adam neate / street piece / 26 /098

Adam Neate (b.1977) is a British conceptual artist known for his multi-dimensional collages and a very unique use of perspective and mark-marking. Neate’s practice mixes constructivism, street-art and a very personal approach to figurative art.
Neate studied graphic design while teaching himself how to paint and sculpt. He became known for leaving art on the streets for people to collect. ‘I started leaving my paintings on the streets of Ipswich around 1997. I then moved to London and left over 5,000 paintings on the streets up until 2006. ( see below) The same year I quit my day job and stopped the ‘street art’ and started exploring paint in a different way. In 2008 I started painting in Dimensionalism – which I continue to explore to this day.’
Neate's use of a varied array of materials and skilled juxtaposition of layers often give his figurative pieces a multi-dimensional quality which can change from the viewer's viewpoint. In 2012, art historian Ben Jones wrote: "To get the full multi-dimensional effect, the viewer is asked to activate their own viewing space ...as you move and change vantage point, negative space is held in balance, unleashed, then restrained again. The image resolves itself."
Neate's pieces feature in collections all over the world, most notably in the USA, China and East Asia.

Adam Neate ‘The London Show Print, 2008’
screen-print on cardboard 2008. In the original shrink-wrap as issued. With the artist’s stamp, numbered from an edition of 1000
Size: 320x460mm

Note:
On 14 November 2008, in an event 'The London Show' he and helpers left 1,000 prints, worth a total of £1 million, around London streets for anyone to pick up and keep. When night came, the first teams started in the outer southern boroughs, Bromley, Bexley and Merton, and worked their way to the centre, covering all 32 boroughs and the City of London, and finishing in the early hours. Work was left in doorways and against shop windows.Some of the work quickly appeared on eBay with starting prices ranging from 99p to £1,000; Neate had no objection to such sales, and thought it might help some people out for Christmas. He said, “It has always been a dream of mine to do a show around the whole of London, to take over the whole city in one go. I want everybody to be able to see it, but once the pieces are out there I don’t mind what happens to them.”The works were screen prints on cardboard of a man, with stamping, each being slightly different, and protected in a cellophane wrapper; Andy Warhol provided the precedent for industrial style production. Neate created the master image in a stencil, and thereafter did not touch the prints, which were made by a professional screen printer. They were rubber-stamped with his signature.

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