collecting with a conscience…

Purslane was founded in 2020 to shake up the status quo of the art market and promote a more socially conscious way of investing in art while supporting emerging artistic talent and raising awareness around philanthropic causes. The new gallery initiative is the gallery model of the future, disrupting and democratising the institutionalised art market by directing the majority of the proceeds to the artists and charitable organisations.

Our annual online fundraiser in honour of International Women’s Day, featuring the work of as group of emerging and mid-career female artists.

‘What She Said’ brings together the creative work of a group of some of the most exciting female artists currently practicing in the UK. The title is a play on the widespread crass sexual innuendo, ‘that’s what she said,’ reframed and rearticulated as an invitation to observe the voices of women, represented here, through their works of art.

25% of all sales will be donated to Women’s Aid.

Participating artists: C. Lucy R Whitehead, Joana Galego, Anne-Carney Raines, Olivia Sterling, Catherine Repko, Katy Stubbs, Colette LaVette, Lily Macrae, Bobbye Fermie, Charlotte Colbert, Eleanor Johnson and Nooka Shepherd.

We look forward to the holiday seasons here at Purslane, in part, because it signals our annual collaboration with Orfeo Taiguri and his beautiful cartoon series. It’s become a ritual pilgrimage to visit him in his studio as Autumn turns to Winter, and riffle through hundreds of drawings together, bringing together a collection of drawings, that seem to be an alchemical offering from his heart and my headspace.

This years collection feels hopeful, full of love and sometimes a bit silly! We’re biased, but believe that these are the best Christmas gifts that could ever be given. ‘A Simple Grain Of Sand’ is now live!

25% of all sales will be donated to the Mental Health Foundation.

"Each of these drawings is fished out from the river of passing little thoughts. I don't know where they come from but sometimes I take the time to gently scoop them up and set them down. They are a great joy, relief and meditation to make. I hope you can feel that."

Orfeo Tagiuri (b. 1991, Brookline, MA, USA) lives and works in London. Orfeo’s practice spans from painting and drawing to performance, film, woodcarving, animation, and music. The artist has exhibited and performed internationally, including at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018), at Fiorucci Art Trust’s Volcano Extravaganza (2016), MACRO, Rome (2021) and the ICA, London (2015). In 2020 Orfeo was nominated for Bloomberg New Contemporaries award.