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Meet the Artist – Spen Leopard – collage artist

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Spen Leopard is a collage artist from Scotland, who grew up on a lighthouse and only saw anyone other than her lighthouse-keeping parents on their annual weekend holiday in Oban. “Looking back it was a terribly lonely life,” Spen says, “But we had a weekly delivery of shipping magazines and I was allowed to cut up the old editions to entertain myself during the long days of my childhood. I developed a great love of shipping collage art and I have been referred to as one of Western Scotland’s preeminent shipping collage artists who grew up on a lighthouse.”

Spen’s subject matter has since evolved and is very eclectic. “Some days I’ll be working with images of pelicans and revolvers, others it will be ice cream and bouncy castles. Every day is different. I still like a good boat.”

The Birth of the Manager

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Meet the Artist – Chester Hubble and his Heavy Metal, pan-city, blindfolded perambulations

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Chester Hubble is a fine artist who works in the realms of perambulation, land art and heavy metal. His current project is to walk blindfolded across cities, only removing his blindfold to see what he has walked into. He writes down what he has walked in and then continues on his blindfolded way. “I am interested in the tension between freedom and control, and showing the danger inherent in crossing busy roads whilst unsighted and listening to heavy metal podcasts.” 

Hubble’s work is created at the end of each day, when he transcribes the list of everything he has walked into onto a canvas. “If I have been in an accident and am in hospital then I do not always transcribe everything that day. In which case that day’s walk is null and void, and when I have recuperated I restart the project and do that day’s walk again. That is why I have been knocked over by speeding super cars on Park Lane eleven times. But I hope to successfully cross the road and continue my walk across London ASAP.”

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Stephanie Falco

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Our current exhibition is a retrospective of Stephanie Falco’s career, including her carbon dating pieces and the maps of her journeys around European cities by electric skateboard.

Meet the artist – Sandy Griddle

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“Sandy” Griddle is a well known artist whose medium is sandwiches. Born Horace Griddle whilst his mother was travelling on the Trans Siberian Railway, his nickname comes from his lifelong interest in sandwiches. “I refused my mother’s milk and they thought I would die as I refused all food, except cheese sandwiches. Now I buy or make sandwiches and then deconstruct them, snap-shotting all the ingredients to produce a shopping list which I then buy to try and recreate the sandwiches. It is a time consuming process that, when it works at its best, results in a new sandwich that is exactly the same as the original sandwich.” 

Collectors around the world enjoy Sandy’s work, with his first editions “prawn and lettuce” and “Cheese and pickle” now selling for seven figures.

“I am looking into making my sandwiches into sculptures, which will further push the sandwich art envelope. As far as I know I am the only sandwich fine artist in the world. Of course there are many sandwich artists who make sandwiches to be eaten, but I only know of Figg Wolverham who creates fine art sandwiches, and he only uses rye bread, so his work has nothing of the depth of my own pieces.”

Oboe Ngua – All the Bins in the World

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All the Bins in the World is an ambitious project by Oboe Ngua to photograph all the bins in the world. “I am starting with all the bins in London,” she says, “as I live there, but I hope to quickly move on to Europe, Africa and the world.”

Having received a substantial grant from the But is it Art?! Foundation of Fort Worth she is now able to devote the next seven years to the project. “On average I am able to photograph two hundred bins a day. If I work seven days a week, 7am to 9pm, without any breaks then I should finish photographing London’s bins by December 2026, when I shall have a large exhibition at Pimlico Wilde.”

Before then we hope to show the collection as it builds. 

Oboe explains her motivation

“I grew up in Lagos where we didn’t have a bin in the house. Even when I was young I told myself that one day I would make up for that privation. Little did I know that I would do so in such a wonderful way. I hope to build the largest privately held collection of bin and bin related photographs in the world.”

Collectors are advised to make their interest known as this project is expected to sell out before it even goes on sale.

“I am amazed that my early bin works are already selling for thousands of pounds. But then I remember, it is such an under-examined subject. To me these bins have become friends and models; each one like a life drawing embodying everything that a bin can strive to be.

Pimlico Wilde to represent Antonia Stangarino

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Pimlico Wilde are delighted to announce that we are to represent the contemporary artist Antonia Stangarino, famed for her early canvases of images of different kinds of salt granules.

More recently Antonia has devoted her time to creating delicate abstract sculptures made of chewing gum. We look forward to her first exhibition with us, provisionally entitled Chewing the Bud, which will feature sculptures made from her homemade chewing gum flavoured with Budweiser.

Collectors will want to get in early for this as we envisage the sculptures selling out fast.