The Independent reported on the Director of The British Council in Japan buying a print of Charles Thomson's 'Sir Nicholas Serota Makes an Aquisitions Decision' and tries to get it delivered in time for Serota coming to his place for dinner!
Story 2 here:
www.independent.co.uk/opinion/ ... ery-821126.html
The telegraph wrote a piece about Fraser Kee Scott's game for the Stuckists to make a painting based on the Offili Scandal.
This article talks about a Stuckist show at our gallery which was at the same time as Stella Vines show at Modern Art Oxford (and which the Director of the Tate visited.)
The local guardian featured the show Go Figure on the front page of their art section saying:
"Eight of the world's hottest figurative artists are coming to London this month. but don't go hunting for them in the East End. The only place to see Go Figure is in ... Fraser Kee Scott's gallery."
Time and Leisure featured Gay Ribisi's art on their fron cover for April!
The coolest magazine in Monte Carlo wrote a great article on DORMICE in July 08
HOW THE TATE SPENT A MILLION POUNDS
One tin of excrement £22,300
A filing cabinet £15,163
An idea to have a queue £20,000
Two ceiling fans made from skateboards £5000
A suit crumpled up on the floor, shoes, briefcase, and passport £8985
Ham radio, coat hangers, aerial £10,000
Clothes hanger and pole £400, 857.
Potato and voltmeter, 7 tables and 6 light bulbs £84,709
39 metronomes £34,000
Tea Urn and teapot £8,000
63 min video of 4 people being tattooed with 160 cm line £7,572
A round bar of wood £34,907
A Fiat 126 (less than £500 on Ebay) £12,617
Pieces of red slate in a circle £88,815
Bubble Machines £30,000
Record player £21,762
Flea Circus £86,682
2 hours, 34 min video of a man in a bear costume) £85,000
5 Sliding Doors, £106,174
Photograph of Tracey Emin £20,833
TOTAL COST: £1,103, 306
DETAILS OF ARTWORKS ABOVE
Piero Manzoni. Tin of Shit.£22,300
Stanley Brouwn. 1000 mm.(a filing cabinet) £15,163
David Lamelas. Time.(An idea to have a queue) £20,000
Alexandre da Cunha. Skateboarderistismatronics.(a ceiling fan made from skateboards) £5000 (for 2 fans)
Pawel Althamer. Self-Portrait as a Businessman.(Suit crumpled up on the floor, shoes, briefcase, passport) £8985
Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Ten minute transmission.(Ham radio, coat hangers, aerial) £10,000 ($20,000)
Luciano Fabro, Clotheshanger of the North + Foot. (Clothes hanger + pole) £400,857.
Victor Grippo, Energy of a Potato + Tables of Work and Reflection.(Potato and voltmeter) (approx 7 tables and 6 light bulbs) £84,709
Martin Creed, Work no. 112.(39 metronomes) £34,000
Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane. Souped-Up Tea Urn & Teapot (Dartford 2004).(Oversize kitchenware) £8,000
Santiago Sierra. 160 cm Line Tattooed on 4 People. (63 min video of 4 people being tattooed with 160 cm line).£7,572
André Cadere, Round Bar of Wood. (A round bar of wood).£34,907
Simon Starling, Flaga (1972-2000). A Fiat 126 Produced in Turin, Italy, in 1974 and Customized Using Parts Manufactured and Fitted in Poland, Following a Journey of 1290 km from Turin to Cieszyn. (Fiat car, less than £500 on Ebay).£12,617
Richard Long, Red Slate Circle.(a circle made from pieces of red slate) £88,815
David Medalla, Cloud Canyons No.3: An Ensemble of Bubble Machines (Auto Creative Sculptures) [Bubble machines] £30,000
Jim Lambie, Ska’s Not Dead.(Record player) £21,762
Maria Cardoso, Cardoso Flea Circus, £86,682
Mark Wallinger, Sleeper, £85,000 (2 hours, 34 min video of a man in a bear costume)
Carsten Höller, Sliding Doors, £106,174 (5 sliding doors)
Tracey Emin.Monument Valley (Grand Scale) (Photograph of Emin) £20,833
Sign the petition to stop Sir Nicholas Serota's re appointment to Director of the Tate, as he oversaw these purchases: petitions.pm.gov.uk/tatedirector/
Here is an article in the December edition of Independent papers ( www.londonlocals.co.uk ):
(Fraser Kee Scott's) gallery opened in 1997 and immediately started selecting and helping artists who will go on to be the most important artists of the 21st century. The artwork Fraser Kee Scott... chose to open with was 'Crucifix' by Alison Jackson. Alison had just got her BA from Chelsea School of Art and the photograph was for sale at £1500. 5 years later Alison Jackson won a Bafta for her Channel 4 TV show, had a best selling book in America published by Penguin and 'Crucifix' multiplied by ten in value and is predicted to do so again in the next few years. Fraser also showed Stuart Pearson Wright from that years graduates. Stuart is now tipped as the next Lucien Freud with the British Museum buying his paintings and the National Portrait Gallery commissioning his portrait of J K Rowlings. Also from their degree shows were selected Mila Judge Furstova who is currently taking America by storm and Thomas Ostenberg who recently sold three monumental bronze sculptures to a trustee of The Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. Fraser does more than just select the very finest artists he also has a great ability at helping them reach their full potential. Other examples of his exceptional ability of selecting and helping the future art world leaders are his selling more work between 2000 and 2003 than any other gallery for Dean Marsh who won the most prestigious portrait competition in the world, the BP award in 2005, and showing the work of Andrew Tift for a year before he won in 2006! Actually Fraser's talent at selecting and helping artists who go on to become art stars is unparalleled with other successful predictions being showing Gereon Krebber before he won the Jerwood sculpture prize, Diarmuid Byron O'Connor before Her Royal Highness, Sophie of Wessex unveiled his 'Peter Pan' at Great Ormond Street, offering Natasha Kissell's works many years before her Tatler interview or purchases by Saatchi,... the list goes on and on. Fraser is keen to point out that he likes to find out exactly what a client needs and wants so if you are looking for a very special artwork by a rising star in art contact him today!
The BP Portrait Award is the most prestigious portrait competition in the world, promoting the very best in contemporary portrait painting. With a first prize of £25,000 the exhibition has proved the launch pad for the careers of a number of successful portrait artists.
Andrew Tift's winning portrait is a triptych of Lucian Freud's first wife, Kitty Garman, whom Freud painted many times. She used to live just outside Andrew's home town of Walsall, whose New Art Gallery houses her family's works of art, the Garman Ryan Collection. Andrew had been working on portraits of Kitty for a small show at the Gallery and this triptych is part of that series. Its style was inspired by John Freeman's 1960s Face To Face TV interviews.
You can read more about Andrew and the BP Portrait Prize here:
www.npg.org.uk/live/bp2006.asp
We offered Andrew Tift's portrait service for a year before he won the prize which follows on from our success with Dean Marsh who we sold more works for between 2000 - 2003 than any other gallery and who won the BP award in 2005.
You can find out about commissioning a portrait by Andrew Tift here:
www.agallery.co.uk/gallery.php ... 8e8bfb09d7733ae
Chris Parks and his three times Oscar winning father Peter Parks were commissioned by director Darren Aronofsky to produce their special brand of organic fluid effects for the movie 'The Fountain' starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. In order to make his vision of space timeless, Aronofsky steered clear of traditional computer graphics and instead shot with Chris and Peter over a period of 8 weeks to produce something that was unique and would not age.
You can see the trailer for the movie here:
www.apple.com/trailers/wb/thefountain/trailer1
and Chris's art:
www.agallery.co.uk/gallery.php ... 35a68d9253c81bc