Banksy Time Out London Cover

We are looking forward to checking out the new Banksy movie "Exit Through the Gift Shop" tomorrow in the pop-up cinema Banksy has built in Leake Street.

The movie itself goes on generally release next week, March 5th. To tie in with the release of the film, Banksy has produced an exclusive piece of cover art for the next issue of Time Out London magazine which is set to go on sale tuesday March 2. According to Time Out "the cover, a mixture of self-portraiture and spraypaint, is unlike anything he's ever done for a magazine before and may never be repeated." In addition to the cover, Time Out London's Visual Arts Editor, Ossian Ward, conducted a rare interview with Banksy.

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Bast - Fresh New Work

Stunning new original works from Bäst have just appeared up on his blog. Pictured above are two of three new works posted. We hope these original collage pieces get released as screen prints and or maybe posters as we would love to see them on the streets. Awesome.

Check the full set over on his blog here. And if you are in London don't miss The Faile / Bäst Fluxx Deluxe still running at Lazarides on Greet Street. {blogged here}.

Click the image above to see some of the details in the larger image.

Luzinterruptus In New York

We are loving the latest intervention from the Luzinterruptus team. The piece was created in New York and titled “Literature versus traffic”.

"800 books with light became the conqueror of public spaces, offering to those who walked by, a space free of traffic which for a few hours of the night will succumbed to the modest power of the written word."

Read and view more about this fantastic installation over on their blog here.

Eelus - The Colour Out Of Space

We mentioned the forthcoming Eelus debut London solo show, "The Colour Out Of Space" back in January {blogged here} and tomorrow night the 25th February we will finally get to see the new work Eelus has been working on the last few months.

Set to feature a collection of brand new paintings and prints on canvas, wood and metal including the image pictured, entitled 'Dress up' which has been lovingly screen print as a 30 colour screen print and is one of two show prints which will be available on the night of the opening. Both will then be available online the following morning for those not able to be in London.

Tomorrow it set to be packed so we would advise getting there early for the private view and unless you have tickets for the screening of the Banksy's Exit Through The Gift Shop movie in the pop-up cinema in Leake street then you have no excuse really for not being there.

Private View, Thursday, 25 February 2010 18:00; The show will then run until the 6th March.
Blackall Studios | 73 Leonard Street | London | EC2A 4QS

East London Street Art

Cept, by invisiblemadevisible

Some new photos up over on the invisiblemadevisible flickr including this fantastic piece from Cept.

This new Cept piece pictured replaces one his his super heros charcater's and was painted in response to supposed complaints to Hackney council about the old piece!!

Nolions has a great piece about the madness of the Hackney Council buff and the story behind this new Cept piece. You can read it over on the Graffoto blog here.

Collin Van Der Sluijs Diptych

Two new Collin van der Sluijs prints on pre-order from Planet Patrol and Gallery Nosco who are now the primary source for Collins work within the UK.

The above two prints are available as a Diptych. Titled "Floater 1 and 2", they are printed on 300gsm Somerset photo satin. Signed and numbered by the artist and an edition of 45. Available now to pre-order, prints will be shipped first week of March. £135 includes shipping.

Collin will be exhibiting alongside Derek Shumate at the Brooklynite Gallery New York from February the 13th through to March 16th.

East Meets East Exhibition

One for the diary next week March 4th, a brand new gallery space and a new exhibition entitled "East Meets East", featuring works from Nasimo (Bulgaria), Run (London), Busk (London) and kennardphillipps (London).

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Grafik Warfare- Hazardous Waste

Grafik Warfare is an international collective of street artists and illustrators. To celebrate the launch of their new website the whole collective are exhibiting for the first time at the Graffik London Gallery in West London later this week.

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Au Secours - Art For Haiti

Later today sees the opening of Au Secours, an exhibition by some great and kindly artists to raise money for the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Above is a selection of some of the work that will be on sale today.

Artists confimed for todays show include: BEST EVER,COPYRIGHT, DAVID DIPRE, DAVID SHILLINGLAW, DEP, DERM, DON1, GROHS, INKIE,JAYBO,JONATHAN DARBY, JUICE 126, LUCY MCLAUCHLAN,LX ONE, MATT SMALL, OLIVER WINCONEK, PART2ISM, PETE FOWLER, REMI/ROUGH, SHOK 1, SYSTEM, TIMID, WILL BARRAS, ZOOT

All money raised goes straight to DEC. Or alternatively you can donate money here via Justgiving. This cause needs all the support it can get so please come down. There will be amazing artwork from all price ranges.

SUNDAY 21st Feb. 4 – 8PM
Blackall Studios | 73 Leonard Street | London |EC2A 4QS

Dolk - Teddy Riot Print

Some of you might remember this Dolk image above from September's Fame Festival in Italy,{blogged here}.

The image is now set to be released as a screenprint via the Hand Made Posters website. No release date as of yet for the "Teddy Riot" print but it will be an edition of 200,Size: 65x65 cm and for sale at £175. Keep checking the Handmadeposter website and if you are interested or maybe signup to their mailing list for details on the exact release date.
Update: The print is now on sale here.

45RPM's Rome fanzine

Bristol based artist 45RPM has just dropped his second free online fanzine of photographs he took on Rome. You can view the awesomeness online and download it for free here. Be sure and also check out his New York Grime zine {blogged here}.

Case At Signal Gallery

Tonight Signal Gallery in association with Campbarbossa, present a solo show by the renowned German artist Andreas Von Chrzanowski AKA ‘Case’. Following on from successful solo shows in Los Angeles and his homeland, his first London show will be an exciting event. As well as producing works for the gallery, Case will be painting a number of large street pieces across East London.

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Faile Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade Video

Babelgum just dropped us a message to let us know about this great video they have uploaded with both Faile and bast setting up the current show at Lazarides and how it came about.

Faile Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade Photos

We have finally found some time to upload some photos we took at The Faile Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade show at Lazarides on Greek Street {blogged here}. We hope to upload more photos from the Retrospective at Rathbone Place later today or tomorrow.

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New Brow Trailer

Just watched the above trailer for New Brow – The rise of Underground Art. It's not often we venture to West London but we certainly won't be missing this.

Along with the film screening in the Project Room in Westbourne Studios, you will be able to enjoy an onsite exhibition featuring work from some of the artists featured in NewBrow and also work from a collection of London Miles Gallery artists.

Tickets are selling fast, so please reserve in advance by emailing: Info@Londonmiles.com. Specify the the day and the screening time you will be attending.

See ye there.

New Brow – The Rise of Underground Art

London Miles Gallery is proud to host the premiere UK screening of Contemporary Art documentary, New Brow – The rise of Underground Art, a feature film presented by Humble Pictures in association with The Shooting Gallery from San Francisco, California.

The documentary features some of today’s most influential and groundbreaking artists from the New Contemporary Art movement, such as Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Silvia Ji, Gary Baseman, Shag and many more, who speak openly and enlighteningly about the growing art movement and its origins.

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Case At The Signal Gallery

Case, by invisiblemadevisible

Spotted this fresh 'Case' aka Andreas Von Chrzanowski piece today outside The Signal gallery in Shoreditch. The piece was created for his upcoming solo exhibition 'Never Odd or Even' which opens at the Signal Gallery on the 18th February. We will post more info on the show next week.

Steve Powers - Your Everafter Print

We blogged about Steve Powers "A Love Letter for You" project last week {blogged here} and the release of a book documenting the whole project. He has now relased the above image as a print through Pictures On Walls. The six colour screen print with a glossy black finish is an edition of 300 and still available on POW for £99.

No Days Off Exhibition

Graphic Designer agency No Days Off have a preview this evening of some of their print work. "Nine Day Wonder" opens tonight 12th February from 6pm.

Wilton's Cafe | 63 Wilton Way | London E8

ZEZÃO London Lecture

Zezão, is a street-artist from Brazil, whose work reacts to, frames, and draws its aesthetic from São Paulo's chaotic urban landscape, which is sloppy with its public space, with its rivers and its trash. Embodying skate and punk culture, he creates interventions within the cockroach and rat infested infrastructural bowels of the city, using graffiti, video and photography to produce site specific installations in sewers, under derelict transport structures, and in precarious storm-water drainage channels.

Zezão has participated in solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including at the MASP- Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo, at the Scion Gallery in Los Angeles, at the Une Festivalle in the LJ Gallery in Paris as well as at the Namefest World of Graffiti event in Prague.

Tonight in London at the Architectural Association School of Architecture from 6pm a workshop and lecture by Zezão, on city works, hosted and introduced by Franklin Lee.

Details:
Wednesday, 10 February 2010. Time: 6pm - 9pm
Architectural Association School of Architecture AA | 36 Bedford Square | London | WC1B 3ES
Phone: 0044 207 887 4000

Faile & Bast Sneak Peak

Ian Cox from Wallkandy has posted some sneak peak images that he has taken at the Faile Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade {blogged here}.

We are loving the colours on the piece above and can't wait to see the piece in it's entirety. Head over to Ian's flickr to see some of the other teaser images. We expect he will have some more images from the show over the next few days so we advise you keep checking his flickr if you are interested.

Torn: A Decade Of Faile - Retrospective

And the count down has begun. We are getting super excited here at Hookedblog  about the Faile Bast exhibition which  opens later this week.

We mentioned the show back in January {blogged here} and since then the above preview image has been released. It's been a very long time since Faile and Bast exhibited together. We could be wrong but we think the last time they worked on a joint  show here in London was way back in 2002 at the former "This Way Up" Gallery on the second floor of The Dragon Bar  on Leonard Street where the entire space was covered floor to ceiling in their signature paste-ups.

Bast and Faile have both come along way in the last eight years and as excited as we are about seeing new works from both these Artists it will also be fantastic to see works from the Faile 10-year retrospective that is also planned to run alongside the group show. The 'Torn: A Decade Of Faile' retrospective opens Friday 12th February at Lazarides Rathbone Place venue. The Faile Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade also opens on the 12th February at Lazarides Greek Street space.

Faile Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade at
Lazarides | 8 Greek Street | Soho | London W1D 4DG

Torn: A Decade Of Faile at
Lazarides | 11 Rathbone Place | London W1T 1HR

For directions, opening times and dates for the show visit the Lazarides website.

PINKY'S Valentines LOVE

More Valentine's Art releated goods, this time Brighton based artist Pinky has been flexing his Samurai-Scalpel like skills once again and produced these Handcut one off original Love Hearts all made with 'pure love'. Each is signed by the artist and they are selling fast with a large number sold out already. Bag yourself some Love Heats on the Pinky website.

All Love Hearts will be posted out Special Delivery with last orders on Friday 12th February too ensure they arrive before St Valentines Day (Sunday 14th February).

Ugbot Screenprints

New prints are up over on Ugbot, the design and illustration website of Gavin Edwards. The print pictured is the newest release titled "Biding my Time".

Gavin prints are all hand screenprinted and the newest release pictured is a 3 colour print, 760mm x 560mm, an edition of 29, printed on archival paper and is available now for £30.

Details about ordering this and his other prints can be found on the Ugbot website

And as animated videos of screenprints seem to be all the rage {SAM3 Amination}, head over to Ugbots blog and check out the showreel featuring the above print animated!

Tox Graffiti Special - Video

A Sky travel report from about 2003/2004 featuring TOX.Video appears to have been uploaded last year but we have just stumbled on it. Clip is about 10 minutes long.

SAM3 Valentine's Day Prints

With Valentines just around the corner, SAM3 and Studio Cromie release "Uno", a set of three prints limited to an edition of just 50. The stop motion amination above was created to accompany the release of the prints pictured below.

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Hookedblog Half Price Zine Sale!!

Zine SALE!! As well as finding some disks which included photos from 2005 which we put together in this clip, when we did a Spring clean last week, we also found a box with the last batch of the zines we produced last year and from 2008.As we are running out of space, we have decided to have a Half Price Spring Zine Sale on the remaining zines in efforts to make some room for some new zines we are working on. The zines can be purchased over on our Etsy online shop. You need to register to use Etsy but it's really quick, you just need an email to sign in.Prices shown on the site are the SALE price and have already been discounted. This is your last chance to get these zines as we will not be reprinting this batch as hopefully we will have some new zines online soon.

Prefab77 - Living For Kicks

New print release from Prefab77. This is the third print release from their "Shot at from both Sides" american show last year. Titled "Lving for Kicks" the print is an edition of 30, 2 colour gloss screenprint with the usual Prefab77 hand painted layers! 56x76cm in size on Arches 88 with deckled edge. The print is available on pre-order at this email address info@prefab77.co.uk for £70.

Droplet - Series 2 Launch

For those of you in Bristol over the weekend this is not to be missed!! It's the launch of the second series of the Droplet vinyl toys designed by Gavin Strange ( Jam Factory).

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Original Cultures at StolenSpace

In collaboration with Original Cultures, a new international non-profit cultural and arts initiative, StolenSpace presents an exclusive exhibition of new works from famed European artists Ericailcane (Italy), DEM (Italy) and Will Barras (UK)

The three artists have been commissioned to produce works for the exhibition, which will form part of the Original Cultures London 2010 event and run from February 11th until March 7th. This exhibition is the trio’s second collaborative project following their work during Original Cultures’ first event last year in Bologna, Italy. {Video blogged here}

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Ericailcane x DEM x Will Barras

Video of visual artists Ericailcane, DEM and Will Barras painting the Bartleby building in Bologna, June 2009.

This session took part on the last day of the Original Cultures Bologna 09 event, which saw the three artists collaborate with musicians Om Unit, Tatsuki and Tayone for a unique showcase combining music and visual arts.

Original Cultures have a London event with the above artist planned for later this month at Stolen Space, more info soon.

Steve Powers - A Love Letter for You

"A Love Letter For You - Brick Valentines On The Philly Skyline" documents the art and the neighborhood that inspired this ambitious public art project.

In 1984 Steve Powers started climbing rooftops in his neighborhood and painting his alias ESPO as a dues paying member of the ICY graffiti club. 25 years later he returned home to Philadelphia in the summer of 2009 to write a love letter across the same rooftops facing the Market-Frankford line. The letter, meant for one, with meaning for all, encompasses 50 walls on a 20 block stretch of market street. Drawing input, inspiration, and work from the community Powers created a letter to and from west Philly. This unprecedented public art project was a collaboration of Powers, The Mural Arts Program, and the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. It required 1200 cans of spray paint, 800 gallons of bucket paint, and the skilled hands of 20 of the finest spray painters in America, who Powers put into the legendary ICY club.

The books is now available online at Free News Project for $19.95.

Olive47's Poster Cause Print

Alongside their Haiti Relief effort posters {blogged here} The Poster Cause Project continue their monthly releases with a february release from street artist/toy designer olive47.

The "CHERRY BLOSSOM COMPOSITION III" print pictured is a11 × 17 Poster printed in full color on high quality 100# stock. Limited to a DOZEN prints with 100% OF PROFITS to benefit SaveTheManatee.org. Each print Includes 1 blindboxed Dreamland Toyworks "Little Miss Cupcake" Figure also designed by olive47. Print + toy + charity = $30. Don't miss out.

The print and toy are available to buy via the The Poster Cause Project website.

See more of olive47's work over on her website.

Streetart - Dalston Bus Depot 2005

Back in June 2005 a group of street / graffiti artists took over the walls of an abandoned East London bus depot/ crack den in Dalston. We were there and took a bunch of photographs.

Having just recently found the pictures again on a disk after a spring clean last week, we have put some of them together in this clip. This is out first upload to Youtube and we haven't worked out the best size, format to ensure it looks its best so watch the video in HD if you have a fast web connection. But is is good to be able to share them online, as we had believed they were forever lost via a stolen computer of ours. Photos feature the works of some talented artists and friends including What Collective (Richt, Gumbo, Oath and 45RPM) , Dave The Chimp, PMH, Busk, Blam, Showchicken, mjar, Sri, Thought Police, Skire, Adam Neate, Jerm, Herse, Fybe, Probs, Pheks and Ink Fetish to name a few. Enjoy.

Ronzo - Credit Crunch Monster

Ronzo - Credit Crunch Monster, by nolionsinengland

Vandal Extraordinaire RONZO has celebrated the end of the recession in the UK, by installing these awesome limited edition credit crunch monster sculptures in London's financial district. We spotted one yesterday afternoon in Aldgate and another on Bishopsgate, although the illegal sculpture in the Bishopgate location has now been removed by the council or else stolen by a streetart collector!!

The guys over at Graffoto have a bunch of photos and the full story on these Crunchy Monsters.Read it here.

Friend-And-Co £25 Prints

Bristol artist 45RPM dropped me an email to let us know about this collection of prints available now at Friend-and-Co in Bristol. The prints are being sold for only £25 each and includes works from French, Russell Maurice, Egs, Pinky and Russell Maurice, Eco, Mike Maxwell, Petro and Andy Council to name a few. Go have a look over on the Friend-and-Co website here. Low editions of 50 and 30 on most of the prints.
And don't forget to check out the upcoming Sickboy LogoPop Bristol show opening this Friday 5th 2010 at Friend-And-Co's gallery space. Details on the show and location here.

Matt Stuart - Look Both Ways Show

Matt Stuart’s work features opportune street scenes which reflect the absurd and fleeting nature of life. How many times have you seen something, wished you had your camera only for the moment to instantly pass? Armed with a small Leica camera, patience and lots of optimism, Stuart captures those moments where others fail.

Stuart’s photographs are a series of happy accidents taking place in crowds, on the tube, in the park and in cars. Stuart obsessively shoots everyday, everywhere he goes.

The result of this passion and his fascination with people and the way they live their lives will be shown as a collection at KK Outlet for the first time. Some images are so absurd they almost look staged, but these are totally genuine and original, all caught by the masterful eye of Stuart.

Private View: Thursday 4 Feb, 7-9pm
Exhibition Runs: 5-26 Feb
KK Outlet | 42 Hoxton Square | London | N1 6PB

High Rollers Society Gallery

Friday night saw a packed out crowd in attendance at the opening of East London's newest gallery space, High Roller Society.

This artist-led space featured works from fourteen hand-selected artists including 2 SICK BASTARDS, AIDA, BASE 23, DAVE THE CHIMP, HEAD HOODS, GOUCH, JAMES UNSWORTH, JULIE BENNETT, MARCIN DUDEK, LUDVIG, NEEQUAYE DREPH, ORBIE, ROBIN MASON, and SEMOR & CO all of whom unveiled a variety of new works.

The show runs from the 30 January until the 27 February 2010 and is located close to Bethnal Green/Mile End tube stations.
Gallery hours: Thursday – Saturday 11-7pm or by appointment.

High Roller Society Gallery | 10 Palmers Road | London E2 0SY