PETER HALLEY Exhibition

PETER HALLEY at the Stuart Shave/Modern Art Gallery.

Preview Thursay 31st May 6pm - 8pm
1st June - 1st July

Stuart Shave/Modern Art Gallery | 10 Vyner Street | London

CARHARTT vs FRITH STREET TATTOO

PINKY IN BRIGHTON

Pinky aka MR Pinks heads down to Brighton for a new solo show of work at the newly opened ToyLife store. The show titled " HELLO" will feature new paintings, as well as Pinkys infamous freestyle papercut characters. There will also be a new print made available as well as Skull cookies and beer on the opening evening. If you are in Brighton do not miss this.


TOYLIFE | Tidy Street | North Lanes | Brighton
1st June - 15th June

THUNDERDOG COLLECTIVE

The Thunderdog Collective rolls into town tomorrow night with a one night only extravaganza. There will be live painting, toys, music, drinks and more. Featuring work from 123 Klan, Calma, Jeremyville, Superdeux and Mysterious Al to name a few.

Exposure Gallery | Litttle Portland Street
May 31st

MYSTERIOUS AL T's

Who doesn't love all things Glow in the Dark!!! Well, Mysterious Al has just released some super fresh glow in the dark t-shirts over on his bigcartel shop. The tshirts are 200GSM heavy cotton " WITH EVIL GLOW INK!" available in medium and large sizes.

Also available to buy are a selection of Al's screenprints. Go check 'em here.

And don't forget to stop over and check his Look Rare blog.

Chloe Early @ Stolen Space

A new show at Stolen Space gallery opens this Friday with a solo show by Chloe Early titled "Between Earth & Heaven". Below is the press release from Stolen Space:

Chloe Early’s paintings are an amalgamation of abstract landscape, surface pattern and figurative / representational elements. The diving figures appear incongruous, apparently unrelated to the urban landscape they inhabit. They are celebratory, a homage to freedom and self expression within the emptiness of contemporary urban landscape. Paint is applied in loose liquidy layers with a strong overall emphasis on colour and texture. Her current works are oil paintings on aluminium.

STOLENSPACE GALLERY | Dray Walk | The Old Truman Brewery
25th May - 24th June.

Secret Wars @ Gloria's

Secret Wars @ Gloria's boutique this evening Thursday 24th. Monorex have painted Gloria's shop windows with some sneaker inspired characters. There will be free beer while it lasts at this evenings party and the Monorex guys will be battling it out Secret Wars stylie on some Tagur kicks.

Gloria's | Shop 6 Dray Walk, The Old Truman Brewery

"Table Manners" SCREENPRINT

Brighton based artist Hutch releases a new limited edition screenprint today entitled "Table Manners". The print is an edition of 50, Signed & numbered and is 42 x 29.7cms. Available to buy today from his website here.

RED5STANDINGBY Music Zine

Keeping it on the zine tip we are pleased to announce our first collaborative zine. Hooked have teamed up with South London Illustrator / sticker King and lover of all things heavy metal Mr Red5standingby, to bring you the "Elvis Was A Hero To Most" zine.

This full colour 148mmx148mm zine features a selection of Red5's favourite music legends (not just the metal ones!) which he has illustrated using only MS Paint!! We loved the low-fi look of the illustrations and thought they would make a fantastic zine. We don't normally sell things directly from the site but we are making an exception for this zine cause we think it rocks.

UK £4.00 inc. postage

International £4.50 inc. postage

SMILE! IT's A ZINE SALE

We all love handmade zines and are delighted to see that PMH creator of the Dilly zine will be having a Zine Sale this weekend. On Saturday 26th May from 2pm he will be selling selected zines at Jagbags. If you have created your own zine, you are invited to bring them along and sell them. Pop along hae a drink, watch some visuals, listen to some DJ's and buy some zines!

dreambagsjaguarshoes, 34 - 36 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, London

GRAFFITI PROJECT

The Graffiti Project has brought together four of the world’s leading graffiti artists from Brazil, Os Gemeos, Nina Pandolfo and Nunca to work alongside Scottish talent, to create a unique burst of colour, embracing the walls and turrets of the south side of Kelburn Castle in Scotland.

The project involves the artists and organizers living together in the Castle for approximately one month, documented by various forms of media. The artists will have time to share and explore new ideas culminating in a one-off, giant piece of collaborative art.

Above is a video timelapse of the first weeks work.

More info on the project here.

SHOWCHICKEN LITHOGRAPHIC PRINT

London based illustrator Nick Sheehy aka Showchicken has just uploaded a new Lithographic Print over on his Etsy shop. The fantastic Spaceman print pictured above is an A3 sized green and black lithographic Print which has been printed with ethically produced vegetable dies on recycled paper. It is limited to Edition of 40 and was produced for the Dot The Eyes event that took place in Manchester earlier this month.

$13 postage included. Go get one now!

Badge/Button/ Pin

Badge/Button/ Pin is a new book due in the shops at the end of this month and for the next week - until May 30th, there's an exhibition of work from the book at exposure Gallery, 22-23 Little Portland Street, London W1.

There's work by Jeremyville, Emmi, Ian Wright, Stereohype, Mark Pawson, Fred Deakin, James Joyce, Natasha Shah, What What, eBoy and loads more... The exhibition is free. Nearest tube: Oxford Circus.


The book will be the first volume dedicated to glorifying current badge design culture - and it will showcase work by some of the most in-demand image makers working today from around the globe.

LMF 07 @ JAGBAGs

PMH's monthly clubnite LMF returns to Jagbags this Friday 25th. The party kicks off at 9pm and runs until about 1am and there is no admission charge. No excuse for missing this one, what with the may bank holiday.

dreambagsjaguarshoes, 34 - 36 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, London

Antony Gormley: Blind Light

The Hayward presents Blind Light, the first major London showing of the work of British sculptor Antony Gormley.

The exhibition features a series of brand new monumental works specially conceived for The Hayward’s distinctive spaces, including one of the largest ever urban public art commissions, Event Horizon, which features sculptural casts of the artist’s body on rooftops and public walkways across central London, dramatically transforming the city skyline.

Thursday 17 May 2007 - Sunday 19 August 2007

Southbank Centre | Belvedere Road | London

Daft Punk's Electroma @ The I.C.A.

Here is one for your diaries in June, Daft Punk's Electroma feature film at the I.C.A. here in London.

Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter - aka Daft Punk - direct this sci-fi tale of two robots on a Californian quest to become human. This poetic, surreal odyssey moves at a leisurely pace and firmly imprints itself on your altered consciousness. More about the movie here

8 - 16 Jun 2007
£8 / £7 Concessions / £6 ICA Members
Dir Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Thomas Bangalter, USA 2006, 75 mins

HENBO

The newly opened Bohdi cafe and gallery just opposite the bagel shop on Brick Lane hosts a new exhibition from the Henbo collective this Thursday 17th May.

Henbo at Bodhi is an exhiition of the collectives latest personal work. Collectively themed, the works fall into the concept of imaginary characters in a real world. The images offer humour, beauty and evil cuteness.

Bodhi Galley | 214 Brick Lane | London |
17th May - 24th May

PURE EVIL SOLO SHOW

Pure Evil is back in London and is having a solo exhibition this week in East London. The show will feature new paintings, prints and neon sculptures. The exhibition opens this Thursday 17th May at the Dry Walk Gallery in the Old Truman Brewery with a private view from 6pm. See some of ye there.

DIELOOTED

The new issue of Graphotism magazine, issue number 46 has just dropped and features our old time friends DieLooted, who finally get themselves a website. The Dielooted interview focuses on Yesb's Wildstyle genius and allows us an incite into his unique way of graffiti thinking, his history on how he exploded onto the scene and why he wants to keep Wildstyle alive in the UK.

Graphotism is available in most book/ magazine shops including Magma in London.

THE WORLD IS YOURS

Checked out this fantastic photographic show over the weekend at the newly opened Maverik Showrooms on Red Church Street in East London. "The World is yours", is the first major exhibition at this new space and features the photography of the renowned music photographer Lawrence Watson. The work spans the years 1980 until the presant day, and includes unforgettable images of David Bowie, Run DMC, Michael Jordon, Oasis, Janet Jackson, Ian Brown and Snoop Dog to name a few.

The show runs until the 27th of May and should not be missed.

Maverik Showrooms | 68-72 Redchurch Street | London E2

‘Stereotypewriters’ by Pablo Fiasco

Pablo Fiasco exhibition at the Sptiz Gallery, opens with a private view this Friday May 11 from 7 pm. Below is some information from The Spitz Gallery website about Pablo and his work.

Pablo Fiasco is a canadian/english performer, designer and stencil graffiti artist living in london. For over 12 years he has been leaving his cryptic graffiti messages in cities around the world. His work is both modernist and ambivalent, creating a concrete poetry that the viewers must piece together as they wander the streets.

His beautiful and highly detailed stencils include the widely recognised typewriter which represents a linchpin for his vocabulary - urgent but broken transmissions that work as pictures or poems. His form involves placing beautiful objects in unlikely places, and his iconography is eerily evocative and rarely direct. For him this covert communication is a form of a comic strip for the streets, where little is clear and nothing is spelled out. His symbology has the traits of other forms of graffiti: where letters become pictures, and these word pictures and patterns suggest a struggle against simple meanings.

He also samples and collages images from pop culture - our collective unconscious. His advertisements feature frankensteins and aliens - the myths and monsters of our cinematic and televisual continuum have been apprehended and retransmitted to communicate a message of apprehension. His work is a chaotic messaging pattern asserting itself cartoon - like, within the great choatic messaging pattern.

The Spitz Gallery | 109 Commercial Street | Old Spitalfields Market
9 May – 21 May

RackGaki

"RackGaki " is a new exhibition opening at Stolen Space Gallery on the 10th May, which will accompany the publication of the first book on Japanese graffiti, RackGaki, by Ryo Sanda and Suridh Hassan. This is the first book devoted to the Japanese scene. The exhibition will feature work by artists featured in the book and a screening of the accompanying DVD.

Japan’s two leading Graffiti artists’ KRESS and ESOW are flying over from Tokyo to create a piece which will form the centrepiece of the Exhibition. In addition to the graffiti piece, there will be canvases, books, limited addition screen prints and books for sale at the exhibition.


STOLENSPACE GALLERY
Dray Walk, The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL
10th May - 20th May

INK THIS 2

Opening tomorrow night at The Coningsby Gallery in London will be a exhibition featuring new works from a selection of UK and international illustrators.

INKTHIS 2 will run from 8th May - 11th with the launch night on the 9th from 6.30. Some of the artists featured include the following McFAUL / JON BURGERMAN / MATT SEWELL / ILOVEDUST / GENEVIEVE GAUCKLER / JEREMYVILLE and OLIVER HIBERT to name a few of the 37 illustrators taking part.

Check the website for a full line-up of illustrators and directions to the gallery.

JUSTICE D.A.N.C.E. VIDEO

Super fresh video for Justices new single with graphics from So ME. Link nicked from PMHs Le Dilly.

PILLS STILLS AND BELLYACHES

PYMCA is celebrating Rave culture with an exhibition that spans the last 20 years from Shoom and The Hacienda in the late eighties, Hardcore Raves in the nineties through to the ‘New Rave’ and ‘Electro’ scenes in the Noughties.

‘Pills Stills and Bellyaches’ - 20 Years of rave opens this Thursday 10th of May from 7pm. Beyond just the images they are inviting you to a ‘rave world’... The venue will be spectacular - with disco balls, smiley balloons, glow sticks, fluorescent walls... which will be complimented by their unique imagery from 20 years of rave.

Plus they will have classic tunes played by rave DJs who were there at the time.

PYMCA Gallery
41 Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5RS
Rave exhibition 10.5.2007 - 31.5.2007

THE WALL

These guys have been hitting Brick Lane pretty hard the last few weeks and now Bristol gets some massive skulls on the side of an abonded building.

BJORK'S NEW ALBUM

Love her or loath her you can’t ignore Bjork’s passion for pushing the boundaries both musically and visually and her new album Volta set to drop on the 7th May looks set to push this further. Hotly tipped as her best album since her 1993 “Debut” album, Volta is Bjork’s sixth full-length studio album. Once again Bjork has enlisted M/M from Paris for the art direction and design, with photographer Nick Knight shooting the album cover.

The lead-off single from Volta, “Earth Intruders”, has been co-produced by Timbaland with Michel Ocelot directing the video. I was going to post the new video but it was removed from You Tube, but has since been re-up loaded by the record label who have decided to disable the embed option on the video. But you can view it over on You Tube here.

The entire album is currently streaming on NME.com (go to Björk’s artist page or to NME media player).

BLACK THURSDAY

East London's Pure Evil drops a new print today over on his website at 1pm Thursday 3rd May. The Pure Evil Knievel Print will be released in two editions. A BLACK ON BLACK version with black gloss print on black plike 330 g/m2 paper in an edition of 60 and a DIAMOND DUST version black print with diamond dust on soft white somerset 300 g/m2 with a deckled edge in an edition of 100. According to Pure Evil , Warhol and Basquiat worked with Diamond Dust and he has tracked it down and used it in the Diamond Dust edition pictured above.

Both prints will be simultaneously released on both Pure Evil's website and over at Beautiful Crime website. Check over on Pure Evil's website to see some close-up details of the prints especially the Black on Black one which looks great.

WE ARE BANK HOLIDAY

This sunday sees the launch party of a new zine WEAREBANDWAGON at Jag Bags in East London. They have also invited other zine creators to bring their creations to sell/give away during the afternoon. Live music and Wearebandwagon DJ's throughout the evening, plus frozen margarita's and donkey pinata's that need to relieve themselves of some sweets. If you're in Shoreditch on Sunday make sure you check it out.

Dreambags Jaguar Shoes | Kingsland Road
Sunday May 6th 5pm - 1am

SIZE ZERO CLUB NIGHT

Size Zero returns to 333 on Old Street this May Bank Holiday weekend with top tunes from Skull Juice, Zombie Disco Squad, Med Damon and Alex Stephen. Wicked flyer design from our mates Goldtooth.

Size Zero @ 333 | Old Street | London
4th May