London print house, Pictures On Walls recently announced via their website that they have 'been taken over by venture anti-capitalists and will cease trading from 31st December 2017". Pictures on Walls are having a closing down sale with much of their remaining stock being sold off. Over the duration of their closing down sale they will be releasing remaindered print editions, previously unreleased screen prints and big discounts on remaining stock.
The early hours of Sunday morning, 17th September saw the walls of London graced with not one but two new works from the elusive British street artist Banksy. The stencil artist shared the two pieces on his official verified Banksy instagram account at 2pm this afternoon announcing the new works and hinting at their location near to the Barbican in central London.
Yep, you read the headline right, UK street artist Banksy (Previously on Hookedblog) is giving away the above-pictured print absolutely free. Following his recent Dover stencil work, the elusive artist has just updated his Banksy Instagram account as well as the Banksy website with news of this new UK Election Souvenir Print - an update of his much loved "Girl With Ballon' work which now features the girl with a Union Jack Flag helium balloon.
A one time regular on the streets of East London it's been some time since we've seen some street work from London based street artist The Krah. The last few months has seen the artist focus on studio work and other projects including a number of exhibitions he has curated in his West London space.
Last week saw his welcome return to the streets of London hitting up the Shoreditch neighbourhood with a black and white series of large scale pasteups, some featuring new imagery and others drawing from the artists archive one of which is included in this post.
The Krah's Weird World pasteups in Shoreditch, London.
#StreetArtPorn Stencils —
Alongside the new pasteup work, The Krah has also been working on a new series of stencil pieces which have started to appear in West London and soon we are told over here in the East. The street artists new #FuckStreetart stencil works pictured below might possibly be considered a little NSFW for some. The stencil pieces feature some of most recognisable street art symbols or Street Logos as Tristan Manco referred to them in his 2004 book of the same name.
These iconic street logos have been incorporated into various explicit scenes in which he has replaced the human figures heads with the logos of some of the leading street artist from across the globe. Street artists which feature in The Krah's stencils include Banksy, Invader, Obey, Faile, Eine, Os Gemeos and D*Face to name a few. Check out the images below to see what other artists are featured in this new stencil series.
Os Gemeos, Barry McGee, D*Face, KAWS, Banksy, Eine, Sickboy, Invader, The London Police, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Pure Evil, Miss Van and Kaws with a Banksy paparazzi rat lurking in the background. Eine and Invader too.Faile and Obey with Banksy, Invader and Pure Evil
D*Face, Banksy, Obey, Os Gemeos, Invader and Keith Haring.
The internet was abuzz late Sunday afternoon with talk of a possible new stencil artwork from British artist Banksy. A number of various cropped images of the new work began to surface on Instagram following the story of the new Banksy piece breaking on the Guardian website shortly after 6pm Sunday 24th. Further confirmation of the piece's authenticity soon followed in the form or an image of the work appearing on the Instagram account of Banksy's publicist, Jo Brooks.
The last two years have seen us here at Hookedblog compile a collection of beautifully shot street art films and time lapses videos that we have featured / shared on the blog or on our social channels through out those year.
As we are well into 2016 and most people are done with their Top 10 lists of this and that for 2015, we thought now was a good time to finally share our selection of videos that caught our attention or those that we enjoyed watching in this our Hookedblog's Best of 2015 — Street Art Videos post. Check out the selection of videos below and if you think we have missed anything feel free to share your links in the comments section at the bottom of the post.
French duo ELLA AND PITR kicked off the year with this video PAR TERRE. featuring a collection of their drawing made between 2013 and 2015 in Chile, Portugal, Canada and France all seen from the sky.
Banksy invited everyone to make 2015 “the year YOU discover a new destination”
Vhils : Incision - The street artist's ode to Brazil's forgotten community, the Guaraní.
Paris based street artist Gregos collaborated with St.Germain to produce the cover artwork for the bands long awaited album Real Blues, their first in 15 years. He also starred in the bands music video for the first single also titled Real Blues.
PERSONNE - is a film made by artist Alex Void while he was in Montreal, Canada for the 2015 Mural festival. Please note this film is 40min.
Fifth Wall TV caught up with South American artists Elian Chali and Alexis Diaz who visited London for the group show "Entre Muros" at the MYA gallery. Both artist collaborated on this mural on Hanbury Street, London, UK.
We have been fans of British artist Adam Neate’s work for many years. In this film 'Adam Neate in Beijing 亞當·尼特在北京 ' shot early one morning during a trip he took to Beijing, China, the artist joined street calligraphers in Beihai Park, to practise the art of DiShu : water calligraphy, creating ephemeral works of art which disappear as the water evaporates.
Bristol based artist 45rpm was the focus of this Selina Miles directed film focusing our 45rpm’s illustration work.
Another quick video by Selina Miles, on this occasion shot while on holidays in French Polynesia and featuring the artist Sofles.
This Recap video of September’s The Unexpected first edition, organized by 64.6 Downtown and curated by our friends at JUSTKIDS took place in Downtown Fort Smith, Arkansas. The project saw completed murals from world recognized artists including Vhils, D*Face, Roa, Maser, Ana Maria, Bicicleta Sem Freio and Askew.
September saw the sphere, called "Earth Crisis" suspended between the 1st and the 2nd floor of the Eiffel tower in Paris. A project designed and implemented by Paris based Itinerrance Gallery in collaboration with the artist Shepard Fairey, known for OBEY.
Australian video director Selina Miles' third film in our Best of list, she created this fantastic Portrait of an Artist film staring Felipe Pantone, a contemporary slash kinetic slash graffiti artist living in Valencia, Spain.
ElTono continue to push the boundaries with this Canvas experiment video "6 Lienzos" (6 Canvases) created to coincide with his solo show "Aléas" at Delimbo Gallery, October 2015, Sevilla, Spain.
"WildClaw" ! made in Avignon featuring artist : GoddoG.
Vermibus - Unveiling Beauty
In September 2015, Vermibus followed the route of the most influential Fashion Weeks, travelling to New York, London, Milan and Paris for his Unveiling Beauty project. Unveiling Beauty, as the name suggests, reveals the beauty that lies hidden behind the make-up and the retouching that are used within the fashion industry and also as it publicly stages itself through advertising.
Brandalism 2015 - COP21 Paris Climate Talks
Two days before the launch of the UN COP21 Climate Conference, 600 posters were installed in outdoor media spaces across Paris. 82 Artists from 19 different countries made artworks to challenge the corporate takeover of COP21 and to reveal the connections between advertising, the promotion of consumerism and climate change.
Our Stavanger fiends at Nuart celebrated the 15th anniversary of the festival this year, if you missed it check out this film which gives you an idea of what went down.
So there you have it our Street Art Video selection from 2015, if there is anything you think we have missed or if you our readers have some favourites we would love to see them. Feel free to let us know what they are in the comments section bellow and we will add it to the blogpost. And if you missed our selection of shorts from 2013 and 2014 and you want to watch even more Street Art Videos you can still enjoy our Hookedblog 2013 collection here and the 2014 collection here.
Hookedblog stopped into central London late last week to visit the Public Execution exhibition at the Lights of Soho gallery in Brewer Street, Soho. Hosted by Pictures On Walls and featuring the work of Toulouse's master draftsman Dran, Public Execution sees the artist return to London five years after his last solo show in which he took over a floor of the Banksy ‘Marks and Stencils’ exhibition in Soho.
A last minute announcement of the show on the Pictures On Walls (POW) website still saw huge crowds turn up on the opening night for what POW promised "to be a 'live' masterclass in 'spontaneous creativity' happening in 'real time'. Fans of the artist queued on the opening night only to be presented with gallery walls filled with empty spray painted frames.
Over the three weeks period the show will run for, Dran will be creating his art show from scratch, using the space as a studio and creating new artworks each day in full public view. Upon completion of all the work the exhibition will close immediately on the 21st February.
On our visit the space was starting to take show with a number of artworks beginning to appear on the walls. If you find yourself in the Soho area be sure to stop by into the space and see Dran at work, you are almost certain to see something new. Below are a selection from our trip, check back with us some for updates are the show progresses and be sure to mark the 21st February in your calander and see the finished show.
Dran: Public Execution Exhibition runs at the space until 21st February 2015. Open Tuesday to Saturday 11am — 7pm, the public are invited to visit at any time, but may not always be welcome!
Location — 35 Brewer Street, Soho, London W1 (map)
We would like to wish all our readers a very Happy New Year. We thought we would kick start 2013 by looking back over the last year at some of the work we have featured on Hookedblog. A year in images is our collection of street art taken throughout 2012 by our photographer Mark Rigney. He has selected over 90 of his favourite photographs which we have put together in the video featured.
We hope you our readers enjoy the selection and we look forward to another year together.
Artists featured includes: Stinkfish, Pez & Dibo, Shepard Fairey, Agents Of Change { Remi/Rough, Steve More, LX.One and Augustine Kofie}, Rone, Broken Fingaz Crew, Dale Grimshaw, Aida, Mr. Phomer & Unga, Otto Schade, Vermibus, Banksy, Mobstr, Malarky & Lucas & Bromley, Stinkfish, Drab, Numskull, Banksy, Mr. Penfold & Numskull, Mysterious Al, Cost, Cranio, Masai, Run, Dscreet, Aida & Shubby, Bortusk Leer, Shok-1, Milo Tchais & Chivitz, Malarky & Lucas, Pablo Delgado, Anthony Lister, Hush, mjar, Kan, Hunto, Cranio, Remi Rough & Shok-1, Vhils, Ron English, Anthony Lister, Trusto Corp, Saner, Mr. Brainwash, Dr. D, Reka One, Nychos, Ronzo, Cept, Flip, Lush & Nathan Bowen, Run, A.ce, Mr.Waney, Mart & Roma , Kid Acne, Jimmy C, Malarky, Roma & Poeta, C215, Paul Insect, Malarky & Billy, Sweet Toof & Mr. Penfold & Numskull, Shok-1, Mr.Him, Nether, Narcelio Grud, Malarky, Roid, Remi Rough & Shok-1, Gaia, Vinnie Nylon & Sweet Toof, PEZ, Dan Witz, Ronzo, Broken Fingaz Crew, Shepard Fairey, Paul Insect, Banksy, Jana & JS
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The book presents a collection of photographs from JAKE's personal archives with a little help from us here at Hookedblog. Having originally had his studio on Rivington Street in London way back when, JAKE found himself right in the middle of it all back when this part of London was completely bombed with street art and graffiti. Having now moved outta the area, JAKE asked us earlier in the year to contribute some of our photos to help him fill the gaps in the book. We were more than happy to help as his selection of artists include many whose work we admire here at Hookedblog.
This mammoth book is over 440 pages of full colour with 70 plus artists featured including some of the following Nuria Mora, Micrbo, Bo130, Eltono, Kid Acne, Dscreet, Ronzo, Faile, Swoon, Remi Rough, Conor Harrington, D*Face, Eine and Banksy.
The publication retails at £10.99 but you can find it here on Amazonfor just £7.69.
Earlier today saw the addition of some huge new street art paste ups from Thierry Guetta aka Mr Brainwash in Central London featuring the image of supermodel Kate Moss. The huge image has been pasted onto the exterior of the Old Sorting Office in Holburn next to Jubilee paste-up's featuring the Queen which we covered last month here.
We had heard rumors of a large scale show and it has now been confirmed that Mr Brainwash's first large scale European solo exhibition will open in London on the 5th August 2012. The exhibition will see the artist take over the colossal space of the Old Sorting Office both inside and as we have already seen outside as well. With such a vast space it will be interesting to see how the artist fills the building. More info on the show when we have it!
The Sorting Office - 21-31 New Oxford Street - London WC1
Show opens 5th August 2012
UPDATE: Here is a photography of the second large scale image Mr.Brainwash has installed next to the Kate Moss piece.
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It's been just over a month since Banksy caused a stir with a new Diamond Jubilee inspired piece of street art in Turnpike Lane, North London. Now just a stone's throw from the Banksy piece another street art giant has hit the streets of Turnpike Lane. Friday saw Shephard Fairey aka OBEY in North London installing a new mural just next to the Turnpike Lane Underground station.
According to the Guardian the mural was a commisioned piece installed without charge and organised by local resident James Straffon with the help of a London Gallery. The "Envision Peace' mural pictured, is above a local corner shop and sees Fairey make use of an old disused Victorian placard.
The mural is part of a larger community regeneration programme that is being carried out by the local Haringey council and is the second such project Fairey has worked in the last week. Before his stop in London, Fairey was in Paris working on another local community regeneration project but on much larger scale. Our London friend and photographer Butterfly was in Paris and captured the action.The work located on 93 rue Jeanne d’Arc was painted onto a 14 storey building, check the timelapse below of the Paris piece.
For those of you interested is seeing/photographing the Shepard Fairey London mural it is located on Langham Road next to the Turnpike Lane Underground Station. And if you haven't already seen it be sure and check this North London Banksy stencil just across the road.
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Thousands of people are expected to watch the 1,000 strong flotillas along the Thames in London today as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations, marking 60 years of her reign.
The web has been abuzz all afternoon with chatter of a new Banksy street art piece in North London. According to locals this street art stencil piece appeared some time in early hours this morning on the side wall of the Poundland discount shop on Whymark Avenue in Turnpike Lane, London. This piece has not officially been confirmed as a Banksy piece, but with the Queen's upcoming Diamond Jubilee, the location of this piece and the style and cut of the stencil it is highly likely that it's the work of Banksy. Here are a selection of photos Hookedblog captured this evening.
Continuing with our London Street Art series here is a new selection of East London art captured by us here at Hookedblog over the last week. The above Banksy 'Neighborhood Watch' sticker was spotted the other day and as this one is all scratched up we just figured it was an old sticker that had been covered/boarded over but we have since started to see a whole bunch of these appear around Shoreditch again. Imagine they won't last long, what with people now removing/collecting street art stickers as well!!
New street work from Dale Grimshaw who currently has an exhibition running at The Signal Gallery on Paul Street. We suggest ye also check out this short video clip which was released in the run up to his show and featuring the artist at work in his studio.
New shutter from Cambridge based artist Mr. Penfold
D*Face — Brick Lane
Saki and B
We posted some of Ronzo's new concrete street sculptures last week on the blog here, above is another addition to Brick Lane from the artist.
If you still want more streetart, have a look at some of our previous post:
London print house, Pictures On Walls recently announced via their website that they have 'been taken over by venture anti-capitalists and will cease trading from 31st December 2017". Pictures on Walls are having a closing down sale with much of their remaining stock being sold off. Over the duration of their closing down sale they will be releasing remaindered print editions, previously unreleased screen prints and big discounts on remaining stock.
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