Brad Faine

Brave New Worlds 6, 2024

2024

Born in Brighton, Brad Faine is an internationally recognized artist and printmaker, who founded and managed the renowned Coriander Studio for forty years. Using vibrant colors, Faine’s artwork is fundamentally conceptual and often a response to current affairs or a reflection on the human condition using political, historical and popular references. He is heavily influenced by British and American Pop Art as well as graphic design techniques. While Faine creates the majority of his images on the computer, he considers himself to be working within the tradition of ‘easel painting’. Faine explains, “It is important to actually work on the making of images, as the process invariably leads to the discovery of new ideas, and hopefully helps to produce something that is a pleasant surprise and not a slavish facsimile of the point of departure; indeed it is often the case that the residue of an idea leads to other ideas.” After leaving college in 1972, Brad and his wife Jane founded the Coriander Studio and cultivated it from a cottage industry to an internationally renowned printer and publisher of limited edition silkscreen and later digital prints. Coriander Studio produced editions for over 230 artists, including Erté, Damien Hirst, and Richard Hamilton in its forty-year history. The studio’s own publications consist of works by Peter Blake, Sandra Blow, Terry Frost, John Hoyland, Bruce McLean, Brendan Neiland, and Storm Thorgerson. Faine’s works are in many private and public collections in the U.K., the United States, and the Middle East, and have been featured in mixed shows in London, New York, Dubai and Tokyo. Recent exhibitions include one-man shows at the Chelsea Arts Club and the London Sketch Club; a three-month exhibition with Steve Thomas at Chelsea Future Space; and a major joint print show with Peter Blake and Brendan Neiland at Leicester City Art Gallery.