Category: group show

Above the rail

Trash painted on reclaimed london fog rain coat

‘ABOVE THE RAIL’ The White Canvas Project comes to Cheshire street!

On Thursday Beyond Retro’s Cheshire St store will host the highly acclaimed ‘White canvas project’ in association with fashion-lifestyle brand Supremebeing.

This exciting and energetic exhibition will see an array of captivating pieces of art created by : Pinky / Will Barras / Jim Vision / Mr Penfold / Sheryo / The Yok / Mr Hicks / Neist / Grossmary / HoldyourTongue / Dotmasters / Stendec / DrZadok / Elfin / Mateus Bailon and Guy McKinley. who will work on canvases made from Beyond Retro clothing, stretched cut and sew denim, patchwork fabrics, over a period of five days. The ‘Art Jam’ as this has so famously become known worldwide will run from the 2^nd July within a custom made studio at Beyond Retro- Dalston. Once complete all pieces will be hung ‘Above the Rails’ for public view and purchase in the engaging setting of our east London store for a unique exhibition on the 11^th July from 5-9pmwhere they will be beautifully displayed amongst similar items of which the canvases were created.

Tags Dotmasters, show, street art

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Easter beach break

I Got the call around mid February, How do you fancy a week in the sun end of March painting an old ice cream parlour/cafe/hotel? The only snag being that the Hotel was being demolished soon after and this was the last weekend available to paint the thing inside and out…. oh and we were going make a movie about the 48 hours we had to do it.

Mission improbable it was, but with a good local team. Chris and Heinz, Roberto the local paint guy, the spray paint shop Linea6 and the wonderful Edith, her twin daughters and son, we might just pull it off. Easter of course brings it’s own problems, it often rains. Flights and hotels become problematic and the whole island shuts down for the most sombre event in the christian year.

With everything set on the thursday before Easter the artists started to arrive, we had a little over 48 hours together with the clocks going forward on sunday night, tight was only screwed tighter. Flying in for the weekend were Loomit, Zadok, Sickboy & Kelster, Nick Walker, Lucy Mclaughlin & Matt Watson, Conor Harrington and myself with Banek and Ezequiel

Collaboration between myself, sickboy and Zadok

Saft films and ian Wallkandy tore around the site frantically documenting through a smog of paint and beer fumes. The setting was incredible and the house came alive, the oldest part of the building was at its core a hotel and the layout of the rooms, the vanished ceilings and exposed beams, lent itself well to our use of it as a ruined gallery. A maze of dark dead ends and tiny corridors that opened into crumbling courtyards.

Although the pressure was on, in such a wonderful location with amazing local food and people popping round, a lot of fun was had. We had a few near misses but we all survived. The local guys Ezequiel and Banek tore it up, zadok painted till his taxi took him to the airport. I haven’t laughed as much for a long time, and can’t wait to see the short film that comes out of it. Ended up popping something up on Hotel Zhero…they did ask…Honest. For more info on the project and to find out when the film will be released check out Widewalls or catch up with them on Facebook.

Tags Conor Harrington, Dotmasters, group show, loomit, Lucy Mclaughlin, nick walker, sickboy, Stencil, street art, Zadok

Festival group show london

Slag

Post author By swinhoe
Post date February 4, 2012

Slag opens tonight, an anti Valentine show with Carrie Reichardt at the wheel, backed by various Mutoid associates , Nick Reynolds et al. The event will be held at Carrie Reichardt’s studios ……. 199 Acton Lane, Chiswick W4 5DA.
If you didn’t make it down before Christmas…You got to see this shop! Mental nick-nacks sit next to twisted dolls in an anarchist shop in… Chiswick, yes, I know, trust me its a weird afternoon out with a lot of affordable stuff for sale. Heres a sample of what the press said: ” Jesus christ what a whopper of a shop” Daily Mail on Sunday. ” Fuck me i couldn’t believe the bargains” The Sunday Times.

Tags Dotmasters, group show, london, mutoid waste department, pikey, Stencil

Festival group show Stavanger

NuArt catalogue online

Post author By swinhoe
Post date September 21, 2011

Just a heads up that the NuArt 2011 catalogue is ready to print and available online here. It gives a good run down of the artists invited the program of workshops taking place and the films and talks we have scheduled during the weeks of NuArt. We print 3000 and distribute the paper from the gallery for those of you than can’t make it to Stavanger download the link from above.

Tags nuart 2011, stavanger, street art

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NHH 75 years old

Post author By swinhoe
Post date September 2, 2011

Been in Bergen for a week now running production on an interesting project put together by Nuart and NHH (norwegian school of economics). Ben Eine, M-city, Dolk Escif and Huyro have been marking the walls and sowing the seeds of doubt in the next generation of Norwegian economists in a project entitled Fuck Capitalism

NHH Norwegian School of Economics is the leading business school in Norway and it is repeatedly ranked among the top 40 business schools in Europe. The school was founded in 1936 and celebrates its 75 years anniversary in 2011.

To challenge this perception of NHH, the school has in collaboration with Stavanger’s Nuart festival invited some of the world’s most renowned street artists to comment on NHHs ideological foundations on the schools huge walls. The artistic comments from the street artists will be supported by an academic program of presentations and panel debates taking place at NHH on September 6th.

Tags ben eine, dolk, escif, huyro, m-city, street art