Image: John Booth, Flower head 2017
Archive
Archive, FIG’s milestone 10th auction, comes mid-lockdown here in the UK. Hoping we’re now headed downhill and accelerating away from the pandemic there’s a little spring in our step, as we present FIGA 10.
Image: Cecilia Carlstedt, Imaginary Bird view #04, 2020
Room with a View
At times like these we could all do with a garden and if not, a room with a view and if good fortune hasn’t provided one, maybe with our mind’s eye we can imagine something else altogether to make a drawing of, or a painting from.
Toby Mott / New Work AvailableArtist, collector and founder of Cultural Traffic, Toby Mott is something of an art world maverick. Kicked out of various schools for various misdemeanours this rather bumptious public school boy had to settle at Pimlico Comprehensive a school that he would later describe as being the making of him. With a disinclination for conventional work he found himself living in a squat with a Dickensian like crowd of punks, queens, drug addicts and petty criminals amongst whom he found friendship with Marilyn, Princess Julia and Boy George.
Woof! Woof!
Do you long for an adorable dachshund? Or do dream of a dashing dalmation? Whatever your preference, a dog is for life not just for Christmas and never more so than at Woof! Woof! – the Fashion Illustration Gallery’s seasonal celebration of all things canine.
FIG is pleased to announce a new working relationship with Spanish artist Jordi Labanda. FIG will be Labanda’s primary dealer in bringing his works in gouache on paper to market worldwide.
No.5
This month FIG is excited to celebrate the international collections with FIG Auction 5 inspired by and featuring, key looks from the spring/summer 2020 ready to wear shows.
FIG is delighted to announce FIGAF Miami, the fourth edition of FIGAF; the Fashion Illustration Gallery Art Fair that connects art collectors with the work of the world’s leading contemporary fashion illustrators.
FIG is delighted to present Jacky Blue the illustrator and artist.Blue, formerly known as Jacky Marshall, a Brit who since graduating from the RCA in 1988, has been working deep in fashion in NYC for the likes of Donna Karen and Calvin Klein. Her drawings, widely admired, by all with whom she worked have been under wraps from all those outside the inside.
FIG is delighted to announce that David Downton is the latest in a growing list of world class talent to have given us access to his studio draws so we can present unframed, the unedited, unvarnished and in some cases unfinished works crafted, cut, torn and in some cases scribbled on DD’s knee at FROW #Couture.
‘Violets are Blue…’
FIG is delighted to present Violets are Blue. FIG’s fourth online auction to date. New works by Tanya Ling, Jacky Blue and for the first time through FIG, Jordi Labanda and John Booth.
Blair Breitenstein / FIG Unframed
Saturday 18th May, 2019. 10am – 7pm
FIG is delighted to announce that Blair Breitenstein, all the way from New York City is coming to London Town with a new body of work that will be showcased at The Shop at Bluebird, Covent Garden on Saturday 18th of May. Direct from the artist’s studio, the collages represent a new direction in the artist’s oeuvre.
Seen through the eyes of some of the world’s leading fashion illustrators and image makers, RTW A/W 2019 / FIG Unframed presents an opportunity to reconsider the shows and key looks that stood out and captured the attention of those whose medium is chalk, charcoal, pencil, pen, watercolour and wash.