ADAM NEATE

Elms Lesters is the primary source of work by ADAM NEATE, Britain's most exciting emerging artist.

Adam is a much heralded painter at the forefront of a radical new movement in contemporary art that has seen him bring street art into the gallery space.

Over the past five years Adam Neate has left thousands of pieces of work on the streets of London, either hanging on nails or propped against lampposts for people to find. His two and three dimensional paintings use recycled cardboard boxes as canvases - torn, layered and stapled backdrops to mesmerising, warped self-portraits and figurative compositions. Neate is a street artist with a difference. His work is technically expert and has won him acknowledgement from Tate, National Portrait Gallery and The National Gallery.
Neate's street art has garnered global interest, having been documented on CNN reports and European television. Major collectors and celebrities are fighting for his original works and international critics have lauded the artist's work.

Elms Lesters featured ADAM's work in thev HYPE. exhibition in July 2006. The body of work he producd for that exhibition built directly on his cardboard street pieces, and took the form of a series of Self Portraits, using recycled cardboard boxes as canvases, torn and stapled, creating layers of colour and texture. Fragments of fabric were used to create further 3D ambiguities. Since then ADAM''s works also sold out in our subsequent exhibitions:

IN SELECTED STORES ONLY...

DON'T DO THAT !

and most recently in his spectacular one man show:

PAINTINGS, POTS AND PRINTS

2007 has seen Elms Lesters release a total of thirteen signed limited edition giclee prints, all have which have sold out instantly.

The first three were released at "IN SELECTED STORES ONLY.." Images can be seenvvhere.

"Nothing on TV" (illustrated below) was released separately in April 2007 and sold out within an hour.

The last series was released to coincide with Adam's first major one-man show, here in August 2007, PAINTINGS, POTS AND PRINTS

ADAM is both an urban icon amongst his peers, and recognised Internationally by companies such as Dr. Martens, Sprite and PRADA, all of whom he has been commissioned to design products for.

He is continually challenging his work, often quoting Picasso “ to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility ”

Elms Lesters Painting Rooms is the primary source of work by Adam Neate.

Between May 2nd -31st ADAM's latest work can be seen in a two man show, with RON ENGLISH at Elms Lesters, called THE ADAM AND RON SHOW

Photography by Ed Reeve

 

THE ARMS OUTSTRETCHED 2006
mixed media on cardboard
142 x 115 cm

 

 

NOTHING ON TV

Published in 2007 by Elms Lester’s
Signed and numbered by the artist
Printed on Hahnemuhle German Etching 310gm paper
Edition size of 100
Glicee print
Sheet size: 68cm x 91cm