wellhung.co.uk/art
1 October – 1 November, 2015
Gavin Turk: by Ansell Cizic © |
Photographer Ansell Cizic first came to the East End as a fashion advertising photographer in the 1980s, based in Curtain Road at a time when SCP was the sole local purveyor of aspirational design artifacts. The Bricklayers Arms, The City Beverage Company and a tiny paper/tobacconist shop on the corner of Curtain Road/Old Street were suppliers of his staples.
Times have changed.
A resident of Hackney Wick now for over ten years, he has had an anthropologist's eye on the evolving communities and their sub divisions; watching them grow and flourish (given the right conditions) only to be consumed within a relatively short space of time by the latest
dominant species/culture.
Andrew Salgado: by Ansell Cizic © |
Lizzie Peers: by Ansell Cizic © |
He is hopeful that he has avoided a ‘theme’ whilst making these images, and yet, as each image has a unique taste, there is inevitably an aesthetic flavour and humour that is particular to Ansell Cizic.
Paul Sakoilsky: by Ansell Cizic © |
Ariane Prin: by Ansell Cizic © |
Alan Coulson: by Ansell Cizic © |
The Wick and Beyond: Artists and Artisans of the East End
By Ansell Cizic
Well Hung Gallery
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Ansell Cizic |
Well Hung is a specialist printers, framers and art gallery based in the East End of London. With decades of experience, everything produced is made bespoke in-house by skilled craftsmen, using only the best possible equipment and materials.