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March 11, 2010

Stik on Hanbury Street

Stik has contributed some works of his to the "Skulldugerous" group show being held at the Pure Evil Gallery in aid of Bhopal Medical Appeal until 13th March. The show highlights the crimes and skullduggery of Union Carbide company in Bhopal, India. Click to enlarge. 

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March 3, 2010

Guillermo Mestre in the East End

Gerbos or Guillermo hails from Madrid. Check out his Flickr page here (Gerbosart) and his web site too. Some great stuff there. 

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March 2, 2010

Cartrain's show

At Cartrain's show last night. I didn't know about his passion for photography. His subject in the exhibition photos is an abandoned hospital wing, and everyone I spoke to was very impressed by the images. 

The other exhibit pieces were collages - some very striking ones. There was humour too in the form of Damien Hirst's pencils priced at £500,000. The hospitality was beyond the call of duty. However Cartrain must have been a bit disappointed by the turnout as he later observed in a Facebook status message. The show is on until 7th March at the Maverick Gallery. 

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February 28, 2010

Grimmy

Dale Grimshaw in Brick Lane expressing disenchantment with New Labour? Click the photo to enlarge. 

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February 27, 2010

Cartrain's Magic Trees

We met up with Cartrain the other day ahead of his solo exhibition next week  at the Maverick Showroom. He was doing some pasteups ( see below).   This was the first time I had met Cartrain. Cartrain came across as a decent, polite lad with a quiet confidence. That is probably not how Damien Hirst saw things when he found out that someone was poking fun at his Love of God Diamond skull ...or what Cartrain calls "the hideous monstrosity." If you remember the teenage iconoclast, then not even 18,  caricatured the prime symbol of commercialised art ie Old Damien and his skull, in a series of collages.   If you need to remind yourself this is what happened and check the links in that article. The saga prompted other artists to act in solidarity with Cartrain. 

Cartrain's solo show also includes some collaborative work with Gravey. And he is another interesting "young person" with an equal measure of social consciousness about him. The Magic Trees exhibition will run between 2nd-7th March at the Maverick Gallery, 68-72 Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, LONDON E2 7DP. 

 

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February 25, 2010

Banksy cinema venue

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Yes this is Leake Street, Waterloo. Loved the humour in the film, the
elements of self-parody and also the anti-commercial message.  And to say again - all
done with humour. Here are a few shots of the installations and the
venue. Contrary to reports it was nice and toasty inside and the
rumble of the trains overhead was quite soothing...

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February 18, 2010

Sinboy paints Melty Man

Here is Sinboy's trademark. 

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February 9, 2010

Vhils in Brick Lane

This is a work from last year by Alexandre Farto ( aka Vhils).

Why could no one find him a taller building in Shoreditch to create one of his masterpieces? Check this one in Moscow. 

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January 31, 2010

Stik on the floor

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January 30, 2010

"Graffiti is Vandalism" - Grimbsy Street buffing begins 1 February

Grimbsy Street, off Brick Lane, is closed for car parking in preparation for Tower Hamlet Council's clean up operations of the graffiti on that street (1-3 February).  So here are a few snaps to remind you what the place looked like. Click the pics to enlarge. There's a lovely piece of work by Stik on a building. Presumably that will survive given that it is on private property. You can see it in an earlier post here.

Here is a part of the council's statement on Graffiti - a touch authoritarian and uninformed even. 

Graffiti is vandalism – pure and simple and its real impacts on a community are considerable. Graffiti across London cost £100 million to remove in 2002. The current cost of removal to Tower Hamlets is upwards of £400,000 per year. Graffiti can reduce property values and depress economic development. It may even be used to disguise directions to the locations of drug sellers. Graffiti is a blight on our community and can lead to the “run down” feel to an area and to an increased fear of crime. Graffiti vandals commit criminal damage on all sorts of surfaces and at many locations. Graffiti vandalism is done by marker pen, aerosol paint, mechanical or acid etching. Sales of aerosol paints to under 16s are illegal. Graffiti vandals can be and will be prosecuted wherever possible.

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