Stephen Ball paints a GoPenguin for St.Helens Council

New Art-Stephen Ball

This Is Hans

Imagine if Lichenstein had a child with faile........Check out the work of Hans...






http://www.flickr.com/people/you_need_hans/

Vhils.....

Alexandre Farto Aka Vhils,

Ive seen this artists work a few times but only just really checked out the website, absolutly amazing use of space!,,,

see for yourself!!

James Diable and Wayne Hill @ @ once less harmful & more pleasure-giving

Media factory 4th floor Tuesday 5pm-6pm start@ once less harmful & more pleasure-giving

Working from a Preston based studio space, James Diable and Wayne Hill are affectionately inspired and driven by the observation of and connectivity with the day to day traditional market place and the tangible Preston lives that exist within this space. Through collaboration and creative liaison they negotiate and blend the mediums of paint, creative writing, mechanical art and drawing. UCLan graduates and connoisseurs of Northern mustard, '@ once less harmful and more pleasure-giving'is an amalgamation of personal study and retrospective work investigating portraiture, the application of paint and symbolic connotation. Regards James Diable

Dan Witz

Possably one of my favourate street artists, his use of space, and attention to detail is un rivaled!!!!


http://www.danwitzstreetart.com

We only went and won it!!

Dont forget to pencil this exhibition in your diary.

Dont Think Twice Collective, Winners of Best Visual Arts award at this years St.Helens Culture Awards..............but we wouldn't have won it without the help, support, and submissions from you!

to celebrate this we invite you down to Bar Java, Westfield Street, St.Helens on April 2nd (from 7pm) for our celebration Exhibition, all work shown on the night will be by some of st.helens Freshest and finest artists, this is a show NOT to be missed, All work will be for sale, and all the money goes directly to the artists, the collective, and bar java will not be taking any commission on the sale...

...So come down, support the growing creative culture of St.Helens,
and basically join us in celebrating our award win!!!

::::::artists confirmed so far for the celebration exhibition so far::::::

*Stephen Ball (St.Helens)..........................Graphic Street Art
*Neil Rothstein(Manchester/St.Helens)..............Twisted oil Painter
*Nicola Ellis(Preston/St.Helens)...................Fine Print and sculpture
*Dan Greenham(The Strawberry....lol/St.Helens).....Portrait fine artist
*Stuart Harris(Liverpool/St.Helens)................Graphic Artist
*Lee Guy(St.Helens)................................Tattoo, Street Art
*Paul Cousins(St.Helens)...........................Fine Landscape Artist
*Jayne Murphey(Manchester).........................Fine Portrait Artist
*Phil Swaine (St.Helens)...........................Graphic Artist/Photographer
*Helene Hughes (St.Helens) ........................Illustrator

Stephen Ball Hits London

Banksy Hits London

The drawings of Victor Timofeev

http://www.victortimofeev.com/

Your Kid Can't Do This

Canberra 6th—14th February 2009 The Legislative Assembly

Melbourne 16th—26th April 2009 Famous When Dead Gallery opening night — Friday 17th April

Sydney 20th—27th June 2009 North Bondi Sandpit select showing of works

http://yourkidcantdothis.com/

Concrete Canvas Stetchbook, featuring Stephen Ball & Neil Rothstein

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/542353/
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SHEPARD FAIREY 20 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE

THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART / BOSTON

FIRST MUSEUM SURVEY OF INFLUENTIAL STREET ARTIST SHEPARD FAIREY OPENS AT THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART/BOSTON

SHEPARD FAIREY: SUPPLY & DEMAND
FEB. 6 - AUG. 16, 2009

Boston, MA – On the 20th anniversary of the Obey Giant campaign, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston opens the first museum survey of Shepard Fairey, the influential street artist who created the now iconic Obama poster. Stickers and posters of the artist’s work have appeared on street signs and buildings around the world as part of a guerrilla art campaign of global scale. Featuring over 80 works, Shepard Fairey: Supply & Demand traces the artist’s career over 20 years, from the Obey Giant stencil to screen prints of political revolutionaries and rock stars to recent mixed-media works and a new mural commissioned for the ICA show. In complement to the exhibition, Fairey will be creating public art works at sites around Boston. On view at the ICA from Feb. 6 to Aug. 16, 2009, Shepard Fairey: Supply & Demand is accompanied by an expanded, limited-edition box set of Supply & Demand, the retrospective publication of the artist’s work, in addition to exclusive limited-edition prints only available at the ICA Store.

Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand features work in a wide variety of media – screen prints, stencils, stickers, rubylith illustrations, collages, and works on wood, metal and canvas. These works reflect the diversity of Fairey’s aesthetic, displaying a variety of influences and references such as Soviet propaganda, psychedelic rock posters, images of Americana, and the layering and weathering of street art. While his visually seductive imagery draws in his audience, Fairey uses his work as a platform to make statements on social issues important to him. The artist explains his driving motivation: "The real message behind most of my work is ‘question everything."

Initiated by former ICA assistant curator Emily Moore Brouillet and developed by guest curator Pedro H. Alonzo, the retrospective exhibition examines prevailing themes in Fairey’s work including Anti-War/Peace, Leaders of Change, Hierarchies of Power, Music, Excesses of Capitalism, and Activism.




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Exhibition Related Programs

Artist Talk: Shepard Fairey
Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009, 6:30 pm
The subject of a new ICA survey exhibition, Shepard Fairey shares insights into his work which shifts easily between the realms of fine, commercial, and even political art. Tickets: $20 general admission; $14 members, students (with valid ID) and seniors. This program is made possible through the generosity of Vivien and Alan Hassenfeld.

OBEY Experiment
Friday, Feb. 6, 2009, 9 pm - midnight
On the opening night of his first museum survey, artist Shepard Fairey DJs at the ICA’s wildly popular Experiment party. Tickets: $25 general admission; $20 members and students with valid ID. 21 +

Lunchtime Gallery Talk
Shepard Fairey: Supply & Demand
Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, noon
Exhibition curator Pedro Alonzo shares his perspective on working with Shepard Fairey in a program tailor-made for the lunch hour. Free with museum admission. Space is limited. Free tickets are available first-come, first-served one hour before the program. Ticket holders receive a 10% discount at the Water Café. May not be combined with any other offer.

ICA/AIGA Design Series: Design as Social Agent
Saturday, April 4, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Bringing together speakers from the fields of design, street art, music, and politics, this day-long event frames Shepard Fairey’s work within the context of grassroots civic action, punk rock, and 80s graffiti and skate culture. Featuring Steve Heller, Elliot Earls, Nicholas Blechman, Luba Lukova, Cliff Stolze, Caleb Neelon, PIXNIT, and Mirko Ilic. Ticketing information TBD.

Bike Tour: Shepard Fairey Off Site
Sunday, May 17, 10 am
Sunday, June 28, 10 am
Exhibition curator Pedro Alonzo leads a bike tour of Fairey’s public work in Boston and Cambridge. Stopping at six locations along the way, Alonzo will talk about the context, content, and culture of the artist’s work and the relationships between graffiti, public art, graphic design, and advertising. The tour will cover approximately 10 miles. Tickets: $20 general admission; $15 ICA members, students, and seniors

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT WWW.ICABOSTON.ORG

The Institute of Contemporary Art
100 Northern Avenue
Boston, MA 02210

www.icaboston.org

WWW.OBEYGIANT.COM

Radical Cross Stitch

I’ve been working on stitching QR Codes for some time now. I’ve been doing them on regular Aida fabric (14 count mostly) and they’ve been working really well. So I decided to do it large scale. This project was stitched with black and white finger knitted wool and stitched on animal fencing (which is tough to work with but has a lovely strong and square grid).

QR Codes, or Quick Response Codes are an open source mobile phone read bar code type technology which originated from Japan (download the free reader here). While the Japanese tend to use QR codes for communicating public service information ie public transport timetables. The introduction of QR Codes to Australia has largely been based in advertising (ugh).

So I’ve been working QR Codes in cross stitch as a way of exploring non-corporate alternatives to this potentially very interesting and useful communication medium.

The piece designed for The Streets of Melbourne is designed to make a very clear statement on the irony of a privately owned and operated city square. A space that, within Western culture, has traditionally been the primary space for free speech. And of course this space in particular is part of the traditional gathering grounds for the people of the Kulin Nations.

http://radicalcrossstitch.com/