To Coincide with his current exhibition at White Cube with his brother Dinos, we are pleased to present Jake Chapman's third book in a deluxe version with a hand coloured etching in an edition of just 100.

In his third novel, Jake Chapman returns to the parochial world of Chlamydia Love, the contagiously popular heroine from his first issue The Marriage of Reason and Squalor.

Charged by The Someday Times to establish the truth about the rumoured rift between the Chapman brothers, she ventures deep into the hollow heart of the Cotswolds to interrogate the taller one, inadvertently revealing less than she intended.

Illustrated with works from the exhibition "Jake or Dinos Chapman", the book explores the value and meaning of art, laying bare the inner turmoil that ensues when an artist is required to make art all by himself...

Co-published by Fuel Design and White Cube.

26 July 2011

We have just launched our new online store "Zimmer Stewart Online" in conjunction with Own Art and Culture Label.

We have our own labelled online store, plus all our artworks are also available on both the Own Art store and Culture Label main site.

This will now supercede ZS Editions, and enable our clients to buy more than just prints, over time we will add more artworks including ceramics, sculpture and paintings by many of your favourite artists.

Not only that, but clients will also be able to purchase eligible artworks online using the Own Art loans and so spread the payments interest free over 10 months.

Let us know what you think of it.

26 July 2011

Yankel Feather first met Terry Frost in 1947 when he exhibited at the Penwith Society of Arts in St Ives, his talent was "enormous". Frost was to express it well: "Full of talent, bursting with a trapped enthusiasm, supported by a genuine love of art and art history."

His talent was nurtured by the constant visits to public galleries in Liverpool and London, and his techniques were self-taught and based on what he observed from the masters. Through various jobs and WWII war work, he struggled to make a living. It was not until he began to sell antiques and buy into nightclubs, that he began to make influential and wealthy friends amongst the 'Beat Generation' of musicians and artists, who could buy his paintings - friends such as Brian Epstein, the Beatles, Cilla Black and many others, and with whom he kept up a lively social calendar.

That calendar included Cornwall, where he became acquainted with many other artists - including Rose HILTON, Mary STORK, Jane AKEROYD, Maurice SUMRAY, especially after 1977 when he retired from selling antiques in the north and moved to Cornwall.

He lived near St Just for 20 years together with his gentle and tireless friend, Bill King, one of two long-term partners that he met late in life. He was a sometime member of the Newlyn Society of Artists, but resigned in disgust upon one or two occasions (probably with good reason!). He also remained a member of the Liverpool Academy of Arts.

[Source: Cornwall Artists Index]

22 July 2011

From "John Lennon - The Life" by Philip Norman:

"By his second term at Liverpool College of Art (1958), John was known as the most problematic student....Most of his instructors decided he was unteachable.

In an attempt to stimulate John's enthusiasm, (Arthur) Ballard would sometimes take him to a club called the Basement in Mount Pleasant, run as a sideline by the painter Yankel Feather.

'Ballard used to come in with this very serious-looking young lad, and talk to him for hours at a time,' Feather remembers.

'At the back of this old wine cellar we used to have a grand piano with half its keys missing. John would get on that sometimes, and do Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven". One time when he was bashing away, I told him "If you don't stop that f-ing noise, I'll throw you out!.

In the vestibule of the club, I'd hung this big semi-abstract painting that I'd done; as John walked passed it on this day, he got a key or something out of his pocket and ripped the canvas along its whole length. "Cheerio, boss" was all he said' "

22 July 2011

In this excerpt from the 1998 Arena programme "The Brian Epstein Story", Yankel Feather talks about his club, frequented by Epstein and what is was like to be gay in Liverpool in the late 1950's to early 1960's.

20 July 2011