London.- Infinity Bunce founded Urban Curations. Infinity – an artist herself has been curating for many years around London, so she decided she needed a base and set up Urban Curations, which is a showcase for street urban and fine artists, photographers and Installation artists. The artists have been carefully selected and present contemporary art practice. All works are for sale and artists will feature in forthcoming events. The artists have been carefully selected, not through a CV, but a gut feeling in the work. If the work is good it goes on the site, simple as that. From trawling the galleries private views for years, there seemed to be a new breed of artists in town – the street artists, now echoing the adopted walls of the galleries plucked from the streets.
This new sensation, or missing link, was like a breathe of fresh area into the often stuffy galleries. However what was missing was that Urban Artists were showing with Urban Artists. So Infinity decided to engage in shows that merged the two worlds of fine art and urban art, and find artists that crossed both boundaries so that boundaries did not exist any more. It’s hard to define which artists belong to which camp on this site, and that’s what I like about it.
Infinity started setting up this mix of urban and fine artists from an exhibition in Cordy House, in conjunction with Who’s Jack Magazine with Jason Atomic who captured his audience with his on the spot portraits of the viewer, this then lead onto two curated shows, which Infinity curated with the East End Arts Club. These shows encompassed curating artwork on vinyls in Redchurch Street to Shoreditch Town Hall with a sixteen-room mix of Urban, Fine Art and Installation artists. All merged under one large Town Hall. The works living in an harmonious marriage next to each other from Urban Artist Schoony’s green boy soldier whispered to be the cast of the grandson of one of the Cray twins stood comfortable amongst the painters from Central St. Martins. Infinity then went on to curate a show in East Gallery, Brick Lane where there was a fusion between Urban and Fine Art titled 11:11 where artists like Snub and David Bray monochrome figure paintings screamed comfortably next to the Little Artists Haunted House of Lego. She curated this show with Russell Charter and Richard Stone fellow art students who she met in the late 90’s at Central St. Martins. The show was about practising artists curating a show and merging urban with fine artists – so the marriage continued.
>Next came www.urbancurations.com – a place where all these shows could come to light in one space. The site shows James R. Mylne’s meticulous ball point pen drawings to Taiwanese Ting Ting Cheng’s carved Louis Vuitton bananas, to Il Sun Maeng’s burnt canvas animals in a spiritual state that crawl across the web towards Jane Grosvenor’s dog searching for a way out. Maybe Jane’s dog ran passed Mike Newton’s student taking a gap year. Maybe the student had caught a pill in his mouth from Charlie McFarley’s painting of the pill-dropping Alien. Quiet please – take me to the Middle East, stop off Iran. CK1 has been found and brought to the UK through this site. A real Middle Eastern treasure, with poetic urban imagery of young boy that maybe crying after just seeing Dan Proop’s soldier pixelated. This site is organic and evolving a space sure to be watched. Visit the gallery’s website at … www.urbancurations.com