Faine Contemporary Art

CHRONOLOGY
1945 Born in Brighton
1965 - 66 West Sussex College of Art.
1966 - 67 Southampton College of Art
1966 - 69 Leicester College of Art.
1968 Interplay -Britain's Entry to the Paris Biennale
1969 3d Chess Set - Invention of Problems at ICA London
1969 Married Jane Fisher
1971 - 72 The Goldsmiths College - university of London.
1972 Founded Coriander Studio with my wife Jane.
1972 - 76 Taught part-time on foundation at Thurrock Technical College
1973 Birth of Chloë Elizabeth
1975 Birth of Daniel Edward
1976 - 82 Taught part-time at West Sussex College of Art.
1980 Birth of Jonathan James
1984 Produced the Band-Aid for Live Aid print with Peter Blake, Gordon House, Graham Bannister, and Bernard Jacobson
1987 Celebration - Wigan Print Extravaganza
1992 Wrote the New Guide to Screen Printing for Hodder Headline
1998 - 04 Part-time lecturer at Royal Academy of Art
1999 Into the Light - 4 studios at the Octagon Gallery Bath
2004 Invited Studio at Sao Paolo Print Biennale
2007 Coriander Studio 35 years of print publishing, Jill George Gallery
2010 Coriander incorporated into CCA Galleries.
2011 Icons, Perceptions, Metaphors, ( Blake, Faine, Neiland) New Walk Museum & Art Gallery Leicester
2012 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
2012 Chelsea Futurespace - Prints 'R' Us prints by Brad Faine and Steve Thomas.
2013 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
2013 Made an Honorary Doctor of Art by De Montfort University.
2014 First novel, 'A Killing in Prospect' is published by Kindle books
2016 'Diamond Geezers', one-man show of mono-prints on canvas. Bermondsey Project Space.
2016 London View. Tri-partite exhibition with Brendan Neiland and Christian Furr. Richmond Atelier.
2017 'Big Screen Spectacular' one-man show of mono-prints on canvas. Brook Gallery.
2017 Original 45 The Cut - Park Lane group Exhibition.
2017 Various mixed shows at the 11 Martin Lawrence galleries USA
2018 Various mixed shows at the 11 Martin Lawrence galleries USA
2018 Mixed exhibition of gallery artists at Martin Lawrence at VIP GALA at their Las Vegas gallery
2019 Solo exhibition at Martin Lawrence Schaumburg Chicago.
2019 Solo exhibition at Martin Lawrence New Orleans.
2019 Mixed exhibition of gallery artists at Martin Lawrence at VIP GALA at their Las Vegas gallery
2019 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
BIOGRAPHY

Brad Faine was born and grew up in Brighton. He is the son of a Royal Australian Air Force bomber pilot and a British cabaret singer, who met and married in 1944. He studied Fine Art (Painting) at Leicester College of Art where he achieved a Dip Ad (Hons) under the tutelage of Harry Thubron, an early proponent of conceptual art, and subsequently completed a Post Graduate ATC course at Goldsmiths. During his time at Leicester, Faine developed the first truly playable 3d Chess set which was exhibited at the 'Invention of Problems' Exhibition at the ICA. He also was responsible for the concept for ‘Inter-play’, one of the two British entries for the 1968 Paris Biennale.

On leaving College in 1972 Brad and his wife Jane founded Coriander Studio, which grew from a cottage industry into an internationally renowned maker and publisher of limited edition silk-screen and more recently digital prints. The Studio has, over the last 40 years, worked with more than 300 artists ranging from Henri Chopin (one of the worlds leading exponents of sound poetry) to Romain de Tirtoff known as Erte, Patrick Huges to John Hoyland, Richard Hamilton to Peter Blake , Michael Craig-Martin to Damien Hirst.

In addition to being the managing director of Coriander Studio, he has taught printmaking as a visiting lecturer at a number of art schools including St Martins College of Art and Design, West Sussex College of Art (Farnham), and the Royal Academy of Art. where he also had a one man show in the Coffee Bar Gallery. He has been involved in many collaborative demonstrations of print-making including a Ganada Television film with Patrick Hughes, Brendan Neiland and Michael Rothenstein, and print project with Bruce McLean at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He has also been a guest speaker at a number of national and international printmaking symposia.

Throughout Coriander's 40 year history, Faine has continued to work as a painter and printmaker in his own right. He has works in many private and public collections in the UK, the USA and the Middle East, and has had work included mixed shows in London, New York, Dubai and Tokyo. Recent exhibitions include a one-man show at the Chelsea Arts club, a major joint print show with Peter Blake and Brendan Neiland at Leicester City Art Gallery, a one-man show at the London Sketch Club and another at 45 Park Lane (the Cut), and a three month exhibition with Steve Thomas at Chelsea Future Space.

In 1984 he was responsible for initiating the concept of 'Visual Aid for Band Aid' and along with Peter Blake, Graham Bannister and Gordon House, was integral in the organization of 104 artists and the production of an edition of 500 prints, the proceeds of which went to the Band Aid Trust.

In 1989 Faine was invited to write The New Guide to Screen Printing, which was published by Hodder Headline. Subsequently, he has written articles for books on artists such as Terry Frost, Brendan Neiland, and Peter Blake.

His prints have been published by Christie's Contemporary Art, Coriander Studio, Art For Offices, Anderson O'Day and CCA Galleries in the UK,  Kane Fine Art, Greg Croston and recently Chalk and Vermilionin the USA. His works are held in the corporate collections of many international companies including BMW, British Rail and Epson UK. All of Brad's prints and canvasses are available through Fane Contemporary Art.

2014 saw the first one-man show of his printed works on canvass at  'Dark Matter Studio Gallery'. This change in direction was at the suggestion of Bruce McLean, who thought the prints should be larger so the the detail of the individual elements that constituted them could be seen more easily . The problem with enlarging the prints was that the paper seemed too thin for the sizes at which he wanted to work, and the safety problems and costs inherent when using large glass frames made them prohibitive.  The solution was to make canvasses, as this solved the size and framing problem (they do need to be framed) and also added the opportunity to hand work the pieces.

Brad has written a number of articles and introductions books and catalogues for artists' with whom he has worked. This year his novel 'A Killing in Prospect' is published on Kindle.  The story is a work of fiction, concerning a series of incidents that were rumoured have occurred in and around the 1988 New York Art Fair, amongst that group of dealers known collectively as 'Art Runners'.

2015 was notable as it was the year in which he had his first one man show in Mayfair, called iPrints at The Albemarle Gallery. He also exhibited with Brendan Neiland and Simon Burton at the GX Gallery.  Ray Perman of the Grosvenor Gallery saw the Albemarle show and introduced Brad to David Rogath, Director of Chalk and Vermilion Fine Art in the USA.  David commissioned 6 editions, each comprising 8 mono print colourways of works on canvas to show at his 10 major galleries throughout America.

In 2016 Chalk and Vermilion's initial commission of six editions of mono-prints had by 2019 risen to 29. In 2018 he was invited to the Martin Lawrence VIP ART GALA in Las Vegas, a collective exhibition of all the gallery artists with accompanying live performances, music and a gourmet dinner.  In 2019 his work was featured in solo shows in Chicago and New Orleans as well as at the 2019 Las Vegas VIP Gala. Also during this time the UK suite of 12 cinema editions was completed each comprising 5 mono-prints and representing different genres of the cinema graphic art.


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