ART FOR AFRICA TEMWA PRESENTS
CONTEMPORARY URBAN ART AUCTION
Saturday 9th May Featuring work by world-renowned artists and local up-and-coming talent, raising funds for Temwa’s sustainable community-based projects in Malawi, Africa.
ATTIC BAR
STOKES CROFT // BRISTOL . VIEWING FROM 6PM AUCTION STARTS AT 8PM PROMPT
ART FOR AFRICA 2015 Art for Africa is an annual Bristol art auction that raises vital funds for Temwa, allowing the charity to continue its work in rural Malawi. Temwa was founded in 2003 after two years of fundraising. During that time, Temwa founders Jo and Sophie witnessed the incredible kindness and generosity of Bristol’s creative community, which came together to raise the majority of the funding needed to get the charity off the ground: over 80% of the funds that started Temwa came from music and art events organised in Bristol – including the legendary MonsterPiece nights at the Thekla. The first art auction in aid of Temwa was held at the Tobacco Factory in August 2003 and included artwork from Mr Jago, Xenz, FLX, Paris, Dicy, China Mike, Sickboy and Hero 73, all of whom are still involved today! Many of the artists did not know Jo or Sophie at the time; they just trusted that these two women from Bristol were going to be making a real difference with the funds that they were helping to raise. At the end of 2003, Jo and Sophie travelled to Malawi to begin Temwa’s first project – the building of a community centre, which would include the training of a number of bricklayers. As Temwa has grown and developed, so too have the careers of those artists who supported Temwa in the early days. Today, these artists still support us, and they have never forgotten Temwa – the charity they helped to start. This artist connection was cemented further when FLX travelled to Malawi to work on a community art project with Temwa in 2011. Each piece of artwork in the Art for Africa 2015 collection has been donated free of charge to the charity, meaning that all the money raised on the night goes directly to helping develop Temwa’s projects. We are hugely grateful to all of the generous artists, sponsors and volunteers for making this event possible. We truly could not be more appreciative of the hard work and dedication that all involved have put in to ensure its success.
TEMWA Founded in 2003, Temwa works in a remote area of rural northern Malawi. Nkhata Bay North comprises a network of 145 villages with a total population of 39,000. These isolated communities live with limited electricity, no running water and high levels of HIV/AIDS. With impassable muddy roads in the rainy season and a ferry that only arrives once a week, the Malawian government has admitted that these people’s needs are being neglected. Whilst Temwa’s projects aim to benefit every member of the communities they serve, we focus primarily on reaching vulnerable families – those affected by HIV and AIDS, female or child-headed households, and families hosting orphans. Temwa has grown organically from the needs identified by the communities we serve: we believe they must remain at the centre of all that we do. All decisions concerning the development of Temwa’s projects are made by the communities themselves. We aim to provide the resources to enable these people to lift themselves out of poverty and to create lasting change for their own futures. This has resulted in a range of holistic and interconnected projects covering different programme areas including: agriculture, forestry, health, education and microfinance. Through our projects we train villagers to grow a variety of vegetables and fruit to improve the nutrition in their diet; we plant trees to combat the devastating effects of deforestation; we run HIV testing clinics and work to combat the stigma surrounding those who test positive; and we build school blocks and fund students through their secondary school education. At Temwa, we recognise that lasting change takes time and can only be achieved through empowering the people of Nkhata Bay North with the skills and capacity to manage their own destiny. Our projects offer long-term solutions and, as such, we have made a long-term commitment to the communities we serve by offering programmes that run for several years at a time.
To find out how you can get involved with these celebrations visit www.temwa.org
INFORMATION The Attic Bar, Stokes Croft, Bristol Saturday 9th May 2015 Viewing starts 6pm. Auction starts 8pm For general enquiries, please contact: Russ Spollin – russ@temwa.org - 07900 506969 Buying at Art for Africa There are four ways you can bid at the auction: in person, online, by phone, or by leaving a reserve/ absentee bid. Bidding in person You do not need to register, you can just turn up at the event to bid, however please arrive by 7pm and register in order to bid. Your details will be taken after you have placed a successful bid. You will be expected to pay for the artwork when you collect it or once it has been delivered after the event. Only cash, cheque or bank transfer payments are acceptable. Alternatively, you can pay by cash or cheque on the night and take your purchase home with you. Reserve bids The Art for Africa team will execute bids on your behalf if you are unable to attend the sale. Reserve (or absentee) bids are accepted either in person or can be sent by telephone or email to russ@temwa.org. Neither the Art for Africa team nor Temwa accepts liability for failing to execute reserve bids, or for any errors or omissions. LIVE INTERNET BIDDING Online bidding will be available at this years event. Bid, Watch and Listen online with Proxibid www.proxibid.com/temwa Telephone bidding Telephone bids take place live on the night. Please contact russ@temwa.org to arrange this. Payment If you are a successful bidder payment will be accepted by cash, cheque or bank transfer. Collection or delivery Before being able to collect your purchases you are required to pay the hammer price. If you are not collecting art on the night, you will be given a receipt to acknowledge payment. Collection of purchased lots can be arranged for the following day at the venue. Artwork can also be posted, but full postage and packing costs will be charged to the successful bidder. Further information The colours printed in this catalogue are not necessarily a true reflection of the actual item. Entry to the event is free. LIVE PAINTING Live painting on the night will take place, artists included with the live painting include Will Barras, Rich T, Mr Jago and more TBC. Art work created on the night will be sold live at the end of the auction.
It’s All 2 Much
It’s All 2 Much art gallery was conceived by founder Chris Logan in 2011. As an avid collector of art, he had spotted an artwork by Bristol artist Jim Starr and in the course of buying the piece he learned from the artist that he was looking for a commercial tenant for his ground floor shop on Cheltenham Road in Bristol. As a result, It’s All 2 Much art gallery opened its doors for the first time in December 2011. Bristol has been at the forefront of art for the past thirty years – primarily due to the graffiti works of Banksy, ably supported by the likes of Nick Walker, 3D, Inkie, FLX and Mr Jago. A second generation including Dicy, 3Dom, SPZero76, Cheba, SPQR and Andy Council have taken up the baton and continue to transform drab urban areas into colourful murals. As this street art is increasingly adopted into popular culture, many of these artists have transferred their creativity from concrete to canvas, a medium that is far more gallery-friendly and collectable. Residing in Stokes Croft, it is no surprise that It’s All 2 Much talk with and exhibit the works of many street artists that Bristol is now so well-known for, and are also able to offer visitors examples of figurative, illustrative and abstract art. www.itsall2much.co.uk
Co-LAB
Selling the work of over 150 local artists and businesses, Co-LAB provides ‘a window into Bristol’s independent art scene’. Located on Merchant Street in Broadmead, it is a bastion of independent spirit in the commercial hub of the city centre. The shop reflects this location: a community-minded centre for arts and interest. As well as promoting, showcasing and selling the work of other artists, Co-LAB has its own brand, and has just brought out the second ‘artists series’ t-shirt range featuring the work of three designers. The shop also hosts events with live music and art, doing everything in its power to promote local artists – be they DJs, beatboxers or visual artists. With its new website just launched, Co-LAB is constantly evolving and working to better the already thriving creative scene here in Bristol. Head down to say hello to their friendly and dedicated team! www.bristolcolab.com
UPFEST The Upfest Gallery, Bedminster – Bristol’s most diverse range of original and printed contemporary art, street art and graffiti inspired artwork, also offering framing, t-shirts, POSCA markers and over 350 colours of spray paint. The gallery doubles up as Upfest HQ whilst we host The Urban Paint Festival, Europe’s largest urban arts festival attracting over 300 artists and 20,000 visitors. Bristol enjoys the combination of a vibrant community of free-spirited street artists, many legal painting walls, and a very compliant local authority. This has helped Bristol to become recognised as the capital city of street art in the UK and the natural home for Upfest – Europe’s premier live street art festival. The likes of Bristol-born artists such as Banksy, Inkie and Cheo have demonstrated how urban and contemporary art can engage vast numbers of the general public. Upfest is now an integral part of this movement and is helping to support a new generation of urban and contemporary artists. This year’s festival will take place across the weekend of the 25th-27th of July, with Monday the 27th designated as a family day that will include a number of children’s workshops. The Upfest Gallery, 198 North Street, is open Tuesday to Saturday 9.30am until 5.30pm and Sunday 10am until 3pm – or visit our website The Upfest crew is very pleased to be supporting Temwa’s Art for Africa event, an amazing group of artists getting together for such a great cause. Best of luck to all involved. www.upfest.co.uk
PRSC
Since 2007, the People’s Republic of Stokes Croft – PRSC – has worked to promote civil liberty with particular focus on public space. Sweeping, painting and speaking out are all a part of their resistance to zealous regulation of independent initiative. Their lead has encouraged others to do the same and, as a result, the area has become a hub of confident creative dissent. Stokes Croft China is PRSC’s principal income generator. Whilst money remains tight, complete autonomy is maintained without funding. All workers are volunteers and all money from the sale of china goes towards running, among other things, a well equipped painters’ yard which facilitates much of the extraordinary street art unique to the area. www.prsc.org.uk
Lot number: 1 Artist: Bex Glover Title of work: Murmur Dimensions: 30.5cm x 40.5cm Medium: Spray paint and acrylic on canvas Estimated value: ÂŁ120 Bex Glover is a contemporary artist and illustrator working in physical and digital mediums. Her abstract, nature-inspired artwork deconstructs the organic world, exploring shape, geometry, intersecting lines and the fusion of foreground and background elements, in vibrant colour palettes and atmospheric layers.
Lot number: 2 Artist: Cheba and Inkie Title of work: Wizard Dimensions: 42cm x 59cm Medium: Giclée print with added glitter spray on fine art 320gsm paper in a limited edition of 75, signed and numbered by the artists Estimated value: £100 Cheba began painting the Bristol landscape in the early noughties; soon after picking up a spray can Cheba was hooked and has been a long-standing figure in his hometown of Bristol’s thriving street art culture. He has showcased his work at over 40 exhibitions across the world (4 solo) alongside illustrious figures from the world of street art including the ‘Crimes of Passion’ show at the Royal West of England Academy and more recently at the House of Commons, London and Art Fairs in New York. In 2014, It’s All 2 Much art gallery was pleased to be able to present Cheba’s latest works in a solo show entitled ‘Beyond The Pale Blue Dot’. Cheba has donated many works but most notably he was selected for two charitable fundraising public art exhibitions, ‘Gromit Unleashed’ and ‘Wow Gorillas’, alongside household names such as Sir Quentin Blake, Peter Brookes and Peter Blake: at auction, Cheba’s sculptures raised £28,000 and £10,000 respectively, among the highest selling at both auctions. Inkie is one of the most notorious and prolific graffiti writers in UK history to emerge out of the 80s Bristol scene. He began working as part of the Crime Incorporated Crew in 1983 with Felix and Joe Braun and has painted alongside 3D, Nick Walker and Banksy. He was the head of the many artists arrested in 1989 during ‘Operation Anderson’, the UK’s largest ever graffiti bust. He has subsequently worked in the video game industry including some time as head of creative design at Sega. Inkie was present at the launch of Banksy’s book ‘Bristol: Home Sweet Home’ to do live painting. This globally respected artist – whose diverse inspirations include Mayan architecture, William Morris, Mouse and Kelly, Alphons Mucha, the Arts and Crafts Movement and Islamic geometry – has exhibited worldwide, has been denounced as Banksy’s right-hand man by the Daily Mail (while simultaneously lauded by The Times), and his art has been published in the books Banksy’s Bristol, Children of the Can, Graffiti World, Street Fonts and magazines GQ, Rolling Stone, Computer Arts, Huck, Graphotism and Dazed & Confused. He also featured in the seminal 2007 LA graffiti documentary film Bomb It, the Sky Arts documentary From Tags to Riches as well as the BBC’s Drawing the Line.
Lot number: 3 Artist: Nick Lindo Title of work: Cycle Line Dimensions: 105cm x 45cm Medium: GiclĂŠe print on 240gsm Fotospeed Matt Ultra paper Infographic calendar of 2015. Days, weeks, fortnights & months. Fruit seasons, vegetable seasons & herb seasons. Seasons, quarterlies, average temperatures (monthly). Star signs, moon cycles, summer/winter solstice, summer/winter equinox. Sun rise times, sun set times, daylight saving. Notable festivals & holidays. The calendar is printed to professional artist standard with the best inks and equipment on good quality paper
Lot number: 4 Artist: Mary Collett Title of work: Elephant Dimensions: 46cm x 61cm Medium: Unique linoprint on canvas Estimated value: £50 Mary’s prints embody a playful sense of fun, and she considers that the highest praise is for the viewer to smile and appreciate the joy that she feels in creating the prints. In creating her work, Mary carves pieces of lino to create plates that can be used to print different colours. For larger prints, Mary also sometimes ‘etches’ the lino using a mixture of caustic soda and wallpaper paste, which allows the creation of a more painterly effect and so gives a different texture to the prints. A combination of hand printing and using unique material such as maps or bank notes in each of the prints means that no two prints are exactly the same – each print is a unique piece of art. Mary is a member of the RWA Artist Network and has had work hung in several Royal West of England Academy exhibitions. She is a member of Bristol’s Spike Island Print Studio and is also a member of North Bristol Artists where she has exhibited her prints for the last ten years. Mary’s work has twice been shortlisted for the Royal Academy summer exhibition in London.
Lot number: 5 Artist: Mary Collett Title of work: Canvas Crow Dimensions: 51cm x 76cm Medium: Unique linoprint on canvas Estimated value: ÂŁ75
Lot number: 6 Artist: Tom Deams and Georgina Anton Title of work: Berkembang Dimensions: 46cm x 91cm Medium: Acrylic, spray paint and emulsion Estimated value: £100 Now well into his third decade of painting, Deams’ style has reached that plateau where it is uniquely, unmistakably, and utterly his own. Whether painting his cartoon-like, bevelled-edged straight letters; super complex retro-futuristic burners; or indeed, those open abstract spaces that seem to explore the insides of letters, a Deams painting identifies itself at a hundred paces. Deams is a ‘style writer’ in the truest sense of the phrase. It could be said that Anton, whose love of graffiti inadvertently led her to failing the 11+ exam, owes it all to a dedicated art teacher and the monetary gift of encouragement they left upon their passing so as to nurture her obvious talents. Today, Anton’s audience remains appreciative of both her line and brush work, which thrives on the freedom she grants herself when working. Anton’s atmospheric creations continue to reflect her love of nature, aesthetics, simplicity and style, with loose, crisp edges currently guiding her long-serving curiosity with all things strangely beautiful.
Lot number: 7 Artist: Jim Starr Title of work: Blue Medusa Dimensions: 67.5cm x 87.5cm Medium: Oil-based ink on Somerset Satin paper Estimated value: £200 Jim Starr has been screen-printing for 15 years (and painting for longer), managing to exhibit in over 80 shows so far (8 solo). His work has gone under the hammer alongside some of the world’s most celebrated contemporary artists at auctioneers Dreweatt’s Urban Art Sales (at Paintworks, Bristol, and Selfridges, London), and has been exhibited solo at London’s Dalston Superstore. He has also shown at the Pall Mall Deposit, London, The Coningsby Gallery, London and at Bristol’s 2 Degrees Gallery, the Wilder Street Gallery and King of Paint.
Lot number: 8 Artist: Keith Title of work: Tattiana Dimensions: 60cm x 69.5cm Medium: Stencilled spray paint on canvas Estimated value: £175 Keith moved to Bristol in 2005 and found himself in a city full of great music, art and culture. In 2011, influenced by the art that surrounded him in the streets, he decided to teach himself to paint using the medium of spray paint. Keith mostly paints scenes from the streets that inspired him to paint in the first place – distinctive buildings, important moments, and the individuals that make up the essence of the amazing place that is Bristol. He has supported the Art for Africa sale for a few years because it represents one of those fantastic Bristolian events combining great art, music, people and a generosity for which Bristol is well known.
Lot number: 9 Artist: 45rpm Title of work: Snake in the Grass Dimensions: 30.2cm x 78cm Medium: Acrylic and spray paint on board Estimated value: £250 45rpm is a member of The What Collective, who are part of Bristol’s vibrant art scene. Sketchbooks are integral to his work: he uses them to store odd items that he collects day-to-day and then integrates into his drawings, creating interesting juxtapositions. “Chalk and cheese is my drawing style, messy old backgrounds with clean lines ... I sketch until I hate five things I have drawn, but love one.” His books are packed with ephemera, wallpaper, photos, shopping lists, old adverts, and newspapers. If he finds something stained, torn or faded, it goes in his sketchbook. The collage aesthetic runs throughout his work. “If I like a page from my sketchbook I will replicate it on canvas. Sometimes only a bit will change. I take as much time on a sketchbook piece as I do on a canvas for a show.”
Lot number: 10 Artist: Mr Riks Title of work: Tinted Dimensions: 48cm x 36cm Medium: Hand painted using airbrush and paint pens on fine art paper Estimated value: £45 RAW and KTK crews’ Mr Riks brings a diverse flow, with a strong depth of colour and style that is indicative of his long established pedigree as a writer in the South West. Bio taken from Children of the Can by Felix ‘FLX’ Braun.
Lot number: 11 Artist: Barbie Lowenberg Title of work: Trapped in Twine Dimensions: 20cm x 80cm Medium: Spray paint, Molotow paint pen on skate deck Estimated value: £80 Barbie Lowenberg is a Bristol-based illustrator and works at White Duck Screen Print in Bath. She is one half of Bristol-based illustration duo Long Fox, along with illustrator, tattoo artist and partner Iain Sellar. Long Fox is known for their wall art across Bristol’s independent cafes, restaurants, bars and venues, as well as their hand screen printed clothing and poster prints, available via their online shop. Barbie’s illustrations are inspired by a mix of folk art, traditional tattoos, wood etching, Victiorian, Medieval and occult illustration.
Lot number: 12 Artist: Akarat Title of work: Untitled Dimensions: 122cm x 128cm Medium: Spray paint and acrylic on board Akarat is a Bristol artist whose background is based around hip hop and reggae culture. His work highlights issues in and of society. Over time, more complex ideas have developed that have forced the work into the gallery environment. His practice is still heavily centred around graffiti collaborations with Hoax, and their large stencil works can be seen around Bristol. The techniques and tools used are simple and low tech. Stencil, spray paint, free hand, collage, rollers, painting and decorating tools are the weapons of choice; imagery is culled from life or printed cult newspapers, comics, and leaflets.
Lot number: 13 Artist: Aspire Title of work: Son House Dimensions: 56cm x 89cm Medium: Acrylic on board Estimated value: £200 Aspire’s characters bring to life many forgotten blues musicians and pixelated birds, which pop up on the streets of Bristol and are found in cities around the world. His paintings are captivating, unique and distinctively his own, portraying blue characters, a hatching technique and baroque backgrounds.
Lot number: 14 Artist: Dan Yeo Title of work: Untitled Dimensions: 210cm x 297cm Medium: Framed photo Estimated value: £55 Dan Yeo is very much part of the Temwa family. At the end of a year-long communications internship with the charity, he went to work in Malawi in order to visit Temwa’s projects and spend time with the people who are benefiting from its work. Through interviews and photographs, Dan has built a picture of the people of Usisya and the hope they have for the future.
Lot number: 15 Artist: FLX Title of work: Untitled Dimensions: 20cm x 80cm Medium: Mixed media on skate deck Felix ‘FLX’ Braun is a local legend who has been painting graffiti since the mid-80s. Involved with Temwa since 2003, he visited and worked with Temwa’s education projects in Malawi in 2011 after undertaking a monumental ‘drawathon’ – drawing for 24 hours non-stop – to raise funds and awareness of Temwa’s work. He has also written one and a half books on the local graffiti and street art scene (Children Of The Can, Pt.1 & 2, Tangent Books, 2008 and 2012) and is co-director of local aerosol murals company Paintsmiths Of Bristol.
Lot number: 16 Artist: Cheo Title of work: Rain Stops Play Dimensions: 30.5cm x 25.5cm Medium: Mixed media on canvas Cheo EST: 1985 (Bristol)
Lot number: 17 Artist: Cheo Title of work: Rocking Horse Sh#t Dimensions: 29.7cm x 21cm Medium: Pencil sketch on paper
Lot number: 18 Artist: Cheba Title of work: Untitled Dimensions: 50.6cm x 51cm Medium: Spray paint, oil, ink and resin on wooden panel Estimated value: £400 Cheba began painting the streets of Bristol in the early 2000s. Shortly after picking up a spray can, he became addicted to painting the city’s landscape and has been a long-standing figure in his hometown of Bristol’s thriving street art culture. Cheba has gone on to showcase his work across the world alongside illustrious figures from the world of street art including the ‘Crimes of Passion’ show at the Royal West of England Academy and more recently the House of Commons. Cheba’s work is described as free-flowing, tactile and futuristic spray can expressionism, heavily inspired by space, specifically Hubble Telescope images. On canvas, he combines the graffiti staple of spray paint with more traditional medias such as oil, acrylic and inks. His recent abstract nebula-like paintings are made from layer after layer of various mediums and poured resin, sometimes freestyle or based on real nebulae. They are created using a number of experimental techniques to create thick paintings that appear almost sculptural. It’s difficult to capture the depth of each piece in a photograph, as they are seen differently depending on the angle at which the work is viewed. Cheba has donated many works but most notably he was selected for two charitable fundraising public art exhibitions – ‘Gromit Unleashed’ and ‘Wow Gorillas’ – alongside household names such as Sir Quentin Blake, Peter Brookes and Peter Blake. At auction, Cheba’s sculptures raised £28,000 and £10,000 respectively – among the highest selling at both auctions.
Lot number: 19 Artist: Stiffado/Dante Title of work: Regan Dimensions: 57cm x 37cm Medium: Acrylic on canvas Estimated value: £1,000 Stiffado/Dante originally from Somerset using as subject matter of his own personal life experiences, dealing through raw primitive emotions influence by African, 20th century modern art 80’s NY artists Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat. Through his artwork he form his figures using 80’s children cartoon/toy characters such as He-Man and Transformers he loved as a child.
Lot number: 20 Artist: Stiffado/Dante Title of work: Untitled Dimensions: 37cm x 57cm Medium: Acrylic on cardboard
Lot number: 21 Artist: Thom (Tafika Arts) Title of work: Village Life Dimensions: 54cm x 36cm Medium: Mixed media on handmade canvas Estimated value: £60 Thom is based in Usisya, one of the communities where Temwa works, and comes from a family of artists. Over the last few years, Thom – along with his family – has worked with Temwa on a number of community art projects. In 2011, Bristol artist Felix ‘FLX’ Braun undertook a community art project in Malawi, which saw Thom, FLX and a group of artists from the community complete several murals in and around the Usisya Community Centre.
Lot number: 22 Artist: Thom (Tafika Arts) Title of work: The Ilala Ferry Dimensions: 63cm x 39cm Medium: Mixed media on handmade canvas Estimated value: ÂŁ60
Lot number: 23 Artist: Jon Horrell aka ‘Orrible Title of work: Pandas Are A Girls Best Friend Dimensions: 32cm x 47cm Medium: Original AP. Two-layer hand-cut stencil. Hand spray painted on Chinese news print from 2014. True black/gold edition. Estimated value: ÂŁ150
Lot number: 24 Artist: Monkey Hand Title of work: Nasty Bullet Artist Statement: I am Monkey Hand Dimensions: 33cm x 23cm Medium: Hand finished paint & print
Lot number: 25 Artist: Paul McGowan Title of work: The Caretaker Dimensions: 114cm x 114cm Medium: Original sample print onto photographic high-gloss paper Estimated value: £4,000 Paul McGowan studied art at Falmouth, Winchester and Bath school of Art. His work has often created controversy and has been regularly featured in the press all around the world, such as The Guardian, The Times, The Evening Standard, Creative Review, Arena Magazine, the BBC, Sky News and many more. His work is collected across the world and he is a serial collaborator, often producing works released under different identities. In 2010 Paul McGowan stopped all interaction with the media after his ‘Knuckle Buster’ studio was raided by art thieves and as a result lost the majority of his archived artworks which spanned two decades . It was after this, McGowan cancelled all exhibitions and interviews while he produced a new catalogue of work. This work, titled Trigger Finger, included a series of artworks informed by children who are the victims of war. The artwork creates awareness and desperate funding for the international charity War Child. The work is subversive and comprises of vivid images depicting children constructed biomorphicaly using weapons of violence into visions of horror. McGowan also continued collaborating with American Guitarist Gary Lucas who worked with Captain Beefheart and co wrote Grace with Jeff Buckley. They released an audio visual collaboration that included a limited edition 7 inch single on green vinyl. McGowan also produced a series of artwork for Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters titled “Ordeal of Civility”. In December 2013 and 2014 McGowan was included in London West Bank Galleries charity event ‘Smile Britannia’, which is staged in the Houses of Parliament and has become an annual event. The event raises vital funds for three organisations; the Smile Britannia Project which benefits disadvantaged communities in London, The Last Night a DJ Saved My Life Foundation, and Temwa. In 2014 McGowan also participated in London Westbank Gallery’s annual ‘Urban in Ibiza’ exhibition that features artworks from the gallery’s international network of street, graffiti and contemporary artists.
Lot number: 26. Artist: Sam Lindup Title of work: Why do we make stupid people famous? Dimensions: 21cm x 30cm Medium: Black ink drawing, digitally finished. Estimated value: ÂŁ300 Samuel is a multidisciplinary artist living in the South West of England. His current practice sees him exploring mass consumerism, mass production and how, as humans, we are driven to continue to create more: more tools, more pleasing design, more choice and ultimately, more stuff!
Lot number: 27 Artist: Rose Popay Title of work: Royal West Of England Urban Show Dimensions: 50cm x 40cm Medium: Acrylic paint and ink, drawn live at the preview night of an urban art show Estimated value: ÂŁ100 Once upon a time in 1974, Rose Popay was born to a couple of ground-breaking artists who founded the internationally renowned comic-visual street theatre performers The Natural Theatre Company of Bath. This English Rose has led a sweetly surreal and mildly eccentric life and can often be found performing (alongside mum, dad and step-dad) at street theatre events, festivals and parties across the globe. She trained in fine art and now draws and paints live at events ... sometimes even getting the public to join in!
Lot number: 28 Artist: Rose Popay Title of work: Urban Auction Dimensions: 50cm x 40cm Medium: Acrylic paint and ink, drawn live at the preview night of an urban art show Estimated value: ÂŁ100
Lot number: 29 Artist: Lokey Title of work: On Show Dimensions: 40cm x 50cm Medium: Mixed media on canvas Estimated value: ÂŁ100 Lokey was born and raised in Bristol. His passion for graffiti started in the mid-1980s through a chance meeting in a local park with some kids who were breakdancing and who had just returned from a holiday in America with hip-hop mix tapes and photographs of graffiti. They told him he had to have a street name, a tag, and from that point on he was hooked; and after playing about with a few other tags he became Lokey. He is the youngest veteran of the Bristol graffiti phenomenon, with over 20 years of experience in the once underground scene, which is now very much a part of the day-to-day lives of Bristolian people. His writing style has progressed over the years, from simple bubble letters in the early days, through to Wildstyle, and now the 3D lettering that he is best known for. Lokey has exhibited at numerous galleries across Bristol including the RWA, Weapon of Choice Gallery, Upfest Gallery, The Farm and The Emporium to name a few ... and he has also exhibited as far afield as Abu Dhabi. His main love is painting on walls ... the more the merrier and the bigger the better.
Lot number: 30 Artist: Lokey Title of work: Untitled Dimensions: 50cm x 70cm Medium: Mixed media on canvas Estimated value: ÂŁ150
Lot number: 31 Artist: Will Barras Title of work: Untitled Dimensions: 21cm x 29.7cm Medium: Pencil on paper Estimated value: £70 Will Barras is an artist living and working in London. He grew up in Birmingham and moved to Bristol to study graphic design. Will became one of a new crop of young artists working within Bristol’s worldrenowned street art scene. This led to Will appearing in the book Scrawl, and becoming a founding member of the Scrawl collective. Scrawl, originally published in 1999, was a seminal book documenting a new movement in street art, graphics and illustration. Will was chosen as one of the original artists for the collective, noted for his representations of fluid movement, unique narrative-driven composition and line work. “There is a fluidity and energy in Will’s work that, although constantly changing, has always existed in a world entirely of his own making. His figures appear to be in a state of perpetual metamorphosis – caught for a brief moment between one manifestation and the next, always at the mercy of the swirling forces that surround them. From his early scanned and reworked doodles through to his recent, rich, mixed media work, Will has mastered every medium with a dynamism constant in all his work.” Felix Braun, author of Children of the Can.
Lot number: 32 Artist: Will Barras Title of work: Untitled Dimensions: 21cm x 29.7cm Medium: Pen on paper Estimated value: ÂŁ70
Lot number: 33 Artist: Will Barras Title of work: Untitled Dimensions: 29.7cm x 21cm Medium: Pen on paper Estimated value: ÂŁ70
Lot number: 34 Artist: Will Barras Title of work: Untitled Dimensions: 29.7cm x 21cm Medium: Pen on paper Estimated value: ÂŁ70
Lot number: 35 Artist: Will Barras Title of work: Untitled Dimensions: 29.7cm x 21cm Medium: Pen on paper Estimated value: ÂŁ70
Lot number: 36 Artist: Will Barras Title of work: Untitled Dimensions: 29.7cm x 21cm Medium: Pen on paper Estimated value: ÂŁ70
Lot number: 37 Artist: Will Barras Title of work: Untitled Dimensions: 42cm 29.7cm Medium: Pen on paper Estimated value: ÂŁ100
Lot number: 38 Artist: Rich T Title of work: Untitled Dimensions: 41cm x 41cm Medium: Spray paint and acrylic on canvas RichT moved to Bristol in 2002 and started the What crew with 45RPM. He has been developing his style in the city ever since. Equally at home painting on the street or doing more traditional pen and ink illustration work, his art is often dark but always fun, with bold lines and bright colours. RichT explores the lighter side of the dark side.
Lot number: 39 Artist: Marie Claire Diaz Title of work: Untitled Dark Dimensions: 61cm x 90cm Medium: Oil on canvas Estimated value: ÂŁ90 My focus over the last few years has centered on painting and psychoanalysis, and the interaction between these two activities. Donald Winnicott, a founder member of the Independent Tradition in psychoanalysis says: “It is in playing, and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.â€? My painting has allowed me to recover a capacity for play, lost since childhood, and allowed my creativity an expression in my paintings. I painted for many years exclusively in oils until recently, when I started playing with inks and discovered that the vibrancy and subtlety of the colours and the fluidity of the materials allow evocative yet abstract images to emerge onto the canvas that are exciting and satisfying. I prefer to leave my paintings open to the understanding and interpretation of each individual person who looks at them. It is the creativity of the other, the viewer, I want to provoke rather than offer something finished and complete in itself.
Lot number: 40 Artist: Marie Claire Diaz Title of work: Untitled Dimensions: 30cm x 80cm Medium: Oil on canvas Estimated value: ÂŁ80
Lot Number: 41 Artist: Lola Title of Work: Bloom II Dimensions: 36cm x 29cm Medium: Graphite on Bristol board Estimated Value: £400 Lola is a fine artist living and working in Los Angeles. Her work has a strong emphasis on childhood imagination woven in and around connection through relationships and the psychological response we magically grow from those throughout our lives. She shares a hidden world of symbolic thought, spoken through a visual language. All works promote a positive outlook on the eternal quest for being the best you can possibly be. Lola has exhibited her paintings in fine art galleries both internationally and throughout America since 2001. Perfecting her craft since the age of 13, she is a self-taught artist with a strong passion and diligence that keeps her striving to continually evolve her technique. Born in Riverside, California, she has been around art her entire life, with her dad as her greatest inspiration: a cartoonist and local muralist throughout her formative years. In 2012, she moved to Bristol on a two-year visa to live and paint amongst the countryside, as well as visit every museum she possibly could. Lola’s works have been published in books such as Underground Culture From All Parts of the World, Gothic Art Now, DPI Design Stars Boulevard, Pop Surrealism: What a Wonderfool World, and more. Features and interviews include Juxtapoz Magazine, Territory Magazine, Wooden Toy, Hi Fructose, Bliss, dpi magazine, Staf Magazine,LA Weekly, Lemonade, and Inked, to name a few.
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‘Tails’ Lot number: 42 Artist: Hoax Title of work: Coin-op Militia Dimensions: 40cm Medium: Cast lead Hoax is a Bristol graffiti artist. Using stencils, he paints outside to create political – or sometimes less so – statements. Hoax often collaborates with Akarat, and their collaborations can be seen all over Bristol. Hoax is heavily influenced by the urban landscape and city life. When working inside on canvases, these influences can be seen, as he experiments and blends boundaries between inside and outside art.
Lot Number: 43 Artist: Haka Title of Work: Even Wizards Need A Holiday Dimensions: 60cm x 30cm Medium: Acrylic and ink on slate Estimated Value: £50 Haka has been painting in the Bristol graffiti scene for twelve years. Born and bred in the West Country he has made a name for himself with a unique style that is always evolving. Painting a combination of graffiti lettering and vivid characters that seem to jump off the wall at you, Haka believes in the spray can as being nothing more than a tool for expressing yourself. He has painted in many different places – Prague, Sydney, Amsterdam, and Melbourne to name a few, and after having his first solo show in the UK (‘A Misspent Youth’), plans are forming for exhibitions worldwide.
Lot number: 44 Artist: Ben Sims Title of work: We’re Going To Let It Happen Dimensions: 76 cm x 101cm Medium: Oil on canvas Estimated value: £130 “About seven years ago, I woke up, and four years ago I started painting. To me, painting is setting my mind free. I believe the world to be insane, gaslighting from day to day by the median Society is living in one joint Stockholm Syndrome. A state of cognitive dissonance. I believe in synchronisation. I believe doors can open!”
Lot number: 45 Artist: Ben Sims Title of work: Born Into Light Dimensions: 60cm x 69.5cm Medium: Oil on canvas Estimated value: ÂŁ140
Lot number: 46 Artist: Diggory Lecomber Title of work: Untitled Dimensions: 102cm x 76cm Medium: Inkjet image mounted to a dibond panel Estimated value: £250 Diggory Lecomber is a Bristol-based photographer specialising in creating cityscapes and architectural images through both traditional photographic techniques and more modern digital processes. He’s happiest with a camera in hand, wandering the streets of Bristol and other great cities, trying to capture a sense of stillness and tranquillity in otherwise busy and chaotic environments.
Lot number: 47 Artist: China Mike Title of work: Glass Man Dimensions: 71.5cm x 97cm Medium: Acrylic and spray paint on canvas Estimated value: £750 China Mike’s paintings are a celebration of mark making, colour and the impulses of creative process. Regardless of the subject matter, he always tries to capture a sense of spontaneity and honesty through mark making, not concerning himself with the artifice of beauty, instead allowing colour and form – through creative reaction – to produce their own aesthetic quality, one that feels less forced, deliberate or artificial. His work largely focuses on figurative motifs but often tries to subvert the natural familiarity of any subject matter with a shroud of ambiguity. He paints with a variety of mediums as each one gives him a breadth of possibilities with which to make his mark.
Lot number: 48 Artist: Scot Burgoyne Title of work: Truth Beauty Justice Respect Dimensions: Various Medium: Original, one-off designed china teapot, cups and saucers Estimated value: £200 Scot is an artist living and working in Bristol. His work is exhibited all over Bristol, including in the PRSC gallery. “I take my inspiration from music, film and the powerful imagery found in propaganda posters and sculpture, such as those from the Soviet era. The Pop Artists have also influenced my painting, particularly Peter Blake, Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns.” This unique piece of fine china has been created by Scot and kindly donated to Temwa by Stokes Croft China, part of the People’s Republic of Stokes Croft.
Lot number: 49 Artist: Fuller Title of work: The Bristol Map Dimensions: 108cm x 108cm Medium: Giclée fine art print from an edition of 250. Signed and numbered by the artist. Original is drawn with black ink on archival mount board. Estimated value: £450 Fuller, aka Gareth Wood, began drawing his first work in 2005. Using black ink he creates alternative and engaging maps. This takes hundreds of hours of drawing, composition and research. He lives and works in the places that become his art. According to him he is ‘making a collection of cartographical love letters’. This artwork was framed with the support and talent of Niche Frames (www.nicheframes.co.uk) in Stokes Croft, Bristol. The image shown represents only a section of the artwork.
Lot Number: 50 Artist: Mr Jago Title of Work: Smith Woodward Dimensions: 120cm x 100cm Medium: Acrylic and spray paint on wood panel Estimated value: £2,000 Since graduating from the University of the West of England in Bristol in 1998, Duncan Jago’s work has undergone a prolonged and continuous process of abstraction. Duncan’s early – doodle-derived – mark making evolved deliberately into his current way of working; the droid-like figures of his formative, commercial illustration slowly enveloped in ever-deepening layers of colour and shade. These figures have now become almost entirely hidden, remaining as shadowy, compositional elements, spectres lurking in the gloom behind the kaleidoscopic vapours of (what might perhaps be) humankind’s vanity and pollution. One senses a narrative, but it remains obscured, teasingly just out-of-view. Most recently, Duncan has taken the idioms of spray painting to a level of sophistication rarely seen in the medium, completely uninhibited by any notions of what spray painting is, or should be. There is maturity and depth to the use of colour that hints at the mineral traces left by geological time, or the complex nebulae of deep space revealed by Hubble’s keen eye. His work is the result of a stream-of-consciousness approach, where meaning presents itself through process. One might well use the phrase abstract expressionism, since form and structure have undergone a process of abstraction, whilst primarily being emotionally expressive. It is formally organised and balanced, as well as spontaneous and visceral. His recent exhibitions include ‘The Z Project’ in Detroit and a solo show at the White Walls Gallery in San Francisco.
Lot number: 51 Artists: Paris, Eko, Mudwig, Xenz, Ziml, Dicy, Will Barras, Mr Jago, Nick Walker, Banksy, China Mike, Rich T, Mau Mau, Toasters, Sickboy Title of work: First Great Weston 2008 Dimensions: 69cm x 49.4cm Medium: 12-colour hand screened print. AP 1/50, special artist colourway Estimated value: £295 A print celebrating Bristol’s infamous print house run by Paul Weston – host to printing loads of great screen prints by loads of amazing UK graffiti and street artists. This is the first print that Banksy did at Screen One: the ‘copper’ on the door of the building is by Banksy. Several of the artists have signed the print. Edition of 200 originally, this is an artist proof, part of a smaller limited run of 50, which was a special ‘artists colourway’.
Lot number: 52 Artist: Various Title of work: : Crimes of Passion 2009 Dimensions: 69cm x 49.4cm Medium: 11-colour hand screened print Estimated value: £150 The majority of Bristol’s top artists who were involved in the ‘Crimes of Passion’ event are represented on this print with their tag. Printed in conjunction with and to celebrate this unique event held at Royal West of England Academy; ‘Crimes of Passion’ was an extraordinary event, where nearly 50 of Bristol’s finest graffiti artists painted directly onto the walls of the traditional academy.
Lot number: 53 Artist: Sepr Title of work: Sex Music #1 (Man with Flute) and Sex Music #2 (Lady with Sax) Dimensions: 56cm x 36cm Medium: Silk screen print. Designed, printed, signed and numbered by the artist Estimated value: ÂŁ70 Sold as a set of two. Born and bred in Bristol, Sepr is a prolific character-based artist. He has exhibited and painted all over the world and is currently exhibiting and painting walls across the US, Mexico and Australia. He paints as part of the KTF and ASK crews, and is part of the Jacknife gig poster collective.
Lot number: 54 Artist: Lee Ellis Title of work: Unsettled Dimensions: 40.5cm x 50.5cm Medium: Oil on canvas Estimated value: £550 Lee Ellis is an artist born in Cheltenham, England who currently lives in Bristol. After achieving a degree in Design, Lee explored painting in his spare time. This hobby grew and transformed into a fully-fledged passion for the art. Lee is an expressive artist not afraid to tackle the tortured expression and dramatic scenes sinking into the depths of the human psyche. His art is portrayed with distortion, with emotion and passion, and has been exhibited widely across the UK. Lee is currently making the transition from parttime to full-time artist, and he’s one to watch – an artist developing his impactful style, producing work with blurred strokes and powerful marks, carving himself out as an emerging, edgy and very talented artist.
Lot Number: 55 Artist: Ian Sellar Title of work: The Four-Eyed Scape Goat Dimensions: 20cm x 80cm Medium: Spray paint and paint pens on skate deck Estimated value: £50 Iain Sellar’s work stems from his love of heavy metal music and an insatiable appetite for Monster Munch. It can be found adorning restaurants, clubs and bars as well as countless flyers, gig posters, t-shirts and album artworks.
Lot number: 56 Artist: Hemper Title of work: Hems Dimensions: 51cm x 40.5cm Medium: Acrylic and paint pens on canvas Estimated value: £200 “I’ve been writing on walls and things for 22 years.”
Lot number: 57 Artist: Ryder Title of work: Skate and Ryder Dimensions: 80cm x 20cm Medium: Spray paint and ink on skateboard deck Estimated value: ÂŁ200 RAW Gallery, Read And Weep
Lot number: 58 Artist: T-Rex Title of work: It Was All A Dream Dimensions: 24cm x 59cm Medium: Spray paint and acrylic on wood Estimated value: ÂŁ75 RAW Gallery, Read And Weep
Lot number: 59 Artist: Kid Crayon Title of work: Hungry Hippos Dimensions: 90cm x 90cm Medium: Acrylic and Posca (mixed media) Estimated value: £130 “I am a Bristol-based illustrator/street artist. The majority of the street art pieces I produce are large paintings that I wheatpaste around the city. I also do a fair bit of spray painting too. I work in a variety of mediums, but prefer gouache, acrylic, oil and aerosol. I also work digitally on occasion, but this is mainly when working on commissioned pieces or digitally colouring illustrative work. The most common type of work that I receive currently is mural commissions, and I have produced these for various clubs, offices, bars, hostels and public spaces. When working on a street art piece, the aesthetics, subject matter and the location of that particular work are the most integral factors. My main objective when producing artwork like this is that it must be accessible by anyone and should be suitable for everyone. I am driven by the desire to have a positive effect on a public space. I try to work with the urban environment in a way that engages with the people walking past. The only way I know how to do that is with my art.”
Lot number: 60 Artist: MKWF Title of work: Albatross Dimensions: 49.7cm x 136.5cm Medium: Acrylic on canvas Estimated value: ÂŁ250
Lot number: 61 Artist: Janetta Turgel Title of work: Astonishing Splashes of Colour Dimensions: 26cm x 36cm Medium: Framed, linocut print on reduction woodcut paper 1/1 Estimated value: ÂŁ120
Lot number: 62 Artist: Jillo Wisternoff Title of work: God waving from the top deck of a bus Dimensions: 42cm x 29.7cm Medium: High quality print on card (Original – acrylic paint on board) Estimated value: £40 I am a Bristol based artist with 2 talented musical sons, who enjoys painting icons with halos.
Lot number: 63 Artist: Paul McGowan Title of work: Collide Dimensions: 25cm x 25cm Estimated value: £750 Paul McGowan studied art at Falmouth, Winchester and Bath school of Art. His work has often created controversy and has been regularly featured in the press all around the world, such as The Guardian, The Times, The Evening Standard, Creative Review, Arena Magazine, the BBC, Sky News and many more. His work is collected across the world and he is a serial collaborator, often producing works released under different identities. In 2010 Paul McGowan stopped all interaction with the media after his ‘Knuckle Buster’ studio was raided by art thieves and as a result lost the majority of his archived artworks which spanned two decades . It was after this, McGowan cancelled all exhibitions and interviews while he produced a new catalogue of work. This work, titled Trigger Finger, included a series of artworks informed by children who are the victims of war. The artwork creates awareness and desperate funding for the international charity War Child. The work is subversive and comprises of vivid images depicting children constructed biomorphicaly using weapons of violence into visions of horror. McGowan also continued collaborating with American Guitarist Gary Lucas who worked with Captain Beefheart and co wrote Grace with Jeff Buckley. They released an audio visual collaboration that included a limited edition 7 inch single on green vinyl. McGowan also produced a series of artwork for Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters titled “Ordeal of Civility”. In December 2013 and 2014 McGowan was included in London West Bank Galleries charity event ‘Smile Britannia’, which is staged in the Houses of Parliament and has become an annual event. The event raises vital funds for three organisations; the Smile Britannia Project which benefits disadvantaged communities in London, The Last Night a DJ Saved My Life Foundation, and Temwa. In 2014 McGowan also participated in London Westbank Gallery’s annual ‘Urban in Ibiza’ exhibition that features artworks from the gallery’s international network of street, graffiti and contemporary artists.
Lot number: 64 Artist: Paul McGowan Title of work: Fragmental Dimensions: 25cm x 25cm Estimated value: ÂŁ750
Lot number: 65 Artist: Kimberley Thomas Title of work: Lucid Dream Dimensions: 42cm x 42cm Estimated value: £750 I have always been fascinated by lucid dreaming and how our minds work when we are sleeping, and wanted to put that into a visual form, the original piece was a combination of photoshop, pro markers and acrylic. Everyone seems to be into some new “spiritual” drive or another, including me, but when we look closely at our lives our new alters we bow to are really more corporate than spiritual, this piece is as a sad reflection of mosts spiritual paths.
Lot number: 66 Artist: Inkie Title of work: Gothenburg Dimensions: 42cm x 59cm Medium: Indigo print on tinteretto textured paper. Estimated value: ÂŁ50
Lot number: 67 Artist: Inkie Title of work: Ink Trooper Dimensions: 42cm x 59cm Medium: 3 colour screenprint on 220gm art paper Estimated value: ÂŁ250
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Prize number 1: Janetta Turgel, ‘The Bridge at Llangathen’ Medium: linocut, 22 by 18 cm, 1/10, Estimated value: £125 Prize 2: Will Barras, ‘Untitled’, Medium: pen on paper 21 by 29.5 cm Prize 3: Temwa Goodie bag which comprises of a Templates CD, Temwa T-Shirt with size & design of your choice (limited edition t-shirts with designs by Paris, Epok & 45RPM) all given to you in a hand made Temwa tote bag. The tote bag is made with Malawian chitengi material.
Thank You At the end of 2015, Temwa will celebrate its 12th anniversary. We’ll be throwing a party at the Paintworks in Bristol on Saturday 21st November and we’d love you to join us. Temwa was started by myself, and Sophie Elson (now Guise) in 2003. From 1999 to 2000, we lived and worked in Malawi and witnessed first-hand the devastating effect the HIV epidemic was having on ordinary lives there. We saw a friend and colleague, Lotti Nkwazi, die a slow, long and painful death from this dreadful virus. The nearest hospital could not offer any support and was ill equipped; the doctor at the hospital informed us that Lotti was one of hundreds of people dying in their homes from HIV and that his story was not uncommon. Sophie and I returned to the UK determined to do something to help, but we could not find an organisation dedicated to development work in the north of Malawi, so we decided to start our own. As we were in our early 20s, we reached out to the network of people around us in Bristol ... what happened next was remarkable. The Bristol music and art community rallied around to help us fundraise: Tom and Krishna Quarell, Ben Bloodworth, Cathy Gremin and the Babyhead/MonsterPiece crew organised countless parties at the Thekla, Lakota and The Park bar to raise money to start the project. Becky Hubbard (now Morgan) organised a huge Full Cycle event at The Level, Laura Ballin organised our first art event, and Marie from Marine Parade organised a breaks night at Cargo in London with the UK’s top breaks DJs. We would like to send a heartfelt ‘thank you’ to everyone involved in these events in the early days – there are just too many musicians, artists and DJs to mention (it would take up the whole page!). Temwa would never have started if it were not for them and for the many, many people who organised, performed, promoted, decorated venues, and came down and paid the door fee! A huge ‘thank you’ to everyone involved. In 2003, Sophie and I returned to Malawi with the £25,000 needed to start the first Temwa project – the building of a community centre in the Nkhata Bay District, which involved the training of local bricklayers. Since then, music and art events in Bristol have been – and are still – instrumental in raising funds to keep Temwa running, and we cannot thank everyone involved enough – the kindness and generosity of all these talented people is just overwhelming. We want to send out a huge, huge, ‘thank you’ to all the artists, musicians, DJs, sponsors, designers, volunteers, interns, trustees who are involved with Temwa, and everyone who has come to support Temwa’s events. You all keep this organisation going! Special thanks also to Justin Goodall and Olly Guise. Last but not least, ‘thank you’ to Sheena Wynne, Russ Spollin and all the staff, volunteers, partner organisations, trustees and community members in Malawi who make our projects on the ground successful. The Temwa team in Malawi are just incredible, and they work tirelessly.
Jo Hook Co-Founder & UK Director
FOR EVERY TIPSY CHICK AND SCRUMPEA PIE WE SELL THIS SUMMER WE WILL BE PLANTING A TREE IN MALAWI WITH TEMWA SUPPORTED BY
PROUD SPONSORS OF
ART FOR AFRICA
Cover Image - Mr Jago Design - Jake Davis