LIVE ONLINE AUCTION: BREAK IN EMERGENCY
4BYSIX
LONDON, UK
May 18 – May 25, 2023

4BYSIX

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

4BYSIX announces BREAK IN EMERGENCY, an online auction of original works by internationally renown artists, painted on salved bus panels.  The proceeds of each painting sold at auction will benefit disadvantaged communities in London.  

Buses have been used as a mode of public transport in London since 1829 when George Shillibeer started operating a horse-drawn omnibus service from Paddington to the City of London.  In the decades since their introduction, the red London bus has become a symbol of the city. 

Using waste material from London's decommissioned double decker buses, 4BYSIX provides artists with unique canvases to create art. Through auctions and exhibitions, their work goes on to fund social projects across the city.

Our exhibitions host artists from all over the world, in galleries in London, New York, and Hong Kong. Subsequent auctions fund our on-going and future projects, such as our partnerships with the New Horizon Youth Center or Spedal. One of our recent projects, F.C. HOPE, is a football team for young adults with difficult living situations, giving disadvantaged boys and girls the structure and support of team sports.  The more art we share, the more good we can do. By giving panels to international artists we are sharing visual culture between countries, enriching London with the artist's inspirations from a city on the other side of the world. From street to street, the bus panel gives us a cyclical way of sharing culture through art.

Natalie Westbrook (b. 1980) is a painter based in Pittsburgh, PA, with a BFA from Cooper Union, an MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of Louisville, and her MFA from Yale University. Despite her impressive academic credentials, her work is incredibly focused on the “here and now.” It is dramatically attached to the natural environment, pushing the ontological boundaries of how we see the non-human world.

Her paintings are intersections rather than investigations, evoking the invisible connections between humanity, environment, and imagination. Often abstract, Westbrook’s practice allows for complete imaginative freedom, embracing the uninhibited agency of natural intelligences upon her subconscious. Furthermore, she is an animator of space; using vibrant colour and movement to give eyes to the gallery walls in order to remind her audience of a perception beyond their own.

Bidding goes live May 11 and the auction closes May 18. 

For more information visit: 4bysix.com/products/natalie-westbrook