A show definitely not to be missed. Some top names have got involved in modifying their own boy soldier originally created by artist Schoony. These boy soldiers first made an appearance at Mutate Britain last summer and artists such as D*FACE, Inkie, Dan Baldwin & INSA have got involved this time round to add their mark to these soldiers. This exciting show opens tonight at The Leonard Street Gallery for 3 nights and from the 9th, 10th, 11th at the Graffik Gallery on Portobello, West London.
Rough Trade East have announced they will be showing a screening of the Banksy film, Exit Through the Gift Shop to celebrate it’s DVD/ Blu Ray release. The screening will take place on the 8 September at 7.30pm and tickets are limited to just 120 people.
You can buy tickets from the store (East) or on-line for just £3 each. If you purchase the DVD on the night you get the £3 reimbursed.
Play.com are also selling the special edition of the DVD with deleted scenes, unique 2D glasses (ha!), stickers, artwork and 2 short movies for £10.99. Grab yours here
Arts 4 U is a monthly arts & crafts show on Spine TV. This month, graffiti artist Panik shows you how to do paint a picture using only a potato, a knife and some paint. Panik is a member of the ATG collective and has been painting London’s streets and rooftops for years.
The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry will be taking inspiration from the street this Autumn as it showcases work from some of the best, freshest and most controversial street artists around. The UK premiere of the new temporary exhibition Street Art: Contemporary Prints from the V&A opens on 9 October, 2010 and is completely FREE to see.
This brand new touring exhibition explores the ways street art has moved away from the painted wall into the medium of printmaking, creating distinctive, exciting visuals along the way. Drawn from the Victoria and Albert Museum’s internationally renowned collection of prints, Street Art: Contemporary Prints from the V&A showcases established and emerging street artists, both British and international, including names such as Banksy, D*Face, Eine, Miss Tic, Swoon and Shepard Fairey.
The Herbert has commissioned six emerging artists on the UK street scene to create new works of art that will be displayed in a second complementary exhibition Fresh Paint. Pahnl, SPQR, Lucy McLauchlan, Ben Slow, AsOne and Newso have all created pieces that have not been seen before, and will not be seen together again.
On the 7th of August 2010, a group of Scottish graffiti and street artists came together to create a collaborative mural at the C Venues during the Edinburgh Festival. The artists involved were Lyken, Derm, Conzo, Elph, Rekor and Syrkus.
They were commissioned by Amnesty International to paint the piece, which depicts themes surrounding the 88 Generation Students of Burma. You can read more about them, the project and Amnesty’s work here
Blek Le Rat will introduce his favourite film at the FREE Portobello Film Festival in the Pop Up Cinema under the Westway (same venue as last year’s MuTATE – One Foot in the Grove).
The festival also features: Dotmasters, Inkie, Andrew Logan, Eine, Joe Rush, BA5H, Patrick Hughes, Matt Clark, ThisIsBabooshka, CodeFC, SoloOne, Giles Walker, Simon Tyszko, Peter Dunne, Seize, Snug and more!
The world’s biggest graffiti festival, The International Meeting Of Styles, hits North London this week for a two day visual feast, and it’s all free!
For the third year running the event is hosted by aerosol aficionados End OF The Line, and with promises to top last year’s event, which saw over 2000 people descend on Brick Lane, prepare yourselves for a veritable smorgasbord for the senses. DJ’s will be supplying visitors and 60 of Europe’s most skilled artists with a sound track of funk, hip hop and dub while they work on 12 walls, rotating advertising boards and a pop up gallery; all culminating in an after party on Saturday night (for over 18’s only) to showcase the work.
We've been involved in the art world in one way or another for years now and thought it was probably about time to set something up ourselves.
Our aim is to provide you with a destination to find out about everything going on in UK galleries, on our streets and anywhere else in the world that our wealth of talented artists might have passed through.
