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Stickerbomb launch party + competition

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!

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Urban Angel shakes up Cork Street

Urban Angel are set to shake up the World famous Cork Street when they hold their first show on August 14th 2008. The show features 19 artists and will have a mix of stencil art, graffiti art and sculpture.

Artists on the roster include the legendary EINE, who acknowledged as one of, if not, the most prolific street artist working in the UK today. The show also features Zeus, SHOK-1 and Inkie, all of which have a street pedigree that is second to none, and have worked alongside the likes of Banksy, Os Gemeos, Nick Walker and many others.

This show also features Dotmasters and Hush, both of whom were invited to paint at Banksy’s CANS Festival earlier this year.

The show will feature around 50 paintings, with the prints being released on Saturday 16th August from the gallery. This is going to be a sell-out event so get ready for one of the big ones of the year.

The Gallery in Cork Street
28 Cork Street
Mayfair
London
W1S 3NG

For further information, please telephone 08700 111652

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Subism Party - 7th June, Derby

A bit from their site:

Due to the success of our launch party for the site on Saturday the 3rd of May, we are holding a few more parties in Derby…

Loads of great artists doing live art, ink spilling and wild doodles for you all to enjoy!
So come along… see some great art and have a bash yourselves!

Saturday June the 7th @ the Vaults Derby a underground cellar in the City Centre of Derby.
8pm - 2 am

artist:
phill blake (subism, secret wars)
mr penfold (subism)
kid30, kaption 1, deamze, and dregs (Oxygen Thieves)
dirty thirty (subism, secret wars)
glee 87 (best joined up)
ekid + local graffiti writers
music: vuyani, dave brooks + guests

More information on the Subism site

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Graffiti Research Lab at the Tate Modern tonight

Graffiti Research Lab

Monday 26 May 2008, 19.00–22.00

A free event as part of Tate Modern’s Street Art exhibition curated and promoted by young people encourages youth across South London to work with New York artists Graffiti Research Lab to mark the building with light projections. ‘Tate Studio’ is a free event with a vibrant line up of street artists, bands and DJs who will take over the Level 2 Café and other areas of the gallery encouraging young people to experiment with different forms of street art such as projection, drawing and sticker-layering. The event will include a temporary installation by Random International.

Young people have invited experimental and award-winning New York artists Graffiti Research Lab, who will reface Tate Modern with a spectacle of light projections. Young people will be able to create their own digital street art instantly scaled up and projected onto London’s largest modern art gallery.

Tate Modern, Front walls of Tate Modern
Free, no bookings taken

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Blank No More + Launch Party @ The Social

To celebrate the launch of BLANK NO MORE we’re hosting a FREE bash with our friends at the Social to showcase the amazing artwork and launch the 8 week long exhibition.

The night will feature DJ sets from London’s leading club promoters and record label Another Music = Another Kitchen, Toshiki Ohta, Watkins (Dafts Punks) plus special guests.

As an added bonus our good friends at San Miguel, and spotters of the freshest talent, have ensured there will be enough of their top quality lager to help oil those dancing limbs…

The preview and free drinks runs from 6.00pm - 7.30pm and then head downstairs until 1am for a proper old shindig downstairs. It’s almost bank holiday weekend so we might as well get on it…

Thursday 22nd May 2008

The Social‘, 5 Little Portland Street (Nearest tube: Oxford Street) - View MAP

Preview and drinks reception: 6pm - 7.30pm

Limited edition screen prints by:

eBoy / Dan Mumford / Eskimpush / Paul Willoughby / Another Music = Another Kitchen

After party: 7.30pm - 1am

DJ sets from:

Another Music = Another Kitchen / Toshiki Ohta / Watson (Dafts Punk) / Special Guests

OUR MANIFESTO

Whether it’s a movement in art, a shift in culture or a musical revolution - soon enough the media catches on, waters it down and feeds it to the masses. They eat it up, but some of us remain hungry for what sparked our original interest.

We don’t just want to settle for what’s put in front of us, we want something that’s going to excite us, challenge us and inspire us to get out there and do something ourselves.

We’re a collective with a real desire to share the passion we have for artists (both new and old) and the work they produce.

Our aim is quite simply to showcase the artists and designers we find interesting and make their work more accessible and affordable to a new audience through the production of bespoke, high quality screen prints.

We’ve searched for people and work that inspire us and think worthwhile sharing.

Hopefully you’ll share our vision.

OUR PRINTS

We’re passionate about the quality of our prints. In fact, each print is pressed and finished by hand on the best paper we could find - and they don’t get much better than the 100% Cotton Somerset Satin paper made by St. Cuthberts Mill (ours is a 310gsm).

The paper is also ‘Tub Sized’ which means they are soaked in a sizing bath after the paper is made - this allows the ink to sit on top of the paper instead of being absorbed.

Each limited edition print is hand printed, signed, embossed with the Blank No More seal and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

HOW DO WE SCREEN PRINT?

It’s a print produced by forcing ink through a mesh or screen stretched across a frame.

Each colour in an image is laid down onto paper by pushing ink through a very fine mesh. To create the image we block off areas on the mesh where we don’t want the ink to touch the paper. By creating numerous meshes, one for each colour, we slowly build up a complete picture.

It’s a labour intensive process but it creates the great results we’re looking for.

WHY SCREEN PRINTS?

While there are other methods of printing, we feel that screen prints boast the best quality and most vibrant colour effects available.

We’ve long felt that the quality of the print produced is more real and tangible - the ink has been pushed through by a person not a machine - and we love the small variations between the prints that this creates.

It makes each one our prints truly unique.

Check the site and buy prints here

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