OLEK London Solo Exhibition

Thursday 26 January sees the return of Polish-born, New York based artist Olek to Tony's Gallery in East London, for her first UK solo exhibition entitled "“I do not expect to be a mother but I do expect to die alone”.

We last saw Olek back in November when she was working on an installation outside Tony's Gallery on Sclater Street. The artist spent two days wrapping an entire London Black Cab wheels and all in crocheted yarn featuring her signature camouflage print with the addition of some union jack's much to the delight of the passing public.

For this solo exhibition, Olek has drawn inspiration from her experiences of living in the UK and has spent the last month creating a major installation and sculptural environment within the gallery space. The interior of the space will be transformed with the gallery walls and floor covered entirely in crochet as well as featuring a distinctive Olek-esque living quarters filled with domestic objects of all kinds!

The exhibition opens with a private view Thursday 26 January, 6-9pm and the show will run until the 23 March 2012.

Tony's Gallery - 68 Sclater Street - London.

Elph - Fly Girls Video

Back in August of 2011 the guys at Gamma Proforma hosted a series of events at XOYO in Old Street. The events explored the duality in Art & Music and the first event they presented featured the sights and sounds of our favorite Scottish artist Elph. The 'Fly Girls' exhibition featured live painting from Elph and a series of new artwork which can be viewed over on Gamma Proforma's website.

With help from the team at End of The Line, the huge wall pictured above, located just under the East London Line off Shoreditch High Street was also secured for Elph to paint,  Gamma Proforma have just finished editing a video featuring footage from Elph's Fly Girl exhibition as well as a time lapse of the featured piece above being painted. Check the clip below.

Toasters 'Everywhere' Film Screening

We first mentioned the Toaster film 'Everywhere' back in December 2010 and it now looks like they have finally finished the film.

"Everywhere' is set to document the Toasters and their work  dating back to 1998. It will feature previously unseen footage of the preparation and execution of their street pieces pieces along with exclusive interviews and of course it wouldn't be a Toaster movie without the odd sticker here and there!

The first ever screening of the Toaster film 'Everywhere' will be on Tuesday 24th January at Village Underground in London,followed by screenings in Wolverhampton and Helsinki. The London screening kicks off at 7pm and entry is free. The first 30 people in the queue at the London screening will each receive a handpainted, signed Toaster piece. Be sure and get there early if you want one.


Village Underground - Holywell Lane - London

Ema and Aida hit the streets

When we last caught up with French artist EMA back in October, she had teamed up with Sheffield street artist Kid Acne for ‘Unclear ground/ Terrain vague'; an installation show in Niort (France) at the Pilori Museum.

Since then the artist has been traveling and installing works in Paris, New York, Miami and Beijing. Now back in the UK we caught up with EMA on Thursday evening in London as she hit the streets of East London with Hackney based artist Aida. Below are some of EMA's signature dropmen character paste-ups that went up and further down are photos from Aida's 'Print Yourself Out of Debt' credit crunch dollar bills series.
 

45RPM's Disposable Fanzine

Bristol artist and What Crew member 45RPM has dropped his newest NoFussJustPhotos Zine. Since early 2010 the artist has been sharing with us online, his photographic zines featuring a healthy mix of graffiti, streetart and as the artist puts it 'general tom foolery'.

The newest issue 'The Disposable Fanzine 01' is the first in the series that has been made available in a physical format. The fanzine has been printed in full colour with over 42 pages of photos all bound together in an A6 sized fanzine. As this is The Disposable Issue, all the featured photos in the fanzine were snapped by the artist on a cheap disposable camera and in keeping with the theme, the fanzine come with a free 27ex disposable camera with flash, hand tagged by 45RPM as well as a colour photo print featured in the zine. The Disposable Fanzine is selling fast, so we suggest you get yourselves over to 45RPM's Etsy page here and bag one before they sell out.You can then start snapping away and create your own zine!

RONE visit's London

Australian street artist and Everfresh Crew member RONE, appears to have stopped over in London during the holiday period. The artist has been traveling since taking part in the Miami Underbelly Project back in November, taking in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica, Paris, Hong Kong and of course London before heading back to Melbourne. Pictured are two large pieces the artist put up during his visit to town, one a large mural and the other a series of paste-ups on Red Church Street.

Check out Rone's photo diary featuring more photos from his travels over on the Everfresh blog.

Mural image via RONE

Hookedblog's 2011 Top 50

Happy New Year!!

As we begin 2012 we have selected some our favorite photographs from our Hookedblog Flickr stream from last year. The streetart photograph's are in no particular order, some are favorite pieces other we like the artists work / photos and the rest were picked for various reasons; content, colour, placement, texture!

We hope you our readers enjoy the selection and we look forward to another year together.

Tilt- Anarchy In the UK Video

Hookedblog managed to catch up with graffiti artist Tilt while he was in London at the end of November. The artist had been invited over to East London by Pictures On Walls, where he painted a large scale Union Jack on the huge wall at Village Underground. The mural featured his signature bubble letters using the lyrics from the Sex Pistols "Anarchy In the UK" and was painted to tie-in with the release of the same image as an edition through Pictures On Walls.

Photographer Benjamin Roudet from Big Addict was also in London, having travel from Toulouse with the artist to capture the journey. He has just posted his finished short clip of the artist at work. Check it out below.

New London Shutter Art

Here is a small collection of shutters that we at Hookedblog photographed over the last week, some of them are pretty recent additions to the streets and other like the Malarky and Billy 'Tasty Meats' one in Brixton pictured below, has been running for just over a year and we have just managed to find it! Pictured above on Sclater Street just off Brick Lane is a shutter featuring Lucas, Bromley and Malarky. Ronzo on Toynbee Street near Petticoat Lane Market. Malarky and Ronzo — near Petticoat Lane Market Malarky and Billy — Brixton Another Ronzo again on Toynbee Street.

London Street Art — 25

It would appear the whole blogsphere is taking about the new Banksy streets works in Bristol, Liverpool and London. As some of them have been removed/buffed/ defaced already and they have been posted on just about every other blog, we thought we would post some of the other works that have been appearing on the streets of London over the last few weeks or so. We have already featured many of the wonderful new paste-ups, Brooklyn artist Swoon put up around East London last week. This one is located just off Hackney Road near the farm on Ion Square. RUN gets all starry eyed on Hackney Road, at the old tennis courts with paste-ups by Mustafa Hulusi. One of the many pieces Baltimore based artist Gaia paste-up while in town, this piece is located on the old Foundry building near Old Street. Lots of these waffle Invader stickers have been popping up around East London, still no sightings yet of any actual new Invader street pieces out East. It would appear that a number of the Brixton ones we photographedlast week have been removed/stolen already! Mexican artist Pablo Delgado continues to populate the streets with his miniature street scenes. It would appear there has been huge demand for the artists work and he has recently released an edition with NellyDuff.

This also looks like it might be by Pablo but we are not 100% The two pieces above by Rowdy and Horror of Burning Candy are not strictly new but we managed to close enough to grab these pictures without having to hang over a bridge!

 If you still want more streetart, take a look at some of our previous post:

Hookedblog London Street Art — 24 
Featuring work from A.ce, Malarky, Dom, Pablo Delgado & Michael DeFeo.
Hookedblog London Street Art — 23
Featuring work from Malarky, Stik, Haculla, Lister, EMA.
Hookedblog London Street Art — 22 
Featuring work from Banksy, Dale Grimshaw, Mr.Penfold, Ronzo & D*Face.