Sickboy’s newest show, “Heaven & Earth” contains an entirely new body of work and also presents four major installations which include a walk-in confessional booth (with a resident pastor), and an installation which see’s the who’s who of artists joining Sickboy, including: D*Face, Eine, Anthony Lister, Paul Insect, Vhils, Conor Harrington, Xenz, Word to Mother, Will Barras, Eelus, Mudwig and Hush – all of which feature in a special collaborative element of the show.

After years of brainwashing the public with his temple and slogans such as ‘Save the Youth’, Sickboy is expanding his ethos of ‘art for the people’ and inviting the global public to become part of his show by submitting their anonymous confessions to him, which will become one of the main installations, entitled CONFESS.

Heaven & Earth opens with a private view on Thursday 3rd November and opens to the public on Friday 4th to Sunday 6th November. Dray Walk, The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL.

Word to Mother preview for his upcoming show ‘Essence Of Adolescence’ at The StolenSpace Gallery

Pop Magazine caught up with London based artist Word To Mother, while the artist was in the midst of Italy’s FAME festival.

POP: Tell me about the new work you are making.
WTM: As well as working on some large letter pieces out here in Italy, I am producing a print with Angelo and Studio Cromie and an installation for the final FAME show in September. When I get back to London I’ll be getting back to producing work for my upcoming London Solo show at StolenSpace in October. It will feature pieces painted on salvaged wood and metal which is something I have been doing for a while now. The whole idea of the show is going to be based around the idea of the lies and deceit that is thrown at us every day behind the veil of popular culture.

You can read the full interview over on the Pop site.

Images: Viktor Vauthier

This short film explores the creative process of London based artist WordToMother and the lead up to his third solo show ‘Lost For Words’ at Stolen Space Gallery. Video by Andrew Telling. More on WordToMother here.

Nice set of WTM prints released through Studio Cromie. Pick yours up for the princely sum of 90 Euros here.

Loving WTM’s style both in prints and ‘pon road. Here’s a little beauty he did on Hackney Road way back in August 2008:

Several of our fine isle’s artistic exports on show, including D*Face and Word To Mother, at Berlin’s Circle Culture gallery from June 5-July 4.

More info after the jump.

SELF-PORTRAITS
by contemporary urban artists from four continents

D-FACE / ANTON UNAI / JR / JAYBO AKA MONK / JEFF SOTO / JUDITH SUPINE / XOOOOX / KILLPIXIE / DTAGNO / HUNK / STEFAN HIRSIG / AARON ROSE / MAROK / DALE GRIMSHAW / OSKAR / BEST EVER / NOMAD / WORD TO MOTHER / MYMO / STEFAN STRUMBEL / SOPHIE REINHOLD / CHARLIE ISOE / RUTGER TERMOHLEN

The idea of this exhibition is to approach the historical theme of self-portraits and to bring it into a contemporary art context. A self-portrait is a representation of an artist, drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by the artist. Although self-portraits have been made by artists since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid 1400s that artists can be frequently identified depicting themselves as either the main subject, or as important characters in their work. With better and cheaper mirrors, and the advent of the panel portrait, many painters, sculptors and printmakers tried some form of self-portraiture… In this respect it will be an interesting and new experience to show the vision of the “self-portrait” by contemporary urban artists from all over the world.

Opening reception: friday june 5th, 7-10 pm
until july 4th 2009 / tue-sat 2-6 pm

Circleculture Gallery
Gipsstrasse 11
Berlin Mitte / Germany

We’re pretty late with this post, in fact we’re pretty late with a lot of news – our bad. Stay tuned over the next couple of days for some long overdue activity.

Anyways, for more pics of Sickboy’s recent antics be sure to check out his shiney new blog over at thesickboy.com/blog.

After the jump-off catch a video of Sickboy’s December show which is spliced either side of a rare interview with the man himself. He’s also got a raft of affordable prints from the show still available on his site – check them all out here.

Full gallery of Word To Mother’s ‘Lost For Words show at Stolen Space after the jump. For those that are still yet to make it down the show’s on until 7pm this evening (March 29).

All pics courtesy of WallKandy.

Following David Bray’s show at Stolen Space which opens this Thursday, the east end outpost will be opening its doors to the third show from rising star Word To Mother on March 19.

UK Adapta have picked 5 UK artists; Cyclops, D*Face, David Bray, Vesna Parchet and Word To Mother, for their first show taking place in Hong Kong from November 14 – December 10. For more info on the show visit their new exhibition-specific site here, and for more on UK Adapta in general visit their online magazine here.