BEEZY BAILEY
BEEZY BAILEY, Peaceful Battlefield
Oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm
BEEZY BAILEY, In Spring, we sprung
Oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm
BEEZY BAILEY, Ivory
Oil on canvas, 120 x 90 cm
BEEZY BAILEY, The Birth of the God of Love
Oil on canvas, 200 x 150 cm
BEEZY BAILEY, War of the Roses
Oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm
BEEZY BAILEY, King & Queen Maquette
Hand painted bronze, 104 x 40 x 5 cm
BEEZY BAILEY, A Boy Called Gillian
Hand painted bronze, 123 x 74 x 35 cm
BEEZY BAILEY, Brazil
Hand painted bronze, 173 x 14 x 8 cm
BEEZY BAILEY, Peaceman
Bronze, 118 x 16 x 49 cm
Beezy Bailey’s Peaceman (medium) cast in bronze with an indigo patina. One of South Africa’s leading artists, Bailey’s eclectic and effervescent approach to art has attracted a stellar list of collaborators, including David Bowie, Brian Eno and Dave Matthews. His is a storybook career that included early encounters with Andy Warhol, which was to inspire Bailey’s own Cape Town version of The Factory. Bailey aspires to create art as a balm for a mad world – a corrective for our most lamentable human qualities – and in this spirit his serene Peaceman, eyes closed and palm open, offers a symbol of peace to the world.
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BEEZY BAILEY, A new home on a faraway planet
Mixed media on canvas, 150 x 90 cm
BEEZY BAILEY, Airplane King
Hand painted bronze, 40 x 90 x 6.5 cm
One of South Africa’s most colourful and celebrated artists, Beezy Bailey has exhibited internationally for nearly 40 years. He is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice includes painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and ceramics. Reflecting on the ideas and imagery for his work, in his own words he tells us, ‘frozen dreams, images and legends enter from my subconscious … the realm of my imagination. I act as a conduit for visual messages greater than I am.’ Figures in flight frequent Bailey’s work and pay homage to the generations before him; his father was an RAF pilot during the second world war, and his grandmother an outstanding female aviator who flew a pioneering solo flight from London to Cape Town and back in 1928. More generally, Bailey aspires to create art as a balm for a mad world – a corrective for our most lamentable human qualities, including a planet brutalized by extremes of wealth and poverty, environmental ignorance, and negligence. ‘For every degree of darkness in the world, there has to be an inverse degree of light, so that we can see it all. So it is light that I search for – light of the flame of humanity, light that has to shine out of my work.’
BEEZY BAILEY, Cat in a Tree
Oil on board, 40.5 x 30 cm
BEEZY BAILEY, Fallen Angel (Small)
Bronze, 100 x 70 x 40 cm
David Bowie once said of this artist – “Everyone should own a Beezy Bailey”.
One of South Africa’s most colourful and celebrated artists, Beezy Bailey is an artist set alight by the need to find expression for his creativity. Painter, sculptor, printmaker, performance artist, surrealist, collaborator, iconoclast – Bailey’s artistic practice defies easy categorization.
Many of the ideas and imagery for Bailey’s work emerge from dreams, the subconscious and a tireless imagination. Bailey’s father was a RAF pilot and his grandmother an outstanding female aviator who flew a pioneering solo flight from London to Cape Town and back in 1928.
This gives some context to the many references to rising, falling and floating in Bailey’s art. Flight in all its different meanings clearly entered his imagination at an early stage, and never left his dreams
Bailey’s fallen angel appears to be falling, floating and flying all at once - its head rooted to the earth, its reflection simultaneously floating in the clouds ….
BEEZY BAILEY, Happy Morning
Oil on canvas, 76.5 x 51 cm
BEEZY BAILEY, Heaven and Earth
Oil on canvas, 200 x 150 cm
BEEZY BAILEY, King
Hand painted bronze, 217 x 27 x 9 cm
BEEZY BAILEY, Love Rising Love Falling
Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 30.5 cm
BEEZY BAILEY, No more masks
Oil on canvas, 120 x 90 cm
BEEZY BAILEY, Peaceman
Bronze, 205 x 91 x 47 cm
BEEZY BAILEY, Poseidon's Last Dance
Oil on canvas, 50 x 100 cm
BEEZY BAILEY, Queen
Hand painted bronze, 202 x 29 x 8 cm
BEEZY BAILEY, Striped Forest Cat
Copperplate Etching, 33 x 27 cm
BEEZY BAILEY, The last birds in paradise had no echo
Oil on canvas, 150 x 200 cm
BEEZY BAILEY, Walking Tall
Bronze, 240 x 150 x 18 cm
Specialists in contemporary art from South Africa. Established in 1913. South African artists are part of the global conversation. We seek to make their voices heard.