Rough painted his piece to remember the legendary Dash Snow at Cargo yesterday. If you’re in the area, pop down to have a look.

Wahaca, the award winning restaurant, is looking for a Graffiti/ Street artist to fill a huge space (over 28m2) in its new site in Canary Wharf, opening October 2009.

Both street artists Oliver Shaw and Nuria, whose work exhibited at the Tate Modern last year have worked with Wahaca in the past and we are looking for an equally exciting artist to take over our site and leave their own particular mark.

Wahaca commissions sight specific pieces focusing on street and environmental art (visit their website for more information on artists they have worked with www.wahaca.co.uk and is willing to pay up to £4,000 for this particular commission (excluding materials).

To win: They need to see a piece of work by the artist that shows their style would be in fitting with Wahacas.  (It might be an idea to visit the site in Covent Garden (66 Chandos Place, WC2N 4HG) or White City (Westfield, Southern Terrace, W12 7GB) to get a feel for what Wahaca is about).

All entries will be posted onto their blog and readers will be asked to judge their favourite.  All entries must be submitted by the 23rd August and a winner will be announced at the beginning of September. Site visits can then be arranged with installation expected mid October. The artists work will also feature in our Wahaca paper OLA London of which 30,000 are printed and distributed as well as appear in materials/ websites associated with the competition and Wahaca.

To enter email loswahacos@wahaca.co.uk with a picture of your work that best describes your style and please attach in no more than a 100 words an overview of what inspires you as well as any website or further useful information about you.  If you have further questions please call Mark on 07748148323.

Issue 9 is  another corker from the VNA boys with artist interviews and features on the likes of Sickboy, Jeff Soto, Meggs, Ludo and Ron English, as well as the usual hand picked selection of tags, stickers, paste-ups and every other incarnation of street art and graffiti in the UK and further afield.

In short, it’s a ruddy beauty - grab it here.

And for a little background on VNA catch our interview with the magazine’s founder, George, here.

My Yard specialise in artist series clothing from street artists and illustrators from the UK.

Their first series showcased some of Bristol’s favourites including Cheba, 3Dom, Nick Ill and many others. For the second series they already have submissions coming in from the likes of Inkie, Cheo, Andy Council etc from Bristol but are also looking to get submissions from aspiring streetartists and illustrators from across the UK.

To see check out the SS09 Artist Series 1 catalogue and profiles go to, www.my-yard.com/catalogue

If you want to get involved and submit a design for the next series, then grab the brief and get drawing!

London-based creative collective ALLCITY© and Tokyo’s Jonny Fu have teamed up to open a unique pop-up space in the heart of London’s Seven Dials, Covent Garden.

The space will feature the launch of the collectives’ first series of 6 limited artist’s t-shirts alongside one-off artworks and prints. Also for the first time on British soil, the release of Jonny Fu’s plush toy, the 12” flute-playing kung fu master, who comes in a gigantic take-away noodle box. The space will play host to a light-box installation as well as a life-sized Jonny Fu delivery man.

The opening night will feature beats from Bigger than Barry resident’s Chesus & Rodski, cocktails from Arette along with live screen printed denims kindly supplied by Lee Cooper plus vast amounts of Tiger Beer.

Private View
23rd July
Dorrs open: 7- 10pm
37 Endell Street, Seven Dials, London WC2H 9

Running Time:
24th July – 9th August 2009
Open daily from 11am -7pm

RSVP: info@jonnyfu.org

More flicks from Rough (thanks again), of the Urban Angel Group Show that is currently running. More information here

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Rough kindly sent over some pics from the new show by Jaybo at The Signal Gallery in Shoreditch. It’s on till 31st July, so if you’re in the area be sure to check it out!

Signal Gallery
96a Curtain Road, London EC2A 3AA
0207 613 1550

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