British Contemporary Art

Strikingly large woodcut of a nude person standing in a canoe boat, circa 1985. First of 25 made. (1/25) The monochromatic palette highlights all of the detail put into the initially...

Large kinetic mobile hand made by the artist Alistair Berg. Alistair Berg is a sculptor based in Somerset. He uses a variety of materials to create lightweight kinetic mobiles design...

A fantastic Damien Hirst Spin painting with explosions of vivid color amidst the timeless, mysterious form of a standout Hirst skull, encased in double paned museum quality glass and natural oak frame. This Damien Hirst Spin painting originates from Hirst’s ‘Spin Workshop’ - a public event hosted by the artist to celebrate the opening of his heralded 2009 exhibition: ‘Requiem’ at the PinchukArtCentre, Ukraine. THIS ITEM IS LOCATED AND WILL SHIP FROM OUR MIAMI, FLORIDA SHOWROOM. Spin art is a technique in which the paint is first applied and then the canvas is quickly rotated. Depending on the duration and speed of rotation, the color distribution and a random result is achieved. Year: 2009 Format: 50 x 71 cm / 19.7 x 28 inch Material: Die-cut wove paper Method: Acrylic...

A striking large scale pair of bookmatched breccia marble wall decor panels. These natural cuts of marble are detailed with unique veins and markings throughout that make for spectac...

Damien Hirst wallpaper fragment from the famed Pharmacy restaurant in London. Fragment shows variuos pills and bottles all printed on silver metalli...

Day 18 - Emotional Layers Collection by Michele Bagnod Michele’s collection “emotional layers” it’s a self-discovery through layers of colours. Nothing is prepared before and everyt...

Day 17 - Emotional Layers Collection by Michele Bagnod Michele’s collection “emotional layers” it’s a self-discovery through layers of colors. Nothing is prepa...

Day 16 - Emotional Layers Collection by Michele Bagnod Michele’s collection “emotional layers” it’s a self-discovery through layers of colors. Nothing is prepared before and everyth...

Unique oil paint and wax on paper by James Nares ( British, b. 1953 ). Untitled. circa 2008. Archivally framed in a 12-karat white gold frame.

Textile Art, Hand-crafted, Knit and Crochet Art Blanket, Knitted Tapestry, Wall hanging, Affordable Art. Small billow of clouds inspired by the weather, ya...

Textile Art, handcrafted, Knit and Crochet Art Blanket, Knitted Tapestry, Wall Hanging, Affordable Art. A pair of non identical multicoloured Pinkish red P...

Textile Art, handcrafted, Knit and Crochet Art Blanket, Knitted Tapestry, Wall hanging, Affordable Art. A pair of non-identical multicoloured Psychedelic ...

Textile Art, Hand-crafted, Crochet, Knit, Art Blanket, Knitted Tapestry, Wall hanging, Affordable Art. Surreal and playful vase depicting a yacht against a sunset with highly texture...

Textile Art, Hand-crafted, Crochet Art Blanket, Knitted Tapestry, Wall hanging, Affordable Art. Multi coloured surreal vase with highly textured flowers ...

Handcrafted Wall-hanging /Blanket in the form of a giant mask-like face with graphic geometric patterning. Knit and Crochet Art Blanket, Textile Art, Hand-crafted, Knitted Tapestry,...

Handcrafted crochet and knit Mask Face Blanket inspired by psychedelic poster art. Textile Art, Hand-crafted, Knit and Crochet Art Blanket, Knitted Tapes...

Textile Art, Hand-crafted, Knit and Crochet Art Blanket, Knitted Tapestry, Wall hanging, Affordable Art. Multicoloured, abstracted, geometric face revealed...

Feather A piece of 3D sculptural wall art designed and made from two layers of olive leather, woven together by Louise Heighes. Measurements are 45 x 29 inches or 114 x 74 cm. ...

A framed C-print photography by British artist Sam Taylor-Wood (1967-). Entitled "Self-Portrait in a Single-Breasted Suit with Hare", the print was made in 2001 and its unique in this size at 9" h x 6" w. Presented in a wood frame. Provenance: Matthew Marks Gallery, NYC (label verso). Artist Biography (courtesy of Guggenheim Musuem Collection) Sam Taylor-Wood B. 1967, LONDON Sam Taylor-Wood was born in London in 1967. At the age of sixteen, she enrolled in an art school in Hastings, later moving back to London to attend Goldsmiths College. After graduating in 1990, she worked as a bartender and as a dresser at the Royal Opera House; the latter experience would influence her work’s unabashed theatricality. Originally a sculptor, she began working in photography, film, and video in the early 1990s. Her first film, 16mm (1993), consists of an isolated female figure gyrating to a steady beat. She explored similar intersections between video, dance, theater, music, film, and video in subsequent works, including Killing Time (1994), in which seemingly bored actors wait their turn to lip-synch the lines of different characters from Richard Strauss’s Electra. Her photographic work also finds points of intersection with other mediums. The title of Five Revolutionary Seconds (1995–98), for example, refers to her creation of a panoramic image by rotating her camera around a room over that period of time; the resulting image has a narrative quality despite being a static image. In recent years, Taylor-Wood has engaged ideas of celebrity culture in her work. Third Party (1999–2000), a seven-screen video installation at the Hayward Gallery in London, featured pop singer Marianne Faithful and actor Ray Winstone in different one- and two-person scenes of flirtation and ennui, creating a party-like environment in the gallery where the viewer is privy to these personal exchanges. Equal parts pathos and humor, the two-minute film Pietà (2001), in which the artist attempts to suspend the Hollywood actor and hard-living icon Robert Downey, Jr. in her arms, also evokes the well-known art historical subject. Her video David (2004) evokes similar connotations and intimately unveils the much-photographed dynamic soccer icon David Beckham in deep sleep. Time and speed are often centerpieces of her videos, whether the rapid acceleration of a bowl of fruit’s decay process in Still Life (2001) or the illusion of frozen time in The Last Century (2006), for which the actors are in fact filmed in real time but remain impossibly still. Taylor-Wood’s first narrative film, Love You More (2008), borrows its title from a song by the 70s punk band Buzzcocks and chronicles the story of two teenagers who hear the recently released song together in a record store. Since her first show, Killing Time at the Showroom in London in 1994, Taylor-Wood has had solo exhibitions at White Cube in London (1995, 2001, 2004, and 2008), Kunsthalle Zürich (1997), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. (1999), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid (2000), Centre National de la Photographie in Paris (2001), Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal (2002), Russian Museum in St. Petersburg (2004), Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (2006), Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland (2007), and Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston...

The iconic Porsche 911 RS 1973, pop art print in the style of Andy Warhol. Vibrant wall art, a great addition to your art collection. Probably 1980s, these are signed limited editi...

‘No Where’, circa 1994. Published on the occasion of the Richard Long exhibition at the pier arts centre Orkney summer 1994, whit assistance from the Henry Moore foundation. ...

A large and impressive oil painting of a male nude, by acclaimed British artist Alan Brassington. This dates from the late 20th century. Alan Brassington specialises in portraits an...

Damien Hirst wallpaper fragment from the famed Pharmacy restaurant in London. Fragment shows variuos pills and bottles all printed on copper metalli...

Blossom: A piece of 3D sculptural wall art designed and made from two layers of grey leather, woven together by Louise Heighes. Measurements are 50 x 30 inches or 127 x 77 cm. ...

Blossom: A piece of 3D sculptural wall art designed and made from two layers of white leather, woven together by Louise Heighes. Measurements are 49 x 31 inches or 124.5 x 79 cm. ...

Grasses: A piece of 3D sculptural wall art designed and made from two layers of putty coloured leather, woven together by Louise Heighes. Measurements are 50 x 30 inches or 127 x...

A large format Polaroid of Naomi Campbell for the Vivienne Westwood Active Resistance limited edition book produced by Opus. Signed by Naomi Campbell and photographer Zenon Texeira in marker pen. Taken for the Vivienne Westwood Active Resistance Opus Limited Edition Book, which features 97 life size reproductions of these original photos. The photos were shown in various venues on a world wide tour to promote the book. One of them being the Serpantine Gallery in London. This is the actual one off Large Format Polaroid Photo taken on one of three of these camera in existence which are soon to be obsolete because no more of the photographic paper can be made. Polaroids Each Opus is characterised by a gallery section of stunning portraits taken on the rare Polaroid 20 x 24 Studio camera. The camera was brought from Prague to Paris and London for three separate photo shoots for The Official Vivienne Westwood Opus. Featuring Vivienne Westwood’s family and friends wearing clothes from her stunning collections, 97 selected Polaroids, shot by Zenon Texeira in black-and-white, colour and sepia, are displayed full-size in the Opus. At Serpentine’s Manifesto Marathon in 2008, Westwood presented her 22-page manifesto Active Resistance to Propaganda. Read by a multitude of characters, the manifesto is a meditation on the relationship between art and climate change and a critique of consumption and capitalism. “Dear friends. We all love art, and some of you claim to be artists…’ But, she wouldn’t have written the manifesto today,” she says. “I wrote it a couple of years ago. A few months ago it hit me. We absolutely must save the rainforests. Have we really got time to be art lovers?” Manifesto Marathon, the third in the Serpentine Gallery’s acclaimed series of Marathon events, took place in the closing weekend of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008, designed by Frank Gehry. The Manifesto Marathon came at a time when artists had begun to work less in formal groups and defined artistic movements. It showcased a new generation of artists alongside practitioners from the worlds of literature, design, science, philosophy, music and film who were returning to the historical notion of the manifesto. The Manifesto Marathon drew on the Serpentine Gallery’s close proximity to Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, which has been used as a platform by Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, George Orwell and William Morris, among many others. Participants of the Manifesto Marathon included: Vivienne Westwood, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Hilary Koob-Sassen, Ingo Niermann & Zak Kyes, Rasheed Araeen, Peter Cook, Richard Wentworth, Gilbert & George, Ben Vautier, Jonas Mekas, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Tom Mccarthy, Mark Wallinger, Yoko Ono, Barbara Steveni, Ekaterina Degot, Raqs media collective, Nathaniel Mellors, Lee Scrivner, Andrea Branzi, Henry Flynt, Marina Abramovic, Agnès Varda, Susan Hefuna, Stephen Willats, Falke Pisano, Adam Pendleton, Jimmie Durham...

A large format polaroid of Bob Geldoff & Jeanne Marine for the Vivienne Westwood Active Resistance limited edition book produced by Opus. Photographer Zenon Texeira. Signed by Bob Geldoff & Jeanne Marine in marker pen. Taken for the Vivienne Westwood Active Resistance Opus Limited Edition Book, which features 97 life size reproductions of these original photos. The photos were shown in various venues on a world wide tour to promote the book. One of them being the Serpantine Gallery in London. This is the actual one off Large Format Polaroid Photo taken on one of three of these camera in existence which are soon to be obsolete because no more of the photographic paper can be made. Polaroids Each Opus is characterised by a gallery section of stunning portraits taken on the rare Polaroid 20 x 24 Studio camera. The camera was brought from Prague to Paris and London for three separate photo shoots for The Official Vivienne Westwood Opus. Featuring Vivienne Westwood’s family and friends wearing clothes from her stunning collections, 97 selected Polaroids, shot by Zenon Texeira in black-and-white, colour and sepia, are displayed full-size in the Opus. At Serpentine’s Manifesto Marathon in 2008, Westwood presented her 22-page manifesto Active Resistance to Propaganda. Read by a multitude of characters, the manifesto is a meditation on the relationship between art and climate change and a critique of consumption and capitalism. “Dear friends. We all love art, and some of you claim to be artists…’ But, she wouldn’t have written the manifesto today,” she says. “I wrote it a couple of years ago. A few months ago it hit me. We absolutely must save the rainforests. Have we really got time to be art lovers?” Manifesto Marathon, the third in the Serpentine Gallery’s acclaimed series of Marathon events, took place in the closing weekend of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008, designed by Frank Gehry. The Manifesto Marathon came at a time when artists had begun to work less in formal groups and defined artistic movements. It showcased a new generation of artists alongside practitioners from the worlds of literature, design, science, philosophy, music and film who were returning to the historical notion of the manifesto. The Manifesto Marathon drew on the Serpentine Gallery’s close proximity to Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, which has been used as a platform by Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, George Orwell and William Morris, among many others. Participants of the Manifesto Marathon included: Vivienne Westwood, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Hilary Koob-Sassen, Ingo Niermann & Zak Kyes, Rasheed Araeen, Peter Cook, Richard Wentworth, Gilbert & George, Ben Vautier, Jonas Mekas, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Tom Mccarthy, Mark Wallinger, Yoko Ono, Barbara Steveni, Ekaterina Degot, Raqs media collective, Nathaniel Mellors, Lee Scrivner, Andrea Branzi, Henry Flynt, Marina Abramovic, Agnès Varda, Susan Hefuna, Stephen Willats, Falke Pisano, Adam Pendleton, Jimmie Durham...

An early vintage photography by British-American photographer Michael Kenna (1953-). "Scarecrow, Twyford, Oxfordshire, England". The gelatin silver print was printed in 1980. The ima...

Wild flower: A piece of 3D sculptural wall art designed and made from two layers of cream leather woven together by Louise Heighes. Measurements are 19.5 x 19.5 inches or 49 x 49...

Coneflower: A piece of 3D sculptural wall art designed and made from two layers of leather, one blue one pink, woven together by Louise Heighes. Measurements are 31 x 49 inches or 7...

Lavender: A piece of 3D sculptural wall art designed and made from two layers of leather, one blue one pink, woven together by Louise Heighes. Measurements are 31 x 49 inches or ...

Photolithographic reproduction of Henry Moore's work for Bolaffiarte Made in England, circa 1971. Copy 279 of 5000 limited copies. Framed and signe...

Wild Flower: A piece of 3D sculptural wall art designed and made from two layers of leather woven together by Louise Heighes. Measurements are 19.5 x 19.5 inches or 49 x 49 cm ...

An iconic fashion photograph by Albert Watson (Scottish, 1942-). Entitled "Leslie Winer in Yohji Yamamoto, London, 1989", this is an editioned chromogenic...

Grape Hyacinth: A piece of 3D sculptural wall art designed and made from two layers of egret and tan leather, woven together by Louise Heighes. Measurements are 17 x 17 inches or 43...

Radford's compulsion to record the scale and pace of urban life is both vibrant and sombre - with an innovative use of color and paint - he first paints people's silhouettes - and moves over the canvases in huge swathes to 'wipe away' any individual identities within the masses. This particular work of art depicts a bar scene. For it is the mystery and complexity of urban life that fascinates Radford, and pulses throughout his paintings - acting as a metaphor for the shifting sands of one's lifetime. Many of Radford's recent works tread a thin line between the figurative and abstraction, evoking a darkness where the non-subject areas of a London scene spell both a paradoxical void and spatial freedom, and the subjects are swathed in veils. Perhaps Radford presents these more abstract images as gateways for seeing other things - the duality of the spiritual world and physical world which he believes can never be experienced separately. Like stills from a film noir, his images are alluring but shrouded in mystery. Having been fascinated with crowds since childhood, Radford's enigmatic paintings and monotypes are a set in his city - a 'deep pool of individual solitudes' - an anonymous passage of personal exploration through social constraint. Acquired by both institutions and private collectors alike, Matthew Radford...

Teasel: A piece of 3D sculptural wall art designed and made from two layers of white leather woven together by Louise Heighes. Measurements are 11.6 x 14 inches or 29.5 x 35.5 cm T...

Wisteria: A piece of 3D sculptural wall art designed and made from two layers of black leather woven together by Louise Heighes. Measurements are 17 x 17 inches or 43 x 43 cm This ...

Chrysanthemum: A piece of 3D sculptural wall art designed and made from two layers of pink leather, woven together by Louise Heighes. Measurements are 17 x 17 inches or 43 x 43 cm ...

A fantastic and striking original oil on board painting by the renowned artist John Mackay. This is signed and dated from 2012. It is a great size and b...

A fantastic and striking original oil on board painting by the renowned artist John Mackay. This is signed and dated from 2011. It is a great size and b...

Monument Forms are a series of modern abstract paintings by Louis Jobst experimenting with form and color. Focusing on the composition of two black silhouettes...

A fantastic and striking original oil on board painting by the renowned artist John Mackay. This is signed and dated from 2014. It is a great size and b...

This piece is titled Faces In My Head, painted in 2020 during lockdown and using plywood as the medium. Measuring 182cm wide x 75cm Height Drew is an 'Outsider' artist based on the Romney Marsh in Kent. Painting from his self built studio in the rural village of Lydd, Drew's creativity sees the use of found and salvaged materials and media throughout his work. This sustainable creativity sees the recycling of abandoned paints, varnishes and substitute base materials such as metal and wooden panelling...

The Abyss Wall is a captivating modern piece of wall art for the home. Christopher Duffy casts his gaze into the heart of ancient ocean depths to dream up a dramatic Wall Sculpture, creating an Abyssal art piece that instantly put you in mind to stories of a flat earth...

Monument forms are a series of contemporary abstract paintings by Louis Jobst experimenting with form and color. These two striking black forms could be seen as an architectural monu...

Monument forms are a series of contemporary abstract paintings by Louis Jobst experimenting with form and color. The warm mauve and pale red in the background depict an abstract land...

This piece is titled Smile Through The Chaos, painted in 2021 during lockdown and using an abandoned car park sign as the medium. Measuring 183cm wide x 93cm Height Drew is an 'Outsider' artist based on the Romney Marsh in Kent.Painting from his self built studio in the rural village of Lydd, Drew's creativity sees the use of found and salvaged materials and media throughout his work. This sustainable creativity sees the recycling of abandoned paints, varnishes and substitute base materials such as metal and wooden panelling...

A rare, unique and very unusual sculptural hand carved wooden plaque depicting a nude couple in bed signed John Baldwin (b. London, 1937) and dated 1985. ...

Pastel and watercolor on paper male nude; titled: “The Pose” signed by the artist lower right corner: Fiona MacPherson. Measure: Approximate 40” H x 30” W x 1.5” D.

Monument forms are a series of paintings by Louis Jobst experimenting with form and color. Here there are two black abstract forms amongst a metaphysical landscape. The painting focu...

This piece is titled 2 Cats and a Bone, painted in 2020 during lockdown and using an abandoned car park sign as the medium. Measuring 152cm wide x 84cm Height Drew is an 'Outsid...

Still Life of butterflies painted on canvas by Bridget Orlando in Photo-Realistic style. The inspiration for this painting came from an early twentieth century collection of butterflies from all over the world mounted with pins in boxes. Bridget became fascinated by the ephemeral beauty and fragility of butterflies, the intricacies of their patterned wings which require close scrutiny. On a large scale they become a blaze of color and texture, easily seen from a distance. They have a surreal element of something being larger than it should be, like a scene from Gulliver Travels...

Screenprint in colors, on wove paper, signed in pencil, dated and numbered 24/70, published by Marlborough Graphics, Ltd., London, with the blind stamp of the printer Kelpra Studio, ...

A 2016 silkscreen print made on the occasion of the Rio Olympics titled "Road To Rio" by Howard Hodgkin. Numbered 88/350 signed H.H. and dated 2016 in pen...

An etching and aquatint by Victor Pasmore from his portfolio titled "The Dance of Man in Modern Times". Victor Pasmore was one of the leading members of the English school of Abstract Expressionism. Please note this is one print from a larger portfolio. Other prints from this portfolio are available. A bit about Pasmore- Beginning in 1947, he developed a purely abstract style under the influence of Ben Nicholson and other artists associated with Circle, becoming a pioneering figure of the revival of interest in Constructivism in Britain following the War. [6] Pasmore's abstract work, often in collage and construction of reliefs, pioneered the use of new materials and was sometimes on a large architectural scale. Herbert Read described Pasmore's new style as "The most revolutionary event in post-war British art".[7] In 1950, he was commissioned to design an abstract mural for a bus depot in Kingston upon Thames[8] and the following year Pasmore contributed a mural to the Festival of Britain that promoted a number of the British Constructivists. Pasmore was a supporter of fellow artist Richard Hamilton, giving him a teaching job in Newcastle and contributing a constructivist structure to the exhibition "This Is Tomorrow" in collaboration with Erno Goldfinger and Helen Phillips...

'Circle of Life' 2020, reflects the pull push tension as well as continuation of life using strong contrasting color. Using a spatula rather than a paint brush Wittig layers the pain...