POW Open Day Sunday December 7th

Managed to get to the POW open day on the quieter day of the two that it was on. Had a great time chilling out and seeing inside the POW offices. Lots of arty tempations and saw pieces that you could only dream of owning, including an original Banksy canvas of Thomas the Tank Engine getting tagged whilst he sleeps.

Part of the event saw a lottery to win a Banksy print, or given the opportunity to purchase the new one called Very Little Helps. The pic above are my stash of 20 tickets prior to filling them in. Hob and Ace were with me and went for the lottery too. They *both* got lucky and had their names picked out of the hat for the chance to purchase the Banksy print. I, unfortunately, did not. Still, I'd made a £20 donation to Sightsavers, someone's eye sight restored, and had a great time up there.

Ben Eine

New show from Ben and a new screenprint. A kind of monoprint looking affair of his trademark alphabet. He's currently in Denver showing at the Andenken gallery for which this is the show screenprint.

Some beautiful glittery canvass on offer along with other variations on his letter style. One of the best street artists on the block and at the peak of his work right now.

Check out more details from the show at http://www.andenken.com/ and on the Andenken blog http://beautyandthestreet.org/

Might have just scored one of the prints too. Fingers crossed.

Dreweatts Urban Art Auction Paintworks Totterdown

The family popped down the hill to see the Urban Art Auction preview show (blogged about here earlier) which landed in Totterdown this week.
What can I say.... FABULOUS!

No photography allowed unfortunately so I will just have to put up with the catalogue and my memories for this one. The show is such a good representation of the 'scene' as it stands right now. You've got your big players (Banksy, Neate, Faile and Walker) mixing it with some of the stalwarts of the Bristol scene (Inkie - my partner's favourite, Rowdy, Dicy, Motorboy) and also those artists who we may not hear much about in 6-12 months time such is the up and down nature of the 'urban art'(horrible horrible term) market.
I had some heart in mouth moments as my eldest (only 5) ran through the gallery waving and throwing his balloon about. The staff looked on anxiously and we beat a hasty retreat into the outside courtyard which still shows some leftover traces of Thursday's opening party. In fact the decks and PA at one end of the gallery were still switched on and ready to crank up again. I wish I could have cracked on a disc and broken the tranquilness of this morning's viewing. It was all.... shhh ... a bit... hush...quiet.
Click this pic and you'll see Paris and Mudwig's work on the other side of the river.

You can just about make out a Jack and Jill and Grin Reaper on display in this shot.

All I can say is if you are anywhere near Bristol you should get down to see this before the show moves onto the actual auction itself in London. It's here until Monday night and is open 10-6, 10-4 Monday.

Eine

A lovely new piece from Eine arrived last week. 70x70 black gloss screenprint on giclee. Very pleased with it.
Vandal his current Show now runs until September 15th at Kemistry Gallery, 43 Charlotte Road, Shoreditch, London, EC2.