Helena Traill

Helena Traill, a designer, painter, photographer and long-time supporter of The Brain Tumour Charity, will be taking part in our Time art exhibition!
Helena’s father has been living with a brain tumour for over 20 years and she’s used her creative spark to support The Charity in a bunch of different ways – from taking on cycling challenges and donating money from her art sales to writing and self-publishing a book about normalising conversations about cancer.
Helena studied at Central Saint Martins and as her part of her final project she created a short film featuring Martino Sclavi, a producer and director who sadly passed away in 2020 after a glioblastoma diagnosis.

Stony

Antonio Russo aka Stony will be exhibited at Time.
Multi- award- winning artist Stony sadly passed away in June this year following a 3three- year battle with a brain tumour. In February 2019, he was diagnosed with a Glioblastoma Grade 4 Brain Tumour. He underwent two surgeries, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy, participated in a clinical trial and Avastin treatment alongside chemotherapy. During this time, he raised money for The Brain Tumour Charity, a charity very close to him after his dad passed away from the same type of Brain Tumour in 2007.
Stony began painting and drawing at a very young age, however, being heavily dyslexic and autistic, he always found difficulty in expressing himself. He used art as his means of communication, channelling his excess energy to create detailed pencil drawings of the surrounding landscape.
Quantus Gallery will continue to show his work and give to The Brain Tumour Charity by running a series of events and fundraising initiatives and will have a space at our Time exhibition.

Ariela Wetheimer

Ariela Wetheimer is a multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works in Tel Aviv. Active in a variety of mediums: photography, painting, and video. Arielas works focus on identity, time, and the body’s memory. Having studied art at Oranim College, she has had several solo and group shows in Israel and abroad.

Ariela will be donating a piece named “Homelandscape” which connects landscape to the body, the physical to the spiritual, wistfulness and memories to reality. This is a follow-up exhibition to “Skin,” which was shown at the Palazzo Mora at the 2019 Venice Biennale. The starting point for this exhibition, same as the previous one, is biographical. “Skin” was about the connection between inside and outside, between mental trauma and the sheath of the enclosing body.

The trauma is present here, through masks that have been part of the medical treatment of Eitan, her partnerand have become the central motif of the exhibition.

Hannah Gibson

Whilst studying Geology at the University of Edinburgh Hannah became fascinated by the mineralogy and the reactions between various elements, metals and compounds. This led her towards a passion for the alchemy of glass.
Capturing the nostalgic imagery of childhood, exposing hidden narratives, through cast sculptural glass stands at the core of Hannah’s work.
Passionate about sustainability and recycling, using recycled glass, and found objects. Sweet Nothings are a series of unique Cast Glass figures. Usually found in pairs, whispering ‘Sweet Nothings’ to one another.

David Shringley

David Shrigley was awarded the decoration of Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire or OBE in Januray 2020. David Shrigley’s quick-witted drawings and hand-rendered texts are typically deadpan in their humour and reveal chance utterings like snippets of over-heard conversations. Recurring themes and thoughts pervade his storytelling, capturing deliberately two-dimensional views of the world, the perspective of aliens and monsters or the compulsive habits of an eavesdropper shouting out loud.

Russell West

Russell West’s intensely coloured, dripping paint artworks draw the eye into a three-dimensional labyrinth of layers and hollows, colours and patterns. West can spend up to a year creating a work, repeatedly applying prepared layers and strips of (just) paint onto pre-arranged wire and pins on a board, then allowing the work, in part, to be defined by the natural effects of gravity and the serendipitous movement of the paint.

The ‘Light Brigade’ piece is a portrayal of the ‘charge of the light brigade’, using ‘light speed ‘ as a narrative to capture a moment in time.

Nicholas Kontaxis

27 year old contemporary artist, Nicholas Kontaxis thrives as a self-taught abstract artist expressing his unique passion for life through his vibrant paintings, a riot of primary colours despite living with a brain tumour and 50,000 seizures to date. Kontaxis communicates through his bold, colourful and inspirational large-scale canvases that have touched countless individuals and collectors from around the world. His paintings have become his voice despite limited expressive verbal skills.

Kontaxis has anchored numerous successful solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Palm Springs, most recently in Beverly Hills and also exhibited in London in 2019. His commissions can be found in the collections of Roger Federer, Adele and Adidas for Coachella. Nicholas recently received the Forbes 30 under 30 accolade for art and style in 2023.

Don’t Walk Away is a unique, never been seen before piece of Kontaxis art that is exhibited at our TIME Art Exhibition with very kind permission of Nicholas and the Kontaxis family who personally accompanied the piece to the UK for this exhibition.

Further enquiries regarding purchase can be made to sally.williams@thebraintumourcharity.org.