Art Auction - Arms Around the Child

British contemporary artist Dan Baldwin (b. 1972, Manchester) began his artistic career at Eastbourne College of Art and Design in 1995, and later received a BA (Hons) from Kent Institute of Art and Design. After graduating he worked as a studio associate tutoring younger art students, and during this time started receiving commissions and moved to Brighton where he acquired his own studio. Pop Art has always been a major influence in Baldwin’s working practice, artists such as Warhol, Sir Peter Blake, Jean-Michael Basquiat, David Hockney, and Robert Rauschenberg.  After developing his style and ideas and exploring printmaking as a new medium  Baldwin began working as a full-time artist and showing with galleries in London and Brighton. 

Primarily working as a painter, Baldwin is also recognised for his silkscreens and had a retrospective of select print works at the Saatchi gallery in 2016, as well as his ceramic works, sculpture is also a medium he has embraced, working with a foundry in Athens on lost wax methods of casting in bronze.

He has collaborated on many projects such as book covers, album cover artwork and fashion collaborations, and has seen his work printed onto furniture, skis, skateboards, silk scarfs, tracksuits and many other mediums over the years.

 His work has been exhibited in galleries and art fairs all over the world, including in Basel, London, Tokyo, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Collectors include leading artists such as Damien Hirst, Gilbert & George and Jake Chapman, and celebrities such as Bernie Ecclestone, Pete Townsend, & Sir Ronald Cohen, Baldwin has worked with global brands, including Paolo Nutini and Max Factor, fashion/clothing designers such as Sara Berman, & Mercy Delta and charities including British Heart Foundation, Teenage Cancer Trust, Teen Cancer U.S.A, Help Refugees, Big Issue and C.A.L.M. (Campaign Against Living Miserably), and has appeared in magazines such as Elle, Dazed & Confused, Time Out NYC, and Modern Painters. 

In 2021 he was commissioned by the Institute of Digital Archeology to produce a pot for the Bicentennial of poet Keats, alongside poet Laureate Simon Armatage and poet Scarlet Sabet, which launched at the Keats Museum earlier in 2022 & is touring international museums.

He currently lives and works in West Sussex.