Paul Normansell painted the album art for The Killers No.1 album “Day and Age” which sold 2.4 million copies worldwide and Rolling Stone called “The Best Album Art of 2008.” MTV called Paul’s art the best album art of the decade. NME nominated it as Best Album Art of 2008. Continue reading Paul Normansell
Paint on acrylic skins Continue reading Time lapse: Plum oil painting by Jos van Riswick
We announced a little while ago that we were part of the Noise Intercepted project, a global art project curated by Labspace Studio (a creative agency & art house in Toronto, Canada). Noise Intercepted is a series of ten experience-activated noise challenges that prompt participants to listen, observe and interact with their urban soundscape in new and unlikely ways.
Challenge #1 is in and so is our entry – see below
Noise challenge #1: The Pulse
If your city had a defining sound, a defining pulse, a defining heartbeat, what would it sound like? look like? or feel like? …where would you go to find it? You have 1 week to venture outside and find the pulse of your city.
We thought for the obvious right away, we need to capture a sound, the pulse. And at night where sight is diminished by the darkness. But we were wrong, the pulse was visual. We started walking down the street trying to hear out for the pulse of the city but we found visual signs everywhere that we immediately associated to the pulse. We had found the pulse: the light.
Then focusing on the light, we sat back and listened and all sort of sound patters came to life. we had found the origin of the pulse: us, humans.
We make the pulse, we are the pulse of the city.
Time lapse of Nick Walker’s Mona Lisa stencil
Time has come for the Chasinghosts duo to celebrate their time snapping street art wonders in London. Indeed they are are launching the first edition of the Chasing Ghosts Photo book.
The book contains 40 pages with 150 full colour photo’s dedicated purely to the streets of London. This edition is limited to only 50 copies, each signed and numbered.
The launch party will take place on Tuesday the 29th of March 6pm to 9pm and hosted by the LAVA Gallery:
Where
LAVA Gallery | 11 Kingly Court, Carnaby Street, London, W1B 5PW
When
29th March 2011
A man runs. He falls down. He struggles back onto his feet and he runs some more. It’s a simple narrative. Even without much detail, you can understand what’s going on. Pause the video, though, and the scene isn’t nearly as clear. Movement makes up for the lack of other visual information. Your brain can read and understand a video at much lower resolution than it would need to make equal sense of a still frame.
Meet Jim Campbell, a former Silicon Valley engineer turned visual artist. Inspired by early Bell Labs experiments with pixelated images, and by his own engineering work with digital filters, Campbell makes art that toys with the human brain.
Much of the inspiration for Campbell’s current work comes from a story in that magazine, written by Bell Labs’ Leon Continue reading Jim Campbell: art and pixels
Ha ha ha… That was bound to happen, wasn’t it? Caught out because of twittering too much or the wrong thing!
Jason Willians aka REVOK (US graffiti artist) got caught out in Australia (as he was leaving the country) after twittering where he would drop his next graffiti pieces as well as after posting actual pictures of his graffitis freshly sprayed on walls of Melbourne.
And if you wonder how the police knew when to apprehend him at the airport, he twittered it saying ‘he was on his way to the airport’
hmmmm… Just plain stupid on this one or PR stunt?
Anyway, ART-PIE eat his work, he is just a great graffiti artist!
>>> Watch the video
***VANDAL VACATION*** from WWW.REVOK1.COM on Vimeo.
So there we had it – the 23rd London art fair, the biggest yet with a remarkable 24 ooo+ visitors this year. It has proven to me that this event is the place or one of the best places to discover, see or enjoy the best of modern and contemporary British art.
Over 120 galleries exhibited this year, a decent number but still lagging behind its big sister, the Frieze art fair, with its 170+ galleries but the two events should maybe not be compared as the Frieze fair is an international fair while the London art fair focusing on British art.
Another noticeable thing was that this year again, London based galleries made the bulk of the exhibitors with 80%. Painting and sculpture were also again the two main types of arts that could be seen but this is what the London Art Fair (LAF) has been about for a while now. The regular visitor will know this, the newbies not necessarily.
Selected works from the fair below.
William Martyr
Acrylics on canvas | Tag Fine Arts
Paul wright
Oil on canvas | Thompson gallery
John Hoylan
Acrylics on cotton duck | Beaux Arts London
Andrea Mastrovito
Cut paper collage and aniline dye on paper | Foley gallery
Dominic Shepperd
Oil on canvas | Charlie Smith
Marilene Oliver
Laser prints on card, red ink, bonded nylon and seed beads | Beaux Arts London
Scream Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of young and emerging British and international artists, who have a common desire to explore and create alternative realities. They transport you on a dream-like journey to another time or place, with inspiration drawn from fairy-tales, surrealism, nature, the human body and childhood.
> The above is taken from the Scream gallery website, read more about the exhibition and the artists.
Featured artists
Malgosia Stepnik – Poland | Clare Chapman – UK | Chinwook Kim – South Korea | Guillermo de Zamacona – Mexico | Ann-Marie James – UK | LG White – The Netherlands | Wayne Chisnall – UK
The opening night is on Thursday 13th January – strict guest list only
When: 14/01 till 20/02/2010
Where: Scream Gallery | 34 Bruton Street | London WIJ 6QX, UK | +44 (0)20 7493.7388
Email: info@screamlondon.com
ART-PIE
London Art Fair is the UK’s premier Modern British and contemporary art fair. Galleries from across the UKand overseas will present the work of over 1,000 artists covering the period from the early 20th century to the present day. You will see museum quality British art presented alongside exceptional contemporary work from leading figures and emerging talent. The Fair provides a uniquely welcoming atmosphere in a spectacular venue in the heart of Islington, attracting visitors with a genuine passion for art; from experienced collectors to those buying their first original work. Source: www.londonartfair.co.uk
London Art Fair would like to invite friends and client’s of Brownhill Insurance Group to the Private View on Wednesday, 18 January 2012, from 6pm – 9pm.
This is an exclusive invitation-only evening reception and it’s a perfect place to catch-up with friends in the New Year and enjoy a complimentary glass of wine in the informal and welcoming atmosphere of Private View.
To receive your complimentary Private View invitation, simply visit http://www.londonartfair.co.uk/brownhills before 9 January 2012.
For all art insurance requirements remember to get in touch with Brownhill Insurance Group on 0208 353 8907 or visit www.loveartinsurance.co.uk
London Art Fair
18 – 22 January 2012 | Business Design Centre London N1
