Beezy Bailey (b. 1962 Johannesburg) a South African artist who works in various media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking and ceramics. He received a fine art degree from Byam Shaw School of Art in London in 1986. Bailey says he creates art “as a balm for a mad world – a corrective for our most lamentable human qualities, including a planet brutalized by extremes of wealth and poverty, environmental ignorance and negligence.” Many of his works emanate from his abiding concern with the Anthropocene, the present epoch characterized as the time in which the collective activities of Homo sapiens began to substantially alter the earth’s surface, atmosphere, oceans, and systems of ecological recycling.

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Bailey has a history of close collaboration with other artists, including David Bowie, Brian Eno and Dave Matthews. Bailey has also been the driving force behind several art auctions benefitting various charitable institutions including ART 4 AIDS and the Art For Africa auction held at Sotheby’s in London. His work is represented in several art collections, including the David Bowie Art Collection, the Getty Family Collection as well as the Oppenheimer Art Collection.