The original of this little beauty was sold long before Black Rat Press even opened the doors of last week’s Big Issue Charity event. So, ever a man of the people, Pure Evil has released 100 prints of the piece for you lot, the riff-raff, the people, how nice.
Priced at £250, grab them now from the Pure Evil site here.
So the BRP had the Big Issue Charity Show on Saturday and it seems to have a been a great success, raising a lot of money for charity. There’s a huge thread over on Banksy.info with more photos and a whole load of discussion on prices and which pieces people thought were the best and worst.
We’ve got a selection of images from Wallkandy.net - so as ever, thanks to Ian over there for providing us with top notch photos. Gallery after the jump.
It seems everyone’s in the corporate social responsibility game these days, even Black Rat Press. The very successful gallery are teaming up with homeless helpers The Big Issue Foundation to put on an impressive show this Saturday, August 9.
Pure Evil’s ‘Heath Ledger CMYKrink’ portrait on glass, 6 by 4 feet (pictured), has been submitted alongsid original works from the likes of Dotmasters, D*Face, Eine, Mantis, Matt Small, Swoon, Nick walker, Peter Kennard, Cat Picton Philips, Ron English, Herakut, Jamie Reid, Andrew Mcattee, Charming Baker, Robert Sample, Elbowtoe, Hush, Pure Evil, Julian Opie, Miss Bugs, Modern Toss, Ruth Marten, Dan Baldwin, Peter Blake, Logan Hicks, Armsrock, Cyclops, Beejoir, Chris Stain, Labrona, Antony Lister, Copyright, Gaia, K Guy, James Mylne, Eelus, SPQR, Neverwork, LET, Dog Byte, Static, Jef Aerosol, The Krah, Pam Glew, Mr Jago, C215, Part2ism, Tony Gray, David Walker, RYCA, Dr D, Mighty Monkey, Ame72, Christophe Remy, Rene Gagnon, Zac Walsh, Bandit, Blek Le Rat, oliver Winconek.
All works will be sold in usual fashion and not auctioned. Fore more info visit BRP directly here.
To compliment our earlier Logan Hicks interview, here’s a few pics of his show at The Black Rat Gallery, courtesy of Wallkandy.net .
Check out the gallery after the jump
Chris Stain, Poncho, Armsrock. An American, a Mexican and a Dane. Black Rat helps unite the internecine lands of the Americas through the power of street art. Slightly. Plus, um, Denmark.
Thieves Ladder opens this Friday at the Black Rat Gallery, London
Gallery of them at work after the jump - keep posted for more pictures coming soon… Photos as ever, by Wallkandy.net
JetSet Graffiti have put together a great video showcasing Armsrock, the upcoming exhibitions at Black Rat Press in London and Ad Hoc Art Gallery in Brooklyn, opening this week. This indepth look takes a look at this creative mind in his studio in Bremen Germany a couple weeks ago as he was preparing for the two shows.
The seemingly unstoppable Black Rat Gallery have yet another top show kicking off next Thursday (June 12), entitled Thieves Ladder. Having invited American stencil artist Chris Stain, Danish don Armsrock and Mexico’s Poncho to town for the gallery’s second ever installation show they look set for another interesting exhibition.
If you’re in London on the 12th there’ll be the usual drinks party from 6pm. For more info you can call the gallery direct on 020 7613 7200.
Also, a date for your diaries - the Black Rat gallery have confirmed US stencil freak Logan Hicks for the show following Thieves Ladder. The Logan Hicks show will open on July 3.
Blek Le Rat, father of stencil graffiti will be the star of our forthcoming Blek Le Rat solo show \\\’Getting Through Walls\\\’. The show celebrates over 25 years of work by this remarkable artist and will mark the UK launch of a new book being published by Thames and Hudson on Bleks lfe and work. It promises to be one of the shows of the year.
From Bloomberg
April 19 (Bloomberg) — Nick Walker, an old spray-mate of fellow British street artist Banksy, sold 750,000 pounds ($1.5 million) of paintings and prints this week at the start of his first one-man show in the U.K., the gallery said yesterday.
All but two of 60 original Walker works on offer, many featuring his anarchical alter ego, “The Bowler-Hatted Vandal,” found buyers within hours at the Black Rat Gallery in Shoreditch, east London, gallery director Mike Snelle said in an interview. Prices at the exhibition, which started with a private view on April 17, ranged between 2,000 pounds and 35,000 pounds.
“I’m proper pleased,” said Walker in a telephone interview. “I couldn’t believe anything like this could have happened.” Walker, 39, said demand for his work had gone “pretty crazy” after Bonhams’s Urban Art auction in London in February. At that sale, his 2006 spray-paint-on-canvas “Moona Lisa,” showing La Giaconda exposing her bottom, sold for a record 54,000 pounds with fees, more than 10 times the upper estimate.
Walker said that he had got know Banksy in Bristol, western England, in the late 1990s when he was invited to be part of the “Walls on Fire” group of graffiti artists.
“We don’t talk too much now,” he said.
Two new Walker prints were issued online in editions of 150, priced at 450 pounds each. These sold out within seconds, said Snelle. The complete edition of a third new print, titled “Life’s 2 Short,” priced at 750 pounds, was reserved for the first 75 people in the line. Some people were photographed with numbered certificates to ensure they didn’t sell their place.
“We had at least 60 people camping out the night before to make sure they were at the front,” said Snelle.
“For a lot of people it’s all about being part of a memorable experience. It’s a bit like going to Glastonbury.”
Dale Clark, a property developer from Hoxton, east London, queued through the night to buy one of the prints and a 4,500- pound painting.
“This was the first art show I’ve been to,” Clark said in an interview. “It was manic. There were people everywhere, red dots everywhere. This kind of art is all about impulse and passion.”
For some it’s also about trying to make a quick profit. At least half a dozen “Life’s 2 Short” prints were being “flipped” on EBay Inc’s Web site priced up to 13,000 pounds. At the time of writing, the prints had bids of up to 2,272.22 pounds and none had been sold.
Snelle said that more than 500 people had crowded into the gallery for the private view. More than 20 of them had flown from the U.S. especially for the show, he said.
“People now realize that there’s more to street art than just Banksy,” said Snelle, who earlier in the week had laser- beamed Walker images on Big Ben and the Bank of England to promote the show.
Other street art aficionados remain to be convinced that Walker is the new Banksy.
“The incredible price tags were shocking when held up against the rather simplistic subject matter of the work,” said a user called Danvnuk on the street art discussion site, banksyforum. “It isn’t challenging, there’s no depth, but compared to someone like Banksy whose work always contains some wry observation, or poking fun at the human condition, it left me quite underwhelmed.”
The auction record for Banksy is the $1.9 million paid for the 2007 painting “Keep it Spotless” at Sotheby’s “Red” charity sale in New York in February, according to the saleroom result tracker Artnet.
The show runs though May 3. For information: click on http://www.blackratpress.co.uk/ or telephone +44-207-613-7200.
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