ART.
We work with …….
SIR PETER BLAKE
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Sir Peter Blake truly is a grandee of British art - often referred to as ‘the godfather of British pop art’. His work is a study in the fascination and beauty of everyday objects through a steam of popular culture and colour.
He is perhaps best recognised as the artist behind the album cover for The Beatles ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ in 1967 which has become synonymous with visual pop music. His artwork crosses mediums and generations and is amongst major collections the world over.
We have been lucky enough to collaborate with Sir Peter Blake on the bespoke design of our floating barges; Darcie & May Green, as well as our 10” shipping container coffee shop come cocktail bar on the Southbank.
Galleries exhibited in: Tate Modern, London; Pallant House Gallery, London; National Museum Cadiff; Farley Gallery, Sussex.
LUCY SPARROW
Lucy Sparrow is one of the most exciting and original artists working in the UK today. Her practice is quirky yet subversive, luring the audience in with her soft, tactile, colourful felt creations before hitting them hard with her comment on subjects including the demise of the traditional high street and the fragmentation of community.
She took the art world by storm in Summer 2014 with the opening of her fully-stocked felt Cornershop installation in London’s East End. With queues around the block and wall to wall media coverage, it was both a commercial and critical success. Since then she has gone on to global acclaim with sell out exhibitions around the world from her Sixth Avenue Delicatessen at the Rockefeller Centre with 30,000 felt items to her Bourbon Street Chemist in Mayfair.
In June 2022 the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall unveiled Lucy’s fully-felted 6-metre long installation entitled ‘The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Lunch’, created to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s 70th year on the British throne. In July, the work was installed in Buckingham Palace as part of the summer exhibition.
We first worked with Lucy during the launch of Bondi Green and adore our Great Wall of felt Australian home treats – from Tim Tams to our Radio Lamingtons - specially created for this flagship site. We are very proud to host her acclaimed work “The Billion Dollar Bank Robbery” previously exhibited at The Saatchi Gallery, Kings Road in our private dining room at Paradise Green with felt Gold bars, Rolexes and Van Goghs.
See more: https://www.sewyoursoul.co.uk/
Oli Epp.
Oli Epp’s paintings are informed by everyday experiences and observations. They are autobiographical; sometimes confessional, sometimes irreverent and frequently handled with a humorous sense of pathos. With a focus on real life experiences and situations that have happened to him or others he has observed, Epp states that his “documenting these unreported tragedies in paint is an act of discovery”.
The imagery in his work is both familiar to many people while drawing out the ridiculous comedy of certain shared rituals and behaviours.
His work can be seen at Scarlett Green in Soho, where they take pride of place at the top of the stairs.
Galleries exhibited in: Semiose Galerie, Paris; V&A Print Collection, London; Richard Heller Gallery, Miami; TW Fine Art, Brisbane; Semiose Galerie, Brussels.
See more of Epp’s art and upcoming events here: https://www.oliepp.com/
Shuby.
Shuby started out as a street artist in 2006 using collagism and her early works featured a lady holding a banana, inspired by the 1943 Busby Berkeley musical ‘The Gangs All Here’, in which rows of ladies wave comedy bananas in the air.
Since then, Shuby has used the banana motifs as one of her signatures throughout her studio work and on the street, becoming an instantly recognisable calling card that is both intrinsically humorous, a little bit naughty and simultaneously innocent.
Shuby has been collaborating with Daisy Green since 2012. Her art can be seen in almost all of our locations, including the iconic vaults at Daisy Green, the Lone Rangers in Scarlett Green and her largest bespoke collage scenes at Regents Place.Our mutual love of bananas also sees Shuby’s iconic banana on our summer deckchairs and limited edition coffee cups.
Galleries exhibited in: Ironic, Berlin; Lawrence Alkin Gallery, London; Jealous Gallery, London; Art Republic, Brighton.
Justin Hibbs.
Across his practice, Justin Hibbs picks apart the mechanics of spatial perception and representation, drawing upon social, political and aesthetic agendas encoded within architectural structures. In particular, much of his work is a renegotiation of the visual language and ideological legacies of modernism, seeking to establish and question relationships between real and idealised notions of space. This is enacted through a uniquely multi-disciplinary approach that incorporates painting, drawing, sculpture and architectural interventions.
His amazing “mirror room” can be found in Scarlett Green, as well as stylish art installations at Ziggy Green and Bondi Green. We have also used his aesthetically pleasing social distancing screens across our sites.
Galleries exhibited in: Carroll/Fletcher Gallery, London; Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico; W139 Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Collyer, Bristow Gallery, London.
COLLAGISM.
AKA Holly-Anne Buck, is an Australian born artist. Holly-Anne relocated to London, UK in 2011 in order to focus on her career as a solo artist. Since
then she has created COLLAGISM as a vehicle to explore collage and further her quest to collage the universe.
She was an active campaigner for the release of Pussy Riot with her street art campaign of hacked Vogue Covers appearing across London. In 2013 she held a six month residency at The Vestibule Gallery on Redchurch St. Featuring six exhibitions, it was an evolving experiment in collage of all dimensions.
Holly-Anne has been exhibiting her work in London, Europe and beyond, including work on show at The Tate Britain. Following on from a refreshing
year of sun and relaxation back in Oz, Holly-Anne is back in London. She has joined fellow London based artists in Untitled 13 Collective - a group of 13
artists working together to form a new movement through events such as Salon Super Clubs (hosted at Scarlett Green) and Exhibitions around the capital.
Alongside Shuby she has also hijacked the covers of 20 famous LP’s at Ziggy Green.
See more of Holly-Anne’s art and upcoming events here: http://www.collagism.com/
Luap | Paul Robinson.
Luap is the creator behind the iconic come-to-life pink bear found throughout our Soho restaurant, Scarlett Green.
Pink Bear can be found enjoying life on iconic Bondi Beach and harks to our Aussie roots, bringing some Sydney sun to Soho.
The costumed figure, a striking motif in Luap’s work, exists between reality and make-believe, youthful innocence and corruption, leading a lifestyle that looks simultaneously enviable yet questionable.
Over the last decade, his work has been exhibited and sold globally in London, New York, Hong Kong, Barcelona, and Dubai.
Galleries exhibited in: Well Hung Gallery, London; Holiday House, London; HKC Contemporary Art Fair 13, Hong Kong; Space, London; Barcelona Showcase, Spain.
See more of Luap’s art and upcoming events here: http://www.luapstudios.co.uk/
LOUise DEAR.
Louise Dear’s paintings are a sumptuous visual feast. Her neo-pop infused works are a lavish and expert mix of mediums and colour, creating vibrant and contemporary pieces with dripping dyes, glitter, gloss and overlays that portray a sense of movement and texture.
Her work can be viewed in major galleries and are held in the collections of Rick Stein and Elton John.
She has long collaborated with Daisy Green and is the trademark of our distinctive coffee cups. Her large scale pieces adorn the walls across our sites including one of our favourites KissKiss BamBam which stands 5m tall at Timmy Green.
Galleries exhibited in: Turner Barnes Gallery, Chelmsford; AAF, New York; The Picture Room, London.
See more of Louise’s art and upcoming events here: http://www.louisedear.com/.
MARCO WALKER
Marco Walker is an image maker working within the boundaries of photography, collage, alternative print methods and immersive photographic installations. Best known for his landscape imagery, his work has a unique and timeless feel that seems to endure this ever changing digital world. His works engage with themes of escapism and paradise, celebrating nature’s beauty whilst at the same time, through his use of colours, he reminds the viewer of our disconnect to it. We love his work and he is bringing a feeling of hedonism, vibrancy and release that ties so nicely to Surfers Paradise at Paradise Green.
Bonnie and Clyde.
Bonnie and Clyde is a contemporary British artist, whose mixed media collage and print-work centres around scenes of the urban imaginary.
Bonnie and Clyde’s work takes the form of screen-prints, large-scale originals on paper and wood, as well as 3D installation pieces. Using self-taken photographs, Bonnie and Clyde works with a combination of monochrome and highly saturated areas of colour. Collaged with textured paint, elements of distressed, heavy paper and magazine cuttings, her work represents the beautiful, messy, vibrant and chaotic nature of life in the city.
Through cut-up, bricolage perspective, each of Bonnie and Clyde’s abstracted pieces tells a story: a dizzying, non-linear narrative of the individual, navigating the dualistic city which is always banal as well as beautiful, terrifying while magnetic.
Bonnie and Clyde has created us an amazing 6+ meter feature wall at Ziggy Green, which incorporates images of Bondi Beach, David Bowie iconography and film references.
Galleries exhibited in: Lilford Gallery, Canterbury; Lawrence Alkin Gallery, London; Leeds College of Art exhibition ‘Subterraneans’.
See more of Bonnie and Clyde’s art and upcoming events here: https://www.bonnieandclydeart.com/
grAzie.
Born in New Zealand, grAzie’s distinctive style blends inspirations from across the pop spectrum; from fashion, music and culture.
Her style is recognisable for the bright colour pallet and bold imagery. grAzie often paints faceless figures that are instantly recognisable as pop icons despite their ambiguity.
Daisy Green commissioned grAzie to create a huge Bowie inspired piece for our brand new site; Ziggy Green on Heddon Street, the street made famous when Bowie chose to shoot the cover for the album “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” on the street. The artwork adds a striking and vibrant aesthetic to the space and draws on our mutual love for music and art.
Galleries exhibited in: MC Saatchi, London; BLK Box, Leeds; Herrick Gallery, London; Artobotic, Edinburgh.
See more of grAzie’s art and upcoming events here: https://www.grazieuk.com/
ANT HAMLYN.
Ant Hamlyn produces sculpture, installations and internet controlled performing spaces. His works regularly have anthropomorphic elements that work with metaphor, illusion and timing to create moments of flux, ore and surprise through material and visual obscurity.
Commissioned for Bondi Green, Hamlyn has created the inflatable kinetic daisy chain sculpture; ‘B L O O M’. Each head on the 7m x 3m installation is rigged to repeatedly bloom and wilt during the duration of a restaurant visit. The act of the heads gently opening and closing symbolises the perpetual birth of a new day; a repeating positive moment of awakening. In the natural world, daisies open their petals at the dawn of a new day and close throughout the night. Via a combination of custom fabricated PVC, neon LED lighting and kinetic engineering, ‘B L O O M’ has been designed to replicate this delicate phenomenon and present it on an expansive scale.
Galleries Exhibited in: RA, Pablo’s Birthday New York, Science Gallery Melbourne, Saatchi Gallery, V&A, Lungley Gallery, FACT, Liverpool. Hamlyn is currently published in Aesthetica Magazines Future Now '100 Contemporary Artists 2020'
See more of Ant Hamlyn’s work and upcoming projects : www.anthamlyn.co.uk.
Peter Liversidge.
On the 17th of May 2021, Daisy Green’s staff and cafes will be emblazoned with “HELLO”; a warm greeting as part of a special living art commission by renowned London based artist Peter Liversidge, to celebrate the re-opening of London’s hospitality and welcome back their customers.
Peter’s internationally recognised work captures the notion of creativity; the possible and the impossible outside typical structures. His hand painted cardboard signs on Roman Road supporting the NHS that were erected via nightly excursions, captured the public’s heart and minds and went viral during lockdown. With his public art being selected to mark the recent opening of the extension of the Tate Modern, the Collection could think of no-one better than Peter to provide a bit of joy and love on this emotional occasion.
Alongside this, the Collection is hoping to raise £10,000 through the sale of 500 special edition, sustainable HELLO T-shirts (available for £35 each).
Those purchasing and wearing the T-shirts will be part of Peter’s public art representing the reopening of London and their desire to reach out, welcome and connect again. Additionally, they will be helping support two wonderful charities hit hard by COVID as all profits are being shared between the House of St Barnabas (a charity helping London's homeless back into hospitality jobs) and the North Paddington Food Bank.
Galleries exhibited in: Liversidge presented The Bridge (A Choral Piece for Tate Modern) in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. Commissioned by Tate, London. The Mac, Belfast, Jupiter Art Land,Edinburgh Art Festival, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, Proposals for the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut. The postal objects of Peter Liversidge from the collection of Peter Foolen, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands; Notes on Protesting, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK C-O-N-T-I-N-U-A-T-I-O-N, i-8 gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland.
He is represented by Kate MacGarry Gallery, London, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh and Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.
Rosalind Davis.
‘A garden is a living painting…plants are a metaphor, a tool to express yourself…’ Piet Odulf.
Rosalind Davis is an artist whose central concern is the transformation and reconfiguration of space through her paintings and wider multi-disciplinary work which includes installation, sculpture, photography and drawing.
In 2020 Rosalind was commissioned by Daisy Green to design a large exterior garden running alongside the canal. The garden works in collaboration with Justin Hibbs 5 bespoke large scale sculptural planters that were designed to reflect the exterior of the Brunel Building structure. These planters and the extensive potted plants create a magical oasis for diners. The tropical themed planting continues inside in a series of layered pots bringing an authentic touch to the Bondi aesthetic. Davis has gone on to plant gardens and pots for Barbie Green, Timmy Green, Daisy Green and Ziggy Green.
More recently, Rosalind added to the exuberant Peter Blake painted canal boats; Darcie and May Green, with a flamboyant garlanding of the exterior upper decks.
Galleries exhibited in: The Courtauld Institute, the Bruce Castle Museum, Koppel Projects, The Foundry Gallery and was the Curator at Collyer Bristow Gallery in London 2016 -20.
See more of Rosalind’s work and upcoming projects atwww.rosalinddavis.co.uk