MANY HANDS EXHIBITION

New exhibition from the Peepshow Collective titled, 'Many hands make more work', opens at Concrete Hermit on Friday 30th November, all new work and the first Peepshow Gallery show in two and a half years!

Concrete Hermit | 5a Club Row | London.

55DSL Christmas Shopping Evening

Launching on the Grazia magazine shopping evening where Carnaby Street goes wild and lets people collect special gifts, money off and even some type of drink/food depending on what the retailer is offering, 55DSL is up to its usual tricks! Get to the store on the corner of Newburgh Street and you could be in for a freebie worth the walk.

Madcap Matt Sewell and gigantic Jonny Fu (A.K.A. Ron Jonzo, Ronzo) will be creating hand illustrated Christmas Cards so as well as taking home the latest from 55DSL you can have your own unique piece of artwork, a perfect gift for friends and families, but to be honest they will be so good you might just want to send one to yourself.

Music will be provided by DJ NickName and shoppers will be re-fuelled with a festive Jagermeister bar to help keep them in a suspended state of shopping happiness. 55DSL also have somegreat surprises up their sleeves as well… Really, you won’t be disappointed - *crosses heart and hopes to die*

Most people will know Matt as the artist renowned for drawing an uber-cute world of animals and girls in pastel palettes and for the festive period 55DSL have commissioned a life size version of his work of a polar bear. The 6ft creature will be camping outside the store complete with a head sized hole for shoppers to stick their faces through and have their photo taken as a real-life piece of art and experience being hugged by a polar bear!

Join them for art, shopping, booze and music (but not necessarily in that order!)
Date: Thursday 29th November
Location: 55DSL Store, Newburgh St. London
Times: 1800 - 2200

THE BIRDS SCREENPRINTS

Fantastic new screenprints from Nylon, limited print run of 30, just in time to make nice Christmas presents. There are only a a handful left, so if you like 'em you have to move quick. They are A3 in size and the background is flat Belton colour hand stencilled. Prints are £45.00 each plus postage. Contact him via his flickr here.

THE ILLUSTRATED APE Magazine

The Illustrated Ape. Heavenly Divine Double-Header!

NOVEMBER 29TH 6.30 - 8.30pm
First, join them for drinks at Carhartt, 56 Neal Street, to celebrate the launch of 4 brand spanking new designer Illustrated Ape T-shirts. (Covent Garden Tube).

Then, boogie on down to The Social on 5 Little Portland Street (Oxford Circus Tube) 9pm - late.

OLIVER HIBERT SKATE DECKS

If you have been reading this blog for any length of time you will know we are big fans of Oliver Hiberts colourful illustrations. He has just set-up a webshop selling skate decks which feature some of his awesome illustrations.

The decks are 7-Ply 100% Canadian Maple Skateboard Deck are are very reasonably priced at $49.99. Go check the decks here

MISS VAN PRINTS

To tie in with Miss Van's solo show which opened this weekend on November 24th, Magda Danysz Gallery in Paris have relesed a number of new Miss Van Prints. To view the prints available check the Magda Danysz online shop here

[weAREtheIMAGEmakers] ISSUE 13

[weAREtheIMAGEmakers] is an Australian online magazine that focuses on promoting Australian creative talent. They have just released their newest issue number 13, which features interviews with some of our favourite Australian Street artist, Ghostpatrol, Junior and illustrator Brooke Bobridge. Also interviewed is photographer Nick mcArthur and rock poster artist Ken Taylor.

Check the newest issue here.

OTHER XMAS PRINT SALE

Super talented artist Other is at the moment trying to raise funds to get back to Canada for Christmas. He has created 10 Lino mini prints and two paintings in efforts to raise the money.

The print EDITIONS ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO REPRINT!!!! because after each layer is printed it must be cut away to make way for the next layer..making them extremely rare prints and small editions ...all prints are numbered titled and signed and not very expensive at 25 canadian dollars plus shipping which for us here in the UK is about £12 depending on the exchange rate.

If you are interested in buying some prints, send an email to this email address with the prints you want and you will be sent a paypal request: troy.lovegates [at] gmail.com

To see the other prints available check his flickr here.

WHITE NOISE PICTURES

A great selection of pictures from the White Noise exhibition opening last night at Black Rat Press gallery can be seen over on Jeremy Gibbs flickr account here.

Black Rat Press | thru Cargo Garden | Arch 461 | 83 Rivington Street | London

23rd November – 16th December

MONSTER MASH EXHIBITION

BEST presents MONSTER MASH at the INTOXICA Gallery

A show of wickedly twisted artwork by five international artists:BERT, DANNY SANGRA, PINKY, NOAH BUTKUS, SAIRA HUNJUN

PV: THURS NOV 22, 7pm-9pm Open to the public: Fri Nov 23rd to Mon Dec 24th
Kindly refreshed by TIGER BEER. FREE ENTRY

Intoxica | 231 Portobello Road | London W11

Nearest tube: Ladbroke Grove or Notting Hill Gate

WHITE NOISE @ BRP

Black Rat Press is following its highly successful installation, Heap, with its first group show. The show brings together many of the biggest international names in urban art. The works in White Noise illuminate the bypassed and overlooked aspects of daily life that have been pushed into the background, repositioning the subjects centre frame so that we are forced to confront them with a fresh pair of eyes.

23rd November – 16th December (private show 22nd November) 2007:

Featured artists include : SWOON, D*FACE, MATT SMALL, BLEK LE RAT, DAVID ELLIS, ARMSROCK, NICK WALKER, AND NICK GEORGIOU

There will be originals by all the artists in the show as well as new prints from Blek Le Rat and Nick Walker. Plus a very special edition D*Face, not on paper.

Black Rat Press | thru Cargo Garden | Arch 461 | 83 Rivington Street | London

45RPM ONLINE SHOP

Our good friend 45RPM has set up an online shop just in time for Christmas, over at Etsy. An Illustrator, Street / Graffiti artist, lover of top hats, beards and owls (according to his profile), 45RPM is also one third of the infamous Bristol based What Collective who has been hitting the streets of Bristol for a number of years.

His shop features a selection of original works painted on a variety of objects including skatedecks and vintage tin lids. One of our favourites is this Owl paper cut-out pictured above. Go check the work here.

After visiting the online shop, stop over at his flickr page which gets updated almost everyday.

SO ME @ LAZY DOG

What with Paris now only just over two hours away on the Eurostar, from the newly opened St Pancras International there isn't a better time to cross the cannel for a quick visit than to check out this new exhibition from the one and only SO ME. We have been huge fans of Paris based So ME's awesome graphics for some time now. From the fresh and vibrant artwork for Edbanger Records to the amazing D.A.N.C.E. music video for Justice to his graphic t-shirts which now change hands on ebay for silly money this is gonna be a fantastic show. "Blinded By The Light" opens November 22nd at Lazy Dog, Paris.

IPSO FACTO

Promo video to Ipso Facto's debut single 'Harmonise' on Disc.Error.Recordings set to be released on the 19th November. Available on pre-order here.

JAGBAGS WEB SHOP

Our good friends over at Jaguar Shoes have launced an online bigcartel web shop. Lots of great zines and other printed stuff for you to buy including some great screen prints from Erosie.

To commemorate the current French exhibit, Destined to Fester, at the Old Shoreditch Station, they have released a 16 page Zine full of gore. To tie in with this launch, Carharrt have also produced a glow in the dark Destined to Fester T-shirt. Both are Limited edition and are available now.

Daniel Eatock

We are delighted to see the Kemistry Gallery is hosting a solo exhibition of the work by Daniel Eatock. We are big fans of Daniels work and have spent lots of time checking throught the work on his website.

The show will be entitled ‘Editions & Originals’ and will presents a collection of works and ideas in a multitude of permutations, all linked by the belief in concept first.

Eatock is interested in connections between image and language, titles, punch lines, miscommunication, subversions, open systems, contributions from others, seriality, collections, discovery and inventing. Eatock makes conceptual things that are resolved in a reductive, logical and objective way, and is especially interested in the connection of the start and end points of a hand drawn circle. Eatock’s work responds to personal fascinations and the desire to invent, discover and present. From an edition of prints made using every colour Pantone felt-tip pen, to the ongoing Channel 4’s Big Brother identity, all work is unified in its conceptual, reductive, rational attempt at forming an answer or a conclusion. The simple notion that work made without a brief is ‘art’ and work made in response to a brief is ‘design’, does not fit, art and design cross, merge and collide challenging preconceptions from each respective discipline.

To find out more about Daniel Eatock’s work please visit www.eatock.com
16 November - 12 January
Kemistry Gallery | 43 Charlotte Road | London

NEW PRINTS @ TOYLIFE

Our good friends over at Toylife have updated their website with some fresh new prints. New limited screenprints available from ELPH (Detail above), Mysterious Al, Pete Fowler & MARS-1 in the shop section of their website. The prints are also avaliable to buy directly from the Toylife shop located in Brighton.

ToyLife | Tidy Street | North Laines | Brighton

Zevs' Liquidated Logos

Zevs’s new exhibition opening on 16 November at Lazarides Gallery will be his first London solo exhibition. LIQUIDATED LOGOS presents a new docufiction film based on the artist’s activities over the last ten years alongside a series of unseen screen prints of famous logos, liquidated on large coloured plexiglass boards.

Zevs’s work primarily plays with and explores visual effects. Re-painting the logos in their own colours, the artist pours paint over them, liquidating one logo after another. Through the parallel lines of the drips, the logos dissolve in front of the viewers eyes, drawing attention to, and visually disturbing the recognizable and omnipresent trademark as illustrated above. By doing so, Zevs investigates the logo’s visual power.

French street artist Zevs was an early and influential graffiti artist and is among the prominent figures who pioneered the French street art scene. He was active as a tagger in Paris in the 1990’s, and by the end of the decade he had become widely known for his poetic drawings of shadows in Paris. His name derives from an encounter with a regional train, Zeus, which almost ran him over as a child. He is also well known for ‘attacking’ billboards and commercials in the cityscape, where pin up girls and boys have been shot between the eyes with a spray can, leaving the blood red paint running.


16 November – 29 November 2007
Laz Inc | 8 Greek Street | London

ADFUNTURE GUERILLA STORE

Yesterday at 11.11am the 11th November, toy company AdFunture's latest retail guerilla store opened its doors here in London. The guerilla store is located in the the brand new B2 retail store - part of the Bodhi gallery at 214 Brick Lane, London E1 6SA, UK.

During the 6 week duration of the adFunture store, they will be releasing several new products - some of them you may of heard about before, BUKA, Lefty, 123 Klan 10" Teddy Troop, plus several other TT's (rumours have been circulating about which artists are applying their skills to the TT form). There will also a host of never before mentioned product. To keep upto date keep checking the GSUK blog.

ZBIOK

We managed to pop down to Rough Trade East on Friday and get our copy of Street Sketchbook signed by all the artists in attendance. Shouts outs to Tristan, Showchicken, Dist, 45 RPM, Richt, Mudwig Dans, Paris, Xenz, Turbo, Guy Mckinley. Mr Jago, Nylon and all the rest. Was cool to catch up with old friends and meet up with some of the European artists featured in the book. One of the artists we meet was Zbiok, a Polish painter and Urban Activist. We have been looking through his website over the weekend and are really liking what we have been seeing. We believe he will be having a show here in London in the not to distant future. Check the freshness here.

STREET SKETCHBOOK

We blogged this fantastic book back in October, but today is the offical launch of Tristan Manco's new book Street Sketchbook. To mark the release of the publication, the recently opened Rough Trade East on Dry Walk will host the launch this afternoon 9th November from 12 - 5pm. Artists from the book will be present to doodle on copies of the book, as well as creating new works and scribbling on the walls. Artists set to appear at the book launch include:

Wet Shame Crew: Paris, Eco, Mudwig (Great Britten)
What Collective: 45rpm . Richt
David Earl Dixon (Colchester)
Duncan Jago (Bristol)
Guy McKinley (Manchester)
Showchicken (London)

Rough Trade | Dray Walk | Old Truman Brewery.

UNDERSPRAY UPDATE

Underspray website gets a long overdue update with 4 cracking new artists from around the world, added for your viewing pleasure. The interviewed artists featured in this update include Otto, Phillips, Skaffs and one of our favouritesThundercut( pictured above) from New York. Go read the interviews here.

TOASTERS @ NELLY DUFF

Starting november 8th Nelly Duff galley is proud to present the toasters 'there's a circus in our town'. The toasters have entertained the streets since 1999, appearing on posters, banners, stickers and murals all over the world from berlin, stockholm, los angeles, san francisco, tokyo, rio de janeiro, sao paulo, buenos aires, montevideo, sydney, new york, paris, peckham. everywhere.

This new exhibition will feature a collection of hand painted vintage Circus posters and originals. In addition Nelly Duff will be launching their first ever screen print. This show will run for 3 days only, so make sure you get yourselves down there.

Preview Thursday 8th November : 6pm - 9pm
Friday 9th & Saturday 10th November: 12pm - 7pm

Nelly Duff | 156 Columbia Road | Shoreditch

THIS IS ENGLAND

BP Portrait Prize nominee Matt Small, whose fans include Goldie and British actor Sean Pertwee, presents his latest body of work in a show titled THIS IS ENGLAND, which opens to the public on Friday the 9th November at Leonard Street Gallery in Shoreditch EC2. The show will feature a variety of works including his signature paintings on found metal and concrete, small original works on paper and previously unseen sculptural work. Also exhibiting in The Project Room will be Elbow-toe, a Brooklyn-based artist whose expressive works demonstrate his unique style of distortion.


LEONARD STREET GALLERY | 73 A Leonard Street

9 NOVEMBER – 3O NOVEMBER 2007
PREVIEW: THURS 8 NOVEMBER 2007, 6:00 – 9:00PM

CONOR HARRINGTON ON THE STREET

If you are down Brick Lane way, keep your eyes open for this fantastic piece that fellow Irishman Conor Harrington painted last week. While out taking pictures over the weekend, we were lucky enough to see Conor put the finishing touches to the piece on Saturday afternoon. Located just off Brick Lane and painted over two huge gates, you really need to see the piece on the street to get an idea of the scale.

We believe Conor has a solo show planned for early next year here in London and if this piece is anything to go by, its gonna be one hell of a show. For now you can check out Conors website which has been updates recently with both his indoor and outdoor work. Have a look here.

YO! WHAT HAPPENED TO PEACE?

"Yo! What Happened to Peace?" is a traveling art exhibition of contemporary peace posters from international artists, promoting the message of non-violence while showcasing the beauty of hand-crafted printing.

Shoreditch, London's landmark venue The Foundry (86 Great Eastern Street) will host the Yo! Show's first appearance in the U.K.. Opening night is Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 from 7pm to 11pm, featuring DJs Chris Read and Danny Delta, live painting by SheOne and new artwork from Inkfetish and Beat96.

Admission is free, though limited edition prints and books will be available for cash purchase. Local artists will demonstrate live poster screen printing every day until the show closes on Sunday, November 11th.

The Foundry | 86 Great Eastern Street | London EC2A 3JL
Old Street tube (exit3)

SANDERSON BOB

Sheffield based Art Director/ Designer Sanderson Bob, a graduate of Central Saint Martins and a former Designer Republic employee, updates his website again with some fresh new work. See it here.

MODE 2 @ DPMHI

Mode2 has dropped some work at DPMHI. The ' Party and Bullshit' show features a selection of new work and an exclusive new screenprint 'Oh Sh.." pictured above. The print was created in an edition of 200 and is available on a first come first served basis. If you can't make it down to the DPMHI gallery you can view a selection of the work on the DPMHI website here.

DPMHI Store
2-3 GPS Great Pulteney Street | Soho | London