Lot 3 , Matthew Radford, (b.1953), Red Bus, 2018, Giclee print, 75 x 89 cm.

Matthew Radford
(b.1953)
Red Bus, 2018
Giclee print
edition of 35, signed
75 x 89 cm.
£600-800
Fascinated by crowds since childhood, painter and printmaker Mark Radford’s subject is the city as a place of constant motion and flux, of surging and receding human tides.

Peter Ackroyd, author and ‘biographer’ of London, says of Radford: “He is pre-eminently an urban artist entranced by the life of the city all around him. He understands the variety of the city and he also comprehends its darkness. His work is concerned with the movement of crowds and with the great general drama of the human spirit. He has a sense of energy and splendour, of ritual and display, and he shares the sublime indifference of the city itself.”

After graduating from Camberwell School of Art London, Radford has held teaching posts both there and at the Slade School of Art in London, the New York Studio School and Camberwell Art School, UAL. He lives and works in south-east London.

Radford has exhibited widely in the UK and has also had solo shows in Los Angeles, New
York, California, and Germany. His work is in many private and public collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library and the Yale Centre for British Art.