Damien Hirst: Art, Controversy, and the Business of Provocation
Few contemporary artists inspire as much debate, fascination, and headline-grabbing attention as Damien Hirst. Since emerging in the late 1980s as a leading figure of the Young British Artists (YBA...
Billy Childish: The Relentless Spirit of Authentic Creation
Few artists embody the spirit of unfiltered creativity quite like Billy Childish. Born Steven John Hamper in 1959 in Chatham, Kent, Childish has spent more than four decades painting, writing, and ...
The Immersive Worlds of Nicolas Party
Nicolas Party has built a practice that transforms the familiar into the fantastical. Part painter, part scenographer, he conjures immersive worlds of colour and form where landscape, portraiture, ...
Jeremy Deller: The Politics of Joy
Jeremy Deller has built a practice that is about the stories that bind a culture together. Part social historian, part orchestrator of collective action, he has made art out of memory, protest, mus...
Katherine Bradford: The Radiance of Being
Katherine Bradford has emerged as one of the most quietly transformative painters of her generation: part dreamer, part chronicler of the everyday, always luminous. Her practice is not merely about...
The Art of Exposure: Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin has long occupied a singular space in contemporary art: part provocateur, part diarist, always uncompromising. Her practice is not merely about objects in a gallery but about the act of...
Inside the Mind of Yoshitomo Nara
Yoshitomo Nara is often described as one of the most significant and beloved contemporary artists to emerge from Japan. Known for his instantly recognisable portraits of wide-eyed figures, that bal...