hockney's attention in 1977 working as his assistant. During their time together, Spare took charge of setting up an etching studio for him and observed Hockney creating sets for a Glyndebourne production of The Magic Flute. A decade later, Spare was working with Jasper Johns in New York, proofing and editioning complex carborundum prints. Today, Spare focuses on producing his own work, drawing on themes of nature and travel. Based in Charlton, he works from a converted Victorian coach house. A homage to the art of printmaking, this specially designed studio is home to his lovingly restored antique etching presses. Education Maidstone College of Art 1971 - 1974 Select Exhibitions/Awards 2001-21 13 tours of Japan totalling over 200 solo exhibitions 2012 Guest International Artist, Melbourne, Australia Solo Exhibitions in: Australia, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom Selected Group Exhibitions RA Summer Exhibitions. 1973-2023 44 Artworks selected for 30 Summer Exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts, London Invited Artist at: 2016 The Original Print Show curated by Norman Ackroyd CBE RA, Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk, Yorkshire 2014-15 Painter Printmakers - The Six-Month Launch Exhibition of RA Art Sales, The Keeper's House, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2005 The Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2003 The Winter Print Fair, The Friends Room, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1997 The Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London Gallery Representation Public Collections Art in Healthcare Aston University Berlin Central and Regional Library British Library Cartwright Hall Art Gallery Chelmsford Museum Federation University Australia Hastings Museum and Art Gallery Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia Hunterian Art Gallery Imperial Health Charity Leeds Art Gallery Maidstone Museum Museum of London Museum of the Home Penlee House Gallery and Museum Royal Cornwall Museum Trevelyan College, Durham University University College London Hospitals Trust Victoria and Albert Museum. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 'Chat' detail, a glimpse into Richard's London Garden, where birds meet for a chat on the garden bench he renovated. Spring Bullfinch detail, a welcome spring visitor to the magnolia tree in Richard's London Garden. Honeysuckle detail, honeysuckle winds its way through the jasmine and clematis in Richard's front garden in London. A heavenly scent on a summer evening. All three are cropped from original drypoint and watercolour prints and are unique.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Richard Spare Honeysuckle (detail), 2023 Drypoint and watercolour on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Richard Spare is a painter and printmaker. After studying painting at Maidstone College of Art in the 1970s, Richard embarked on a career that has seen him edition work for a number of leading contemporary artists including David Hockney, Robert Ryman and Jasper Johns among others. He has exhibited his own work internationally and has often displayed work in our own Summer Exhibition over the years. He first came to Hockney's attention in 1977 working as his assistant. During their time together, Spare took charge of setting up an etching studio for him and observed Hockney creating sets for a Glyndebourne production of The Magic Flute. A decade later, Spare was working with Jasper Johns in New York, proofing and editioning complex carborundum prints. Today, Spare focuses on producing his own work, drawing on themes of nature and travel. Based in Charlton, he works from a converted Victorian coach house. A homage to the art of printmaking, this specially designed studio is home to his lovingly restored antique etching presses. Education Maidstone College of Art 1971 - 1974 Select Exhibitions/Awards 2001-21 13 tours of Japan totalling over 200 solo exhibitions 2012 Guest International Artist, Melbourne, Australia Solo Exhibitions in: Australia, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom Selected Group Exhibitions RA Summer Exhibitions. 1973-2023 44 Artworks selected for 30 Summer Exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts, London Invited Artist at: 2016 The Original Print Show curated by Norman Ackroyd CBE RA, Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk, Yorkshire 2014-15 Painter Printmakers - The Six-Month Launch Exhibition of RA Art Sales, The Keeper's House, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2005 The Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London 2003 The Winter Print Fair, The Friends Room, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1997 The Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London Gallery Representation Public Collections Art in Healthcare Aston University Berlin Central and Regional Library British Library Cartwright Hall Art Gallery Chelmsford Museum Federation University Australia Hastings Museum and Art Gallery Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia Hunterian Art Gallery Imperial Health Charity Leeds Art Gallery Maidstone Museum Museum of London Museum of the Home Penlee House Gallery and Museum Royal Cornwall Museum Trevelyan College, Durham University University College London Hospitals Trust Victoria and Albert Museum. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork 'Chat' detail, a glimpse into Richard's London Garden, where birds meet for a chat on the garden bench he renovated. Spring Bullfinch detail, a welcome spring visitor to the magnolia tree in Richard's London Garden. Honeysuckle detail, honeysuckle winds its way through the jasmine and clematis in Richard's front garden in London. A heavenly scent on a summer evening. All three are cropped from original drypoint and watercolour prints and are unique.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Tomas Harker Drosophila Hydei, 2023 Oil on canvas Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by Ell Pennick About Tomas Harker's works address the nature of meaning in conditions of mediated experience and hyperreal saturation. Over the last several years, the artist's practice has increasingly blurred the lines between fairytale and reality, often by subtly manipulating notions of the uncanny. The mythologies leaking into his recent works are not simply an exploration of fantasy, however; rather, they act as a point of entry to the abstract network of thoughts through which they come into being, suggesting that a real-world circumstance is not quite what it seems. Existing on the fringes of popular culture, Tomas's practice often draws from a variety of image production and distribution systems in an attempt to make sense of a cosmic order becoming increasingly disordered. His paintings reflect the increasing murkiness and confusion of contemporary life, whilst remaining mindful of the dynamics of power benefiting from uncertainty. In spite of their relationship to complex, significant systemic and social issues, Tomas's work manages to retain a lightness of touch, a sense of irreverence, through the inclusion of mythical aesthetics. Unlike magical realism, however, his paintings act as thought experiments - providing the viewer with material by which interpretative systems can be created. They insist that we move beyond defined aesthetic language and into a mode of thinking capable of establishing connections between disparate chunks of metaphor, reference and symbolism as a means of better understanding the physical sensations capable of dominating experience, opinion and existence. Tomas's works therefore venture into a new realm, where representations of the unreal are presented as symbols, or emissaries, of alternate understandings. Education 2018-2020 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London 2015-2018 BA Fine Art, Leeds Arts University, Leeds Select Exhibitions/Awards Selected solo exhibitions include: Multiple Choice Fairytale Ending, The Sunday Painter, London, UK (2023) I haven't been Sleeping, Screw Gallery, Leeds, UK (2021); Third Nature, Copeland Gallery, London, UK (2021); A Sea in Suspense, Bo.lee Gallery, London, UK (2019). Group exhibitions include: New Ancients, Guts Gallery, London, UK (2023); The Artist is Present, Guts Gallery, London, UK (2022) Apotrope, Cob Gallery, London, UK (2022); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London, UK (2021); There's something about Painting, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium (2019); Cite, Bo.lee gallery, London, UK (2018); Syzygy, Leeds Arts University, Leeds, UK (2018). In 2018, Harker was awarded the Ingram Collection purchase prize. Gallery Representation The Sunday Painter   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Laurence de Valmy I'm a Pharmacist Acrylics on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Laurence de Valmy combines painting and digital mediums, to bring a new light on our collective imagery and make the viewers ponder on our society including the notion of fame, the place of women or the role of social media. Laurence de Valmy is French American and lives in San Diego, USA. Her work is represented by galleries based in New York, UK and France. She is an active member of Artcan.org, a non-profit artist community. Education Laurence de Valmy studied painting in private studios and art history at the Ecole du Louvre. She holds a Master from the University of Paris, and an MBA from the Institute of Business Administration Aix. SELECT EXHIBITIONS/AWARDS SELECT EXHIBITIONS 2023 Pop Color, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles Fall exhibition, Range of Arts, Honfleur, France Pop: Summer exhibition, Azart Gallery, NY ArtCan with love, London Opening exhibition, Amber Galleries, Henley on Thames NFT event at Santa Monica Art Museum (California) 2022 Urban Pop, Bountiful Davis Art Center, UT curated by Todd Marshall Feminist connect, Charles Adam Studio Project, in Lubbock, Texas Explore 01, Kroll x ArtCan, New York Eye of the beholder, 508 King Gallery, London 2021 Connected, Summit Public Art, Summit, NJ, USA Monumental, juried by Sergio Gomez, USA A Thousand Words, The Curator's Salon, juried by Gita Joshi Art on a Postcard, London, curated by Gemma Peppe - Invitational Wish You Were Here, The Postal Museum, London Flower Fever, Sorunda, Sweden, curated by Brandy Kraft Women artists, Kahn Gallery, (London) Through her eyes, Singulart, curated by Rania Elafifi and Marion Sailhen Not so classic Classics, Range of Arts, Honfleur Group Show 3, Shrine Gallery, New York, USA 2020 The Watermill Center: Benefit Auction - Invitational Art on a Postcard, London, curated by Gemma Peppe - Invitational Cosmopolis, Azart Gallery, NYC curated by Latifa Metheny USPS Art Project, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, USA To Beirut, Range of Arts, Honfleur, France SolidArty, Sothebys Institute of London curated by Amira Gad and Emily Butler Juried Concepts, CICA Museum, Seoul, South Korea 2019 POST, Michele Mariaud Gallery, NYC curated by Michele Mariaud (Solo show) SOLO Azart Gallery & French Wink, NYC (Solo show) Art on a Postcard, London, curated by Gemma Peppe - Invitational Mana Open House, Mana Decentralized, Jersey City, NJ Lost in Abstraction, Kahn Gallery, London 2018 Art on a Postcard, London, curated by Gemma Peppe - Invitational The BUNTE Art, Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art, Munich, curated by Mon Muellerschoen Let's Connect, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Stranger than Fiction, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, curated by Om Bleicher 2017 Dialogue, AZART Gallery, New York, curated by Latifa Metheny Wrap Around 13: Laurence de Valmy, George Horner, Karen Lederer, ARENA at Suite 806, New York, curated by Renée Riccardo 2016 French Reflections, FIAF Montclair, NJ, curated by Marie-Catherine Glaser (Solo show) AWARDS 2023 Finalist of the Trophy of French in the USA by Le Petit Journal 2020 St Petersburg Art Residency #VirtualSPAR 2019 Guest Artist Museum Week, Michele Mariaud Gallery, NYC 2017 Artist Residency Fellowship, Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation ESKFF, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ 2016 Fall price, Connection Magazine, NJ 2005 Mention, Prix de l'Ebouillante, Paris, France 2004 First Prize, Watercolor competition BHV, Paris, France Gallery Representation Azart Gallery (NY), Artspace Warehouse (LA), Amber Galleries (UK), Range of Arts (France), Singulart (France) Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Art is a continuum and a mirror of our society. In the tradition of art appropriation, I bring my own view to existing artworks, pay a tribute to their authors, and play with the concept of originality. My goals are to bring a new light on our collective imagery and to make the viewers ponder on our current society including the notion of fame, the place of women or the role of media. By painting the positive portrayal of women and girls in modern-day comic books like Pokemon, my ambition is to highlight and amplify an empowering narrative.  You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Laurence de Valmy Sisterhood Acrylics on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Laurence de Valmy combines painting and digital mediums, to bring a new light on our collective imagery and make the viewers ponder on our society including the notion of fame, the place of women or the role of social media. Laurence de Valmy is French American and lives in San Diego, USA. Her work is represented by galleries based in New York, UK and France. She is an active member of Artcan.org, a non-profit artist community. Education Laurence de Valmy studied painting in private studios and art history at the Ecole du Louvre. She holds a Master from the University of Paris, and an MBA from the Institute of Business Administration Aix. SELECT EXHIBITIONS/AWARDS SELECT EXHIBITIONS 2023 Pop Color, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles Fall exhibition, Range of Arts, Honfleur, France Pop: Summer exhibition, Azart Gallery, NY ArtCan with love, London Opening exhibition, Amber Galleries, Henley on Thames NFT event at Santa Monica Art Museum (California) 2022 Urban Pop, Bountiful Davis Art Center, UT curated by Todd Marshall Feminist connect, Charles Adam Studio Project, in Lubbock, Texas Explore 01, Kroll x ArtCan, New York Eye of the beholder, 508 King Gallery, London 2021 Connected, Summit Public Art, Summit, NJ, USA Monumental, juried by Sergio Gomez, USA A Thousand Words, The Curator's Salon, juried by Gita Joshi Art on a Postcard, London, curated by Gemma Peppe - Invitational Wish You Were Here, The Postal Museum, London Flower Fever, Sorunda, Sweden, curated by Brandy Kraft Women artists, Kahn Gallery, (London) Through her eyes, Singulart, curated by Rania Elafifi and Marion Sailhen Not so classic Classics, Range of Arts, Honfleur Group Show 3, Shrine Gallery, New York, USA 2020 The Watermill Center: Benefit Auction - Invitational Art on a Postcard, London, curated by Gemma Peppe - Invitational Cosmopolis, Azart Gallery, NYC curated by Latifa Metheny USPS Art Project, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, USA To Beirut, Range of Arts, Honfleur, France SolidArty, Sothebys Institute of London curated by Amira Gad and Emily Butler Juried Concepts, CICA Museum, Seoul, South Korea 2019 POST, Michele Mariaud Gallery, NYC curated by Michele Mariaud (Solo show) SOLO Azart Gallery & French Wink, NYC (Solo show) Art on a Postcard, London, curated by Gemma Peppe - Invitational Mana Open House, Mana Decentralized, Jersey City, NJ Lost in Abstraction, Kahn Gallery, London 2018 Art on a Postcard, London, curated by Gemma Peppe - Invitational The BUNTE Art, Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art, Munich, curated by Mon Muellerschoen Let's Connect, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Stranger than Fiction, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, curated by Om Bleicher 2017 Dialogue, AZART Gallery, New York, curated by Latifa Metheny Wrap Around 13: Laurence de Valmy, George Horner, Karen Lederer, ARENA at Suite 806, New York, curated by Renée Riccardo 2016 French Reflections, FIAF Montclair, NJ, curated by Marie-Catherine Glaser (Solo show) AWARDS 2023 Finalist of the Trophy of French in the USA by Le Petit Journal 2020 St Petersburg Art Residency #VirtualSPAR 2019 Guest Artist Museum Week, Michele Mariaud Gallery, NYC 2017 Artist Residency Fellowship, Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation ESKFF, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ 2016 Fall price, Connection Magazine, NJ 2005 Mention, Prix de l'Ebouillante, Paris, France 2004 First Prize, Watercolor competition BHV, Paris, France Gallery Representation Azart Gallery (NY), Artspace Warehouse (LA), Amber Galleries (UK), Range of Arts (France), Singulart (France) Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Art is a continuum and a mirror of our society. In the tradition of art appropriation, I bring my own view to existing artworks, pay a tribute to their authors, and play with the concept of originality. My goals are to bring a new light on our collective imagery and to make the viewers ponder on our current society including the notion of fame, the place of women or the role of media. By painting the positive portrayal of women and girls in modern-day comic books like Pokemon, my ambition is to highlight and amplify an empowering narrative.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Laurence de Valmy It's Called an Ambition, 2023 Acrylics on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Laurence de Valmy combines painting and digital mediums, to bring a new light on our collective imagery and make the viewers ponder on our society including the notion of fame, the place of women or the role of social media. Laurence de Valmy is French American and lives in San Diego, USA. Her work is represented by galleries based in New York, UK and France. She is an active member of Artcan.org, a non-profit artist community. Education Laurence de Valmy studied painting in private studios and art history at the Ecole du Louvre. She holds a Master from the University of Paris, and an MBA from the Institute of Business Administration Aix. SELECT EXHIBITIONS/AWARDS SELECT EXHIBITIONS 2023 Pop Color, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles Fall exhibition, Range of Arts, Honfleur, France Pop: Summer exhibition, Azart Gallery, NY ArtCan with love, London Opening exhibition, Amber Galleries, Henley on Thames NFT event at Santa Monica Art Museum (California) 2022 Urban Pop, Bountiful Davis Art Center, UT curated by Todd Marshall Feminist connect, Charles Adam Studio Project, in Lubbock, Texas Explore 01, Kroll x ArtCan, New York Eye of the beholder, 508 King Gallery, London 2021 Connected, Summit Public Art, Summit, NJ, USA Monumental, juried by Sergio Gomez, USA A Thousand Words, The Curator's Salon, juried by Gita Joshi Art on a Postcard, London, curated by Gemma Peppe - Invitational Wish You Were Here, The Postal Museum, London Flower Fever, Sorunda, Sweden, curated by Brandy Kraft Women artists, Kahn Gallery, (London) Through her eyes, Singulart, curated by Rania Elafifi and Marion Sailhen Not so classic Classics, Range of Arts, Honfleur Group Show 3, Shrine Gallery, New York, USA 2020 The Watermill Center: Benefit Auction - Invitational Art on a Postcard, London, curated by Gemma Peppe - Invitational Cosmopolis, Azart Gallery, NYC curated by Latifa Metheny USPS Art Project, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, USA To Beirut, Range of Arts, Honfleur, France SolidArty, Sothebys Institute of London curated by Amira Gad and Emily Butler Juried Concepts, CICA Museum, Seoul, South Korea 2019 POST, Michele Mariaud Gallery, NYC curated by Michele Mariaud (Solo show) SOLO Azart Gallery & French Wink, NYC (Solo show) Art on a Postcard, London, curated by Gemma Peppe - Invitational Mana Open House, Mana Decentralized, Jersey City, NJ Lost in Abstraction, Kahn Gallery, London 2018 Art on a Postcard, London, curated by Gemma Peppe - Invitational The BUNTE Art, Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art, Munich, curated by Mon Muellerschoen Let's Connect, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Stranger than Fiction, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, curated by Om Bleicher 2017 Dialogue, AZART Gallery, New York, curated by Latifa Metheny Wrap Around 13: Laurence de Valmy, George Horner, Karen Lederer, ARENA at Suite 806, New York, curated by Renée Riccardo 2016 French Reflections, FIAF Montclair, NJ, curated by Marie-Catherine Glaser (Solo show) AWARDS 2023 Finalist of the Trophy of French in the USA by Le Petit Journal 2020 St Petersburg Art Residency #VirtualSPAR 2019 Guest Artist Museum Week, Michele Mariaud Gallery, NYC 2017 Artist Residency Fellowship, Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation ESKFF, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ 2016 Fall price, Connection Magazine, NJ 2005 Mention, Prix de l'Ebouillante, Paris, France 2004 First Prize, Watercolor competition BHV, Paris, France Gallery Representation Azart Gallery (NY), Artspace Warehouse (LA), Amber Galleries (UK), Range of Arts (France), Singulart (France) Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Art is a continuum and a mirror of our society. In the tradition of art appropriation, I bring my own view to existing artworks, pay a tribute to their authors, and play with the concept of originality. My goals are to bring a new light on our collective imagery and to make the viewers ponder on our current society including the notion of fame, the place of women or the role of media. By painting the positive portrayal of women and girls in modern-day comic books like Pokemon, my ambition is to highlight and amplify an empowering narrative.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Laurence de Valmy It's Our Turn, 2023 Acrylics on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Laurence de Valmy combines painting and digital mediums, to bring a new light on our collective imagery and make the viewers ponder on our society including the notion of fame, the place of women or the role of social media. Laurence de Valmy is French American and lives in San Diego, USA. Her work is represented by galleries based in New York, UK and France. She is an active member of Artcan.org, a non-profit artist community. Education Laurence de Valmy studied painting in private studios and art history at the Ecole du Louvre. She holds a Master from the University of Paris, and an MBA from the Institute of Business Administration Aix. SELECT EXHIBITIONS/AWARDS SELECT EXHIBITIONS 2023 Pop Color, Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles Fall exhibition, Range of Arts, Honfleur, France Pop: Summer exhibition, Azart Gallery, NY ArtCan with love, London Opening exhibition, Amber Galleries, Henley on Thames NFT event at Santa Monica Art Museum (California) 2022 Urban Pop, Bountiful Davis Art Center, UT curated by Todd Marshall Feminist connect, Charles Adam Studio Project, in Lubbock, Texas Explore 01, Kroll x ArtCan, New York Eye of the beholder, 508 King Gallery, London 2021 Connected, Summit Public Art, Summit, NJ, USA Monumental, juried by Sergio Gomez, USA A Thousand Words, The Curator's Salon, juried by Gita Joshi Art on a Postcard, London, curated by Gemma Peppe - Invitational Wish You Were Here, The Postal Museum, London Flower Fever, Sorunda, Sweden, curated by Brandy Kraft Women artists, Kahn Gallery, (London) Through her eyes, Singulart, curated by Rania Elafifi and Marion Sailhen Not so classic Classics, Range of Arts, Honfleur Group Show 3, Shrine Gallery, New York, USA 2020 The Watermill Center: Benefit Auction - Invitational Art on a Postcard, London, curated by Gemma Peppe - Invitational Cosmopolis, Azart Gallery, NYC curated by Latifa Metheny USPS Art Project, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, USA To Beirut, Range of Arts, Honfleur, France SolidArty, Sothebys Institute of London curated by Amira Gad and Emily Butler Juried Concepts, CICA Museum, Seoul, South Korea 2019 POST, Michele Mariaud Gallery, NYC curated by Michele Mariaud (Solo show) SOLO Azart Gallery & French Wink, NYC (Solo show) Art on a Postcard, London, curated by Gemma Peppe - Invitational Mana Open House, Mana Decentralized, Jersey City, NJ Lost in Abstraction, Kahn Gallery, London 2018 Art on a Postcard, London, curated by Gemma Peppe - Invitational The BUNTE Art, Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art, Munich, curated by Mon Muellerschoen Let's Connect, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Stranger than Fiction, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, curated by Om Bleicher 2017 Dialogue, AZART Gallery, New York, curated by Latifa Metheny Wrap Around 13: Laurence de Valmy, George Horner, Karen Lederer, ARENA at Suite 806, New York, curated by Renée Riccardo 2016 French Reflections, FIAF Montclair, NJ, curated by Marie-Catherine Glaser (Solo show) AWARDS 2023 Finalist of the Trophy of French in the USA by Le Petit Journal 2020 St Petersburg Art Residency #VirtualSPAR 2019 Guest Artist Museum Week, Michele Mariaud Gallery, NYC 2017 Artist Residency Fellowship, Eileen Kaminsky Family Foundation ESKFF, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ 2016 Fall price, Connection Magazine, NJ 2005 Mention, Prix de l'Ebouillante, Paris, France 2004 First Prize, Watercolor competition BHV, Paris, France Gallery Representation Azart Gallery (NY), Artspace Warehouse (LA), Amber Galleries (UK), Range of Arts (France), Singulart (France) Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Art is a continuum and a mirror of our society. In the tradition of art appropriation, I bring my own view to existing artworks, pay a tribute to their authors, and play with the concept of originality. My goals are to bring a new light on our collective imagery and to make the viewers ponder on our current society including the notion of fame, the place of women or the role of media. By painting the positive portrayal of women and girls in modern-day comic books like Pokemon, my ambition is to highlight and amplify an empowering narrative.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.

Tomas Harker Sciaridae, 2023 Oil on canvas Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by Ell Pennick About Tomas Harker's works address the nature of meaning in conditions of mediated experience and hyperreal saturation. Over the last several years, the artist's practice has increasingly blurred the lines between fairytale and reality, often by subtly manipulating notions of the uncanny. The mythologies leaking into his recent works are not simply an exploration of fantasy, however; rather, they act as a point of entry to the abstract network of thoughts through which they come into being, suggesting that a real-world circumstance is not quite what it seems. Existing on the fringes of popular culture, Tomas's practice often draws from a variety of image production and distribution systems in an attempt to make sense of a cosmic order becoming increasingly disordered. His paintings reflect the increasing murkiness and confusion of contemporary life, whilst remaining mindful of the dynamics of power benefiting from uncertainty. In spite of their relationship to complex, significant systemic and social issues, Tomas's work manages to retain a lightness of touch, a sense of irreverence, through the inclusion of mythical aesthetics. Unlike magical realism, however, his paintings act as thought experiments - providing the viewer with material by which interpretative systems can be created. They insist that we move beyond defined aesthetic language and into a mode of thinking capable of establishing connections between disparate chunks of metaphor, reference and symbolism as a means of better understanding the physical sensations capable of dominating experience, opinion and existence. Tomas's works therefore venture into a new realm, where representations of the unreal are presented as symbols, or emissaries, of alternate understandings. Education 2018-2020 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London 2015-2018 BA Fine Art, Leeds Arts University, Leeds Select Exhibitions/Awards Selected solo exhibitions include: Multiple Choice Fairytale Ending, The Sunday Painter, London, UK (2023) I haven't been Sleeping, Screw Gallery, Leeds, UK (2021); Third Nature, Copeland Gallery, London, UK (2021); A Sea in Suspense, Bo.lee Gallery, London, UK (2019). Group exhibitions include: New Ancients, Guts Gallery, London, UK (2023); The Artist is Present, Guts Gallery, London, UK (2022) Apotrope, Cob Gallery, London, UK (2022); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London, UK (2021); There's something about Painting, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium (2019); Cite, Bo.lee gallery, London, UK (2018); Syzygy, Leeds Arts University, Leeds, UK (2018). In 2018, Harker was awarded the Ingram Collection purchase prize. Gallery Representation The Sunday Painter   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Sonia Martin Which Way, 2023 Watercolour on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Following graduate and postgraduate studies in Fine Art, British artist Sonia Martin completed a Master's Degree in printmaking at Camberwell College of Art, London. Her work has been exhibited widely in solo and group shows including London Art Biennale; Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; New Hall College, Cambridge; the Barbican; Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition; Bankside Gallery; Contemporary Art Society; Gallery Different; Dentons Art Prize. Arising from her response to the past and to the present, her subjects are a merging of the here-and-now and the imagination. Education City & Guilds Art School and Camberwell College of Arts Select Exhibitions/Awards Widely exhibited including at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the London Art Biennale, Bankside Gallery, and the London Original Print Fair. Recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Award in 2021, a Contemporary British Painting Prize Shortlisted artist in 2022, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in 2023. Gallery Representation Tart Gallery, Maggio Art Consultancy, Gallery Different Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Figures moving forwards into different spheres. Figure moving towards a different sphere. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Sonia Martin After the Rain, 2023 Watercolour on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.)   This lot has been curated by AOAP About Following graduate and postgraduate studies in Fine Art, British artist Sonia Martin completed a Master's Degree in printmaking at Camberwell College of Art, London. Her work has been exhibited widely in solo and group shows including London Art Biennale; Royal Academy Summer Exhibition; New Hall College, Cambridge; the Barbican; Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition; Bankside Gallery; Contemporary Art Society; Gallery Different; Dentons Art Prize. Arising from her response to the past and to the present, her subjects are a merging of the here-and-now and the imagination. Education City & Guilds Art School and Camberwell College of Arts Select Exhibitions/Awards Widely exhibited including at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the London Art Biennale, Bankside Gallery, and the London Original Print Fair. Recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Award in 2021, a Contemporary British Painting Prize Shortlisted artist in 2022, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in 2023. Gallery Representation Tart Gallery, Maggio Art Consultancy, Gallery Different Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Figures moving forwards into different spheres. Figure moving towards a different sphere. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.    

Robin Kandel Where There Was A Where We Went, 2023 Graphite on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Born in Detroit, Michigan, I have an early memory, at age five or six, of gazing at a Franz Kline painting in the Detroit Institute of Arts and, to the amusement of two adults behind me, explaining Kline's heavy, black, mark-making to my older sister. Seeing that Franz Kline painting and, on exhibit nearby, a massive, black, room-like sculpture by Louis Nevelson, might just account for the trajectory of my life in art. Education BFA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Select Exhibitions/Awards My work has been exhibited in museums, non-profit spaces, and galleries in the US and internationally. This includes, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California; Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California; and Daigo Fukuru Maru Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, California; Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Gallery ef, Tokyo, Japan; Galerie Califia, Horažďovíce, Czech Republic.   Public collections include: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, California Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California Saint Mary's College Museum of Art, Moraga, California   Awards: Rydell Fellowship The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Gallery Representation Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The four pieces for AOAP are mono prints made with powdered graphite in suspension. They suggest places known and unknown, with titles that hint at getting there, wherever "there" is.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Robin Kandel It Was Unlike As If We'd Been, 2023 Graphite on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Born in Detroit, Michigan, I have an early memory, at age five or six, of gazing at a Franz Kline painting in the Detroit Institute of Arts and, to the amusement of two adults behind me, explaining Kline's heavy, black, mark-making to my older sister. Seeing that Franz Kline painting and, on exhibit nearby, a massive, black, room-like sculpture by Louis Nevelson, might just account for the trajectory of my life in art. Education BFA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Select Exhibitions/Awards My work has been exhibited in museums, non-profit spaces, and galleries in the US and internationally. This includes, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California; Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California; and Daigo Fukuru Maru Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, California; Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Gallery ef, Tokyo, Japan; Galerie Califia, Horažďovíce, Czech Republic.   Public collections include: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, California Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California Saint Mary's College Museum of Art, Moraga, California   Awards: Rydell Fellowship The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Gallery Representation Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The four pieces for AOAP are mono prints made with powdered graphite in suspension. They suggest places known and unknown, with titles that hint at getting there, wherever "there" is.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Robin Kandel This Way Then They Said, 2023 Graphite on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Born in Detroit, Michigan, I have an early memory, at age five or six, of gazing at a Franz Kline painting in the Detroit Institute of Arts and, to the amusement of two adults behind me, explaining Kline's heavy, black, mark-making to my older sister. Seeing that Franz Kline painting and, on exhibit nearby, a massive, black, room-like sculpture by Louis Nevelson, might just account for the trajectory of my life in art. Education BFA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Select Exhibitions/Awards My work has been exhibited in museums, non-profit spaces, and galleries in the US and internationally. This includes, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California; Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California; and Daigo Fukuru Maru Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, California; Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Gallery ef, Tokyo, Japan; Galerie Califia, Horažďovíce, Czech Republic.   Public collections include: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, California Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California Saint Mary's College Museum of Art, Moraga, California   Awards: Rydell Fellowship The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Gallery Representation Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The four pieces for AOAP are mono prints made with powdered graphite in suspension. They suggest places known and unknown, with titles that hint at getting there, wherever "there" is.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Robin Kandel Furthermore We Couldn't Stay, 2023 Graphite on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Born in Detroit, Michigan, I have an early memory, at age five or six, of gazing at a Franz Kline painting in the Detroit Institute of Arts and, to the amusement of two adults behind me, explaining Kline's heavy, black, mark-making to my older sister. Seeing that Franz Kline painting and, on exhibit nearby, a massive, black, room-like sculpture by Louis Nevelson, might just account for the trajectory of my life in art. Education BFA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Select Exhibitions/Awards My work has been exhibited in museums, non-profit spaces, and galleries in the US and internationally. This includes, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California; Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California; and Daigo Fukuru Maru Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, California; Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Gallery ef, Tokyo, Japan; Galerie Califia, Horažďovíce, Czech Republic.   Public collections include: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, California Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California Saint Mary's College Museum of Art, Moraga, California   Awards: Rydell Fellowship The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Gallery Representation Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The four pieces for AOAP are mono prints made with powdered graphite in suspension. They suggest places known and unknown, with titles that hint at getting there, wherever "there" is.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Amber Boardman Blobs With Tubes Acrylic on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Amber Boardman is an American-born, Sydney-based artist who explores the influence of the internet on crowds and social norms. Boardman combines her background in painting and animation to create narrative works that draw from the visual language of cartoons, influenced in part by her work as an animator for Cartoon Network's [adult swim]. Amber Boardman's 20-year history of exhibiting her work internationally includes shows in arts institutions in New York, London, Rome, Amsterdam, Miami, Atlanta, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Notable exhibitions include BAM's Next Wave Festival in New York, Postmasters Gallery in Rome, and the Archibald and Geelong Prizes in Australia. Over the last two decades, she has been committed to fostering the creative talent of artists. Boardman holds a PhD in Fine Art and has been an invited speaker at universities, art galleries and museums since 2011. She has lectured in art and animation at leading universities in the US and Australia. Boardman has founded shared studio/exhibition spaces in both Brooklyn NY and Sydney Australia and continues to facilitate the exchange of ideas between artists internationally with her Virtual Studio Visit events. Her works are held in private and public collections including Artbank and The City of Sydney in Australia, and the High Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the University of Kentucky Art Museum in America. Her work has appeared in publications including Artforum, Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz, Artist Profile, Art Collector, and ArtMaze Magazine. Her work is represented by Chalk Horse in Sydney, Sophie Gannon Gallery in Melbourne, and Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta. Education 2018 PhD, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2009 MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York 2003 BFA, Georgia State University, Atlanta Select Exhibitions/Awards SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2023 Dude, Chalk Horse, Sydney 2022 Real Estate Religion, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne 2021 Decision Fatigue, Chalk Horse, Sydney 2020 Amber Boardman, 333 Projects / Clayton Utz, Sydney Bodywork, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth (with Kaylene Whiskey and Tarryn Gill) 2019 Crowd Scenes, Chalk Horse, Sydney 2018 @jadefad: a social media feed in paint, Kudos Gallery, Sydney We Are, Postmasters Gallery, Rome (with Jenny Morgan and Monica Cook) 2017 Regrowth, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta 2016 Titlist, Chalk Horse, Sydney Sitcom Studies, Ivy Brown Gallery, New York Methods For Making Eye Contact, First Draft, Sydney (with Teelah George) 2015 Expansion, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane Permission, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney 2011 FAV (Flute and Video), Flux Projects, multiple locations, Atlanta STILL, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta 2010 A Sampling, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS 2004 Painting, Drawing, and Animation, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta   SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022 Fair Play, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney 2020 Here I Am: Art by Great Women, amBUSH Gallery, Canberra This is America, UK Art Museum, Lexington, KY Out of Touch, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles 2019 Paddington Art Prize, Sydney McGivern Prize, Melbourne Willoughby Visual Arts Biennial, Sydney Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, Melbourne 2018 Beyond Reason, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane Personal Best, Verge Gallery, Sydney Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Up In Arms, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong Australia 2016 Julie Spoke Softly Under Her Long Skinny Nose, Field Projects, New York 13.04.16, Home@735, Sydney 2015 Porque No, Gaffa, Sydney Art Month Sydney, Creative Live Work Space, Sydney 2014 Ingenious Inhabitants, William Street Windows, Sydney Summer Studio Salon, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta Steal This Bike, Mint, Atlanta 2013 The Wagner Experience, Koblenz, Duisburg, Arnhem, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Rotterdam 2012 FLUX 2012, Public Art Festival, Atlanta 2011 Paint it Black, The Shirey, Brooklyn Everyday Charms, O Cinema, Miami New Media from the Permanent Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta Animation Block Party, BAM, Brooklyn 2010 BAM Next Wave Festival, curated by Dan Cameron, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn Portrait Concert with Masanori Oishi, Tokyo On the Outside, with AURA Contemporary Ensemble, San Jacinto College, Houston Concert with Sonic Generator, Georgia Tech University, Atlanta The Body Machine, High Museum of Art, Atlanta Losing Yourself in the 21st Century, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore 2009 Losing Yourself in the 21st Century, Georgia State University, Atlanta A New Currency, curated by Dan Cameron, 55 Delancey St, New York Cardsharper, curated by Lauren Ross, Visual Arts Gallery, New York About Time, Visual Arts Gallery, New York Summer Guest House, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta My Eyes, Ad Naseam Lyceum, New York 2008 This Just In, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta Click/Shift/Enter, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta Atlanta Biennial, curated by Stuart Horodner, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta 2004 Going Up, Sundial, Curated by Fifth Class, Atlanta 2003 Atlanta Film Festival, Rialto, Atlanta 2002 all small video night: Short Short Shorts, Eyedrum, Atlanta Fresh, Curated by Fifth Class, Atlanta Continue reading   Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Sculptures in paint.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. 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Amber Boardman Wobbly Tubes, 2023 Acrylic on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Amber Boardman is an American-born, Sydney-based artist who explores the influence of the internet on crowds and social norms. Boardman combines her background in painting and animation to create narrative works that draw from the visual language of cartoons, influenced in part by her work as an animator for Cartoon Network's [adult swim]. Amber Boardman's 20-year history of exhibiting her work internationally includes shows in arts institutions in New York, London, Rome, Amsterdam, Miami, Atlanta, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Notable exhibitions include BAM's Next Wave Festival in New York, Postmasters Gallery in Rome, and the Archibald and Geelong Prizes in Australia. Over the last two decades, she has been committed to fostering the creative talent of artists. Boardman holds a PhD in Fine Art and has been an invited speaker at universities, art galleries and museums since 2011. She has lectured in art and animation at leading universities in the US and Australia. Boardman has founded shared studio/exhibition spaces in both Brooklyn NY and Sydney Australia and continues to facilitate the exchange of ideas between artists internationally with her Virtual Studio Visit events. Her works are held in private and public collections including Artbank and The City of Sydney in Australia, and the High Museum of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the University of Kentucky Art Museum in America. Her work has appeared in publications including Artforum, Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz, Artist Profile, Art Collector, and ArtMaze Magazine. Her work is represented by Chalk Horse in Sydney, Sophie Gannon Gallery in Melbourne, and Sandler Hudson Gallery in Atlanta. Education 2018 PhD, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2009 MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York 2003 BFA, Georgia State University, Atlanta Select Exhibitions/Awards SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2023 Dude, Chalk Horse, Sydney 2022 Real Estate Religion, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne 2021 Decision Fatigue, Chalk Horse, Sydney 2020 Amber Boardman, 333 Projects / Clayton Utz, Sydney Bodywork, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth (with Kaylene Whiskey and Tarryn Gill) 2019 Crowd Scenes, Chalk Horse, Sydney 2018 @jadefad: a social media feed in paint, Kudos Gallery, Sydney We Are, Postmasters Gallery, Rome (with Jenny Morgan and Monica Cook) 2017 Regrowth, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta 2016 Titlist, Chalk Horse, Sydney Sitcom Studies, Ivy Brown Gallery, New York Methods For Making Eye Contact, First Draft, Sydney (with Teelah George) 2015 Expansion, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane Permission, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney 2011 FAV (Flute and Video), Flux Projects, multiple locations, Atlanta STILL, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta 2010 A Sampling, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS 2004 Painting, Drawing, and Animation, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta   SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022 Fair Play, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney 2020 Here I Am: Art by Great Women, amBUSH Gallery, Canberra This is America, UK Art Museum, Lexington, KY Out of Touch, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles 2019 Paddington Art Prize, Sydney McGivern Prize, Melbourne Willoughby Visual Arts Biennial, Sydney Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, Melbourne 2018 Beyond Reason, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane Personal Best, Verge Gallery, Sydney Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Up In Arms, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, Geelong Australia 2016 Julie Spoke Softly Under Her Long Skinny Nose, Field Projects, New York 13.04.16, Home@735, Sydney 2015 Porque No, Gaffa, Sydney Art Month Sydney, Creative Live Work Space, Sydney 2014 Ingenious Inhabitants, William Street Windows, Sydney Summer Studio Salon, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta Steal This Bike, Mint, Atlanta 2013 The Wagner Experience, Koblenz, Duisburg, Arnhem, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Rotterdam 2012 FLUX 2012, Public Art Festival, Atlanta 2011 Paint it Black, The Shirey, Brooklyn Everyday Charms, O Cinema, Miami New Media from the Permanent Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta Animation Block Party, BAM, Brooklyn 2010 BAM Next Wave Festival, curated by Dan Cameron, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn Portrait Concert with Masanori Oishi, Tokyo On the Outside, with AURA Contemporary Ensemble, San Jacinto College, Houston Concert with Sonic Generator, Georgia Tech University, Atlanta The Body Machine, High Museum of Art, Atlanta Losing Yourself in the 21st Century, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore 2009 Losing Yourself in the 21st Century, Georgia State University, Atlanta A New Currency, curated by Dan Cameron, 55 Delancey St, New York Cardsharper, curated by Lauren Ross, Visual Arts Gallery, New York About Time, Visual Arts Gallery, New York Summer Guest House, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta My Eyes, Ad Naseam Lyceum, New York 2008 This Just In, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta Click/Shift/Enter, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta Atlanta Biennial, curated by Stuart Horodner, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta 2004 Going Up, Sundial, Curated by Fifth Class, Atlanta 2003 Atlanta Film Festival, Rialto, Atlanta 2002 all small video night: Short Short Shorts, Eyedrum, Atlanta Fresh, Curated by Fifth Class, Atlanta Continue reading   Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Sculptures in paint.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. 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Katie Tomlinson Strawbody, 2023 Watercolour on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Katie Tomlinson was born in Teesside, and lives and works in Manchester and London. Katie is an artist, researcher and Lecturer in Painting, focusing on intersectional feminist perspectives in contemporary painting and pedagogy. Education Katie recently completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London (2021-2023) supported by the Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award. In 2018, she attained a First-Class BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Manchester School of Art. Select Exhibitions/Awards   Recent solo exhibitions include: At Least Buy Me Dinner First, Brooke Benington, London (2022/23) and Fight the Moon, Paradise Works, Manchester (2021/22). Katie has also participated in significant duo and group exhibitions, including Buried in Affection, Galerie Supermarkt, Tokyo (2022); Fayre Share Fayre, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2022); Stories, Bankley Gallery, Manchester (2022); A star is just a memory of a star, Brooke Benington, online (2022); RAW, Soho Revue, London (2022); Obstructions, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2021). In addition, Katie has received various awards and residencies, including the Zabludowicz Collection Master Class with artist tutors Doug Fishbone, Sir Isaac Julien, Emma Talbot, Ryan Gander and Julia Scher (2021); Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant (2021); The Sir Richard Stapley Education Trust Grant (2021); The Essential School of Painting Artist Scholarship, ESOP, London (2020); Developing Your Creative Practice Arts Council England Grant (2020), Time, Space, Money Bursary, a-n The Artists Information Company (2020); The University of Salford Spring/Summer Commission (2020); Artists' International Delegation to Denmark - Copenhagen & Aarhus, granted by Castlefield Gallery and a-n (2019). Gallery Representation Brooke Benington (London) Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Katie Tomlinson's paintings reflect on the united experiences of women and focus on the intricate dynamics of human connections. Ideas surrounding power structures and vulnerability; nuances of consent, exchange, and desire; heteronormativity and performative femininity; and the politicisation of intimacy recur throughout her practice. Using vivid colour, playful and surreal motifs, absurdity, symbolism, and varying applications of paint, the works are imbued with tension, concealed messages, and fluctuating tempos. Katie's paintings serve as both an exploration into the medium and the figures in which inhabit the frame. These figures demand further exploration, inviting questions about their identities, actions, motivations, and relationships with one another. Katie's paintings overtly reference moments throughout the canon of Western, patriarchal, art history. She reconsiders, reconfigures, and reclaims specific moments from Painting's problematic past. Harbouring this as a tool to enhance, develop, and reinforce her paintings' contemporary social themes within a post-MeToo era.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Katie Tomlinson Fed, 2023 Watercolour on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Katie Tomlinson was born in Teesside, and lives and works in Manchester and London. Katie is an artist, researcher and Lecturer in Painting, focusing on intersectional feminist perspectives in contemporary painting and pedagogy. Education Katie recently completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London (2021-2023) supported by the Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award. In 2018, she attained a First-Class BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Manchester School of Art. Select Exhibitions/Awards   Recent solo exhibitions include: At Least Buy Me Dinner First, Brooke Benington, London (2022/23) and Fight the Moon, Paradise Works, Manchester (2021/22). Katie has also participated in significant duo and group exhibitions, including Buried in Affection, Galerie Supermarkt, Tokyo (2022); Fayre Share Fayre, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2022); Stories, Bankley Gallery, Manchester (2022); A star is just a memory of a star, Brooke Benington, online (2022); RAW, Soho Revue, London (2022); Obstructions, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2021). In addition, Katie has received various awards and residencies, including the Zabludowicz Collection Master Class with artist tutors Doug Fishbone, Sir Isaac Julien, Emma Talbot, Ryan Gander and Julia Scher (2021); Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant (2021); The Sir Richard Stapley Education Trust Grant (2021); The Essential School of Painting Artist Scholarship, ESOP, London (2020); Developing Your Creative Practice Arts Council England Grant (2020), Time, Space, Money Bursary, a-n The Artists Information Company (2020); The University of Salford Spring/Summer Commission (2020); Artists' International Delegation to Denmark - Copenhagen & Aarhus, granted by Castlefield Gallery and a-n (2019). Gallery Representation Brooke Benington (London) Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Katie Tomlinson's paintings reflect on the united experiences of women and focus on the intricate dynamics of human connections. Ideas surrounding power structures and vulnerability; nuances of consent, exchange, and desire; heteronormativity and performative femininity; and the politicisation of intimacy recur throughout her practice. Using vivid colour, playful and surreal motifs, absurdity, symbolism, and varying applications of paint, the works are imbued with tension, concealed messages, and fluctuating tempos. Katie's paintings serve as both an exploration into the medium and the figures in which inhabit the frame. These figures demand further exploration, inviting questions about their identities, actions, motivations, and relationships with one another. Katie's paintings overtly reference moments throughout the canon of Western, patriarchal, art history. She reconsiders, reconfigures, and reclaims specific moments from Painting's problematic past. Harbouring this as a tool to enhance, develop, and reinforce her paintings' contemporary social themes within a post-MeToo era.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Angie Hunt Home From Home, 2023 Oil on card Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Angie paints what's on her mind. Her themes relate to feelings of escapism and containment, seeking an equilibrium between wilderness and domesticity. Angie is based in her Cotswold painting studio in England's rural countryside, although her heart belongs by the sea and she is frequently found on sailing and walking adventures around the British coastline. Education BA (hons) fine art Porthmeor Programme, St Ives School of Painting Occasional top-up workshops at Newlyn Art School, the RA, St Ives Painting School Select Exhibitions/Awards Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2023 ING Discerning Eye 2023 Finalist at Broadway Arts Festival 2023 Wells Art Contemporary 2023 Oxford Art Society member, regular exhibitor & winner of guest selector prize 2022 Chelsea Arts Club member & regular exhibitor Artist residency at Brisons Veor, Cape Cornwall 2023, 2020, 2019 SWA, Mall Galleries 2014 Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My current paintings are inner landscapes featuring simplified, imaginary scenes - small, isolated houses in wide, coastal settings; sheltered harbours; domestic interiors with gatherings of kitchen vessels.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Angie Hunt Home is Where the Heart is, 2023 Oil on card Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Angie paints what's on her mind. Her themes relate to feelings of escapism and containment, seeking an equilibrium between wilderness and domesticity. Angie is based in her Cotswold painting studio in England's rural countryside, although her heart belongs by the sea and she is frequently found on sailing and walking adventures around the British coastline. Education BA (hons) fine art Porthmeor Programme, St Ives School of Painting Occasional top-up workshops at Newlyn Art School, the RA, St Ives Painting School Select Exhibitions/Awards Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2023 ING Discerning Eye 2023 Finalist at Broadway Arts Festival 2023 Wells Art Contemporary 2023 Oxford Art Society member, regular exhibitor & winner of guest selector prize 2022 Chelsea Arts Club member & regular exhibitor Artist residency at Brisons Veor, Cape Cornwall 2023, 2020, 2019 SWA, Mall Galleries 2014 Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork My current paintings are inner landscapes featuring simplified, imaginary scenes - small, isolated houses in wide, coastal settings; sheltered harbours; domestic interiors with gatherings of kitchen vessels.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Russell Herron Paris, 2023 Pencil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Russell's work uses history, place and identity as touchstones to navigate work in various forms and to produce bodies of work that reference these concerns. In the last few years, he has been exploring portraiture through drawings of faces made in cardboard, using pencil on paper as medium. Education Exeter University, Drama Select Exhibitions/Awards Russell's work has been selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, The ING Discerning Eye, The Wells Art Contemporary and The Derwent Art Prize. He is a member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art. His works have been exhibited internationally and are in many private collections throughout the world. Gallery Representation Siger Gallery, London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I gave these two portraits the names Paris and Helen (from Greek mythology).   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Russell Herron Helen, 2023 Pencil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Russell's work uses history, place and identity as touchstones to navigate work in various forms and to produce bodies of work that reference these concerns. In the last few years, he has been exploring portraiture through drawings of faces made in cardboard, using pencil on paper as medium. Education Exeter University, Drama Select Exhibitions/Awards Russell's work has been selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, The ING Discerning Eye, The Wells Art Contemporary and The Derwent Art Prize. He is a member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art. His works have been exhibited internationally and are in many private collections throughout the world. Gallery Representation Siger Gallery, London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I gave these two portraits the names Paris and Helen (from Greek mythology).   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Ania Hobson I Recognize That Look, 2023 Pencil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by Ell Pennick About Ania Hobson is well known for her signature aesthetic and architectural portrait style. Inspired by painters such as Alice Neel and Kerry James Marshall, the artist uses both traditional and contemporary elements of portraiture to make the pieces uniquely her own. Watching the artist work, Ania sketches her subjects directly onto canvas using pencil & charcoal. Working swiftly can often create a more natural and fluid look. Ania also maintains this fast-paced style of work by pre-mixing colours and skin tones in her own tubes and layering paint to create an impasto style of work. Education Ipswich University Suffolk Select Exhibitions/Awards Solo Shows 2021, SETAREH Gallery, Düsseldorf (Details TBC) 2021, Gillian Jason Gallery, London, UK (Details TBC) 2020, Catto Gallery, Hampstead, London, UK 2019, Mall Galleries Reception Collection, London, UK 2018, Asylum Studios and Gallery, Rendlesham, UK 2015, Aldeburgh Gallery, Aldeburgh, UK Group Shows 2021, Andrea Festa Fine Art 1/06 - 27/08 Rome Italy 2021, Thompson's Gallery, London, UK (details TBC) Awards Young Artist Award at the BP Portrait Award, 2018   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Rebecca Holton 9 3/4, 2023 Graphite on card Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About This summer Rebecca was selected by David Remfry RA to exhibit in the Royal Academy's summer exhibition. The drawing (sold during the exhibition) was one of six artworks picked out in The Times article, reviewing by Lead Art Correspondent, Laura Freeman. Rebecca exhibits regularly at the Mall Galleries, London, including both the ROI and the Royal Society of British Artists, and she was selected for the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize (2021). In 2022 she was awarded The Surgeon's Prize by the Royal Society of British Artists, and in August 2021, she was awarded the Michael Harding First Prize in Oil Painting by the Gallery at Green & Stone, Chelsea, London. She was subsequently invited to have her first solo show with the gallery, 'Returning to London' in December 2022. She has recently had the privilege of painting a selection of notable sitters, including Lady Alison Scott Deeny and Paul Mayhew Archer MBE. Rebecca works as a full-time portrait and figurative artist between Bath and London, and she is fortunate to have a regular stream of commissions through both private clients and collectors. She juggles these around independent projects for exhibition. Her work is in private collections in the UK, Europe, US and Asia. Following her MA Fine Art, Rebecca followed a successful 10-year career in advertising in London at a senior level. She lived in Asia for 6 years before returning to full time Art in London in 2017. Education MA (Hons) Fine Art - Edinburgh University & College of Art (5 year course) - 2001 BTEC Foundation - Distinction - Oxford College of Art and Design Select Exhibitions/Awards Royal Academy of London, Summer Exhibition 2023 The Gallery at Green & Stone, London (Solo exhibition) 2022 Mall Galleries, London. Royal Society of British Artists. Awarded The Surgeon's Prize 2022 Mall Galleries, London. Royal Institute of Oil Painters. 2021 Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize, Highly Commended and online exhibition 2021 The Gallery at Green & Stone, London. Awarded First prize for Oil Painting 2021 Mall Galleries, London. Society of Women Artists 2019 Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Rebecca enjoys capturing everyday moments - not the 'special' moments which are easily noticed or remembered, but rather those that we take for granted and give little or subliminal attention. By immortalizing these through art, she raises their importance and encourages the viewer to relook at them. Her figures are captured in very familiar surroundings and absorbed in their own environment, which makes them easy to relate to and empathize with; as a viewer, we are encouraged to add stories and background to the characters. "My artwork acts as a time-capsule or visual diary of contemporary routines and culture. I am interested in encouraging people to reflect on the way we live today."   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Rebecca Holton 31 and Sunny, 2023 Oil paint on card Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About This summer Rebecca was selected by David Remfry RA to exhibit in the Royal Academy's summer exhibition. The drawing (sold during the exhibition) was one of six artworks picked out in The Times article, reviewing by Lead Art Correspondent, Laura Freeman. Rebecca exhibits regularly at the Mall Galleries, London, including both the ROI and the Royal Society of British Artists, and she was selected for the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize (2021). In 2022 she was awarded The Surgeon's Prize by the Royal Society of British Artists, and in August 2021, she was awarded the Michael Harding First Prize in Oil Painting by the Gallery at Green & Stone, Chelsea, London. She was subsequently invited to have her first solo show with the gallery, 'Returning to London' in December 2022. She has recently had the privilege of painting a selection of notable sitters, including Lady Alison Scott Deeny and Paul Mayhew Archer MBE. Rebecca works as a full-time portrait and figurative artist between Bath and London, and she is fortunate to have a regular stream of commissions through both private clients and collectors. She juggles these around independent projects for exhibition. Her work is in private collections in the UK, Europe, US and Asia. Following her MA Fine Art, Rebecca followed a successful 10-year career in advertising in London at a senior level. She lived in Asia for 6 years before returning to full time Art in London in 2017. Education MA (Hons) Fine Art - Edinburgh University & College of Art (5 year course) - 2001 BTEC Foundation - Distinction - Oxford College of Art and Design Select Exhibitions/Awards Royal Academy of London, Summer Exhibition 2023 The Gallery at Green & Stone, London (Solo exhibition) 2022 Mall Galleries, London. Royal Society of British Artists. Awarded The Surgeon's Prize 2022 Mall Galleries, London. Royal Institute of Oil Painters. 2021 Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize, Highly Commended and online exhibition 2021 The Gallery at Green & Stone, London. Awarded First prize for Oil Painting 2021 Mall Galleries, London. Society of Women Artists 2019 Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Rebecca enjoys capturing everyday moments - not the 'special' moments which are easily noticed or remembered, but rather those that we take for granted and give little or subliminal attention. By immortalizing these through art, she raises their importance and encourages the viewer to relook at them. Her figures are captured in very familiar surroundings and absorbed in their own environment, which makes them easy to relate to and empathize with; as a viewer, we are encouraged to add stories and background to the characters. "My artwork acts as a time-capsule or visual diary of contemporary routines and culture. I am interested in encouraging people to reflect on the way we live today."   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Rebecca Holton 32 and Sunny, 2023 Oil paint on card Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About This summer Rebecca was selected by David Remfry RA to exhibit in the Royal Academy's summer exhibition. The drawing (sold during the exhibition) was one of six artworks picked out in The Times article, reviewing by Lead Art Correspondent, Laura Freeman. Rebecca exhibits regularly at the Mall Galleries, London, including both the ROI and the Royal Society of British Artists, and she was selected for the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize (2021). In 2022 she was awarded The Surgeon's Prize by the Royal Society of British Artists, and in August 2021, she was awarded the Michael Harding First Prize in Oil Painting by the Gallery at Green & Stone, Chelsea, London. She was subsequently invited to have her first solo show with the gallery, 'Returning to London' in December 2022. She has recently had the privilege of painting a selection of notable sitters, including Lady Alison Scott Deeny and Paul Mayhew Archer MBE. Rebecca works as a full-time portrait and figurative artist between Bath and London, and she is fortunate to have a regular stream of commissions through both private clients and collectors. She juggles these around independent projects for exhibition. Her work is in private collections in the UK, Europe, US and Asia. Following her MA Fine Art, Rebecca followed a successful 10-year career in advertising in London at a senior level. She lived in Asia for 6 years before returning to full time Art in London in 2017. Education MA (Hons) Fine Art - Edinburgh University & College of Art (5 year course) - 2001 BTEC Foundation - Distinction - Oxford College of Art and Design Select Exhibitions/Awards Royal Academy of London, Summer Exhibition 2023 The Gallery at Green & Stone, London (Solo exhibition) 2022 Mall Galleries, London. Royal Society of British Artists. Awarded The Surgeon's Prize 2022 Mall Galleries, London. Royal Institute of Oil Painters. 2021 Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize, Highly Commended and online exhibition 2021 The Gallery at Green & Stone, London. Awarded First prize for Oil Painting 2021 Mall Galleries, London. Society of Women Artists 2019 Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Rebecca enjoys capturing everyday moments - not the 'special' moments which are easily noticed or remembered, but rather those that we take for granted and give little or subliminal attention. By immortalizing these through art, she raises their importance and encourages the viewer to relook at them. Her figures are captured in very familiar surroundings and absorbed in their own environment, which makes them easy to relate to and empathize with; as a viewer, we are encouraged to add stories and background to the characters. "My artwork acts as a time-capsule or visual diary of contemporary routines and culture. I am interested in encouraging people to reflect on the way we live today."   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Rebecca Holton Hatching a Plan, 2023 Oil paint on card Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About This summer Rebecca was selected by David Remfry RA to exhibit in the Royal Academy's summer exhibition. The drawing (sold during the exhibition) was one of six artworks picked out in The Times article, reviewing by Lead Art Correspondent, Laura Freeman. Rebecca exhibits regularly at the Mall Galleries, London, including both the ROI and the Royal Society of British Artists, and she was selected for the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize (2021). In 2022 she was awarded The Surgeon's Prize by the Royal Society of British Artists, and in August 2021, she was awarded the Michael Harding First Prize in Oil Painting by the Gallery at Green & Stone, Chelsea, London. She was subsequently invited to have her first solo show with the gallery, 'Returning to London' in December 2022. She has recently had the privilege of painting a selection of notable sitters, including Lady Alison Scott Deeny and Paul Mayhew Archer MBE. Rebecca works as a full-time portrait and figurative artist between Bath and London, and she is fortunate to have a regular stream of commissions through both private clients and collectors. She juggles these around independent projects for exhibition. Her work is in private collections in the UK, Europe, US and Asia. Following her MA Fine Art, Rebecca followed a successful 10-year career in advertising in London at a senior level. She lived in Asia for 6 years before returning to full time Art in London in 2017. Education MA (Hons) Fine Art - Edinburgh University & College of Art (5 year course) - 2001 BTEC Foundation - Distinction - Oxford College of Art and Design Select Exhibitions/Awards Royal Academy of London, Summer Exhibition 2023 The Gallery at Green & Stone, London (Solo exhibition) 2022 Mall Galleries, London. Royal Society of British Artists. Awarded The Surgeon's Prize 2022 Mall Galleries, London. Royal Institute of Oil Painters. 2021 Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize, Highly Commended and online exhibition 2021 The Gallery at Green & Stone, London. Awarded First prize for Oil Painting 2021 Mall Galleries, London. Society of Women Artists 2019 Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Rebecca enjoys capturing everyday moments - not the 'special' moments which are easily noticed or remembered, but rather those that we take for granted and give little or subliminal attention. By immortalizing these through art, she raises their importance and encourages the viewer to relook at them. Her figures are captured in very familiar surroundings and absorbed in their own environment, which makes them easy to relate to and empathize with; as a viewer, we are encouraged to add stories and background to the characters. "My artwork acts as a time-capsule or visual diary of contemporary routines and culture. I am interested in encouraging people to reflect on the way we live today."   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Henry Glover Giving my all to you, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by Verity Babbs About I am an oil painter and ceramicist. I focus on the interplay between the physical sensations of my materials and the raw emotions I experience in my daily life and personal relationships. I am concerned with shared feelings of introspection that have arisen in recent years and proven to catalyse the impacts of rumination and loneliness on the soul. I draw upon the early Mediaeval period, Antiquity, Folklore and Myths in providing subject matter steeped in history, and drama, transforming it into our contemporary every day. I find a freedom of expression by utilising iconography and maintaining my own motifs with a rich background in often Romantic and aggrandised contexts. Education Wimbledon College of Arts (UAL) - BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting Oxford Brookes - Art and Design Foundation Select Exhibitions/Awards Solo Exhibitions: THE KNIGHT'S TOUR, Grove Berlin, Berlin, 9th - 23rd September 2022 TAKE ME SOMEWHERE NICE, Liliya Art Gallery, London, March 22nd - April 18th 2021 Selected Group Shows: CHECKMATE, OHSH Projects, London,11th May - 11th June 2023 I MASCHI, C.G.Williams, Siena, 5th - 21st March 2023 Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I have submitted three works that relate to emotions encapsulated in simple symbols, be it a heart or a forest. Each has been painted in a way that embraces the drama and hangs on straddling the surreal and every day. I enjoy focusing on this place visually in between genres and playing up the voice of the works titles simultaneously. Snapshots of raw feelings are elevated with extreme colours and fantastical elements hopefully capturing the expressions in an honest way.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Katharine Dufault Tree Trio I, 2023 Watercolour/Gouache/Ink Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.)   This lot has been curated by AOAP About British born Katharine Dufault is a New York Times-reviewed artist, curator, visual arts consultant and educator. As a multimedia artist, she works in oils, watercolour, encaustic, printmaking and photography. Katharine graduated with honours from Columbia University, with a degree in painting and literature after studying visual arts, graphic design and photography at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England. She regularly exhibits her work and has been in numerous shows in New York City, Boston, Ohio, Connecticut, Westchester County, the Berkshires and Cambridge, England. Dufault's work is included in many corporate and private collections. Dufault lives and works in the Berkshires, MA, USA. Education Columbia University, New York, NY. Painting, Literature; Department Honors, Dean's List, Merit Scholarship Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England. Art Foundation: Painting, Photography, Graphic Design; Merit Scholarship Select Exhibitions/Awards SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2021Between Earth & Sky, Stark Gallery, Kent State University, OH Katharine Dufault & Sarah Lutz, Susan Eley Fine Art, Hudson, NY To Be In The Same World, The Painting Center, NYC 2019Summer Art Partnership Serendipity Labs, White Plains, NY Early One Morning, The Painting Center, NYC 2017Recent Works, The Rye Art Gallery, Rye NY 2012Reflections of Hindustan, The Rye Arts Center Gallery, Rye, NY 2011New Paintings, Studio Gallery, Great Barrington, MA 2009Variations, Anelle Gandelman Fine Art, Larchmont, NY Milk and Honey: Waterscapes, CPI/UK, Cambridge, UK 2008Mizu, (w/ Mike Solomon) Anelle Gandelman Fine Art, Larchmont, NY 2006Landscapes, CPI/UK, Cambridge, UK SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022 HOLIDAY, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY Small Works Benefit Show 2022, The Painting Center via Artsy Spectrum, Serious Fun Art Fair, White Plains, NY Chair Of Hope Project, art installation, Ammagansett, NY Among Friends 3, Equity Gallery, NYC Pelham Arts Center Arts Group, Pelham Arts Center, Pelham, NY ART NOW: A Multiplicity of Ideas, Madelyn Jordan Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY 2021HOLIDAY, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY Full Circle, WoArt via !stDibs The Best of Both Worlds, Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA ART FAIR 14C, The Painting Center, Manna Contemporary, NJ Inaugural Exhibition, Refrigerator Poetry Archive, (virtual) Virtual Invitational Show, Art Essex Gallery, NY USPS Art Project, Greenley Art Art Space, Signal Hill, CA 2020HOLIDAY, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY SmallWORKS, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY Together Again, The Painting Center, NYC (virtual) USPS Art Project, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY Vignettes in Wax and Words, International Encaustic Artists (digital magazine exhibition)Deep Blue See, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (virtual) Rituals of Resistance, The Urban Collective, New Haven, CT The Enabling Act: A Call To Arms, M. David & Co Gallery, Bushwick, NY ART FAIR 14C, The Painting Center, Jersey City Hyatt, NJ 2019Holiday Benefit Exhibition, M. David & Co Gallery, Bushwick, NY Painters On Location, The Rye Arts Center, Rye NY 2019Connection IV, Atlantic Gallery, NYC Among Friends, The Clement Center, NYC STAGING NATURE: A World Unto Itself, Madelyn Jordan Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY Rye Youth Council Benefit Exhibition, Shenorock Shore Club, Rye, NY 201825th Anniversary Show, The Painting Center, NYC M. David & Co Invitational Fundraiser, M. David & Co. Gallery, Bushwick, NY Small Works/Big Hearts, Atlantic Gallery, NYC Mutual Aid, Stark Gallery, KSU, Ohio Waxing Poetic, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY Connection III, Atlantic Gallery, NYC Riverside Auction, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY Boston Biennial Project 5, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA Some Like It Hot - Encaustic Works, The Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY Biennial International Miniature Print Show - Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich CT Painters On Location - The Rye Arts Center, Rye NY 201711th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT 2016Small Works Show, Catalyst Gallery, Beacon, NY Small Works, The Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY Color-Ful, Mooney Center Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY Hot Ticket: Works On Paper, The Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY Winter White: An Absence of Color, The Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY 2015Holiday Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT Through The Decades, ArtsWestchester, Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY Painters On Location, The Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY 2014Ways of Seeing, ArtsWestchester, Gallery 9, White Plains, NY Pendle Print Fest, Pendle Art Gallery, Lancashire, UK Summer ARTiculated, Osilis Gallery, Concordia College, NY Fourth Biennial Footprint International, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT Ninth Westchester Biennial, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY We Love Art, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
 2013 International Miniature Print Exhibition, The Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT Artists On Location, The Rye Arts Center Gallery, Rye, NY 9th Biennial Miniature Print Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT Gallery Representation Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington MA; Susan Eley Fine Art, Hudson, NY Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Painting is a meditation and a kind of alchemy in which I concentrate and transform my feelings and memories into something material which can be experienced in various ways by others. I draw on my deep love of nature: the impressions from my new rural life upstate and in the Berkshires, earlier years in Westchester adjacent to a marshland, and my childhood in the Cambridgeshire countryside in England. I want to create paintings which are both familiar yet unknown. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Katharine Dufault Tree Trio II, 2023 Watercolour/Gouache/Ink Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.)   This lot has been curated by AOAP About British born Katharine Dufault is a New York Times-reviewed artist, curator, visual arts consultant and educator. As a multimedia artist, she works in oils, watercolour, encaustic, printmaking and photography. Katharine graduated with honours from Columbia University, with a degree in painting and literature after studying visual arts, graphic design and photography at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England. She regularly exhibits her work and has been in numerous shows in New York City, Boston, Ohio, Connecticut, Westchester County, the Berkshires and Cambridge, England. Dufault's work is included in many corporate and private collections. Dufault lives and works in the Berkshires, MA, USA. Education Columbia University, New York, NY. Painting, Literature; Department Honors, Dean's List, Merit Scholarship Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England. Art Foundation: Painting, Photography, Graphic Design; Merit Scholarship Select Exhibitions/Awards SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2021Between Earth & Sky, Stark Gallery, Kent State University, OH Katharine Dufault & Sarah Lutz, Susan Eley Fine Art, Hudson, NY To Be In The Same World, The Painting Center, NYC 2019Summer Art Partnership Serendipity Labs, White Plains, NY Early One Morning, The Painting Center, NYC 2017Recent Works, The Rye Art Gallery, Rye NY 2012Reflections of Hindustan, The Rye Arts Center Gallery, Rye, NY 2011New Paintings, Studio Gallery, Great Barrington, MA 2009Variations, Anelle Gandelman Fine Art, Larchmont, NY Milk and Honey: Waterscapes, CPI/UK, Cambridge, UK 2008Mizu, (w/ Mike Solomon) Anelle Gandelman Fine Art, Larchmont, NY 2006Landscapes, CPI/UK, Cambridge, UK SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2022 HOLIDAY, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY Small Works Benefit Show 2022, The Painting Center via Artsy Spectrum, Serious Fun Art Fair, White Plains, NY Chair Of Hope Project, art installation, Ammagansett, NY Among Friends 3, Equity Gallery, NYC Pelham Arts Center Arts Group, Pelham Arts Center, Pelham, NY ART NOW: A Multiplicity of Ideas, Madelyn Jordan Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY 2021HOLIDAY, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY Full Circle, WoArt via !stDibs The Best of Both Worlds, Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA ART FAIR 14C, The Painting Center, Manna Contemporary, NJ Inaugural Exhibition, Refrigerator Poetry Archive, (virtual) Virtual Invitational Show, Art Essex Gallery, NY USPS Art Project, Greenley Art Art Space, Signal Hill, CA 2020HOLIDAY, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY SmallWORKS, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY Together Again, The Painting Center, NYC (virtual) USPS Art Project, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY Vignettes in Wax and Words, International Encaustic Artists (digital magazine exhibition)Deep Blue See, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (virtual) Rituals of Resistance, The Urban Collective, New Haven, CT The Enabling Act: A Call To Arms, M. David & Co Gallery, Bushwick, NY ART FAIR 14C, The Painting Center, Jersey City Hyatt, NJ 2019Holiday Benefit Exhibition, M. David & Co Gallery, Bushwick, NY Painters On Location, The Rye Arts Center, Rye NY 2019Connection IV, Atlantic Gallery, NYC Among Friends, The Clement Center, NYC STAGING NATURE: A World Unto Itself, Madelyn Jordan Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY Rye Youth Council Benefit Exhibition, Shenorock Shore Club, Rye, NY 201825th Anniversary Show, The Painting Center, NYC M. David & Co Invitational Fundraiser, M. David & Co. Gallery, Bushwick, NY Small Works/Big Hearts, Atlantic Gallery, NYC Mutual Aid, Stark Gallery, KSU, Ohio Waxing Poetic, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY Connection III, Atlantic Gallery, NYC Riverside Auction, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY Boston Biennial Project 5, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA Some Like It Hot - Encaustic Works, The Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY Biennial International Miniature Print Show - Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich CT Painters On Location - The Rye Arts Center, Rye NY 201711th Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT 2016Small Works Show, Catalyst Gallery, Beacon, NY Small Works, The Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY Color-Ful, Mooney Center Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY Hot Ticket: Works On Paper, The Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY Winter White: An Absence of Color, The Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY 2015Holiday Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT Through The Decades, ArtsWestchester, Arts Exchange, White Plains, NY Painters On Location, The Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY 2014Ways of Seeing, ArtsWestchester, Gallery 9, White Plains, NY Pendle Print Fest, Pendle Art Gallery, Lancashire, UK Summer ARTiculated, Osilis Gallery, Concordia College, NY Fourth Biennial Footprint International, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT Ninth Westchester Biennial, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY We Love Art, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
 2013 International Miniature Print Exhibition, The Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, CT Artists On Location, The Rye Arts Center Gallery, Rye, NY 9th Biennial Miniature Print Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT Gallery Representation Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington MA; Susan Eley Fine Art, Hudson, NY Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Painting is a meditation and a kind of alchemy in which I concentrate and transform my feelings and memories into something material which can be experienced in various ways by others. I draw on my deep love of nature: the impressions from my new rural life upstate and in the Berkshires, earlier years in Westchester adjacent to a marshland, and my childhood in the Cambridgeshire countryside in England. I want to create paintings which are both familiar yet unknown. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Jen Orpin M40 Sunshine, 2023 Oil on primed oil paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.)   This lot has been curated by AOAP About Jen Orpin graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1996 with a degree in Fine Art. She lives in Manchester and joined Rogue Artists' Studios in 2000. Her work is held in public and private collections both nationally and internationally and has been accepted into several Open Art exhibitions. She's also exhibited in galleries in Bolton, Norfolk, Doncaster, Sheffield, Walsall, Liverpool and London. In 2018 she appeared in Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year where the judges chose her in their top three for the heat. In November 2019 and May 2023, she along with a fellow artist co-founded Rogue Women and co-ordinated a group show of 50 female artists from Rogue Studios including invited guest artists from all over the UK. Jen has had two solo shows, one in 2021, a 10-week solo show at the Manchester Modernist Society and her paintings appeared in two publications in conjunction with the Modernist Society and a project called Landscapes of Post War Infrastructure. The second was in March 2023, a three-week solo show and four weekend gallery residencies at Saul Hay Gallery Manchester. In May 2021 her motorway paintings featured in the Guardian online and The Observer's New Review arts and culture magazine and again in Jan 2023 when one of her paintings appeared in the 'On My Radar' feature. Jen is an associate member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts (MAFA) and She is currently represented by Saul Hay Fine Art Gallery Manchester. Education BA Hons Degree in Fine Art Select Exhibitions/Awards Jackson's Open Painting Prize, The New Light Art Prize, The ING discerning Eye Exhibition, The Wells Art Contemporary, Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival, The Wales Open and the first and second HOME Exhibitions, shortlisted on both occasions. Royal Academy Summer Show. Gallery Representation Saul Hay Gallery Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The structures I focus on, often constructed from concrete and metal, brutal in nature, straddle well-travelled motorways and roads, familiar landmarks that evoke feelings of nostalgia often formed from memories of childhood journeys. Unchanged and built to last, they offer sturdiness and a consistent presence that spans decades. They may be accompanied by the addition of graffiti or nature might have taken hold where possible, only adding to this presence. By documenting and recording these structures using the language of painting and drawing on the traditions of landscape painting, I aim to expand our perceptions and viewpoints and challenge how we look at these structures in our everyday landscapes.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Henry Glover Softer Side, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by Verity Babbs About I am an oil painter and ceramicist. I focus on the interplay between the physical sensations of my materials and the raw emotions I experience in my daily life and personal relationships. I am concerned with shared feelings of introspection that have arisen in recent years and proven to catalyse the impacts of rumination and loneliness on the soul. I draw upon the early Mediaeval period, Antiquity, Folklore and Myths in providing subject matter steeped in history, and drama, transforming it into our contemporary every day. I find a freedom of expression by utilising iconography and maintaining my own motifs with a rich background in often Romantic and aggrandised contexts. Education Wimbledon College of Arts (UAL) - BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting Oxford Brookes - Art and Design Foundation Select Exhibitions/Awards Solo Exhibitions: THE KNIGHT'S TOUR, Grove Berlin, Berlin, 9th - 23rd September 2022 TAKE ME SOMEWHERE NICE, Liliya Art Gallery, London, March 22nd - April 18th 2021 Selected Group Shows: CHECKMATE, OHSH Projects, London,11th May - 11th June 2023 I MASCHI, C.G.Williams, Siena, 5th - 21st March 2023 Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I have submitted three works that relate to emotions encapsulated in simple symbols, be it a heart or a forest. Each has been painted in a way that embraces the drama and hangs on straddling the surreal and every day. I enjoy focusing on this place visually in between genres and playing up the voice of the works titles simultaneously. Snapshots of raw feelings are elevated with extreme colours and fantastical elements hopefully capturing the expressions in an honest way.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Ian Hargreaves Come On Sweetheart, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.)   This lot has been curated by AOAP About Born in 1957, Ian studied at Bournemouth College of Art. At the age of 21 he set off across Europe for ten months, recording his travels in watercolour. This instilled a love of Mediterranean subjects, which was to influence his work many years later. From the ages of 24 - 28 he lived in London and Sicily, earning his keep painting portraits. 1985 saw him move to Germany, where he remained for the next 24 years. Here he exhibited with galleries in Hamburg, Munich and Salzburg. His work was also purchased for numerous Public Collections. Ian moved back to England in 2008. He now works from his studio in Poole, Dorset and exhibits regularly around the country. His work hangs in many private and corporate collections worldwide. Education Bournemouth Art College. Technical Illustration Course. 1973 - 1975 Select Exhibitions/Awards Royal Academy Summer Show. RSMA Show, ROI Show, Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Finalist twice. Artist & Illustrators Artist of the Year Winner. Mall Galleries, London. Gallery Representation Fosse Gallery, Greens & Blues Gallery, Albany Gallery, Davidson Fine Art, Signet Contemporary. Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork A moment in time on the beach. You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Henry Glover Simply done, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by Verity Babbs About I am an oil painter and ceramicist. I focus on the interplay between the physical sensations of my materials and the raw emotions I experience in my daily life and personal relationships. I am concerned with shared feelings of introspection that have arisen in recent years and proven to catalyse the impacts of rumination and loneliness on the soul. I draw upon the early Mediaeval period, Antiquity, Folklore and Myths in providing subject matter steeped in history, and drama, transforming it into our contemporary every day. I find a freedom of expression by utilising iconography and maintaining my own motifs with a rich background in often Romantic and aggrandised contexts. Education Wimbledon College of Arts (UAL) - BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting Oxford Brookes - Art and Design Foundation Select Exhibitions/Awards Solo Exhibitions: THE KNIGHT'S TOUR, Grove Berlin, Berlin, 9th - 23rd September 2022 TAKE ME SOMEWHERE NICE, Liliya Art Gallery, London, March 22nd - April 18th 2021 Selected Group Shows: CHECKMATE, OHSH Projects, London,11th May - 11th June 2023 I MASCHI, C.G.Williams, Siena, 5th - 21st March 2023 Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork I have submitted three works that relate to emotions encapsulated in simple symbols, be it a heart or a forest. Each has been painted in a way that embraces the drama and hangs on straddling the surreal and every day. I enjoy focusing on this place visually in between genres and playing up the voice of the works titles simultaneously. Snapshots of raw feelings are elevated with extreme colours and fantastical elements hopefully capturing the expressions in an honest way.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Holly Bazett Amelia, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.)   This lot has been curated by AOAP About Holly Bazett is a painter of people present and people past. Her practice is concerned with the stroke: spreading one layer of oil on top of another, either to contrast colours or to ease the movement of the palette knife across the surface. She lives and works in Sussex. Education BA (Hons) Painting at Brighton University Select Exhibitions/Awards Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023; Sussex Contemporary Exhibition 2022; solo shows at the Exhibitions Gallery in Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand; National Open Art Exhibitions 2014 -2017 Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Selection of portraits   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Holly Bazett Shame, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.)   This lot has been curated by AOAP About Holly Bazett is a painter of people present and people past. Her practice is concerned with the stroke: spreading one layer of oil on top of another, either to contrast colours or to ease the movement of the palette knife across the surface. She lives and works in Sussex. Education BA (Hons) Painting at Brighton University Select Exhibitions/Awards Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023; Sussex Contemporary Exhibition 2022; solo shows at the Exhibitions Gallery in Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand; National Open Art Exhibitions 2014 -2017 Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Selection of portraits   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Louis Blondiau In The Woods, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.)   This lot has been curated by AOAP About I am a landscape painter. I try to create paintings that facilitate emotional intimacy and a reconnection with nature. Looking at forests and oceans can provide us with a sense of connection to something beyond ourselves, a feeling of the vastness of the world and our place within it. I use a scratching technique that mix oil and etching approaches. I avoid using colour in my work. I feel that sometimes colour can be distracting and can impeach the viewer to focus on the movement and forms suggested by the many fine scratches on the canvas. I lived in London from 2003 to 2019 and moved to the Netherlands in 2020. Education Louis Blondiau is mostly a self-taught artist. Yet he studied as a non-enrolled student at the at Brussels Visual Art School La Cambre School (Belgium) in 1989 and later at Art Academy of Braine l'Alleud in 1999 - 2001, Belgium. Select Exhibitions/Awards Louis exhibited in Galleries in London (Hicks Gallery, Cavaliero Finn Gallery, Gagliardy Gallery), in Brussels (Arthus Gallery, Galerie Chapitre 12) and in Amsterdam (Mokum Gallery). In 2014 two paintings of Louis were selected for an exhibition of the Dulwich Picture Gallery (London) and shortlisted for a prize. In 2018, the London County House commissioned two large paintings currently on permanent show. In 2023 one painting was selected for the Royal Art Academy summer show. The paintings of Louis are in several private collections. Gallery Representation Galerie Mokum, Amsterdam; Aperture Contemporary, Brussels Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The four small paintings submitted are made with oil on paper (I usually work on larger formats with oil on hard board). They all represent a figure surrounded by nature. The border between nature and the figure are blurred and the nature seems to interplay with the figure. My paintings question the conventional dichotomy of subject and object, inviting viewers to reconsider the interplay between inner realms and the external world, to experience a dissolution of these binaries, and to encourage a reflection on the interconnectedness of all existence.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Louis Blondiau Reading in Central Park, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.)   This lot has been curated by AOAP About I am a landscape painter. I try to create paintings that facilitate emotional intimacy and a reconnection with nature. Looking at forests and oceans can provide us with a sense of connection to something beyond ourselves, a feeling of the vastness of the world and our place within it. I use a scratching technique that mix oil and etching approaches. I avoid using colour in my work. I feel that sometimes colour can be distracting and can impeach the viewer to focus on the movement and forms suggested by the many fine scratches on the canvas. I lived in London from 2003 to 2019 and moved to the Netherlands in 2020. Education Louis Blondiau is mostly a self-taught artist. Yet he studied as a non-enrolled student at the at Brussels Visual Art School La Cambre School (Belgium) in 1989 and later at Art Academy of Braine l'Alleud in 1999 - 2001, Belgium. Select Exhibitions/Awards Louis exhibited in Galleries in London (Hicks Gallery, Cavaliero Finn Gallery, Gagliardy Gallery), in Brussels (Arthus Gallery, Galerie Chapitre 12) and in Amsterdam (Mokum Gallery). In 2014 two paintings of Louis were selected for an exhibition of the Dulwich Picture Gallery (London) and shortlisted for a prize. In 2018, the London County House commissioned two large paintings currently on permanent show. In 2023 one painting was selected for the Royal Art Academy summer show. The paintings of Louis are in several private collections. Gallery Representation Galerie Mokum, Amsterdam; Aperture Contemporary, Brussels Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The four small paintings submitted are made with oil on paper (I usually work on larger formats with oil on hard board). They all represent a figure surrounded by nature. The border between nature and the figure are blurred and the nature seems to interplay with the figure. My paintings question the conventional dichotomy of subject and object, inviting viewers to reconsider the interplay between inner realms and the external world, to experience a dissolution of these binaries, and to encourage a reflection on the interconnectedness of all existence.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Louis Blondiau Two Figures in Central Park, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.)   This lot has been curated by AOAP About I am a landscape painter. I try to create paintings that facilitate emotional intimacy and a reconnection with nature. Looking at forests and oceans can provide us with a sense of connection to something beyond ourselves, a feeling of the vastness of the world and our place within it. I use a scratching technique that mix oil and etching approaches. I avoid using colour in my work. I feel that sometimes colour can be distracting and can impeach the viewer to focus on the movement and forms suggested by the many fine scratches on the canvas. I lived in London from 2003 to 2019 and moved to the Netherlands in 2020. Education Louis Blondiau is mostly a self-taught artist. Yet he studied as a non-enrolled student at the at Brussels Visual Art School La Cambre School (Belgium) in 1989 and later at Art Academy of Braine l'Alleud in 1999 - 2001, Belgium. Select Exhibitions/Awards Louis exhibited in Galleries in London (Hicks Gallery, Cavaliero Finn Gallery, Gagliardy Gallery), in Brussels (Arthus Gallery, Galerie Chapitre 12) and in Amsterdam (Mokum Gallery). In 2014 two paintings of Louis were selected for an exhibition of the Dulwich Picture Gallery (London) and shortlisted for a prize. In 2018, the London County House commissioned two large paintings currently on permanent show. In 2023 one painting was selected for the Royal Art Academy summer show. The paintings of Louis are in several private collections. Gallery Representation Galerie Mokum, Amsterdam; Aperture Contemporary, Brussels Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The four small paintings submitted are made with oil on paper (I usually work on larger formats with oil on hard board). They all represent a figure surrounded by nature. The border between nature and the figure are blurred and the nature seems to interplay with the figure. My paintings question the conventional dichotomy of subject and object, inviting viewers to reconsider the interplay between inner realms and the external world, to experience a dissolution of these binaries, and to encourage a reflection on the interconnectedness of all existence.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Louis Blondiau Three Figures, 2023 Oil on paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.)   This lot has been curated by AOAP About I am a landscape painter. I try to create paintings that facilitate emotional intimacy and a reconnection with nature. Looking at forests and oceans can provide us with a sense of connection to something beyond ourselves, a feeling of the vastness of the world and our place within it. I use a scratching technique that mix oil and etching approaches. I avoid using colour in my work. I feel that sometimes colour can be distracting and can impeach the viewer to focus on the movement and forms suggested by the many fine scratches on the canvas. I lived in London from 2003 to 2019 and moved to the Netherlands in 2020. Education Louis Blondiau is mostly a self-taught artist. Yet he studied as a non-enrolled student at the at Brussels Visual Art School La Cambre School (Belgium) in 1989 and later at Art Academy of Braine l'Alleud in 1999 - 2001, Belgium. Select Exhibitions/Awards Louis exhibited in Galleries in London (Hicks Gallery, Cavaliero Finn Gallery, Gagliardy Gallery), in Brussels (Arthus Gallery, Galerie Chapitre 12) and in Amsterdam (Mokum Gallery). In 2014 two paintings of Louis were selected for an exhibition of the Dulwich Picture Gallery (London) and shortlisted for a prize. In 2018, the London County House commissioned two large paintings currently on permanent show. In 2023 one painting was selected for the Royal Art Academy summer show. The paintings of Louis are in several private collections. Gallery Representation Galerie Mokum, Amsterdam; Aperture Contemporary, Brussels Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork The four small paintings submitted are made with oil on paper (I usually work on larger formats with oil on hard board). They all represent a figure surrounded by nature. The border between nature and the figure are blurred and the nature seems to interplay with the figure. My paintings question the conventional dichotomy of subject and object, inviting viewers to reconsider the interplay between inner realms and the external world, to experience a dissolution of these binaries, and to encourage a reflection on the interconnectedness of all existence.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Gretchen Andrew Contemporary Art Auction Record, 2023 Hope on postcard (magazine cut outs and charcoal) Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by Verity Babbs About Gretchen Andrew hacks systems of power with art, code, and glitter. Gretchen's work dares us to dismiss it. After leaving Silicon Valley for a world that would allow her to be herself, Gretchen became known for her playful hacks on major art world and political institutions, including Frieze, The Whitney Biennial, Artforum, The Turner Prize, and The 2020 Presidential Election. Her work has been recently exhibited at museums in California, Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. Gretchen's work has recently been featured in Fast Company, Flash Art, The Washington Post, Fortune Magazine, Monopol, Wirtschaftswoche, The Los Angeles Times, and The Financial Times. She is currently the artist in residence at The National Gallery X London. Education Originally conceived as an experiment (Can the internet make me into an artist?) Gretchen left Silicon Valley in 2012. Since then, a unique merger of traditional mediums and strategic information technology has led her name and visual "vision board" aesthetic to be one of the most recognizable amongst her generation of artists. She trained in London with Billy Childish from 2013-2018. Select Exhibitions/Awards SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2023Unfair Milan, solo booths Santa Monica Art Museum 2022 Growth Hacking, Galloire, Dubai UAE Everything I Need to be Beautiful, Falko Alexander, Cologne, Germany Vienna Contemporary, Elektrohalle Rhomberg, Salzburg, Austria 2021 Other Forms of Travel, Annka Kultys Gallery, London, United Kingdom Trust Boundary, Francisco Carolinum, Linz, Austria (Acquired 3 works) Router at Panke Gallery, Berlin 2020 Future News, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA (Acquired a work)   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.  

Sarah Wood Admiration (AOP), 2023 Oil on Sized Paper Signed on Verso 10 x 15cm (3¾ x 5¾ in.) This lot has been curated by AOAP About Sarah grew up in Yorkshire, close to the city of Leeds and the Yorkshire Dales. Since graduating from Wimbledon School of Art, London, Sarah has maintained a professional practice, occupying various studios across London, and now settled in Space Studios, Peckham, London. Following a successful exhibition at Falmouth Art Gallery in Cornwall, curated by Cath Wallace, Sarah's work has been shown and sold through Quantum Contemporary Art, London at art fairs around the world. For many years Sarah has immersed herself in the painting of pears and continues to develop her skills and contemporary style, whilst also applying the same concentration to a series of small flower paintings. The genre of still life painting and particularly painting pears, has dominated Sarah's practice for some time. Looking at the paintings of Cezanne and Morandi, or the more elaborate Dutch still life painters, she has become fascinated by how the depiction of simple everyday objects can convey something more than the things seen. Education BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting, Wimbledon School of Art, London Select Exhibitions/Awards 2023 Exhibitions: Art Palm Beach, USA Art Market Hamptons, USA Quantum at West Horsley Place, Surrey Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong Seattle Art Fair, USA Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023 Always On My Mind 2, Fitzrovia Gallery, London Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London (October) Gallery Representation Quantum Contemporary Art, London Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Painting on such a small scale, on paper, was a challenge, but I followed the same principles as I do for my larger paintings on linen.   You must not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any works. In doing so, you endanger our relationships with artists, and directly jeopardise the charitable work we do.