"Momart Momart is a British company specialising in the storage, transportation, and installation of works of art. A major proportion of their business is maintaining (often delicate) artworks in a secure, climate-controlled environment. The company maintains specialist warehouse facilities adapted for this task. Momart's clients include the Royal Academy of Arts, Victoria & Albert Museum, National Gallery, Tate Modern, Tate Britain and Buckingham Palace. The company received considerable media attention in 2004 when a fire spread to one of their warehouses from an adjacent unit, destroying the works in it, including works by Young British Artists such as Tracey Emin"
"my work"". An exhibition catalogue included 50 illustrations: ""a compilation of images and writings reflecting her life, her sexual experiences and her desires and fears."" On 24 May 2004, a fire in a Momart storage warehouse in East London destroyed many works from the Saatchi collection, including Emin's famous tent with appliquéd letters, ""Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995"" (""The Tent"") (1995) and ""The Last Thing I Said To You Is Don't Leave Me Here"" (""The Hut"") (1999), Emin's blue wooden beach hut that she bought with fellow artist Sarah Lucas and shared with her boyfriend of the time,"
"and Damien Hirst, with the most well known work lost being Emin's 1995 piece ""Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995"". On 5 March 2008 Momart was taken over by Falkland Islands Holdings for a value of £10.3 Million of which £4.6 Million was in cash, £2.5 Million was with shares and £3.2 was deferred consideration. Momart began in 1971 as the “Jim Moyes’s Compendium of Working Possibilities”, with its founder, himself an artist, offering installation, display, handling, transport and framing services to up an coming artists and emergent galleries in London. Early users of the service included David Hockney,"
"is Don't Leave Me Here"", and that was destroyed in the 2004 Momart warehouse fire. In 1995 Freedman curated the show ""Minky Manky"" at the South London Gallery. Emin has said, The result was her ""tent"" ""Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995"", which was first exhibited in the show. It was a blue tent, appliquéd with the names of everyone she has slept with. These included sexual partners, plus relatives she slept with as a child, her twin brother, and her two aborted children. The needlework which is integral to this work was used by Emin in a number"
"his hands badly on broken glass in the process. He described the experience: As far as is known he is the only person out of the artists or artists' relatives to have been to the site; he said, ""this building was inappropriate for what they are doing. There's no way around that."" William Redgrave William Redgrave (1903–86) was a British sculptor. His major work ""The Event"" was mostly destroyed in the 2004 Momart warehouse fire. William Redgrave was born in Little Ilford, Essex. He worked for the BBC for a time. In World War II he was an air raid"
"light tangled in barbed wire), while exhibited in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, sustained almost $2,000 worth of damage when a visitor's clothes got caught in the wire. In the same gallery, another visitor backed into her work ""Feeling Pregnant III"". ""My Uncle Colin"" was accidentally damaged by the staff of the National Gallery of Scotland but was later repaired. In May 2004, a warehouse fire destroyed several of her works, including the embroidered tent ""Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–95"". In 2015 a 12-year old boy visiting an exhibition at Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei, tripped"
"Hindley and, at the later staging of the exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, on Chris Ofili's ""The Holy Virgin Mary"" with collaged pornographic images. In 2004, the tent was destroyed in a fire at the East London Momart warehouse, along with two of Emin's other works and some 100 more from Saatchi's collection, including works by Damien Hirst, Jake and Dinos Chapman and Martin Maloney. Many other works were also lost, including major pieces by Patrick Heron and William Redgrave. The public and media reaction was not one of sympathy but of mockery and scorn,"
"canvases commemorate to the 10 years. Debbie Harry bought her first Stuart Semple painting in 2004, he suggested the same price of $200 she had paid for her first Basquiat canvas in memory of this. Semple was commissioned to create a memorial with debris collected from the 2004 Momart warehouse fire. Semple packaged them in 8 plastic boxes under the title ""Burn Baby Burn"". The boxes were then painted over and had slogans in pink lettering, including ""RIP YBA"", which referred to the Young British Artists, by whom much of the destroyed work had been created. Semple stated that amongst"
"for rock bands. In this particular work the artist's heads are severed and impaled on stakes. The work was destroyed in the 2004 Momart warehouse fire, along with a number of other well-known works from the Saatchi Collection. Through their shadow sculptures they managed to fuse the abstract and the representational, a pursuit that consumed the likes of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Francis Bacon. This became even more apparent with their second major shadow sculpture, 'Dirty White Trash (with Gulls)', 1998 (""left""), which expanded the innovations of 'Miss Understood and Mr Meanor'. This work is composed of a"
"scheme by Morris & Co. in any London church. Most of the cartoons (original drawings) for the windows were created for buildings elsewhere (seven were taken from designs drawn in 1874 for a church in Calcutta). All but two windows are the work of Morris & Co., the majority being drawn by Burne-Jones, and six by Morris himself. The windows pre-dating 1896 would have been designed (i.e. colour of glass, painted detail) by William Morris. It survived an arson attack in January 1993. Police caught the arsonist at two o'clock one morning moments after he ignited oil in the boiler"
"as a foreign or unclean object: In 1654, a gunpowder explosion in Delft destroyed the studio of Dutch artist Carel Fabritius along with most of his paintings. The artist himself died in the explosion. On 26 September 1687, the Parthenon and its sculptures were severely damaged by the explosion of an Ottoman Empire ammunition dump stored inside the building, which was ignited by Venetian bombardment. In May 2004, a fire destroyed the Momart warehouse in east London, together with more than 50 paintings by abstract artist Patrick Heron, as well as the works of nineteen other artists. Accidental damage of"
"William Redgrave William Redgrave (1903–86) was a British sculptor. His major work ""The Event"" was mostly destroyed in the 2004 Momart warehouse fire. William Redgrave was born in Little Ilford, Essex. He worked for the BBC for a time. In World War II he was an air raid warden. With Peter Lanyon he then ran an art school in St Ives; Francis Bacon rented a studio from them and, in 1957, encouraged Redgrave to take up sculpture. His girlfriend in the 1960s was Jenny Pearson, who was a feature writer for ""The Times"" at one stage in her life. In"
"had sold these pieces to Saatchi in the early 1990s for rather less, his first installations costing under £10,000. On 24 May 2004, a fire in the Momart storage warehouse destroyed many works from the Saatchi collection, including 17 of Hirst's, although the sculpture ""Charity"" survived, as it was outside in the builder's yard. That July, Hirst said of Saatchi, ""I respect Charles. There's not really a feud. If I see him, we speak, but we were never really drinking buddies."" Hirst designed a cover image for the ""Band Aid 20"" charity single featuring the ""Grim Reaper"" in late 2004,"
"1992. In May 2004 a fire in a Momart storage warehouse destroyed many works from the Saatchi collection, including, it is believed, some by Whiteread. However, ""Ghost"" had recently been moved from the warehouse to the new Gagosian Gallery in London. The work was acquired by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in the autumn of 2004. In October 1993 Whiteread completed ""House"", the cast of a Victorian terrace house. She had begun considering casting an entire house in 1991. She and James Lingwood of Artangel looked at houses to be torn down in North and East London"
"to have remade the tent ""would just be silly"". In May 2009, Dinos Chapman said that he and his brother Jake recreated the tent. Both Emin and the Chapmans are represented by White Cube gallery in London. In ""The Independent"", Jerome Taylor questioned whether this was a publicity stunt. In collaboration with Uri Geller, artist Stuart Semple collected remains from the Momart fire site and packaged them in 8 plastic boxes under the title ""Burn Baby Burn""; the boxes had slogans in pink lettering, including ""RIP YBA"" which referred to the Young British Artists amongst whom Emin is classified. Semple"
"I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995"", when Carl Freedman curated the ""Minky Manky"" show in 1995. The show catalogue includes an interview with Emin. Other artists in the show were Sarah Lucas, Gary Hume, Damien Hirst, Mat Collishaw, Gilbert and George, Critical Décor and Stephen Pippin. Freedman said one of the show's themes was: the artist as a subject, and (to) explore the relationship between the art on the wall and its creator, to make the whole thing more humanistic. And in there somewhere there is the beginnings of a thesis on the relationship and similarities between madness and modernism,"
"banal figure paintings"". Maloney was an exhibitor Saatchi Collection on display as ""Sensation"", held at the Royal Academy, London, in 1997. He was also exhibited in the ""New Neurotic Realism"" show held at the Saatchi Gallery. Twenty artworks by Maloney were destroyed in the 2004 fire at the Momart storage warehouse. Martin Maloney Martin Maloney (born 1961) is a contemporary English artist. Martin Maloney was born in London. He attended the University of Sussex 1980–1983, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design 1988–1991 and Goldsmiths College 1991–1992 Martin Maloney practises deliberately ""bad"" painting, where images (mainly figures) are achieved"
"works by artists whose works were lost. The total value of artworks lost was estimated at between £30 and £50 million. A number of artists, in a joint action with several insurance firms, alleged negligence and pursued a legal case against Momart. The case was settled out of court in a mediated agreement for an undisclosed fee, reported to be in the order of “tens of millions of pounds”. The tradition of the Christmas card goes back to 1984 when the first object – a festive card – was designed for the company by Bruce McLean. Since then Momart collaborated"
"the war, Boswell returned briefly to Shell, leaving in 1947. He subsequently worked as art editor of ""Lilliput"" magazine until 1950; wrote a book on art in society, ""The Artist's Dilemma""; worked with Basil Spence as a mural painter for the 1951 Festival of Britain; designed film posters for Ealing Studios; and edited the house journal of Sainsbury's until 1971. He also designed the Labour Party campaign for the successful 1964 general election. He separated from his wife in 1966, and thereafter lived with Ruth Abel, who in 1967 changed her name to Boswell by deed poll. Boswell died of"
"Momart warehouse fire and the objects stolen and subsequently lost or destroyed by art thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Much of his current research focuses on ideas of this instability of the art object and the intersection between practice and theory, examining art as a method for understanding the object’s coming together through its undoing. Developing these themes, he is currently organizing a group exhibition that he is co-curating with Natasha Chuk entitled Solvent Forms. In addition, Pappas-Kelley’s visual work, film, and installations have exhibited internationally in museums, festivals, and galleries, most recently at London gallery Five Years curated by Dennis Cooper."
"in Somerset, and Christopher began a series of pencil drawings (shown under the collective title ""The Mancunian Heresy"" in London in 1999, some illustrated in his book ""If This Be Not I""). That same year, he also built the building called the ""Canopic Fusion Reactor"", near St Ives in Cornwall (destroyed by arson 31 December 1999). In 2002, Bucklow began the paintings and pastel drawings of the series he called ""I Will Save Your Life"". These were exhibited at Riflemaker gallery in London in 2004, along with his dream rota or diary ""All I have left of You is Me""."
"Warhol were used in U2's 1997, 1998 PopMart Tour and in an exhibition in 2007 at the British National Portrait Gallery. Among many other works of art lost in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001, a painting from Lichtenstein’s ""The Entablature Series"" was destroyed in the subsequent fire. His work ""Crying Girl"" was one of the artworks brought to life in """". In 1964, Lichtenstein became the first American to exhibit at the Tate Gallery, London, on the occasion of the show ""'54–'64: Painting and Sculpture of a Decade."" In 1967, his first museum retrospective exhibition was"
"show ""Minky Manky"" at the South London Gallery. At the time Emin was relatively unknown. Freedman, concerned that he would be accused of nepotism, challenged Emin to make a great work. The result was Emin's famous ""tent"" ""Everyone I have Ever Slept With 1963–1995"", which was first exhibited in the show. Freedman's interview with her appears in the catalogue. Other featured artists were Sarah Lucas, Gary Hume, Damien Hirst, Mat Collishaw, Gilbert & George, Critical Décor and Stephen Pippin. Freedman said one of the show's themes was: In 2003, he opened Counter Gallery in Charlotte Road, Shoreditch, East London to"
"The Problem We All Live With The Problem We All Live With is a 1964 painting by Norman Rockwell. It is considered an iconic image of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. It depicts Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old African American girl, on her way to William Frantz Elementary School, an all-white public school, on November 14, 1960, during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis. Because of threats and violence against her, she is escorted by four deputy U.S. marshals; the painting is framed such that the marshals' heads are cropped at the shoulders. On the wall behind her"
"""seminal pieces"" she has created (the other being ""My Bed""); she has described both pieces as ""seminal, fantastic and amazing work"". ""Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995"" was a tent appliquéd with 102 names of the people she had slept with up to the time of its creation in 1995. The title is often misinterpreted as a euphemism indicating sexual partners and the work termed ""a list of all the people that Emin has ever had sex with"", but is in fact intended more inclusively: The names include family, friends, drinking partners, lovers and even two numbered foetuses. The"
"garment district. While Kogelnik was in London in 1966, her New York studio space was engulfed in an enormous fire. Although Kogelnik had just moved out prior to the fire, her downstairs neighbor, American artist Alfred Leslie, lost his entire artistic output. That same year, Kogelnik married radiation oncologist Dr. George Schwarz in London, giving birth to her son Mono in 1967, returning to New York shortly thereafter. In 1969, Kogelnik created a ""Moonhappening"" during the lunar landing of Apollo 11 at the Galerie Nächst St. Stephan in Vienna, producing a series of lunar-themed silkscreens during the live broadcast. In"
"exhibition hosted by the Academy in 1997 show-casing the Young British Artists. The documentary, according to Ayres, presented an unfair view of the older members of the Academy. She objected to the inclusion of Marcus Harvey's portrait of serial killer Myra Hindley in the exhibition. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours. On 24 May 2004, 14 of Ayres' pieces were destroyed in a fire at a warehouse of the art-storage company Momart in the Cromwell industrial estate in Leyton, east London. Ayres married the painter Henry Mundy in 1951."
"name of former boyfriend, Billy Childish, could be seen prominently through the tent opening. The tent was square and coloured blue; its shape was reminiscent of the Margate Shell Grotto, with which Emin was very familiar from childhood; inside on the floor of the tent was the text, ""With myself, always myself, never forgetting"". The work was created during a relationship she had in the mid-1990s with Carl Freedman, who had been an early friend of, and collaborator with, Damien Hirst and who had co-curated seminal Britart shows, such as ""Modern Medicine"" and ""Gambler"". In 1995 Freedman curated the show"
"Stanley Herbert Stanley Herbert (27 June 1905 – 1 January 1967) was a British commercial artist active in the 1930s to 1960s. Among his clients were ""The Radio Times"", for which he painted covers, and London Transport and Imperial Airways, for both of whom he designed posters. His other clients included the RAF, BOAC, Danish Bacon and the National Savings Bank, and the children's comics 'Eagle', 'Girl' and 'Jack and Jill'. He painted the portrait of Maid Marian used as a logo for the convenience food store chain of that name, which was use until the 1980s. He also worked"
"in 1951. This is situated next to the Sandhurst Road School memorial. The cemetery contains the graves of 39 Commonwealth service personnel of World War I and 198 from World War II. Those whose graves could not be marked by CWGC headstones are listed on the Screen Wall memorial in the main War Graves plot. Melton Prior (12 September 1845 – 2 November 1910), was an English artist and war correspondent[1] for ""The Illustrated London News"" from the early 1870s until 1904. Prior was one of the leading illustrators of late Victorian Britain, noted for his ability to quickly sketch"
"book cover design, she contributed illustrations to ""Deeds that Thrill the Empire"" and ""Hutchison's Story of the British Nation"". Both these publications were produced in instalments. In 1915 she produced a night-time watercolour of CSM Reid leading reserve troops across the crater-strewn ground of Hill 60 to the front line, with shells exploding all around them. The picture was bought by the Queen's Royal Surrey Regimental Association for permanent display in the regimental museum at Clandon Park, Guildford. The painting was destroyed in a fire on 29 April 2015. In 1925, she moved to 51 Avenue Gardens, Acton, London where"
"Whaam! Whaam! is a 1963 diptych painting by the American artist Roy Lichtenstein. It is one of the best-known works of pop art, and among Lichtenstein's most important paintings. ""Whaam!"" was first exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City in 1963, and purchased by the Tate Gallery, London, in 1966. It has been on permanent display at Tate Modern since 2006. The left-hand panel shows a fighter plane firing a rocket that, in the right-hand panel, hits a second plane which explodes in flames. Lichtenstein conceived the image from several comic-book panels. He transformed his primary source,"
"traded in Norwich from 1973 to April 2017. The shop was originally opened in Bridewell Alley. In 1999, the shop was relocated to Norwich's art nouveau Royal Arcade. Norwich Heritage Economic & Regeneration Trust took over the shop in 2009, making it both a retail operation and tourism attraction. In 2015, Guildhall Enterprises took the premises from HEART. The shop was closed in April 2017. In the 1920s Dorothy L. Sayers worked on their account and media slogans such as ""Come on Colman's, light my fire"" appeared in the late 20th century. Sayers was employed by S. H. Benson, her"