Sartorial Contemporary Art is a contemporary art

Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...

 gallery in central London

London

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, England

England

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Overview

The gallery was founded in 2005 as a project-led space in an 18th century Georgian

Georgian architecture

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 house on Kensington Church Street in London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, England

England

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. In October 2008, Sartorial Contemporary Art moved to Kings Cross, London

Kings Cross, London

King's Cross is an area of London partly in the London Borough of Camden and partly in the London Borough of Islington. It is an inner-city district located 2.5 miles north of Charing Cross. The area formerly had a reputation for being a red light district and run-down. However, rapid regeneration...

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Following The Guardian

The Guardian

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observation about the Harry Pye

Harry Pye

Harry Pye is an artist, writer and event organiser. He was born in London in 1973. He completed a foundation course at Camberwell School of Art in 1991. He then studied printmaking at Winchester School of Art from 1992 to 1995. In his second year he stopped painting and printmaking and began...

 exhibition 'Me,me,me', the gallery space has achieved maturity and it has become a real space within the artistic circuit. Sartorial Contemporary Art in house publication The Rebel magazine

The Rebel magazine

The Rebel is an independent British art magazine established by artist Harry Pye in 1985. It features interviews, reviews with artists, and parodies of features from other publications. Often the cover of the magazine features an image of a famous rebel from history such as Jesus, Karl Marx,...

started in 2005, in collaboration with Harry Pye is released four times a year, usually connected with a current exhibition theme. Since 2005, Pye has written a column about the London art scene for the Estonia

Estonia

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n newspaper, Epifanio as well as being the editor of The Rebel magazine.

Gallery artists

The gallery represents the following artists: Olly Beck, Katerina Botsari, Simcha Elias, Marcus Freeman, Mikey Georgeson

Mikey Georgeson

Mikey Georgeson is an artist, working in various media. He is a painter and illustrator, who regularly exhibits his work at Sartorial Contemporary Art and other galleries. As ‘the Vessel’, he is songwriter and singer of the cult art-rock band, David Devant and his Spirit Wife...

, Gretta Sarfaty Marchant

Gretta Sarfaty Marchant

Gretta Sarfaty Marchant is an artist and curator who lives and works in London. In 1993 she worked with Arthur Penn on his film The Portrait, starring Lauren Bacall. In March 2002 she opened her own gallery, Sartorial Contemporary Art. In October 2008 Sartorial Contemporary Art moved to a larger...

, Liz Neal

Liz Neal

Liz Neal is an artist based in London.Neal grew up in North Wales. She makes paintings and installations which reference sexual, consumer and fantasy imagery. From 2001-2003, Neal turned the front room of her North London flat into an installation by covering every surface of the space with...

, Stephen Peirce, Harry Pye

Harry Pye

Harry Pye is an artist, writer and event organiser. He was born in London in 1973. He completed a foundation course at Camberwell School of Art in 1991. He then studied printmaking at Winchester School of Art from 1992 to 1995. In his second year he stopped painting and printmaking and began...

, and Wen Wu.

Artists exhibited

Sartorial Contemporary Art has exhibited contemporary artists such as Matthew Collings

Matthew Collings

-Life and career:In one of his books on art, Collings states that, in his early teenage years, he ran away to Canada. This act was preceded by a period of hanging around in a house in Oakley Street, Chelsea, whose residents included members of various rock bands including Mighty Baby and Family...

, Billy Childish

Billy Childish

Billy Childish is an English artist, painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist...

, Gordon Cheung

Gordon Cheung

Gordon Cheung is a contemporary artist who captures the mood of the global collapse of civilization where moral, economic, and environmental crises have spun out of control...

, Sigrid Holmwood

Sigrid Holmwood

Sigrid Holmwood is a British/Swedish artist and works in London. She was educated at The Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing, University of Oxford and the Royal College of Art, London...

, James Jessop

James Jessop

James Jessop is a British contemporary artist. He trained at The Royal College of Art and Coventry University. He lectures at City and Guilds of London Art School....

, Jasper Joffe

Jasper Joffe

Jasper Joffe is a British contemporary artist and novelist.-Life and work:Jasper Joffe was born in the United States in 1975 and moved to England when he was eight. He is the brother of artist Chantal Joffe. He studied Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford...

, Cathy Lomax

Cathy Lomax

Cathy Lomax is a London artist, curator and director of the Transition Gallery.-Life and career:Cathy Lomax is an artist mainly known for her figurative paintings. She has a BA Fine Art from London Guildhall University , and an MA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design...

, Annie Kevans

Annie Kevans

Annie Kevans is an English artist. She was named number 19 in Harper's Bazaar magazine's Forty Under 40 chart of hot new British talent, September 2007 and was named number 32 in New Woman magazine’s Brit Hit List and was described as the "new Tracey Emin"...

, Robin Mason

Robin Mason

Robin Mason is a British painter born in Porthcawl, South Wales. He is head of BA and MA painting at City and Guilds of London Art School....

, Hugh Mendes

Hugh Mendes

Hugh Mendes is a contemporary artist born in 1955, educated at Chelsea School of Art and City and Guilds of London Art School. He is known for his paintings of obituaries taken from newspapers. He has had solo exhibitions at Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton, Sartorial Contemporary Art London and at...

, Gavin Nolan

Gavin Nolan

Gavin Nolan is a contemporary Welsh artist. Born in Cardiff, he was educated at Loughborough University and The Royal Academy of Arts, London. He has had solo exhibitions in London and Los Angeles. His 2010 show at Charlie Smith gallery featured portraits of celebrity suicides...

, Frank Sidebottom

Frank Sidebottom

Christopher Mark Sievey was an English musician and comedian known for fronting the band The Freshies in the late 1970s and early 1980s and for his comic persona Frank Sidebottom from 1984 onwards....

, Terry Smith

Terry Smith

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, Anj Smith

Anj Smith

Anj Smith is an artist.Born in Kent in the UK, Smith studied in England at Slade School of Fine Art and Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London.Anj Smith creates paintings which are often executed on a small scale and highly detailed...

 and Stella Vine

Stella Vine

Stella Vine is an English artist, who lives and works in London. Her work is figurative painting with subject matter drawn from either her personal life of family, friends and school, or rock stars, royalty and celebrities.After a difficult relationship with her stepfather, she left home and in...

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External links

• Sartorial Contemporary Art
• Artistic Vandals II exhibition at Sartorial Contemporary Art
• Jasper Joffe exhibition at Sartorial Contemporary Art