“I have always made art in response to what I see happening in the world. I want people to look at my work and talk about the issues we face”.
Heath Kane is an Australian artist, based in the UK.
Heath is synonymous with creating bold, striking, often lurid art. He embeds subtle, subversive themes that encourage a political or social conversation.
Heath’s approach to art has always been driven by the practice of design thinking: combining his experience in commercial art with the origins of pop-art. He focuses on creating simple, iconic and memorable pieces that have a strong narrative.
ALO is an Italian artist based in London. The painter is highly inspired by the Expressionist style.
ALO has brought Fine Art into an urban context in a deliberate move to make it accessible to a wider audience. Primarily a studio-based painter, Alo uses the same techniques for his indoor and outdoor creations, avoiding spray cans at all costs. Painting on buildings is illegal in the UK and it is widely known that very few of ALO’s street pieces are painted with permission and he is not paid for his creations. ALO’s muses speak silently from their poised positions on the street.
The artist created his first urban art works in Italy and London and then in Paris and Berlin. He describes his style as ‘Urban Expressionism’. ALO was the focus of successful solo exhibition Liminal in 2021 as well as previous exhibitions Exit from Aden in 2017, and Hail to the Loser in 2014.
Though primarily a painter, Dan Baldwin is a multidisciplinary artist who produces ceramic pieces, book covers and album art. He has also collaborated with clothing designers such as Sara Berman.
Baldwin’s work reflects the ‘big questions’ of human existence through symbols of death, life and love. Pervading his work are recurring motifs of skeletons, swallows, crucifixes and flowers, that manifest in a composition that is both figurative and abstract.
In October 2016, the Saatchi Gallery presented ‘DAN BALDWIN – IN PRINT’ in the Prints & Originals Gallery. The exhibition featured Baldwin’s printed works.
Dominic Beattie was born in London in 1981, where he still lives and works today as an artist and curator. His practice includes painting, sculpture and design.
He has exhibited widely in the UK, Europe and elsewhere. Recent exhibitions include “Cascade” a solo show at JGM Gallery, London; a presentation of furniture works with Private view Gallery at SP-ARTE in Sao Paolo, Brazil; and a presentation of new painted works with FOLD Gallery at Art Brussels in Belgium.
Beattie was the 2015 winner of the UK/Raine painting prize at The Saatchi Gallery.
Helen Bur is a British artist working between the UK and on the road, where she has participated in outdoor and indoor projects world-wide from Brazil to Norway, with exhibitions in USA, UK and Europe. Using traditionally influenced techniques in figuration, sensitive and poetic narratives are used as tools to dissect and understand her experiences.
Helen Bur’s solo exhibition Silent Shout was presented at the Saatchi Gallery in 2021. Painted figures are captured in moments of quiet action, self-reflection and stillness. Obscured in the pause of a gesture and imbued with a sense of the surreal, Bur sensitively depicts those around her as fragments of a bigger picture. Internal dialogues become social narratives and the personal becomes global.
Combining loose gestural marks with traditionally influenced figuration, we are invited to pause, come to stillness in a moment of motion and experience the subtle nuances of emotion that can be felt and held on the canvas surfaces. Silent Shout features works that encourage the viewer to question how we need others to truly understand ourselves. In the words of Sophie Mak-Schram, “Bur’s paintings silently make sound, gesture rather than say, and come to stillness in a moment of motion, They hover in the moment of becoming…transforming…about to make some noise”.
Ryan employs his craftsmanship as a three-dimensional sign writer and model maker in order to create awe-inspiring limited-edition typography and sculptures.
Many of his signs, made with glass, resin, gold and paint, explore the use of colloquial words, song lyrics and popular quotes. His collection of expletive-insertions, in which an expletive is inserted into a word, has become a symbol of Ryan’s playful diving into British popular culture; his experimentation with lyrics have resulted in highly collectable editions amongst musicians, music producers and writers.
Skeleton Cardboard is an anonymous artist, currently based in Hackney, who works in a variety of media across different disciplines… From the studio to the street.
Originally inspired by a trip to Mexico and the ‘Dia De Los Muertos’ festival of the dead. This later fused with an interest in street art and numerous other contemporary influences, that lead the artist to arrive at his own uniquely recognisable style.
His iconography and symbolism is an irreverent commentary on consumerism and modern urban living and his work has been shown in numerous galleries globally.
Tim Ellis is a British artist living in London, who graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in 2009.
In 2023 he created ‘Retro Racers’, a designer model car company. ‘Retro Racers’ take classic car design to the next level, combining laser-cut materials and reclaimed vintage toy components to create stunning stylised cars with a nostalgic twist. Produced exclusively for the Saatchi Gallery, this Artist Series has been produced using reclaimed PLY from artist’s studios in East London and reclaimed vintage toy components.
Tim Ellis has exhibited widely in the UK, Europe and elsewhere, with commercial galleries and museums and public spaces. Recent exhibitions include “Studio Response 4” at the Saatchi Gallery.
Pure Evil is a street artist and gallerist who works in East London. The artist is particularly known for his work with spraypaint, stencils and screen printing.
Through a collaboration with Royal Doulton, Pure Evil has also created diversified artworks using stained glass, sculpture and ceramic. His style and techniques are inspired by the Pop-artist Andy Warhol.
Alaric Hammond is an emerging artist and printmaker based in the UK. Utilising his works to make commentary on the current trends and affairs of urban city culture, Hammond’s motifs display mundane, everyday items from designer brands, discarded packaging, texts and emails to cosmetics, cigarettes, and shoes.
Hammond dramatises his themes of decay, neglect, and pollution employed through fault of humankind or by the natural causes of weather and the passage of time.
Alaric Hammond featured in Saatchi Gallery’s exhibition Everyday Monuments from January to March 2024.
