Showroom
A presentation of investment pieces that are critically endorsed by, and exclusively available through RAPTURE. In person viewings by arrangement.
JESSE LEROY SMITH
’Predecessor’ - 2023
Oil on silk organza stretched over oil on canvas.
140cm x 120cm
I collate scrapbooks in which friends, family and heroes montage with film stills, costume and architecture alongside creatures and landscapes from my travels. They include contributions from my children and drawings form religious iconography and ancient art. These collections of collaged, dreamlike, juxtaposed memories most often form the basis of my drawings and paintings.
£12,000
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LUCIANNA WHITTLE
’Flight of the Melody’ - 2024
Oil on Paper. 130cm x 470cm
Flight of the Melody reflects an unbound procession through time, heady and joyous from its own sensation of becoming. The painting is charged with an untethered energy that entices flight, or bloom. Like the paradox of a pinned butterfly behind glass, we are asked to look intently at something whose beauty could only be expressed in the freedom of time let loose. Nowhere here, is there a landing place for formality or analysis. In the rolling, beribboned helix of the central passage, words are redundant. Any grasping for structure will surely slip by while the painting glances back to smile.
£5,000
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FLECKNER
’Working Class Her0’ - 2023
Paper and varnish on aluminium mounted canvas. 150cm x 100cm.
Hovering on the axis of construction and destruction, Fleckner employs industrial processes to produce artworks that carry a powerful, confronting narrative.
£3,000
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AMY ROBSON
’Dry The Rain’ - 2023
Oil on canvas. 100cm x 120cm.
Amy Robson is a British/American artist who creates drawings, paintings and prints that consider the experience of being in a place – physical or psychological. Her work pushes representational boundaries with disjointed pictorial spaces and uncanny juxtapositions to emphasise contemporary dislocation and collective anxiety.
A decommissioned nuclear missile silo, the former Stasi Headquarters, an ancient village in Greece or the Wandsworth recycling centre – these historical and quotidian locations inform weird and wonky responses that suggest the uncertainty and strangeness of being alive in the modern world.
£2000
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ALEXANDER AUGUSTUS
’Hood’ - 2022
Lost wax Bronze casting, CAD and hand sculpted, Slate bases.
Height - 100cm. Edition 3 of 6
During the creation of my work ‘A Dangerous Figure’, I collected audio, visual and qualitative data via mobile phone apps. Simultaneous to this, I was using my mobile phone to 3D scan the young unemployed to merge into three-dimensional meshes. I then used a 9-axis CNC to carve this and cast it from bronze as a permanent monument to the neglected young unemployed.
’A Dangerous Figure’ was the disembodied face of the young unemployed, whereas ‘Hoods’ would become the faceless body – both created from mobile phones by the mass public. Also available in white.
£12,000
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