Copyright’s solo show is set to open this Friday at The Red Bull Studios in London. “Equal Opposites” is a new body of work from C.R. Thomas and features lots of new large scale canvas work, alongside limited edititons. Hopefully we can head down and provide those of you who can’t with a few snaps in the coming days.

Copyright – Equal Opposites
155-171 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2JP
Preview Night – Thursday 28th October 7pm-10pm
Open – Friday 29th Oct – Monday 1st Nov

Legendary street artists such as Pure Evil, Blek Le Rat, Busk, Bleach, Ben Eine, Stan & Lex, Zadok, C215, T.Wat, Eyesaw, Copyright and Absoluv have been invited to take part in an exciting, live urban art project to repaint the walls under the Westway at Portobello Road. Work starts on Monday, 9th August and will continue through the week until Friday, 13th August. There will be a public view on Saturday, 14th August, when all of the artists’ efforts and the newly repainted walls will be available to see in their entirety.

Address: Under the Westway, at the junction of Portobello Road and Acklam Road, Portobello Green, W10 5TY

The mini prints from Copy Right are now available.  Hand printed, painted and collaged, 25x35cm. Edition of only 10. Yours for just £75 – grab one now.

After much hard work, months of experimenting, sleepless nights and all of his best clothes ruined by paint,Copyright has created a whole new body of work and a whole different direction. The show ‘NEVER FOREVER’ opens at Urban Angel’s Redchurch Street gallery 6pm Thursday 17th Sept.

The premis in a nutshell is Lost Legends, but portrayed in typical Copyright Style, with iconic women, tales, twists, and tattoos. Email russ@urbanangel.com to attend

Check more of Copyright’s work on his blog

Another sterling interview from Helen Soteriou, this time one of our favourites, Copyright. Thanks Helen!

Can you tell me about your background?

I’ve been painting with spray paint for the last 10 years but I’ve been into art my whole life. I got the name Copyright and started painting roses about the same time, 5 years ago in 2004.

You have a unique style. I call you the romantic graffiti artist because you spray pink roses everywhere. How did this come about?

Yeah, on the streets I mostly do the roses. I’ve done loads of ‘em now. I try to put them on the Sh*ttiest walls or down dark alleyways. The first one I ever did is still probably my fave, it was painted coming out of a hackney council rubbish bin that was overflowing. I try to brighten up places with ‘em, it’s just a small touch that can make a big difference.

What does graffiti mean to you?

To me, it’s a constructive thing, it’s not about vandalism, quite the opposite, it’s about putting stuff up that people might enjoy. Hopefully some of it means something to someone.

Where can we see your work? Do you have a favourite place where you have left your mark?

Not really, just depends where feels cool or where I’m hanging out. I used to get a lot of work up in Stoke Newington, Brick lane and the Shoreditch areas of London.

You can still see some bits in Bristol and Newcastle, and some recently in Harajuku and the Shibuya areas of Tokyo.

Do you ever worry about getting caught or do you like the thrill of the chase?

It can definitely be a rush. I try not to think about getting caught.

Quite a few artists are paste postering their work now, do you see yourself going down this route?

Yeah it’s something I’ve done and will still do with my work. I try to mix up pieces with a combination of freehand, stencils and paste-ups. The combination makes wicked textures greater than the sum of its parts, it just depends what works for which piece, or what I feel like. Always happy to experiment with different techniques and mediums, especially mixing them up to create new looks.

Graffiti has become so mainstream now that big corporations are looking to collaborate with street artists. Do you think that artists who sign-up with them are ‘selling out’?

Difficult one, I don’t think it’s as black and white as that, depends what it is, I’ve done t-shirts and I think that’s cool. It’s completely up to the artist what they want to do, we all got bills to pay so if that’s how somebody wants to do it then that’s their biz.

You have left little gifts of painted spray cans all over the city for people to find. Why do you do this?

Probably for the same reason I paint the roses, just simple little things for people to find and hopefully enjoy.

I read a story somewhere that for Valentine’s day one year you sprayed pink roses along the route your girl friend took to work. Is this true?

Yeah that’s true, wasn’t all the way along the route. I didn’t have that long to do it, just a few, but was down a dark route I’d never been before. I usually like to visit my spots a few times before I paint ‘em, and it’s a spot where a lot of random people hang out at night, was kinda sketchy.

Is there a holy grail for graffiti artists – a place where everyone would like to leave their mark?

I still want to paint Barcelona, been meaning to get up there for years, think I’ll try to do that soon, that’s def a place with a lot of street art history.

You have just come back from Tokyo. What was that like? Is there a lot of graffiti in Japan?

Yes. There is quite a lot there, some real amazing stuff too… and lots of international artists. It’s an amazing city, visiting somewhere like that is like a massive playground, but the police are really strict though.

Where can people see / buy your work?

Actually, I have my first London solo show on the 17th September in the Urban Angel Gallery. Other than that there is Zero Cool Gallery

Poster Boy NYC has been described as a “kind of anti-consumerist Zorro with a razor blade”. Preferring to remain anonymous Poster Boy NYC is said to be a group or ‘movement’ who use razor blades to cut out and re-arrange elements of billboard images on the New York Subway to make both political and satirical statements about contemporary issues. Their belief is a simple one, “one man’s vandalism is another’s political art” turning Subway stations into their own public art galleries.

Poster Boy NYC’s pieces are conceived on the spot and resemble a cut and paste punk aesthetic. In past interviews Poster Boy NYC has expressed hopes to start a ‘decentralized art movement’, one where anyone can claim to be Poster Boy. “No copyright, no authorship,” he has said. “A social thing, as opposed to being an artist making things for bored rich people to hang above their couch.”

You can see more of his work on Flickr

With thanks to Richard Hatherell for the editorial

Cartrain is an artist whose work can be found mostly in backstreets of Brick Lane and Old Street. Cartrain’s left wing stencils and collages often contain recognisable figures such as George Bush and the Queen.

16 year old graffiti artist Cartrain walked in to the Tate Briton (London) early last week and removed a packet of pencils from one of Damien Hirsts exhibits. Damien Hirst and Cartrain have a long standing rocky history. Earlier this year Hirst targeted the young graffiti artist Cartrain using Design and Artists Copyright Society (DAC’s) for breach of copyright infringement on his latest series of artworks being sold vir 100artworks.com.

The box of very rare “FABER CASTELL dated 1990 Mongol 482 series” pencils were removed from Damien Hirst’s “PHARMACY installation” by Cartrain on Thursday the 2nd July around 4pm. Not long after the pencils were removed from the installation a fake police ‘appeal for assistance’ posters appeared all around London.

This is the latest in a string of events surrounding the feud between the two artists.

It began when Damien Hirst contracted the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DAC’s) to send a string of legal letters to Cartrain’s artdealer Tom Cuthbert at 100artworks.com in regards to Cartrain’s series of artworks ‘For the Love of God’. The online gallery surrendered the artworks to Damien Hirst with a verbal apology.

The legal grounds in which Hirst requested the artworks are very questionable and the story spread across the internet like wild fire. It was reported by The Independent, The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, Pop Bitch, Popbitch and many online blogs.

The urban art community are currently heavily debating the actions of Cartrain and what his next steps will be. Is this a random act of vandalism or a calculated guerilla art stunt? Only time will tell.

Stay tuned a new Cartrain print run will be launched over the next few days..

More about the show here. More from Copyright here.

5 colour screen prints, edition of 75 at only £75 each. 2 beautiful fighting chicks warming up for his solo show in Tokyo this summer ‘Fight of the Paper Tiger’ Grab on here

Zero Cool is an artist and creative led gallery, print house and clothing label who work closely with talented and exciting artists to produce unique and engaging products.

“We are starting out with a clear vision everything we produce will be pushing boundaries and our aim is to make the work accessible to the people who fell in love with it for the right reasons in the first place before the city boys decided they wanted to seem a bit edgy.”

Asbestos (Ireland). Copyright (UK), Ben Frost (Australia), Hush (UK), Iz the Wiz (USA), Meggs (Australia), Ta55o (Germany), The London Police (UK)

To celebrate their upcoming launch, they’ve decided to give away some of their first prints. So if you would like to be in with a chance of getting some incredible art absolutely free, visit www.zerocoolgallery.com and sign up to their mailing list. This may be a cheeky ploy to bombard you with newsletters, but they promise just one a month and you could be in with the chance of getting your hands on 3 prints!

The day before they launch they will select three names at random the first will get three prints, the second will get two prints and the third will get one print totally free of charge.