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Sl inkachu Deutsche Bank | Selection

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Slinkachu Named as one of the leading figures in Urban Art by Patrick Nguyen and Stuart Mackenzie in Beyond the Street (2010), Slinkachu creates (and then abandons) tiny installations around the city using reworked railway model figures that he then records photographically. For an artist whose work frequently represents the themes of anonymity, alienation and loneliness inspired by city-living, it is perhaps appropriate that Slinkachu biographical details remain vague. Born in Devon in 1979, Slinkachu moved to London in 2002 where he pursued a career in commercial art and design. In 2006, Slinkachu embarked on the first of his street art installation campaigns: The Little People Project. His miniature figures are left to fend for themselves in the bustling city, where they are then photographed and left to the abandon of their urban environment. These figures embody the estrangement spurred by the over-whelming nature of the modern metropolis, and incite a renewed perspective of the everyday urban experience to those who find them. This sense of isolation and melancholy, however, is accompanied by sense of irony and humour that makes Slinkachu's commentary all the more poignant. Inner City Snail, is a satire on the overabundance of urban media. The snails are decorated by hand with graffiti, advertisements, or tiny figures and then left to go about their business in the city - albeit on a smaller scale, and at a slower pace, than their grander counterparts. Slinkachu has received international attention for his Little People Project and has participated in many group exhibitions both locally and internationally, including two solo exhibitions at Andipa Gallery. Slinkachu also took part in the highly successful exhibition Extraordinary Measures at Belsay Hall, Northumberland where he showed alongside Ron Mueck, Mat Collishaw and Mariele Neudecker during the summer of 2010, a show in which the artist took a humorous look "at the obsession we have with the day trip, that English hobby which often provokes the full range of emotions" and saw a record breaking 55,000 visitors. Recently his second publication, Big Bad City was launched in Amsterdam by Lebowski Publishers in September 2010. The artist participated in Tunnel 228, produced by Punchdrunk and Old Vic Artistic Director Kevin Spacey in 2009. In 2008 he released his first publication Little People in the City; The street art of Slinkachu, published by Boxtree (Pan MacMillan) with a foreword by author Will Self. The artist currently lives and works in London.

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Slinkachu Swashbuckling, 2010. Continuous tone C-Type print, Signed Edition of 15 / 53 x 80 cm £980 + VAT Edition of 5 / 80 x 120 cm £1,950 + VAT Edition of 3 on Aluminium / 180 x 120 cm £4,500 + VAT

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Slinkachu Fantastic Voyage, 2011 Continuous tone C-Type print, Signed Edition of 15 / 53 x 80 cm Sold Out Edition of 5 / 80 x 120 cm £1,950 + VAT Edition of 3 on Aluminium / 180 x 120 cm Sold Out

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Slinkachu Boys Own Adventure, 2011. Continuous tone C-Type print, Signed Edition of 15 / 53 x 80 cm £980 + VAT Edition of 5 / 80 x 120 cm £1,950 + VAT .

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Slinkachu Sugar High, 2011. Continuous tone C-Type print, Signed Edition of 15 / 53 x 80 cm £980 + VAT Edition of 5 / 80 x 120 cm £1,950 + VAT Edition of 3 on Aluminium / 120 x 180 cm Sold Out

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Slinkachu Downpour, 2010. Continuous tone C-Type print, Signed Edition of 15 / 53 x 80 cm £980 + VAT Edition of 5 / 80 x 120 cm £1,950 + VAT Edition of 3 on Aluminium / 120 x 180 cm £4,500 + VAT Sold Out

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Slinkachu One Day Son, 2011 Continuous tone C-Type print, Signed Edition of 15 / 53 x 80 cm £980 + VAT Edition of 5 / 80 x 120 cm £1,950 + VAT

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Slinkachu The Last Resort, 2010. Continuous tone C-Type print, Signed Edition of 15 / 53 x 80 cm Sold Out Edition of 5 / 80 x 120 cm Sold Out Edition of 3 on Aluminium / 120 x 180 cm Sold Out

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Slinkachu ‘They’re Not Pets, Susan’, 2011. Mixed Media Installation, Signed Edition of 5 / 15 x 20 x 15 cm Sold Out

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Slinkachu It’s All Fun and Games, 2011. Mixed Media Installation Unique / 215 x 28 x 34 cm £8,500 + VAT

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. Slinkachu, 1979 - Spilt Milk . Continuous tone Lambda C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive metallic paper on aluminium, 2009 Edition of 5 / 80 x 120 cm (31 1/2 x 47 1/4 in.) Edition of 15 / 80 x 53 cm (31 1/2 x 20 7/8 in.) Edition of 2 on aluminium / 120 x 180 cm (47¼ x 80 in.)

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. Slinkachu, 1979 - High Expectations . Continuous tone Lambda C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive matte paper, 2010 Edition of 18 on aluminium / 12 x 30 cm (4 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.) Edition of 7 / 47.2 x 120 cm (18 5/8 x 47 1/4 in.) Edition of 2 on aluminium / 120 x 180 cm (47¼ x 80 in.)

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. Slinkachu, 1979 - Wonderland . Continuous tone light-jet digital photographic print on Fuji Crystal Archive Matte, 2009 Edition of 15 | 59.9 x 86.4 cm (23 5/8 x 34 in.) Edition of 5 | 86.4 x 126.4 cm (34 x 49 3/4 in.)

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Select Publications: Douglas Bailey, Andrew Cochrane, Jean Zambelli, Unearthed: a comparative study of Jōmun dogū and Neolithic figurines, inter alia Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, AHRC, San Francisco State University, 2010 Patrick Nguyen and Stuart Mackenzie, Beyond the Street: 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art, Gestalten, 2010 Will Self (Foreword), Little People in the City: The Street Art of Slinkachu, Boxtree/Pan MacMillan, 2008 Francesca Gavin, Street Renegades: New Underground Art, Lawrence King, 2007 R. Klanten, S. Ehmann and M. Huebner, Tactile: High Touch Visuals, Die Gestalten, 2007 Recent Press:

The Telegraph | March 2011 | Concrete Ocean: little people left on London streets by urban artist Slinkachu

BBC London News | March 2011

Observer | February 2011 | Street art scales down: why Cordal and Slinkachu are masters of miniature

Guardian | April 2009 | Little wonders

Metro | June 2008 | Graffiti snails roaming London

To view further works by the artist please visit the website of Andipa Gallery here: http://www.andipa.com/Slinkachu/Slinkachu.php