A.CE - It's A Stick Up: London Video

 We recently featured and reviewed (covered here) the latest publication from Ollystudios and Laurence King titled It's a Stick-Up: 20 Real Wheat Paste-Ups from the World's Greatest Street Artists. The new publication as the title suggests features artists who work predominantly with paste and posters on the streets and includes Paul Insect, WK Interact, A.ce, Dain, Rae, Kid Acne, EMA, Dale Grimshaw and Pablo Delgado to name a few.

To tie-in with the launch of the book, Ollystudios commissioned a short film featuring London based street artist A.ce who is also featured in the book. Taking to the streets by bike they followed A.ce with a camera on one of his late night street pasting missions as he hit the streets of East London with some of the screenprinted paste-ups that are featured in the book. Check the film below, then read our review of the It's A Stick-Up book here. The book is available now and can be picked up online on Amazon  herefor £12.76!

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Ben Slow Collaborative London Mural with Jana & JS

A series of new multi layered stencil pieces and paste-ups have been appearing around East London over the weekend and yesterday Hookedblog managed to find so time to capture some of these new works we spotted. The work is that of duo Jana & JS, an Austrian and French couple currently living in Salzburg, Austria. We last saw some work from the artists here in London back in May of last year (covered here) when the two left some beautiful stencil pieces featuring themselves in many of the works. Nearly all but one of these pieces have been removed or painted over so we are happy to see some of their work appearing on the streets again.

Alongside the new works the artists have also teamed up for a collaborative piece with London artist Ben Slow who we caught up with yesterday as he worked on his self-portrait which will join Jana and JS's finished stencil portraits. Ben was still working on the mural when we took these photos, so check back with us soon for the completed mural as well as some of the other works Jana & JS works.


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HIN Goes Large in Shoreditch

We last saw artist HIN on the streets of East London back in April (covered here) when we ran into the artist at work, installing some paste-ups on Bethnal Green Road. The last month has seen the Hong Kong born artist return to Shoreditch, supper sizing up his work on not one but three new pieces in the area. Check of photos of the new works below.



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Sliks & Bailon Mural — Great Eastern Street, London

The South American invasion of Shoreditch continues as another artist hits the city, Hookedblog recently hung out with São Paulo artists Sliks & Bailon in East London.



Bailon has been living in London for about a year and has been making some noise recently haven taken to the streets again and shared a number of vibrant new murals with the city. Some of our readers might have seen the artists previous work 'Big Love' painted earlier in the year on the four panels of the Shoreditch Art Wall on Great Eastern Street and more recently he collaborated on the hoarding on Grimsby Street with Nylon, Word To Mother and fellow South American Rodrigo Branco.



For artists Sliks this is his first visit to London and on this occasion it was the first time in several years that the two friends had painted together on a wall. The duo worked across the four panels over two days to produce this visually stunning collaborative wall showcasing both the artists distinct styles.

Sliks is the second visiting South American artist who has been invited to London by Pigment London, a new project run by a duo who aim to showcase and work with emerging brazilian artists. We have already featured the work of Rodrigo Branco (covered here) who was also invited over by the team at Pigment London. We have been really enjoying seeing these artists at work and the techniques they use, we look forward to seeing who they have visiting next!



Below is the completed mural located on Great Eastern Street. If you are in the be sure and check it in person as unfortunatly it is set to be painted over on the 24 June 2013, so catch it will you can.



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It's a Stick-Up Book Review

It's a Stick-Upbook is the latest book release from Ollystudios and publishers Laurence King. Ollystudios are a London based creative studio who have previously designed artists monographs for a number of Lazarides Gallery artists such as Paul Insect, JR, David Choe and Vhils. Ollystudio have also authored and designed The Street Art Stencil Bookand Stencil Republic both also released with Laurence King.

So it's no surprise that this new publication has been beautifully designed by Ollystudios, from the Paul Insect baby head stickers stuck on the front cover to the oversized dimensions of the book, the lovely stock it's been printed on as well as the layout design for the spreads makes for a great book that stands out over some other recent releases. So whats inside the book well content wise they showcases the work of 20 street artists from across the globe who work predominantly with paste and posters, artists such as Paul Insect, WK Interact, A.ce, Dain, Rae, Kid Acne, EMA, Dale Grimshaw and Pablo Delgado to name a few.



Writer Margherita Dessanay has written the books introduction as well as profiles for each of the artists in which we get to read about their experiences of working in the street as well as some of their working processes. Each artist profile is also accompanied by a slection of photography showing their works in the streets of cities across the globe.

The book comes complete with 20 fold out posters / paste up's, one from each featured artist which you can choose to tear out if you wish and try your hand at pasting some work up yourself ( a paste recipe is also included in the book) or you might chose to frame up some of the posters and redecorate your walls inside. The fold-out pages in the book are all perforated so they can easily be removed. Some of the paste-ups such as the Kid Acne Stabby Woman has been laser cut so they can be popped out of the book. But we like the idea of cutting out the included Pablo Delgado miniature images on his fold-out poster and pasting them around our apartment!



The It's a Stick-Up: 20 Real Wheat Paste-Ups book is currently on sale online here on Amazonand is another welcome addition to the Hookedblog bookshelf and walls!



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Penguin Street Art Series of Books Launch Event

Hookedblog hit the Southbank in London over the sunny weekend to catch up with What Collective crew members 45RPM and Oath who along with Ventsa were creating pieces of art inspired by Penguin's new literary series outside Foyles Southbank store.

For the Penguin Street Art Series ten world-renowned street artists were asked to create distinct new covers for contemporary classics, producing a bespoke edition set of contemporary fiction with an urban edge that is a must for any bookworm or streetart lovers. Books in the series include Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Jonathan Coe's What a Carve up!, Nick Hornby's How to be Good and William Boyd's Armadillo. The ten artists who were invited to create the covers included 45RPM, Sickboy, ROA, ESPO, The Yok, DAIN, Barn, Agostino, Dr Henry Jekyll and Mittenimwald.



Some of the alphabet book covers painted during the event, we are especially loving the spray painting Penguin's painted by 45RPM!



Pictured below are a number of the custom designed book covers including ROA, Sickboy, 45RPM and DAIN. Our personal favourites have to be the Sickboy cover closely followed second by 45RPM's cover.

The ladies from Penguin books in their awesome pop-up portable shop outside Foyles!

The series is available in store at Foyles Bookshop or online via Amazon links below to each book.

The 10 books in the Penguin Street Art Series include:
The Reluctant FundamentalistAuthor: Mohsin Hamid / Cover Design: Mittenimwald
What a Carve Up!Author: Jonathan Coe / Cover Design: DAIN
And the Ass Saw the AngelAuthor: Nick Cave / Cover Design: ROA
Then We Came to the EndAuthor: Joshua Ferris / Cover Design: 45RPM
The BelieversAuthor: Zoë Heller / Cover Design: Sickboy
ArmadilloAuthor: William Boyd / Cover Design: The Yok
How to be GoodAuthor: Nick Hornby / Cover Design: Agostino
HawksmoorAuthor: Peter Ackroyd / Cover Design: Barn
AmericanaAuthor: Don DeLillo / Cover Design: Dr Henry Jekyll
Lights Out for the TerritoryAuthor: Iain Sinclair / Cover Design: ESPO.


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