Ant Paintings
Buy one, or find one
The Dispersal
Ralph Lazar paints one ant a day. Each is numbered, and each is for sale at the price of its number.
Between now and Frieze Week in October, £20,000+ worth of ants from within the numbered series are being left across London for whoever finds them. The drops, listed below, will trace lines across the city, each one timed to a moment in the London art calendar. The last of them, during Frieze Week, leads to the Queen.
Find one, or own one outright.
The drops
Between now and Frieze Week
More details on each drop will be posted here and to Instagram closer to the drop date.
| Drop | Date | Path | London art moment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sat 6 Jundone | Inside Tate Modern view › | London Gallery Weekend |
| 2 | Sat 13 Jundone | Across Kensington Gardens to the Pavilion view › | Serpentine Pavilion unveiling |
| 3 | Sat 20 Jundone | Piccadilly to the Royal Academy courtyard view › | RA Summer Exhibition opens |
| 4 | Sat 4 Juldone | The King's Road, past the old painters' studios view › | Chelsea's studio quarter |
| 5 | Sat 18 Juldone | Rye Lane up to the rooftop view › | Bold Tendencies summer season, Peckham |
| 6 | Sat 1 Augdone | Along the South Bank to Tate Modern view › | Bankside riverside galleries |
| 7 | Thu 6 Augdone | Whitechapel through to Hoxton view › | East End First Thursday |
| 8 | Sat 29 Augdone | Brick Lane murals into Shoreditch view › | The street-art trail |
| 9 | Sat 19 Sepdone | Fleet Street up to Hampstead Heath, following the buried river view › | LDF and Heathbound |
| 10 | Thu 15 Octdone | A straight line from Tate Modern to One Marylebone view › | Frieze Week, the Fair Play Art Fair |
Where the ants have gone
Out in the world
… cities, towns and villages
… countries