Retna The street and studio artist Retna, born Marquis Lewis, picked his moniker from the lyrics of a Wu-Tang song that resonated with him in his youth. RETNA explains that he was inspired to pursue art after seeing graffiti on the freeway, and his practice now includes street art and painting on canvas. RETNA has become …
Lorenzo Quinn (1966-) Son of Hollywood actor Anthony Quinn, Lorenzo Quinn is an artist of exceptional talent who is recognised widely as one of the World’s great living sculptors. Over the last 20 years, the Italian artist has been exhibited internationally at prestigious venues such as the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Valenciaâs Institute of …
Terry O’ Neill Terry O’Neill is an English photographer. One of the most famous photographers in the World, O’Neill gained renown documenting the fashions, styles, and celebrities of the 1960s. His first professional job was photographing Laurence Olivier. He went on to photograph show-business’s elite such as Judy Garland, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, …
Jeff Koons Jeff Koons rose to prominence in the mid-1980s as part of a generation of artists exploring the meaning of art and spectacle in a media-saturated era. With his stated artistic intention to âcommunicate with the masses,â Koons makes use of conceptual constructsâincluding the ancient, the everyday, and the sublimeâcreating luxurious icons and elaborate …
KAWS KAWS is a multi-faceted artist straddling the worlds of art and design in his prolific body of work that ranges from paintings, murals, and large-scale sculptures to product design and toy-making. His iconic âXXâ signature has its roots in the beginning of his career as a street artist in the 1990s, when he began …
Damien Hirst The fact that he achieved an ‘E’ grade in art A-level and was initially refused a place at Goldsmiths College arguably makes Damien Hirst’s vast array of incredible achievements even more astonishing. The internationally renowned artist, entrepreneur and art collector was born in Bristol in 1965 and spend his childhood in Leeds, where …
Keith Haring Bridging the gap between the art world and the street, Keith Haring rose to prominence in the early 1980s with his graffiti drawings made in the subways and on the sidewalks of New York City. Combining the appeal of cartoons with the raw energy of Art Brut artists like Jean DuBuffet, Haring developed …
Richard Hambleton Richard Hambleton was a contemporary American-Canadian graffiti artist, Often referred to as the âgodfather of street art.â Along with his contemporaries Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Hambleton painted directly on the streets of New York and achieved success during the art boom of the 1980s. Born in June of 1954 in Vancouver, Canada, …
Tracey Emin Tracey Emin, CBE, RA is an English artist, born 3rd July 1963. She is part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists). In 1997, her work “Everyone I Have Ever Slept With” 1963â1995, a tent appliquĂ©d with names, was shown at Charles Saatchi’s “Sensation” exhibition held at the Royal …
Jean-Michel Basquiat A poet, musician, and graffiti prodigy in late-1970s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat had honed his signature painting style of obsessive scribbling, elusive symbols and diagrams, and mask-and-skull imagery by the time he was 20. âI donât think about art while I work,â he once said. âI think about life.â Basquiat drew his subjects …