Yep its now impossible to ignore. Christmas is coming – which means the normal seasonal emails asking if and where Santa’s Ghetto is this year.
For the second year running Steal From Work are running their very own 12 Days Of Xmas – last year saw a fantastic array of artists take over a disused Bristol Police Station. Have a look at the line up below, venue to be confirmed.
About time too…Dscreet has a solo show coming up at Pure Evil’s gallery. Entitled Words Up its more than likely to feature a veritable parliament of owls.
And a little bit later than anticipated here’s a few more pictures from the excellent Mutate Britain exhibition.
Inkie on an aircraft panel
Dr D on the inside
Joe Rush / Mutoid Waste
The Europeans have style and know how to put on a gig. This weekend sees an event in Amsterdam which sounds like a whole lot of fun featuring artists from four countries including Cans Festival favourites Snub23 (pictured below) and Orticanoodles along with East End hitter T.wat. Full line up below.
Ashab23 / Orticanoodles / Snub23 / Mishfit / Foundry / Fark FK / Sinna / The Lover / Absoluv / Onytwo / Nol / Mike Clarke / Luke Da Duke / T.wat / Press One / Skatin Chinchilla / Ives
More here: http://grafikwarfare.co.uk/ http://chronicsoundz.com/
Snub23 snub23.com
Jon Hammer sent artofthestate an email to spread the word that he will be running a Buy’n’Dry Custom Print Workshop at Brick Lane Gallery on the two weekends of his exhibition, 29th -30th November and 6th-7th December from 1-6pm. I like sound of an artist who started off daubling punk slogans, worked his way through eighties graffiti and acid house to end up where he is today.
On the first weekend he will be working on various prints of his paintings including ‘It’s About to Blow’ and ‘Rewind the Crystal Shells’. All are Giclee editions on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper.
Jon will be making spontaneous freestyle transformations in a variety of media and then signing. All will be available to take away on a Buy’n’Dry basis. Each piece will be a unique reinterpretation of the original work, not just a dab or two of colour.
A brand new series of editions will then be released for customising on the second weekend.
His entire show runs from 28th November to the 8th December. Paintings, prints and signed exhibition posters will be available for sale.
For full details see www.jonhammer.com
Wow! What a head turner Mutate Britain is. Its a back to basics four floors of mayhem art show as it should be. The opening hall is a special treat covered wall to ceiling in quality work and stacked with work by Mutoid Waste. But that’s just the start. There’s too much to see to go into detail here but if you are in town this weekend do yourself a favour and get down there (see flyer lower down). More pictures tomorrow.
Inside the first hall
Part2ism’s painted wing spans 2 floors
Snub23 work on the staircase
Joe Rush’s Home Guard – check out the video featuring Joe.
The venue is in Curtain Road, Shoreditch, shutter by Dr D
Gotta love the flyer photo for this show taken on the Millennium Bridge. Sickboy has placed a heart in a cage in front of Tate Modern. The same gallery that recently staged an impressively large if ultimately sterile show - sponsored by the N*ss*n Qashqai four wheel drive (city) off roader of all things. Sickboy knows where the heart of graffiti lies – outside.
All this heralds Sickboy‘s first major London show ‘Stay Free’ which starts Thursday 3rd December (private view – check website for invitation details) and is open to everyone from Friday 4th December. More details from the PR sheet below. Sounds like its going to be a lot of fun.
This December the highly-anticipated Stay Free exhibition, his first major solo show, sees Sickboy transform a Victorian Grade II listed building in east London into a 3D creative playground, bringing in inspiration from the children’s story ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. Packed with colour, humour and satire, the show is a culmination of the alternative reality Sickboy has created over the years, and promises to be the most spectacular street art show of 2008.
A long-serving artist with Pictures on Walls, Sickboy’s intricate, often humorous works have cemented his place in the upper echelons of the British street art movement. He will be releasing an entirely new body of works and themes for Stay Free which will be available as paintings, prints and installations.
This show sees Sickboy challenging convention once again by allowing one lucky guest to inherit his Stay Free Factory – an art installation worth £20K.
Spanning over 14ft, his Stay Free Factory installation – which will be bequeathed to one guest – features custom-designed windows, a veranda, and even a conveyor belt. 1,000 golden keys will be released during his Stay Free show from December 3, and the person whose key fits the lock will become the new owner of the Factory.
The installation has been created in the signature Sickboy colours of red and yellow. He says: “These colours are known to be the best combination to make people feel warm and fuzzy inside. McDonalds stole this idea off me…or maybe it was the other way around, I can’t remember.”
This McDonalds palette also informs his now iconic street logo known as ‘The Temple’ which he has spent most of his career painting on walls and wheelie bins worldwide. A leading artist to emerge from Bristol’s infamous graffiti scene – and one of the first to use a logo in place of a tag – Sickboy has built up one of the largest bodies of ‘outside’ art works in UK history, and his temples and the recent Save the Youth slogans have landed him global recognition.
I remember reading somewhere that the Cans tunnel was going to be hired for 6 months. I guess that time is up but the way that tunnel gets battered on a weekly basis its hard to see how it will ever return to just being a plain walled tunnel ever again. Here’s some recent tunnel work.
Free DPM
Favor
NT
Anybody know what these penguins are doing?
Sick skills
Team Beers
Two recent shows are closing soon – Faile and JR both from the Lazarides gallery. Faile is running until 16th November from 11am to 7pm at the Lilian Baylis Old School, Lollard Street, London, SE11 6pY. The venue space is amazing and does full justice to Faile’s massive new work. Pictures from the show below.
Also closing very soon (14th November) is JR’s 28 Millimetres Project WOMEN show at the Lazarides Gallery which has featured on previous blog posts. If you’ve not seen it already be sure to check the Greek Street location, the work adorning the interconnecting Manet Street and the unique and insightful video in the Charing Cross Road location.
Recent work by Sam 3 outside Cargo in Rivington Street, Shoreditch.
