JOANA VASCONCELOS - 'Wool Trooper' 2017
Resin cast Stormtrooper helmet, handmade woollen crochet, ornaments, polyester
44 x 48 x 47 cm
Unique
Signed on interior
Price on Request
About Joana Vasconcelos: is the the Portuguese artist who adorned the 55th Venice Biennale with tampons and placed a pink feathered helicopter in the Palace of Versailles. She took part in the inaugural Art Wars exhibition at the Saatchi gallery in 2013 embellishing her helmet entirely in crochet.
This year Vasconcelos has created the 'Wooltrooper' using handmade woollen crochet and ornaments (see image below)
CHEMICAL X - Ecstacy Embellished Stormtrooper Helmet, 2017
Resin cast stormtrooper helmet embellished in 2000 Ecstasy printed pills.
320 x 320 x 330 mm
Unique
Signed on interior
Price on Request
About Chemical X: Chemical X’s identity is unknown. In September the artist attracted headline news when he featured a lifesize silicon model of British actress and model Cara Delevigne (already a collector of Chemical X’s work) surrounded in mesmerising concentric circles of ecstasy tablets which went on sale for £1 million.
PHILIP COLBERT - 'Trooper Whopper' 2017
Resin cast stormtrooper helmet, acrylic paint.
320 x 320 x 330 mm
Unique
Signed on interior
Price on Request
About Philip Colbert: Colbert’s solo show at Saatchi Gallery this year has followed on from a growing list of accolades, including ‘The World Goes Pop’ at the Tate Modern (London), ‘Inspired’ at the Van Gough Museum (Holland).
Collectors of his work include Cara Delevingne, Anna Della Russo, Lady Gaga, Rita Ora and he is set to collaborate on a new clothing line with Kanye West.
JAMES MYLNE - 'Baroque and Roll' 2017
Resin cast stormtrooper helmet, ballpoint pen and markers.
320 x 320 x 330 mm
Unique
Signed on interior
£4,000 / $5,400
About James Mylne:
James Mylne is Britain's leading ballpoint pen artist. With the use of a ballpoint pen (or biro) James will spend up to 200 hours working in intricate detail to create beautiful black and white drawings. His timelapse drawing video “The Girl With The Pearl Earring” generated 3/4 million views on YouTube.
For Art Wars he covered his helmet in Georgian, Baroque, and Rococo styled designs.
WILL TEATHER - 'Bird's Eye View of the Storm' 2017
Resin cast stormtrooper helmet, oil, acrylic, varnish.
320 x 320 x 330 mm
Unique
Signed on interior
£4,500 / $6,075
About Will Teather:
British artist Will Teather is known for creating contemporary images that reveal an adventurous imagination combined with a mastery of traditional skills.
After spending his childhood in rural Norfolk surrounded by religious imagery and books on historical painting, Teather’s knowledge of contemporary art was refined through periods of study in London at Central St Martins and Chelsea College of Art & Design. Teather’s skill as a painter, however, remains largely self-taught through personal experimentation and his close inspection of masterpieces from major museums.
DAN BALDWIN - 'Storm' 2016
Fibre glass stormtrooper helmet, Acrylic with varnish and gold leaf interior
310 x 310 x 325 mm
310 x 310 x 325 mm
Unique
Signed on exterior lower back
Price on Request
About Dan Baldwin:
The multi-talented artist is an art investment favourite because he’s at the very pinnacle of the Young British Artists movement. In fact, he has previously exhibited with Damien Hirst himself, Banksy and Sir Peter Blake (who Baldwin is especially fond of). Baldwin has an extremely passionate and famous following, with collectors including Damien Hirst, Bernie Ecclestone, Sir Ronald Cohen, Jake Chapman, Jo Whiley and many other famous names.
Dan Baldwin says the following about his work 'Storm'
its titled STORM ..more about the feeling of nature, the power of nature, a return to the origins of the dark vs light, force, the sun, moon, the good vs bad, the symbolism of what a storm trooper stands for, the human aspect beneath the helmet and symbol of war, conflict. .
the interior is gold leaf, as its a iconic statement to wear one, or to takeon the role of stormtrooper.
the interior is gold leaf, as its a iconic statement to wear one, or to takeon the role of stormtrooper.
ART WARS USA
London-based art initiative Art Wars travels to Miami and Los Angeles this December to unveil 20 brand new works by emerging and established artists.
Each artist has been provided with a Star Wars Stormtrooper helmet, with the brief of transforming it into a piece of art: ‘Turning the Dark Side into the Art Side.’
Eight of the helmets will be unveiled at the Red Dot Art Fair as part of Miami Art Week (6 – 10 December). Then to coincide with the opening of Star Wars ‘The Last Jedi’ the entire collection will go on show at Sur Le Mur Gallery (SLM) in West Hollywood Los Angeles where Art Wars curator Ben Moore has teamed up with SLM gallery director Megan Philips to add some of LA’s finest artists to the mix.
The inaugural Art Wars exhibition was held at the renowned Saatchi Gallery in London in October 2013. It included Stormtrooper artworks by internationally acclaimed artists including Damien Hirst, Jake and Dinos Chapman, D*Face, David Bailey, Alison Jackson, Antony Micallef, Mat Collishaw, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Joana Vasconcelos and Mr Brainwash. Since then Art Wars has featured at The Other Art Fair, The Moniker Art Fair, travelled to Sweden, Dubai, Las Vegas and the LA Art Show. In 2016 Anish Kapoor teamed up with Art Wars to produce a brand new helmet artwork which raised £30,000 for the Missing People Chairty and the Missing Tom Fund.
Art Wars is curated by Ben Moore, Founder of Art Below and will raise funds to benefit two charities, Missing People and the Missing Tom Fund. The Missing Tom Fund was set up by Ben Moore, to help raise money to find his brother Thomas Moore, who disappeared in 2003 aged 31 years old. His family have not heard from him since then. Now, 13 years on,with the support of the Missing People Charity his family continue to search for Tom. The ArtWars USA exhibition opens in Miami in the week of Tom Moore’s 46th birthday.
