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KAWS

Brian Donnelly, better known as the artist KAWS, studied illustration in New York, before working for Disney as a freelance animator. While living in Jersey City he created graffiti pieces by subverting existing advertisements on bus shelters, billboards and phone booths.More recently KAWS has worked in acrylic painting and sculpture - including a series of toy-like figures ranging in scale form the domestic to the monumental. KAWS obscures the barrier between fine and commercial art. He is widely displayed in museums and galleries across the world and also avidly collected by celebrities and the public.

Generation Project

Primary school children across North Lincolnshire have collaborated to create a display of peg people, which reflect their hopes for their future selves. When designing their peg people, pupils were asked to think about activities that make them happy, and what they would like to be in the future. The project has brought together thousands of individual peg people, as part of several displays at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Normanby Hall, The Rural Life Museum and North Lincolnshire Museum. The Generation Project has been co-ordinated by Lucy Jollands, and is supported by the Culture and Creative Partnerships Team from North Lincolnshire Council.

Ben Eine

Ben Eine is a London born street artist who is most famous for working with lettering and typography. His oversized, bright and colourful pieces can be seen all over the world including London, Paris, Tokyo and San Francisco.Eine started his journey over 30 years ago as a tagger. Over time, he began completing commercial graffiti and launched his independent career in 2008 and shot to fame when Prime Minister David Cameron gifted one of Eine's works to President Obama. In 2010 Eine completed the full alphabet across 40 shop shutters on a street in East London.

Invader

Invader is a legendary French urban artist. He is known for his ceramic tile mosaics modelled on the pixelated art of 1970s–1980s 8-bit video games, many of which depict the titular aliens from the arcade games Space Invaders, Pac-Man and Super Mario Bros. This piece was recovered form part of the centre point building in London after demolition.

Dale Christopher-Wells – VERMIFUGE PRELUDE

Cleethorpes based artist and model-maker Dale Christopher Wells makes intriguing artworks that explore themes of emotional turmoil, through a series of drawings, prints and elaborate scale-models. Representing different traumatic events in his life —the sculptures can be seen as representations of mental illness, as well as a response to recent discordant events in politics and society. They hint at isolation, decay, a lack of control, and dark forces at work. Rainbow motifs can be seen as loosely as a symbol of Covid-19, while pigs trudge through dystopian landscapes, animating, and acting as players within each tableau.

Dan Rawlings - Future Return

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The Conner Brothers

The Connor Brothers is the pseudonym for British artists James Golding and Mike Snelle.The pair met while studying at Cambridge University, and originally operated under a fabricated backstory - that they were twins who had escaped an American fundamentalist Christian cult called The Family.They use the covers of 'pulp' fiction books, published from the late 19th to mid 20th Century. They collage the covers with quotes from authors including Hunter S. Thompson and David Foster Wallace.They produced a theatrical performance which focussed on the refugee crisis for the Russian activist group Pussy Riot. In 2020 they collaborated with mental health charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) to highlight the United Kingdom's epidemic of male depression and suicide.

PURE EVIL

Charles Uzzell Edwards aka PURE EVIL grew up in South Wales. He spent his teenage years customising his own clothes and experimenting with eyeliner. This love of urban street style led him to do fashion degree in London where he earned a bit of a reputation as a troublemaker!After a 2 week trip to California led to a 10 year stay in the US, he became one of the designers for streetwear clothing line ANARCHIC ADJUSTMENT and immersed himself in the skate and music scene in San Francisco.He returned to London in 2000 and began a successful career as an artist. In 2007 Charles opened Pure Evil Gallery in Shoreditch, and six years later opened up the second, larger gallery just two doors from the original space. The galleries have been an incubator for up and coming street artists from around the world, as well as being the studio for Charles' own PURE EVIL artwork.

Bambi

The press around Bambi is that the artist is a world famous female singer, who wants her art to stand alone from her music. Often described as the female Banksy because of her anonymity, of course if the publicity is correct Banksy wanted at the beginning to remain unknown so he did not get arrested whereas Bambi wants to keep her art & music separate. Yet another case of the way that painters and musicians are both called ARTISTS.

Blek Le Rat

Blek le Rat was creating street art in Paris, where the roads are wide and straight and treeless in the 1970's & 1980's and it meant that the Police could hear him and catch him when he shook the spray cans. He realised the answer was to create stencils in the studio, then arrive somewhere, four bits of tape on the corners & spray and disappear before he was arrested. The Idea caught on and some years later when Banksy was evading authorities he remembered reading about Blek le Rat – and the rest is history!

Rachel List

Rachel List is a mural artist from Pontefract who rose to prominence during the coronavirus lockdowns. Prior to the pandemic, she made pieces for children's bedrooms and play areas. Unable to work due to lockdown restrictions List found an alternative approach. She saw an online call out from a local business for a banner combining the NHS and Superman logos.This inspired her to use her skills to give thanks to key workers, celebrate pandemic heroes and boost morale. List anonymously painted her first NHS mural on the Horse Vaults pub. Images of the artwork were soon shared far and wide across social media and the work was initially credited to Banksy.The pieces capture the spirit of the United Kingdom's pandemic experience, and Rachel List's poignant works were installed in her first solo show, 'We're All in This Together', at Pontefract Museum.

Banksy - Hula-Hooping Girl

Hula-Hooping Girl is one of Bansky's best known public works of recent years and was created in a suburb of Nottingham in October 2020 and confirmed as a genuine piece by Banksy via his website.There was much discussion at the time about how the piece could remain as a landmark for the city. While, many thousands of visitors went to see the work, there was no commitment from the local authorities and local groups to find an adequate way of preserving it, and it got vandalised several times.After several weeks of constant upheaval and intrusion, the shopkeeper who owned the wall the work was painted on, came to an arrangement for the work to be removed by a specialist company and sold in February 2021. Now safely preserved for the public to see, this is one of the first times it has been shown in public since then.

Banksy - A Great British Staycation 2021

Welcome to New Icons!

Featuring some of the biggest names in Street and YBA art (Young British Artists who rose to fame in the 1990s/2000) – many of which have captured the attention of the public and mass-media across the globe. The exhibition features over 90 works by some of the world's most famous artists including Banksy, KAWS, Blek le Rat, Tracey Emin, Ben Eine, Rachel List, Invader, Damien Hirst and Pure Evil.

Generation Project

Primary school children across North Lincolnshire have collaborated to create a display of peg people, which reflect their hopes for their future selves.When designing their peg people, pupils were asked to think about activities that make them happy, and what they would like to be in the future.The project has brought together thousands of individual peg people, as part of several displays at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Normanby Hall, The Rural Life Museum and North Lincolnshire Museum.The Generation Project has been co-ordinated by Lucy Jollands, and is supported by the Culture and Creative Partnerships Team from North Lincolnshire Council.

Banksy - Rare Book Proofs

This series of prints were created by Banksy and his team during the creation of his book 'Wall and Piece'. They are proofs used during the design process, with notes to the printers on the reverse.They are 'signed' Banksy but it is believed that another person in his team signed them, and then his agent / manager at the time sold them from the back of his car at £20.00 each. This collection came from one owner who purchased them at the time at £20.00 each.As with many things created for production design they were not created for commercial use, just as his street art is not, but they form an important piece of the Banksy story, and show many of his most ingenious designs.

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