Justin Mortimer is a British Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1970. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Phillips London have featured Justin Mortimer's work in the past.Justin Mortimer's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 366 USD to 8,992 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2004 the record price for this artist at auction is 8,992 USD for Shopping, sold at Christie's South Kensington in 2005. Justin Mortimer has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for FAD Magazine in July 2025.
Tabish Khan, the @LondonArtCritic, picks his Top 5 exhibitions to see in London right now. Check out the previous top 5 if you鈥檙e after more shows to visit.
Royal portraits, as a rule, tend to be fairly staid, predictable affairs. Full of symbolism, sure, but generally symbolism of the traditional, establishment kind: symbols of state, of office, of pomp and lineage.
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..Secondly by using fine spray paint in his works Mortimer produces a cognitive rupture between areas of the image that appear to be out of focus and the foreground motifs which then assume vivid clarity...
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..Locations that have borne witness to conflict, or moments of extreme human vulnerability are Mortimer's primary inspiration; images of battle sites, derelict wastelands, military graveyards and other places...
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