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Teddy McDonald is a British contemporary artist. He has painted guitars used by
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, painted with members of the royal family, and painted a Range Rover Autobiography Art Car.


Work

McDonald loaned a guitar named "Green T" to Ed Sheeran, who played it on his X Tour. It was one of the first Ed Sheeran items to go to auction, and when
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sold it in December 2015 it doubled its estimate. Sheeran also commissioned a guitar that was a collaboration between McDonald and New York street artist John Matos aka Crash. Sheeran played the 'Crash x Teddy M' Fender Stratocaster at the Glastonbury Festival, 2017. McDonald collaborated with
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,
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and
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on a charity project. The members of the royal family, working on the lawn of
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in May 2016, added their own 'graffiti' to a painting titled "Royal Love", which was exhibited at Masterpiece London and then sold, with proceeds going to
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. He created an art car using a
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Autobiography, calling it a "roving sculpture". The
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commissioned McDonald to create an artwork for permanent display in 2018. McDonald has created large scale reverse perspex mounted portraits of
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to benefit Clapton's Crossroads Antigua Charity. He has also created reverse perspex mounted portraits of
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and Sharron Davies. McDonald painted the helmet used by British mountaineer Kenton Cool on his 16th climb of
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in May, 2022.


Reception

''GQ'' wrote a profile of McDonald calling him "The Artist to Watch".


References

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