TAKE PART IN ART BELOW'S 5TH ANNUAL SUMMER SHOW THIS JUNE

We are now accepting submissions for Art Below’s 2017 Summer Show where we will be displaying the work of UK and International artists on billboard space across major London Underground stations for 2 weeks this June.  

As an Art Below exhibitor your chosen piece of art will be printed and posted as a billboard in a London underground station of your choice where it will be viewed by thousands of people daily. 

To coincide with this your work will also go on show in an exclusive new exhibition space in association with rose and king galleries.

Opening with a private view on the 22nd June (6-9pm) your art will go on show at 41-43 Brook Street, right next to Claridges in the heart of Mayfair.  With a prestigious club lounge, garden and unique gallery space 41 -43 Brook Street has become a hub for high profile international clients and art collectors as well as an upcoming landmark in Mayfair for contemporary art.

To view further details on how you can take part  please click here to view the guidelines.  Application is by email to submissions@artbelow.org.uk with the requirements as specified in the guidelines by Friday 26h May.

MARCH 2017 ART BELOW SHOWCASE FRANCIS BACON DRAWINGS AT BOND STREET, GREEN PARK AND ST.PAUL'S TUBE STATIONS

 

For two weeks in March Art Below featured posters of Crucifixion drawings by Francis Bacon from 'The Francis Bacon Collection of the drawings donated to Cristiano Lovatelli Ravarino' at stations including St.Paul's, Green Park and Bond Street. 

The original Bacon works were unveiled on 6th March at St Stephen Walbrook, an Anglican Parish Church rich in heritage, based in the heart of the City of London. The exhibition ran until 31st March.

Anish Kapoor Unveils Trump Protest Poster in Union Station, Los Angeles February 2017.

 

For two weeks starting February 13th a piece of protest artwork by the artist Anish Kapoor in response to the actions of new US President Donald Trump went on display in Grand Union Station, Los Angeles. 

The work inspired by the great Joseph Beuys'  'I Like America and America Likes Me' (1974). It features a photograph of Kapoor with the title 'I Like America and America Doesn’t Like Me'.

Facilitated by Art Below - The 2 meter wide poster was placed in the red line concourse in LA’s Grand Union Station - California's largest and busiest station, serving almost 110,000 passengers a day and known as ‘America’s last great railway station’. 

 

ART BELOW LOS ANGELES FEBRUARY 2017

 

Art Below's first billboard Exhibition in Grand Union Station, Los Angeles this February featuring work by 28 UK and US based emerging and established artists. 

For the first time Art Below arrive in Los Angeles to 'Turn Ad Space into Art Space'.    From 13th - 28th February the travelling public experienced art by 28 established and emerging UK and US based artists, presented across dynamic billboards in Grand Union Station (red line).   

Grand Union is California's largest and busiest station, serving almost 110,000 passengers a day and known as ‘America’s last great railway station’.

Poster: Eine and Risk

Poster: Hayden Kays and Nina Fowler

Poster: Nettie Wakefield and James Mylne

Poster: Karen Bystedt

To coincide with this public installation, the limited edition art was also exhibited and available to purchase at Sur le Mur Gallery in West Hollywood's Pacific Design Center, Blue Building, Second Floor opening with a private view on 16th February (5 - 9pm)