Hales Gallery is an art gallery

Art gallery

An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...

 in east London and represents a number of young British artists. The gallery was founded by Paul Hedge and Paul Maslin in 1992, and successfully launched the careers of a number of emerging British artists at that time, including Jake and Dinos Chapman

Jake and Dinos Chapman

Iakovos "Jake" Chapman and Konstantinos "Dinos" Chapman are English visual artists, often known as the Chapman Brothers, who work together as a collaborative sibling duo...

, Mike Nelson

Mike Nelson (artist)

Michael "Mike" Nelson is a contemporary British installation artist. He represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2011. Nelson has twice been nominated for the Turner Prize: first in 2001 , and again in 2007 .-Working practice:Nelson's installations typically exist only for the time period...

 and Sarah Jones

Sarah Jones (artist)

Sarah Jones is a visual artist who works with photography. She gained international recognition in the mid 1990s coinciding with the completion of an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmith’s College in London in 1996...

. The gallery moved from its original location on Deptford High Street, London in 2003 to its current location in the Tea Building in East London.

Artists

Some of the artists they represent include Adam Dant

Adam Dant

Adam Dant is a Jerwood Prize-winning artist . He was born in Cambridge in 1967 but now lives and works in London. He has won praise from The Guardian and Financial Times for his Hogarthian graphic style...

, Hew Locke

Hew Locke

Hew Donald Joseph Locke is a sculptor and contemporary British visual artist based in London.-Background:...

, Bob and Roberta Smith, Tomoko Takahashi

Tomoko Takahashi

Tomoko Takahashi is a Japanese artist born in Tokyo in 1966 and based in London, UK. She studied at Tama University, Goldsmiths College and the Slade School of Fine Art. She first came to attention when she won the EAST award at EASTinternational in 1997...

 and Spencer Tunick

Spencer Tunick

Spencer Tunick is an American photographer. Tunick is best known for organizing large-scale nude shoots. Since 1994 he has photographed over 75 human installations around the world.-Biography:...

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