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.