We have just updated our Hooked Etsy shop and added two awesome original drawings by street artist/ illustrator Mute ID. Check the work here.
To view more of Mute Id's work check his website or his flickr.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
HOOKED SHOP UPDATE
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Hibiki Tokiwa @ Bodhi
Bodhi presents Hibiki Tokiwa’s first solo exhibition outside of Japan.
Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, Hibiki Tokiwa is an artist, photographer, graphic designer and illustrator. Hibiki Tokiwa has also established a career as a photographer. His photographs of girls, shot with a wide angle lens, has had a major impact in the photography scene in Japan. Many books of his images have been published: “Sloopy Girls” “Freedom of Choice” “Girl Friends” “Girl Friends2” “Girl U WANT” “Rolexibition” and more…
Preview night: Thursday 29th May 2008, from 6:30pm
29th May - 8th June 2008 / 11am - 6pm (Monday - Sunday)
Bodhi | 214 Brick Lane | London E1
COPYRIGHT & HUSH LONDON
Opus Underground presents a joint show featuring work from Hush and Copyright at The Brick Lane Galley.
Thursday 29th may preview night 6.30-9.30, and the show will continue until sunday 1st June
DOZE GREEN AND ROSTARR
Leonard Street Gallery is proud to announce the opening of an exhibition of new works by celebrated artists DOZE GREEN and ROSTARR. WAR PEN which opens tonight will feature new Works and Installation by these two legendary artists.
Doze Green (Rock Steady Crew) and Rostarr (Beautiful Losers) have both graced the scene for many years displaying their various forms of artistic expressions through painting, drawings, music, fashion and film. For the first time in the UK, these prolific artists will come together to create a visual journey for the viewer to experience through their display of these various forms and mediums.
Through stream-of-consciousness painting, both artists use traditional graffiti techniques involving energy and motion to create forms that exist in a visual meeting place of ideas. Doze Green explores meditations on matter and anti-matter, layers of consciousness, and different possibilities based on cosmology, while Rostarr’s stylized calligraphic writings introduce grace and tension as a distinctly human gesture. This collaboration is an extension of this metaphysical concept that becomes visually displayed through an installation based exhibition from both artists.
The Leonard Street Gallery | 73A Leonard Street | London
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
MR PINKS LONDON SHOW
WERE BACK
Apologies to all our regular reader, have been away in the West of Ireland chilling out for the bank holiday. We just got back yesterday, so please bare with us as we catch up with emails and whot not.
Monday, May 19, 2008
WILDSTYLES
Wildstyles is an exhibition that features classic rare photographs hailing back to the 'old skool' days and is a homage to Wild Style, the classic Hip Hop movie that was re-released last year for its 25th anniversary. The exhibition will feature not only photographs but music, Breakers and Graffiti art. PYMCA have collaborated with some of Hip Hop's grand masters from Normski to Janette Beckman, to take you back to the days of Adidas shell tops and Run DMC. Wildstyles is certainly an exhibition to get you moving!
The Wildstyles exhibition opens tonight from 6pm till 11pm at Bar Vinyl | Camden Town | N1.
PREFAB PRINT RELEASE
Newcastle Upon Tyne based artists Prefab have just relesed a new print. PREFAB's imagery always has a British slant, a satire on modern british living, rebelling against the establishment, celebrating/mourning the passing of our great institutions, poking fun of the characters they come across in our streets, each print telling a story of modern Britain.
The new ltd. edition screenprint pictured above is titled "Skingirl". The print is a ltd. edition/50 - 4 layer spraypaint stencil with high-gloss screenprint finish. There are 5 colours available, (chrome silver, chrome gold, lime, lilac, and hot pink).The print is priced at £150, please contact info@prefab77.co.uk for availability.
Each colour is available x10, making up the edition of 50.
THE KRAH EXHIBITION
The Krah's first solo show here in London opens this Thursday 22nd May with a private view at The Pure Evil Gallery. The show will run until the 4th of June.
For more info visit Pure Evil. To see more of The Krah's work visit his Flickr site. There is also an interview with him over on the Little Art Book website here.
Tthe Pure Evil Gallery | 108 Leonard Street | London EC2A 4RH
nearest tube station: Old Street
Saturday, May 17, 2008
TOKYOPLASTIC/ TERRATAG
Our friends over at Terratag have just dropped a fresh co-lab project with tokyoplastic.
Manufactured at Terratag, in the heart of London, the original and first tokyoplastic T-shirts. 3 super hot graphics from the vaults of tokyoplastic. Screen printed onto bamboo garments to keep you cool and fresh this summer.
Tokyoplastic for those that don't know are Sam Lanyon Jones and Drew Cope who were raised by Amish foster parents and were terrified of television and computers until divine intervention exposed them to the joy of internet porn. After leaving home and traveling the world they were reunited by chance in 2002 and fathered tokyoplastic taking it from humble beginnings as a 15 second claymation nano-series to the internationally recognized website it is today.
From their underground laboratory in the heart England they have reached out across the vastness of the interweb to touch the hearts of a small audience of millions. Their awards are too numerous to list here (most significantly the audience award at the Sundance online film festival, the Flash Forward 3D category (three years in a row) and a lovely D&AD pencil) and their creative projects cover a spectrum ranging from dildo design to the direction of multimillion dollar advertising campaigns.
Terratag is running a special introductory offer with 10% OFF these new tshirts but only until the 23rd May. Get yourself some freshness here.
Maharishi Sample Sale
Maharishi sample sale starts today the 17th May with upto 70% off selected stock at the soho shop.
DPMHI | Lower Floor | 2-3 Great Pulteney Street | London W1
Tube: Piccadilly Circus | Oxford Circus
Mon-Sat 11am-7pm. Thurs 11am-8pm. Sun 12-5pm
Sat 17th May Sun 1st June
Friday, May 16, 2008
STREET ART @ TATE MODERN
In the first commission to use the building's iconic river façade, and the first major public museum display of street art in London, Tate Modern presents the work of six internationally acclaimed artists whose work is intricately linked to the urban environment:
Blu from Bologna, Italy; the artist collective Faile from New York, USA; JR from Paris, France; Nunca and Os Gemeos, both from Sao Paulo, Brazil and Sixeart from Barcelona, Spain.
You can also take the Street Art Walking Tour: an urban tour of site-specific art from a group of five Madrid-based street artists: 3TTMan, Spok, Nano 4814, El Tono and Nuria – a map will be available in the gallery.
Various events will take place during the exhibition, including an interactive evening with experimental New York artists Graffiti Research Lab (see post below), refacing Tate Modern with graffiti light projections.
Street Art at Tate Modern opens at the same time as Tate Modern’s four day festival of art and performance, UBS Openings: The Long Weekend on 23 May and fits with the theme for this year’s event – States of Flux. Street Art has been curated by Cedar Lewisohn of Tate Media. A fully illustrated book on Street Art by Cedar Lewisohn will be published by Tate this month.
The above image was photographed by Eddiedangerous who has a flickr set here of photos that he has taken of the last few days, as the artists make a start on the outside of the building.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
GRAFFITI RESEARCH LAB IN LONDON
A free event as part of Tate Modern’s Street Art exhibition curated and promoted by young people, encourages youth across South London to work with New York artists Graffiti Reaserch Lab to mark the building with light projections. ‘Tate Studio’ is a free event with a vibrant line up of street artists, bands and DJs who will take over the Level 2 Café and other areas of the gallery encouraging young people to experiment with different forms of street art such as projection, drawing and sticker-layering on life sized body cut outs.
Young people have invited experimental and award-winning New York artists Graffiti Research Lab, who will reface Tate Modern with a spectacle of graffiti light projections. Young people will be able to create their own digital street art instantly scaled up and projected onto London’s largest modern art gallery.
Monday 26 May 2008, 19.00–22.00
Tate Modern Front walls of Tate Modern
Free, no bookings taken
This event is related to the Street Art exhibition
OTHER Interview
Monday, May 12, 2008
SHOWCHICKEN UPDATE
Illustrator / Designer / Artist & sometimes Street Artist Showchicken (aka Nicholas Sheehy) has just updated his website with a fresh new look and some awesome illustration work. Showchicken appeared in the last Hooked Zine we put together and will also be making an appearance in the forthcoming zine for Cancer Sell. Check his work here and also have a look at some of the Giclee and Lithographic Print that are for sale over on his Etsy online shop.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Miranda Donovan’s solo exhibition
Lazarides Gallery presents the first solo show by young British painter, Miranda Donovan. Donovan’s unique work fuses an interest in the techniques and outlook of street and urban artists with a dedication to the possibilities and practice of painting. For her Lazarides exhibition, Donovan will present over twenty paintings from five new series of works.
Donovan fits within the urban art scene in a line via Banksy to Basquiat, and brings to it a new approach based in her interest in the possibilities of the painted space and the historic works of Anthony Tapies and Jacob van Ruisdael. Donovan was born in 1979 and grew up in Holland and London. She studied art in France at the École des Beaux Arts in Aix en Provence and at the City and Guilds School of Art in London.
LOST WORLD OF INNOCENCE
Lazarides Gallery | 8 Greek Street | London
The show opens to the public on the 9th May and runs until the 30 May.
Blek le Rat IN LONDON
Considered to be the father of stencil street art, Blek Le Rat (aka Xavier Prou) has had a profound influence on today’s current crop of street artists. Almost all of whom arrived a whole generation after Blek started hitting the streets of Paris back in the early eighties. Banksy is on record as saying that, “Every time I think I’ve painted something slightly original, I find out that Blek LeRat has done it as well. Only twenty years earlier…”
Indeed, it was Blek’s silhouette stencil of a rat (an image Banksy was later to adopt for Bristol and London) as early as 1981 that broke away from the graffiti political slogans and injected it with a fresh new language of political art. Blek has always used his art as both a democratic means of bringing the gallery walls to the people and to change the way we interact with the urban spaces around us. This is essentially the blueprint street artists the world over are still reading from today.
In recognition of this Thames & Hudson have published a beautifully produced retrospective book entitled, Blek Le Rat: Getting Through the Walls. To celebrate the book launch the Black Rat Gallery is staging the largest Blek exhibition to date.
The show will feature many new works as well as iconic images tracing the history of Blek’s career, along with a number of prints – available from the gallery on the night. The private view/ book signing is tonight the 8th May and is invite only.
If you don' t have an invite for the show tonight you can always pop along to the London Graphic Centre in Covent Garden where Blek will also be signing copies of his book in-store on Thursday the 8th of May (1- 3pm).
EBOY - LA
eBoy, the innovative and seminal pixel art pioneers are exhibiting at Concrete Hermit tonight the 8th May. eBoy is a pixel art group founded in 1998 by Steffen Sauerteig, Svend Smital and Kai Vermehr. From their Berlin studio they create re-usable pixel objects and take them to build complex and extensible artwork. Their work makes intense use of popular culture and commercial icons, and their style is presented in three-dimensional illustrations filled with robots, cars, guns and girls. Their unique style has gained them a cult following among graphic designers worldwide, and they have worked with among others, named brands and companies such as Coca-Cola, MTV, VH1, Adidas, and Honda. They were also involved in creating the album cover for Groove Armada’s 2007 studio album Soundboy Rock.
Entire cityscapes, rich in detail have been created for London, New York, Berlin, Tokyo and this exhibition sees the latest city to get the eBoy unique visionary panoramic treatment: Los Angeles.
There will also be a chance to see the development of the Peecols – eBoy’s series of toys. These innovative toys have become highly collectable, and there will be the rare opportunity to see the Blockbob prototypes and special limited editions of the figures. Exclusive eBoy prints, t-shirts and products will be available at the exhibition.
Concrete Hermit Gallery | 5a Club Row | London
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
MARTINEZ CREW @ PURE EVIL GALLERY
Happy Monsters Assult opens tomorrow at Pure Evil Gallery.
Pure Evil Gallery | 108 Leonard st | London EC2A 4RH
THE HERE AND NOW
The Here and Now London brings together artists, creatives, friends, family and their bits and bobs, produced purposefully but sometimes not and provides a platform to showcase their work. They are an umbrella company which on many different levels supports and promotes the vast amount of creativity surrounding them through events, exhibitions, publications and garments whilst most importantly, having fun every step of the way.
The Here and Now is here and now...
Much to answer for, much to give is the here and now's first group exhibition. It brings together an exciting mix of artists including, suzy Q & the owls, French, Chrissie Abbott, PWBC, Thomas Richardson, Ira Doinikova, Claire Scully, Rob Mathieson, James Edson, Richard Gilligan, Jody Barton, Berry Patten, Roadkill Zine (Craig Questions & Quiet Dan), Valerie Phillips, Graham Mitchell, Ashley Brown and Stefan Marx.
PV: 8th May 2008, 7pm - late.
DreamBagsJaguarShoes | 32 Kingsland Road | London | E2
Sunday, May 04, 2008
NEW JUSTICE VIDEO
Saturday, May 03, 2008
ADAM NEATE & RON ENGLISH BOOK
The Adam and Ron show opened its doors to the public yesterday at Elms Lesters Painting Rooms here in London. Adam Neate and Ron English join forces in a spectacular exhibition featuring over 80 breathtaking paintings. The ADAM and RON show features new works by the UK's rapidly rising star, ADAM NEATE, and the billboard-hijacking, pop surrealist, superhero of the genre; US legend, RON ENGLISH. These two masterful figurative painters, both with their own unique style and approach, will join forces for this important two man exhibition.
To commemorate this historic exhibition, a beautiful 72 page hardback catalogue has been published by Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, containing over 60 intense full colour illustrations of both Adam Neate and Ron English's work. Catalogues are priced at: £45.00 each, and from what I have heard they are worth every penny.
Today, Saturday 3rd May between 10am and 12 noon, Adam Neate and Ron English will both be at the Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, signing copies of the catalogue.
The show will run from May 2nd– 31st 2008
Elms Lesters Painting Rooms
Friday, May 02, 2008
THE CANS FESTIVAL PICTURES
The address of the Cans Festival which opens to the public tomorrow has been announced.
LEAKE STREET, LONDON SE1 7NN
It's a three minute walk from the London Eye, with the nearest tube being Waterloo. It'll be open to the public from 10am Saturday until 10pm Monday. Admission Free
If you live in the London area or within traveling distance this show is not to be missed, an amazing space with some fantastic work on show.
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