The Ant is the first and one of the best-known of Arne Jacobsen’s stacking chairs. Jacobsen originally designed the Ant chair with three legs, which he saw as the optimum way to ensure a firm footing and avoid tangling with the legs.

However, a four-legged variety was produced simultaneously and has since become the most common type (officially, it did not go into production until after Jacobsen’s death). The three-legged Ant, however, is still in production. The Ant was originally designed for Novo’s canteen (in an order of only 300).

The Ant was named by Gunnar Aagaard Andersen.

A new series of original drawings are available by Stephen Davids. The drawings are from an ongoing series based on humorous observations of life and its juxtaposition with art.

Price between £150 unframed - £450 framed (BoxFramed in Ramin hardwood using conservation tape and board).

Also limited edition screenprints by artists and graphic designers from U.S.A. - UK & Europe.
Original and screenprinted Box framed drawings available. Size A5 in black. Float mounted.

Screenprinted and original cards by Stephen Davids that is exclusive to f-art.
Cards are produced as an edition series and are signed. All cards come with a tissue lined envelope, and are blank inside.

Cards £10, Size A5 and printed on Somerset 200gms paper.

We are proud to announce we will be exclusively showing the work of Robert Race. Robert make things which move in simple but interesting ways. Moving toys have always been made all over the world from wood, bamboo, clay, paper, string, wire, leaves, feathers and so on. These traditional toys have been a strong influence in his work, and he has travelled in Indonesia, Mexico, India and Japan in search of them. There are various pressures leading to their disappearance today, but they are still to be found in many parts of the world, sold on the street or appearing for fairs and festivals.

At their best they achieve a vigorous imagery and make ingenious use of really simple mechanisms. The makers of these toys have also been constantly inventive in their use of materials: They have cleverly exploited the properties of whatever natural, re-used and recycled materials were readily available to them.

Robert does the same and at present particularly like using driftwood because collecting it gives him a good excuse for going to the seaside.

Photomonth in conjunction with Alternative Arts.
An exhibition of photographs by David Gray, Colin Jarvie, Richard Heeps and Stephen Davids.

The exhibition will draw together the work of each artist in order to constitute a cohesive vehicle for the communication of their visions.

The language through which they communicate is a complex vernacular, made out of the desultory and contradictory meanings and confusions which mark today’s post-modern existence, and which sits firmly astride key contemporary cultural crossovers.

Each of these artists is concerned with communicating their perceptions, ideas and visions of the world around them. Each one of them seeks in their own way to combine a concern for the history and capacities of their materials with the expressive energy of the artist in the moment. Although their subject matter is different, the artists share in common a vein of sensitivity and existential passion in their approach to working- shunning the sophisticated for a graphic, gestural directness.

From 4th October to 21st October 2007 at f-art.

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