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The BBC Features work by Swava Harasymowicz on Their Homepage

Friday 22nd August saw the BBC homepage feature work by Swava Harasymowicz.

The work is a promo for a programme about the 1958 Notting Hill Riots, which tied in with the bank holiday weekend Notting Hill Carnival event.

Look out for more of Swava’s work at the BBC, coming up shortly.

BBC

Cindy Beale painting by Josie McCoy appears in Eastenders!

Last year Eastenders scheduled an episode about Cindy Beale, Ian Beale’s estranged wife, returning from the dead. Ian went to visit Cindy’s sister and found a huge painting of his ex wife above her fireplace. The painting was commissioned especially by the BBC and appears many times in the episode.

If you wish to see the painting available for sale, please go

here

Frank Kiely: Art that should be in a computer game?

Keith Stuart from The Guardian recently reported in his ‘Games Blog’ online, that the artwork of Frank Kiely should be featured in a computer game. Reviewing Kiely’s work as “art that gets people to really look at and appraise where they live, and there’s definite potential for a GPS/location-based game, based around encouraging players to explore and re-assess their surroundings”. Stuart believes it would look great on an Xbox, PSN or DS.

Who knows? Maybe Kiely’s work will be on a computer game screen near you soon!

Quote taken from Games Blog, by Keith Stuart, Posted Friday October 3 2008.

NEW PRINTS BY LUCIE BENNETT

This week Eyestorm is excited to present three brand new limited edition prints from one of our most popular artists.

Lucie Bennett’s crisp, minimal imagery of the female form has been hugely favoured since Eyestorm first started to show her paintings back in 2004, and is among some of our most frequently viewed and purchased work. Initially her original paintings and then more recently her screenprints have been so successful that much of her work has now sold out and is beginning to appear on the secondary market, proving that it is still very much in demand.

Bennett’s most recent work presents slick images of women in various poses in simple, perfectly executed line form. Sometimes confrontational, sometimes elusive and oblivious to the viewer’s gaze, Bennett’s women seek to challenge our preconceptions of femininity.

Today sees the launch of three brand new prints from Bennett. Tahiti Nighttime, Red Satin Pants and Tangerine Pants are the first Giclee prints published by the artist. Each in an edition of just 45, they will be at a pre-publication price for one week only from today.

As we always advise with work in low editions, it’s worth getting in early if you wish to purchase these pieces to avoid missing out, especially as these are the first works in a while by Bennett that have been available to buy.

To purchase Tahiti Nighttime at £510, Red Satin Pants at £467.50 or Tangerine Pants at £425, go here.

*Please note: Eyestorm will only be accepting paper Eyestorm and britart vouchers until 31st December 2008. After this date vouchers of this nature will not be accepted. This does not affect electronic gift vouchers.

View the new prints here.

NEW and EXCLUSIVE Published Works

David Bray’s works have sold incredibly over the past month and his “One Point Plan for Male Pattern Baldness” and “Tuesday” prints are nearly sold out.

I’d like to take this opportunity to present to you these four brand new limited edition prints by Bray, which will be officially released in the main Eyestorm newsletter and on the website on Friday 4th April. 

The first 12 of each edition will be sold at the pre-publication of £380 inc. VAT each, or £1450 for the set of 4.

They will then be going up in price to £450 each (£1600.00 for the set), so I would advise you to get in early as each is in a limited edition of just 30, and we have already had significant interest.

We have allocated numbers 5-15 for entire sets and 15-30 for pairs and individuals.

Please drop me an email with your interest and the edition number you would want and I will try my best to put it aside for you.

Guy Riza
guy.riza@eyestorm.com

Richard Trupp's sculpture a huge success!

One of our main exhibitors to the Eyestorm Summer Show 2007 is Richard Trupp. He presented 2 outdoor sculptures in the Eyestorm sculpture garden, entitled ‘Fixing Blocks’. During the Opening Evening, many flocked outside to see the sculptures and sit around them, engaging in friendly banter and a drink or two.


In the main room of the gallery, ‘Anticipating Mars’ is displayed for the first time and has generated a lot of interest from our guests. Richard Trupp comments on the nights success: ‘The new sculpture is ambitious but I was delighted with the final installation and response, in particular the ‘Anticipating Mars’ piece stirred up lots of conversation and enthusiasm.’


‘Anticipating Mars’ was inspired by Trupp’s interest in Roman Mythology. Inside the large steel casing exists a range of smaller pieces made from vulcanized bronze and rubber. Each piece reflects Trupp’s research into Roman mythology and the god of vulcanicity, Vulcanus.


‘Anticipating Mars’ and ‘Fixing Blocks’ will be on display at the Eyestorm gallery until mid August, where you can pick up more information about them.


Claire Cleverly - Website Editor

Why Blog?
Eyestorm has been the market leader for limited edition prints since the web was in its infancy, so over time we've become pretty opinionated on a bunch of art-related issues. So while we're here to provide you with the best art you can buy, we also wanted a flexible space through which to share our experience of working in the frenetic, ever-accelerating market for contemporary art. So this is it. The Eyestorm blog. Ups, downs, news, views and reviews.