New Micallef Show, by graeme501 on Oct 26, 2008 0:06:09 GMT 1, found this info lurking about the LAZ site, anyone heard anything more?

Lazarides artist Antony Micallef will this autumn unveil a series of major
new works as part of GSK Contemporary, the three month season of
exhibitions and related events at the Royal Academy’s Burlington
Gardens.

The grand, four metre high bronze nickel-plated sculptures, The Idol
Kids of Today: Burger Boy, Game Boy and Weapon Face and The
Beginning of the End will greet visitors to GSK Contemporary in the
Burlington Gardens’ entrance portico, and a major new work on canvas
from the artist, Parasite (illustrated above) will be presented in the
building’s entrance foyer.

Antony Micallef is one of the UK’s most promising young painters. In
2006 his show at Lazarides Gallery in London sold out within 30 minutes
of opening, and in Spring 2007, his work graced the cover of a
Sotheby’s Contemporary Sale catalogue, resulting in a bidding war and
going on to sell for over three times its estimate. In September 2007 his solo
show of over 50 paintings, Impure Idols, in the heart of Hollywood, sold out
in under two hours to buyers including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and
Christina Aguilera.

At once beautiful and troubling, Anthony's work examines our
dichotomous relationship with consumerism, questioning how we can
despise multi-national brands yet still allow ourselves to be seduced by
them. He often uses the union of two opposites to make an intriguing
chemistry. Micallef’s practice could be summarized as ‘critical pop’,
exposing the darker side of our consumerist society.

In 2000 Micallef won the second prize in the BP portrait award at the
National Portrait Gallery in London. In 2005 in Bulgaria he hosted the
biggest international solo exhibition in the country at the National
Academy of Fine Art. In 2006 he showed at the Britart/Eyestorm Milan
Gallery; prints from which show were also exhibited at the British
Embassy in Florence in 2007 alongside works by Damien Hirst and
Peter Blake. In the same year he showed at the Arcaute Arte
Contemporaneo in Monterrey, Mexico, as well as in shows Stench and
It’s A Wonderful World at Lazarides Gallery. His work was shown in
2006 alongside that of Tracey Emin and Marc Quinn in the Mystery
portrait exhibition at the NPG to celebrate its 150th anniversary. Micallef
was also invited to produce a limited edition print for the 50th anniversary
of the Curwen Studio which will be on show in October at Tate Britain
alongside work by Paula Rego. Works by Micallef are also being shown
at a Lazarides group show, The Outsiders, in New York in September
this year; a rolling exhibition of the same name is currently on show at
the London Charing Cross space. Micallef lives and works in the UK.