BFAMI Breakfast at Claridge’s ArtSpace with Mary McCartney

We invite you to join this exclusive breakfast tour with Mary McCartney of the exhibition, ‘Double Exposure: David Bailey & Mary McCartney’, curated by Brandei Estes at Claridge’s ArtSpace

Tuesday 25 June 

10:00

Claridge’s ArtSpace is an art gallery unveiled at the legendary hotel in the heart of Mayfair in 2021. This space, designed by John Pawson, is accessed by the Claridge’s ArtSpace Café on the restored hotel façade on Brook’s Mews. Claridge’s invites its long-standing friends and gallerists within the art world to stage rotating exhibitions and shows, and has approachability at its core, with free access to all. 

David Bailey CBE is a world-renowned photographer and director, known for his fashion, advertising and portrait photography. Active since the 1960s, he has revolutionized the genre with his informal and spontaneous signature style. His vivid documents of London in the 1960s helped define the city for the world and have charted shifting social values and rapidly changing street culture. Bailey has gone on to receive the title of Commander of the Order of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth II, and in 2016 a Lifetime Achievement award from the International Center of Photography in New York. The artist’s photographs are held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Bailey currently lives and works in London, United Kingdom. 

Mary McCartney is an internationally acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, and sustainable food pioneer with a passion for storytelling. As a portrait and fine art photographer, McCartney has exhibited worldwide, and is held in major private and public permanent collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the National Portrait Gallery, London; The Royal Academy, London; and the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Paris. In 2015 was invited by Buckingham Palace to take the official photograph to mark Queen Elizabeth II becoming the longest reigning Monarch. 

Brandei Estes is the former Head of Photographs in Europe, Middle East, and Asia at Sotheby’s, where she was instrumental in the growth of the Photographs sales in Europe and further afield. Estes is regularly a judge and nominator for numerous international photography awards including the Prix Pictet and the Louis Roederer Photography Prize for Sustainability and served for five years as the Chair for the advisory committee of The Photographers’ Gallery TPG Contemporaries. Estes lectures throughout the year on collecting photographs and the photography market for public and private institutions, museums, galleries and fairs in the UK and continental Europe. 

Image: Royal Academy Harry. 2017, Mary McCartney

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