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CELEBRITY EDGE 2018 PREFACE
It was the dream of Celebrity Cruises to bring to this ship artworks, including American artist Molly Hatch’s the most exciting and groundbreaking collection of art. Grand Celestial, a ceramic installation that reminds guests From stunning fine art photographs, to sculptural installations, of the origins of travel and exploration. There are also through to thought-provoking immersive spaces, Celebrity moments of pure fun such as French artist Sacha Edge embraces all mediums and encapsulates all that Goldberger’s Super Mamika - his muse is his grandmother is cutting edge. dressed as a super hero. The Celebrity Edge art collection has taken over 2 years The attention to detail extends to the speciality to curate. The collection consists of more than 4000 carefully restaurants. In Tuscan Restaurant, Italian artists like selected artworks created by some of the world’s leading Karenina Fabrizzi were commissioned to create original contemporary artists, together with artworks of important works on paper and canvas. In Normandie Restaurant, historical interest. original Art Deco glass wall panels by René Lalique adorn Guests can walk alongside sculptures by leading French the walls alongside original Art Deco plaster panels by artist Xavier Veilhan, whose group of plywood sculptures Jean Dunand. They started life aboard the original SS live amongst the ship’s community. Named after the Normandie ship, launched in 1935, at the height of the individuals who inspired and lent their forms to Veilhan, Art Deco period. The SS Normandie was built in the same each has their own identity and personality. shipyard in France as Celebrity Edge and was famous for Next, guests enter the dreamlike immersive infinity its opulent and lavish interiors of which these Jean Dunand space Avalon, designed by Swedish / British design duo panels are excellent examples. The vitrines above the Fredrikson Stallard. Once inside, the space opens up into banquette seating contain glassworks by leading glass artists infinity. Polished bronze trees, choreographed lights and from across Europe and the United States. American artist music composition add to the unique experience as you Kiva Ford’s whimsical vessels stretch the boundaries of what travel through the space. is possible in glass and contain beautiful references to the Café Al Bacio is home to large-scale romantic ships origins in France and the restaurant’s name, Normandie. photographs by Australian artist Alexia Sinclair. These There is a French bulldog, a Normandy apple and a model photographs evoke the history of travel and can be viewed of the original SS Normandie amongst his collection, endlessly as there is so much detail to discover. Jiao Long, all crafted out of glass and contained within a perfect the delicate and elaborate sculpture of a galleon made from glass bubble. artificial pearls, was created by British artist Ann Carrington Out on the ship’s open decks, British Sculptor Sophie to enhance the space and celebrate the history of travel. Dickens’ statuesque horse Arion stands proud and strong Serac, the intriguing sculpture created by Fredrikson silhouetted against the horizon, juxtaposed with American Stallard, emerges from the centre of the magnificent Martini urban artist Curtis Kulig’s Love mural. Bar like a piece of hewn ice. The design duo scanned real ice The stateroom corridors include 440 individual photographs in order to capture the intricate details that exist in this by some of the world’s greatest photographers, including natural material. French photographer Charles Fréger’s Bretangne costumes Even a normally uneventful journey in an elevator and American photographer Drew Doggett’s Kenyan and is a chance to appreciate photography by leading British Ethiopian peoples. In staterooms and suites, the very best photojournalist and photographer Jimmy Nelson, whose international photographers have been sourced, including striking portraits from his photographic series Before They Kristian Schuller, whose theatrical fashion focused shots Pass Away and Homage to Humanity take pride of place. are used throughout. The stairs at both ends of the ship contain incredible We hope you enjoy your art adventure! CONTENTS by area
Destination Gateway 1
Café Al Bacio 2-4
Grand Plaza 5
Elevator Lifts 6-8
Stairs 9-19
Journey to Eden 20-23
Tuscan Restaurant 24-27
Normandie Restaurant 28-33
Cosmopolitan Restaurant 34-35
Fine Cut Steakhouse 36
Luminae at The Retreat 37-39
Restrooms 40-41
The Theatre 42
Eden 43-45
The Spa 46-49
Open Decks 50-53
Corridors 54-55
Suite Corridors 56-57
Suites 58-65
Staterooms 66-68
Biographies Destination Gateway
Collection Automne Bronze MAURO CORDA French 1 Café Al Bacio Café Al Bacio
Bird in the Hand The Broken Compass Photomedia Photomedia ALEXIA SINCLAIR ALEXIA SINCLAIR 2 Australian Australian 3 Grand Plaza Grand Café Al Bacio
Jiao Long Serac Mixed media including pearl necklaces, brooches and tiaras Acrylic ANN CARRINGTON FREDRIKSON STALLARD 4 British Swedish / British 5 Elevator Lifts Elevator Lifts
Rabari Nobleman Black Monarch Photography Photography JIMMY NELSON OYE DIRAN 6 British Nigerian / American 7 Stairs Elevator Lifts
Tibet Girl Checkerboard Diptych Photography Photography KIKI XUE BARBARA COLE 8 Chinese Canadian 9 Stairs Stairs
Noha’s Ark XXVIII Fusilier marin from the series “L’Arsenal” Photography Photography CATHLEEN NAUNDORF CHARLES FRÉGER 10 German French 11 Stairs Stairs
Eclectus Australis – Salmon Crested Cockatoos The Journey Photography Photography JOSEPH McGLENNON KAREN KNORR 12 Australian German 13 Stairs Stairs
Grand Celestial Super Mamika Porcelain Photography MOLLY HATCH SACHA GOLDBERGER 14 American French 15 Stairs Stairs
Landline Sun City Poms: Lois Mixed media on canvas Photography SALLY EGBERT TODD ANTONY 16 American New Zealander 17 Stairs Stairs
Left Right Black White Photography WILLIAM WEGMAN 18 American 19 Journey to Eden Journey to Eden
Manfredi, Ana, Jana, Nataša, Tony, Florian Birch plywood figures XAVIER VEILHAN 20 French 21 Photo © Claire Dorn Journey to Eden Journey to Eden
Avalon Installation FREDRIKSON STALLARD 22 Swedish / British 23 Tuscan Restuarant Tuscan Restuarant Tuscan
The Gift Apollo Rey Oil on canvas Polished bronze on marble GEORGE CHARRIEZ HEDI XANDT 24 American German 25 Tuscan Restaurant Tuscan Tuscan Restuarant Tuscan
Fantasticheria Toscana 1 Quattrocento A, Quattrocento B Painting Oil and ink on paper JULIAN BRAY KARENINA FABRIZZI 26 British Italian 27 Normandie Restaurant Normandie Restaurant
French Bulldog, Scallop Shell, Iris Flower, Normandie Ship, Fleur-dis-lis, Normandy Apple, White Maran Rooster Lalique Normandie Flameworked glass Glass KIVA FORD RENÉ LALIQUE 28 American French 29 Normandie Restaurant Normandie Restaurant
Man’s Games and Pleasures Plaster JEAN DUNAND 30 French 31 Normandie Restaurant Normandie Restaurant
Rosaline Ombré Bouquet River Rock Glass and mixed media Hand blown glass AMBER COWAN JEFF ZIMMERMAN 32 American American 33 Cosmopolitan Restaurant Cosmopolitan Restaurant Cosmopolitan
Murmurations Winged Glory Photo transparencies, metal frames and dissection pins Mixed media ALAN BUR JOHNSON SOPHIE DEFRANCESCA 34 American Canadian 35 Photo Tim Lanterman / Lisa Sette Gallery Fine Cut Steakhouse Luminae at The Retreat
Hedges Untitled Nails Photography JOHN BISBEE SASHA GUSOV 36 American Russian 37 Luminae at The Retreat Luminae at The Retreat
Breath Ophelie Acrylic on canvas Photography DANILO ROJAS DIANA VURNBRAND 38 Colombian Peruvian 39 Restrooms Restrooms
Wonder Scarlett Original Sound, 1981 (Green / Orange), A (Hot Pink), Seventies Yellow Photography Photography JULIETTE JOURDAIN RICHARD HEEPS & NATASHA HEIDLER 40 French British, South African 41 Eden The Theatre The
Adrift in Screenprint In Eden Gold leaf screenprints Porcelain ANDREW MILLAR ZEMER PELED 42 British Israeli 43 Eden Eden
Living Wallpaper, Garden of Eden Animation KATIE SCOTT & JAMES PAULLEY 44 British 45 The Spa The Spa The
Untitled Dunes: Landscapes Evolving – Lightness and Dark Pano Photography Photography ELLEN VON UNWERTH DREW DOGGETT 46 German American 47 The Spa The Spa The
Sakura Flower Collage Rosettes Photography Porcelain SAYAKA MARUYAMA STACY CUSH MAN 48 Japanese American 49 Open Decks Open Decks Open
Famille de Pingouins Dorés Dream Machine Fiberglass, paint and lacquer Painted fibreglass ISABELLE THILTGÈS RUBEM ROBIERB 50 Belgian Brazilian 51 Open Decks Open Open Decks Open
Arion Love Bronze Mural SOPHIE DICKENS CURTIS KULIG 52 British American 53 Corridors Corridors
Elegance Desert Song: Compositions of Kenya - Ray of Light Photography Photography MARCOS FURER DREW DOGGETT 54 Argentinian American 55 Suite Corridors Suite Corridors
Untitled Untitled Photography Photography KRISTIAN SCHULLER KRISTIAN SCHULLER 56 Romanian / German Romanian / German 57 Suites Suites
Untitled White Stripes 02 Photography Photography KRISTIAN SCHULLER RÉKA VALKAI 58 Romanian / German Hungarian 59 Suites Suites
Elegantly Wasted Allied in Nature III Photography Print ENRIQUE BADULESCU SIMONE WEBB 60 Mexican / Romanian British 61 Suites Suites
Flamengus Sense of Longing Photography Acrylic and oil on canvas REINE PARADIS TRACIE CHENG 62 French American 63 Suites Suites
Untitled Untitled Photography Photography KRISTIAN SCHULLER BEN HASSETT 64 Romanian / German British 65 Staterooms Staterooms
Fosbury #1 Untitled Photography Photography PERRY CURTIES KRISTIAN SCHULLER 66 British Romanian / German 67 BIOGRAPHIES
1 MAURO CORDA cutlery and jewellery. Perhaps her most well iconic cultures from around the world. The Mauro Corda displayed a talent for sculpting known artwork was the Royal Banner she was images are fascinating, if slightly unsettling and at a very early age. At 15, he was admitted to commissioned to make for The Queen featuring transcend rich cultural prosperity, symbolism Staterooms the École des Beaux-Arts of Reims and later went the Royal Crest hand sewn from thousands of and pride in the face of the looming threat on to finish his studies in Paris. Predominantly gold buttons. Ann Carrington has exhibited of modern society. a sculptor of the figure, Corda uses a rich variety worldwide and you can find her work in many of material such as bronze, aluminium, iron, prestigious collections such as The Rothschild 7 OYE DIRAN stainless and polished steel as well as glass for Collection, Aylesbury and The V&A Museum, Oye Diran is a fine art photographer based in his forms. Corda’s work has been exhibited in London. Her piece, Jiao Long, features in the New York. Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Oye Diran a number of international museums including Celebrity Edge art collection and is inspired by moved to New York during his childhood. the Museo Eduardo Sívori in Buenos Aires, an industrial estate in Zhuijang Province, China, Influenced by his mother, an artist as well, Argentina, the Museo Victor Hugo in Cuba which manufactures every kind of conceivable Diran cultivated his love for fine art at a young and the Museo Frederic Marès of Barcelona, pearl adornment in colossal quantities. The sister age from portrait drawing to abstract art. Spain. He has been exhibited extensively in art piece to Jiao Long was exhibited at The Royal Primarily, Diran’s work takes a view on the galleries internationally. Corda has been the Academy Summer exhibition 2017. beauty of the African woman. Through his recipient of several awards, including the Paul photographs, he conveys this allure with the use Belmondo Award and the French Order of 5, 22 of conceptual themes. Each of Diran’s projects Arts and Letters. FREDRIKSON STALLARD share this similar message but with the use Patrik Fredrikson and Ian Stallard began their of different elements. Elements derived from 2, 3 collaboration in 1995 and have since become different cultures around the world, royalty and ALEXIA SINCLAIR internationally recognised as leading exponents the symbolic meanings of colour. Secondly, Alexia Sinclair is an Australian artist best known of British avant-garde art and design. Fredrikson his pieces convey life lessons and experiences for her intense colour photographs inspired by Stallard has exhibited internationally with that inspire his audience. historical figures and the sumptuous aesthetics clients including a number of leading names of the Golden Age of painting. Sinclair’s in contemporary art, design and fashion. Their 8 KIKI XUE elaborate compositions are often dramatically work has been acquired by leading art collections Fashion photographer Kiki Xue was born in staged and her process combines hand-made including the French National Art Collection, Chengdu, China. With a unique and recognisable costumes, props and sets, with illustration, twice by the V&A Museum, and shown at the artistic style of photography, he was recommended photography and montage. Celebrity Edge Design Museum in London, MOMA and the by Franca Sozzani the previous editor-in-chief is home to two of Sinclair’s works, The Broken Museum of Art and Design in New York. Avalon of Vogue Italia. He moved to Paris in 2014 Compass and Bird in the Hand. The Broken Compass is an immersive installation on Celebrity Edge and began his international career of fashion places Marie Antoinette at the centre of a naval that creates the experience of a forest alongside photography. His clients include Vogue Italia, clash. As she navigates troubled waters, she cups the primeval feelings of calm, mystery and peace Vogue China, CR Fashion Book, Garage, a broken compass in her hand. In an age of sea that we instinctively feel. The forest is so familiar and Harper’s Bazaar. power, the 18th century tells a twisted tale of yet so unknown, invoking the anticipation naval rivalry between Great Britain and France. of a journey. 9 BARBARA COLE Bird in the Hand shows Georgiana, Duchess of Barbara Cole is an award-winning Canadian Devonshire. She is remembered today as the most 6 JIMMY NELSON photographer known for her underwater, significant fashion and style icon of Georgian Since his first internationally acclaimed figurative work. Her photographs have been society. Renowned beauty, socialite, author exploration through Tibet almost 30 years ago, exhibited widely in both private and public and activist, Georgiana was on the front line Jimmy Nelson has travelled to the world’s most institutions, with solo exhibitions at the of politics more than a century before women hidden corners to photograph indigenous peoples. Canadian Embassies in both Tokyo and won the right to vote. Images from his new book Homage to Humanity Washington, and inclusions in the collections are included in the Celebrity Edge art collection. of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto, 4 ANN CARRINGTON From the Himalayas with the Sharchop in the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Museum of Magnolia Ann Carrington has produced an extraordinary Bhutan to the Mundari on the dry, isolated vast Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. She has completed Photography body of sculpture. She is most well known for her plains of South Sudan, the book reveals an several large-scale commissions for notable sites, GREGORY PRESCOTT creative use of everyday materials like buttons, intimate insight into the peoples of over thirty including the M. Lau Breast Cancer Centre in 68 African American Toronto’s Princess Margaret Hospital. In 2012, 12 JOSEPH McGLENNON dimensional ceramic lenticular. When viewed photographer, having moved there 12 years ago. Paris and Shanghai to Stockholm and Seoul. and hopes to encourage the viewer to see their the acclaimed documentary series Snapshot: The Joseph McGlennon came to photography from the right perspective, Hatch’s interpretation His work has featured in numerous awards, In 2017, Xavier Veilhan was chosen to represent surroundings afresh. The work he produces Art of Photography II featured an episode devoted following a successful career in advertising. of the elaborately decorated astronomical ceiling including the AOP Awards, Communication France at the 57th Venice Biennale, transforming ranges from semi-abstracted architecture rich to Cole’s photographic practice; in 2015, she was He won the 2015 William and Winifred Bowness of Grand Central Terminal’s Main Concourse Arts Photo Annual, Creative Review Photo his national pavilion into an immersive recording in texture and colour, to narrative images about commissioned to create the promotional artwork Photography Prize for Florilegium #1, his picture reveals itself on a deep cobalt glaze with painterly Awards, American Photography Awards, and studio dedicated to audio experimentation. place. The subjects in his paintings dictate his for the National Ballet of Canada’s production of two parrots perched on tropical foliage, detail. From the left perspective the astronomical has been included multiple times in Luerzer’s Courtesy of Perrotin Gallery response and it is important for him to have of Le Petit Prince. Cole is also the recipient of the inspired by Joseph Banks’ botanical drawings. motif continues while the phases of the moon Archive 200 Best Advertising Photographers © Veilhan / ADAGP, Paris & ARS, New York, 2018 an opinion about the qualities he wishes to Grand Prize at the Festival International de la McGlennon’s lens brings his subjects out of the create a dotted pattern rendered in brilliant gold Worldwide. Recently he has focussed his work communicate in each new piece rather than GEORGE CHARRIEZ Photographie de Mode in Cannes. realm of exotic specimen or historical curiosity lustre and black underglaze. The dual composition around little known groups and subcultures 24 applying the same style to all. and pushes them, living and breathing, into of historic rendering and contemporary pattern around the world in recent years. His Sun City George Charriez was born in 1977 in Newburgh, 10 CATHLEEN NAUNDORF today. McGlennon takes hundreds of different work are combined to create this new and Poms series looks at the unique group of New York. Deriving inspiration from his artistic 27 KARENINA FABRIZZI Cathleen Naundorf is a fashion and travel photographs and spends weeks layering and exciting wall installation. cheerleaders in Arizona the Sun City Poms. family, he was focused on drawing and painting Italian artist Karenina Fabrizzi has produced an photographer whose photographs have been arranging them to arrive at the final image. The The members of the group are aged from 55-83 everything he saw around him from the time extraordinary body of work, including drawing, published by Condé Nast and Harper’s Bazaar. landscape is as important as the animal itself – 15 SACHA GOLDBERGER years old. They train twice a week and perform he was a young boy. Charriez would experiment painting, installation and photography. She is Her artwork is exhibited internationally including there are no blurred backgrounds or subdued After working for 12 years as an Artistic Director up to 35 times a year. with a myriad of mediums, even using brown possibly most well known for using natural at Hamilton Gallery in London, Edwynn Houk foregrounds in McGlennon’s montages. The in advertising, Sacha Goldberger published three paper grocery bags when he did not have proper elements together with the human body, Gallery in New York and Holden Luntz Gallery addition of every detail creates a hyper-real effect books. His first book Je t’aime tout simplement sold 18 WILLIAM WEGMAN art materials to create textures and dimensional sometimes using animal heads. She has always in Palm Beach. It is also featured in the that pulls the viewer into contact with the flora 130,000 copies worldwide. It was after the release William Wegman was born in 1943 in Holyoke, surfaces to paint upon. George has been exhibited been fascinated by nature, the behaviour of collections of the Musée Rodin, V&A Museum and fauna that the planet stands to lose. of his series featuring his grandmother Mamika, Massachusetts. He received a BFA in painting in multiple art fairs both nationally and animals, the way that flowers and plants grow and and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. For more featured in the Celebrity Edge art collection, from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston internationally. His Persona series depict faces how we are a big part of it. Her work takes centre than two decades, Naundorf has used her expert 13 KAREN KNORR that he became well known in France. He says, in 1965 and an MFA in painting from the that relate to identity but do not easily give stage in many international public art collections photographic skills to pay homage to the haute Karen Knorr was born in Germany and grew up “Imagining and directing a photographic series University of Illinois in 1967. By the early 70s, insight into a person’s true self. This series opens including Blair Clarke Art Consultants in New couture aesthetic. Combining her experiences in San Juan ‘Puerto Rico’ in the 1960s. She has is a bit like writing and directing a film. The only Wegman’s work was exhibiting in museums and a conversation with the viewer about how York, Design Awards 2017 in Manchester, in travel, art, and photojournalism, Naundorf been Professor of Photography at the University difference is that we only have one or two images galleries internationally. In addition to solo shows identity can be seen from the outside. Glasgow Art Fair, Liverpool Art Fair, AAF elaborately arranges each detail of her images for the Creative Arts since 2010. Knorr’s to tell the story.” with Sonnabend Gallery in Paris and New York, London Battersea and Arusha Gallery. HEDI XANDT using storyboards and extensive lighting for every photography explores cultural heritage and its Situation Gallery in London and Konrad Fisher 25 image. Captured with analogue large-format ideological underpinnings. Questions concerning 16 SALLY EGBERT Gallery in Dusseldorf, his work was included Hedi Xandt was born in 1988 and is a mostly 28 KIVA FORD cameras, each photograph is a singular vision post colonialism and its relationship to aesthetics Sally Egbert has resided in East Hampton and in such seminal exhibitions as When Attitudes self-taught conceptual artist and professional Kiva Ford’s passion with glass began early in life, suggesting romance, surrealism, exoticism, have permeated her photographic work since the Manhattan, New York, since the 1980s. Her Become Form, and Documenta V and regularly graphic / multimedia designer. He currently and was anchored with his college degree in and above all else, fantasy. 1980s. She won the V International Photography luminous abstractions have been termed lyrical, featured in Interfunktionen, Artforum and works as a freelance artist and illustrator in Scientific Glassblowing. Through years of work Pilar Citoler Prize in 2011 and was nominated for ethereal, of the earth, and harmonious. Egbert Avalanche magazines. It was while he was addition to his work as a creative for TUSH creating complex glass instruments for scientist’s 11 CHARLES FRÉGER the Deutsche Börse in 2011 and 2012 and Prix herself has expressed, “My work is about openness, in Long Beach that Wegman got his dog, Magazine. Coming from a creative family use, he has perfected his precision and technique Charles Fréger has been seeking to establish Pictet in 2012. Knorr’s work is included in flatness, and emptiness, if not experimentation and a Weimaraner who he named Man Ray, and composed of painters, illustrators, draughtsmen in manipulating glass. Beyond the scientific a collection entitled: Portraits photographiques collections worldwide including Tate Museum discovery” while acknowledging the influence began a long and fruitful collaboration. Man and writers as well as skilled craftsmen, Hedi community, Kiva is more commonly known for et uniformes. His series devoted to groups of and Pompidou Museum. of the fields, clouds, sea, and beaches in summer, Ray, known in the art world and beyond for his grew up in an environment of creativity and tools. his exquisite glass goblets, bottles, pendants and sportsmen, soldiers or students, taken in Europe and bareness of winter on Long Island. Egbert endearing deadpan presence, became a central He has a strong affection not only towards vessels. His work is influenced by his interests and across the world, focuses particularly on 14 MOLLY HATCH is the recipient of numerous grants from a variety figure in Wegman’s photographs and videotapes. creating artwork, but also a deep interest in the in history, mythology, and the natural world. what they are wearing, on their uniform. In the past decade the name Molly Hatch has of artistic organisations including the Pollock- technologies that are used in the process. What The series featured on Celebrity Edge was become synonymous with contemporary Krasner Foundation, Gottlieb Foundation, New 20 XAVIER VEILHAN started out as doodling as a child, moved over to 29 RENÉ LALIQUE commissioned by the town of Cherbourg, who ceramics. Hatch’s ceramic installations, inspired York Foundation for the Arts, and the Elizabeth French artist Xavier Veilhan is the author of an painting great canvases as a teenager and became René Lalique, a French glass designer working wanted a photographic record of the uniforms by historical decoration, have been exhibited and Foundation. Egbert’s artwork has been presented acclaimed body of work, spanning sculpture, a serious love affair with all things digital. in the early twentieth century, created the glass present at the Arsenal. The portraits in L’Arsenal collected all over the world and garnered her in a number of solo and group exhibitions held painting, installation and photography. He is panels on Celebrity Edge. The oral history of the JULIAN BRAY are of service men and workers involved in a loyal and fervent following. With her piece in museums and galleries from the Hamptons perhaps most widely known for his variations on 26 panels is that they were also from the Normandie building submarines for the shipbuilding Grand Celestial seen on Celebrity Edge, artist to Japan. classical statuary, of which a new series of seven Julian Bray is a painter who works both privately Ocean Liner. Many glass works by René Lalique company DCN. Because of the nature of the site, Molly Hatch has expanded on her celebrated figures is installed on Celebrity Edge, each made and commercially. Bray’s interest lies in the were present on the ship, including chandeliers the shots had to be in tight focus; a wide-angle approach to deconstructing historic patterning 17 TODD ANTONY of birch plywood. His work is featured in development of new ways of representing the and cascades. The artworks depict a plant that was not allowed, in order to keep classified and surface through an installation of pyramidal Originally from New Zealand, Todd Antony museums around the world and can be found on world and uses a range of transparent media begins in the bottom panel and continues up information out of the shot. wall tiles that create a large scale, three- is a London-based advertising and fine art street corners and public squares from New York, to achieve this. He celebrates shape and colour through all four panels. Created in high relief, the glass is slightly frosted in the background 33 JEFF ZIMMERMAN 36 JOHN BISBEE New England School of Photography in Boston, exhibited all over the world she has many The philosophy of the piece is to create a sense and clearer on the high relief details of fruits Jeff Zimmerman, a preeminent glass artist, John Bisbee is an American sculptor living and which led her to set up her photography studio in international collectors. of curiosity, you may walk past the wall several and foliage. creates exceptional bodies of work that test the working in Maine. Bisbee received his BFA from Lima, Peru, specialising in portrait photography. times before you even realise it’s alive. The plants boundaries of how we think of glass. Already Alfred University and attended the Skowhegan She eventually ventured into artistic and 42 ANDREW MILLAR grow, pollinate, seed, transform, the movement 30 JEAN DUNAND considered a maestro in the glass world when School of Painting and Sculpture. He has welded decorative photography, collaborating with the Andrew Millar is a British artist whose main is mostly ambient with occasional burst of life. French artist, Jean Dunand created the plaster he opened his first solo exhibition with and forged under the mantra, “Only nails, always best-known interior designers in Lima selling body of work focuses on the portrait. Millar You might catch some movement out the corner panels featured on Celebrity Edge as part of R & Company in 2007, Zimmerman has since different.” Anchored only by its form and her work through Cecilia Gonzales and became fascinated by photography and various of your eye, or notice that a plant looks different a larger installation entitled, Man’s Games and honed his craft even further, working at both materiality, he revels in the nail’s infinite Vértice galleries. print processes very early on in his career. He to last time you saw it. The garden is never Pleasures. This large-scale installation of 110 a micro and macro scale to explore and exploit the possibilities. He has been awarded a number discovered the classic and now almost forgotten completely still, some part is always transitioning individual panels was part of the smoking room possibilities of the material. His work is in the of prizes throughout his career including the 40 JULIETTE JOURDAIN Polaroid film more than a decade ago, when he into the next phase of the life cycle, and there on the Normandie Ocean Liner when it was first collection of museums including Brooklyn Purchase Prize and the William Thon Jurors’ Young French photographer, Juliette Jourdain, started to experiment and push the limits of this is no beginning or end to the piece. launched in 1935. Each wall measured 20 feet Museum of Art, Corning Museum, Boghossian Prize. Bisbee’s work has been featured in Art is recognised for her very powerful artistic and medium, exploring the manipulative potential high by 27 feet wide. The artwork was described Foundation, and MUDAC. in America, ARTnews, Sculpture Magazine, personal vision of portrait photography. This of this light-sensitive material in order to create 46 ELLEN VON UNWERTH as being carved, lacquered, and gilded plaster The New Yorker, The New York Times and great aptitude for the staging has been honored his collages. In recent years his work has Ellen von Unwerth is a German photographer panels inspired by Japanese lacquer work. The 34 ALAN BUR JOHNSON The Boston Globe. in 2015 with the 2nd PICTO Prize for Young become increasingly popular and his talent has best known for her images of female pop design consisted of various masculine pursuits Alan Bur Johnson creates sculpture, installations Fashion Photography and Fisheye X Guerlain earned him international recognition with solo musicians and models. Over the course of her with figures depicted in an Egyptian style. One and two-dimensional works that appear to hover 37 SASHA GUSOV prize. Her photographs are regularly published exhibitions in Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna, career, the artist has photographed Britney group of four panels depicts an archer surrounded weightlessly before their shadows and the surface Russian photographer Sasha Gusov has lived in and exhibited: Bettina Gallery in Paris, Nuits Berlin, Barcelona, New York and London. Spears, Christina Aguilera, and Rihanna, among by foliage. The other group of four panels depicts to which they are bound. Whether working with London since 1989. After the publication of his Photographiques of Pierrevert, Les Rencontres many others. In 1989, she shot Claudia Schiffer a man with a pig around his shoulders, also transparent photographic imagery or intricately first major project featuring photographs of the Internationales de la Photographie in Arles. 43 ZEMER PELED for a Guess fashion campaign, a commission surrounded by foliage. The panels are made of cut metal forms, his work draws inspiration Bolshoi Ballet appeared in The British Journal Juliette Jourdain invents a fanciful and fantastic Zemer Peled was born and raised in a Kibbutz that effectively launched her career. Since then, a pink plaster that is hard and brittle. Originally from the natural environment to investigate of Photography, Gusov gained a reputation as universe, following the rhythm of her inspirations in the northern part of Israel. After completing Von Unwerth’s images have appeared in Vogue, painted, lacquered, and gilded, they have since fleeting life cycles and physical fragility. Johnson a talented photographer. Since then he has from Lady Gaga to Tim Burton. She is currently her BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Vanity Fair, Interview, and other publications. been covered over with red and gold paint. received a BFA in Printmaking in 1990 from worked with fashion designers David Emmanuel, involved in various projects from creating a Design in Jerusalem, she earned her MA at the She has also shot campaigns for brands such as Evidence of the previous gilding is visible the University of Washington, Seattle. He has Philip Treacy and Paul Smith, and his work has series of 365 self-portraits to developing Royal College of Art in London. Her work has Dior, John Galliano, Ralph Lauren, and Uniqlo. below the gold paint layer. exhibited nationally in the United States with appeared in Vogue, Elle, Conde Nast Traveller fashion photography. been exhibited internationally at venues including In 1991, Von Unwerth won first prize at the solo shows in New York, Phoenix and Seattle, and The Daily Telegraph, to name just a few. Sotheby’s and Saatchi Gallery, London, and The International Festival of Fashion Photography, 32 AMBER COWAN and in-group exhibitions internationally. His 41 RICHARD HEEPS & Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, and American Photo Magazine named her Amber Cowan’s pieces are made by re-working work has been included in exhibitions in multiple 38 DANILO ROJAS NATASHA HEIDLER among others. Peled’s work examines the beauty as one of the most important people in discarded, up-cycled or unwanted pressed museums, including the Fort Wayne Museum Danilo Rojas studied architecture at the Richard Heeps’ highly saturated colours and and brutality of the natural world. Her sculptural photography in 1998. glassware produced by some of the best known, of Art, Tucson Museum of Art, and Phoenix University of Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, sophisticated pictorial structures demonstrate language is informed by her surrounding but now-defunct glass factories in America. Art Museum. followed by a master’s degree in History, Critique a true love and empathy for this subject matter – environment and landscapes, and engages with 47,55 Simultaneously subversive and patriotic and Projects at the UPC in Barcelona, Spain. be it cool, descriptive interiors, still life, or themes of memories, identity, and place. In DREW DOGGETT the objects explore the texture of material 35 SOPHIE DEFRANCESCA For most of his career he has lived in Barcelona, landscape. His distinctive style pushes the limits Peled’s organic formations, a whole from the Drew Doggett is an award-winning seduction and recount the history of US glass Sophie DeFrancesca was born in Toronto, and where he has exhibited in the CCCB, BAC and of lens-based photography without the need shards is recreated, estranged from its original photographer, director, and producer who manufacturing; tracing its rise, glory, demise graduated from OCA (now OCAD University) Gallery Montcada, among many others. He has for digital manipulation. Richard Heeps has context, but nonetheless unified by an overall focuses on places, objects, and cultures at risk and its influence on society. She was creator in 1990. In the early 2000s, wire mesh emerged also exhibited internationally at HotArt - Art exhibited widely, including exhibitions at the cohesiveness of movement and composition. of disappearing. His practice is characterised of the 2014 Rakow Commission from The as an important material for her. Sheathes of Basel, Basel; Flag Art Festival, Seoul; OPEN, Photographers Gallery, London and Kettles by his passion for exploring and telling stories Corning Museum of Glass, and her work is in galvanized steel mesh allowed Sophie to shape Venice; TIAF, Toronto and Arte Americas in Yard, Cambridge. He has featured in The Times, 44 KATIE SCOTT & JAMES PAULLEY while utilising the discipline and sympathies he the permanent collections of the RISD Museum human scale forms. While rendering hard Miami. His artworks are also part of private The Independent and The British Journal of Katie Scott and James Paulley have been working learned working in fashion photography. Drew and The Shanghai Museum of Glass. Cowan has materials into ethereal concoctions, she collections around the world. Photography. Natasha Heidler has developed on animated installations together since 2013. Doggett’s photographic work can be found in had solo exhibitions at The Museum of Craft explored cultural and social phenomenon in all her own dichromatic technique resulting For the Celebrity Edge project they wanted to private and public collections globally, notably and Design in San Francisco and The Fuller its evocations. Public exhibitions include; the 39 DIANA VURNBRAND in something that is neither straightforward look at choosing plants that worked with the the Smithsonian African Art Museum and the Craft Museum in Massachusetts. Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska; Diana Vurnbrand studied Art History at the photograph, nor photogram. The special theme, Garden of Eden. Some have a direct Mariners’ Museum in the US. Images from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, later darkroom process that she has cultivated reference to the story, the pomegranate fruit, Drew’s series Omo: Expressions of a People, Banff, Alberta; The Gardiner Museum, Toronto, transferring to the prestigious Betzalel Academy confounds and intrigues both art lovers and which is thought to have been a likely contender Desert Song: Compositions of Kenya, and Dunes: Ontario and the Dundas Museum and Archives, of Arts and Design. In 1992 Vurnbrand obtained photographers alike. She has been working for the forbidden fruit, and others are more Landscapes Evolving are featured in the Hamilton, Ontario. her degree as a professional photographer at the in photography since 2005 and having metaphorical, like the snake grass or the orchid. Celebrity Edge art collection. 48 SAYAKA MARUYAMA and works in Brussels, where she has relocated A loyal audience ensued embracing the as well as group exhibitions in Kaliningrad and chromatic world, projected above the limit 66 PERRY CURTIES Sayaka Maruyama’s practice traverses the after thirty years of Parisian life. From small declaration with hope and optimism. His studio New York. This year, she exhibited at the of reality and imagination. All the scenes are Perry Curties is an artist known for producing mediums of photography, film, drawings, to large, faces to human figures, her bronze practice consists of paintings and drawings, often prestigious Le Salon des Artistes in Paris, in imagined and conceptualised before shooting highly stylised, conceptual, studio-based installation and art books. Drawing on classical sculptures invite the eye to travel. Sometimes done in series, which explore his emotional the Grand Palais. She is possibly most well in real locations. Once the scene is visualised in photographic imagery. His work employs a Japanese references and Surrealist motifs, her just sketched, the eye flows between the forms, vulnerabilities. Kulig’s work spans several known for her black and white cityscapes and its entirety, Paradis makes sketches and paints dramatic use of lighting, colour and composition work explores contradictory contemporary sculpted by the simple and clean lines that mediums including photography, filmmaking, her artistic nude series called White Stripes, the scene to use as a blueprint when photographing built around a visual language that is closely understandings of Japanese notions of beauty, Isabelle loves for their exactness. Much of neon and design with projects commissioned by one of which is included in the Celebrity Edge the final scene. All the costumes, accessories and linked to editorial fashion photography. He from both Western and Eastern perspectives. Thiltgès work features birds, including Famille brands including Cartier, Nike and Pendelton. art collection. origamis are meticulously designed and prepared enjoys the application of technology to the Maruyama primarily gained notoriety for her de Pingouins Dorés that can be seen on Celebrity He has been featured in the New York Times, according to the initial vision of the scene. Each traditional photographic process and often subtly Japan Avant-Garde series, in which the artist Edge. The originality of her work has led to a Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal and 60 ENRIQUE BADULESCU scene is an adventure and a story in and of itself. combines multiple images, backgrounds and 3D intertwined Geisha inspired portraits with number of pieces residing in private collections Juxtapose and is a frequent contributor of works Son of a Romanian photographer and a Mexican rendering within his images. The themes behind elements of paper collage and watercolour paint and also being regularly exhibited across to charity auctions including Free Arts, Art mother, Enrique Badulescu was born in Mexico 63 TRACIE CHENG his work include religion and futurism, which to create intricate, multi-layered imagery, Europe and the United States. of Elysium, and the Tibetan Fund and most City in the 1960s. He grew up in a vibrant Tracie Cheng’s paintings call to mind natural are often expressed in minimalist figurative extolling a Japanese traditional sense of beauty. recently contributed to Revlon’s Love Is On culture scene, heavily influenced by surrealism. phenomena with a playful and dynamic quality portraits using dancers and fashion models. RUBEM ROBIERB Maruyama began her renowned Neon O’clock 51 Million Dollar Challenge in support of He returned to Mexico after graduating from of space and movement. There is a richness in Alongside a number of growing private Works project in 2007 as an artist duo. The Brazilian artist Rubem Robierb has produced Women’s Health. the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für the fluid layers and interweaving of her lines and commissions, Perry is regularly tasked with Her first monograph, entitled Krageneidechse, an extraordinary body of work, including Photographie program in Munich and travelled paint, all working together to form a textured applying his signature style to commercial was published in 2007, the year she moved to sculpture, painting, poetry and photography. 54 MARCOS FURER extensively around the country, later moving to story - not dissimilar from her own life projects for organisations such as the English London. Currently she is working on her next He is possibly most well known for his Dream Marcos Furer has been working as a New York City where he started working as an experience. In 1985, Tracie was the first of National Ballet, the BBC, Universal Pictures monograph titled memorandom. Maruyama has Machine collection, one of which features on photographer for 29 years. In the last 10 years assistant for fashion photographers. In 1988 he her Taiwanese family to be born in the United and a number of leading fashion houses. exhibited widely in London, New York and Celebrity Edge. His style is linked to the he has been focused on his native Argentina, moved to London, where his career took off as States. Growing up with the complexities Tokyo, and her images have been published in Pop-Art movement (using the two-dimensional where he photographs the landscapes, people, a travel and fashion photographer. His work of both cultures has shaped her paintings in 68 GREGORY PRESCOTT international magazines including the British image and its repetition as a resource). Robierb and culture of this vast territory. The colour of includes portraits for groups like the Rolling significant ways. In her practice, a style has African American artist, Gregory Prescott Journal of Photography, SHOTS magazine, employs a sense of figurativeness, to convey a photograph is black and white to him, and Stones, Soul 2 Soul, Neneh Cherry and The emerged that channels aspects of Chinese is an art photographer mainly known for his Silvershotz magazine, the Financial Times overflowing images, filled with hidden meanings, whilst using new technologies, he tries to maintain Jungle Brothers, amongst others. brush painting, abstraction, and architectural portraits and body works of human subjects and Magazine and Eyemazing. to the viewer. Robierb points out that his work the traditional look and feel of the film era. renderings. After several years of architectural diversity. His collections of images have been is “all about poetry translated into images”. Furer’s fine art prints are sold around the world. 61 SIMONE WEBB work, her desire to shape environments shifted on display in galleries in New York, Los Angeles 49 STACY CUSHMAN Simone Webb produces limited edition prints to the visual arts. She has shown her work and his hometown, Houston, TX. These include SOPHIE DICKENS Stacy Cushman has been in numerous solo and 52 56, 57, 58, 64, 67 and originals combining digital and traditional at galleries in Los Angeles, Vancouver, and the Leslie Lohman Gallery, Lana Santorelli group exhibitions in New York, including the Sophie Dickens’ sculptures have earned KRISTIAN SCHULLER mediums. Flora and fauna bloom and decay in Yale University in New Haven. Gallery and Noho Arts Gallery. He has been Cooper Hewitt, with Cocobolo Gallery, the important critical acclaim at exhibitions here and Born in Romania, Kristian Schuller emigrated painterly gestures; arrangements of petals float featured in magazines Pose, Musee, Carbon Architectural Digest Show and a solo exhibition abroad and she has ardent fans of her work in the with his family at an early age to Germany. He seamlessly in placid space. After a solo show 65 BEN HASSETT Copy, 360, Undo-ordinary, Complexd and at the Jane Hartsook Gallery. Her work can be US as well as in England and France. Aided by studied fashion design with Vivienne Westwood at Curious Duke Gallery, London, she has Ben Hassett was born in London where he later Camera Arts magazine. He is currently found in private and corporate collections in the a meticulous study of anatomy, learnt in actual and photography with F.C. Gundlach at the gone on to exhibit in group shows nationally studied as a fine artist. He spent several years working on his first coffee table book, U.S., the Caribbean and Europe. Stacy Cushman’s clinical dissections (for artists) and drawing University of Fine Arts, Berlin. After his initial and internationally including Hong Kong, in Paris where he developed a unique approach Human, a photographic showcase of his ceramic work is strongly focused on immersive classes, Sophie constructs armatures in welding introduction by Isabella Blow to Condé Nast San Francisco, and Seattle. Webb regularly to photography with images that were at once models of diversity. installations that recreate abstracted three- metal rods together like lyrical skeletal drawings Publications in London, Kristian has continued undertakes both private and commercial visceral and highly polished. A self-taught dimensional visions of the sea, water and earth. on which she begins to attach or layer specifically working internationally with various fashion commissions, with her works held in several photographer, Hassett is a camera enthusiast, Most often using the wall as her canvas, Cushman worked pieces of wood cut on a band saw from magazines and commercial clients. private collections worldwide. Her work has photographic print and photo book collector. hand builds and individually paints glazed ceramic oak panels. She prefers not be too closely appeared in numerous publications including His art practice at once embraces the future of elements and objects, and then assembles them on identified by her famous forebear, but perhaps her 59 RÉKA VALKAI British Vogue and Wired. photography, and celebrates its past. He now walls or ceilings creating environments and still narrative strengths are informed by her famous Hungarian artist, Réka Valkai was born in lives and works in New York where he has life arrangements. Recent work includes wall great great grandfather – Charles Dickens. Croatia. She fell in love with photography in 62 REINE PARADIS established a reputation as one of the world’s collages, mirrors and lighting incorporating 2007 and was immediately recognised by several Reine Paradis constructs narrative photographs foremost beauty and portrait photographers. His handmade porcelain flowers and rosettes. 53 CURTIS KULIG Croatian art magazines and Hungarian staging herself as the central figure in a surreal current personal work includes a photographic Artist Curtis Kulig lives and works in New York publishing houses. Her works appeared several landscape. Shot in many locations throughout study of Los Angeles. His work is held in the 50 ISABELLE THILTGÈS City. A decade ago, his private plea Love Me times in the French PHOTO magazine. She has America, the photo series takes us on an National Portrait Gallery in London. Native Belgian, Isabelle Thiltgès, currently lives became part of the urban fabric of the city. had several exhibitions in Budapest and Zagreb introspective journey across a symbolic and Peter Millard and Partners Ltd. would like to give special thanks to Celebrity Cruises for their vision and commitment to exceeding all expectations with this very special art collection. We would also like to recognise the amazing artists, studios and makers who have worked so hard to deliver such inspirational artworks.
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