A former Premier League footballer, a pop star and a high-flying curator stroll into an artwork gallery… No, this isn’t the launch of The Artwork Newspaper’s Christmas joke assortment however the set-up for the newest version of the ING Discerning Eye exhibition on the Mall Galleries in London (till 26 November). This 12 months’s version has seen Ian “H” Watkins from the pop group Steps and the previous Arsenal defender Tony Adams flip their hand to curation, organising a piece every on the present. The choice panel additionally included the artist Chris Levine, sculptor Julian Wild, the Gagosian curator Péjú Oshin and the Authorities Artwork Assortment director Eliza Gluckman.
The judges had loads of artwork to select from, whittling down 6,500 entries to 628, all of that are on show within the mammoth present (all works are on the market by the way, beginning at £100).
“I’ve all the time painted. I will need to have been 5 after I bought my first set of watercolours and began attempting to color like Monet and Turner,” H advised The Artwork Newspaper. “It is what I all the time wished to do however life took a special course.”
Adams, in the meantime, explains to The Artwork Newspaper that “In jail [for drink driving] in 1990, I used to attract Ninja Turtles—with time I am not unhealthy.” He is inherited and picked up some fascinating work, too. “I believe we have the primary ever Hockney, that he offered when he was in artwork college.” Does he see a second life as a curator? “Convey it on!” We’re onside.
