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The Leftovers are a London based creative collective involved in organising various events from exhibitions to live music nights, helping up and coming artists by providing a platform to showcase their talents.
The Leftovers have teamed up with Gallery 118 to present some of their more recent work, in an exhibition titled "Leftovers in the gallery". The exhibition will open this evening Thursday 26th February with a private view from 6pm.
Gallery 118 | 118 Westbourne Grove | London | W11 2RR
The show will run from February 26th until Tuesday, March 3rd
The featured image above has been painted by Tom Blackford aka Inkfetish and will be on display at the show.
No understanding between the brain and the hands is a collaboration between Pocko photographers and illustrators. Inspired by Metropolis, the 1927 silent science fiction film created by the famed director Fritz Lang, five of Pocko’s photographers have collaborated with nine different designers to create interpretations of the film.
From strange creatures taking over the concrete jungle to our understanding of the city as a living organism, the images created as part of No understanding between the brain and the hands reinterpret Lang’s urban dystopia, creating new versions of the city as we know it today. Questioning the relationship that we share with the city, the joining of photographers with illustrators has resulted in a striking collection of images that challenge our place within today’s metropolis.
Accompanying the exhibition is issue one of Pocko Times, a large format collection of visuals with accompanying short stories from the work of the Pocko Network.
Kemistry Gallery | 43 Charlotte Road | Shoreditch | London | EC2A 3PD
(26 February—04 April 2009)
Bodhi Gallery on Brick Lane, relaunches this evening the 25th February with the opening of “21” a collection of paintings by Joe Holbrook.
Not many people can say they have put together a collection of work ready for their debut at the age of 20. But Joe Holbrook is one of the few that can, coming from a south London borough he brings to Bodhi his “21” exhibition, a series of portraits from the night life which we all love and can relate to. His paintings focused on the body of his chosen subject showing how body posture, and the garments which we wear often says a lot about us. All his canvases are painted in acrylics, then covered in a clear resin giving the impression it is finished with a layer of glass.
Joe Holbrook’s debut show will be taking place at Bodhi Gallery from 7pm on the 25th of February till the 4th of March 2009.
Bodhi Gallery | 214 Brick Lane | London | E1 6SA
East London street artist, Pure Evil takes a walk with Heraldo from Choque Cultural and they checked out some of the Graffiti in Beco, Vila Madalena , São Paulo, near to the new Choque Gallery. The clip features work from Speto, Zezao, Highraff, Boleta, Milo, Profeta, Ciro, Pato and a whole bunch of other great art by great brazilian artists.
The annual The Black Rat Print show opens this Saturday 21st at 4pm with their widest variety of printing techniques to date on view.
The exhibition has works by artists including Matt Small, D*face, Sweettoof, Brian Adam Douglas, Gaia, Lucas Price, Nick Walker, Blek Le Rat and Slinkachu. Each artist has created something specifically for the show and it is an opportunity to see a wide spectrum of print techniques including etchings, stone lithographs, woodcuts, linocuts and screenprints. As well as a number of new editions being released many of the artists have produced either very small editions of hand coloured prints or unique works.
The show opens from 4pm with live printing demonstrations taking place from 4.30. For anyone interested in printmaking this show provides an excellent opportunity to gain an insight into how Black Rat editions are created.
We are not around for this show today but we expect there will be a lot of interest and we imagine there will be a large que so we would get down there early if you are planning to attend.
the black rat press | thru cargo garden | 83 rivington street | London
'The New Originals' will be bringing new work to London town tomorrow Sunday 22nd, with a group show to warm your cockles at Notting Hill's, Westbourne Studios. DJ, Spraying, Live acoustic set, New original Urban Art, get yourself down there...
New and secondary original urban art from; Sickboy, Dora, Hine, Paris, Milk, Motorboy, Starchild, Nick Walker, The Art Tart, Felix FLX Braun, Eelus, GhostBoy, Floyd, Tmajik, Jim Starr, DM, Gastro, LL Brainwashed, Michelle Barker, Alison Black, Hine, Simon Mills, 3megabits... More to be confirmed...
Get your names on the guest list for your chance to bag a free print. rsvp/contact; beth@1loveart.com
Westbourne Studios | 242 Acklam Rd | W10 5JJ.
Sun 22nd - 25th February 2009
Steal From Work launced their new space The Long Arm Gallery last night in Bristol with a show featuring the work of Cept.
Inspired by graffiti and hip-hop, both of which he has been producing since the mid-80's, Cept brings to Bristol reassembled forms, fragile technologies and appropriated hybrids to challenge the viewer's inherent understanding of time and value.
The guys over at Artbleat have some preview pictures here.
If you are in Bristol check the show out at :
The Old Bridewell Police Station | Bridewell Street | Bristol
(just round the corner from the old fire station, big brown doors by the zebra crossing)
SHOW RUNS: Saturday 21st Feb – Friday 13th March
London Artist and zine king PMH has just dropped his first new zine of 2009 under The Dilly banner. The 6th Dilly Zine gives us a rare look inside London illustrator Marcus Oakley's personal sketchbooks, from 2003 to 2008.
The zine is full colour offset on recycled paper and 24 pages. Each A5 page has 2 double page scans of his sketchbooks, so you get a mountain of Marcus artwork for your money!
The last five Dilly zines were all awesome and sold out really quick so don't hang about, get yourself a copy of this zine. It's available now in The Dilly online shop.
'Thee Soft Verge' is David Bray's second show at StolenSpace Gallery opening this evening 19th February.
Using basic drawing tools, such as pens, pencils and paper, Bray creates delicate and time-consuming drawings which explore emotion, utopia and a world of fantasy through his subject matter of the beautiful and erotic, but the unattainable female form. His compelling works reveal his lifetime love of drawing and a very active imagination taking the viewer into his dark, amative world of fantasy.
'Thee Soft Verge' will showcase his new body of work which finds itself blended into old notebooks and antiquated objects, toying with the idea of life and death, heroes and villains. "It is about taking the viewer to a place of safety, but where you then become trapped, within my headspace. They won't be able to return to the same thing afterwards."
Stolen Space Gallery | Dray Walk | 91 Brick Lane | London
The show will run until 15th March.
Yesterday saw East London based gallery Stella Dore drop a number of new prints and originals on their website.
2 colour variations of Eine's 'Hell' star font prints pictured above. Both prints measure up at 75cm X 55cm and are three colour hand-pulled screen prints on 300gsm black archival paper with gloss drip finish. Signed and numbered by the artist.
Brand new Rugman Original & Screen Print - Dead Money: Part 2. The original is made from acrylic with gold leaf on wood panel, with vintage comic and resin finish. The screen print is also hand finished with gold leaf, three colour hand pulled, signed, embossed and numbered in a small edition of 20.
Also released were some works from Kid Acne. You've seen them all over East London's Streets nows your chance to own one of Kid Acne Warrior Girls. Stella Dore have 9 unique tiles, signed and numbered, available from their online shop.
And don't forget to head over to Stella Dore this Thursday 19th for the launch party of VNA Issue 08. Full details on the party here..
Issue 11 of the Irish Design magazine Candy has just been released online.
CANDY magazine was launched in June 2005 to showcase Irish creativity alongside international equivalents to a worldwide audience. Since then 10 downloadable pdf format issues have been released to local and international acclaim. Their focus has now changed somewhat to showcasing and promoting great creatives and their work wherever they may be.
"CANDY is, and will always be, digitally produced and distributed as we believe that, above even the obvious ecological benefits, this is the quickest, easiest and most cost effective way of making sure as many people as possible see the people and projects featured in our magazine. Once we publish a new issue and upload it’s there for anyone to download, simple."
Issue 11 - For All Intents & Purposes Issue is available to download here.
To celebrate Valentines, Foster Gallery have announce the release of Love Mosaic (pictured above) - a stunning new painting by Xenz made up of 65 rectangular canvases, each measuring 15 x 20.5 cm.
Each unique canvas is available at £50 inc (maximum of 4 per person). To select and purchase please visit the gallery during our opening hours (12 - 6pm Wed - Fri, Sat 12 - 5.30pm) or you can call the gallery on 0207 739 7572.
The Galley have also extended the current Xenz show "Unforscenery" until Saturday 7th March.
Foster Gallery | 1 Chapel Place | Rivington Street | London EC2A 3DQ
First they brought us a collection from D*face and now Enuff Skateboards are set to release a new set of decks as part of their artist series which will feature work from London based illustrator/ designer Mysteriouos Al.
According to Al, "They're the most aggressive neon colours you've ever seen." and "The pictures don't do them justice. "
These "Zombie Death Crew" decks from Al are set to be released next month and will be available over on the Enuff Skateboards website.
On the 14th February as the youth exchange saliva and knicker elastic, the guys over at Beautiful Crime will be dropping 142 canvasses on the streets of London for romantics of a criminal disposition.
A collaboration between Beautiful Crime and the artists Fark FK, Finbarr and Bon Bon, the inaugural Valentine's Day MassARTcre will put of a smile of the face of every loved-up street purist, turning our ad polluted metropolis into an arty sprayed heart from a bunch of street art tarts.
Full details will be revealed on the day so be sure and check the Beautiful Crime website. You can also follow their recently set- up Twitter account which will allow you follow the action on Saturday, as it happens in real time.
1 in 11 men will get prostate cancer – an alarming statistic, and a largely unknown fact.
To generate awareness of this, 11 internationally renowned urban artists have been commissioned by Artist 11 to create works to be auctioned as part of Bonhams’ Urban Art Auction on 24th February, with proceeds from the works going to The Prostate Cancer Charity, the UK’s leading charity working with people affected by the disease.
The reputable artists including D*Face, Dan Baldwin, Eine, Pure Evil, Gerald Laing, Andrew McAttee, Blek Le Rat, Mr Jago, Nick Walker, Pete Fowler and Xenz are reaching out to the younger generation to highlight the issue through the broad appeal of urban art, as well as giving something back to the wider community.
Prior to the auction, an exhibition will be held at The Truman Brewery from 12th to 17th February in order to preview the huge works. Reaching 175 x 60cm, the dimensions of the canvases are those of an average man; the life size work emphasising this very real life problem. Every year 35,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in the UK and one man dies every hour of the disease – a shockingly real issue.
Private View 11th Feb, 6.30pm
The pictures will be exhibited from 12th – 17th February 2009
Shop 14 Old Truman Brewery | 15 Hanbury Street | London E1 6QR
Issue 08 of Very Nearly Almost magazine is set to drop next week on the 19th of February. The new issue will feature Kid Acne, Herakut, Faile, JR, Dave the Chimp, Nylon, Stagger and much more!
To celebrate the release of this new issue a launch party is planned at Stella Dore Gallery on the 19th, 6- 9pm. As well as the the new magazine they will have a very limited number of VNAxKID ACNE t-shirts and other goodies to give away on the night.
If you missed out on previous issues some of them are now available from the VNA shop.
Stella Dore | 47 Rivington Street | London | EC2A 3QB
Urbanretro have some exclusive posters available at their online store. The posters are all great value at just under six pounds each and are limited to edition runs of just 100.
The A3 sized posters are printed using Simitri Eco-Friendly digital toner on 9Lives Forest Stewardship Council certfied 170gsm silk paper. Pictured are "Masher of The Universe" by Jon Burgerman below and Jonathan Ball's "Clouds Revenge" and "Panda Extinction". Check the other posters here.
Mr. Pinks has just updated his website with some fantastic hand cut paper love hearts, perfect for the love in your life or that secret crush!
Each of the four available are original Handcut Artwork, signed and approx 23 x 21cm in size on 300gsm Canford Card. Available on the Pinky vision website now.
Pictured is the new collaborative print from artists Dicy and Will Barras, which is being released exclusively through Selfridges and Dreweatts. It's in conjunction with the latest Urban Art auction by Dreweatts.
The print will be released on the evening of Thursday February 12th at the 'Artcore' preview at the Ultra Lounge in Selfridges - this is part of the same overall auction, but previewed earlier than the Urban Art. On the following thursday, February 19th, the Ultra Lounge will have the preview of the rest of the work, including work donated by several artists for the Princes Youth Trust charity.
The above print will be onsale throughout the whole two weeks of the preview before the auction on 26th February. For further info on the print sale, check out Dreweatts website here or pre order the print on 02032912832.
Issue 4 of the little two colour magazine edtn. has just dropped.
This new issue is a collaboration with the team from Secretwars and is printed in all black and gold!!! Published artists include Teck1, Jimi Crayon, Mr K, Miss Led, Jumbo, Conzo, Alfa, Drunk park, Wen and code26 (malmo secretwars).
A limited sticker set is thrown in when you buy the magazine online.
The East Ends newest gallery,Electric Blue Gallery plays host to a collection of new works by the hugely influential graphic artist Jasper Goodall.
Goodall rose to public attention with his style defining work for The Face magazine in 2000-2003 influencing a generation of illustrators and helping pave the way for illustration's resurgence and reinvention in recent years. Here Goodall presents for the first time, his first solo show of personal work in a gallery environment.
Entitled 'Poster Girl' the work explores the notion of fantasy versus reality, a subject which has fascinated Goodall for some time. 
"Sexual attraction, I believe is almost entirely down to our fantasies, after all when you first meet someone you don't know them, but you make up and idea about them in your mind and it's this fantasy that you are attracted to. Once you get to know them, all too often the fantasy doesn't match with the reality, I think it's why such a large proportion of relationships don't really get off the ground!"
Electric Blue Gallery | 64 Middlesex Street | London E1 7EZ
The exhibition will open on the 6th February and will run throughout February,
Also opening tonight at the Pure Evil Gallery is an exhibition of collaborative artworks by - Juice 126, Part2ism, Remi/Rough and System titled "Prophet or Profit"
Juice 126 has recently shown at Nancy Victor, Mutate Britain and Jibbering Art in his hometown of Birmingham, Part2ism, has recently been showing in Black Rat Press, Mutate Britain and Kounter Kulture with a solo show at Urban Angel in March, Remi/Rough has recently shown at Urban Angel, Mutate Britain and 401 Contemporary in Berlin and also spoken at the Tate Modern.
System has shown in Strasbourg, 401 Contemporary in Berlin and has a March solo show at Galerie Nuble in Santander in March.
All artworks are one off collaborations.
Don’t miss this opportunity to see them back in action together.
Pure Evil Gallery | 108 Leonard St. | London EC2A 4RH
Artists BORTUSK LEER and FIVE FOUR are united for the first time by The Brick Lane Gallery to fill the space with the cheeky day-glo madness of their street-art inspired works and chaotic colourful lifestyles for what promises to be a lively antidote to a particularly monotonous gloomy February.
The show runs from 5th – 16th February 2009 with a private view on the 5th 6-9pm
THE BRICK LANE GALLERY | 196 Brick Lane | London | E1 6SA
Concrete Hermit's first exhibition of 2009 is opening tonight, Thursday February 5th and will include work by five artists creating prints, drawings and sculptures in the style of the ‘contemporary grotesque’.
Head down and blast away the winter blues with a trip into the unique and intoxicating worlds of Andrew James Jones, Kate McMorrine, James Unsworth, Seth Scriver and Mudwig Dan.
The show runs from 6th - 28th February 2009
Concrete Hermit | 5a Club Row | London
Bristol street artist Richt releases a new one colour screenprint with Art-el this week.
The print titled "Triangulars" is screenprint on 250gsm Somerset Satin paper, 53x38cm in size and a very limited edition of just 25. Signed & Numbered by the Artist, the print is available now via the Art-el website.
To see more of Richt's work check out his flickr site where he has details of some hand painted Artists Proof's of the above print.
