Rue Five Zines

Forgot to blog this a few weeks ago and just came across them again. Got a package in the post with some great zines from Scottish artist/illustrator Rue Five.Rue Five was in London last month and painted at the second Cans Festival with fellow Scottish artist Elph. You can see the Can's work here.

The package I got, contained two zines, one which was produced by Analogue Books as part of their Running Amok self published series of zines; the other a self published zine titled "Something's Wrong Zine". Both zine are now sold out but I suggest checking his website and online shop on a regular basis for new zines.

DAN BALDWIN: DEAD INNOCENT

Forgot to post this the other week. Currently running at The Foster Gallery is Dan Balwin's solo show featuring paintings, ceramics, neon sculpture, installation and the new 'Autumn Girl' print pictured. The exhibition runs until the 25th October.

Foster Gallery have produced a beautiful catalogue to accompany the current exhibition. It features the majority of Dan's paintings on display as well as an interview by Francesca Gavin (Dazed & Confused) and an essay by art historian Ben Cranfield. The catalogue is priced at £12.50, please contact the gallery for further details.

The Foster Galley | 1 Chapel Place | Rivington Street | London

DAVE THE CHIMP X VANS

Having already featured on our blog twice in the last week with not one but two print releases, it doesn't surprise us that we are blogging about Dave The Chimp once again. Not one to sit around, Dave is back in London tonight for the launch of his newest project. With a long skateboard history it seem logical for him to do a collaborative shoe for Vans and tonight at Cargo will see the launch of the "Wake Up" shoe. A white leather, printed canvas Mid School model, with sleepy tattooed toes on the insole, and a crystal clear waffle sole, through which you can see the toes and features Chimp's ambigram signature (flip it upside down and it still reads the same!).

Size? will sell an exclusive boxed version of the shoes featuring a Hessen Mob skate deck, two Vans tees and a Dave the Chimp fanzine/ poster.
The launch will kick off at 8pm tonight at Cargo with live music from Robots in Disguise and Le Couteau Jaune. Plus Stool Pigeon DJ's and live art from Dave the Chimp

FREE ENTRY AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Cargo | 83 Rivington Street | London,

Don't Sleeep.......WAKE UP!

BEN FROST - CRAPITALISM

"My relationship with popular culture is a love/hate affair. I always feel like vomiting when I'm in the supermarket - but not until I've scoured the brightly lit aisles and fondled the colourful packaging and read each and every perky slogan that whispers seductively to me. This is how the world of consumerism works, and no matter how much sugar is on top, every mouthful leaves a bad taste in our mouths. This is Crapitalism."Ben Frost

Crapitalism will feature a selection of new paintings, prints and a video installation as Sydney artist Ben Frost explores the darker side of consumerism in his apocalyptic hyper-pop paintings in his first UK solo show.

Bold, distinctive, confronting, witty and completely original Ben uses the tricks and techniques of the advertising industry, but not in order to sell hamburgers. Using the symbols and icons of the media moguls, Ben re-calibrates them anew, and turns them against the propaganda industry.

The recently launched "No Walls Gallery" are hosting the show and are taking over the Dray Walk space within the Truman Brewery, with the opening night and preview on Thursday the 25th of September.


Opening night: 25th September from 6.00pm
The exhibition will run from 26th-30th September 2008
Dray Walk Gallery | Truman Brewery | London

MORE SCREENPRINTS

Lots of new screenprints released in the last few days. We have already posted the new print Dave The Chimp has just dropped with LAB. Here are a selection of some of the other prints just released.
FIrst up is a new one from East London based The Krah. A l imited edition of just 50 these printis are available directly from the Krah for £45. Email him at: thekrahworld [at] yahoo.co.uk to find out more.


Next up is a new print from Cept which has been released via Stella Dore.Hand pulled one colour screen print, printed on 250gsm cream paper. Printed, signed and numbered by the artist. The Super Villain 3 print is limited to just 20 and available for £75 from the StellaDore website.

Also released today is a new Dave Kinsey print via Studio Cromie who are based in Italy. The "grottaglie" print was produced for the FAME festival ( some photos here) and is available in two colourways, one a two colour print and the other a three colour edition.


See the above picture. Both are editions of 75, 50x70cms and are available for EUR 110 from Studiocromie.

TRIP ART SHOW

TRIP brings together two of Scrawl Collective's newest artists, RYCA and Hutch with David Walker one of their finest artists and designers. For 10 days these 3 fine upstanding young men will have the run of Cosh in Soho, London... Paintings and Sculptural work will be available to buy along with prints created especially for this show...

Hutch has produced a new edition of 100 called "Hostess", which will be exclusive to the exhibition until it closes when any remaining unsold prints will be released online to the world at large. The only way of guaranteeing you get your mitts on one of these little gems is to get yourself down to the gallery on Berwick St, Soho.

COSH | 69 Berwick Street | Soho | London W1F 8SZ

TRIP An Art Show - 26/09/08 - 05/10/08
For opening / buyers night on the 25th September please rsvp (at) coshuk.com

NEW DAVE THE CHIMP PRINT

Little Art Book have just added Dave the Chimp to their line up of artists. Residents of East London will be most familiar with his ghost/worm creatures which can grow up to forty feet and bite you right on the ass.

Chimp, who is now based over in Berlin is an artist on a mission. His ‘Jesus is the airbag in the car crash of your life’ print will bring neon and faith to any wall. Limited to just 30 prints, this hand pulled print is available now from LAB'swebsite. Keep a close eye on LAB as they will be bringing us one or two of his ghosts in the not to distant future.

MYSTERIOUS AL DOES MARILYN

Myserious Al has dropped some new screen prints. "PISSTAKE MARILYN (GOTH)" is available NOW via his online shop here.

Four colourways are available and all are 4 colour, silk-screened on 100% cotton French Arches paper.Each print is an Editions of 25!

Get yours before the Ebay does!

MAIL ORDER MONSTERS LONDON

Max Wigram Gallery announces a group exhibition curated by Kathy Grayson. Mail Order Monsters brings to London, for the first time, a group of young American artists.

Tapping into an underground music and graffiti vibe the selection of works in the show also finds reference in computer-programme aesthetics. Taking its title from a 1980s videogame (which allowed you to build your own monster) the show suggests an approach to the figuration in contemporary art practice which brings together fictional fantasy with the post-human figure of techno-dystopia, depicting the body as broken, decaying, uncanny and monstrous.

This exhibition was previously hosted by Peres Projects, Berlin; Deitch Projects, New York; and Andreas Melas, Athens.

Featuring: Jules de Balincourt, Mat Brinkman, Ry Fyan, Tomoo Gokita, Joe Grillo , Evan Gruzis, Ben Jones, Misaki Kawai, Eddie Martinez, Taylor Mckimens, Takeshi Murata, Anders Oinonen, Aurel Schmidt , Francine Spiegel, Dennis Tyfu and Jaimie Warren


MAX WIGRAM GALLERY PROJECT SPACE | 28 REDCHURCH STREET | SHOREDITCH

Friday, September 19, 2008
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

THE PENCIL EXHIBITION

The Pencil Exhibition - 45 Years of Creativity from the D&AD Annuals opens tomorrow as part of The London Design Festival, the exhibition will display the complete set of Annuals for the first time. A leading creative designs the book under the stewardship of that year’s D&AD President, including Michael Wolff, Sir Alan Parker, Sir John Hegarty and Simon Waterfall.

Exclusively for the exhibition, each of D&AD’s past Presidents have selected their favourite piece of work from ‘their’ Annual. Two copies of each book will be on display, one closed to show the cover and one open to the work chosen by the President. Alongside the books will be a commentary by the President explaining the rationale behind their choice.

The exhibition opens tomorrow the 19 and runs until the 23 September 2008

Royal College of Art | The Upper Gulbenkian Gallery | Kensington Gore | London SW7 2EU

Free admission
Nearest tube: South Kensington

GNOME PICTURES

Headed down yesterday to Soho square on my lunch break to watch all the people scrambling around soho square looking in the trees and bins for the Gnomes!! Was well funny. Bumped into my mate Goldtooth and Pure Evil and got to see the army of Gnomes before they were put out on the square.


As the Firetrap people were running late with the gnome hunt and crowds of people had gathered in soho square there was no way they were gonna be able to drop them in the square with out being seen. It was decided they would make a dash with the gnomes - I along with the others in the club were given 2 each and we all legged it to soho square with cameras following. I was almost floored by three ladies attempting to grab the gnomes from my arms!! All good fun and made for an interesting lunch. Here are a few photos of the Gnones before the madness.

GOING... GOING... GNOME!

Today- Tuesday (Sept 16th) 30 limited edition artworks by artists PURE EVIL, MYSTERIOUS AL, PMH, NICKY CARVELL, GOLDTOOTH & SUPERSTEVE will appear in & around London's Soho Square.

Get yourself along to Soho and if you find one of them, not only do you get to keep it but it will also guarantee you free VIP entry to the SUPERSUPER London Fashion Week Party in association with Firetrap later this evening at Punk on Soho Street.

What you'll be looking for are thirty ceramic gnomes (yes, gnomes), each one is 30cm high, and they will be placed in amusing, relatively easy-to-find spots around Soho Square, London W1.

Each of the artists listed below worked on ten gnomes each, making this a very limited edition project. The gnome character, known as 'Deadly', is the Firetrap mascot and has been reworked in each artist's inimitable style.

PURE EVIL: Inspired by skateboard culture and a ten year sojourn in California, Pure Evil picked up a spray can and began painting weird fanged bunnies virtually everywhere. Pure Evil is now launching his vision of darkness on an unsuspecting world. Beware.

MYSTERIOUS AL: Trained as a fine artist, Mysterious Al now uses monsters, mutants and sub-human characters in a unique form of illustration. He has exhibited across the globe and has worked with diverse clients including The Big Issue, Orange and The Scratch Perverts.

PMH: With solo shows including Peel Slowly And See and Minor Threat, PMH has worked with the label Stick It, and created windows for Lee. His work incorporates photographs, zines, collages, drawing and anything else he can get his hands on.

NICKY CARVELL: Super hot new 'post pop' artist whose work is the dark side of dayglo, mixing pop icons (Kurt Cobain,East 17,Courtney Love) with colourful horror. Most recently shown in the 'Mash-Ups' show curated by Stuart Semple, and '3AM Eternal' at the Louise T Blouin Foundation, London.

GOLDTOOTH: Michael Mantiss work captures the capricious spirit of the East End art scene. Founder of mayhem driven design duo Goldtooth he has been the focus of numerous shows.

SUPERSTEVE: Artist, Founder & Creative Director of SUPERSUPER Magazine and curator (most recently of 3AM ETERNAL show with artists including Nan Goldin, Wolfgang Tillmans, Mark Leckey and Julie Verhoeven).

The gnome hunt kicks off at 1pm in Soho Square, don't miss it.

RYANTOWN LONDON

We have been big fans of london based Robert Ryan's emotive illustrations and his beautiful paper cuts. On a recent trip to Columbia Road Flower Market we spotted that Robert has now opened his own store, "Ryantown". The shop is stocked full of fantastic Robert Ryan products from screenprints, textiles, ceramics, books and some really nice wooden carved keys. If you are in East London you need to get down to Columbia Road and check out this shop.

Ryantown is situated at 126 Columbia Road, E2 7RG. Open Saturday from 1-4 and all day Sunday

NEW SICKBOY PRINTS

Studio Cromie have just released two new Sickboy prints over on their website. Sickboy was in Italy for the Fame festival organised by Studio Cromie and they managed to get him drunk enough to produce the awesome print pictured above.

The grey version shown is also available in red and both editions are super limited, none of this 300+ limited editions shit. These are limited to just 18 of the grey colourway and 15 of the red colourway, both of which has been finished with some hand painted elements. Available now, but not for long over on the Studio Cromie website here

FANTOME PRINT

New screen print from Fantome titled "Fantome Fury".

An edition of 25, signed and numbered 2 colour print. Each print has unique hand painted faces and is 59.4 x 42 cm on archival 280gsm paper. The print is also available in a Blue + silver colourway and both releases are available from the Fantome website here.

MR JAGO AT STOLEN SPACE GALLERY

StolenSpace present the 1st London solo show by artist Mr Jago. This exhibition will showcase new work on Canvas, Silk, wood & installations, as well as the release of 2 new limited edition screen prints.

‘I see figures & form everywhere, in water, carpet patterns, shadows, clouds, everything is an abstract character and they are free’ says Jago.‘Of all weather phenomena, I find clouds the most fascinating, from the silky filaments of high altitude cirrus to the towering, threatening mass of storm-bearing cumulonimbus, clouds are as varied as the new work itself. I love cloud watching, from no where the fluffy mass morphing shapes from a cunning fox with whispy ears to familiar faces ’.

Apparent in Mr Jago’s work is its loose lines and organic flow; he describes his work as ‘itchy’ and ‘dynamic’, with heavy movement and life, always searching for a new arrangement of lines. Robotic characters, and multi-layered landscapes feature heavily. The free flowing strokes and organic colours in Mr Jago’s paintings explore the ideas of space and depth in the landscapes and whilst the fast lines in his work attempt to make subject seem alive and animated. Mr Jago seems to have the ability to see a different world amongst the very mundane. These elements a very much reflective in this new body of work, and with this a looser, more instinctive style. This evolution has seen the early ‘Scrawl Collective’ scratchy style through to these more free flowing, abstract and loose paintings.

The show opens to the public on the 12th of September and continues through to the 28th of September.

STOLENSPACE GALLERY | Dray Walk | 91 Brick Lane | London

RUNWAY EXHIBITION

The Maverik Showrooms presents a new exhibition this week titled "Runway". Runway is an exhibition of capricious, large scale drawings and prints by Gillian Westgate that celebrate aero-flights and fantasy.

The series of work incorporates ink, painting, collage, printmaking and film, taking the iconography of aeroplanes as its central theme. The exhibition harks back to a time when flying was sexy and glamorous, offering access to exoticism and pleasures unknown. Long before cheap seats and carbon offsetting led to air travel’s descent from glory in the popular imagination, it was daring, new and full of possibilities.

Maverik Showroom | 68 – 72 Redchurch Street | London | E2
Private View - Wednesday 10th September 2008 6pm - 9pm

Exhibition continues 11th - 27th September

DAVE THE CHIMP - PRINT

Our good friend Dave The Chimp was back from Berlin for a few days last week and we dropped into his London studio to check out some new work he was doing. While there we got to check out his new limited screenprint which has now been released through Planet Patrol.

The new print is titled "Anatomy of Man" pictured above. Limited to just 60 it's a three colour print and has been printed on some fantastic heavy recycled brown paper. It's 64cm x 45cms signed and numbered. Available from Planet Patrol here.

BANKSY WEBSITE UPDATE

In case you missed it Banksy has updated his website with his most recent work from his trip to New Orleans. Check the images on Banksy's website here. Also worth checking is a Flickr set from Michael Dingler who took the above picture. Take some time and check out his NOLA RISING's blog.

Tough Cookies Ain’t Sweet

Juju’s Delivery was founded by the Berlin-based artist Julia Schonlau. She studied Media Art at Chelsea College in London before moving into illustration and character design.

Schonlau began her career designing covers, flyers and posters for musician friends. She moved on to collaborate with Rojo, Pictoplasma, MTV and Mercedes Benz, published drawings in magazines like Lodown, Modart, Kid’s Wear and Yen Magazine. Her work has been exhibited in New York’s Cinder’s Gallery, Colette in Paris and throughout Berlin.

For Her show at Concrete Hermit Juju will be producing new work including drawing and collage. She will also be creating a site specific installation in the gallery.

Dates: 4th - 28th September 2008
Concrete Hermit | 5a Club Row | London

exPreSSion Exhibition

Online gallery Hipart take over The Brick Lane Gallery in East London this Thursday 4th September with a show titled "exPreSSion". The show will feature new original works and as with most exhibitions these days a selection of Limited Edition prints. Staring in the show are Neverworks, SPQR, L.E.T., BANDIT, Pam Glew, K-Guy and Ben Allen to name a few. The show has a preview night tonight the 3rd 6pm-9pm and the show will finish on the 8th of September.

A preview of a selection of the prints available on the night can be seen over on the website here.

The Brick Lane Gallery | 196 Brick Lane | London

IF YOU COULD DO ANYTHING........ PRINTS

Another month sees the release of two new If you could do anything prints. The September prints are now available for the duration of the month and feature the work of Build and Andreas Samuelsson. As always they’re only available until the end of the month, so act quick.

More info on the artists and details on how to buy the prints can be found here.

Titifreak At Ocontemporary Gallery

Ocontemporary announce the launch of their permanent new home at 193 Wardour Street, London, W1. Over 2000 ft.sq. of impressive exhibition space allows for two major exhibition areas, the ground floor will host their exciting exhibition program and there are plans for the lower ground to always show a varied selection of their artists' work.

Continuing on a Brazilian tip Ocentemporary will have the first uk solo by the highly sought after Titi Freak in their new London space. Titi Freak is one of the key players emerging from the hugely important Brazilian school of street art, a genre recently described by The Times as 'the most significant in the global urban art movement'. The creativity and authenticity of the work emerging from Sao Paulo is fast making the city to the street art movement what New York was to Pop in the 1960s. Alongside Titi Freak, in the lower ground exhibition area, they will be showcasing work by new and established talents including Carlos Dias, John Simpson, Gerald Laing, Jann Haworth, Tinho, Speto, and Anderson Resende. The show opens to the public on the 5 September and will run until the 4 October. There will be a private view party on thursday 4 september, 6pm to 9pm.

Ocontemporary London | 193 Wardour Street | London

PSYCHEDELIC BRASIL

The brazilians are taking over London again this Thursday. First up is East London's Pure Evil gallery, who open their doors with a new exhibition this Thursday 5th September. Psychedelic Brasil will feature new works from Zezao, Highgraff, Milo and Tchais. More info on the show and the artists taking part can be found over on Pure Evil's website.

PURE EVIL GALLERY | 108 LEONARD ST | LONDON | EC2A 4RH