James McQueen launches new solo show at Halcyon Gallery

A Beautiful Waste of Time, the latest solo exhibition from anonymous artist James McQueen, opened to the public at Halcyon in Mayfair on 2nd March, displaying a new body of artwork using vintage book covers as a starting point for bold and satirical paintings. The exhibition brings together a focused selection of new and recent works by McQueen. Working primarily with the visual language of vintage book covers, he reimagines forms designed for immediacy and consumption through a materially and conceptually layered painting process. Across the exhibition, McQueen’s signature titles are present alongside new phrases, featuring satirical and confrontational humour drawn from personal experience and popular culture. The works also reveal McQueen’s increasingly direct engagement with art history. References to Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Yayoi Kusama, Banksy,