Sacha Jafri the Painter

With the official end of the YBA’s and the public crying out for an alternative to ‘Shock Art’, Sacha has been hailed as the painter to release us from the tirade of pickled sharks and unmade beds produced by the likes of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. While acknowledging such works as alternative art forms, Sacha’s direction as an artist can be seen as the complete antithesis to the Shock Art movement, and is recognized as the leader of a new wave of painters who are set to topple this movement that has dominated for over a decade.

“Painters have lost out to fried eggs and formaldehyde in the battle for public attention waged by conceptual artists over the past decade. But not for much longer, if Sacha Jafri has his way. Sacha Jafri is on a mission to restore painting to the forefront of British art. Could he put Hirst and Emin in the Shade?
Financial Times – Front cover of ‘How To Spend’ It magazine.

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