Last weekend I was asked to give a tour at the Arnolfini, Bristol’s main contemporary arts centre. The current summer show is split across 5 galleries. Gallery one featured work by New York artists, Eileen Quilan and Cheyney Thompson - who are husband and wife...
I recently attended the Difusor (Stencil Art) Festival in Barcelona, where I gave a lecture - so much happened in just a few days so the best place to read about it is here - http://www.bcnstreetart.blogspot.com/ includes hot topics such as Pure Evil’s shorts and...
Since I started work on my last book Graffiti Brasil a few years ago I became a fan of the Choque Cultural gallery in Sao Paulo.A few years later I am proud to be partnering with them with a worldwide on-line store and gallery - http://www.choquecultural.co.uk/In...
A couple of weeks back I gave two talks in Bucharest. It was my first time in Eastern Europe so it was a very new experience for me. The first took place at a creative agency - Cohn and Jansen, where I demonstrated my work...
Congratulations to friend and collaborator Tony De Marco whose photographs are on the cover of the current issue of Creative Review. Tony is a font designer, publisher and artist based in Sao Paulo. The acompanying story is quite amazing. In September last year a law...
Artist and curator Vlad Nanca has invited myself and Kasia Korczak to give a few talks in Bucharest - my first time in Romania.http://vladnanca.blogspot.com/2005_10_01_vladnanca_archive.htmlSlav poster is by artist and designer Kasia Korczak. For more about her work check here - http://www.slavsandtatars.com/...
This week I was invited to Lisbon to take part in the Red Bull street gallery project. Although it was sponsored by a commercial brand, Red Bull guaranteed a non-interference stance. The idea was that 10 Portuguese urban artists from a variety of backgrounds would...
In the coming months I’ll be taking part in a number of events including Nuart 07 beginning September in Norway - www.numusic.no… and a little closer in time I have been invited to speak at Difusor the international stencil meeting - www.difusor.org taking place in...
In Sao Paulo, there are apparently only two print shops left that still use traditional woodblock printing, I was lucky enough to visit one of them - the Grafica Fidalga workshop. Generally they are kept busy by a regular trade for flyposting advertising gigs around...
The highly regarded Cheltenham Literature Festival was first launched in 1949, with such a history it was a pleasure to be entrusted with its branding and design needs. In this first year working with Cheltenham we chose to use photograms as key images for the Festival's...