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The London-based artist and graphic designer Little Fish Design creates playful ‘Pop-Surrealist’ artwork that is both quirky and humorous. The combination of elaborate portraits from the likes of Goya, Velázquez and Fragonard with disparate materials such as sweet wrappers and nostalgic packaging.
The London-based artist and graphic designer Little Fish Design creates playful ‘Pop-Surrealist’ artwork that is both quirky and humorous. The combination of elaborate portraits from the likes of Goya, Velázquez and Fragonard with disparate materials such as sweet wrappers and nostalgic packaging.
This makes for a series of eclectic and entertaining compositions. We love the light-hearted amalgamation of the classical and contemporary, bringing together renaissance-inspired portraiture with advertising icons. Little Fish Design establishes a unique and witty relationship between ostentatious portraiture and mundane food packaging, creating a true blend of high and low art. Little Fish Design has always admired the work of Robert Rauschenberg and Peter Blake and is inspired by the unconventional use of cultural references and commercialised products within their artworks. They take this inspiration as a starting point and play with it further by creating fantastical contemporary pastiches that appeal to the viewer’s sense of humour. The artist says their work developed partly through “growing up in an advertising family where I was always exposed to all sorts of art from a very young age”. We’ve been working with Little Fish Design since May 2020.
We love the light-hearted amalgamation of the classical and contemporary, bringing together renaissance-inspired portraiture with advertising icons. Little Fish Design establishes a unique and witty relationship between ostentatious portraiture and mundane food packaging, creating a true blend of high and low art. The eclectic nature of each artwork evokes the nostalgic joy of vintage branding and the joyful unpredictability of merging these famous logos with classical artworks. It's hard not to fall in love with Little Fish Design's unusual compositions.
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Artist & Designer Toby Holmes creates playful and humorous ’Pop-Surrealist’ sculptures and prints combining images drawn from a huge variety of sources from classical art to contemporary packaging and advertising. He likes to combine disparate imagery and materials to create eclectic, playful and amusing pieces. Often using discarded sweet wrappers and packaging to generally achieve a wholly disarming effect, one that he likes to think belies the quiet and contemplative aesthetic with which his work is ultimately informed by. Working as both an artist and graphic designer he’s interested in the overlap of both disciplines. We're so pleased to introduce Little ...
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