10 Slinkachus

10 images from the street artist Slinkachu have made it on the walls of our house. All achieved for a modest sum.

Crimes of Passion, RWA, Bristol.

Took the family to see the Crimes of Passion show at the RWA.

Photos at www.flickr.com/jellyantler

Bristol graff on google maps

Street view on Google maps has finally arrived, and Bristol is one the few cities to have gone live yesterday. I've wasted (enjoyed) a couple of hours today touring round the city, and of course looking at the graff from the comfort of my chair. I reckon the google earth car must have trawled our streets about a year ago judging by what is on the walls and in some cases what isn't there anymore. Unfortunately places like Mivart Street and Cato Street with the old work of Banksy and Inkie in Easton weren't filmed.

I haven't spotted any loons pulling some poses or stunts on the streets but hopefully we are blessed with a few.

Here's a few choice landmarks

Sickboy temple tucked away in Bedminster.


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Banksy's Sniper on Upper Maudlin Street


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Mild Mild West


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Jago and FLX on Westmoorland House


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Sweet Toof Cyclops and Ghostboy at the top of Picton Street


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Nine Tree Hill view


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Screen One


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Moon Street Mudwig


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Nick Walker and Xenz on Wilder Street


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Eelus and Jago


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Mina Road tunnel


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Park Street Banksy


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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.

Sickboy Show, Tramshed, Shoreditch, December 7th 2008

Managed to pop along to the first solo show by Sickboy. The show was domintaed by this large shed/house he'd constructed and which you could win if you had thw lucky golden key. I've had no calls to say I've won it yet, which is probably a relief. Where would you put it??

More pics on my flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jellyantler/sets/72157610857466941/

Plimsoul/Tom Tebby

Close up of a tiny section of a larger canvas no bigger than a few cm square. Canvas by Plimsoul at the Mutate Britain show, Cordy House, Shoreditch, December 7th, 2008.

http://www.plimsoul.co.uk/

Mr. Wim

At the Mutate Britain show, Cordy House, Shoreditch, December 7th, 2008.

A good collection of Mr. Wim news on the Daily Duff blog. http://thedailyduff.blogspot.com/search/label/Mr%20Wim

Children of the Can Jam

Me and the family went down to the docks to see some of the great and the good from the last 25 years going to town with the spraycans.

More photos from the Children of the Can jam down on the docks here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jellyantler/sets/72157610513352184/

Buy this fantastic book from Tangent
http://www.tangentbooks.co.uk/

Brrrrr chilly!!! Fair play to the artists sticking out it into the afternoon as it was well bitter down there.

Southville Temple

The other day I found this beautiful Sickboy temple which I hadn't seen before, well I can't remember seeing it before. It dates from 2004 and is still in cracking, un-buffed condition.

I was to see it again later in the week, this time in the Children of the Can book where it opens the Sickboy chapter. Nice!!

More photos here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jellyantler/sets/72157610508102690/

BBC Blast videos of Mr.Jago, Faile, Matt Small, D*Face and Pure Evil

I love the way Flickr throws up new discoveries. I was flicking through and saw a new set of behind the scenes stills from the BBC interviewing Mr.Jago in his Bristol studio. One click later and I found the video. Not sure if these have been aired or if they are going to air tomorrow on BBC2 but they are certainly all available to watch now, courtesy of the Beeb. As well as Mr. Jago they have interviewed Pure Evil, D*Face and Faile, Matt Small and others.

Mr.Jago


Faile


Matt Small


D*Face

Upfest coming to the Tobacco Factory, Bristol 19th October 2008

Why it's our Queeny in a Banksy hoody

http://www.upfest.co.uk

Should be a great event and raising money for a good cause.

Bemmy temple

Loved the textures this Sickboy temple was creating in the wood. How old is this one?
More photos of this are at www.flickr.com/jellyantler

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.

St. Werburghs

Popped down the other day to St. Werburghs to have a look at Xenz's handywork on the Farm pub. He's done a beautiful job on it, a lush green countryside scene. Wanted to check out what the tunnel down there had up on its walls and I wasn't disappointed. Nice work from Cylops and Jeff Row (not heard from him for ages).
Xenz

Cyclops



Also found a beautiful little Apish Angel from Walker. Really sharp.

First Great Weston print from Let Them Hang

The great people at Let Them Hang are releasing a very special print edition to commemorate the Screen One printing house on Jamaica Steet and the dedicated work of the main print man there Paul.
The print looks excellent, a China Mike based drawing of the building covered in trademark images of work from the artists associated with LTH and Screen One. Those include: Dicy, Paris, Xenz, Sickboy, Mr. Jago, Nick Walker, Banksy, Ximl and Mau Mau. 100 of the edition have been further hand-finished by some of the artists and these went on sale last week at the Dreweatts Urban Art Auction Show in the Ultralounge at Selfridges. As blogged earlier, this is a touring show and is coming down here to Paintworks next week.
I got shown round Screen One last year when picking up a canvas. Really interestng place, very tall and narrow and covered floor to ceiling in printing paraphenalia and imagery. Bit of a treasure trove of Bristol steet art and print history really. I remember seeing Nick Walker's screens for the Moona Lisa print lying around, and some tasty Xenz APs whilst there.






Knowingly a bit late with this post but suffice to say that there are still 100 of these prints left in the edition (available from June 1st) and possibly a special 'Bristol' edition coming out for us folks here in Bristol which I might go for.

PoSh oNe canvas arrives

This arrived this week - an awesomely good canvas from Moseley-based artist PoSh oNe. This piece is called 'Guardian'. Check the girl hiding behind the clouds bottom left.

Not a Penny..

Just back from the Not a Penny show in Bristol.

A Healthy queue pre-show. Amazingly it took about 30 seconds to filter in from where I was standing here. By which time the entire queue were at the sales desk ;) Nah, not quite..but nearly!




Immense. Sweet Tooth Oi Oi



















Birthday for Cyclops?



















C215 outside



















I think SPQR must have had an incredible night. Fair to say the majority of the sales queue were for these and the print.




















Bit of Rowdy - in memory of Mary's stall that used to be a few hundred yards up the road.















Canvas from Cept



















Paris



















Paris



















Cyclops and Mau Mau



















Mau Mau Bees and Banana



















Mudwig and the masses



















Cyclops



















K-Guy



















Ullo




















Paris
















Paris



















Khanage - one to watch.














Khanage again



















The sketch from Gaia.



















Outside



















45 rpm



















Two great canvasses from Will Barras.














Some Matt Small's















Sweet!!














All in all another hit from the Steal From Work crew who have uncovered and given us another interesting and spacious venue. The highlights for me are the Sweet Tooths, they just dominate the room and grab your attention I think. The other highlight for me was the serious paintwork in the outside area and the 'finds' you can make around the venue and up the Glos Road. It's definitely worth popping in for this one.

The general scene last night.

Art under the hammer down Totterdown way

A found Rowdy in London's East End

This 'URBAN ART AUCTION' should be interesting. The first in the area since Graffle night probably. Not run by Dom this one but by the auctioneers Dreweatts.

Some heavyweight names included in this one so it should bring a massive amount of interest from around the UK and further a field to Totterdown.

Includes work from 39steps Collective: Dora, Hine, FLX and Rowdy as well as Faile, Adam Neate, Cyclops, Nick Walker, Goldie and Banksy.

At 'Paintworks', Bath Rd, Totterdown, Bristol

Thu 5th June Private view includes DJs Daddy G and Queen B.
6- 10pm
Open Daily 6 - 9th June 10 - 6pm

Spanish Graff

Seen whilst in Nerja, Andalucia last week.