Akseli Gallen-Kallela is famed for his illustrations of the 19th century Finnish national epic poem ‘Kalevala’.

Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor and painter, famed for his trademark sculptural technique of rough, eroded and consumed surfaces.

Arthur Jafa is an American artist who works seamlessly across film, photography, happenings, moving image and sound installation, found material and prints.

Over the last five decades, architectural artist Brian Clarke has produced works that expand and redefine our understanding of stained glass.

Conor Harrington is an Irish artist based in London known for his impressive body of work that graces both streets and gallery walls.

Colourful spots, animals frozen in time, glorious butterfly wings and a skull set with diamonds are just some icons of Damien Hirst’s boundary-redefining career.

Etel Adnan was an American-Lebanese painter and writer whose expressive, poetic landscapes offer intimate visions of both American and Middle Eastern scenes.

In many ways Francis Bacon’s raw images of abject bodily distortions answer the Surrealist Andre Breton’s call for a ‘convulsive beauty’.

Gerhard Richter’s artistic explorations, which stretch over more than six decades, constitute a radical attempt to integrate representation and abstraction.

Hans Holbein the Younger was the celebrated artist who immortalised the Tudor aristocracy, and some of the most prominent humanists and intellectuals across Renaissance Europe.

The elusive street artist Invader uses his now-ubiquitous pixelated characters to bring the digital world to the physical world and art to the masses.

In his own words, French artist JR creates ‘infiltrating art’ and is driven by an ambition to bring art to as many people as possible.

Lucian Freud was a British painter and draughtsman, celebrated for his provocative portraits and nudes.

Nicknamed ‘The Mad One’ for her radical approach to graffiti art, Claudia Walde works under the name MadC as a graffiti artist, muralist and designer, based in Berlin.

Mario Testino OBE is one of the most influential fashion and portrait photographers of our time.

Peter Doig’s visionary paintings and prints transform ordinary moments from life into enthralling compositions bursting with colour.

American artist Wes Lang creates provoking artworks, primarily on canvas and paper and featuring a universe of striking characters, that intend to inspire and motivate.