{{Short description|British mosaic artist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{notability|Biographies|date=September 2016}} {{Infobox artist | name = Ed Chapman | birth_place = Darwen, Lancashire, England | known_for = Mosaics, 'Newsaics' | notable_works = {{Plainlist| * ''Jimi in Plectrums'' (2011) * ''Lemmy in ceramic tiles'' (2006) }} }}
'''Ed Chapman''' (born 1971), in Darwen, Lancashire is a mosaic artist, the son of artist Margaret Chapman who was from the Northern School.<ref name="lancbio"/>
Chapman became a professional artist in the 1990s.<ref name="lancbio"/> His artistic influences include Chuck Close, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jamie Reid.<ref name="lancbio"/> His work has sold in more than 25 countries,<ref name="offbio"/>{{failed verification|date=September 2016}} and has been exhibited in galleries in the UK and around the world.
He has created several 'firsts' in mosaic, including Jimi Hendrix from Fender guitar picks, tennis star Andy Murray on carpet made from household items like tomato sauce and lipstick, Albert Einstein in metal, a chewing gum mosaic, a bullets mosaic and several others. Among his mosaics are portraits of David Bowie, Nelson Mandela, David Beckham in penny coins, Alan Sugar (done in sugar cubes)<ref>{{cite web| title= Day in pictures |url= https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8085375.stm | date= 5 June 2009 | publisher= BBC News | access-date=2011-04-20}}</ref> and Eric Cantona.<ref>{{cite web| url= https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/8111799.stm | date= 21 June 2009 | title= Cantona mosaic taken from gallery |publisher= BBC News | access-date=2011-04-20}}</ref> Annie Lennox, Lemmy the founding member of Motörhead and chef Gordon Ramsay are among the clients who have commissioned a work by him.<ref name="lancbio"/> His portrait of Richard Burton incorporating 500 million-year-old Welsh slate was commissioned by the actor's widow Sally Burton in 2015 to mark 90 years since the actor's birth. The portrait is at Swansea University.
Chapman's mosaic of Jimi Hendrix, made of 5000 Fender guitar picks was auctioned for £23,000/$35000, one of the highest prices ever paid for a mosaic piece of art - with proceeds going to Cancer Research UK.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fender.com/blog/hendrix-mosaic-fetches-23000-for-cancer-research-uk/ |title=Hendrix Mosaic Fetches £23,000 for Cancer Research UK |date=February 25, 2011 |publisher=Fender |accessdate=2011-04-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110316182604/http://www.fender.com/blog/hendrix-mosaic-fetches-23000-for-cancer-research-uk/ |archivedate=2011-03-16 }}</ref>
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<ref name="lancbio">{{cite web| title= Plucky Darwen artist's amazing Jimi Hendrix portrait |url= http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/darwen/8874521.Plucky_Darwen_artist_s_amazing_Jimi_Hendrix_portrait/ | date= 24 February 2011 | publisher= Lancashire Telegraph | accessdate=2011-04-20| work= Who is Ed Chapman?}}</ref> <ref name="offbio">{{cite web | url= http://chapmanmosaics.weebly.com/bio--exhibitions.html | title= Biography... | work= Official website | publisher= Weebly | accessdate= 2011-04-20 | url-status= dead | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110318071916/http://chapmanmosaics.weebly.com/bio--exhibitions.html | archivedate= 2011-03-18 }}</ref>
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[http://www.thepalettepages.com/2014/04/15/ed-chapman-interview/ The Palette Pages Interview with Ed Chapman] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303215336/http://www.thepalettepages.com/2014/04/15/ed-chapman-interview/ |date=3 March 2016 }}
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