Nesting (Sticks on a cup)
A wonderful memory-piece from Dafydda, who created this blistering work over a period of seven weeks in a park in Outer Dundee.
“With this piece I was trying to draw attention, through carefully placed sticks, to the complex nature of life itself. Each stick represents both the unknown in the future and, at the same time, the continuing elapsation of time that bears down on us all.”
Art critic Hoffa Welogi says: “When I first saw this work I thought, that’s it, that is the end of art. All that can be achieved has been achieved. There is nothing more to be said. The cup, lonely, empty – or full, we cannot tell – being used not for anything so everyday as drinking, but as architecture, as an example of how humans can build in a sustainable way. But it also shouts of its position in the avant garde, for is this not actually a new form of portraiture? Soon any collector who doesn’t have a Daffyda in their collection will become reclusive, unable to face their peers. Daffyda, you have made a masterpiece.”
Godwin Sands wins Award: “Brightest Colors in Show”
For the second year running Godwin Sands has won the coveted Brightest Colors in Show Award at the Annual Summer Exhibition in the Welsh centre of artistic excellence, Rhyl.
“The judges were amazed at the brightness of the colors in Godwin’s work,” head judge Matilda Llewelyn said. “We were all blown away and have all added several of his works to our personal collections.”
”It is great,” Sands said when accepting the Award. “To win Brightest Colors twice is an unheard of honor. I am grateful to the judges and look forward to entering again next year.”
Thanks to this award Godwin’s prices have rocketed. If you would like to purchase one of his pieces and have a large chequebook – get in touch.
Oboe Ngua – The bin project is back on track
Oboe’s mammoth project continues. “I did feel I had bitten off more than I could chew”, she said, “And for a while I felt I could never take a photo of every bin in the world. But now I am reenthused. Look out for me taking a picture of a bin near you.”
P1X3L
P1X3L is all about retro vision, seeing the world through pixels. “Pixel art for me is the culmination of art history. There is nothing like a pixel portrait to express the now-ity of life. As well as portraits I am working on a series of Pixel Masterpieces – pixel versions of famous pictures.”
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Death in a Tree – new indie film gets funding
Our first Indie film, called simply ‘Death in a Tree,’ has been green lit. Written by the newcomer Saus Pilli, it tells the story of a woman who resigns as CEO of a large kindergarten to build her dream house in a tree overlooking the Irish Sea. Covering the setbacks and challenges, as well as the good times as she falls in love with a tree surgeon who comes to chop the tree down. We are expecting critics to use words like brilliant, well-written, delightful, and phrases like You won’t see what’s coming, coming. Look out for Death in a Tree in cinemas this Autumn.
Pimlico Wilde pleased to announce new sitcom based on life in their art gallery: We know our Arts from our Elbows
In collaboration with GTV and Defort Films, life at the London art dealer Pimlico Wilde will be made into a sitcom with a first season of twenty-four episodes in production already.
“Life in an art dealer is pretty much non-stop hilarity and laughter, so it is ideal for a sitcom. There has not been a sitcom set in an art dealership since the Fifties, when Your Painting or Your Life was broadcast. That only lasted for seven seasons and we have already signed up for ten seasons.”
As a taster we have been given the titles of the first few episodes.
- Whoops! Hanging Pictures is Harder than it Looks. A harassed gallerist accidentally hammers a nail through a renaissance masterpiece, an hour before the King is coming to buy the piece…
- It is by Monet! A collector is unsure whether the painting he has paid $450,000,000 for is actually a Monet. The gallerist assures him that it is and proves it by burning it quickly – Monet is known to have used very flammable paints…
- I though Julia and Donna were your wife and daughter? A misunderstanding leads to an artist having to paint portraits of a billionaire’s favourite hedgehogs…
In associated news, the FTV have announced that they will be reshowing the original episodes of Your Painting or Your Life saying, “Your Painting or Your Life is a wonderful look at fine art in the days of Dick Turpin. If the old series is well received we will be commissioning new episodes.”
Sports sponsorship – Chelsea Elephant Polo
Pimlico Wilde are pleased to announce their sponsorship of the Chelsea Elephant Polo team, starting with this weekend’s World Series taking place in Blackpool sur Mer. As part of the deal all the team members (human not elephant) receive a stunning artwork worth over £50,000 to hang in their stable.
Manager of the Chelsea Elephant Polo team, Ale Corbe says “Most elephant polo teams are sponsored by elephant food companies, but this sponsorship deal with Pimlico Wilde shows us to be at the cutting edge of Elephantine sports. Elephant polo is not an excessively expensive sport, but there are certain costs – you have to buy your elephant, transport it to England, teach it to play polo, etc, etc. So our players and supporters are well positioned to purchase Pimlico’s expensive fine art, especially any elephant-based pictures.”
At the announcement event Acting-CEO of Pimlico Wilde, Stevenson Rockett broke the world record for most Champagne bottles sabred in 90 mins. He commented, “Elephant polo is one of the great sports, worldwide more people follow elephant polo than football and basketball combined. The app Elephant Polo News is the most downloaded sports app in history. So we are honoured to be involved with elephant polo and hope to sell many works of art to poloists. I mean we hope to support elephant polo in Kensington and Chelsea, and see it grow, until it is – with our logo – on TV as often as less exciting sports like football.”
Pimlico Wilde publishing division launch party – great success, except for the theft
The launch party for the new Pimlico Wilde publishing division was a relatively quiet affair, with no more than three noise abatement orders issued during the seventeen hour event that welcomed stars of the fine art, publishing and sports world to our little townhouse/gallery/emporium in central London. It was only slightly overshadowed by the theft of Lady Hannibal’s Gold and diamond-encrusted straw, which she takes everywhere nowadays to use instead of the paper straws that turn to papier-mâché after two sucks.
Shannon Drifte, author of the North American best seller How to find Oil in almost any back garden broke the world record for number of books signed in one sitting, breaking the record set in Iraq by Hekan Al Bitte’s book Buy this book or get shot by the secret police. Managing director Rominee Plantonane announced the first roster of books that would be published by the imprint: “We have won the bidding war to publish QWERTY is not a Word, the new Scrabble-based murder mystery set in the high stakes world of both online Scrabbling and the Monte Carlo Scrabblathon by A.K.Seepe. And we have the rights to the upcoming catalogue raisonné of Bangladeshi micro-sculptor B.P. Rohingya whose work is so small that none of it has ever actually been seen. Not to mention tomes that will be the talk of London and New York, like 12th century Anglo-Welsh Duelling Customs and Footballers I have had my photo taken with.”
Writers with interesting book proposals in genres from Religion to Murder mysteries, Health to Sport or frankly any subject except for serial killer memoirs should get in touch.
We cannot publish any photographs from the event until the police deem the location is no longer a crime scene. If anyone is offered a gold and diamond straw they are asked to contact the police.