Gallerist Cynthia Corbett in conversation with Deborah Azzopardi about her practice, her prolific career and her artistic response to the planetary shifts we have all been experiencing. This Zoom Session is part of a unique solo project curation for the 2021 London Art Fair: Edit in partnership with Artsy, entitled London Art Fair: In Art We Trust! dedicated to the British Pop art icon Deborah Azzopardi.
During 20-31 January 2021 Cynthia Corbett Gallery will be showcasing iconic limited edition prints, original artworks not yet presented at the fair, as well as several new paintings.
London Art Fair: Edit’s Viewing Room Preview opens Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 January 2021.
For the 2021 London Art Fair: Edit in partnership with Artsy, The Cynthia Corbett Gallery has curated a unique solo project, entitled London Art Fair: In Art We Trust! dedicated to the British Pop art icon Deborah Azzopardi.
This January the gallery will be showcasing iconic limited edition prints, original artworks not yet presented at the fair as well as several new paintings.
BBC Radio Leicester Breakfast Show with J Carpenter.
In 1988, I painted the characters from the Walt Disney film, Mickey’s Christmas Carol.
Leicester Town Hall Square was transformed into a magical Walt Disney Christmas wonderland. The Disney Characters were life size. Sadly, the tape of the Christmas display is lost. I would so appreciate seeing any video recording that you may have taken at the time. I know it’s a long shot, but just thought I’d ask!
Please share to anyone you think could help and if you find the video, please send it to deborah@popartcollection.co.uk
Gallerist Cynthia Corbett in conversation with art historian and Warhol expert Jean Wainwright. Thank you for this inspiring discussion. 🙏
Jean Wainwright is an art historian, critic and curator living in London. Her areas of expertise are in contemporary art and photography, with particular reference to Andy Warhol, on whose life and works she is an internationally recognised expert. As a writer and academic she has published extensively in the contemporary arts field, contributing to numerous catalogues and books as well as appearing on television and radio programmes (including Woman’s Hour, Today Programme, Channel Four and the BBC). Her Audio Arts Archive (begun in 1996) is still continuing and to date she has interviewed over a 1,800 international artists, makers, photographers, filmmakers and curators, 177 of her published interviews conducted for Audio Arts went online at the Tate in 2014.
Her international exhibitions include My Search for Andy Warhol’s Voice 2011 & 2012, Ship to Shore: Art and the Lure of the Sea, 2014, Gestures of Resistance, 2017, The Data Battlefield, 2017, Powerful Tides, 400 Years of Chatham and the Sea 2018, and Another Spring 2018.
Wainwright’s practice as an art critic most prominently features interviews with international artists, photographers, filmmakers and curators. Her interviews can be found in the numerous books and catalogues she has contributed to, and her work has been published extensively in the media, including Audio Arts, The Art Newspaper, The Art Newspaper TV (for which she won an IVCA award), Art World, The Guardian, Art Review and Hotshoe.
As a presenter and interviewer, Wainwright has covered all the major art fairs and events over the past 15 years, including Frieze (London), Art Basel in Miami and Basel, the Venice Biennale and The Armory (New York).
Wainwright has also collaborated on a number of corporate arts projects for Futurecity, including Heathrow Terminal 2 (Slipstream), Grosvenor Waterside, Gilt of Cain, Ebbsfleet Valley and BT Connected World. She is also a consultant for Quintessentially Art. She is also a committee member of Fast Forward Women in Photography.
The show at Cynthia Corbett Gallery is on view online and in person by appointment.
Red lips, stilettos, and comic-book-style thought bubbles define the work of artist Deborah Azzopardi, who has been infusing her works with a decidedly feminine language for over 35 years.
Now, London’s Cynthia Corbett Gallery is presenting “35 Years of Azzopardi,” a major retrospective of her work that will include a number of her most famous pictures, on sale for the first time.
The works are humorously sexualized, provocative, and full of art-historical references to Manet’s Olympia, Fragonard’s The Swing, and many other works. The artist’s recognizable style is reminiscent of Roy Lichtenstein, but her lines are more curvilinear and pointedly sensuous.
The style has won her some impassioned fans. “America has Lichtenstein, we have Azzopardi!” the art critic Estelle Lovatt once remarked. “Sometimes you just want to curl up under a blanket. With a good book. A piece of chocolate. A man. This is what Deborah Azzopardi’s pictures make me feel like doing.”
For the exhibition, Azzopardi will be donating 20 percent of the sales proceeds from a selection of works to the British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel.
Delighted to announce this major retrospective ’35 YEARS OF AZZOPARDI’
in an online exclusive exhibition organised by The Cynthia Corbett Gallery
Online exhibition
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The exhibition features original paintings that are offered for sale for the first time in Azzopardi’s career. Azzopardi acquired her worldwide fame for the joyous Pop Art images she has created over the past 35 years. Deborah’s unique and feminine take on contemporary art is best described by the esteemed art critic Estelle Lovatt FRSA: “America has Lichtenstein, we have Azzopardi!”
London-based Deborah Azzopardi (born in Golders Green) is a long-standing supporter of British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel (BFAMI). For this exclusive exhibition we are pleased to once again partner with BFAMI and pledge a donation of 20% from the sales of these wonderful Azzopardi originals as well as limited editions to include Femme Fatale (2016), Guilty Pleasure (2016), Girl With The Diamond Earring (Ed. 2/15,2013), Gossip (Ed. 6/10, 2016) and The Great Escape (Ed. 14/15, 2015).
Online exhibition runs from 11th June until 31st July 2020
Private timed appointments at Wimbledon HQ may be arranged
For further information please contact Anastasia Lander at anastasia@young-masters.co.uk | +44 (0) 7957 114 873
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You are invited to be among the first ones to see the full curation of 35 Years Of Azzopardi:
At this time of separation and social-distancing, The Cynthia Corbett Gallery and Artsy are coming together virtually to raise much-needed funds for The Trussel Trust providing aid to the most vulnerable that are always impacted the hardest when a crisis happens. Click here to see this exclusive exhibition running 4th May – 30 June 2020. 25% of all sales will be donated to The Trussell Trust. The Trust is a nationwide network of food banks providing emergency food and support to people locked in poverty as well as people suffering economic hardship in this current crisis.
I am delighted to present these two artworks: ‘Save the Date’, 2018 and ‘The Great Escape’, 2015. This is the last one available from ‘The Great Escape’.
London Art Fair is now officially open! Find your Azzopardi art on the Ground Floor, Stand 5 at London Art Fair, 17-21 January, courtesy of The Cynthia Corbett Gallery. Here are a couple of photos from the Private Evening. Photography courtesy of: Cristina Schek
Opening Night Premiere Party
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Vanguard Entrance
7pm – 8pm
Patron Reception
7pm – 11pm
Opening Night Premiere Party
8pm – 11pm
Show Dates
Thursday Jan. 28, 2016 11am – 7pm
Friday Jan. 29, 2016 11am – 7pm
Saturday Jan. 30, 2016 11am – 7pm
Sunday Jan. 31, 2016 11am – 5pm Location
Los Angeles Convention Center
1201 South Figueroa Street West Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90015
