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TAP Galleries has partnered with the Edinburgh Festival, Grand Designs and London Design Festival, and we are thrilled to announce our latest collaboration: the launch of an online fine art print store at the iconic Selfridges department store. It showcases a selection of works from across our roster of artists, including Maxim (of The Prodigy), Gavin Mitchell, Kristjana Williams and Jayson Lilley, with prices starting from £50. Founded by Soo Turner, TAP Galleries' growing portfolio spans realism, abstract work, pop art, and urban art, photography, sculpture and installations. With over 25 years in the art business, Soo combines the marketing...

What do Janelle Monae and Cameron Diaz have in common? Apart from being smart, creative women, they also both own works of art by none other than  TAP Galleries' Joe Webb. This talented contemporary pop artist uses vintage magazines and printed ephemera that he collects to create hand-made, low-fi collages, without a pixel of computer trickery. Using concise edits, he transforms the original scene into something altogether more surreal, interweaved with a strong message on issues such as global warming, war, famine, or the challenges of living in today's modern world. “I started making these simple hand-made collages as a...

Forget Netflix and chill - on 12th March for us it will be Netflix and thrill! Everyone is so excited that one of TAP Galleries artists, Gavin Mitchell's work will be featured in original Netflix series The One. Set in the near future, The One sees scientists discover that everyone has a gene matched with one other person, irrespective of sexuality, race, age, or location. It means a simple DNA test can identify your soulmate: the one person you’re genetically predisposed to fall passionately in love with. Gavin's pieces featured on the set of this exciting new series were taken from...

Art often brings together contradictory or incongruous concepts and, in that collision, creates something new. The astonishing work of US-born, UK-bred stencil artist David Schmidt - better known as DS - is a perfect example. "As far back as I can remember," he recalls, "my love for art was big enough to tame my hyperactive mind, with laser-like focus on a paper, creating a world of minute detailed figures. So, a move into a medium using the tool normally suited to a surgeon seemed a natural fit." Inspired and bitten by the street art bug, DS focused on stencil art,...

It has often been said that travel broadens the mind, but for multidisciplinary artist Lauren Baker, a life-changing trip to South America was the springboard to a hugely successful international career. Lauren’s work explores human connection, metaphysics and the expansiveness of the universe. Her signature neon works portray the power of energy through her poetic typographic and celestial chakra artworks. Lauren, who is among TAP Galleries' talented roster of artists, uses light to express the secrets of the universe, aiming to raise the vibration of love and connection within the world, and her recent works visually interpret unseen energy. She...