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Artist Statement: "My interests in art dwell around what is around me. Nature, as well as day-to-day activities of the common man are my major sources of inspiration. I delight in simplicity, and as a result a lot of my work has been linked to naïveté. I however make no apologies for being true to myself." SANE was discovered in 2003 by Maria Fischer, the owner of Tulifanya Gallery in Kampala, which is the most prestigious gallery in Uganda. Since that time Sane has had regular exhibitions at the Gallery and even participated in several International Exhibitions in the Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Kenya and Tanzania. He has won several prizes and awards including a joint first prize for the 30 Years of Ugandan Art competition in 2005. Sane is a painter, illustrator, sculptor and printmaker; born in 1979, in Central Uganda, he began his artistic career in late 1999, as an undergraduate at Makerere University and in 2001 he was awarded a first class degree in Fine Arts. Most r...

TAJAN | Lot 156 John Phillips (né en 1951) The Iron Lady, 1989 Lithographie rehaussée de poudre de cuivre Signée et datée 89 en bas à droite Pièce unique 56 x 38 cm Estimation : € 5,000-7,000 John Phillips, one of London’s best-known art rebels will be at auction in TAJAN, Paris on the 20th November. (See www.tajan.com) John Phillips has been the inspiration and support for British and international artists throughout his career. In 1974 he squatted a space in West London - then an area at the centre of London's counterculture. A studio was rapidly established - Paddington Printshop (now the londonPrintstudio). Art school trained - but as a sculptor, not a printmaker, Phillips engaged with local people and the local artist community, promoting ideas and social action through print and graphic media. The timing was perfect; this was an electifying period of creativity in London's rebel music and street culture. Artists, musicians and local anarchists gathered around John and th...