Gallery artists at Phillips: Deborah Azzopardi and Cristina Schek | BFAMI 2026 Art Auction | 30 January - 5 February 2026 - Overview

We are delighted to share that the BFAMI 2026 Art Auction is now live, with a preview week hosted at Phillips, London (30 January – 5 February). This year, we’re proud to present works by Deborah Azzopardi and Cristina Schek, two artists with distinct visual languages and unmistakable presence.

Deborah Azzopardi is known for distinctive, playful images that turn relationships, seductions and fantasies into bold, relatable scenes. Her work invites the viewer in without preconceptions, balancing humour and heat with graphic lines and a fearless palette, bringing a feminine charge to pop energy and a vivid sense of life in full colour.

Deborah Azzopardi, Shall We Share This?, 2024
Acrylic paint on 400gsm
56 × 56 cm

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Cristina Schek is a Transylvanian Surrealist artist living in London who describes herself as “photo-sensitive”. Drawing on literature, cinema, and the visual language of Surrealists and Old Masters, she creates conceptual work that explores identity and the nature of representation. The work presented at the auction The Ceiling In The Sky was the winning work of the W4th Plinth Public Art Project in Chiswick, realised as a monumental 4x4 m outdoor piece curated by Abundance London and unveiled by Dame Siân Phillips in 2023. Find out more here.

Cristina Schek, Ceiling In The Sky, 2022
Framed Archival Pigment Print
52 × 62 × 3 cm