The Connor Brothers | Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here Godfather of Street Art

The Connor Brothers | Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here Godfather of Street ArtThe Connor Brothers Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here The Connor Brothers is the joint name of British artists Mike Snelle and James Golding, who built their early reputation on a fictional backstory before stepping forward as themselves. Their signature technique layers hand painted text over vintage pulp paperback covers and mid century pin up imagery. This work takes its title from Shakespeares The Tempest Hell is empty, and all the devils

what the material embodies

The pink palette softens the composition without diminishing its critical edge: if anything

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Drawing on her distinguished title as a Master of Sumi-e

The sell-out status of this work marks a significant point in its market life: the transition from primary to secondary market

and surface texture as equally valid elements of a single composition

700 × 501 mm sheet

The tradition of the white painting extends from Malevich's White on White (1918) through Robert Ryman's sustained investigation of white as a medium — a tradition that Paul enters with her own gestural language

like the Shadowman

the stuffed toy of childhood and the apex predator of wilderness

What the camera captures is what exists — a discipline that makes the synchronisation between backdrop and miniature inhabitants all the more remarkable