Wahaca has called on Pure Evil to paint their newest branch in Westfield, Stratford City and they’ve kindly sent over some snaps of the new work.

Street art is something which has been important for the two founders since the beginning of Wahaca. They were influenced by the markets in Mexico – the food, the buzzz, the colours and the surroundings which are often covered in graffiti. Having been inspired by this, they brought it back to London and have had fun working with artists such as Nuria, Stuart Haygarth, Claroscuro, Oliver Shaw, Remi Rough and Pure Evil in the several restaurants scattered around town.

Pure Evil explains:

“I was given a total free reign to do whatever I liked for the project and every time I came back and said ‘hey how about this?’ Wahaca just said ‘yeah cool go for it’. It’s a perfect situation for me, because I don’t take art direction very often and I have organised my life so i am the boss of me.  The way I was given total freedom was a real joy. I was just asked to ‘do your thing over here on this wall’ and I was left to my own devices to make the whole place look awesome. It’s like being a kid again, you just get to play.”

Monorex, Holic, Secret Wars and friends all come together to host a very special live art show on the 30th May to help raise money for victims of the earthquake in Japan. The night will feature the usual live art battle, this time between England and Japan. A silent auction of Monorex artists’ work, Pop Up Projects stand, VNA Magazine stand and much more…

4pm till late / £5 on the door / cheap bar.  All of the profits from the night will go directly to Japan.

Starring: Reeps One

DJs: Eliza Doolittle, Brett Mav, Session, 3rd ball, 1TA-RAW, Jeff Metal

Artists featuring: Stika, Jimi Crayon, Alfa, Mr K, The Krah, Pure Evil, Inkie, Hicks, Best Ever, Mr Gauky, Miss LED, Alex Daw, Riff, Sweaty Eskimo and more!

Supported by VNA, Edding, Pop up projects, PoP pop POW.

Village Underground
54 Holywell Lane
Shoreditch
London
EC2A 3PQ

ROA’s eagerly anticipated UK solo debut opens in London this spring to exhibit his unique portrayal of large scale urban wildlife, disquietly cohabiting city streets, hand painted in his distinctive black and white style.

More information on the Pure Evil site. RJ from Vandalog has also put this great first look over on Babelgum.

He’s been painting the streets of East and we’ve got these snaps from our newest contributor, Andrea Castano, for you after the jump..

To raise money for the ABC Trust 12 artists, 6 British and 6 Brazilian, have each customised a Gibson guitar which will be auctioned at The Cuckoo Club in London on April 29.

UK ARTISTS:

D*FACE | KID ACNE | INKIE | REMI/ROUGH | WILL BARRAS | PURE EVIL

BRAZILIAN ARTISTS:

SPETO | RAMON MARTINS | CALMA | TITI FREAK | DANIEL MELIM | TINHO

Catch a selection of the finished guitars after the jump, as well as a little more information.

The ABC Trust is pleased to present A Força da Rua (Force of the Street), an exclusive contemporary street art project bringing together 12 of the finest artists from Brazil and the UK, including D*Face, Inkie, Titi Freak, Speto and Calma. Each artist will create a unique piece of art that will help raise funds and awareness for Brazil’s most vulnerable children.

Gibson Guitar – a long time supporter of the ABC Trust charity – have donated 12 of their most iconic guitars including Les Paul, Melody Maker, Flying V and SG – to be customised. These will then be exhibited at a central London location and sold at a high profile VIP charity art auction at the Cuckoo Club on 29 April.

The ABC Trust (Action For Brazil’s Children’s Trust), whose co-founder and Patron is Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, have chosen graffiti and street art to work with as it reflects the rebellious free spirit of music and Brazil’s creative youth. Each of the artists’ work for the guitars reflects how art and music should be accessible and available to young people without discrimination and have the ability to inspire and transform.

UK ARTISTS

D*FACE | KID ACNE | INKIE | REMI/ROUGH | WILL BARRAS | PURE EVIL

BRAZILIAN ARTISTS

SPETO | RAMON MARTINS | CALMA | TITI FREAK | DANIEL MELIM | TINHO

There will also be a public competition hosted by a panel of judges including Cedar Lewisohn (Tate Modern Curator), graffiti expert and author Tristan Manco (including Graffiti Brasil, Thames & Hudson 2005), filmmaker Lorna Lavelle, participating artist INKIE and Francesca Gavin, Dazed & Confused Magazine’s Visual Arts Editor and author of Street Renegades: New Underground Art (published by Laurence King).  The competition will be launched this month, inviting UK residents to submit their own designs for customising a Gibson guitar, inspired by the project title, with the opportunity for the winning work to be featured as part of the exhibition.

As well as the exhibition and auction, a short documentary film will be made about the project by filmmaker of the moment Lorna Lavelle, known for her recent stunning series of shorts for Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood and SHOWstudio, as well as music videos Lupe Fiasco and UNKLE, and the forthcoming re-mastered version of the Warhol-era satire Brand X (for which Lorna is both re-mastering and directing an accompanying documentary) and the Brazilian graffiti art documentary Weapon of Choice.

Check Pure Evil for more info.

Graffiti Argentina: LAUNCH PARTY IN LONDON, Friday 27th March 2009 / 19:00 / Free
Pure Evil gallery, 108 Leonard St. EC24 4RH

www.graffitiargentina.com

‘Blast‘, The BBC’s creative arts project for young people has caught up with a selection of the stars from our illustrious scene for a series of insightful, well executed interviews.

Below are all of the interviews but for more from BBC Blast visit their site here and their street art microsite here.

Faile:

D*Face:

Pure Evil:

Matt Small:

David Samuel (Rarekind):

Mr Jago:

A collection of the finest street and urban artists are coming together to create the Nightmare before Christmas show. The crew will be taking over, painting on and pasting across one of London’s West End’s most established venues.

The launch is on Tuesday 16th from 5pm for art, live music & drinks all within the freshly painted Yule time surroundings. The show runs on till Christmas eve, so there’s plenty of time to check it out.

Artists include Pure Evil, Rugman, Focus, Snub, Hutch, ATG, One Trick Pony, Sin House, The Krah, Oh Death, Dan Kitchener, Paintshop, Ashab, Mishfit, Inkfetish and many more.

**UPDATE** The guys have now got Daydream Network co-promoting, and there will be drinks from Koppaberg Cider!

The Courtyard, Sin, 144 Charing X Road, London, WC2H 0LB
Open Noon til 7pm Daily (Closed Sunday 21st) until Tues 23rd

Nearest tube: Tottenham Court Road

We haven’t heard much about this piece by Pure Evil, it’s turned up on an e-newsletter and on the P E site with little to no details. All we know is we like it… a lot.

More info to follow shortly hopefully.