New Era have launched a brand new global project where they are looking for the new generation of creative minds to showcase their talents and win a bursary of £10k to help kickstart or further add to their creative career.

“New Era Introducing” will also form a touring gallery of entrants work and will give each entrant the opportunity to own their own custom hat too.

You can find out further information by joining their Facebook page.

What would you do with this blank wall? Have your say and spark debate. If you’re a street artist, aged 11-25, and would like to paint this space as a part of the Counted project, The Roundhouse want to know. You can peep the brief after the jump…

Here’s the brief…

Day-to-day, hour-by-hour, do decisions made by others have an impact on your life? What does politics mean to you? Is it just about the government, or is it the small things that affect your everyday life – in class, on the street, at work, on the bus, at home? Is it something you care about? What should people care about?

You have a blank canvas – get people thinking. Create a piece to provoke thought, engage people, ask questions and spark debate.

Background

• The wall will be part of a series of projects…
• - Counted, a timely documentary-play shedding light on why so many people don’t vote. At County Hall, on the south bank of the Thames opposite the Houses of Parliament, from 15 April-22 May.
• - Do you feel Counted? a weekend of performance and debate for 11-25 year olds at
• the Roundhouse, 17/18 April.
• - Online activity instigating debate and interaction.

The projects aim to provide the opportunity for young people to explore solutions for issues that affect their daily lives and open up channels of communication between decision makers and young people. Most importantly, they’ll highlight how young people can make their opinions heard and be counted.

Format and budget
The large external-facing white wall, approx 3 x 14m, is on the corner of Chalk Farm Road and Regents Park Road. The Roundhouse can provide a reasonable budget for materials. Please send a breakdown with your design.

Application process
Send a design concept, summary of why you want to create the piece, and cost of materials to Bea Hankey at bea.hankey@roundhouse.org.uk or Roundhouse, 100A Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8EH. Please call Bea on 020 7424 8473 if you’d like more information.

Deadline for applications: Monday 15 March, 2009
Installation: by 29 March

Following the success of the last two 501® Jeans Live Unbuttoned art installations, Levi’s and Vice have come together to find the UK’s most talented painters, illustrators, designers, sculptors, artists, whatever to have their work displayed on HUGE sites throughout London.

There are absolutely no guidelines for this project, other than that your work should try and capture the essence of what it means to “Live Unbuttoned” – living un-restrained and celebrating self-expression and creative freedom. This may involve freedom, creative expression, full-frontal nudity or however else you interpret the project. Basically, this is an offer to have your work displayed in the capital on a huge scale, no strings attached.

For more information and to submit your artwork, check here

To enter the comp visit Hang Up Pictures.

So, after much deliberation and sorting through the entries, the four winners, each receiving a signed copy of the catalogue from Rough’s last show are: Martin Malloy, Philip Gabriel, Steve Turner and Kat Johnson. Congrats to everyone and expect the postman to pop the parcel through your letterbox very soon!

As the pressure of a looming show begins to really mount for both Revok and Ladbroke Grove’s Grenade Art, we popped down to visit them to see how it was all taking shape in the lead up to the opening night this Wednesday.  

After blitzing one side of the gallery with a combination of paste-ups and spray paint (pics after the jump), the Los Angeles graff legend was kind enough to sign a couple of posters from the show for us (pictured above). For a chance of winning one of these extremely rare, collectors items, email competitions@ukstreetart.co.uk. Applications will be closed next Monday morning (October 20), with the winners announced shortly after.

All pics courtesy of Paul Jenkins.

That man Rough was at it again last week with a short, but great show at the Peacock Visual Arts in Aberdeen.

We’ve got 4 SIGNED copies of the catalogue from the show to give away to you lot.The catalogue is a small but concise view of the show, and for those of you who couldn’t make it or those of you new to Rough’s work, it’s a good insight to what he is doing.

All you have to do is email your name and address to competitions@ukstreetart.co.uk with the subject line “ROUGH” and we’ll be picking the winners on 14th October.

More pics from the show after the jump, and thanks to Rough for the prizes and photos.

James Mayle, Paul Johnson and Kate Taylor have all won a copy of the Stickerbomb book. Congratulations and expect the postman to pop the little package through your letterbox VERY soon.

Roll up! Roll up! We had a fantastic response to our competition for a copy of the new Street Art DVD by Tate Media.

Congratulations to: Martin Malloy, Alex Hillhouse, Marek Chojnacki, Kevin McQuaid, Harry Harmer, Rob Wass, Natalie Barsky, Bimal Tailor, Lindesay Mace, Stuart Hart

Your DVDs will be in the post early next week

Laurence King publishing are set to release a brand new book called Stickerbomb. It’s set to be the first collectable, fully-peelable sticker book to feature illustration, graffiti and graphics by artists from around the world and is made possible by Studio Rarekwai

We’ll have a full review of the book as soon as our copy arrives…so keep checking back.

In the meantime, Redbull are throwing a launch party this Friday at their HQ and we’ve got 2 tickets to give away to you lot.

There will be a live installtion by Rough and System, alongside music from Infinite Livez (Big Dada) and drinks courtesy of Red Bull. To be in with a chance of winning one of these tickets, do the usual…emails with your name to competitions@ukstreetart.co.uk with the subject line “Stickerbomb Launch”

We’ll be drawing the winners on Friday morning so there’s time to get your names on the list for Friday’s party. Get typing!