Modern Art Curiosity

Dolk 'Punk' Stencil on Canvas

Harland Miller ‘Fetish or Die’ Oil on canvas

Berndnaut Smilde Indoor Clouds

Miss Bugs ‘Waiting for Ed’ - Red Sky 3 colour silkscreen / 18 colour stencil

Aakash Nihalani 1+1=2 New York 2012

Kurt Cobain

Installation of 180 empty birdcages suspended above the ground.

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon

140cm x 140cm.

Matt Small paints directly onto found pieces of metal, bringing physical elements of the city directly into his work, whilst merging them with the human sensibilities of his subjects. The artist paints portraits of anonymous figures, but these evocative impasto artworks are all about his subjects; previous projects include ‘Hope in Life’ a series of weekly workshops where the socially excluded could express themselves through painting and music. It is these people that Matt Small paints, often gifting the original artworks to the subjects themselves.

Kate Moss has long been one of Testino's closest friends and remains one of his favourite muses. Kate Moss, London, 2006 is a classic Testino work, both capturing the intimacy of a seemingly unguarded or fleeting moment and also heightening a sense of glamour and surreality. Perched casually on a polished bathroom counter in a sheer, frothy black dress and a black mask pulled back and slightly askew, Kate seems caught unawares in the midst of some glamourous fête. It is precisely this contrast between the apparently incidental and the impossibly glamorous which makes Testino's images continually fascinating.