making ART, NOT ADS

Made You Look is a series of portraits curated by George alongside chef and culinary director Mike Reid.

An algorithm sequence of images in a ten-minute loop, the installation features image fragments and texts in English and Setswana from Mokgosi’s narrative paintings, digitally adapted to cover the three-story LED façade of the Fannels flagship store at 161–167 Oxford Street in Soho.

As a new exhibition of his oil paintings opens in London, the photographer speaks to Chris Harvey about the Sixties, the Gallaghers, the Krays, and why he was scared to meet his hero, Picasso

David Bailey needs little introduction. The prolific portrait and fashion photographer has been snapping the world’s most famous faces for over half a century, from his early days at Vogue to once-in-a-lifetime commissions from the Queen, Salvador Dali and The Beatles, but he’s less well known for his side-line in painting. Until now that is.

“I mostly do black and white with my photography, so it makes a change to play with colour,” he says. Of his style, he says he “follows the drip”, referencing an abstract painting style popularised by Jackson Pollock.

He was the face of swinging London and created some of the most iconic images of the sixties. Now 82, David Bailey's work is returning to London on a massive scale.

The colourful artworks are in contrast to Bailey’s usual black and white photos.

Each pencil drawing takes anything from 200 to 300 hours to complete. His work has been on display on a digital screen on the shopfront of Flannels.

Kelvin Okafor has collaborated with W1 Curates to showcase a selection of influential and inspiring black individuals being displayed 24 hours a day from July 27th until August 9th, at the Flannels store on Oxford Street.

Hyper realist South Woodford artist Kelvin Okafor has launched a new exhibition in central London’s Oxford Street in support of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

Kelvin Okafor: "To have my work displayed on such a large scale in central London with W1 Curates, means so much to me"

Kelvin Okafor: To have my work displayed on such a large scale in central London with W1 Curates, means so much to me

The acclaimed photographer's latest exhibition, in London, takes street art to a new level.

He shaped photography in the 1990s with his technicolour photographs of the stars, only to turn his back on them and become a farmer.

For many years the artist has had an interest in creating public artworks for digital screens on the architectural scale now familiar in advertising, but the opportunities for artists to do so are rare. W1 Curates, a permanent digital art platform that launched in September 2019, seeks to address this situation by offering artists the creative use of their extraordinary 3 storey digital facility on the Flannels Flagship building on Oxford Street.

Leading British artist, Sir Michael Craig-Martin, has created a new work for the Flannels flagship site on Oxford Street. Presented by W1 Curates, the installation, Cornucopia Galactica, will run 24 hours a day until July 12.

Sir Michael Craig-Martin has created a new work for an iconic site in London’s Oxford Street.

The shops may be oh-so cautiously opening on London’s Oxford Street but there is a refreshing lack of restraint in an exuberant new work by Michael Craig-Martin.

In times of crisis, poster art has been used to spread awareness and important government messages -- think of Rosie the Riveter or the iconic Uncle Sam 'I Want You' posters. Take a look at how artists are stepping in once again to spread health advisories and inspire us during this pandemic.

W1 Curates & Amplifier project Artwork from around the world on Covid-19 projected in Oxford Street, London