Adam Neate

[5] His work can have two and three-dimensional qualities, as he tears the material, builds it in layers and staples pieces together, mainly making figurative images, which include self-portraits and portraits of friends.

[5] In an essay in December 2012, art historian Ben Jones wrote "In Adam Neate’s most recent work, space itself becomes the medium.

Foreground to background shifting, space dissolving, volume folds in, energy pushes out ...Neate’s compositions are mapped by sensations of simultaneity.

"[7] He gave away works to friends, but built up an excess and left them wrapped in bin liners outside charity shops as a donation.

When he discovered that they were not being sold, but thrown out with the rubbish, he started to leave them in the streets instead, with works leaning on lampposts, doors and wheelie bins, as an open exhibition,[4] which looked "really surreal".

[9] Some of the work quickly appeared on eBay with starting prices ranging from 99p to £1,000; Neate had no objection to such sales, and thought it might help some people out for Christmas.

"[11] The works were screen prints on cardboard of a man, with stamping, each being slightly different, and protected in a cellophane wrapper;[4] Andy Warhol provided the precedent for industrial style production.

[4] Neate created the master image in a stencil, and thereafter did not touch the prints, which were made by a professional screen printer.

[12] Neate wished to overcome boundaries between product, print and painting: "I’m interested in that Warhol idea of the brands as assisted readymade.