Art

Coinbase Launch NFT Marketplace Platform

Cryptocurrency (I warned you) company Coinbase has waded into the NFT industry, launching a new online marketplace to trade digital tokens. 

Paul Oz

Painter Paul Oz depicts his sporting idols on the canvas by carving oil paint with a palette knife, and says all his inspiration comes to him while he’s on his racing bike.

Archie Proudfoot

Archie Proudfoot’s prints explore our relationship with words using bold colours and playful styles. Throughout lockdown, he’s been using traditional techniques to hone his craft of bespoke sign painting.

KV Duong

KV Duong uses painting and performance to explore ideas of cultural and sexual identity.

JJ Adams

JJ Adams blends his South African heritage with British culture in his multimedia artwork. He embraces vibrant colours and finds inspiration in tattoos, cartoons, adverts, comics and sci-fi cinema.

Wells Projects

In episode two of Creative Spaces, the team behind Wells Projects, an artist collective in Battersea, tell us how they transformed a disused nightclub into an accessible exhibition space to connect artists across the city.

Alice Irwin

We might be back in lockdown, but the UK’s artists are still creating and they've invited us into their home studios. In episode 1, sculptor and printmaker Alice Irwin shows us how the playground inspires her work.

Courty

Courty says he has neon running through his veins and is as transfixed by the medium as he was 30 years ago when he first started working with it.

Craig Davison

For painter Craig Davison, art demands an emotional connection. His nostalgic oil paintings depict childhood, but are inspired by the bleak Worcestershire landscapes outside his studio and the skulls he collects. Special thanks to Wishbone Galleries.

David Urquhart

Painter David Urquart spent 16 years working as a crime scene examiner before becoming a full-time artist.

Proposition Studios

Creative Spaces is a new series exploring London’s diverse art scene. In episode one, we meet the team at Proposition Studios, an art organisation who are bridging the gap between art and nature.

Kione Grandison

For Kione Grandison, hair has always been an integral part of her identity. Now the multi-media artist draws from her Jamaican roots to explore hairstyling over the decades in textiles, collage and acrylic painting.

Georgina Clapham

Old Masters meets the modern-day in Georgina Clapham’s evocative oil paintings.

Ray Burmiston

Photographer Ray Burmiston tells us why he’s been capturing celebrities with their eyes closed for years, and how he’s turned his collection into a new campaign for Mind.

Adébayo Bolaji

Painting has allowed Adébayo Bolaji to rediscover parts of himself he had forgotten. Adé reveals how he went from child actor, to city lawyer until finally becoming the artist he is today.

Gideon Summerfield

British artist, Gideon Summerfield preserves the legacy of World War 2 veterans and Holocaust survivors with his deeply personal portrait paintings.

Arthur Timothy

Artist Arthur Timothy describes his paintings as ‘love letters’ to his family. Inspired by a trunk of old black and white photos, his life-size canvases invoke childhood memories.

Duggie Fields

British artist, Duggie Fields took us to Brompton Cemetery to share his experience of coming of age in the swinging sixties, and how it shaped his unique creative style. Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of Duggie Fields.

Ziad Kaki

Ziad Kaki’s vibrant canvases depict enigmatic figures in intriguing compositions. In the latest episode of UpNext, the Saudi Arabian artist describes how moving to London unleashed his creativity and helped him develop his style.

Somayeh Jafari

Photographer and director Somayeh Jafari draws on her Iranian heritage and its tradition of poetic documentary to create ‘painful beauty’ in all her work.

Rebecca Gilpin

Rebecca Gilpin creates visual rhythms on canvas. In episode 9, she tells us how listening to music shaped her latest series, Magic Carpet ride; and why the sea plays an important role in her work.

Koby Martin

Koby Martin’s arresting canvases are saturated with emotion. He paints his life experiences, confronting difficult subject matter head on, including leaving Ghana as a teenager and the death of his father.

Wilfrid Wood

Wilfrid Wood transforms well-known faces into playful, yet uncanny portraits. The artist invites us into his studio and explains why, to him, the human face is the most fascinating thing in the universe.

Tom White

Tom White’s colourful oils explore the vulnerability of the human condition. In episode 6 of Open House, he takes us through his artistic journey from pop culture to deeply personal self-portraits.


Ian Bruce

Ian Bruce describes painting portraits as “somewhere between a haircut and a therapy session”. In episode 4 of Open House, he shows us how he’s adapted his intimate methods to lockdown, and finally found the time to launch his long-imagined animation project.

Millie Suu Kyi

Millie Suu Kyi’s ceramics and illustrations depict personality traits through playful characters and vivid scenes, inspired by childhood nostalgia. In episode three of Open House, she shows us how lockdown is shaping her work, and shares her hopes for the future of the arts.

Conor Rogers

Conor Rogers’ intricate miniatures of daily life in the north of England are authentic, emotive depictions of working-class society. In the second episode of Open House, he takes us round his studio where discarded objects become the canvases for his work.

Pie Herring

Pie Herring’s vivid, visceral depictions of womanhood are both disarming and exhilarating. In the first episode of Open House, the artist invites us into her studio to explain why lockdown isn’t holding her back.

Colin Rhodes

Writer, artist and educator Professor Colin Rhodes is an expert on Outsider Art. The author of Outsider Art: Spontaneous Alternatives, here he lends his historical and authoritative knowledge to help demystify the medium and discuss its origins.

Christopher Bucklow

We visited Christopher Bucklow’s Somerset studio, where he creates dream-like portraits through experimental pinhole photography.