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James McQueen This Is Not A Bloody Hotel For Sale
James McQueen
This Is Not A Bloody Hotel
Mixed-media on paper
95 × 125 cm
About this work
James McQueen is a British artist celebrated for his irreverent, text-driven mixed-media works, in which vernacular phrases are elevated to formal artistic statements through layers of paint, ink, and collage. This Is Not A Bloody Hotel is a mixed-media work on paper measuring 95 × 125 cm, and represents one of McQueen's most recognisable modes of address: the exasperated domestic declaration, rendered with the authority of a proclamation. The title phrase — familiar from a particular strain of British wit — becomes, once isolated on the surface of a carefully made work, something both comedic and strangely tender. McQueen's process is as important as his subject matter. Working on paper, he builds surfaces of considerable depth and texture, combining painted ground with drawn and applied elements to create works that reward close looking. The interplay between handmade mark and layered mixed media is central to his practice, generating an energy that is simultaneously raw and considered. At 95 × 125 cm, the work is substantial, designed to hold a wall and command a room. McQueen has built an enthusiastic international following among collectors who respond to art that speaks directly and with humour, while remaining formally accomplished. His work sits within a tradition of language-based art — yet is firmly rooted in a British sensibility, channelling the wry observations and cultural frankness of everyday speech into objects of lasting resonance.
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About James McQueen
James McQueen Paintings for Sale | Guy Hepner, New York
James McQueen is a British artist born in 1977 whose paintings sit at the intersection of Pop sensibility, material obsession, and dry British wit. He works under a pseudonym, and his identity is secondary to the work — which is the point. What matters is what ends up on the canvas.
McQueen's paintings are built, not simply applied. He works in layers — paint over paint, colour over colour — then sands the surface back to expose what lies beneath, then seals it in lacquer. The result is a depth that photographs struggle to capture. These are surfaces you need to stand in front of.
His subject matter has ranged from reinterpreted Penguin paperback covers to politically charged commentary to the large-scale mixed-media Anthology works now available through Guy Hepner. Across all of it runs a consistent preoccupation: the visual language of mass culture, rendered monumental and unfamiliar by the seriousness of the craft brought to bear on it.
McQueen has shown extensively in London and is represented in significant private collections internationally.
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