Been awhile since we posted any new print releases. 100artworks recently released a series of new prints from Otick.For those not in the know Otick is a member of the AAGH Crew along side the likes of Sickboy and Nylon.
These are prints of (vintage) Tretchikoff and JH Lynch prints, customized by Otick.
Signed and numbered in hand by the artist.
Blind stamped with the 'Guerilla Art Press' logo on bottom right of print.
Materials used: giclee print
Size: 329mm x 483mm approx
Edition: Limited Edition of 50
Click here for more info.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Otick 'Tina' 'Green Lady' & 'Swamp Lady' Prints
Kid Acne-Smoke & Mirrors Exhibition
Opening this Thurdsay at Stella Dore is Sheffield's finest MC and street artist, KID ACNE.
Despite his high profile as as musician and an artist this will actually be his debut London solo show. Part exhibition, part installation, the show will be a concoction of iconography and imagery inspired by sources such as Freemasonry, Demonology and Paganism.
'Smoke and Mirrors' open on 2nd April with a private view, 6-9pm.
Stella Dore | 47 Rivington St | London, EC2
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Airside By Airside Book
Airside By Airside tells the story of Airside, from its origins in 1998 when three friends set up a studio space in North London, to the award-winning design company of today.
The hardback, 296-page art book features dozens of full-colour, double page spreads with our work for the likes of MTV, The Beatles, Coca-Cola and Pet Shop Boys, as well as fascinating insights into the creative processes behind them from all the Airside team, past and present.
Elsewhere Lemon Jelly fans can read exclusive interviews with Fred Deakin and Nick Franglen, as they talk about Airside's innovative designs for their records. While Airside Shop fans can revel in remembrance of t-shirts past. Features an introduction by Adrian Shaughnessy and contributions from Edgar Wright, Neil Tennant, Anthony Minghella and Pete Fowler.
Airside by Airside is available from April, but you can pre-order your copy now.
New BLU work in Bologna
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Matt Small Exhibition @ Black Rat Press
We are big fans of Matt Small's colourful portrait work and are excited to see he has a new solo show opening this Thursday 26th March at Black Rat Gallery in East London. Matts’ latest body of work ‘Youngstarrs’ is an exploration on the themes of youth and hope."Each and everyone of us has a story, and all our stories begin in our childhood. The show focuses on the young child as an everlasting symbol of hope and seeks to illustrate the innate potential in each and every one of us."
Matt Small graduated from the Royal College of Art and his unique style of portraiture has gained him a huge following and widespread critical acclaim. He was runner up in the BP portrait award and winner of the Villers David prize. His work is in numerous collections worldwide including the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Youngstarrs previews on March 26th from 6.30pm to 9.30pm. The exhibition continues until April 17th.
Black Rat Press Gallery | thru cargo garden | 83 rivington street | London
Kill Pixie Studio Visit
Studio visit with the awesome Australian artist Kill Pixie ( now based in LA ) over on Fecal Face.
Kill Pixie is currently showing at EDWINA CORLETTE GALLERY in Australia as part of a three person show Vexta, Kill Pixie & Ari Athans which runs till March 28th. He's also opening with a solo show at Merry Karnowsky May 30th in LA.
Kill Pixie still have some giclee prints available for purchase over on the site here.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
THE WIZARD'S HAT - ISSUE 03
The Wizard's Hat is an illustration house & zine created by Jeffrey Bowman and Andy.J Miller as the platform for producing collaborative projects under one name. The house focuses itself on self initiated projects involving many of today's most established illustrators as well as producing its own body of projects based on their love of illustration.
The newest Issue of The Wizard's Hat featuring illustrations by Jim Stoten, Nick Deakin, MrGauky, Nousvous and many more is now available to buy online. The zine is 36 Pages, A5, 250gsm cover, 100gsm inner's.
This issue also includes an audio CD with exclusive tracks written and performed by John Ringhofer of Half-Handed Cloud, Jim Stoten and Andy J.Miller
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Graffiti Argentina Book Release Party
Next Friday 27th March will see the London launch party of Argentine author Maximiliano Ruiz's Graffiti Argentina book.
Graffiti Argentina is the first book about the local graffiti scene, which in the last few years has become one of the most original and recognized in the world. This book traces the story of Argentina's vibrant but little-known graffiti scene in four parts – from the efflorescence of graffiti in the 1990s and artists' city escapades, to the underground use of tags, train graffiti and political paintings, and the sketches and designs that have come off the street to influence the whole visual culture of this exciting country.
"The difference between our graf and what you find in other countries is to do with where it came from and the way it's accepted by society. Here you don't have to creep around painting in secret, and this openness and ease helped graf to flourish. That's what foreign writers love about Argentina: no one tells you off, they might even give you a big pat on the back, and that's something we have to make the most of while we still can." TEKO
The events, organized by the Maximiliano Ruiz, will be focused on promoting Argentine Street Art along with the Graffiti Argentina book. Barcelona will host the first edition of the event at RAS library, followed by the UK premiere at the Pure Evil gallery in London, where the special guest Argentine artist Caru along with UK artist Roughe will join forces to make an original abstract graffiti piece.
The event kicks off at 7pm on Friday 27th March 2009 with DJ Fenna Rhodes and hip hop band True Ingredients in charge of the night’s beats. This is a free event.
Pure Evil Gallery | 108 Leonard St | EC24 4RH
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Banksy Trashed Again
The Banksy work in Dalston's Gillett Square which was trashed the other week has now been finished off by 10Foot, who was also responsible for the tagging of the Old Street Banksy piece with the same message as above.
The Old Street piece can be seen here
Crimes Of Passion Exhibition
Thursday night saw the opening of the Crimes of Passion group exhibition in Bristol. The exhibition is the first major show of its kind in the city since the Arnolfini’s groundbreaking 1985 show, Graffiti Art and is a celebration of the city’s rich and diverse contemporary scene. Bristol has nurtured many of the UK’s most successful graffiti and street artists, including 3D, Inkie, Banksy, Nick Walker, Sickboy and TCF Crew, to name a few and the city continues to be a breeding ground for a wealth of exceptional creative talent and continues to have one of the UK’s most diverse and thriving scenes.
The exhibition runs from 21st March - 2nd May 2009 .
Royal West of England Academy | Queens Road | Clifton| Bristol
Check out Romanywg great flickr set from the show here
SECRET WARS LONDON FINAL
Tonight in East London we will see Mr. Hicks and REEPS battle it out in the final of the Secret Wars Series 3 Grand Final. There can be only winner with a £1000 cash prize up for grabs as well as a trip to portugal to represent the UK against the portuguese.
Doors open at 8pm and the battle will start around 10pm - but get there early as it will be the usual FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE POLICY.. £5 to gain entry to the event.
RULES:
90 MINUTES - LARGE WHITE WALL (HALF EACH)
BLACK PAINT ONLY (EDDING MARKERS)
ONE WINNER
VILLAGE UNDERGROUND | 54 HOLYWELL LANE | SHOREDITCH | EC2A 3PQ
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Bazaart-2009
Housed in a massive, 5000 square feet venue in the heart of Bethnal Green, London , LAB’s BAZAART brings you a grand collection of new, original artworks, prints, live music, jewellery, sewing and much much more. This killer event is free to get into. Refreshments will be provided by Benny’s Bar and Dog Brew, while London’s lively club night Pin Up kicks the party on.
This is a not to be missed chance to bag yourself an original painting, stencil, photograph, paste up or installation from some of the most prolific and in demand urban and street artists around. In addition, LAB will be presenting a sneak preview of their latest limited edition hand pulled screen prints, including the much talked about PRODIGY VS Mo Coppoletta, Invaders prints in both colourways.Rounding this huge event out, there will be live screen printing by LAB with 100 stamped and numbered event prints free on a first come first serve basis. Original screen prints, art and jewellery will be available to purchase at the show.
Featured Artists
Adam Mallett, AKINA, AlPs, AsboLuv, Ben Slow, BG Booniece, Blam, BonBon, Busk, Dan Kitchener, Dscreet, Eelus, Elfin, Eve Mulholland, Eyesaw, Fake (print release), Fark FK, Focus (print release), FORS, Gabriel Moreno, Gemma Ward, Grafter, Harry Yeff, Henry Reeve, Hutch, Ika Ooska, Inkfetish, Jilko, Jux, K-Guy, Lady Sew & Sew, Laura Ward, Lucy Tate, Luke Da Duke, Marco Marzocchi, Milo, Mishfit, Oh Death, Oliver Winconek, OTP, Pho, Pure Evil, Random Cuts, Rourke Van Dal (print release), Rugman, Snub, SPQR, Tek 13, The Krah, Vilchez (print release), VST
Launch Night Thursday March 19th 7pm – 11pm.
Show runs Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd March 2009. 12 noon – 6pm daily.
Location – The Yard, Greenheath Business Centre, Three Colts Lane , Bethnal Green , E2 6JB
(Bottom of Witan Street off Cambridge heath road)
Free Admission
Eine-Screen printing world record
Nelly Duff Gallery have teamed up with their good friend EINE and a collective of mad artisan printers, who are making an attempt to break the screen printing world record.
With six weeks of non stop pulling screens by hand for each and every print, they will be attempting to have the most spot colours ever printed on an editioned artwork.
The edition is based on the internationally recognised Shutter Font A-Z canvas artwork by the king of fonts; street artist Ben EINE. An edition of 150 - they will be numbered and signed by Eine. No hints yet as to how many colours but looking at the above image it look like a lot!!
Thursday May 7th will see a special exhibition to celebrate the attempt where you can come and count how many for yourselves. The print release will be staggered, the first release will be online at Nelly Duff on Wednesday April 22nd for all you early birds, with half the edition saved for a special release at the show.
More info when we have it..
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Jet-pac Industries Goes Live
Scottish based designer/ illustrator and street artist Jet-Pac has recently relaunched his Jet-pac industries website. Jet-Pac is an old friend of ours here at Hookedblog towers and featured in our second Hooked Zine we published last year ( see above).
Check out this great doodle video Jet-pac has put together.
To see more from the moleskin doodle king, stop over on Jet-Pacs flickrstream and check some of the other work.
New Mudwig Dans Print
Mudwig Dans new show opened last Thursday in Bristol at the Friend & Co Gallery on Gloucester Road.
To tie in with the show opening a new 5 colour screenprint was released on the night and is now available to purchase online from Friends & Co. shop here. The print pictured above is a 5 colour hand pulled print limited to just 20. Signed, numbered and stamped.
If you are in the Bristol area Mudwigs " Popeye, Two Prozzies and a proportion of chips" exhibition will run until the 2nd of April.
Friend & Co. | 8 The Promenade | Gloucester Road | Bristol
Invisiblemadevisible Flickrstream Update
Monday, March 16, 2009
Word To Mother @ StolenSpace
‘Lost For Words’ opens at StolenSpace, in their Dray Walk Gallery on the 19th March and will showcase new works by artist Word To Mother. This much anticipated solo show, his third at StolenSpace, will feature paintings in mixed media on wood, canvas, found objects and installation pieces. This show will also see the release of limited edition wooden boxes hand made by the artist.
This new collection of work sees WTM delve deeper into his obsession with nature and the hand made. Suggestions of nostalgic sign writing and unmistakable WTM figures feature within a salvaged environment where they appear to have existed for years. The introduction of lonely astronaut characters immersed in clouds encourages the viewer to ‘Keep their head in the clouds’ as WTM says, embodying the feeling of retaining individuality and staying true to oneself instead of conforming to a plastic lifestyle. The show title, ‘Lost for Words’ sees WTM’s love of wordplay and suggests that all the lost and discarded objects that have been used, made their way especially to him. In this new work there is a definite feeling of nostalgia, times of when we dreamt of what we could be rather than what we should be.
StolenSpace Gallery | Dray Walk | 91 Brick Lane | London
Thursday, March 12, 2009
The Toasters Collaboration Exhibition
One for the diaries next month. On Thursday 28th May, The Toasters and fifteen of their fellow trespassers, some of Europe’s most influential artists from the world of street art, will come together in East London for a collaborative exhibition aptly named "Trespassers of the World Unite"
The Toasters, one of the original pioneers of street art in the UK and globally, have entertained the streets since 1999, appearing on posters, banners, stickers and murals all over the world in Berlin, Stockholm, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Sydney, New York, Paris, Peckham... everywhere!
Trespassers of the World Unite is a celebration of the last 10 years on the street for the infamous Toasters and a nod to those artists who they have respected over the years – hand picked through their long standing friendships. A total of fifteen artists are involved in this collaborative exhibition with The Toasters; Will Barras, Bomb Kid, Butch, Crackrock, Dicy, Eco, Erosie, Influenza, Mr Jago, Late, Paris, Phet, Rabodiga, space3 and Zime.
Trespassers of the World Unite will take place on the evening of Thursday 28th May, at as yet an undisclosed location in Hoxton… we will keep ye posted.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
PURE EVIL- SAO PAULO WOODCUTS
East London street artisit Pure Evil has released a new set of prints made with Choque Cultural in Sao Paulo using woodcuts, metal typesetting and lithography. The prints are from an edition of 70, measures up at 66cm X 48cm on 300gsm paper, and costs £75 each or £120 for the pair. They are available here.
Pure Evil also shot this short clip at Grafika Fidalga in Såo Paulo of the prints coming of the 100 year old printing press.
Friday, March 06, 2009
Dalston Banksy Trashed
Banksy, by invisiblemadevisible
We headed up to Dalston's Gillett Square today, to snap one of the newest Banksy stencils.
Having being up on the streets of East London for less than a week this is what we found this afternoon. The piece had been tagged up with " God, Love, Not Money"
Hackney Co-operative Developments, who owns the leasehold of the building, were set to take legal action to stop the council cleaning it off. It is now very likely that this will now be removed now that its been tagged up. While this must be one of the shortest lived Banksy street pieces, some are happy to see it tagged up rather than it end up behind some perspex sheet.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
MWM Graphics Exhibition
MWM Graphics is a design and illustration studio based in Portland, Maine USA. Working across a range of disciplines, from colorful vector illustrations style, to freeform watercolor paintings, and large-scale aerosol murals. Matt has been constantly evolving and expanding his visual vocabulary over the years, incorporating distorted shapes, rich textures and vibrant patterns into his unique graphic language.
Matt also has a passion for logo design and typography, viewing alphabets as a set of shapes and “a world of infinite possibilities.” MWM designs have featured on t-shirts and skateboards and have also drawn attention from a diverse selection of names such as The Guardian, Nike and Rojo Magazine in Barcelona who published a recent book of his works.
MWM's Concrete Hermit show is a personal celebration of his art and design across disciplines and will include a range of striking prints, murals and colourful installations.
Concrete Hermit | 5a Club Row | London | E1 6JX
PRIVATE VIEW THURSDAY 5TH MARCH 6pm - 9pm.
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