exhibition

ARTfutures 2007

Artists Salvatore Arancio, Phil Ashcroft, Annie Attridge, Edward Allington, David Austen, Oliver Bancroft, Darren Banks

08.Mar.07 - 14.Mar.07
11-6pm daily except for Sunday 11- 5pm

Private View, 07.Mar.07, 6-9 pm

Contemporary Art Society
Bloomberg SPACE
50 Finsbury Square
London EC2A 1HD
+44 (0)20 7831 1243
cas@contempart.org.uk
www.contempart.org.uk
Tube Moorgate, Liverpool Street, City / Barbican

This annual exhibition is a campaigning project, intended to encourage new patrons of contemporary art. Featuring the work of approximately 130 artists, ARTfutures offers a snapshot of visual arts practice around the UK today.
The selection embraces a wide variety of media - painting, sculpture, film, video, sound, and works on paper - drawn from the entire spectrum of the artistic profession, from artists who have recently graduated to those who have gained substantial reputations.

Over the years ARTfutures has shown work by emerging artists who have subsequently achieved high profiles, including future Turner Prize Winners. Of the 1000 works in the show most will have been created during the last two years and will be sold for between £500 and £5,000. All profits from the 40% commission on sales contribute directly to the Contemporary Art Society’s Museums and Galleries Purchase Fund. CAS purchases benefit 70 museums throughout the UK and are in many cases the sole source of work by living artists for public collections.

The show is selected by invitation, and where possible each individual work is chosen by the curatorial team. Independent curator and writer Jeni Walwin leads the selection. She is supported in this work by two Contemporary Art Society curators – Nour Wali and Ceri Lewis – who together press for a selection that is both rigorously contemporary and realistically priced.

Artists confirmed to date for ARTfutures 2007 include:
Salvatore Arancio; Phil Ashcroft; Annie Attridge; Lolly Batty; Zoe Benbow; Darren Banks; Diann Bauer; Catherine Bertola; Suky Best; Sarah Bridgland; James Brooks; Cath Campbell; John Carter; Melanie Carvalho; Ruth Claxton; Oliver Clegg; Etienne Clement; Marcus Coates; Susan Collis; Liadin Cooke; Marion Coutts; Michael Craig-Martin; Natalya Critchley; Layla Curtis; Ian Davenport; Mark Dean; Paul Eachus; Lee Edwards; Simon Faithfull; Paul Flannery; Michele Fletcher; Laura Ford; Mark Francis; John Frankland; Matt Franks; Rochelle Fry; Laura Gannon; Pamela Golden; Oona Grimes; Ilana Halperin; Alexis Harding; Marie Harnett; Andy Harper; Jessica Harrison; Claude Heath; Lia Anna Hennig; Gunter Herbst; Nicky Hirst; Mandy Hudson; Gary Hume; James Ireland; Karen Knorr; Tim Knowles; Gayle Chong Kwan; Liane Lang; Virginie Litzler; Alastair Mackie; Lee Maelzer; Elizabeth Magill; Jason Martin; Matt and Ross; Caroline McCarthy; Martin Mckenna; Jeff McMillan; Alan Michael; Heather and Ivan Morison; Laura Morrison; Paul Morrison; Jost Münster; Penny Neville-Lee; Mahali O'Hare; Julian Opie; Robert Orchardson; Chris Orr; Bruno Pacheco; Simon Parish; Toby Paterson; Marc Quinn; Boo Ritson; Danny Rolph; Andreas Ruthi; Giorgio Sadotti; Helen Sear; Dawn Shorten; David Shrigley; DJ Simpson; Jane Simpson; Seamus Staunton; Matt Stokes; Ichirota Suzuki; The Lonely Piper; Susan Trangmar; Ruth Uglow; Markus Vater; Jen Wei Kuo; John Wilkins; Bedwyr Williams; Keith Wilson; John Wood and Paul Harrison