Pakal is the alter ego of an established street artist. In April 2018 the artist presented the exhibition The Missing Museum within the Prints & Originals Gallery.
Within The Missing Museum ideas of fact and fiction intertwine. The artist presented the vibrant works of the Laka tribe who believed creativity was the path to transformation and reinvention. As a means of alternative expression by the artist, Pakal chooses not to reveal his or her identity. In this way the artist wishes to let the artworks exist within their own autonomous context, and to avoid any comparison with other work produced by the artist.
Free from boundaries, borders or labels, the artist invites the viewer to find their own connections with the works. The use of vivid colours, different materials and subject matter connected with the Far East and indigenous art of Central America add to the intrigue.
Mildred Palmer graduated from Camberwell College of Arts in 1994. The artist lives and works in London.
She creates unique relief prints that have a textural intensity and sublime resonance.
The result of a multi-layered printing technique that involves stencils and serendipity the artist produces works of intoxicating colour & depth.
Carrie Reichardt (b. 1966) lives and works in London. The artist gained a First Class degree in Fine Art at Leeds University and has had a career spanning many media, including film, performance and sculpture. She is perhaps best known as a ceramicist and mosaicist, working internationally on large scale public murals.
She has a rich background in art, with ancestors who instilled in her a love for creating and a desire to use her talents to make a difference. Reichardt’s artistic style combines traditional techniques with modern ideas, resulting in unique and thought-provoking works. Her use of colour, texture, and symbolism adds depth and emotion to her pieces, making them accessible to all while also encouraging critical thinking
The British contemporary artist Maria Rivans is based near Brighton in Sussex. She has a growing reputation for her dynamic collages featuring imagery from the 20th and 21st Century pop culture.
Meticulously crafted, Rivans’s collages are often a heady mix of sugar-sweet visuals combined with macabre or dark undertones. A solo exhibition by Rivans, entitled ‘Popcorn Noir’, took place within the Prints & Originals Gallery at the Saatchi Gallery, London in January 2015.
Born in Glasgow, Rugman currently lives and works in East London. The artist explores modern iconography and investigates the power of symbols. In January 2016 the exhibition ‘Sister, Mother’ held at the Saatchi Gallery’s Prints and Originals Gallery introduced a new body of work by the artist.
Original works on aluminium, canvas, wood and paper researched the relationship between mankind and the natural environment.
“I wanted to create works of simplicity and beauty. I looked back to when nature was an integral part of human life; when it was a spiritual element symbolised in the art and mark-making of clans and tribes.” – Rugman
Sr. X is a Spanish street artist now based in London. The artist continues to produce works on the street and in his studio using techniques including stencils, collage, oil and acrylic painting.
In 2019 Saatchi Gallery presented ‘It is the Surreal Thing’, an exhibition of works by Sr. X.
Joe Webb collects vintage magazines and printed ephemera. He uses this material to create simple but elegant hand-made collages. The artist refuses to use Photoshop to manipulate imagery.
Webb uses simple and concise cuts to transform the original material into more surreal and enigmatic artworks.
The exhibition, ‘Paper Cuts’, took place at the Saatchi Gallery’s Prints & Originals Gallery, in April 2015.
Zabou was born in France but currently lives and works in London. The street artist paints large-scale realistic murals world-wide, from Europe and Asia to South America. She also creates original works in the studio and limited edition prints. Zabou has featured in exhibitions at the Saatchi Gallery since 2016.
Working mostly with spray paint and acrylics, she creates striking black and white portraits with colourful touches. Her practice relies on the photographs she takes of her subjects, focusing on their expressions and emotions. Her artworks, both in the street and the studio, explore the everyday life as well as contemporary topics, and ultimately what connects us all as humans.
In March 2022 Saatchi gallery presented ‘In Their Eyes’, a solo exhibition in our Gallery 15 space that showcased new original works by Zabou. The exhibition featured a newly commissioned mural work, images of murals executed in recent years and preparatory photographs from the artist’s private collection.
The work of Mike Ballard (1972, London) is made up of construction hoardings sourced from several sites across London. His paintings are laced with the formal translation of the urban landscape using – photography, photocopy, adhesion, saturation, abrasion and addition.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude were artists noted for their large-scale, site-specific environmental installations.
The story between Christo and Jeanne-Claude is one of love and artistic collaboration. Saatchi Gallery celebrated this with the 2023 exhibition Boundless.
