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. (50). " - 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 Americwan artists. She specializes in 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 https://tinyurl.com/y98em6x5; Spotify playlist https://tinyurl.com/yb2fytu8 Plot Hooks ♦ Art dealer and curator:' Adeline spends a LOT of time in, near and around the sea – or researching it in Oceanography library holdings. Anybody working with the sea, with boats, with surfing, or with marine biology, will be fascinating to her. ♦ Literary and Artistic Salon Adeline is a postdoctoral fellow who has come to UC Prospect as part of an interdisciplinary, multi-year Physical Oceanography project. As part of this multimillion dollar project, certain postdoctoral fellows have been hired to communicate and express research through a range of media, including art. ♦ Literary and Artistic Salon' Adeline can be found frequenting dealers in certain forms of narcotics ... ♦ 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. ♦ 'Tremere 'Anthea’s an unusual Toreador. Many of her closest allies and conenctions are actually from a very different clan. The clan most famous for Blood Magick. There’s a long story there. ♦ 'Blood curation Some Kindred finds themselves fancying a specific . . . vintage. Anthea’s a curator, after all. She refuses tot raffick in lvie vessels – that would be inhuman. But she can hook you up with flasked specialty blood, and someone could approach the Tremere to revitalise it . . . ' 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