Script launches with a Charming Baker collaboration. New high-end Wearable edition for the inaugural line.
Launching 6 April 2021, Script presents a new genre of collectable art, collaborating with a curated roster of globally renowned artists to create limited-edition apparel artworks. For its first line, Script has collaborated with British contemporary artist Charming Baker to produce a bespoke, limited-edition collection of unisex t-shirts featuring his iconic panda image, Half-Pint. The shirts will be available to purchase via www.script.art.
Available in a limited run of 500 black and 500 white, the collectable editions feature top-quality Pima cotton construction with Peruvian woven fabric. The coveted editions are all hand screen printed and embellished, with each shirt individually numbered and accompanied by a Certificate of Authentication hand-signed by the artist.
At a time when our physical experience of art is restricted, Script has grown from a desire to enrich our daily lives with art. Artworks typically confined to gallery walls are transformed into something accessible, wearable, and yet coveted, offering a chance to wear your own collectable piece. The artist is deeply involved in the process of creating the shirt from start to finish. ‘With Script, you’re very much buying a piece of art,’ says Charming Baker, the brand’s first artist-collaborator. ‘It’s not just about clothing people; it’s about creating a piece of art in a different form’.
Championed by the likes of Damien Hirst and Frank Cohen, Baker’s paintings, sculptures and prints have been exhibited internationally. His work explores themes such as love, mortality, and the transitory nature of childhood innocence, often with a darkly humorous edge. Characteristic of this, for his collaboration with Script the artist has evolved his iconic Half-Pint – an image he first painted 15 years ago:
“Half-Pint is a painting I did of my son wearing a panda mask when he was six years old. Looking back at it, there’s a clarity and yet an ambiguity to the image at the same time, which perhaps explains its particular appeal. It has that certain balance of cuteness and being sinister; funny and at the same time a little unnerving. Harvey’s now 20 and is bigger than me, but I still call him Half-Pint.”
– Charming Baker
Script is founded by collector and entrepreneur Eric Perlman. Combining a love of the apparel industry and his own experience as founder of a gallery and advertising agency, Perlman wanted to merge all fields of creative expression together. Having first met Charming Baker at his solo show in LA in 2013, then later in London in 2018, he was a natural choice for the brand’s first collaboration.
They are available globally as a limited run of 1000 shirts – 500 in white, 500 in black
– for $295, while 100 artist proofs are available at $395.
