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Rishi Sunak – the Leaving Downing Street album

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”The latest album cover from Carbine is a classic of the fine art album cover genre, a genre that he is swiftly making his own. With deliberate reference to covers by Nirvana, Slippery Hugh and The Swimming Pool Duo, Carbine has created a piece that sings with both political intrigue and Mediterranean holiday vibes. Not many artists can combine such diverse influences with such panache and sheer excitement but Carbine manages to sideswipe the viewer with his left field extravaganza.

Everyone who sees the cover is thrown into a pool of not just water, but realpolitik. Whose feet can we see, we ask, why are there only three feet? Has there been a terrible disaster? Yes – here Carbine cleverly refers obliquely to the failure of the Sunak government. But he does it with joy, with effervescence, with a delight in the political status quo and a desire for everyone to put their feet metaphorically in a pool – though the font of the album’s name makes it clear he believes this is illusory.”

Aphrodite Zimmerman, art advisor and collector of coffee shop cups.

Edition of 10

Binoto: New bin photo available now

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“A delightful new photo has been release by Oboe Ngua from her seminal series “All the Bins in the World.” Unlike many in the bin series these includes shadowy figures, one on their phone, the other staring intently at the bin. We feel that we are witnessing a bin-based crime, that society in a microcosm is being shown to us.

In the distance people walk away, oblivious to what is happening behind them. Suddenly we feel the emptiness, the loneliness of contemporary living.

Oboe shows us a bin overflowing, a bin that represents perhaps the artist’s mind, or more likely a way marker on the journey we all face to truth from adversity. Onwards, she seems to say, encouraging us in our individual ways to either reach out and grab the rubbish in our life, or alternatively walk on past, whilst phoning the council to pick up the pieces.”

Wendy Sploghe, art advisor

Edition of 50 with 1 Artist’s proof

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Carbine J. Saddler – Fine artist specialising in album covers

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Carbine first saw an album cover when he was three and immediately thought that they were the epitome of style and panache. “An album cover is everything to all people, there is no better receptacle of art. It can carry a message, a design, a memory, an order, anything. Currently I am working on a series of album covers that represent the albums that the shadow cabinet would release if they were musicians.”

Splif Bantom of Scotland Yard and his photos of crime scenes one year after the crime was committed

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As well as being an artist Splif Bantom is a high-ranking detective at Scotland Yard. He has solved many cases including the Bewley Havant disappearance and the case that became known in the press as The Mystery of the Poisoned Shoe. But it is in fine art that Splif always wanted to have a career, and he has now managed to combine his two great loves, viz, art and crime.

”I return to the scene of a crime exactly one year after the crime was committed,” Splif explains. “I take one photograph and then leave as though I had never been there. My work examines memory, pain, and just how good a job has been done by the cleaners.”

Amworth Street, Carlisle (One year after the Amworth Murders)

Land artist and pioneer of the Art Perambulation – Carp Watson specialises in saving the world with fine art footprints

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“Every time I do one of my Art Perambulations I take with me my sketchbook. As I perambulate over different terrains I place my sketchbook on the ground and perambulate over it. The resulting marks are an intimate memory of a specific moment in time. As I often do the same perambulation many times over, I am building up a wide-ranging record of the effects of climate warming, with the same perambulation often leading to markedly different boot-based mark making.”

Watson’s work is available in various sizes and several of his sketchbooks (that haven’t been claimed by the environmental agency to help their records) can be purchased by any collector willing to sign up to Watson’s Art Perambulation Manifesto. This Manifesto can be examined by contacting Pimlico Wilde or Carp Watson himself.

Carp Watson is not just one of the greatest Land Artists working today, but is a visionary – his epic piece “A map of my walk from Exeter to Bodmin Moor at 1:1 scale” remains the biggest artwork I have ever seen.

Bill Revant, The Exeter Antiques & Cattle Gazette

Kilo Barnes – contemporary artist who hates contemporary art and practises repaintage

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Kilo Barnes is an unusual contemporary artist, in that he hates contemporary art. This gives his artworks a frisson that is often missing in artworks made by his contemporaries.

“Contemporary art is terrible, isn’t it?” Kilo told us by telephone from the Paris atelier where he has moved to escape the contemporary art scene in Hoxton where he grew up – his mother is the sculptor Sally Bevington, famed for her interpretation of The Last Supper in Stilton. “There is no other way to describe it. Modern art as well, all awful. So I have a unique workflow to make my pieces, called in the French, repaintage. I buy contemporary art paintings by other artists from galleries and auction houses. Then I completely obliterate the image I have bought with white paint. I build up layer upon layer of paint, rather in the style of Rembrandt or Froussard, until the terrible contemporary art can no longer be seen. 

“I actually believe the rot set in with the modernists, and my most recent piece is called Repaintage 556 (Mondrian) in which I have completely painted over a small Piet Mondrian painting that I bought at auction for $7 million. The now completely blank canvas is available for collectors to buy for just $8 million. I don’t just sell to anyone though, I need to check any potential purchaser’s current collection. If there is any contemporary art in it then I offer to paint over it all for just $50,000 per piece. If they do not accept my offer they are unable to purchase any of my repaintage works.”

Any collectors interested in adding a Kilo Barnes repaintage piece to their collection is welcome to get in touch. (We recommend hiding any contemporary art you own when he comes for his reconnaissance visit). Having recently repaintaged a Damian Hirst, an Edward Froppas and a n.m.pante, Kilo is working on his next contemporary art show with Pimlico Wilde entitled “Saving the World from Contemporary Art”.

Repaintage

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