Some of us contemplate organising our very own an art show, others prefer to spectate, but for Alice Burns Aka Dogtired she has just pulled off the organisation of her second, IYTI (It’s Yours, Take It!) show in Belfast. The show featured no less than 100 pieces, submitted from various artists all over the world, with one main concept, that their pieces were free to the public. Check out the interview with Dogtired below, gain some inspiration and get planning!
A rather self-explanatory post today, just making people aware of Recoat Gallery’s 2nd birthday exhibition. If you are based in or are about Glasgow, Scotland at the time, i suggest checking it out.
In his first exhibition since the early millennium, world renowned Street Artist Banksy is back with a show that sees him take over the Bristol Museum. The surprise show, announced a week previous to it opening, sees Banksy “remix” the current museum pieces, adding the expected Banksy twist on things. In addition to this over 100 of Banksy’s pieces, many of which have not been seen before are also included.
The exhibition is open daily till the 31st of August, check it out.
http://www.banksy.co.uk/
Just stumbled across this amazing 200X200cm piece by LECKO. I stared at my screen for ages when i first came across this, the photo realism is unreal! so much detail. This may be down to the 300 stencils and 250 hours of work that went into the piece!
Check out his flickr here : http://www.flickr.com/photos/29546905@N02/ and appreciate his dedication to stencils.
Funky Red Dog has established himself as the number one dog loving street artist. His iconic Dalmatian piece has found it’s way onto walls around the world and doesn’t look to be slowing. His work can be found in California, New York, Belfast, Rome, Australia, London… the list goes on.
Funky Red Dog, currently residing in Brighton, seems to be able to take his hand to any form of street art and turn it into a resounding success. He’s found success with stencils, prints and paste-ups to name but a few.
Make sure to check out Funky Red Dog’s website and his Flickr.
I’m not ashamed to admit that I frequent Pahnl’s flickr photostream, updating myself on what his characters have been getting themselves into! If its not dogs chasing bones, then its men buffing out art. The UK based street artist has firmly established himself into the scene, amongst the larger characters, with his rather minute characters. Popping up in well thought out locations on the street, making their mark with simple actions and expressions.
Check out the interview with the artist himself below.
Lints is a street artist who loves to use paste-ups. These flimsy pieces of paper are pasted onto walls and have a surprising ability to stand the test of time. Lints has also been experimenting with good ol’ fashion paint and stickers recently too – which have produced some outstanding results. Lints has proved, time and time again, that his work – made up of polygonal creatures – looks fantastic anywhere.
This year, Lints has spent time in some great cities: London, Dublin and Germany. With the most recent spell in London. The image to the right was placed in London just earlier this week towards the end of Mr Lints time in London. His strange creatures are not only thought provoking (e.g. what the hell is it??) but also strangely friendly despite looking a little sinister and confronting.
Before we go straight to the meaty pictures, I’d just like to give you a heads up about Lints blog which covers a lot of Lints street art ventures.
Below are a collection of images that show Lints recent work in a variety of cities taken from his flickr page.
Gemma Compton is a Cotswold born artist who currently resides in London. She’s a young talented artist who’s been breaking through into the art scene. She recently displayed her art at the Bristol Upfest ‘09 event.
Compton’s work is primarily painted with the use of stencils and almost always, contains some reference to animals; from birds and rabbits to cats and dogs. Animals are clearly a large influence in her life for them to be shown so prominently in her work. Gemma has previous worked also with paste ups to produce outstanding results.
Not only does Gemma create fantastic work on the street, canvas and in galleries, but she’s also very talented with a pencil (as can be seen in the image below, if a little scary).
If you’d like to see more of Gemma Compton’s work, check out on her flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/caughtredhanded82.
