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CHARLOTTEROSE THECONNORBROTHERS
OCTOBER 25 - DECEMBER 21, 2025
Licensed to Thrill
Charlotte Rose x The Connor Brothers
Every generation rewrites the language of attraction.
Licensed to Thrill explores the choreography of desire—where seduction becomes a form of permission, an invitation to want without apology. Charlotte Rose and The Connor Brothers return to Austin to raise a glass to the stories we stage and the truths we swallow, inviting viewers into a world where danger is pleasure and seduction is intent.
Licensed to Thrill is a love letter to lust, power, and the stylish rush of not playing it safe. Wrapped in glamour and gleam, the works seduce at first glance—then press closer. Texts flirt and incriminate, while portraits hold their poise, tenderness flickering at the edges. Charlotte Rose and The Connor Brothers mine pop culture’s most seductive icons and give them new scripts: ones that understand irony as a form of armor and pleasure as a form of truth.
Charlotte Rose pulls apart advertising’s glossy façade, prescribing new truths to old illusions. Her bold, branded repetitions echo Warhol and Harland Miller, but point sharper toward mortality, desire, and the dangerous dreams we are sold, captivating a devoted following with her distinctive vision.
The Connor Brothers twist nostalgia into irony, their pulp-inspired works blurring truth and fiction. Retro covers and borrowed texts wink back with biting wit, their satire as seductive as it is sobering, often playing with themes of public and private persona. Beneath the punchlines lies a reminder: every story is a performance, every image a kind of invention.
Licensed to Thrill invites you to misbehave beautifully, to disregard the rules, reading between the brushstrokes to linger on what’s said, what’s shown, and what beckons just below the surface. Because truth, like beauty, is dangerous in the spotlight.
CHARLOTTE ROSE
British, b. 1998
Charlotte Rose is an emerging British pop artist known for her vibrant work that explores nostalgic branding and the deceptive allure of advertising. Rose works predominantly on vibrant large scale wooden panel and canvas and dances between the mediums of acrylic and oil. Since her first solo show in 2021, her work has attracted high-profile collectors such as Schoony, Yungblud, and Phoebe WallerBridge. She has collaborated with renowned brands such as Coach, Gucci, and Jo Malone .
Rose's art juxtaposes seductive visual aesthetics with darker themes, such as the harmful realities behind advertising’s glossy façade. Her work prescribes new truths to an old illusion, each painting an exploration of the 'dream' sold by companies to push poisonous goods. Influenced by pop culture icons like Andy Warhol and Harland Miller, Rose plays with repetition and branding in her bold and striking designs to reveal themes of mortality, fate, and desire.
Charlotte Rose
Lucky You, Texas Hold 'em, 2025
Acrylic and gold leaf on birch plywood
57.09" x 39.37"
$16,500
Charlotte Rose
Lucky You, Lucky Strike, 2025
Acrylic and gold leaf on birch plywood
47.24" x 35.43"
$15,500
Charlotte Rose
Baby You Make Me Hot, 2025
Acrylic and gold leaf on birch plywood
47.24" x 35.43"
$15,500
Charlotte Rose
Everything Was Beautiful And Nothing Hurt, 2025
Oil on birch plywood
57.09" x 39.27"
$15,000
Don't Lose Your Bottle, 2024
Charlotte Rose
Acrylic on birch plywood
47.20" x 35.40"
$10,500
Charlotte Rose
Pepsi, 2025
Acrylic on birch plywood
47.24" x 35.43"
$12,500
Charlotte Rose
Red disjointed Macbeth, 2025
Acrylic and gold leaf on birch plywood
57.09" x 39.37"
$15,000
Charlotte Rose
Macbeth in Black, 2024
Oil on birch plywood
47.24" x 35.43"
$17,000
Monoprint and screen print with acrylic and hand-finished
Charlotte Rose Macbeth (1/1), 2025
gold leaf
36.22" x 27.56"
$2,200
Monoprint and screen print with acrylic and hand-finished gold leaf
Charlotte Rose Macbeth (1/1), 2025
36.22" x 27.56"
$2,200
Monoprint and screen print with acrylic and hand-finished
Charlotte Rose Macbeth (1/1), 2025
gold leaf
36.22" x 27.56"
$2,200
Charlotte Rose R & J, 2023
Acrylic on birch plywood
47.20" x 35.40"
$10,500
Charlotte Rose I'm Feelin Lucky (3/10), 2024
Giclee print with hand embellished gold leaf
51.20" x 35.50"
$2,900
THE CONNOR BROTHERS
British, b. 1968
The Connor Brothers is the pseudonym for British artists James Golding and Mike Snelle. The duo came to prominence in 2012 and for several years maintained their anonymity by using a fictional biography. Their identities were revealed in 2014 in a major feature by Mick Brown in The Telegraph magazine, allowing them to undertake more ambitious projects.
Best known for their Pulp Fiction series, the pair are also known for their activist work and their playful hoaxes. In 2014 they created a fictional museum -The Hanbury Collection, which fused truth and fiction in such a way as to render it impossible to work out which exhibits were real and which were not. This obsession with truth and fiction can be seen throughout their work, and is particularly relevant in the current climate of fake news, post-truth, and social media obsession.
The Connor Brothers have been amongst the most prominent artistic voices to comment on the refugee crisis. The duo worked for several years in The Jungle refugee camp in Calais building shelters and undertook an international billboard campaign highlighting the plight of displaced people - Refuchic. Closely associated with the Russian activist group Pussy Riot, The Connor Brothers produced their 2015 refugee themed theatrical performance at Banksy’s Dismaland. More recently they have teamed up with Professor Green and the mental health charity CALM to raise funds and awareness about the UK’s epidemic of male depression and suicide.
The Connor Brothers have exhibited internationally from New York, Sydney and Dubai to London, Hong Kong and Berlin. Their work frequently appears at major auction houses where a record price was achieved in 2020. Works can also be found in major public and private collections including The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Penguin Collection and both the Omer Koc and Niarchos Collections.
x 43.31"
$34,000
The Connor Brothers Ride Or Die, 2025 Oil on canvas
43.31" x 70.87"
$34,000
The Connor Brothers The Wise Man Stands Alone, 2025 Oil on canvas
29.53" x 43.31"
$24,000
The Connor Brothers It Is Better To Be Sorry Than Safe, 2025 Oil on canvas
43.31" x 29.53"
$24,000
Connor Brothers The Truth Will Set You Free, 2025
The
Bastardised oil on canvas
39.37" x 54.72"
$32,000
The Connor Brothers Come Sit Next To Me, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper
39.37" x 39.37"
$7,825
The Connor Brothers Some Leaders Are Born Women, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper
39.37" x 39.37"
$7,825
The Connor Brothers Better To Write The Rules, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper
39.37" x 39.37"
$7,825
The Connor Brothers Every Saint Has A Past, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper
39.37" x 39.37"
$7,825
Connor Brothers Why Fit In, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper
The
39.37" x 39.37"
$7,825
The Connor Brothers To Walk The Night, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper
39.37" x 39.37"
$7,825
The Connor Brothers Normal Is The Cruelest Of All Insults, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper
39.37" x 39.37"
$7,825
The Connor Brothers Those Who Say It Cannot Be Done, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper
39.37" x 39.37"
$7,825
The Connor Brothers Tell Me Beautiful Untrue Things, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper
39.37" x 39.37"
$7,825
The Connor Brothers I Don't Want To Go To Heaven, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper
39.37" x 39.37"
$7,825
The Connor Brothers I Tried To Drown My Sorrows, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper 39.37" x 39.37"
$7,825
The Connor Brothers Call Me Anything But Ordinary, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper 39.37" x 39.37"
$7,825
The Connor Brothers Buy The Ticket, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper
39.37" x 39.37"
$7,825
The Connor Brothers It's Never Too Late, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper
39.37" x 39.37"
$7,825
The Connor Brothers The Truth Is Rarely Pure, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper
39.37" x 39.37"
$7,825
The Connor Brothers Better To Fight, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper
39.37" x 39.37"
$7,825
The Connor Brothers Every Saint Has A Past, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper
39.37" x 39.37"
$7,825
The Connor Brothers I Tried To Drown My Sorrows, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper
$7,825
39.37" x 39.37"
The Connor Brothers A Coward Dies A Thousand Deaths, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper
39.37" x 39.37"
$7,825
The Connor Brothers
The Golden Rule, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper
39.37" x 39.37"
$7,825
The Connor Brothers Some May Never Live, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper
39.37" x 39.37"
$7,825
The Connor Brothers Better To Fight For Something (1/3), 2025
Pigment print with silkscreen varnish 65.35" x 41.73"
$6,850
The Connor Brothers Each Man Makes His Own Luck (1/3), 2025 Pigment print with silkscreen varnish
65.35" x 41.73"
$6,850
The Connor Brothers Behind Every Great Woman (1/3), 2025
Pigment print with silkscreen varnish
65.35" x 41.73"
$6,850
The Connor Brothers Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride (1/3), 2025
Pigment print with silkscreen varnish
65.35" x 41.73"
$6,850
Connor Brothers It's Never Too Late (1/3), 2025
The
Pigment print with silkscreen varnish 65.35" x 41.73"
$6,850
The Connor Brothers The Wise Man Stands Alone (1/3), 2025
Pigment print with silkscreen varnish
65.35" x 41.73"
$6,850
Connor Brothers Some May Never Live (1/3), 2025
The
Pigment print with silkscreen varnish
65.35" x 41.73"
$6,850
The Connor Brothers Ride Or Die (1/20), 2025
Hand coloured pigment print with acrylic and oil stick 16.34" x 11.42"
$2,800
The Connor Brothers Tell Me Beautiful Untrue Things, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper 29.53" x 19.69"
$3,850
The Connor Brothers Every Saint Has A Past, 2025
Mixed media study with acrylic, oil stick, and collage on paper
39.37" x 39.37"
$3,850
The Connor Brothers When I'm Good, 2025
Hand painted vintage paperback with silkscreen 8.07" x 10.63"
$2,500
The Connor Brothers Ride Or Die, 2025
Hand painted vintage paperback with silkscreen 8.07" x 10.63"
$2,500
The Connor Brothers It's Never Too Late, 2025
Hand painted vintage paperback with silkscreen
10.63" x 8.07" $2,500
The Connor Brothers
The Golden Rule Is There Are No Rules, 2025
Hand painted vintage paperback with silkscreen 10.63" x 8.07" $2,500
The Connor Brothers Behind Every Great Woman, 2025 Hand painted vintage paperback with silkscreen
10.63" x 8.07" $2,500
The Connor Brothers The Wise Man Stands Alone, 2025 Hand painted vintage paperback with silkscreen
10.63" x 8.07"
$2,500
The Connor Brothers Each Man Makes His Own Luck, 2025 Hand painted vintage paperback with silkscreen 10.63" x 8.07" $2,500
The Connor Brothers Better To Fight For Something, 2025
Hand painted vintage paperback with silkscreen
10.63" x 8.07"
$2,500
The Connor Brothers Better To Write The Rules, 2025
paperback
$2,500
Hand painted vintage
with silkscreen 10.63" x 8.07"
The Connor Brothers You Can't Miss What You Never Had, 2025 Hand painted vintage paperback with silkscreen 10.63" x 8.07" $2,500
The Connor Brothers Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride, 2025 Hand painted vintage paperback with silkscreen 10.63" x 8.07"
$2,500
The Connor Brothers It Never Got Fast Enough For Me, 2025 Hand painted vintage paperback with silkscreen
10.63" x 8.07" $2,500
The Connor Brothers Some May Never Live, But The Crazy Never Die, 2025 Hand painted vintage paperback with silkscreen
10.63" x 8.07" $2,500
The Connor Brothers The Coward Dies A Thousand Deaths, 2025
Hand painted vintage paperback with silkscreen 10.63" x 8.07" $2,500
The Connor Brothers No One Is Born Brave, 2025
Hand painted vintage paperback with silkscreen 10.63" x 8.07"
$2,500
The Connor Brothers All He Had To Offer Was Trouble, 2025
Hand painted vintage paperback with silkscreen 8.07" x 10.63"
$2,500
West Chelsea Contemporary is much more than the typical gallery. Offering worldclass art in a dynamic, interactive setting. WCC produces museum-quality exhibitions year-round with programming that is free and open to the public.
West Chelsea Contemporary’s collection includes artists influential to Pop Art, Street Art, Graffiti, Post-Graffiti and contemporary art as well as tastemakers of these movements. With a local, national, and international roster of represented artists, West Chelsea Contemporary situates artwork from the primary market alongside a highly curated selection of pieces from the secondary market. This novel display of represented, emerging and mid-career artists alongside Blue Chip masters increases each artist’s exposure and serves to make connections between their work.
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