ABOUT

When we weren’t being forced to draw still lives of wine bottles and bread baskets, us folk at Cement grew up through our school days admiring the glossy, mural images of Rauschenberg.. the pin up Firestone girls of Mel Ramos and the screenprinted, graphic icons of Warhol.

Now we have grown up a bit - earnt a crust down in the big bad city and in recent years we have seen inside the worlds of branding and media, done our time in front of computers in the design sweatshops of East London, saw the heyday before the internet design bubble burst in 2001 and from the sidelines watched the rise of graffiti art from the rail sidings of Farringdon to the Auction listings of Bonhams. We have witnessed the lines between fine art, illustration and design blur - as art becomes more like marketing, advertising like art and public access and appreciation of “Art” has been blown open to the public more than ever before. The way it should be.

To cut a long story short – we love graphic art, and always have. Whatever it’s called – and whether it be on scruffy walls or in white cubes – we stil love it.

After too long chained to desks like performing monkeys and losing sight of why we like what we do – Cement is the gradual realisation of an ambition to own our own gallery, both to create an outlet for our own work and for other artists whom we admire. Covering all areas of contemporary graphic art - including urban spray canned tomfoolery, abstract collage and painting and some highly skilled computer work.. the work all has one common thread - the images are both graphic - and we like them. We hope you do too!

Basically we just want to get our fingernails grubby and get high on the paint fumes… and hopefully we’ll have some cool work to show for it. Enjoy!