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Former Empire AND PRESENT BEST OF BRITISH URBAN ART CATALOGUE www.cl-projects.com | www.graffikgallery.co.uk WILL TUCK Will Tuck trained at Wimbledon School of Art and after that at the Royal Academy Schools, graduating from there in 2005. Since then he has shown both nationally and internationally. His work is almost exclusively airbrushed, often with a high-gloss coating over the surface. His paintings are quite playful in nature, utilising candy-colours and imagery drawn from popular culture, often composed around Old Master scenarios to highlight the differences and similarities between ‘low’ and ‘high’ culture. He is represented in collections in the UK, Europe and North America. The Birth of Venus Acrylic on Metallic 186cm x 160cm £4,500 MAX WIEDEMANN Maximilian Wiedemann’s work examines the Maximilian was born to an English Mother, perplexities of grand industry against the and German Father, growing up in a home trials and tribulations of the less advantaged. with such diverging personalities and cultures In other words, he is the modern day Robin was a strong influence on Max in his youth. Hood of Art; knowledge and access to the Max’s talent and passion for expressing his world of the Rich and Famous, coupled with thoughts showed early signs of promise in his biting wit, and natural born sarcasm, has his work as a graffiti artist. Max’s enthusiasm, given him a unique vision and voice in the Art energy, and need to express his thoughts world. His artwork is a commentary on the found an outlet in many unconventional ways, modern day world, making art an accessible mostly facilitated by a can of spray paint, medium in which to appreciate beauty and and an inspirational location; nothing was irony simultaneously. Maximilian has taken too small or too large for Max’s art work. As a the often intimidating world of Art and made young adult Max entered the corporate world it accessible; through his eyes we have a of advertising, leaving behind his childhood window into a world which few experience, passions, and choosing the professional and even fewer understand. Through Max’s world for its security, and the confines of words we are able to see the irony in our own adult responsibilities. celebrity obsessed world driven by iconic figures, and idealized images. Working in Advertising was an outlet for Max Wiedemann’s sharp intellect, and somewhat of a creative outlet, but most importantly, his 10 yrs in advertising left him with the knowledge that art is a powerful medium in which to communicate and advertise what’s relevant in our world. Through trial and error, many yrs of exploration, and research Max was able to design a unique technique which allowed him to use a combination of graffiti paint (street art) with modern day themes, iconic figures, and a traditional canvas to create something revolutionary, thought Uptown Vogue, 2009 provoking, and relevant to all. Aerosol on canvas 150cm x 130cm £5,500 New York Angel, 2009 Aerosol and acrylic on canvas 165cm x 225cm £6,500 DAN BALDWIN Amidst the edgy brushstrokes and sinister Baldwin’s superlative technique and themes, symbolism proliferates in Baldwin’s conceptual brilliance position him at the work. From children’s storybook illustrations forefront of the new Young British Artist and images of war to skate graphics and movement. His work is internationally Vanitas, each viewer develops a highly celebrated, championed and collected by an personal response to what they see. exclusive clientele. Baldwin has exhibited his paintings, prints and ceramics around the The relationship that has been observed world. He has enjoyed a stream of critically between Baldwin and the still life painters lauded sell-out solo shows and presented of seventeenth century Holland stems from his work in art fairs in Basel, Miami, L.A, his use of such symbols of life, death and Tokyo, San Francisco, London and New York. mortality as the flower, the skull, the bird and Baldwin has become a solid fixture at auction rotting fruit. Baldwin recontextualizes these houses in recent years. He set a record at symbols, however, making them relevant Bonhams in February, 2008 when his piece for modern audiences. Dan Baldwin was Apocalypse Wow – The End of Everything born in Manchester in 1972. He studied sold for over £25,000. Select publications communication media at Eastbourne College featuring Baldwin and his work include Art of Art and Design with commendation and of England,Vogue, ELLE, I.D., Flair, The New an award for best student. He received his Order, Aesthetica, Style, Dazed and Confused, BA with honors in communication media Modern Painters and Living Etc. and illustration from Kent Institute of Art and Design, Maidstone, where he was awarded commendation and invited to be studio associate the following year. He lived in Brighton for twelve years and currently resides in the West Sussex countryside. Sketch for the Innocent, 2010 70cm x 70 cm Mixed media on wood, signed and framed £5,995 If I from my path do Stray, 2010 140cm x 70cm Mixed media on fibre glass, mould resin life cast boy £5,995 GOLDIE Pioneer, cult status graffiti artist, drum ‘n’ Further to being one of the UK’s earliest and bass icon, DJ, actor and producer, Goldie is most important Graffiti writers Goldie has a total original and a multi-talented, complex had great success as a Drum and Bass DJ, shapeshifter selling more than 2.5 million producer and actor. 1994 saw him setting up records worldwide. his own record label, Metalheadz. The label was a huge success releasing some of the Against all odds and despite a traumatic most important tunes of that era and remains childhood, he succeeded in unleashing his hugely successful and respected to this day. boundless creativity from a very young age Film credits include Bond film The World is and he is now a star, having transformed an Not Enough and Guy Ritchies Snatch. underground British sound into a mainstream Goldie’s “Love Over Gold” 2007 London solo international movement and collaborated with exhibition was a huge success and his next major pop icons along the way. stop is Berlin 2008. He has just finished all the artwork and album sleeve for International Goldie’s produced artistic works with 3D Dj & artist Pete Tong’s Ibiza club brand (Massive Attack) and Sarah Gregory. He has “Wonderland”. Auction houses are now also commissioned and provided pieces requesting his work and the future looks very to Neneh Cherry, Noel Gallagher, Bjork, bright for Goldie. James Lavelle, Nellee Hooper to name a few, depicting his prolific work. Goldie earned his name as a graffiti artist in the West Midlands in the early eighties. His artwork around Birmingham and Wolverhampton was featured heavily in Afrikaa Bambaataa’s feature film documentary Bombing (which was broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK). He took part in the largest ever British graffiti art battle alongside Bristol artist 3D who later went on to form Massive Attack. He is also featured in the book Spraycan Art Apocalypse Angel, 2007 by Henry Chalfant & James Prigoff. Life – Ain’t Black and White, 2007 Framed print on metal Life – Mary Lane, 2007 74cm x 54cm Print on canvas, Framed £2,500 £2,000 BANKSY From Bristol, Banksy is Britain’s most infamous and wanted artist. He has taken his provocative and inspiring brand of vandalism to sites world-wide including LA, Palestine, Bethlehem, Cuba and Melbourne Zoo. He’s exhibited in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Tate . of his own accord and increased property prices throughout the UK for those lucky enough to have a street piece on the side of their wall. Monkey Queen Originally released in 2003, edition 213 of 750 34.5×49.2cm £2,500 Tesco Petrol Bomb Queen Victoria An edition of 2000, released in May 2011 Originally released in 2003, an edition of 500 Heavy weight paper,160gsm with matte finish 70 x 50 cm 40cm x 50cm £3,000 £300 FORMER EMPIRE Nikita Jayasuriya started as a Graffiti Writer in the late 90’s and after a brush with the law turned to a more artistic thought provoking process of wheat pasting with images. Predominantly using the image of the Iconic British Bulldog to leave his stamp on major cities around the World, he draws inspiration from British culture and now goes under the guise of Former Empire. [email protected]. Bulldog, 2011 Acrylic and spraypaint on canvas 76cm x 60cm £2,500 Queens Head, 2011 Bulldog print Acrylic on canvas 50 silkscreen prints 50cm x 70cm £50 £3,000 JEWEL Jewel Goodby was born and raised in Armenia but since then she has lived in Moscow, Cyprus, LA, Las Vegas and London. She first studied digital filmmaking at the Art Institute of Las Vegas but soon after discovering Photoshop and After Effects she changed her major from film to Visual Effects & Motion Graphics and has never looked back. She graduated from the AiLV having received a Bachelor of Science in VEMG and was awarded Best in Show at the summer 2008 Graduate Portfolio Show. It was screened at the Dam Short Film Festival in Boulder City, NV, USA as part of the ‘Best Of Art Institutes’ showcase where it won an Honourable Mention award. Since then she has left the neon lights of Las Vegas behind and returned to London where she is now working as a freelancer in graphic and motion design. Her inspirations come from memories of the amazing cities she lived in and the people she met along the way.
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