Known as the 'Warhol of the West', Billy Schenck brought his art to the UK for the first time ever in November 2018 with appearances at our galleries in Covent Garden, Manchester, Leeds and Cambridge. Collectors were treated to an inside scoop into the ideas and inspirations of the real-life ranch sorting world champion, who has previously enjoyed having his work displayed in a retrospective exhibition alongside other art world luminaries such as Andy Warhol. Along with meeting Billy, guests were also the first to see the four stunning limited edition artworks from his new collection, The New West, which takes inspiration from black-and- white stills of Hollywood Westerns. Following his debut UK tour, the artist graced the pages of the bestselling men’s magazine, GQ, after senior commissioning editor Charlie Burton was wowed by the work, describing it as ‘an implosion of Navajo culture, modern cowgirls, apocalyptic imagery and Greek mythology’. Ohio-born Billy, who is credited as the founder of the ‘Western Pop Art’, said: “ I had no idea that after watching the Sergio Leone trilogy of spaghetti westerns I would spend the next 48 years obsessed with trying to capture the essence of the ‘Western’ myth."
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