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Empty Shops Network - Artists and Makers

2010-02-27T17:02:00.001-08:00

About the Empty Shops Network:

"An ingenious way of bringing art to the people" Alan Yentob

"Helping local individuals and groups to work with councils in converting less glamorous spaces to good use" The Times

Welcome to a network of people using empty shops and void spaces across the UK to create temporary pop-up shops, community spaces and arts galleries which support local business by bringing people back to town centres.

In February 2009, it's estimated that about 10% of the UKs shops are sitting empty and the figure is rising to one in six shops by the end of the year, with over 1000 high street businesses closing every week. Landlords letting artists, arts organisations and community groups use their empty spaces see the property looking great and kept in good order, and their business getting some great publicity.

Existing local traders benefit from a revived town centre, with more visitors and a brighter environment.

The users benefit from low-cost space on short and easy-to-manage leases, meaning they can take a bigger risk on bolder, more innovative and experimental projects. And the chance to get a good business kick-started.

Meaning local communities benefit from a better high street. And seeing their town being brought back to life will visit, spend locally and maybe stop other businesses from closing too.

Posted via email from Rob Hilken

Marketing tips for artists

2010-02-27T15:24:00.001-08:00

Some marketing tips for artists that I have been given...

Find a gallery that you would like to represent you and start building a relationship with them as soon as possible. Don't go in expecting to get representation straight away as this will likely be futile. Instead keep visiting the gallery in a friendly way, start by asking advice and asking about their artists. Get to know the owners and when the time feels right ask them to look at your work. Building a relationship will take time, but the gallery is so important as they will be responsible for marketing your work and the better they know you, the more likely they will be inclined to show your work.

Start writing about your work on a blog. You can write on a blog hosted on a network such as http://www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking or by writing on something like blogger (or even better - do both!)

Join a collective of artists to get into group shows. At the start of your career it will be hard to get a solo show and even if you do, it will be hard to get it taken seriously. Apart from getting shows under your belt for your CV it is also important to get your show reviewed in the press and it will be easier to get a group show reviewed if you are an emerging artist.

If you do get into a show or have a solo show, promote it as much as you can. Send out press releases to local newspapers and art magazines like http://www.recirca.com/ and be persistent. Make your presentation stand out. Journalists and magazines will usually bin most requests for reviews and coverage if they don't recognise your name so it may even take a couple of years for something to happen, but if you keep trying it will happen eventually.

Set up a portfolio website which shows your work and CV. Announce updates to your portfolio on your blog and on twitter and make these updates regular. This will help curators who are scouting for talent to know that you are active and serious about your work.

Blogging

http://www.posterous.com - this will also send automatic updates to facebook, twitter, blogger etc

Marketing for artists

Websites to show or sell work

Posted via email from Rob Hilken

Sketches of Belfast

2010-02-27T11:51:00.001-08:00

Two recent large abstract sketches of Belfast. Collage, ink and
acrylic on paper.

See and download the full gallery on posterous

Posted via email from Rob Hilken

Banksy Show - Banksy V Bristol - 2009 - a set on Flickr

2009-06-15T06:03:00.000-07:00

Banksy Show - Banksy V Bristol - 2009 - a set on Flickr

Carles Gomila

2009-06-15T04:45:00.000-07:00

The work by Carles Gomila is extraordinary. His style is both cutting edge and timeless and of course utterly beautiful.

Make-up Goddess by *CARLVS on deviant ART

Walrus TV Artist Feature: Swoon Interview from "The Run Up"

2009-06-12T09:10:00.001-07:00

Superflat First Love by Takashi Murakami for Louis Vuitton

2009-06-12T09:08:00.001-07:00

Full short film celebrating six years of collaboration between Murakami and Vuitton.

New Greg Gossel Show

2009-06-12T05:29:00.000-07:00

Shooting Gallery SF

The Shooting Gallery presents "Happy Endings", featuring new works by Greg Gossel.

The opening reception is Saturday, June 13th 7-11pm. at the Shooting Gallery, San Francisco.

Banksy new show Bristol City Museum Art Gallery

2009-06-12T04:53:00.000-07:00

Banksy new show Bristol City Museum Art Gallery

Details emerge a day earlier than expected for Banksy's new show in Bristol "Banksy vs Bristol Museum"

Admission is free!

Speaking exclusively to the Bristol Evening Post, Banksy said: "The people of Bristol have always been very good to me – I decided the best way to show my appreciation was by putting a bunch of old toilets and some live chicken nuggets in their museum.

"I could have taken the show to a lot of places, but they do a very nice cup of tea in the museum."

You can also now see a BBC news video about the exhibition at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8094839.stm

and another one at http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8097000/8097006.stm

Graffiti Gains New Respect - NYTimes.com

2009-06-12T03:36:00.000-07:00

Special Report - Contemporary Art - Graffiti Gains New Respect - NYTimes.com

In March and April, a show of graffiti tags in the south-west gallery of the Grand Palais, one of the top Paris exhibition venues, was a media and public sensation.

“The lines around the building every day were even longer than those for the Warhol exhibition next door,” said Alain-Dominique Gallizia, a French architect who created the show, during an interview.

On 300 identical rectangular canvases, Mr. Gallizia commissioned matched pairs of paintings from leading street artists worldwide, to create a panorama of graffiti’s historical and geographical development from 1970s New York subway roots to modern urban landscapes as far-flung as Australia and Brazil.

Banksy is Dead!

2009-06-11T10:22:00.000-07:00

Continuity Banksy Statement

BANKSY IS DEAD!

THIS IS THE "CONTINUITY BANKSY" IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE "REAL BANKSY"

BANKSY MAY BE DEAD BUT CONSUMER ART TERRORISM IS ALIVE AND KICKIN' RIGHT HERE

WHY?
IT HAS COME TO OUR ATTENTION THAT "NOT BANKSY" HAS TURNED INTO SOME KIND OF FUCKING SAINT INTENT ON GIVING SHIT AWAY AND RAISING MONEY FOR CHARITY. IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE US CHECK OUT WWW.NOTBANKSY.CO.UK.

THE OCCUPATION OF SUCH HIGH MORAL GROUND IS INTOLERABLE TO THOSE OF US INTENT ON PERSUING THE TRUE NATURE OF GUERILLA ART. WHICH IS AFTER ALL.... SUBVERSION FOR PROFIT AND PROFIT OVER PRINCIPLE!

GIVEN THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL MIRE WE CURRENTLY FIND OURSELVES IN, DIRECT ACTION IS OUR ONLY RECOURSE.

SO.... IN MEMORY OF OUR RECENTLY DECEASED DEAR LEADER, WE PRESENT TO YOU ONE WORK OF ART TO BUY.

ALL PROFITS WILL GO TO A MORE WICKED WORLD.

KEEP IT REAL!

You can buy the latest 'The Real Banksy' print at http://thievingtalentlesscunts.com/acatalog/WHO_KILLED_BANKSY.html for the bargain price of £65

National Art Hate Week 13th - 20th July

2009-06-11T10:17:00.000-07:00

National Art Hate Week

http://www.arthate.com is now up and running. There are already some great WOMEN'S ART HATE posters up there and over the next few weeks there will be a proliferation of propaganda appearing on the site. This will culminate in as large a fly poster, billboard and promotional campaign as we can afford. We'll also be calling on Volunteer Heroes of the British Art Resistance to hand out leaflets and lead campaigns.

Banksy

2009-06-10T09:37:00.000-07:00

Banksy Summer show 13th June

There are no more details yet, but keep an eye out for more on www.banksy.co.uk on Saturday.

New Obey 'Soup Can' editions

2009-06-09T16:52:00.000-07:00

ICONOCLAST USA

The first of 3 new colour ways is released today and priced at $500:

Soup Can II, 2009
Hand printed silkscreen and pencil on manila acid free archival paper
20 x 16 inches
Edition of 200
Numbered and signed by the artist

There seems to be a mistake on the site though as they list the original colour-way as being originally sold at $2,500, when it was actually also $500

More than a dozen charges dropped in Shepard Fairey case

2009-06-03T07:18:00.000-07:00

More than a dozen charges dropped in Shepard Fairey case

Prosecutors announced today that they had dropped 14 vandalism charges against Shepard Fairey, the 39-year-old artist best known for creating the "Hope" poster associated with Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

Fairey, a Los Angeles artist whose work is on display at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, was arrested and charged with vandalism on Feb. 6. The charges dropped stemmed from a series of stickers Fairey allegedly placed on signposts and other public property in Roxbury, according to Suffolk district attorney's spokesman Jake Wark.

Jeffrey Wiesner, who represents Fairey, said 13 charges, not 14, had been dismissed and that his client was still fighting 15 more. Wiesner had argued that the evidence against Fairey included commercially available stickers featuring images of his work which could have been posted by anybody.

Damien Hirst, err, sues a 16yr old London stencil artist..?

2008-12-06T13:41:00.000-08:00

From this week's Popbitch: "In September Hirst made 95.7m pounds from auctioning his wares. The money Cartrain made that Hirst is demanding? 200 quid".

Bonhams Urban Art Sale October 2008 Results

2008-10-25T10:10:00.000-07:00

1 Blek Le Rat (French, born 1952) 'His Master's Voiceless', 2007 £5,280
2 Peter Anderson (British, born 1954) 'Sound System 2', 1983 £1,200
4 Eelus (American, born 1979) 'Attack of the 50 Ft Tw*t', 2007 £2,640
5 Seen (American, born 1961) Untitled (from the Mass Transit Series), 2005 £2,040
9 Shepard Fairey (American, born 1970) 'OG Andre', 2008 £7,800
10 Shepard Fairey (American, born 1970) 'OBEY AK-47', 2006 £15,600
11 Faile (American, Canadian, Japanese) 'Forbidden Love', 2006 £7,200
14 Peter Anderson (British, born 1954) 'Run DMC', 1987 £1,200
15 Peter Anderson (British, born 1954) 'New Orleans Cruisers', 1980 £1,800
17 Faile (American, Canadian, Japanese) 'Faile Box London # 38', 2007 £12,000
20 José Parlá (American, born 1973) 'Pirate Alphabet 3', 2006 £1,080
21 José Parlá (American, born 1973) 'Memory Document', 2005 £1,080
22 José Parlá (American, born 1973) 'Ease 13', 2007 £7,200
23 Matt Small (British, born 1975) 'Ahmed', 2006 £5,040
24 Guy Denning (British, born 1965) 'Fucked Up Celebrity Portrait #1', 2008 £4,080
25 D*Face (British) 'Fuck Pop Art', 2004 £6,000
26 D*Face (British) 'Pop Tart', 2007 £18,600
27 D*Face (British) 'Cli-Che', 2007 £3,840
28 D*Face (British) 'Green Lady', 2007 £720
29 Nick Walker (British, born 1969) 'Vandal Airways', 2008 £2,400
31 Paul Insect (British, born 1971) 'Jimi Hendrix' from the 'Dead Rebel Series', 2006 £7,200
33 Borf, (American) 'This Means War', 2007 £3,480
35 Banksy (British, born 1975) 'Bomb Hugger', 2004 £4,800
36 Blek Le Rat (French, born 1952) 'Man Who Walks Through Walls With a Sheep', 2007 £12,000
38 Paul Insect (British, born 1971) 'Bush Clown Pink', 2007 £840
39 Banksy (British, born 1975) 'Napalm', 2003 £4,800
40 Banksy (British, born 1975) 'Jack and Jill', 2005 £4,200
43 Dan Baldwin (British, born 1972) 'Red Skulls', 2007 £660
44 Cept (British, born 1972) 'Villainry', 2008 £2,040
48 Banksy (British, born 1975) 'Turf War', 2003 £5,760
49 Banksy (British, born 1975) 'Tesco Value Tomato Soup', 2004 £117,600
50 Guy Denning (British, born 1965) 'There's a Redneck Living in the White House', 2007 £1,200
51 David Choe (American, born 1976) 'City Girl', 2007 £1,080
52 Eine (British, born 1970) 'Carebear With Chuckers Pink', 2007 £1,560
54 Banksy (British, born 1975) 'Flying Copper', 2004 £4,800
55 Banksy (British, born 1975) 'Grin Reaper', 2005 £4,200
56 Word to Mother (British) 'Can't Stop, Won't Stop', 2008 £4,200
57 Ian Francis (British, born 1979) 'Two People Suddenly Find Themselves Outside On the Hardest Day of the Year So Far, 2007 £10,200
61 Keith Haring (American, 1958-1990) 'Barking Dogs', 1982 £3,120
62 Keith Haring (American, 1958-1990) Untitled from Three Lithographs (Littmann p.40), 1985 £2,400
63 Invader (born 1969) 'Retinien', 2007 £2,640
64 KAWS (American, born 1974) 'Kate Moss, White Gloves', 2001 £3,360
66 Jef Aerosol (French, born 1960) 'You Must Come Over (Ian Curtis)', 2008 £2,640
67 Andrew McAttee (British, born 1972) 'Glow Worm', 2001 £4,800
68 Banksy (British, born 1975) 'Soup Cans', 2006 £4,320
69 Banksy (British, born 1975) 'Christ With Shopping Bags', 2004 £9,600
70 Beejoir (British, born 1979) 'LV Child', 2007 £1,560
71 Elbow Toe (American, born 1972) 'Some Assembly Required', 2007 £960
73 Herakut (German) 'Favourite Doll', 2008 £3,840
74 D*Face (British) 'Dollar', 2007 £960
75 Shepard Fairey (American, born 1970) 'War By Numbers', 2007 £1,560
76 Hush (British, born 1973) 'Tits and Terror- Sound of the Streets', 2007 £2,040
77 Faile (American, Canadian, Japanese) 'Butterfly Girl in Orange', 2003 £3,600
83 Asha Zero (South African, born 1975) 'Assorted Bystander (Two)', 2008 £2,880
84 Adam Neate (British, born 1977) 'Dark Heart' £2,400
85 Adam Neate (British, born 1977) Untitled £3,360
87 Nick Walker (British, born 1969) 'V is for Vandal', 2008 £11,400
89 Banksy (British, born 1975) 'Morons (Sepia)', 2007 £3,120
90 Banksy (British, born 1975) 'Di Faced Tenners', 2004 £9,600
95 Antony Micallef (British, born 1975) 'Dirty Deluxe', 2005 £2,400
96 Antony Micallef (British, born 1975) 'Girl with Balloons', 2005 £21,600
98 Nick Walker (British, born 1969) 'Pantytones', 2002 £11,400
99 Nick Walker (British, born 1969) 'Polychromatic Man', 2007 £7,200
100 Nick Walker (British, born 1969) 'The Morning After (London Version)', 2007 £33,600
103 Banksy (British, born 1975) 'Kate Moss', 2005 £66,000
106 Banksy (British, born 1975) 'Turf War', 2003 £60,000
108 Banksy (British, born 1975) 'Laugh Now', 2002 £108,000
109 Sir Paul McCartney (British, born 1942), for Surfers Against Sewage, Untitled organic acrylics on £960
111 David Carson (American, born 1952), for Surfers Against Sewage, 'Keep Paddling' unique print on glassed and polished surfboard, £1,320
112 Beejoir (British, born 1979), for Surfers Against Sewage, 'Blood For Oil' dollar bills, stencil spray paint and acrylic on glassed and polished surfboard, £2,160
113 Kevans Annie (French), for Surfers Against Sewage, 'Hollywood Mermaid' unique print on glassed and polished surfboard, £1,200
114 Kurt Jackson (British, born 1961), for Surfers Against Sewage, 'Mermaids Salad' acrylic on glassed and polished surfboard, £2,160
115 Eine (British, born 1970), for Surfers Against Sewage, 'The Toxic Monster' stencil spray paint and acrylic on glassed and polished surfboard, £1,440
116 Pure Evil (British, born 1968), for Surfers Against Sewage, Untitled stencil spraypaint and overlaid c-type print on glassed and polished surfboard, double-sided image, £1,140
117 Mau Mau, for Surfers Against Sewage, 'We Found Nemo spray paint on glassed and polished surfboard, double-sided image, £4,800
118 Polly Morgan (British, born 1980), for Surfers Against Sewage, 'Half Skull' unique print on glassed and polished surfboard, £4,800
119 Gavin Turk (British, 1967), for Surfers Against Sewage, 'Warholian Dancing Diagram' spra £3,120
120 Jonathan Yeo (British, born 1970), for Surfers Against Sewage, 'Porn Fish' acrylic and collage on glassed and polished surfboard, double-sided image £3,960
121 Tracey Emin (British, born 1963), for Surfers Against Sewage, 'Love Turtle' print on glassed and polished surfboard, £3,600
122 Nick Walker (British, born 1969), for Surfers Against Sewage, Untitled stencil spray paint and acrylic on glassed and polished surfboard, double-sided image, £4,560

Emerging Artist: Nicolas Tcherno-Ivanenko

2008-10-24T08:39:00.000-07:00

Nicolas Tcherno-Ivanenko AKA Naiko is a talented oil painter from France. He describes himself as a figurative painter with abstract processes.

You can also find his deviantART profile here.

Daft Punk turn into plastic bears

2008-10-24T03:09:00.000-07:00

Japanese toy makers Medicom are producing plastic-bear versions of the stage costumes of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo from Daft Punk:

Could they be based on these??

DC Gecko interview

2008-10-21T05:42:00.000-07:00

Head on over to the ekosystem blog for a great interview with DC Gecko interview - a master of manipulation :)

Can you give us a brief rundown of your life up until today? When, where, did you start to work in the streets?

My name is DC Gecko, Docteur Gecko. I was born in “La Réunion”, a french island located in the Indian Ocean. I hijack, hack, remessage advertising that you find in bus shelters. The particularity of my work is that my modifications can only be seen during the night. However, during day time the ad modified seems to be untouched.
Like a lot of us, I started first with graffiti (Toulouse, south of France), nothing really important though. I missed the gold age when it was still “possible” to paint downtown (La trueschool, Miss Van, Weky, Rezo were my favorites). Unfortunately, council from my town adopted a anti-graffiti law. Only a few months were needed to make our graffiti history disappeared. So we got a clean city, and they wanted to let it stays like this, that is: a tag at best stayed 2/3 days. they did a good job (and still does).

Meggs - Own Worst Enemy

2008-10-21T03:51:00.000-07:00

Head to this great Flickr photostream from --Meggs-- to check out his amazing art including work from his latest 'own worst enemy' show from 2008. 25th Sep – 11 Oct 2008 at Dont Come Gallery, Lvl 2 Royal Arcade, 314 Lt Collins St, Melb CBD.

Hirst buys Paris 'porn' portrait

2008-10-20T15:38:00.000-07:00

BBC NEWS - Hirst buys Paris 'porn' portrait

British artist Damien Hirst has paid an undisclosed amount for a portrait of US socialite Paris Hilton made from images taken from pornographic magazines.

The collage - entitled Paris, 2008 - was the work of Jonathan Yeo, the son of former Conservative minister Tim.

Faile Show - Lost in Glimmering Shadows

2008-10-20T03:59:00.000-07:00

FAILE have a new show opening soon in London - Lost in Glimmering Shadows. The show opens in Vauxhall on the 6th November... it's going to be a must see!

You can also find out more information on the UK Street Art blog

Mind your own business

2008-10-09T08:09:00.000-07:00

A superb idea from T.S.A. Communication. Sheets of stainless steel, cut with your own message for those pesky airport security guards.

Sex and the city

2008-10-09T07:21:00.000-07:00

vitostreet - Sex and the city shows a small collection of graffiti with a naughty side.