ADAM NEATE (BRITISH, b. 1977)
Bad News Travels Fast
signed with insignia (lower left)
mixed media on canvas
135 x 165 cm. (53 x 65 in.)
Executed 2009

Provenance
With Elms Lester Painting Rooms, London, where purchased by the present owner

Exhibited
London, Elms Lester Painting Rooms, A New Understanding, Oct-Nov 2009

English-born, Adam Neate is a conceptual artist recognised for his multi-layered collages and his inventive use of mark-making and perspective. Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Carl Jung, and Alan Watts are among the artists who influenced Neate. His style combines constructivism, street art, and a highly individualistic approach to figurative painting.

Neate's skilful layer juxtaposition and use of a wide range of materials often give his figurative paintings a multi-dimensional aspect that shifts depending on the perspective of the viewer. Art historian Ben Jones wrote this in 2012: "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."