A quick round up of some of the great art stuff going on this month – which can also be used as a handy guide to tasteful last minute Christmas presents.
Last weekend saw the Christmas Bazaar featuring Pure Evil, Mr Jago and a whole host of others. The line-up and events sounded amazing and, judging by the above image, it looked the dogs bits as well. Also happening this December is Pictures On Walls annual art-ghet-t0-together headlined this year by Evol with a supporting cast full of familiar names (will Bansky appear, the catalogue says not but history suggests yes), whilst Print Club have their excellent 12 Prints show going on. Meanwhile up north, illustrator Matt Sewell has been working as fast as a Hummingbird’s wings producing some brilliant work around birds (the feathered not the female kind).
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If there’s something you want to get off your chest, then you might want to get down to Sickboy’s new installation, open this weekend.
The elusive Bristolian street-artist has taken over the Old Truman Brewery to garnish its walls with his latest imaginings, entitled ‘Heaven and Earth’, in conjunction with fellow artists such as D*Face, Eine and Paul Insect. …Read More.
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New Era have just announced the winner of their New Era Introducing competition. Tasked with the brief to re-imagine the standard 59FIFTY, entries for this competition turned the idea of a humble hat on its head. Notable contributions include a wooden fronted cap (on-trend folky, though you’d need some Ronseal to make it work in wet climes) and a cap riffing the image from The Smiths Meat is Murder LP. And of course the winners piece, an intricate and delicate piece that explores the story of the Queen of Sheba. A highly unique hat I think you’d agree. Congrats to the creator of the winning entry Lina Al-Amoudi, Lina receives kudos from fashionistas and a £10k bursary (whistles) to launch her creative career.
A touring exhibition kicks off in London this weekend at the Shoreditch Underground, Pedley Street. Check the dedicated website for further deets.
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More exhibition news, this time a bit closer to home. From the 04 – 27 November 2011, Borough and Lane a new exhibition featuring works on paper by American artist Evan Hecox, will be held at Stolenspace, London.
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Bonafide issue 04 star D*Face is holding his first solo exhibition in Australia during November. His new show takes places at the Metro Gallery, Melbourne, and will give our Antipodean cousins a chance to view work in the flesh by an artist who has made his name subverting popular culture and playing fast and loose with the trademark pop stylings of Litchenstein and Warhol.
The exhibition will launch on the 02 November and include his flutterdies and splutterflies work, original pieces, huge concrete spraycan sculptures (that will also be dotted around Melbourne city – try nabbing that Mr Street-Art reseller on eBay) and, according to the blurb, a new limited edition print.
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Some big street-art exhibitions are penciled in before the end of 2011, including Triptease Revue from Paul Insect. Held at Post No Bills, California, graphic designer (he was one half of Insect with Luke Insect) turned street-artist, Paul Insect has been a piece of the furniture at POW for a long time. His Bullion show in 2007 made the headlines for boasting chomped on gold bars and for Damien Hirst – aping his friend Jay Jopling’s Super Market Sweep shopping technique – by buying the whole show.
I’ve been a big fan of Paul Insect since his Dead Rebels series and for prints like Who To Believe, his artwork for DJ Shadow and his street campaigns featuring science fiction-esque baby heads. However, compared to other luminaries in the scene, he’s been keeping a relatively low-profile, so hopefully Triptease Revue will prove more than a tantalising glimpse of one of the UK’s most technically adept and diverse contemporary artists.
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Having stumbled across their playful Check Yo Self mirrors – a must for any rapper or wannabe rapper’s bathroom – released by CMYK Projects in parallel with the Anti-Social Networking exhibition, Black Book Gallery, all I have to say about Skewville is – believe the hype.
From their clever Wharol-esque Hype boxes to their pieces made out of found objects that speak a native street dialect through to their massive boomboxes on the sides of walls, Skewville aka twin brothers Ad Deville and Droo, have been making street insurrections for over a decade. You may also recognise them for their wooden kicks tossed over phone lines – mark making for the hooded generation.
Check the Factory Fresh Gallery and When Dogs Fly for further info.
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Some great art interventions have been going down at the Studio Cromie curated FAME Festival, held in a quarter of the Italian town of Grottaglie.
Famous for being a hotbed of ceramic production, FAME see’s a motley crew of street-art’s reworking the architecture and look and feel of Grottaglie their own idiosyncratic ideas. I particularly like Brad Downey and Akay’s collaborative pieces – the deleted cars is a piece of light-hearted fun that succeeds in giving the town a surreal vibe – and of course it’s great to see Blu and Ericailcane doing their monster walls. Check out the FAME Festival blog for a flavour of what’s been going on.
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Eric Haze, a street deity. Revered by fashion heads, graphic design addicts and graffiti bods. Artistically he’s been there, done that and no doubt you own one of his t-shirts.
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Successful club nights often result in aspirations for bigger and better things. Many try, few succeed. One notable success story is Glasgow-based label LuckyMe, whose evolution from club night to label to artist collective has been glowingly acknowledged as representing ‘the true spirit of independent thinking’, and has been selected for the prestigious Beck’s Green Box Project. …Read More.
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