All This Is Yours
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Jealous are delighted to present Baker’s beautifully intricate graphite Duckling Drawings alongside his 30ft upside-down toy aeroplane sculpture ‘Assemblage to Induce Mild Anxiety’ at our Shoreditch Gallery.
For four days only, Jealous East will be the landing strip for Baker’s installation, bringing the works to a UK audience for the first time in the exhibition ‘All This is Yours’ At the end of last year, Soho Beach House commissioned Charming Baker to create an installation during Art Basel week. Created in two chapters; inside the House Baker exhibited 153 original portrait drawings of ducklings while outside Baker installed an oversized toy plane on the white sands of the House’s private Beach.
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Charming Baker
Born in Hampshire 1964, Charming Baker spent most of his early life travelling around the world following his father, a Commando in the British Army. At the age of 12, he and his family finally settled in Ripon, North Yorkshire. Baker left school at 16 and worked various manual jobs. In 1985, having gone back to college, Baker was accepted onto a course at the prestigious Central Saint Martin’s, where he later returned as a lecturer. After graduating, Baker worked for many years as a commercial artist, also developing his personal work. Solo shows at the Truman Brewery in 2007 and the Redchurch Street Gallery in 2009 were followed by a show in New York in 2010. In 2011, Baker’s London show at the Mercer Street Studios cemented his place as one of the rising stars in the world of Contemporary Art. In 2012, a sculpture entitled ‘Triumph in the face of absurdity’ was displayed in the Victoria and Albert Museum, (the piece, a collaboration for the 2012 Olympics between the artist and Sir Paul Smith). His 2013 LA exhibition entitled 'Lie Down I Think I Love You' cemented his relationship with the infamous PMM Art Projects, and caused a mass of media interest across America. Baker’s work explores well-trodden and intrinsically linked themes; life, love, death, terror, joy, despair… with an underlying reference to the classics and a dark humour. Although primarily a painter with an interest in narrative and an understanding of the tradition of painting, in recent years Baker has produced sculptural pieces in a wide and varied choice of materials, (from the anciently traditional to the not so).
