Permanent Collection

Born in 1984, Northampton, UK Lives and works in London, UK Daniel Crews-Chubb’s deeply expressive works conjure spectacular collisions between abstraction and figuration; painterly and sculptural; and materiality and mythological. His multimedia surfaces incorporate vividly coloured oils and acrylics that rub up against sand, charcoals, pastels, and textiles; patchworked together into raw and energetic compositions […]

Born in 1944, California, USA Lives and works in New York, USA Allan McCollum is best known for adapting methods of mass production to create large series of art objects that explore how we derive personal and public meaning from a largely standardised world. As an example, all of the drawings in The Arts Club’s […]

Born in 1957, New Hampshire, USA Lives and works in New York George Condo is best known for creating expressive portraits of invented characters, creating a vivid range of distinctly contemporary types. He couples meticulous attention to naturalistic detail with the grotesque and the absurd, conveying the sense that, despite seemingly occupying commonplace social roles, […]

Born in 1949, Worcester, UK Lives and works in London John Stezaker’s work re-examines the various relationships to the photographic image: as documentation of truth, purveyor of memory, and symbol of modern culture. Using publicity shots of classic film stars, Stezaker merges, overlaps and creates hybrid ‘icons’ that dissociate the familiar to create sensations of […]

Born in 1954, Galesburg, Illinois Lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Los Angeles, California Artist, musician, and composer, Stephen Prina’s work is often characterised by his appropriation and recontextualisation of works by other artists. Self-consciously evoking past, present, and future, Prina uses painting, installation, photography, film and performance to address the post-studio afterlife of […]

Born in 1974, Panorama City Lives and works in Brooklyn Addressing fundamental questions concerning human existence, Matthew Day Jackson’s works grapple with themes such as science, technology, nature and God, and the complex histories and myths that represent them. In his LIFE magazine series, Jackson uses the magazine as a symbol of the motivations that […]

Born in 1969, Australia Lives and works in London Approaching image making with an auteur’s indulgence, David Noonan pulls images from photographs, film stills and documentary footage, blows them up and screen-prints them in high-contrast monochrome. He then slices and tears them and collages them together into fantastical new compositions. The resulting ghostly presences have […]

Born in 1972, Tarnow, Poland Lives and works in Tarnow, Poland Drawing images from sources as diverse as art history, 20th century propaganda icons, advertising, photojournalism and his own snapshots, Wilhelm Sasnal uses painting to challenge traditional expectations of representation and perception. Sasnal pares his images down to their barest essentials, distorting his subjects and […]

Born 1973 in Salzburg, Austria Lives and works in Vienna & New York Taking the inadequacy and uncanniness of the human body as his starting point, Markus Schinwald draws on historical, artistic and philosophical and psychoanalytic references to explore the relationship between space and body, and between the individual and the collective being. For works […]