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  • BBC Coverage - Blind artist wants to inspire younger generation with Braille creations, BBC News

    BBC Coverage - Blind artist wants to inspire younger generation with Braille creations

    BBC News

    A blind artist hopes to inspire a new generation with his Braille artwork. The Power of Touch is Clarke Reynolds' first London solo exhibition. Born partially sighted in his right eye, Clarke became an artist when the deteriorating eyesight in his other eye forced him to give up his career. Today, he has only 5% of his sight left.

     

    The exhibition will showcase Clarke's idiosyncratic, colourful Braille art, where he uses the tactile language of raised dots to recount his journey as an artist and convey the lived experience of blind and visually impaired people.

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  • London Live Interviews Clarke Reynolds, London Live

    London Live Interviews Clarke Reynolds

    London Live

    Partially sighted artist brings braille art to East London in debut exhibition. Despite being born partially sighted in his right eye, Clarke Reynolds took the bold step towards the art world when the deteriorating eyesight in his other eye forced him to give up his career. With just 5 percent of sight left, in a unique first the Quantus Gallery in Spitafields is showcasing his colourful works using braille.

     

    Reynolds’ designs help tell his story and decode his world as he experiences it. It’s called The Power of Touch, and James had this piece. The Power of Touch is at The Quantus Gallery until February 4.

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  • Clarke Reynolds Featured In The Metro, The Metro

    Clarke Reynolds Featured In The Metro

    The Metro

    A blind artist is determined to become ‘as famous as Picasso’ – and hopes to inspire a new generation as he does so. Clarke Reynolds grew up in a working-class family in Portsmouth where domestic violence and alcohol both plagued his childhood. As a boy, he only had toys for a short period of time before they were sold by his stepfather to buy alcohol. His future looked bleak, but a school trip to the Aspex Gallery in Portsmouth would change Clarke’s life forever. The-then six-year-old became enamoured with a painting called ‘The Yellow Cow’ by the artist Franz Marc.

     

    Clarke vowed to become an artist too, whatever it would take. The same year, he lost the sight in his right eye and was later diagnosed with the degenerative condition retinitis pigmentosa. Further health issues followed and Clarke was forced to leave school early due to kidney problems.  He went onto get a degree and got a job as a dental model maker but, just as things were picking up, he began to lose his sight in his other eye. Clarke reached a crossroads, but vowed to continue his love of art.

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  • The Power of Touch Sky News Feature, Clarke Reynolds Interview On Sky News

    The Power of Touch Sky News Feature

    Clarke Reynolds Interview On Sky News
    On World Braille Day, Kamali Melbourne speaks to Clarke Reynolds, the British blind artist behind the 'The Power of Touch' art exhibition. After losing part of his sight at the age of six, he dreamt of being an artist, but was told it would "never" happen. Aiming to "break down barriers", Reynolds tailored this project for both sighted and non-sighted people in order to "bridge the gap between a tactile and visual world".
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  • Rad Husak: Duality - A Look From Art Plugged, Art Plugged

    Rad Husak: Duality - A Look From Art Plugged

    Art Plugged

    Husak considers all elements of a project before creating the aesthetic of ‘highly controlled chaos’ that has come to define his work. He has developed his own technique of pigment transfer, pushing the medium of printmaking beyond conventional boundaries. His new panelled works bridge his passion for painting and print; colour takes centre stage in his most recent body of work – a significant transition from his previous monochrome oeuvre – utilising materials ranging from wood to painted aluminium, paper, collage and canvas. He is inherently fascinated with the idea of capturing movement on a flat surface bringing order into a world that feels chaotic – to find beauty where there is ugliness.

     

    Having long been seduced by the beauty and perfection of the Classical world, Husak presents us with a very modern muse: the lithe and youthful man – channelling the look and movement of a fashion model in a neo-romantic way. In the image, we see the glitch: the double exposure, the jolt and the jut; a digital imperfection, a stuttering. In Husak’s work, semi-transparent edges of bodies become less distinct as they melt together to simultaneously create corporeal and carnal strangeness – a space for the viewer’s imagination through implied movement and evidence of trace.

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  • An Extraordinary New Solo Exhibition by Rad Husak, London Daily

    An Extraordinary New Solo Exhibition by Rad Husak

    London Daily

    Quantus Gallery and Grove Gallery announce an important solo exhibition by leading contemporary artist Rad Husak opening on 23 November 2022. Duality is a figurative and abstract study of the male form and represents a powerful process-based journey for this London-based artist.

     

    Considered to be one of the ‘rising stars of the contemporary art scene’, Husak is one of the most highly sought-after printmaker-artists working in Britain today; it is said that there is simply no one else doing what he does. Husak’s work was first debuted at Photo London in 2019. His work is highly theoretical, drawing on an array of references spanning notable academic concepts and visually referencing mid-century pop culture, Andy Warhol’s Double Elvis series (1963) in particular. The glitching figures are his form of commentary on ideas found in Queer Theory and gender studies.

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  • ‘I’ve had a gun put to my head many times’: Ed Worley, elite schoolboy, crack addict and now successful artist,...
    Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

    ‘I’ve had a gun put to my head many times’: Ed Worley, elite schoolboy, crack addict and now successful artist

    Guardian

    He had his whole life ahead of him. But he ended up on the streets, brawling, dealing and sleeping in wheelie bins. How did he turn his life around? And why does he paint cartoon characters?

     

    Ed Worley stares at the cartoon characters mounted on gallery walls. Here’s Mickey Mouse, there’s Donald Duck and Bugs Bunny, to the left Charlie Brown, to the right a Smurf. They are beautifully painted – clean, sharp, luminous. But there’s something going on here. Take Bugs Bunny. There’s not one bunny, there are multiple bunnies. Identical images tumble over each other, crash into each other, poke through each other, and hang upside down at impossible angles.

     

    Look at them long enough and they turn into abstracts. Bugsy’s open mouth becomes a strawberry floating in space. The paintings couldn’t be more obvious or joyful, yet when you focus they become confusing, claustrophobic, trippy – cartoon Bridget Rileys. “This was the inside of my head,” says Worley, who paints under the name Opake. “I lived in an insane environment. The insanity in my head. Psychosis daily.

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  • Ex-addict turns down six-figure deal to host gallery opening with the homeless, Metro

    Ex-addict turns down six-figure deal to host gallery opening with the homeless

    Metro

    Ed Worley has turned his life around. He was only nine when he began to drink alcohol. By high school, he had moved on to illegal drugs and began to self-harm. The-then teenager became obsessed with becoming a graffiti artist, stealing art materials, breaking into tube yards and dangling off bridges to spray-paint.

     

    He went on to spend years on the streets with a crack addiction, and spent his twenties living with psychosis. When he felt like he’d hit rock bottom, ‘everything came together at the right time’ and his life changed. He met future partner Roo – the pair would later launch clothing brand Pnut – and Ed was offered an animation job in New York by a friend.

     

    He learned how to love art again and, going by the name Opake, experienced a meteoric rise in the industry as he became more confident in his craft. While his recovery has been nothing short of inspirational, the 34-year-old has made sure not to forget his past. Opake was recently offered a six figure contract by a top art gallery which had noticed his up and coming significance.

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  • 'I learnt how to channel my addiction into art', BBC News

    'I learnt how to channel my addiction into art'

    BBC News

    A former homeless drug addict has turned his life around and is now an up-and-coming graffiti pop artist hosting an exhibition in an east London gallery.

     

    Opake, also known as Ed Worley, was recently offered a lucrative contract by a top gallery, but he turned the offer down and chose Quantus Gallery, where he decided to host a homeless breakfast with Centrepoint. His exhibition, "Sanity Through Repetition", follows the influences of his personal journey through addiction.

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  • 'I was an addict sleeping rough on the London Underground. Now I'm an artist earning six-figures for my work', My...

    'I was an addict sleeping rough on the London Underground. Now I'm an artist earning six-figures for my work'

    My London

    Ed Worley, 34, has lived a life many wouldn't wish for. From battling addictions, whether that be alcohol or drugs or homelessness, he has experienced things in his life that people may not have blamed him for if he wanted to give up. Growing up in a working-class background, his family built their way up to give Ed the life they thought he needed. His parents, who grew up in Hoxton, East London eventually owned 12 galleries before moving to Essex. Creativity was a big part of their lives but so was drinking. Parties would go into the early hours of the morning and alcohol would always be flowing.

     

    Ed has memories as far back as four of hearing Jimmy Hendrix being played as his parents and their friends partied. He told MyLondon: "I had a normal childhood as a kid but I guess where the madness came into it was with alcohol. My family's friendship group and the social drinking aspect of life were so evident that I thought that's what having fun was about; going to pubs, adults getting drunk and us playing."

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  • Rankin Creative Exhibition – THE UNSEEN, The Fall

    Rankin Creative Exhibition – THE UNSEEN

    The Fall

    It’s a true yet bizarre fact that cross Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and Youtube, access to accounts for Playboy and Pornhub is relatively unfettered while independent artists and creators worldwide are still reported for the mildest of infringements of content their guidelines.

     

    In a move that seeks to reinstate the image of wrongfully deplatformed creators, Rankin Creative has partnered with Quantus Gallery to launch a uniquely multifaceted exhibition titled THE UNSEEN.  Opening with a launch event on Wednesday 15th June, the project will be accessible worldwide via an online manifestation, while a digital-physical exhibition space will be open to the public at the Quantus Gallery in London’s famous creative quarter, Shoreditch.

     

    Image Credit: Iness Rychlik | Muse (2019) | @inessrychlik

     

     

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  • An Interview With Josh Sandhu, From 1883 Magazine

    An Interview With Josh Sandhu

    From 1883 Magazine

    As with all rapidly growing technologies, NFTs’ exploding popularity has not been without controversy, and concerns have been raised about the reliability of blockchain ledgers, the environmental impact of non-fungible tokens themselves and the high volatility of the crypto-market.

     

    Critics have also argued that, while NFTs were originally created to give digital artists control over their work and help them protect their intellectual property, non-fungible tokens have become yet another way of exploiting creative professionals.

     

    To get a handle on the crypto-signed intangibles that have been taking the art and collectables world by storm, we reached out to Josh Sandhu – a connoisseur of all things crypto and one of the founders, along with James Ryan and Ryan Marsh, of Quantus Gallery, Europe’s first non-fungible token advisory.

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  • Inside an NFT art gallery with 36 TV screens, 6 advisors, and space-themed dog sculptures. Investors can pay however they...

    Inside an NFT art gallery with 36 TV screens, 6 advisors, and space-themed dog sculptures. Investors can pay however they want

    Business Insider

    The idea of a physical art gallery that is dedicated to selling digital artworks seems slightly paradoxical. But Josh Sandhu, James Ryan, and Ryan Marsh say it's the next logical step of a global market that surged to $41 billion in 2021, which is why they've opened what is London's first permanent NFT art gallery, Quantus Gallery. 

     

    An NFT — or non-fungible token — is a digital asset built onto a blockchain. It essentially provides a unique record of ownership. Many consider them to be modern-day collectibles. 

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  • ‘We'll be worth £76m next year’– meet the founders of the UK's first NFT gallery, Telegraph

    ‘We'll be worth £76m next year’– meet the founders of the UK's first NFT gallery

    Telegraph

    Today, the UK’s first NFT gallery opens its doors: a full-time space dedicated to what believers promise is the future of British art. Based in Shoreditch, in east London (where else?), Quantus Gallery’s white walls are lined with screens displaying non-fungible tokens, digital certificates of ownership that have become a £30 billion industry. In lieu of the usual authenticity documents, the deeds to this virtual art is a string of code, stored on the blockchain – a decentralised platform that powers Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies....

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  • I Visited Europe's First NFT Art Gallery, Vice

    I Visited Europe's First NFT Art Gallery

    Vice

    As you can probably tell from the title, Quantus Gallery is the first permanent NFT art gallery of its kind in the UK, opening all year-round to exhibit art that has been minted on the blockchain, with an advice service on how to create, buy and sell NFTs. Of course, traditional galleries and even Christie’s auction house have dabbled in this new arena, but no other physical spaces have strictly only focused on NFTs in this way before, with an in-house advisory board and team of experts to help wealthy newbies decipher just exactly which internet picture may make them even richer. (Side note: there have already been plenty of shoppable NFT galleries in the metaverse.) 

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  • NFT art gallery prepares to open in heart of the City, City A.M.

    NFT art gallery prepares to open in heart of the City

    City A.M.

    The decision to launch a physical art gallery for NFTs follows an explosion of interest in the space last year. At the start of 2021 NFTs were known to only a handful of crypto enthusiasts. By the start of 2022, the market had exploded into a $40bn industry, rivalling the traditional art market which saw $50bn of sales in 2020.

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DUALITY

23 November – 5th December 2022

The dual exhibition opens on the 23rd of November at Quantus Gallery and Grove Gallery. The exhibition showcases his unique pigment transfer works that are inspired by art history, fashion and queer theory. This is Radek Husaks first solo exhibition of his brand new colour works.

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