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Deborah Azzopardi Interview | De Standaard, Belgium
“Sshh has sold millions of copies and is an Ikea Classic, that overwhelms its creator. The pop art image shows a woman with a red lacquered finger nail suggesting silence…
“It’s about fun, the same as all my work. It should make you smile”, says the British contemporary pop artist Deborah Azzopardi.
“SShh is now seen everywhere, from bathrooms to libraries, from homes to offices. I’ve seen six pieces hung side by side in an elevator, as ‘subtle’ hint for users to be quiet. I thought that was fun.”
The original Sshh is valued for £500.000 and is in a vault. By contrast, at IKEA, you can have an Azzopardi for 9.99 euros.”
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Art Southampton, New York | July 9 – 13, 2015 | The Cynthia Corbett Galley | Booth AS61
NEW LOCATION
Art Southampton Pavilion | Nova’s Ark Project | The Cynthia Corbett Gallery | Booth AS61
60 Millstone Road, Bridgehampton, NY 11976
Within the town of Southampton
FAIR HOURS
Thursday, July 9, 2015 | 6PM – 7:30PM
Thursday, July 9, 2015 | 7:30PM – 10PM
Access for Art Southampton VIP Cardholders
VIP Preview benefiting the Parrish Art Museum and Southampton Hospital
General Admission
Friday | July 10 |
Noon – 7PM |
Saturday | July 11 |
Noon – 7PM |
Sunday | July 12 |
Noon – 6PM |
Monday | July 13 |
Noon – 6PM |
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Art Hamptons, New York | The Cynthia Corbett Galley, Booth 202
PAINT, EAT, PARTY… REPEAT!
Find your Azzopardi Art at the Art Hamptons, July 2-5, 2015, courtesy of The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, Booth 202.
SHOW TIMES:
First Look | Thursday, July 2 | 5-7pm | 2015
Opening Night Preview | Thursday, July 2 | 7-9pm
Benefits Guild Hall + the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation
Friday, July 3 | 11am – 8pm
Saturday, July 4 | 11am – 8pm
Sunday, July 5 | 11am – 6pm
LOCATION:
Private Estate Grounds Lumber Lane Reserve
(at Scuttle Hole Rd. & Lumber Ln.) Bridgehampton, NY
(expect tight security at entrance & exit)
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Deborah Azzopardi | AAF Hampstead 2015| The Cynthia Corbett Gallery | Stand G 7
Affordable Art Fair Hampstead
11 – 14 June, 2015
The Cynthia Corbett Gallery will once again be exhibiting originals and limited editions of Deborah Azzopardi at The Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead, Stand G7.
Venue:
Lower Fairground Site
East Heath Road
Hampstead
London
NW3 1TH
Opening times:
Wednesday 10 June, 2015
Charity Private View 5.30pm – 9.30pm
Thursday 11 June, 201511.00am – 5.30pm
Thursday Late View 5.30pm – 9.30pm
Friday 12 June, 2015: 11.00am – 6.00pm
Saturday 13 June, 2015: 11.00am – 6.00pm
Sunday 14 June, 2015
Photography by: Cristina Schek
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The Cynthia Corbett Gallery Summer Exhibition
The Cynthia Corbett Gallery and the Young Masters Art Prize – founded by the Gallery’s eponymous director – have dressed The Coningsby Gallery in perennial eye pleasers, watch-worthy newcomers and mod miniatures by last year’s much-deserved winner Juergen Wolf.
Tapping a rich vein of talent in all mediums, this year the gallery’s walls are slick with oils as painting takes centre stage (accentuated by a Versailles mantlepiece’s worth of cutting-edge china from the Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Prize). Andy Burgess‘ geometric, David Hockney-homaging works; photorealist figures steeped in von Honthorst light by Charles Moxon; and slap-dash delicacy in Cecile Chong‘s wax-splattered and embroidered, Xieyi-style canvases, head up a colourful crop of works that doff hats to the old guard while chattering in a patter that’s decidedly now.
Deborah Azzopardi‘s is one of the louder voices – and palettes – on show. Her heroines recall Lichtenstein’s primary-hued damsels in distress, but more strident in their sexuality; they revel in erotically charged moments, and their obscured faces allow viewers to project their own desires onto them (I liked the impressive painted rack on Azzopardi’s business card). There’s an inverse nod to nostalgia too; Tom Farthing‘s paintings of fleeting summer moments recall Seurat and Renoir, but capture the unpracticed immediacy of a hurried snap from a 1970s family photo album too.
Ceramicists have subverted porcelain’s norms, wrangling the most genteel of 18th-century crafts into twisted and comedic forms. Winner of the ceramics prize, Matt Smith, creates figurines ripped from the nightmares of Royal Doulton whimsies; his Feast Part I seems to recast Silent Hill’s Pyramid Head as Mr Darcy in a disarming culture clash. Chris Antemann‘s orgiastic tableaux vivants were created in collaboration with 300-year-old, German porcelain masters Meissen, bestowing an air of authenticity and refinement to the lascivious figurines. In more abstract fashion, Korean artist Jongjin Park creates vases from thousands of porcelain-coated sheets of tissue paper – a nod to painstaking artisanal practices of the past.
History’s dredged up here, but there’s little hand-wringing over past wrongs; grandstanding is largely eschewed for respectful tributes and dedicated craftsmanship instead, such as Burgess’ lovingly rendered miniature of Lois Welzenbacher’s Heyrovsky House or Eleanor Watson‘s Vermeer-inspired domestic scenes. However, a quieter message does little to dull the medium; razor-sharp precision, astute broad strokes and covetable colour schemes have us eager for the finishing touches on next year’s expectant canvases.
The Cynthia Corbett Gallery’s Summer Exhibition 2015: Focus on Painting is on at the Coningsby Gallery until 13 June 2015.
Thank you, Kate!
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New Work on Show | The Cynthia Corbett Gallery Summer Exhibition | Focus on Painting | 1 – 13 June 2015
New Work on Show at The Cynthia Corbett Gallery Summer Exhibition | Focus on Painting.
Hosted at Coningsby Gallery
30 Tottenham Street
London | W1T 4RJ
1 – 13 June 2015
Private View: 2 June 2015, 6 – 9pm
Jazz Brunch: 7 June 2015, 12 – 4pm
Come along and meet Deborah at the Private View on the 2nd of June, 6-9pm.
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Who would you like to see on the next £20 bank note?
The Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has announced that the next £20 note will celebrate Britain’s achievements in the visual arts, and this is the first time asking members of the public to suggest who should be on its £20 note.
Nominations are required by 19 July 2015. Click here to make your own nomination and to learn more.
The public nomination programme is the first to be held under the Bank’s new character selection process which was put in place to ensure that the choice of characters for the Bank’s notes commanded broad respect and legitimacy. In line with principles announced in December 2013, the field of visual arts was chosen by a new Banknote Character Advisory Committee. Following the two month nominations period, the full Committee, with input from public focus groups, will draw up a shortlist of characters from which the Governor will make the final choice. The selected character will be announced during spring 2016. The new £20 note will be introduced into circulation in 3-5 years.
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‘The Great Escape’ at Art Miami, USA, 14-17 May 2015, Booth A16
All the pleasures and excitements to look forward to. Go and get them. Grab this life, leave your ego behind. Bring happiness to others, let go of others negativity, show compassion. Learn more, do more, be who you want to be. Spread the love everywhere you go!
Always have a red dress in your wardrobe and…
Kiss,
Deborah

The Great Escape – Limited Edition is available at Art Miami, USA – Courtesy The Cynthia Corbett Gallery. Booth A16
ART MIAMI NEW YORK 2015
14-17 May 2015
Pier 94, 55th Street and Westside Highway , New York
Courtesy The Cynthia Corbett Gallery | Booth A16
FAIR HOURS
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Opening Reception: 2 pm – 5 pm
Access for Art Miami New York Fair VIP Cardholders & Press
GENERAL ADMISSION
Thursday, May 14: 5 pm – 9 pm
Friday, May 15: 12 pm – 8 pm
Saturday, May 16: 12 pm – 8 pm
Sunday, May 17: 12 pm – 6 pm
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Would you like to model for Deborah Azzopardi?
Would you like to model for Deborah Azzopardi?
The theme is ‘Balloons or Bubbles’. Either blow up a balloon or blow some bubbles, looking as seductive as possible!
It is free to submit your photo and if your image is chosen as an inspiration to paint, you will receive a signed reproduction print of the final finished painting.
For this exciting opportunity:
Over 18’s female only can apply.
Send your photo (jpg attachment) to Deborah@popartcollection.co.uk
Closing date for photos to be received by is May 31st.
Keep it clean, please. And, don’t forget to have fun! *Your photo may be posted on social networking sites.
Deborah
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