The contemporary artists and gallery owners invited to collector Pauline Karpidas’s summer “workshops” on the Greek island of Hydra were given a brief but simple itinerary. “There is little required from you other than an engagement with art and guests: sunbathe, gossip and swim,” their host would advise.
Pictures showed the lucky recipients of such invitations – who included Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas, Damien Hirst and Grayson Perry – doing just that.
