A Family Art Collection

Camille Henrot draws on self-help, online thrift marketplaces, cultural anthropology, literature, psychoanalysis, and social media to inspire works that range from expressive, calligraphic drawings to large-scale installations and fantastical paintings.

Inspired by Bambara masks from Mali, she has also made sculptures out of car parts. Throughout all her films, video animations, drawings, photographs, and more, Henrot examines globalization, ideology, the digital realm, and other sources of modern anxieties.

Despite her serious subject matter, the artist’s work is often tinged with humor and charm. Henrot has exhibited in New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Paris, London, Los Angeles, and Rome. Her work has been acquired by the Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Pinault Collection.

Text from Artsy & image from Koenig Galerie

The atmospheric practice of France-Lise McGurn transports the viewer from the public realm of a museum or gallery and into the most personal quarters of the artist’s life: her studio, her bedroom, her mind and musings. McGurn’s figurative practice delivers a wholly immersive experience, launching the viewer into a three dimensional world of the intimate and relatable.

The figures that occupy McGurn’s world belong to her imagination. These archetypal women and men, often portrayed in a state of undress, whether in groups, in pairs or alone, recline in both ecstasy and agony. At times, they appear bare and exposed huddled in tense tableaux, seemingly withdrawn in defence. Elsewhere, McGurn’s characters are languid, bathed in air of euphoria.

Fluidity distinguishes McGurn’s practice. Her capricious compositions, as in Sleepless, her 2019 solo exhibition at the Tate Britain, are in their form and liberty of expression, unrestrained; while her application of paint transcends the canvas, bleeding onto the gallery walls and spilling across the floor. For McGurn, humanity in all its excitement, intimacy, poignancy, boredom and disappointment is worth uncovering.

Text from Simon Lee Gallery & image from Private Collection

Luke Edward Hall is an English artist and designer, and columnist. Luke’s philosophy is shaped by his love of storytelling and fantasy. His colourful work is often inspired by history, filtered through a lens of irreverent romanticism. Since founding his studio in 2015, Luke has worked on a broad range of commissions, from interior design and fashion projects to murals and illustration work for books, restaurants and hotels. He has collaborated with a variety of companies and institutions including Burberry, Lanvin, Christie’s, Royal Academy of Arts, Richard Ginori, Svenskt Tenn and Habitat. Luke has exhibited his drawings, paintings and ceramics in London, Stockholm, Athens and the United States.

In March 2019 he joined the Financial Times as a weekly columnist in FT Weekend, answering readers’ questions on aesthetics, interior design and stylish living. September 2019 saw the release of Luke’s first book, Greco Disco: The Art & Design of Luke Edward Hall, a scrapbook-meets-portfolio introducing Luke's creative world and highlighting his favourite projects to date, published by teNeues. In the autumn of 2020 Luke’s first large interior design project opened in Paris: a thirty-three bedroom hotel and bistro in the city's 10th arrondissement. He is currently working on his second book and various new interior design projects.

Text from Luke Edward Hall & image from Private Collection