Guerilla Art Book Launch

International street artists are currently conquering the art market, with auction houses, collectors and galleries demanding top prices for their work. Guerilla Art is a new book by Sebastian Peiter and Goetz Werner and published by Laurence King.

The book is packaged with a DVD and features interviews with key artists including Banksy, Futura, Ramm:ell:zee, Os Gemeos, Invader, Barnstormers, WK Interact, Zevs, Blek le Rat, Andre, Noki and Eine.

Graffiti-inspired street art pioneers Futura, Ramm:ell:zee and Blek le Rat discuss their own work, how street art was born out of the days of subway train graffiti, spraypainting and tagging, and how the new movement of street artists are doing things differently. Filmed in New York, London, Paris, Sao Paulo and Tokyo, the accompanying documentary shows the artists at work: Zevs practising his 'Visual Kidnappings' of advertising billboards, Blek le Rat sticking up outsized stencils, Os Gemeos painting their lyrical, folklore-inspired murals; and Invader putting up his unique mosaic wall tile images.

To mark the launch of the book Pure Evil Gallery in East London are hosting an evening of Art, film and music this Thursday 30th April. Live music from DJ Barney Doodlebug and a film screening at 18.30 and 19.30. An event not to be missed if you are in London.

Pure Evil Gallery | 108 Leonard Street | London EC2A

Art In Mind@ Brick Lane Gallery

The Brick Lane Gallery is pleased to present a dynamic group exhibition ”Art in Mind" featuring 13 Contemporary and Street artists from different artistic and cultural backgrounds. The show will host a selection of international and UK artists, presenting diverse selection of influences.

Artists taking part will include: KRAH - HERO - Marlène-B - Katina Riba - Karl Anthoney - Bex Massey - David Barnes - Dolunay Magee - Faba - Gintallia Finlayson-Frost - Herman Noordermeer - Liron Ben Arzi - Tomas Tokle

The show will run from 30 April - 11 may
Opening with a private view 29 April 6.30 - 8.30

The Brick Lane Gallery | 196 Brick Lane | London

Meryl Donoghue @ StolenSpace

StolenSpace are proud to present Meryl Donoghue’s premier U.K solo exhibition ‘Once Upon A Lie’ this thursday.

Donoghue’s current work is comprised of a collection of large-scale gyclee prints, depicting a series of strikingly lit human/animal hybrids arranged in black space. These images, born from pencil drawings, are digital creations. Transferred from page to screen, constructed from photography and then manipulated. The final images possess a sense of magical reality, underpinned by the suggestion of something more sinister and foreboding.

The new work in ‘Once Upon A lie…’ is inspired by stories that the artist has heard and events in her life that hold sway over her. It is a portrayal of desperate circumstances with unsettling and incalculable outcomes and in part pays homage to past writers, poets and musicians whose work has fuelled her imagination and inspired invention.

The show opens 30th March and runs until the 10th May.
StolenSpace Gallery | Dray Walk | 91 Brick Lane | London

Inkfetish Website Update

London based illustrator artist Inkfestish aka Tom Blackford updates his website with a bunch of fresh new art. Some of you may have spotted the new wall In East London that Tom painted last week outside Cargo's entrance to their garden.You can see some photos of the wall over on his blog here.

Tom will also have new some work on show at the opening party of the Rarekind Gallery on Bethnal Green Road this Thursday.

A Força da Rua (Force of the Street) Video

In February 2009, after interviewing the British artist contingency of A Força da Rua, director Lorna Lavelle took the trip to São Paulo to meet the Brazilian artists and to immerse herself in the city’s street art scene. 10 days of shooting interviews, artist studios and galleries (such as Choque Cultural gallery who represent A Força da Rua‘s Calma, Speto and Titi Freak) and meeting contributing musicians such as N.A.S.A, Lorna also visited the projects supported by the ABC Trust.

A Força da Rua (Force of the Street)

The ABC Trust is pleased to present A Força da Rua (Force of the Street), an exclusive contemporary street art project bringing together 12 of the finest artists from Brazil and the UK, including D*Face, Inkie, Titi Freak, Speto and Calma. Each artist will create a unique piece of art that will help raise funds and awareness for Brazil’s most vulnerable children.

Gibson Guitar's a long time supporter of the ABC Trust charity have donated 12 of their most iconic guitars including Les Paul, Melody Maker, Flying V and SG all to be customised. These will then be exhibited at a central London location and are to be sold at a high profile VIP charity art auction at the Cuckoo Club on 29 April.

The ABC Trust (Action For Brazil’s Children’s Trust), whose co-founder and Patron is Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, have chosen graffiti and street art to work with as it reflects the rebellious free spirit of music and Brazil’s creative youth. Each of the artists’ work for the guitars reflects how art and music should be accessible and available to young people without discrimination and have the ability to inspire and transform.

UK ARTISTS
D*FACE | KID ACNE | INKIE | REMI/ROUGH | WILL BARRAS | PURE EVIL

BRAZILIAN ARTISTS
SPETO | RAMON MARTINS | CALMA | TITI FREAK | DANIEL MELIM | TINHO

Exhibition: 23 April – Monday 12 May
theprintspace | Kingsland Road | E2 8DL London

The auction will take place at the Cuckoo Club on Wednesday 29 April 2009. This event is by invitation only. Interested parties should contact Roberta at auction@forceofthestreet.com to attend the auction.

Eine Shutter Font Print

We blog about this release back in March. Eine's
shutterfont print black is now available from the Nelly Duff website. The print is £300.00 (unframed), 70 x 70 cm in size on 320gsm somerset satin paper and will include a minimum of 77 hand pulled screens.

There are 3 different editions, a white, black and gold version with an edition of 150 of the black version and an edition of 25 of the gold and white versions -all numbered and signed by Eine. The gold and white versions are priced at £350 (unframed). The above image is a working progress image of the White version.The print will ship monday, May 11, 2009
The print release will be staggered, the first release will be online today Wednesday April 22nd for all you early birds, with the other half of the edition saved for a special release party on Thursday May 7th.

Merlin Gloziers Exhibition

Blackall Studios cordially invites you to an exhibition of the acclaimed Merlin Gloziers latest art works.

Blackall Studios will be hosting the exhibition for one week from Thursday 23rd April 2009.
The Private View will be from 6pm till 9pm tomorrow night (23th April)

Blackall Studios | 73 Leonard Street | EC2A 4QS

Sixeart's First Screenprint

In 2008 the Spanish artist Sixeart achieved international fame by participating in STREET ART AT THE TATE MODERN exhibition. Today his works are shown in Spain alongside those of Miro, Chillada and Tapiez.

This Friday 24th will see Sixeart return to Brussels where the A.L.I.C.E. Gallery has invited him for his first solo show outside of Spain. The exhibition will also mark the release of his first ever screenprint (pictured), a limited edition of just 30 and made exclusively for A.L.I.C.E. Gallery. Check the gallery website here for more info on the release and the show.

End Of The Line Time lapse Video

Cool time lapse aerosol graffiti promo video, commissioned by Paramount for the UK West end movie premiere of 'Watchmen' 2009. Painted by End of the Line artists: Bleach, Probs, Busk and Zadok.
Music by Pyro

Banksy Work @ Andipa Gallery

Andipa Gallery presents an exhibition of 20 original works on canvas, pallet and steel by the UK's leading urban artist, Banksy, including the largest canvas to become available, measuring fourteen feet in length.

Andipa was the first gallery to put on a major exhibition of Banksy's work in the secondary market, showcasing one of the largest collections of the artist's work. Over 25,000 people visited the gallery during the exhibition in 2008 to view one of the most extensive private surveys of the artist's work brought together in recent years.

"Banksy continues to defy the establishment with poignant commentary through his street work. He continues to evolve and adapt as an artist, as we saw with his response to the New Orleans anniversary and his New York Village Pet Store creations last year. He's always one step ahead of the game, reasserting freedom of speech through both his street and his studio works."
Acoris Andipa, Director, Andipa Gallery

The show opens tomorrow night 23 April and runs until the 16 May 2009
Please Note: Andipa Gallery does not represent Banksy. This is an independent exhibition and the artist is not involved.

Andipa Gallery | 162 Walton Street | Knightsbridge | London SW3

Above's “UNION JACK ARROWS”

US based street artist Above drops two new screenprints titled "Union Jack Arrows", both of which he has hand pulled himself. Above first painted these UNION JACK Arrows in LONDON during his “2005 EUROPEAN TOUR” where he painted and installed his signature Arrow’s in 14-countries.

"We think this prints image and reflection transforms the already good looking UNION JACK motif into something mesmerizing. The directional symmetry of the arrows going up and down are a great balance with sharp colors to draw you in even closer."

There are two editions of this print, 70 regular edition (RED/BLUE) and 20 special edition (ORANGE/GREEN). They are both 7-colour hand pulled screen prints on 22 IN. X 15 IN. ( 56 cm. X 38 cm. ) Lennox 100 Archival White 250 GSM paper. Every print is custom embossed, signed dated and numbered by Above. The regular edition(RED/BLUE) = £69 and the special edition = £99.00.

Both editions are available now from Above's website here.

Subway Art 25th Anniversary Video

During the 1970s and 80s, photographers Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant captured the environment and the imagination of a generation by documenting the burgeoning New York City graffiti movement. Now 25 years and more than a half a million copies later, their bestselling book Subway Art is available in a large-scale, deluxe format heightening the visual impact of their classic images.

With 70 additional photographs, and a fresh introduction and afterword, this collector's edition illustrates the passion, creativity and resourcefulness of unlikely kids inventing an art form destined to spread worldwide and spawn the present-day street art movement.

More info and some sample spreads of the new edition here.

KELSEY BROOKES MERMAID AT POW

Kelsey Brookes spends most of his time living on the west coast of America searching for the perfect wave. He occasionally comes inside to paint pictures of mermaids.

This new print pictured is a 3 colour screenprint with metallic gold ink and an edition of 140. It's on slae for £95.00 at POW now.

Roman Klonek @ Kemistry Gallery

The work of Polish-born Roman Klonek is largely influenced by Eastern European cartoon styles. In the 1990's he studied Graphic Arts in Düsseldorf, where he discovered a passion for woodcut printing.

The prints he creates are populated by a wide range of whimsical creatures, mostly half animal/half human, and often presented in awkward or hair-raising situations. Klonek succeeds in creating worlds featuring a bizarre balancing act between folklore and popular culture; the reduced forms of the woodcuts he produces are reminiscent of the first days of comics and cartoons. He founded the Gallery Revolver in 2001, bought a printing press and started a never-ending range of woodcut printings. Roman Klonek works together with friends in a studio in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Kemistry Gallery will be exhibiting a range of Klonek's woodcuts created especially for the exhibition, which will be available for purchase exclusively from the gallery or the webshop.

The show opens 16th April and will run untill 30 May 2009
Kemistry Gallery | 43 Charlotte Road | London EC2A 3PD

Kid Acne-Smoke & Mirrors Video

Kid Acne. Smoke and Mirrors show at Stella Dore Gallery. from Neil Chester on Vimeo.

London Miles Gallery Opening Exhibition

London Miles Gallery is a new contemporary art gallery focusing on emerging Lowbrow and Pop Surrealist art, exhibiting an international selection of fresh talent. This new space will be based in Nothing Hill (yes West London!) and was formerly operated as Grenade Art, which was founded on the idea of being a contemporary collective supporting urban art.

To mark the launch of the new space, London Miles Gallery will open their doors this Thursday with a launch show titled "Ready, Steady, Go". The evening will showcase original artwork as well as a selection of exciting new prints plus the chance to meet author and curator Tina Ziegler and gallery director Phil Coleman. Artists featuring in the launch exhibition include Joe Ledbetter, Amanda Visell, Chelsea Lewyta, Tiffany Liu, Dave Pressler, Nate Frizzell and Jim Mahfood.
The show will run from April 16th 2009 until May 3rd, 2009
Public Opening reception: April 16th, 2009 from 6:30pm to 10:00pm

London Miles Gallery | 212 Kensington Park Road | London | W11 1NR

Static - Auto Trader Print

Pictured is the new screen print from design collective Static titled " Auto Trader.

The print is a two colour Screen Print with water colour washes and spray paint additions on 300gsm paper. Size is 50 cm X 50 cm and the print is embossed/ signed and a numbered edition of 30. The print is exclusively from Vegas Street Art here

Invisiblemadevisible April Flickr Update

Fake, by invisiblemadevisible

A bunch of new photos just uploaded to our Invisiblemadevisible flickr, taken this morning around East London, including this large scale piece pictured above by artist Fake on the Red Lion Bar.

View them here

THE LONDON POLICE @ StolenSpace

The London Police aka TLP started when two English geezers moved from London to Amsterdam in 1998 to rejuvenate the visually disappointing streets of the drug capital of the world. Famous for their lovable & iconic ‘Lads’ characters which have been seen on streets all over the world.

The ‘TLP’ members have come and gone, but now, after 10 years the two founding members have rejoined to bring together their unique styles in a strong collaboration for this much anticipated London show, entitled ‘10 years On The Circle Line’

This show is a celebration of a decade of work by the duo and for the 1st time collaborating what has become vastly different styles. While one artist’s skill at drawing a circle ‘freehand’ is staggering, no compasses, guides or masks are used. While the other, since his departure in 2004, has developed his own imagery, an architectural style of line drawing. In these playful fantasy cityscapes ‘the lads’ are constructed and move around freely, in turn helping to build further elements of the city. They wanted to create a place full of interaction between their circle drawing and line drawing.

This show will feature new works from the The London Police on linen & canvas, video installation and photography.... as well as see the release of a new limited edition hand pulled screen print.

The exhibition opens tonight 9th April at StolenSpace with a private view from 6pm.

StolenSpace | Dray Walk | 91 Brick Lane | London
The show will run until 26th April.

XC EXHIBITION

London Stencil Artist Graffter has currated a group show titled XC- "22 Artists, 1 Sculpter and a shit load of Paint", which will open this evening at Gallery 90 in North London.

Each of the 22 invited artist will be showing original works on canvas as well as a Limited Edition small run original works on Paper. The group exhibition will feature works from Asboluv, Ben Slow, Blam, Bonzai, Dan Kitchener, Don, Fark FK, Finbarr (DAC) , Grafter, K-Guy, Lucky Phil and Dave, Masonstormhead, Neverwork, Oliver Winconek, Rourke Van Dal, RYCA, Snik, Snub, SPQR, Stickee, Trans 1, T.Wat and Twesh.

Most of the artists mentioned above will be painting live outside the gallery on Saturday 11th April. You will be able to watch them paint live onto boards and canvas and if you like what you see you can make an offer and take it home with you when it's finished......Buy Street Art Directly from the Street....!!

The show opens this evening with a private view. To get on the guest list email grafter_pics@yahoo.com.

Gallery 90 | 90 Mountgrove Road | N5

Goldie: The Kids Are All Riot

Goldie, the graffiti artist and drum and bass pioneer of Metalheadz fame has a solo exhibition titled 'The Kids Are All Riot' opening tomorrow the 10th April at The Maverik Showroom. The duplex venue will be transformed into a cutting edge situation not to be missed!

His long awaited 28 colour Screenprint "Apocalypse Angel" will also be realeased to coincide with the show to feature a recent retospective of the artist's prolific works.

The exhibition will run from 10th until 26th April.

The Maverik Showroom | 68-72 Redchurch Street | London | E2 7DP

KID ACNE SHOW REVIEW

The guys over on Graffoto blog have a great review of the recent Kid Acne exhibition 'Smoke And Mirrors' at Stella Dore Gallery on Rivington Street. Read the review over here.

The show runs until the 25 April so no excuse not to check it out over the long easter weekend.

Oh and if anyone has seen Kid Acne's Sketchbook give it back. It was stolen on the opening night of his show. Read more here

photo ©NoLionsInEngland

Beautiful Crime's Pink Box Hunt

This Easter weekend sees Beautiful Crimes launch their second guerilla event in London Town.

Kicking off on Saturday April 11th, they will be running an Easter Egg pink box Hunt, complete with Twittering directions on where to find these squares of seasonal joy. Stencil artists Fark FK, Finbarr DAC and Dan Kitchener have sprayed 40 unique boxes, each of which will be filled with goodies and left around Town over the Easter weekend.

Follow them on twitter to get more info and locations as they drop over the weekend. Happy hunting..

Bleach Interview On UKAdapta

The April issue of online magazine UKAdapta has launched and includes an interview with Graffiti artist Bleach. You can read the interview here.

Once you've fiinished reading the interview over on UKAdapta check out more of Bleach's work over on his website.The site also includes lots of other great interviews with artists such as Matt Small, Nick Walker, Pete Fowler, D*Face, Busk, Eine, Insa, Blek Le Rat & Astek to name a few. The full list of artist interviews are here.

OBEY FOOTAGE from SXSW

The guys overs at Mylocationscouts dropped us an email to share the footage they recorded during the 2009 South By Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas of Shepard Fairey and the Obey posse creating a live installation.

Invisiblemadevisible Flickrstream Update

mjar, by invisiblemadevisible

Some new photos just uploaded to our Invisiblemadevisible flickr, taken this morning around East London.

View them here

2000 And Down Exhibition

Urban Angel/The Art Lounge opens today the 4th April with their latest show titled "2000 and down". The show will feature original artworks and a wide range of limited edition prints all of which will be on sale for £2000 or less.

Featured artist include Klone, Best I Ever, Copyright. Grafter, Inkie, Hush, Zeus to name a few.

Preview Saturday 4th April 11am to 5pm with the show running until the 16 May.

Urban Angel Gallery | 41/43 Redchurch Street | London E2 7DJ

Andy Seize's War Games Print

Graffiti artist Andy Seize has released a new limited edition print. The 'War Games' print pictured is a Limited Edition of 50-signed and numbered by the artist. It's a multi 4 layered hand printed silkscreen on 310 grams Southbank art paper.

Image size 59cm x 48cm, 23in x 19in
Paper size 70cm x 100cm, 27.5in x 39.5in

The print is available now for £450 and should you wish to purchase one please contact: seize [at] andyseize.co.uk

See more of Andy's work over on his flickr including some of of the murals he has painted around the Shoreditch/Old Street area.

STREETFEST 09

One for the diaries in May is STREET FEST, a new breed of festival where the onus is on promoting and merging creative talents. STREETFEST is taking it back to the 'old skool', blending the spirit and soul of those nostalgic rocking block parties, with creative flair and modern trends. STREETFEST actively involves visitors in the day's events by creating an interactive experience!

STREETFEST will be held in the pioneering surroundings of Cordy House, Shoreditch. With ten hours of innovative showcases- featuring music, live art, films, hair and fashion shows plus fixed gear biking, rollerblade and skateboard demonstrations, all from some of the UK's top collectives, this is not an event to miss!

Key participants in STREETFEST include Lovenskate - spreading the word of skateboard culture, Kingdom- offering a British perspective on rollerblading eccentricity and Fixed Gear London- showcasing bicycle culture. The art focus comes from Secret Wars delivering timed live art battles and a collection of fine and street artists including Andy Seize, Sichi and Drunkpark will be painting throughout the day. Holic and Rhil are the powerhouse promoters behind the music programming during the day. Film contents come in the form of three innovative collectives-UK Adapta, Stomper and Hekate Films, with additional skate and biking films being shown.

Stalls promoting international food, emerging clothing brands, books, prints, art toys and collectables will also be participating on the day. Each space will have its own identity and feel, so be prepared to enter the quirky and wonderful world that is STREETFEST.