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Arte Para Todos
Just heard about this mural festival in Seville – Arte Para Todos, which features a number of artist friends of mine such as Caleb Neelon, Finok, Ise, AEC and Waone. I like the way the artists are donating their skills for free, should be fantastic.
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Bastardilla, Ramon Martins & Rene Almanza
Three artists from Latin America who deserve a mention and who currently have shows in Europe. All three are featured in my new book. Bastardilla from Colombia has an exhibition in Madrid currently before heading over to the UK. The irrepressible Ramon Martins from Brasil has his second show in Paris with Galerie Géraldine Zberro. Galerie Géraldine…
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Colectivo Zentontle
Colectivo Zentontle are a group of artists from Monterrey in Mexico who are featured in my new book. In the book we gave them the title Imaginary Mexico which refers to their style of work which is rooted in the myths and traditions of pre-Columbian Mexican cultures. This collective is made of the artists Blast,…
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Otecki
With two weeks left until the Street Sketchbook: Journeys book launch, I’ve been busily gathering work from each artist in the book. One artist, who features in it, I was able to meet yesterday in London – which reminded me to mention his work here. Otecki is a Polish artist who paints graffiti – like…
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Dhear, Saner and Neuzz at Montana Gallery
Three Mexican artists – Dhear, Saner and Neuzz – who feature in my new book have a show opening next week in Barcelona at the Montana gallery… I’ll be showing some artworks and drawings from all three at the upcoming Street Sketchbook: Journeys book launch. Here are some links to the artists in question… http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhear/…
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Nuevos Tiempos
Here’s some news I’ve been meaning to post for some time about an artist I met in Bogota called Lorenzo Masnah. Some weeks ago I managed to get hold of one of his self published books called Nuevos Tiempos. He held his first solo show in his apartment in Bogota to launch the book. The…
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PopUP! – Interview
PopUP! is an International street art and poster festival which has been held over a number of years in Ancona, Italy. I was asked to contribute an interview piece for a book produced for the 2010 edition of the festival which commemorated previous years work. It was a pleasure to be involved with a project…
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Basco Vasko interview – Juxtapoz Magazine
Earlier this year Basco Vasko, a Chilean artist I have admired for a long time, asked me to conduct an interview with him for Juxtapoz magazine. Finally its in print (see above with Dr Lakra on the cover). Finding the right questions to unravel his art and processes was quite a challenge since his highly…
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Street Sketchbook: Journeys – advance copy
Finally after two years in the making I have a copy of Street Sketchbook: Journeys. This is my favourite cover as designed by Ripo although the Italian cover is also nice. There are other covers for the American & French versions… Here is a little info about the book, but in the simplest terms this…
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Calma – Strange Enough
One Brazilian artist I have been following for nearly 6 years now is Calma aka Stephan Doitschinoff. I’ve been lucky to meet him a number of times during his career and helped with his monograph published by Die Gastalten. So in a new departure for the artist it was great to find out about this…