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The Portfolio: Mário Macilau
November 20, 2020 'Reality and fantasy overlap in the socially motivated photographs of Mário Macilau, a skilled portraitist who prefers to work on long-term projects. His output includes series focused on street children,... -
Anya Paintsil Awarded The Wakelin Prize 2020
"Highly charged and tender." We're delighted to announce that Anya Paintsil has been awarded The Wakelin Prize 2020. The annual award is given to a Welsh artist, whose work is purchased for the Glynn... -
Anya Paintsil: 1-54 Artists to Watch
Watch Anya in conversation with DuduBloom More and 1-54 Founding Director Touria El Glaoui 1-54 Founding Director Touria El Glaoui spoke to Anya Paintsil and DuduBloom More (Berman Contemporary) to discuss their sold-out solo booths at 1-54 London 2020 and their practices in textiles.... -
ECFA at Art X Lagos
Wole Lagunju, Tiffanie Delune, Abe Odedina West Africa’s premier international art fair is here with a new hybrid model. 'Coming back between 6-15th November, with a digital and physical offering that demonstrates Art x Lagos’ commitment... -
Abe Odedina: Love & Hate
Forthcoming December 2020Featuring texts by:
Katherine Finerty
David Remfry RA
Adjoa Armah
Emily Watkins
Ed Cross
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New York art diary: a miracle on 24th Street
October 24, 2020 'Then, there are paintings I want to pour myself into, like “Wanderlust”, by the French-Belgo-Congolese artist Tiffanie Delune. Geometric bands of orange sunlight fill a fiery coloured sky full of... -
Photo London 2020
Shiraz Bayjoo, Rushdi Anwar, Mario Macilau 7 - 18 October 2020 Ed Cross Fine Art is delighted to present new work by Shiraz Bayjoo, Mario Macilau and Rushdi Anwar at Photo London 2020. -
Anya Paintsil: Artists to Watch at 1-54 and Frieze Masters
October 8, 2020 'Welsh-Ghanaian artist Anya Paintsil has just completed her Master's at Manchester Metropolitan University's School of Art, having been announced as one of three mentees, alongside Bryn Rogers and Wincent Szczerba,... -
Thread by Thread: An Interview with Anya Paintsil
'The immediacy of Anya Paintsil’s textile faces and bodies belies the laboriousness of their making. A glance at the artist’s Instagram highlights reel reveals a marathon runner not a sprinter,... -
Anya Paintsil: 1-54 2020, Stand W8
'Playful and profound, flippant and forceful.' 8 - 10 October 2020 Ed Cross Fine Art is delighted to present new works by Anya Paintsil at 1-54 2020. Please click here for a full list of works and availabilities. Listen to Anya's... -
Anya Paintsil: A Walk In The Park, Whitworth Podcast
'Continuing the discussions raised by the Black Lives Matter movement, we meet and chat with the artist Anya Paintsil. Anya Paintsil is a Manchester based artist, of Welsh and Ghanaian... -
Wole Lagunju: We All Live Here
The Gramophone Works, 326 Kensal Road, London W10 5BZ 3 - 23 September 2020 New and unexhibited works on paper; curated by Emily Watkins. -
Rushdi Anwar to Exhibit in the Bangkok Art Biennale
10 October 2020 - 21 February 2021 'Bangkok Art Biennale (BAB) is a biannual art festival set in the capital of Thailand. BAB spans across a period of 4 months in which the bustling city of Bangkok... -
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Interview with Tiffanie Delune
August 17, 2020 VANESSA MURREL: Having lived and worked in Canada and Switzerland, as well as taken trips to Bali and recently Luxor, in what ways have those diverse histories and cultures shaped... -
Wole Lagunju: Importante vente d’art contemporain africain à Paris
June 22, 2020 'Ainsi, le Nigérian Wole Lagunju, dont le portrait d’une jeune femme habillée à l’occidentale sur un fond chamarré sera proposé aux enchères, estime que « cette vente est très enthousiasmante... -
Tiffanie Delune in The Bite Magazine
May 1, 2020 'There are many reasons why an artist paints: it could be to express or release the emotions or experiences they have gone through, as a way to get a message... -
Shiraz Bayjoo at Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac, Paris
'À toi appartient le regard et (...) la liaison infinie entre les choses', June 30th to November 1st Featuring work from 26 artists, À toi appartient le regard et (...) la liaison infinie entre les choses at Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac opens on June 30th... -
Rushdi Anwar features as a finalist in the Sovereign Asia Art Prize 2020
Winner to be announced July 17 Rushdi Anwar is among 31 finalists for SAAP 2020 , currently exhibiting in Hong Kong's K11 HACC venue until July 19th. While this year's winner is yet to be announced,... -
In-Conversation: Tiffanie Delune and Katherine Finerty
Watch in full Watch our 45 minute virtual Q+A with artist Tiffanie Delune and Katherine Finerty, who curated Tiffanie’s solo exhibition ‘Seeds of Light’ which opened 5th March 2020 at The Gramophone Works... -
The Elephant Never Tires Carrying Its Tusks
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Conversation between Shiraz Bayjoo and Anna Arabindan-Kesson
Global Plantation Series: A Land of Extraordinary Quarantines On June 2nd, Shiraz Bayjoo participated in the first of a series of artist-directed digital discussions that contemplate the global forms and meanings of the plantation historically, and in our... -
In The Spotlight: Ed Cross Fine Art
May 20, 2020 'Way back in 1988 I left my London publishing job at Heinemann to live in Kenya to pursue a career as an artist and continue my publishing interests as an... -
C&: Searching for Libertalia
May 7, 2020 'Searching for Libertalia explores Madagascar’s history of piracy with the story of the fictional hero-like figure of Captain Misson, slave trading by the French East India Company throughout the 17th... -
Searching for Libertalia
Online presentation 6 May - 3 June 2020 Ed Cross Fine Art is pleased to present an online showcase of Shiraz Bayjoo's Searching for Libertalia. First shown at Nottingham's New Art Exchange in 2019, the titular film is... -
Searching for Libertalia
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Africanizando el confinamiento (3)
April 25, 2020 'Estamos en plena semana del libro y seguimos animando la cuarentena con propuestas culturales diversas, siempre con el objetivo de acercarnos a África y conocerla mejor a través de su... -
A resilient contemporary African art community faces the coronavirus storm
April 21, 2020 'Ed Cross Fine Art is one of the small galleries in the contemporary African art scene in London. Its decade-long nomadic model, which equates to relatively low overheads and tremendous... -
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Confinement: 10 expositions d’art contemporain à voir en ligne
April 15, 2020 'Se consacrant à l’Afrique et à sa diaspora, Ed Cross Fine Art propose, en réponse à la crise actuelle, une véritable immersion en trois dimensions dans l’exposition de Tiffanie Delune,... -
SEEDS OF LIGHT Virtual Tour
Artist Tiffanie Delune, Curator Katherine Finerty Step into an immersive exhibition experience with our 3D tour of Tiffanie Delune's SEEDS OF LIGHT, curated by Katherine Finerty. Over two floors at the Gramophone Works until March 25th,... -
Innocence and Experience: Interview with Tiffanie Delune
March 4, 2020 'Tiffanie Delune’s work is both deeply personal and universal, archetypal. So I shouldn’t be surprised by the bright and open way she greets me, or the grounded and generous analogies... -
SEEDS OF LIGHT
March 3, 2020 'Ed Cross Fine Art presents their first solo show with Tiffanie Delune, following her debut at 1-54 2019. Across paper and canvas, including new series Childhood Memories and Spirituality, Seeds... -
Tiffanie Delune - Seeds of Light
Curated by Katherine Finerty 6 - 25 March 2020 Watch Tiffanie in-conversation with exhibition curator Katherine Finerty here. Gramophone Works, 326 Kensal Road W10 5BZ Ed Cross Fine Art is delighted to present our first solo show with... -
The Journey: New Positions in African Photography
Mário Macilau features in major new photography publication 'The Journey profiles 17 emerging positions in contemporary African photography. The versatile practices of these young photographers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mozambique,... -
5 Peintres Africains qui sont plus doués que Picasso
February 12, 2020 5- Wole Lagunju Peintre Nigérian d’origine Yoruba comme son nom l’indique, ses créations tirent leurs sources d’un mélange de l’univers multiple des entités Africaines et de la culture vestimentaire de... -
Shiraz Bayjoo at DAS 2020
Dhaka Art Summit: Seismic Movements, 7–15 February Shiraz will be exhibiting at Dhaka Art Summit 2020 . 'Built through alliances across Africa, Australia, South and Southeast Asia (and also extending into Europe and the US) this platform... -
Shiraz Bayjoo at McMullen Museum of Art
Indian Ocean Current, Jan 27-May 31 Shiraz Bayjoo will be exhibiting alongside Shilpa Gupta, Nicholas Hlobo, Wangechi Mutu, Penny Siopis and Hajra Waheed at McMullen's Indian Ocean Current . The exhibition opens January 27th in Boston,... -
Cesar Cornejo: Ed Cross Fine Art at London Art Fair 2020
STAND P4 21 - 26 January 2020 Ed Cross Fine Art is pleased to present new works by Cesar Cornejo at London Art Fair 2020. -
Profiles from Art X: ABE ODEDINA
November 10, 2019 'I will say we should be artists because we have something to express. The advice I will give is to turn up, work hard and to have faith in your... -
JUST LOOKING: Abe Odedina at Art X Lagos
1 - 3 November 2019 Just Looking at Art X Lagos is Odedina's first exhibition in the country of his birth. The show takes its name from that basic unit of currency, exchanged in a transaction between artist and viewer and conducted across the fertile territory spanning intention to interpretation. -
What To See And Buy At The African 1-54 Art Fair In London
October 4, 2019 'This London gallery never fails to impress with its quality and the four artists at 1-54 are no exception. Nelly Guambe, the winner of the inaugural Emerging Painting Prize in... -
Rushdi Anwar Featured in 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow
Published by Thames & Hudson, September 5th 2019 '100 SCULPTORS OF TOMORROW is an insightful, diverse, and inspiring survey of emerging and unknown talent working in the field of sculpture, selected by a distinguished and knowledgeable panel of... -
Ed Cross Fine Art at 1-54 2019
October 3-6 at Somerset House This October, Ed Cross Fine Art will celebrate its 10th anniversary at 1-54’s 2019 edition with work from Nelly Guambe, Tiffanie Delune, Mário Macilau and Shiraz Bayjoo. View the... -
Nelly Guambe wins the inaugural edition of EPI held in Harare, Zimbabwe.
August 5, 2019 “I am very happy not just for myself but also to represent emerging artists in Mozambique. The group of artists I met through EPI is now part of my community... -
Dismantle the Map: As Demonstrated by 52 Artists and their Actions
July 17, 2019 'Shiraz Bayjoo's accounts of marginalised histories include a pair of videos about Mauritius as a shelter for runaway slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries, which is how Sega, a... -
When the Painterly meets the Political: Shiraz Bayjoo and Denise Clarke
June 7, 2019 'Mauritian born, London based Shiraz Bayjoo is a contemporary, multi-disciplinary artist whose research-led practice focuses on the interrogation of public and personal archives in order to challenge dominant narratives. Citing... -
Abe Odedina, Birds Of Paradise: 3D Virtual Tour
Birds of Paradise is the second comprehensive installation of a major series of paintings by Abe Odedina presented by Ed Cross Fine Art and curated by Katherine Finerty at Copeland... -
TIFFANIE DELUNE TO DEBUT AT 1-54, LONDON
3 - 6 October June 11, 2019 We are super excited to present the work of Tiffanie Delune as part of our stand at 1-54, London this year. Tiffanie has been creating ripples with her charming, bold... -
THE GOVERNMENT ART COLLECTION ACQUIRES ABE ODEDINA'S TRUE LOVE
May 2019 June 11, 2019 Following their purchase of Chance by Abe Odedina in 2018, the Government Art Collection have now acquired the first in an edition of three prints of True Love. This work... -
SHIRAZ BAYJOO at AFRICAN ART IN VENICE FORUM
Venice, May 2019 June 11, 2019 Shiraz Bayjoo was a speaker at the AAVF at the Venice Biennale last month, pictured here with fellow panellist Penny Siopis. -
Abe Odedina and Wole Lagunju: Diaspora
New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham 15 June - 27 July June 3, 2019 Diaspora is curated by Rachel Oteng-Lartey, the exhibition presents work by: Abe Adedina, Annie-Marie Akussah, Kwame Akpokavi, Lolonyo Amegayibor-Bunge, Darren Appiagyei, Dawn Beckles, Freya Bramble-Carter, Enam Gbewonyo, Atta Kwami, Wole... -
Shiraz Bayjoo at Art Night London
Pran Kouraz: 22 June, Empire Cinema, Walthamstow June 3, 2019 Shiraz joins a stellar line up of artists including Oscar Murillo and Zadie Xa. Shiraz Bayjoo’s commission explores notions of migration and displacement through a short 16mm film made with... -
Get Up, Stand Up Now
Somerset House, 12 June - 15 September June 3, 2019 Abe Odedina's Beulah's Garden will represent his practice at Zak Ove's landmark show celebrating Black British creativity. -
Sharjah Art Foundation Acquire Shiraz Bayjoo's Ile de France Film
Sharjah, UAE June 3, 2019 Following on from his successful participation in Sharjah Art Biennial 16, the Sharjah Art Foundation have acquired the first in an edition of six of Shiraz Bayjoo's major film work... -
MARIO MACILAU: FAITH RITUALS, SPIRIT AND SEA
GUNS AND RAIN, JOBURG UNTIL 13 JUNE June 3, 2019 We are proud to be associated with Mario Macila's first solo show in Johannesburg at the exciting new Guns and Rain gallery space. -
New Auction Record For Wole Lagunju's Work
Piasa, Paris, May Following the success of one his smaller works on paper at Circle Auction, Nairobi in February, Wole Lagunju's Vintage Glamour, 1965 sold for over €22,000 at last month's Piasa auction...
