Speed of Life

Thanks to everyone who visited my studio during Frieze week. I’m pictured here with a group of visiting journalists from the UK. 🇬🇧 great conversations throughout the week. And for those of you who brought Chadwick artworks home - a hearty thank you. Thanks  @18thstreetarts  and all my artist colleagues. Already looking forward to next year. Press visitors included: Ian Sturgess, Assistant Chief Sub-Editor, The Mirror (circulation 245,655) Natasha Colyer , Editor, Seen in the City (Circulation: 21,500) Amber O’Connor, Writer, Cosmopolitan (Circulation: 39 million) Cassam Looch , Director of Content, Culture Trip (Circulation: 4 million) Neeru Sharma , Lifestyle Editor, Bauer Media (circulation: 1 million) Tom Miller , Santa Monica Travel & Tourism UK Representative Lauren Salisbury, Senior Director of Communications at Santa Monica Travel & Tourism Artist Mobina Nouri  was one of many amazing artists to visit during Frieze week in Santa Monica  As the ci...

                 Gangnam for Freedom - Anish Kapoor and Friends  The British sculptor Anish Kapoor and a group of his human rights oriented friends have released a new video in partnership with Amnesty International and PEN International to bring attention to the ongoing persecution of artists and writers across the globe from China to Russia who have been harassed and imprisoned because of their work. Taking up where Ai Wei Wei's recent Gangnam Style video left off, Kapoor's own Gangnam Style romp combines symbols of imprisonment and torture with the names of many who have been persecuted in their artistic strivings for freedom. Please watch, visit the links, and find out what you can do to help shed light on this growing problem of censorship and oppression. As an emigré from India to the United Kingdom, Anish Kapoor has often been concerned with the ideas of freedom and dislocation in his artwork. I have posted a few exam...