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OLEK London Solo Exhibition

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:30:00 +0000

Thursday 26 January sees the return of Polish-born, New York based artist Olek to Tony's Gallery in East London, for her first UK solo exhibition entitled "“I do not expect to be a mother but I do expect to die alone”.

We last saw Olek back in November when she was working on an installation outside Tony's Gallery on Sclater Street. The artist spent two days wrapping an entire London Black Cab wheels and all in crocheted yarn featuring her signature camouflage print with the addition of some union jack's much to the delight of the passing public.

For this solo exhibition, Olek has drawn inspiration from her experiences of living in the UK and has spent the last month creating a major installation and sculptural environment within the gallery space. The interior of the space will be transformed with the gallery walls and floor covered entirely in crochet as well as featuring a distinctive Olek-esque living quarters filled with domestic objects of all kinds!

The exhibition opens with a private view Thursday 26 January, 6-9pm and the show will run until the 23 March 2012.

Tony's Gallery - 68 Sclater Street - London.

Elph - Fly Girls Video

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:04:00 +0000

Back in August of 2011 the guys at Gamma Proforma hosted a series of events at XOYO in Old Street. The events explored the duality in Art & Music and the first event they presented featured the sights and sounds of our favorite Scottish artist Elph. The 'Fly Girls' exhibition featured live painting from Elph and a series of new artwork which can be viewed over on Gamma Proforma's website.

With help from the team at End of The Line, the huge wall pictured above, located just under the East London Line off Shoreditch High Street was also secured for Elph to paint, Gamma Proforma have just finished editing a video featuring footage from Elph's Fly Girl exhibition as well as a time lapse of the featured piece above being painted. Check the clip below.

Toasters 'Everywhere' Film Screening

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:46:00 +0000

We first mentioned the Toaster film 'Everywhere' back in December 2010 and it now looks like they have finally finished the film.

"Everywhere' is set to document the Toasters and their work dating back to 1998. It will feature previously unseen footage of the preparation and execution of their street pieces pieces along with exclusive interviews and of course it wouldn't be a Toaster movie without the odd sticker here and there!

The first ever screening of the Toaster film 'Everywhere' will be on Tuesday 24th January at Village Underground in London,followed by screenings in Wolverhampton and Helsinki. The London screening kicks off at 7pm and entry is free. The first 30 people in the queue at the London screening will each receive a handpainted, signed Toaster piece. Be sure and get there early if you want one.

Village Underground - Holywell Lane - London

Ema and Aida hit the streets

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:40:00 +0000

When we last caught up with French artist EMA back in October, she had teamed up with Sheffield street artist Kid Acne for ‘Unclear ground/ Terrain vague'; an installation show in Niort (France) at the Pilori Museum.

Since then the artist has been traveling and installing works in Paris, New York, Miami and Beijing. Now back in the UK we caught up with EMA on Thursday evening in London as she hit the streets of East London with Hackney based artist Aida. Below are some of EMA's signature dropmen character paste-ups that went up and further down are photos from Aida's 'Print Yourself Out of Debt' credit crunch dollar bills series.

45RPM's Disposable Fanzine

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:54:00 +0000

Bristol artist and What Crew member 45RPM has dropped his newest NoFussJustPhotos Zine. Since early 2010 the artist has been sharing with us online, his photographic zines featuring a healthy mix of graffiti, streetart and as the artist puts it 'general tom foolery'.

The newest issue 'The Disposable Fanzine 01' is the first in the series that has been made available in a physical format. The fanzine has been printed in full colour with over 42 pages of photos all bound together in an A6 sized fanzine. As this is The Disposable Issue, all the featured photos in the fanzine were snapped by the artist on a cheap disposable camera and in keeping with the theme, the fanzine come with a free 27ex disposable camera with flash, hand tagged by 45RPM as well as a colour photo print featured in the zine. The Disposable Fanzine is selling fast, so we suggest you get yourselves over to 45RPM's Etsy page here and bag one before they sell out.You can then start snapping away and create your own zine!

RONE visit's London

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:19:00 +0000

Australian street artist and Everfresh Crew member RONE, appears to have stopped over in London during the holiday period. The artist has been traveling since taking part in the Miami Underbelly Project back in November, taking in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica, Paris, Hong Kong and of course London before heading back to Melbourne. Pictured are two large pieces the artist put up during his visit to town, one a large mural and the other a series of paste-ups on Red Church Street.

Check out Rone's photo diary featuring more photos from his travels over on the Everfresh blog.

Mural image via RONE

Hookedblog's 2011 Top 50

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:00:00 +0000

Happy New Year!!

As we begin 2012 we have selected some our favorite photographs from our Hookedblog Flickr stream from last year. The streetart photograph's are in no particular order, some are favorite pieces other we like the artists work / photos and the rest were picked for various reasons; content, colour, placement, texture!

We hope you our readers enjoy the selection and we look forward to another year together.

Tilt- Anarchy In the UK Video

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:24:00 +0000

Hookedblog managed to catch up with graffiti artist Tilt while he was in London at the end of November. The artist had been invited over to East London by Pictures On Walls, where he painted a large scale Union Jack on the huge wall at Village Underground. The mural featured his signature bubble letters using the lyrics from the Sex Pistols "Anarchy In the UK" and was painted to tie-in with the release of the same image as an edition through Pictures On Walls.

Photographer Benjamin Roudet from Big Addict was also in London, having travel from Toulouse with the artist to capture the journey. He has just posted his finished short clip of the artist at work. Check it out below.

New London Shutter Art

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:44:00 +0000

Here is a small collection of shutters that we at Hookedblog photographed over the last week, some of them are pretty recent additions to the streets and other like the Malarky and Billy 'Tasty Meats' one in Brixton pictured below, has been running for just over a year and we have just managed to find it! Pictured above on Sclater Street just off Brick Lane is a shutter featuring Lucas, Bromley and Malarky. Ronzo on Toynbee Street near Petticoat Lane Market. Malarky and Ronzo — near Petticoat Lane Market Malarky and Billy — Brixton Another Ronzo again on Toynbee Street.

London Street Art — 25

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:51:00 +0000

It would appear the whole blogsphere is taking about the new Banksy streets works in Bristol, Liverpool and London. As some of them have been removed/buffed/ defaced already and they have been posted on just about every other blog, we thought we would post some of the other works that have been appearing on the streets of London over the last few weeks or so. We have already featured many of the wonderful new paste-ups, Brooklyn artist Swoon put up around East London last week. This one is located just off Hackney Road near the farm on Ion Square. RUN gets all starry eyed on Hackney Road, at the old tennis courts with paste-ups by Mustafa Hulusi. One of the many pieces Baltimore based artist Gaia paste-up while in town, this piece is located on the old Foundry building near Old Street. Lots of these waffle Invader stickers have been popping up around East London, still no sightings yet of any actual new Invader street pieces out East. It would appear that a number of the Brixton ones we photographedlast week have been removed/stolen already! Mexican artist Pablo Delgado continues to populate the streets with his miniature street scenes. It would appear there has been huge demand for the artists work and he has recently released an edition with NellyDuff.

This also looks like it might be by Pablo but we are not 100% The two pieces above by Rowdy and Horror of Burning Candy are not strictly new but we managed to close enough to grab these pictures without having to hang over a bridge!

If you still want more streetart, take a look at some of our previous post:

Hookedblog London Street Art — 24
Featuring work from A.ce, Malarky, Dom, Pablo Delgado & Michael DeFeo.
Hookedblog London Street Art — 23
Featuring work from Malarky, Stik, Haculla, Lister, EMA.
Hookedblog London Street Art — 22
Featuring work from Banksy, Dale Grimshaw, Mr.Penfold, Ronzo & D*Face.

Swoon — Back On The Streets Of London

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:34:00 +0000

Following the successful launch of her Murmuration installation at Black Rat Projects, Brooklyn based street artist Swoon took to the streets of East London with a number of large scale paste ups based on a number of images which featured in her first London solo show. Hookedblog managed to catch up with Swoon for a quick chat and a preview early in December just ahead of the opening of the Mumuration installation which saw the artist spend three weeks transforming the gallery space with large scale installations and her elaborate paper cuts.

Having spotted one of Swoon's street pieces on Thursday evening on Sclater Street, we hit the streets over the weekend with our camera and managed to photograph nine new street pieces from the artist. Hopefully some of these will last a little longer than this short lived piece which was only up for two days before getting removed!

The Murmuration installation runs until January 14 2012.
Black Rat Projects - Arch 461 - 83 Rivington St (through Cargo garden) -EC2A 3AY

Invader Attacks London

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:45:00 +0000

Following the opening of Attack of the Space Waffles exhibition at Lazarides Outsiders space, Invader took to the streets of London for this his ninth invasion of London.

The first eight waves has seen 101 Invader pieces installed across the city and his recent visit has seen some new additions to the city. We captured one of three new pieces spotted close to Brixton station and another opposite Lazarides Gallery on Rathbourne Place in central London. We imagine there are more out there, if anyone see any more let us know!

UPDATE: Monday 12 December 2011
If would appear that the pink Invader piece above has now been removed, there have also been reports in the paper that two other Brixton pieces have been removed or possibly stolen in the last few days.

Tilt finishes the Union Jack

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:29:00 +0000

Hookedblog featured internationally recognized graffiti artist Tilt on the blog last week after he rolled into London to work on the huge wall space outside of East London's Village Underground. Here are some additional pictures of Tilt adding colour and the final finishing touches to the wall.

The artist was also in town as he had some new original works which are currently on display at Pictures On Walls Gallery space on Commercial Street. POW have also released Tilt's Union Jack flag image as a three colour limited edition print which went on sale over the weekend. The Anarchy In The UK edition is available online here.

Swoon — Murmuration Installation

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:36:00 +0000

Hokedblog called over to Black Rat Projects yesterday to catch up with Brooklyn-based artist Swoon ahead of her Murmuration exhibtion opening on the 1st December. The artist has been in London for the last three weeks transforming the gallery space with a large scale installation for this her very first London solo show. We had previously mentioned the show, having posted one of the huge street pieces Swoon had pasted in the streets a few weeks back. The Murmuration installation is simply mind blowing and the Swoon show that UK fans have been waiting to see. The space has been completely transformed with a sea of Swoons elaborate paper cuts and huge towering three dimensional pieces, which have seen the removal of the galleries lighting system to accommodate their scale! We spent an hour in the space yesterday our head spinning trying to take everything in and it is one that we plan to revisit again and again. After a very short chat with Swoon she was gone in a blur, with work still to be done she was whizzing around the gallery at lightning speed paint brush in hand scaling ladders finishing various pieces, all while directing a lighting crews and a team of gallery assistance who had begun to transform the space from an artists studio into what will become the Murmuration installation. Our photos above are just a small teaser of what people can expect, we don't want to spoil the wow effect that we got on entering the gallery! Due to the sheer scale and the nature of the show we suggest those attending the show opening this evening get down there early as it's gonna be busy.

The show runs from December 2-January 14 2012.
Private view December 1, 6pm 8.30pm
Black Rat Projects - Arch 461 - 83 Rivington St (through Cargo garden) -EC2A 3AY

UPDATE:
< Below is our full set of images we took at the installation for those of you who are unable to attend this stunning exhibition.

EVOL — A Sight For Eyesores

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:07:00 +0000

We previous featured German stencil artist EVOL, who turns random street furniture into miniature replicas of the estate where he lives in East Berlin. We posted one of the artist's London street installations in Smithfield Market, which saw him transform a dozen or so concrete barricades into a tower block city complete with satellite dishes, tagged up walls and graffiti.

EVOL is also in London for his first UK solo show which opens tomorrow at Pictures on Walls in Shoreditch. Titled 'A Sight For Eyesores' the artist has brought his work indoors to created a towering cityscape in the POW showrooms using tons of scrap metal!!.

We got the chance to meet EVOL and have a chat with him as he prepared for the show. The artist was busy spraying some of the final layers and details to the imposing towerblock as he spoke to us. We got to see some the mountain of stencils littering the floor of the gallery as some of pieces use up to 15 stencil layers to create the amazing details that gives his work that almost photographic realness! The preview opens tonight and we expect this show will also be busy as we have spotted on Twitter that a crowd of people have starting gathering outside of Pictures On Walls already!

The exhibition runs from the 2 to the 23 of December 2011.
Opening night the 1 December 6pm — 9pm
Pictures On Walls - 46/ 48 Commercial Street - London - E1

Tilt Paints the Union Jack

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:13:00 +0000

Internationally recognized graffiti artist Tilt rolled into London yesterday to begin work on the huge wall space outside of East London's Village Underground.

Originating from Toulouse in the South of France, Tilt is planning to paint a huge Union Jack Flag on the wall incorporating the bubble letter forms which the artist has come to be known for. Yesterday's attempts to begin working were hampered by the rain and the artist returned today, managing to get the bubble letter outline of the flag completed. Tomorrow will see the addition of some colour, with the letters getting filled in with red and blue to complete the flag. If you are in the neighbourhood swing by, check the wall and maybe see the artist at work! Below are some photographs we took today.

Yarn Bombing: TEA Time in LONDON

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:09:00 +0000

Back in July of this year Hookedblog photographed some yarn bombing street work just off Brick Lane in East London. Two weeks later we ran into the artist on Sclater Street working on some new installations. This yarn work turned out to be that of American artist Hot + Tea currently based in Minneapolis.

While we were photographing the artist we met Director and VFX compositor Chloe Hayward who was also taking photos of the artist as well as filming the installation. Chloe has recently finished editing her footage and shared with us the finished film which you can watch below.

London Street Art — 24

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:22:00 +0000

It's Tuesday and as it has been awhile, so below is a selection of some London Street Art we at Hookedblog have photographed over the last few days in and around East London. The last week has also seen us post work from a number other artists including Gaia, Ronzo & Conor Harrington, Evol and Swoon.

Mr Penfold, Billy, Malarky, Lucas on Brick Lane. American artist Borf recently had a show at Lazarides Newcastle space and hit up London on route with some street work. Michael DeFeo aka The Flower Guy Stencil work from UK artist Don Not sure if this is a new Pablo Delgado piece, but it's one we hadn't previously spotted. Malarky continues his non-stop paint mission with another shutter off Petticoat Lane Market. Newish paste-ups have been appearing on the streets again from London based artist A.ce.

If you still want more streetart, take a look at some of our previous post:

Hookedblog London Street Art — 22
Hookedblog London Street Art — 21
Hookedblog London Street Art — 19
Featuring work from C215, Malarky, Lucas, Pablo Delgado & ATG.

Gaia hits the streets of London

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:21:00 +0000

Following an installation in Newcastle's onethirty3 space, American street artist Gaia has been in London the last few days and wasted no time in hitting the East London streets with some of his work. As well as a number of painted shutters on Roman and Hackney Road, plus the huge colourful wall piece pictured above, the artist also managed to get up with some of his large scale paste-ups across London. Check out our photos below.

UPDATE 27 November 2011:
We are aware that Gaia has already left London town, so we weren't really expecting to see anymore from the artist but we were pleasantly surprised to find this beauty this afternoon in South London of all places! If anyone has seen any other pieces from the artist that we have missed, South or elsewhere in London let us know as we would love to see them.

Conor Harrington x Ronzo Wall

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:03:00 +0000

Looks like Irish artist Conor Harrington took a break from his studio work over the weekend and hit the street to collaborate on this wall pictured with Ronzo, located just off Brick Lane on Fashion Street.

Evol's Miniature London Tower Blocks

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:16:00 +0000

With an upcoming exhibition in early December at Pictures On Walls, German stencil artist EVOL would appear to have landed in London. Earlier in the week saw the appearance of his signature stencil cityscapes in Smithfield Market. Having only ever seen the artist work online it was great to finally see the work in person and check out the impressive detailed stencil work. The artist has transformed a dozen or so concrete barricades into a tower block city complete with satellite dishes, tagged up walls and graffiti.

Malarky x VNA Magazine

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:34:00 +0000

Hookedblog regular Malarky continues to dominate the East London landscape with the addition of this new shutter above near Petticoat Lane market. The artist is set to feature in the upcoming issue of Very Nearly Almost magazine which is due for release in early December. The team at the magazine caught up with Malarky in this short video interview as he painted the featured shutter.

Directed by JOÃO RETORTA
Music 2Hot by JAM CIITY

In other news, the group exhibition 'Neo Cosmo' featuring Malarky, Mr. Penfold, Lucas and Billy is currently running at Tony's Gallery on Sclater Street. The exhibition runs at the gallery until the 18th December. Opening times and more info can be found on the gallery website here.

Swoon hits the streets of London

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:52:00 +0000

Earlier last week Black Rat Projects announced that their next exhibition at the gallery space would be a solo installation by New York artist and long term Black Rat collaborator Swoon. We were delighted to hear this news, as Hookedblog are massive fans of the artists work and we have been waiting for a full scale Swoon installation to come to London.

Well it looks like Swoon is already in London town. We were super excited to stumble on this beautiful new street piece from the artist on our way home last night. Hopefully it's the first of many!

The ‘Murmuration’ installation is set to open on December 2nd. Further details will be announced shortly.

UPDATE 15th November:
We headed back this morning to capture some daytime shots of this Swoon piece but unfortunately it looks like Hackney Councils buff team beat us to it and have have already removed this piece.

Olek bombs a Black Cab

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:19:00 +0000

Earlier last month we posted about Polish-born, New York based artist Olek, having stumbled across one of the artist's yarn bombed installations on the street. We were hoping we would be seeing more from the artist on the streets of London and she certainly didn't disappoint.

We hung out with Olek over the weekend as she worked on her latest installation outside Tony's Gallery on Sclater Street. The artist spent two days wrapping an entire London Black Cab, wheels and all in crocheted yarn featuring her signature camouflage print with the addition of some union jack's much to the delight of the passing public. Have a look at our photos below of the finished taxi and should you be in the area go see it in person as the Black Cab will be parked outside Tony's Gallery for the rest of the week.

Kid Acne at JAGGEDART

noreply@blogger.com (hookedblog) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:16:00 +0000

'Night Birds' is the title of a new exhibition set to open in West London on the 7th November featuring Patrick Guedj, photographer and Artistic Director of Kenzo Parfums and British Graffiti Artist Kid Acne. The show at the Jaggedart Gallery will see the two artists collaborate in a photography meets graffiti/illustration style exhibition.

Private View: Monday 7 November – 6 – 8.30pm
jaggedart — 28A Devonshire Street — London — W1G 6PS
Image courtesy of JAGGEDART

UPDATE:
Check out some of our photos from the opening last night.