Pimlico Wilde are pleased to announce the first London show of art world superstar Hannah Gralle

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Next year we will be showing Hannah’s series of work entitled ‘Citizen Kane versus The Vegetables‘ in which she has recreated almost every scene in Orson Welles’ great classic film using only vegetables, stock cubes and bottles of MacUmbrage single malt. Via stop motion the vegetables bear an uncanny similarity to the original film, yet they have an added poignancy as at the end of the film they are all eaten in a scene reminiscent of Babette’s Feast.

Collectors are able to buy the vegetables that remain uneaten, as well as stills from the film, which is odds on favourite to win an Oscar in the new category animated versions of classic films using vegetables.

Meet the artist – Back of the Ed

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“For too long portraiture has focused on the front of the body,” explains Ed Woolverton, who works under the name Back of the Ed. “The whole back of the body rarely gets a look in. Look at all the portraits in the National Portrait Gallery. Almost all are of the front of the model. This is a terrible frontal supremacy that needs to be stopped in its tracks. I have developed the Backal perspective, trying to bring to backs and backs of heads the attention that has been stolen from them.”

Ed lives in a disused shop on Oxford Street, where he has plenty of chances to sketch the backs of shoppers walking past.

”None of us have any real idea what our back looks like. We put so much energy into preparing our faces for going out, but next to no time on our backs. The back is the only place where personality spills out unplanned and with a real integrity that is missing from conventional portraits.”

Ed is open to commissions if you would like the back of your head, or the back of the head of someone else created for you.

Funding sought for Bentley artwork – Polly Romanesque

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We at Pimlico Wilde like to help finance the best of contemporary art. We helped Stevana Yipp create her Ballet de Cranes, in which for one night only, all the cranes on the London skyline turned, lowered and raised their loads in unison. Centuries ago we helped Charles II create a range of Oak Tree keyrings to commemorate his father’s love of hiding in oak trees. In 1460 we even paid for the Channel between England and France to be momentarily drained in an act of one upmanship between artists fighting the War of The Roses.

But artist Polly Romanesque is seeking funding for an art project that needs a level of funding that we are unable to provide, so we appeal here for any philanthropists to help Polly achieve her dream.

”My medium is Bentley cars,” Polly says. “I create 64×64 grids made up of different coloured Bentleys. When this is photographed from a passing hot air balloon overhead, the effect is an automotive sprite – pixel art made from cars.

“Unfortunately, each image requires 64×64 Bentleys, which is 4096 Bentleys. At current costs that will set me back around £800,000,000 per artwork. For my exhibition I would like to have ten pictures, so I will need £8,000,000,000, plus fuel and insurance for each Bentley.

“I have recently inherited some money, but unfortunately I still require more to make these unique artworks. If any billionaires could help with the odd £8 billion I’d be very grateful.”

Any billionaires who can help Polly create her Bentley art are asked to contact her directly.

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.