10th Dec, 2025 18:00

Urban & Contemporary Art

Lot 221

Lot 221 - Faile (Collaboration), 'Strange Encounters (Sepia)', 2007

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Faile (Collaboration), 'Strange Encounters (Sepia)', 2007

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Faile (Collaboration), 'Strange Encounters (Sepia)', 2007, hand embellished screenprint in colours on Somerset paper, signed and numbered from a varied edition of 14 in pencil, published by Pictures On Walls; sheet: 76 x 56cm, 85.5 x 64cm inc frame

Auction: Urban & Contemporary Art, 10th Dec, 2025

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Faile

Since 1999, Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller have collaborated under the name FAILE (an anagram of “a life”) to create kinetic, image-saturated paintings, prints, sculptures, and installations. Their democratic street style features fragmented mash-ups of comic book and cartoon characters, advertising and propaganda slogans, bright patterns and colors, and historical and pop cultural references. At the beginning of their career, FAILE’s work appeared on the streets as stickers, posters, and stenciled images. Since then, the duo has enjoyed exhibitions at Tate Modern, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Brooklyn Museum, the Central Academy of Fine Art Museum in Beijing, and the Mima Museum in Brussels, among other institutions. FAILE has also produced large-scale murals and staged participatory public interventions in cities including New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Lyon, France—further blurring the lines between “high” and “low” culture.