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Art Catalogue Introduction Welcome to the inaugural Green Creates… art exhibition. Artistic expression, in its many forms, has existed in every age, every culture, and every country. Art can be both rooted in history and a catalyst for change. It connects us to the past, expresses our views of the present and suggests new ideas and visions for the future. As such, it is only fitting that we should call upon the support of the arts’ community today, as we stand on the brink of an uncertain future, attempting to hold onto the values and achievements that make us proud to be British, whilst working towards a new and better tomorrow. ‘‘Green’ suggests healthy options and therefore Green Creates… is an opportunity for the arts community to show their support for the Green Party, our policies healthy outcomes. Green issues should be the first and our work, but also an example of art as a social commentary in a time of social, economic and political consideration in everything from housing, to health unrest. The theme of Green Voices called for artists to express their opinions on the issues of the day and they to education and beyond.’’ have produced work that encompasses everything from climate change to the ephemeral beauty of nature. Ralph Steadman We are delighted at the richness and diversity of the work that we have on display and to welcome you to this celebration of some of the different interpretations of what it means to be green today. Best wishes, Jonathan Bartley and Caroline Lucas Co-Leaders - Green Party of England and Wales 4 1 01 .Cedric Christie / 02.Grayson Perry / 03.Christopher contents Steele-Perkins / 04.Gary cook / 05.Andrew Hardwick / 06.Anastasia Catris / 07.THE DnA FACTORY MRBS / 08.Ralph Steadman / 09.Richard Nott / 10.Peter Randall- Christie 01 .Cedric Page / 11.Sasha Bowles / 12.Harry Borden / 13.Melanie Miller / 14.stephen collins / 15.Tamsin Relly / 16.Andy Goldsworthy / 17.Ollie ‘Gage’ Gillard / 18.Jeff Hong / 19.Emma Brown / 20.War Boutique / 21.John davies / 22.Gordon Glyn-Jones / 23.Stephen Walter / 24.Josh Cedric Christie lives and works in London. His work is a critical appraisal of colour and modernism as well Malevich, 2015 Knowles / 25.David Kim Whittaker / 26.Laura Hynd / as the exploration of the journey to form and meaning. After completing an apprenticeship in welding, Cedric used his knowledge of metal to make sculptures, which started the journey of his investigation of art and 3 Colour Screenprint 27.Tim Shaw / 28.Samuel Bassett / 29.win / 30.Richard what it means to be an artist. His signature artworks, noted for their use of steel, scaffolding tube, snooker 100% Cotton balls, cars, chalk lines, graphic text and the commercial fabrication process, have resulted in a string of solo 70cm x 35cm Peters / 31.Sax Impey / 32.Onya McCausland / 33.Gordon shows and public art commissions both in the UK and internationally in Brussels, Antwerp and New York. Cedric has had three solo shows and curated a further two with Flowers Gallery; he is currently working Faulds / 34.Vanya Balogh / 35.Lesley Hilling / 36.Damian on a new solo show for 2015 for Flowers Central, London. Cedric’s work is collected widely, notably in the Valued at £300 collections of Anita Zabludowicz, David Roberts, Unilever, Derwent Valley Holdings and The University of Shields / 37.David Caines / 38.Angry Dan / 39.Lesley Bedford. Pearson / 40.Craig Jones / 41.Tom Gauld / 42.kennard phillipps / 43.Gavin Turk / 44.Abbie Trayler-Smith / 45.informAtion is beautiful 2 3 06, from Six Snapshots of Julie, 2015 Six woodcuts with lithographic underlays Each signed by the artist and numbered on the reverse Edition 1/68 72.5 x 48.5cm 02.Grayson Perry 02.Grayson AP copy, value at £4,000 03.Christopher Steele-Perkins 03.Christopher Winner of the 2003 Turner prize, Grayson Perry is one of Britain’s best-known contemporary artists. He works with traditional media: ceramics, cast iron, bronze, printmaking and tapestry. Grayson Perry has had major solo exhibitions nationally and internationally including the critically acclaimed Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman at the British Museum in 2011, My Pretty Little Art Career at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mt Fuji. Japan. Fields near At the age of two, Chris Steele-Perkins moved to England from Burma with his father. He went to Sydney, Australia and The Vanity Kawaguchiko, 2000 school at Christ’s Hospital. At the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he studied psychology and of Small Differences, a suite of worked for the student newspaper. He graduated with honours in 1970 and started to work as a tapestries currently on a national Digital inkjet print freelance photographer, moving to London in 1971. Apart from a trip to Bangladesh in 1973, he worked and international tour led by the 80 x 60cm mainly in Britain in areas concerned with urban poverty and subcultures. In 1975, he worked with EXIT, Arts Council Collection and British a collective dealing with social problems in British cities. Council. In June 2013 Perry was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Valued at £1000 Birthday Honours List. 4 5 04.Gary cook 04.Gary 05.Andrew Hardwick Canary in the Coal Mine, Gary Cook is an environmental painter creating watercolour and oil infocanvas montages: a fusion Wind, Rain, Wilderness Based in Bristol, Andrew Hardwick’s work is landscape based, and looks at strange wilderness zones, 2016 of traditional painting and hard-hitting graphics. His style is directly influenced by his background in both those seemingly natural and those man-made. His paintings play with and subvert traditional ideas the newspaper industry, where he was an associate editor and the senior artist for The Sunday Times Mixed media of landscape painting and the sublime. After gaining an MA in Fine Art at the University of Wales, Cardiff, Watercolour on Indian for 26 years, winning many international awards for his illustrations. His paintings shine a spotlight 36x47cm Hardwick has gone on to show in numerous exhibitions across the country. recycled cotton paper on locally and globally endangered wildlife and explore man’s impact on the planet with images that 70cm x 50cm entice the viewer to look closer and discover the shocking statistics about how these beautiful animals are on the verge of being lost forever. He is an Artist in Residence of the Ecologist, and is an Associate Valued at £1100 of the Society of Graphic Fine Art. Valued at £700 6 7 06.Anastasia Catris 06.Anastasia 07.THE DnA FACTORY MRBS DnA FACTORY 07.THE THE DnA FACTORY was founded in 1990 by Dallas & Angel (born in 1967) after graduating University of Hope Springs, 2016 London Goldsmith’s College. This art partnership has consistently produced some of the most remarkable and uncompromising sculpture, montage & installation over the past two and a half decades. Their work is held in Crystal Archive I Don’t Want To Lose You, Anastasia Catris is a freelance writer and illustrator from Wales. Working primarily as a book illustrator influential collections worldwide, exhibited in Europe, US, China & UK. THE DnA FACTORY is a Member of The Royal Gloss Print (c-type) 2016 and sketchcard artist, she has been published worldwide by HarperCollins, Orion, DC, Dynamite, British Society of Sculptors, Chelsea Arts Club, Founder Member of Vout-O-Reenees, Lights of Soho Leading Light 84 x 59cm Kerrang and IDW. Her ‘Colour Me Mindful’ series of adult colouring books for mindfulness therapy have & Alumni of Goldsmith’s College. 1/1 Fine liner & digital colour been published internationally, with the series running for nine independent titles. Her independent on canvas board book of illustrated short horror stories ‘Cirque Du Mort’, was named ‘Most Popular UK Project’ on 16” x 24” Kickstarter and reached Number 1 Best Seller on Amazon Kindle at its time of release. Valued at £1200 Valued at £150 8 9 09.Richard Nott 08.Ralph Steadman Ralph Steadman began his career as a cartoonist satirising the British social and political scene of the 60s. In the 1970s, responding to what he called ‘the screaming lifestyle of America’ he teamed up with Hunter S. Thompson which resulted in his iconic drawings for ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’ and collaborations ranging from ‘The Kentucky Derby’ to ‘The Curse of Lono’. Many of his drawings were to be seen in Rolling Stone magazine and he produced his book of collected impressions of America, the Manhattan Scar Strangled Banger, in 1974. Drawing, 2016 His work has appeared in many newspapers and magazines, from Mix media on Punch and Private Eye in the early paper 35x35cm years to the New Statesman, The New Yorker and the Independent. Valued at £1200 Cabinet of the Mind - Environment Valued at £1000 Born in 1963, Richard is an artist working in St. Ives, who is represented by Anima- Mundi Gallery. Having trained in Silkscreen print sculpture and installation, he has been a full time artist since completing his MFA at Reading University in 1989. Richard 1/18 has exhibited widely including shows in London and New York. 96x112cm 10 11 11.Sasha Bowles 11.Sasha 10.Peter Randall-Page Sasha Bowles was born in 1966 in Hammersmith, London. She studied at the Central School of Art and Design 1984/1985 and at the Byam Shaw School of Art from 1986 to 1989. She returned to her first love of painting, setting up her studio to paint full time in Putney Nine Banksia Inventions, 1996 in 2002. Since then she has exhibited widely in galleries and art fairs. Sasha has also been Etching selected for several open competitions including Editon 7/30 the Celeste Art Prize, Royal Academy Summer 41 x 31 cm Exhibition, Discerning Eye, Lynn Painter Stainers and New English Art Club.