“I just love what Ed is doing with his Back of the Ed series of artworks,” says Steven, who had the back of his head immortalised by Ed earlier this year. “It is a fantastic new form of portraiture which I am delighted to be part of.”
Artists
Pimlico Wilde are pleased to announce the first London show of art world superstar Hannah Gralle
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
“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
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
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.”
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Meet the Artist – Chester Hubble and his Heavy Metal, pan-city, blindfolded perambulations
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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Meet the artist – Sandy Griddle
“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
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
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.