Artists

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon is regarded as one of Britain’s greatest painters, he is known for known for his expressive, graphic and emotionally raw imagery.

Banksy

Probably the world’s most sought-after and talked about street artist, Banksy is a controversial figure who is known for attacking...

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is regarded as one of the world’s most successful street artists, and one of the most successful African-American artists.

Sir Peter Blake

Sir Peter Blake is one of the best-known artists from the Pop Art movement, famous for co-creating the sleeve design for The Beatles album cover Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Marc Chagall

Marc Chagall was a modernist artist who worked successfully in a range of mediums including painting, murals, ceramics, etching, drawing, theatre and costume design, and stained-glass work.

George Condo

In 2010, famous American rapper Kanye West released his new album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, with an album cover...

Salvador Dali

Salvador Dalí is one of the greatest Spanish painters of all time and one of the most important figures in the history of the modern art movement.

Tracey Emin

Named one of the 100 most powerful women in the UK by BBC Radio 4, Tracey Emin CBE RA challenges...

Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud is widely regarded as the greatest painter of the human form during the late 20th and early 21st century.

Os Gemeos

Twin brothers Otavio and Gustavo Gandolfo are graffiti duo Os Gemeos. They have gained notoriety for their unique works that have come to define the Brazilian street art scene.

Antony Gormley

Turner Prize winning artist Sir Antony Gormley is regarded as one of Britain’s foremost contemporary sculptors.

Richard Hambleton

The mysterious ‘Shadowman’, Richard Hambleton is often called the Godfather of street art and was friends with all the legendary...

Keith Haring

Keith Haring is one of the most respected and admired artists of the 20th century, he is known for his old graphic style that featured figures, dancers, hearts, lines of energy, and most famously, The Barking Dog.

Conor Harrington

Conor Harrington is an Irish-born street artist known for his large-scale artworks that blend contemporary and historical references to tackle socio-political themes

Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst is a creative visionary, his brand is as prolific as his artwork and he is arguably one the most successful and well-known artist in the world to date

David Hockney

David Hockney is one of Britain’s most popular and well-respected artists, having worked as a painter, draughtsman, printmaker, photographer and designer his versatility has aided his popularity.

Howard Hodgkin

Born Gordon Howard Eliott Hodgkin in Hammersmith 1932, Hodgkin came from a large family of high achievers. Cousin to Bloomsbury...

Robert Indiana

Robert Indiana is an American artist known for his famous Love and Number paintings, sculptures and statues, that marked him as one of the central figures of the American Pop Art movement.

Invader

Invader, or Space Invader as he is also known, is considered a pioneer of street art.

Anish Kapoor

Turner Prize winner Anish Kapoor has created sculptures and installations which have been displayed around the globe and is currently one of the world's most sought after artists.

Alex Katz

American figurative artist Alex Katz is perhaps best known for his large-scale portraits which became seen as precursors to Pop...

KAWS

Brian Donnelly, aka KAWS, is a Brooklyn based artist and designer known for his paintings and prints that feature subverted versions of highly iconic pop culture symbols

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons is an American neo-pop artist who is known for his bold paintings and sculptures.

Yayoi Kusama

David Lachapelle

David LaChapelle is an American photographer and filmmaker who has worked in fashion, advertising and fine art. LaChapelle is one of the few photographers to have made the transition from celebrity photography to contemporary art.

Chris Levine

British artist Chris Levine has been part of art world royalty since he created a series of photographic portrait prints of Her Majesty the Queen in 2004.

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein was a leading figure in the American Pop Art movement. His bright, graphic works that parody American popular culture made him one of the world's most famous pop artists.

L S Lowry

L.S. Lowry is a much-loved British painter known for pictures that capture urban life in the industrial north of England during the 1920s.

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse was a 19th Century French painter, draftsman, sculptor and printmaker, today he is known as one of the leading figures in modern art.

Harland Miller

Harland Miller is a British writer and artist best known for producing a series of paintings based on Penguin book covers.

Joan Miró

Joan Miró was a Spanish surrealist painter and sculptor, thought to have significantly influenced late 20th-century art, in particular the American abstract expressionist movement.

Henry Moore

Henry Moore is regarded as Britain’s most important sculptors of the 20th century, his sculptures can be found in sculpture parks and public spaces around the UK.

Takashi Murakami

Japanese artist, Takashi Murakami, is one of the world’s most prolific artists, successfully blurring the lines between high art and low culture, East and West, and past and present.

Yoshitomo Nara

Julian Opie

Julian Opie is one of the leading figures in computerised art, he draws inspiration from billboard signs, 18th Century portraiture, popular comics and Japanese woodblock prints.

José Parlá

José Parlá is an American artist, most known for his very large-scale seemingly abstract paintings— but he has a wide range of practice from installations, video, sculpture, photography and works on paper.

Nicolas Party

Nicolas Party was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, spending his formative years surrounded by the lakes and mountains of the Swiss...

Pejac

Spanish artist Pejac, also known as Silvestre Santiago, was born in 1977 in Santander, Cantabria, located on the North coast...

Grayson Perry

Turner prize-winning artist Grayson Perry produces vases, tapestries, paintings, etchings and limited edition prints that explore a variety of historical and contemporary themes.

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish artist who transformed modern art. A painter, sculptor, etcher, lithographer, ceramist and designer, he is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

Lorenzo Quinn

Lorenzo Quinn is regarded as one of the worlds leading contemporary sculptors.

Gerhard Richter

Richter was one of the pioneers of the New European Painting movement, which emerged in the second half of the 20th Century, influenced by many artists he has painted in many styles during his career producing both abstract and photorealistic paintings.

Bridget Riley

Bridget Louise Riley is a British artist and one of the foremost exponents of Op Art. Having defined a generation with her paintings and limited edition prints, Riley is still one of Britain’s most revered artists.

Ed Ruscha

Ed Ruscha is a pivotal American artist associated both with Pop Art and Conceptualism. His wide-ranging practice spans over painting,...

Frank Stella

American painter and sculptor Frank Stella started his artistic career in New York city in the 50s and 60s during...

Stik

Anonymous street artist Stik is best known for his distinctive androgynous figures which can be seen everywhere, from the streets...

Mario Testino

Mario Testino is regarded as one of the greatest fashion and magazine photographers of all time, his exquisitely styled portraits have captured celebrities such as Madonna, Kate Moss and Diana, Princess of Wales.

Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly was one of the most defining artists of his generation, along with his peers Jasper Johns and Robert...

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola in 1928) is the undisputed King of the Pop Art Movement. His prints are more popular than ever, and have become some of the most favoured artworks on the market.

Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei is without a doubt one of the most powerful multi-media and conceptual artists working today and a leading...

Tom Wesselmann

Tom Wesselmann is an American pop artist, using intense colours and tight, formal composition and incorporated imagery from magazines and advertisements he was one of the foremost artists of his time.

Jonas Wood

Born in 1977, Jonas Wood, the now LA-based world-famous painter, was originally a psychology BA graduate from Hobart and William...

Christopher Wool

Christopher Wool is regarded as one of the most important contemporary painters today. He is known for the stark, expressive power of his paintings.