Josef Albers was a German-born artist best-remembered for his never-ending experiments with colour and colour theory. Credited with pioneering modern art and Bauhaus ideas, Albers’ work as an art educator helped shape many generations of […]

Born in 1963, Rachel Whiteread first rose to prominence in the mid-1990s with her large sculptures created from the negative spaces of different mundane, everyday objects. Since then, she has established a reputation as one […]

 Like many other members of the Young British Artists (YBAs), Rachel Whiteread is highly controversial, and her work is both widely praised and ridiculed. Best-known for her large casts of the negative spaces of everyday […]

Frank Stella was a giant of the contemporary art world until his death in May 2024, aged 87. Mainly associated with Minimalism and Abstraction, Stella’s love for exploring different styles and experimenting with new techniques […]

American artist Frank Stella rose to prominence in the mid-1950s, and he quickly established a reputation as an important and innovative artist. He grew to become a towering figure of the contemporary art world, endlessly […]

STIK is a British graffiti artist whose alias comes from his signature stick figure creations, and who once said he wanted to “turn the art world on its head”. In many ways, he’s succeeded; over […]

British graffiti artist STIK has become known for his distinctive, minimalist stick figure art which explores themes of social injustice, inequality and community. Though he’s only risen to prominence in the past 15 years or […]

British artist David Shrigley has garnered a significant following with his witty, whimsical, wryly humorous artwork. Much of his art is executed in a deliberately rudimentary, almost childlike style, though it always contains a shrewder […]

William Scott is the most celebrated of the 20th century Ulster painters, best known for his still life and abstract paintings and prints. Born in 1913, he achieved significant success during his 76 years, and […]

William Scott was one of the foremost British artists of his generation. His main artistic focus was the theme of still life, though this came to be heavily influenced by abstraction, resulting in the clean, […]

The British artist Bridget Riley rose to prominence in the 1960s as a result of her Op Art pieces, which cleverly use colour and geometric shapes and patterns to create disorientating optical illusions, giving the […]

Bridget Riley is practically synonymous with the Op Art movement which developed in the late 1950s and ‘60s. Her striking paintings often appear deceptively simple on the surface, but they are meticulously planned to create […]

Paula Rego was brave, unapologetic, and determined to succeed in the male-dominated art world in which she rose to fame, and these are all qualities reflected in her works. Her art can be by turns […]

Paula Rego’s imaginative, incandescent art explores injustice, rage, sensuality, power, and freedom, in both the personal and the political sphere, often against a strange, fantastical backdrop inspired by fairytales and folk stories. Interest in Rego’s […]

Though L.S. Lowry was frequently labelled as a “Sunday painter”, he was, in fact, far more than that; as he once said, “I’m a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week.” Over time, […]

Laurence Stephen Lowry was born in November 1887, but he didn’t achieve significant recognition until his first solo show in London in 1939. Though he initially divided critics, by the time of his death in […]

Japanese artist Takashi Murakami is best known for his vibrant, bright, and frequently bizarre works that take inspiration from both traditional Japanese art and popular culture such as manga and anime. In the past 20 […]