{"title":"Exhibition Posters","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover the Exhibition Posters collection, featuring artworks originally created for the Sound \u0026amp; Vision Auction (2024), presented by Art on a Postcard in collaboration with War Child. This collection brings together an array of posters, each one a reproduction of the original artworks.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cheri-smith-the-dance","title":"Cheri Smith - The Dance - Poster","description":"\u003cp\u003eCheri Smith (b. 1991) lives and works in London. She completed her postgraduate in drawing at the Royal Drawing School (2018) and her BA in Fine Art from Norwich University of the Arts (2013). Her work has been exhibited internationally including with James Freeman Gallery (London), Fortnight Institute (New York) and Tabula Rasa (Beijing). Her debut solo show Swallowing Figments was held at Fortnight Institute in March 2024. Cheri’s works explore themes such as truth and fiction, animality and the weird. Her painted world is alive with animals, humans, plants and the elements, and imbued with an atmosphere of particularity and strangeness. Each scene is cultivated through a detailed observation of nature, and an imaginative transcribing of narrative elements mined from lived experience, dreams, literature and art history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“This painting in intense, earthy grisaille, takes as its subject the dance between dogs that have just met on the lead. This behaviour is somewhere between playing and fighting, possessing joy, abandon, wildness, darkness. I hope that the entanglement of leads and limbs likewise keeps your eye dancing around the canvas.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe original artwork was specially created for the \u003cem\u003eSound \u0026amp; Vision\u003c\/em\u003e Auction (2024), presented by Art on a Postcard in collaboration with War Child.\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cheri Smith","offers":[{"title":"A3 | 42 x 29.7cm (16.5 x 11.7\") \/ Silk Finish | 200 gsm","offer_id":44027859206197,"sku":"1","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2714\/0060\/files\/Front.jpg?v=1727968158"},{"product_id":"george-underwood-we-love-dancing","title":"George Underwood - We Love Dancing - Poster","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Underwood was born in 1947. George joined Beckenham Art School in 1963. At art school George Underwood became more and more interested in music. As a result, he pursued a career in the music world. Along with lifelong friend David Bowie he made one record (The King Bees) and also a solo record under the name Calvin James. After deciding that the music business was not for him, George returned to art studies and then worked in design studios as an illustrator. Initially he specialised in fantasy, horror and science fiction book covers. Many of George Underwood's colleagues in the music business asked him to do various artworks for them. This led to George becoming a freelance artist. Art work for the first T Rex album and later David Bowie’s Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust album covers established him as a leading and creative art illustrator.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the start of the 1970’s Underwood started painting in oils. His paintings were influenced at first by the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism - artists which included Ernst Fuchs, Rudolph Hausner and Eric Brauer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Underwood paintings are held in many private art collections. One of his art collectors, David Bowie, said: ‘George has, over the years, refined his work to the point where I would put him among the top figurative painters coming out of the UK right now. There’s a sublime isolation surrounding his subjects that really touches the viewer, the figures being both heroic and vulnerable simultaneously. There’s a timeless element in the choice of subject matter that overlaps with the mythical world of Odd Nerdrum, say. Now that a huge shift to painting is taking place, I would expect to see George’s name pushed further and further to the front’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“When I saw the line - 'we love dancing and we look divine', I immediately thought of a painting I did in 2004 which was called 'Dancing With Giants'. In the centre of the painting there are a couple of Satyrs dancing naked with sheer drapes. I thought I would steal my own idea and adapt it for the War Child project.Basically, I took the central detail of that painting and enlarged it to fit onto my canvas.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThere is another Bowie connection in the painting. In August 1972, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars performed at The Rainbow theatre, Finsbury Park. This legendary concert was supported by Roxy Music which is pertinent to my painting as Lindsay Kemp's dance troupe - (named 'The Astronettes' for the concert) wore flesh revealing spider web costumes. I decided to incorporate those same costumes into my painting.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe original artwork was specially created for the Sound \u0026amp; Vision Auction (2024), presented by Art on a Postcard in collaboration with War Child.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"George Underwood","offers":[{"title":"A3 | 42 x 29.7cm (16.5 x 11.7\") \/ Silk Finish | 200 gsm","offer_id":44028023996469,"sku":"1","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2714\/0060\/files\/Front_1.jpg?v=1727968481"},{"product_id":"stuart-semple-we-lost-dancing","title":"Stuart Semple - WE LOST DANCING - Poster","description":"\u003cp\u003eStuart Semple is a multidisciplinary British artist whose practice spans painting, performance, internet art, and installation. His works adopt a sociological lens to explore themes of youth politics, mass culture, image, technology, and anxiety. Often activist in nature, his broader projects frequently strive for fairness, equality, and access, particularly within the arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSemple has enjoyed numerous solo exhibitions worldwide and has presented projects at international institutions, including the Denver Art Museum, The Whitworth, Barbican, Hong Kong Arts Center, and Dulwich Picture Gallery. He is the author of \"Make Art or Die Trying,\" published by Quarto. Semple regularly speaks on art and mental health, with appearances at Oxford University, The Southbank Centre, Frieze, RCA, and the ICA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"In \"Rebel Rebel,\" David Bowie transports us to an epoch of youthful insurrection - a realm where adolescent culture defiantly opposes the conventions of their predecessors. These young protagonists embrace nocturnal revelry, craft their own sartorial statements, and dance with abandon until they are dishevelled.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"WE LOST DANCING\" endeavours to encapsulate a rapturous moment mid-dance. Within this piece, one of Bowie's archetypal figures inhabits a timeless state of euphoria. The pervasive influence of social media, the commodification and proliferation of teenage culture into the broader societal fabric, and the post-pandemic shuttering of countercultural spaces have consigned this radical teenage epoch to the annals of history. The painting exudes a poignant nostalgia for a cultural moment now relegated to the past. In essence, the vibrant scene Bowie immortalizes in his song has faded into oblivion.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe original artwork was specially created for the Sound \u0026amp; Vision Auction (2024), presented by Art on a Postcard in collaboration with War Child.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stuart Semple","offers":[{"title":"A3 | 42 x 29.7cm (16.5 x 11.7\") \/ Silk Finish | 200 gsm","offer_id":44028060401717,"sku":"1","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2714\/0060\/files\/Front_5.jpg?v=1727969227"},{"product_id":"nick-grindrod-calamitys-child-1","title":"Nick Grindrod - Calamity's Child - Poster","description":"\u003cp\u003eBoldly abstract in nature, Grindrod's paintings skilfully layer strict geometric forms with gestural painterly handling. Working in intense bursts of activity, initial sketches are adapted and reformed in an instinctive, immediate process. Much of the aesthetic decision making is done in the moment - intuitively working with the paintings in ‘real time’. Consequentially, removal of paint and erasure of marks play just as important a role as the application of paint and this is abundantly clear when we look at the finished works. Bold, flat, graphic colour fields sit alongside abraded, distressed surfaces. Swift, gestural marks contrast sharp, measured lines. One might imagine such seemingly contradictory forms and surfaces would not play well together, but Grindrod's innate ability to balance a composition and a palette is such that the completed works are undoubtedly of a piece, humming and vibrating with an excited energy. The paintings are often overtly playful, but their immediate aesthetic appeal conceals a subtlety and rigorous commitment to a practice that is deeply important to the artist. As he says of his himself, “The decisions that are made in the moment can be both rewarding and disappointing but all lead to the truth in the end... I feel that this is the only way that I can truly create something unique.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNick Grindrod is a British artist based in Sheffield. He studied Fine Art at the University of Derby and Sheffield College. He has shown widely in Britain, and has work in numerous private collections. Nick is now also represented by Maddox Gallery \u0026amp; ArtWorks Gallery in Singapore and salt fine art in the US\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriters Credit :Tom Wilmott.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“It's always a pleasure working with AOAP and even more so to contribute to the amazing work that War Child do.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis new work for the War Child auction, stimulated by the iconic music of David Bowie, was a great way to open up and give a refreshing purpose and direction to my work. Thinking about what it is to be a child and how play is such an important part of childhood whilst working on this painting highlighted what I try to achieve in my own work. 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