Anthea

“Broken places and blood and devastation. There can be beauty even in wreckage .” - Anthea Hawtrey-O’Callaghan

"It is not camouflage nor uniforms, nor the clean lines of a gun, nor even heroic profiles, that make good subjects for war pictures; it is death and destruction, and the agony that stays about the rubbish pile and the grave. … a wall falling like a short man; the broken carcase of a lift-shaft; machinery dangling its severed limbs in the bare well of a mantle-factory." - John Piper, 1941

Full Name: Anthea Hawtrey-O’Callaghan Apparent Age: 25 Occupation & Fame: An up-and-coming art dealer and agent, based in London but in California to develop her portfolio of American artists. She specializes in art imports, installation, performative, and conceptual art centering on ruined sites of war, and human corporeal extension and extremity. Demeanor: Visionary Astrological Sign: Aquarius Sun, Pisces Rising Played By: Nastya Kusakina Music: ’Cold Planet’ – Dreaming Cooper; Spotify playlist Plot Hooks ♦ Art dealer and curator: Anthea is a respected art dealer and agent, actively seeking emerging artists to represent on the international stage. She has an established and respected agency based in London and is in Prospect to develop links with American and specifically Californian talent. She is especially keen on conceptual, installation and performance art. ♦ Ventrue Anthea is a committed member of her Clan, polite, gracious, respectful, and comporting herself with decorum and quiet elegance. She has earned moderate respect over the decades she spent in London, and her Ventrue Mentor in London reflects that. ♦ Art & Salon Culture at the Galerie de Nuit Anthea’s a devoted Ventrue, committed to her Clan. She is also, however, rather unusual in that she has, like some ventrue informal 'diplomats', a history of being able to socialise with Toreador and Brujah more than usual. The London Ventrue encouraged this helpful sociability. As such, Anthea is passionate about SALON culture, and her Kindred-only Galerie de Nuit is a space for vampiric art display and -- hopefully -- sparkling conversation about art, literature, culture and politics. She is also a respected artiste specialising in sculptural and installation work exploring human bodies in extremity and the devastation of urban ruin. Her Toreador Clan prestige 3 stems from acquiring respect for her work among the London Toreador, prior to coming to Prospect. ♦ UrbEx/placehacking industrial ruin Despite her polish and careful couture, Anthea’s seriously into industrial urbex, specifically of abandoned industrial installation, She’s always up for infiltrating boarded up factories, decayed hospitals, and burned out ruins. She brings her camera, and will regularly pause in her exploration, coolly assessing the devastation. Anthea A willowy sylph of a woman with long fair hair, her pale blue eyes full of cool mirth. She gives an overriding impression of an oddly bleached lack of color -- a lunar brightness and too-angular slenderness. Exceptional posture emphasizes her 5’8” height and thinness, and she moves with grace and composure, equanimity. Her voice is crisp English, cut-glass and upper-class, but also somehow deeper-pitched than one might expect. She’s wearing strictly-tailored black couture: a silk blouse, jacket with Nehru collar, a pencil skirt and knee high leather boots. She has only two kinds of adornment: her long neck is bisected with a black velvet choker, and her left hand has three glittering rings: dark metal, blue stone. ”What are these shapes that stare where once strong houses Rose with their sounding halls and rooms of breath? No, not their skeletons for those have fallen Dragging to earth The coloured muscles from a thousand walls. … The rubble that is rotting in the rain Exhales the breath of Warsaw and Pompeii, Guernica, Troy and Coventry – all cities, And every breathing building that died burning.” (Mervyn Peake) ’EMERGING ART AGENTS TO WATCH’, report in APOLLO International Art Magazine, May 2020 ' “ … One of the most unconventional – and certainly the hungriest – of the up-and-coming agents is Anthea Hawtrey-O’Callaghan, who runs a small, lean international organisation that advocates strongly for her small portfolio of clients. She specialises in multi-media work with an edge, favouring conceptual, sculptural and installation works, particularly those incorporating human performance and choreographed bodies wracked in extension. While generally based in London, she is shortly moving to California to develop her American portfolio of artists. For artists who match her realm of interest, this elegant and determined agent could be an asset worth seeking out.” Contacts XXX: Pending