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100 Limited Edition Prints by contemporary artist, Charles Avery, to be won with Own Art and Time Out!
15 Jun 2009
Monday 15 June 2009 - Midnight, Wednesday 15 July 2009
Find out how to win an exclusive print
Fancy owning an original work of art by an internationally recognised contemporary artist? Looking for an exciting new piece to start or add to an existing collection? Then today could be your lucky day!
Made possible by funding from Arts Council England, London the artist Charles Avery was commissioned to produce a special print which can be won in an exclusive competition being run by Time Out in partnership with Arts Council England's Own Art scheme.
Charles Avery, Untitled (Chesches Players outside the One Armed Snake), 2009, lithographic print
510mm h x 425mm w (also featured on homepage)
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To celebrate 5 years of the Own Art scheme, Arts Council England, London teamed up with artist Charles Avery to offer readers of the Own Art bulletin and Time Out this unique opportunity to own a piece of his work.
'Own Art continues to help people across the country to kick start their own personal art collections in an affordable way. You may be thinking about starting your own personal collection, or perhaps you want to add to an existing one - either way this is a great piece of art that would be a fine addition to any collection. So log on and enter, and the best of luck to everyone!'
Moira Sinclair, Executive Director of Arts Council England, London
Avery is one of the UK's hottest talents and most talked about artists of recent times. He is famous for captivating audiences with his ongoing and epic piece - The Islanders, where he has spent over ten years describing the topology and cosmology of a bizarre imaginary island inspired by his childhood on the Inner Hebrides.
The artists work was recently seen in one of the art world's most influential exhibitions of the year - Tate Britain's fourth Triennial, Altermodern, which displayed the very best in new and contemporary work by British and International artists.
From 23rd June 2009, avid Avery followers keen to snap up the next installment of his epic Islanders project will be able to do so at The Hayward Gallery's summer exhibition, Walking in My Mind, which will delve into the often inaccessible, unknown and intriguing territory of the artistic mind, and where more explorations of Avery's bizarre island life will be on show.
Working across a range of media, Avery's work is characterised by formal beauty, humour and a spirit of philosophical enquiry. Generated out of complex research and intellectual rigour; his work pivots on the masterly uses of drawing, used in a variety of expressive forms. Notes of inspiration come from William Blake, PG Woodehouse, Jorge Luis Borges, Joseph Beuys and Joseph Kosuth, revealing themselves upon closer inspection with particular pieces.
Avery's work was shown at the Venice Biennale in 2003. In 2004 and 2006 the artist was nominated for the Jerwood Drawing Prize.
Win a print!
Time Out in partnership with Own Art and Arts Council England, London, has 100 limited edition prints by Charles Avery to give away.
To be in with your chance of winning simply visit the Time Out website.
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