Art Academy London - Auction 2024

Offering something distinct and increasingly rare

Founded in 2000, AAL blends skills based art education with contemporary processes and theory to help students produce a rich, sustainable practice. AAL’s unique hands-on teaching approach offers the highest number of contact hours of any higher education art school in the UK across their academic courses.

As an art education charity, we’re passionate about championing art for all. We offer student bursaries that we designate from our own funds – we put any surplus back into supporting students and undertaking outreach work in our community.

Tanya Russell has become well known over the last 30 years for her life-like and vibrant animal sculptures.

For Tanya her practice is not only about capturing the animals she sculpts with marks and movement. It’s about our relationships with those animals and their welfare.

Joshua Armitage’s work aims to merge sensory experiences and diverse drawing and painting techniques, aiming to evoke remembered sensations. Place holds a fascination for him, serving as a focal point for exploring how architecture intertwines with spirituality, memory, and emotion. The Latin phrase 'genius loci,' refers to the powerful, protective spirit of a place and encapsulates this sentiment. Paul Nash referenced it in relation to landscapes or landmarks infused with a distinctive ambiance, sensing a spiritual presence in certain locations—an intangible magic and a feeling of existing outside of time, themes resonating with Armitage’s own work.