Swindon, the new home of Pop Art
June 14, 2008
When you think about the great centres of Pop Art around the world, Swindon isn’t usually at the forefront of your mind. New York perhaps, but Swindon, in the heart of Wiltshire? Not usually no, however this Tuesday Swindon will be home to an art auction featuring some of the leading art luminaries, such as David Hocney and Clive Barker.
Kidson-Trigg at Highworth are staging the art auction this week, where 300 works of art go under the hammer in a dispersal sale. The works are all 20th Century, containing modern art, contemporary art and traditional artwork. They are all currently owned by the Jarvis Hotel group.
The Hotel chain has many hotels in the Swindon area, and they’ve built up the collection of artwork over the last fifteen years. They’d purchased the art mainly from auction houses in London to decorate their range of hotels.
Pippa Kidson-Trigg is one of the auctioneers, and she states:
It is a genuine dispersal sale, everything has to sell, so pictures have inviting estimate prices, and we hope it will provide purchasers with the opportunity to enjoy and invest in affordable art amongst the infamous names of today’s Contemporary artists such as Gerald Laing, (one of the original wave of pop artists), Clive Barker (one of the leading British Pop artists) and Sir Terry Frost RA (One of Britains most succesful C20th artists).