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Street Sketchbook: Journeys
So its been over two years in the making but it’s coming soon… My latest book, Street Sketchbook: Journeys is now appearing for pre-release on Amazon. I’ll be writing more about it in the coming months, the official release date is 27th September – with a launch party in London lined up for the 1st October.…
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Studio 13
My friend Daniel Melim – a stencil artist extraordinaire from Sao Paulo now has a blog called Studio 13. Here you can read about his latest art works using lithograph, screen print and painting as well as his workshop activities…
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Insitu Festival Caceres
This summer saw the birth of another new street art festival – this time in the beautiful walled city of Caceres – (which reminds me of my days working for WOMAD, who produce a great festival there every year). The festival is called Insitu and is the brain-child of San, a very talented artist from Madrid…
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Zezao Vari Acoes show
This month Choque Cultural gallery in Sao Paulo present a solo show by Zezao, an artist who continues to impress me through his artwork and actions. I first got to know Zezao researching the Graffiti Brasil book in around 2004. Having been involved in graffiti painting, train bombing and pichacao tagging for many years –…
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Breakin-the-wall
Out of the Sth returns in 2010 – this brilliant street art festival co-curated by Sławek ZBK Czajkowski aka Zbiok is back again in Wroclaw, Poland. I wish I had been able to attend! International painters creating murals include many artists I’ve have featured in books in the past and with whom I am also…
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BP oil spill – art responses
BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico makes me so mad – and of course I’m not the only one raging at the recklessness of BP, by all accounts rushing into risky strategies to suck every last drop of oil from the earth at the cost of the planet. So I was at least…
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Infini
I have long been a fan of the artist collective 9eme Concept – a great group of artists who for years have found a way to work together and support each others work. Artists include Stéphane Carricondo, Veenom, Mambo, Ankhone, Jerk 45 and in previous years Alexone. My introduction to them started with a visit…
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Beyond the Street
Here’s a book that gets two thumbs up from me and that’s before I’ve even read it – which I’m planning to this weekend. The reason I like it already is not because I am featured in it! – but I admire the work that has gone into it. At least two years of almost…
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Peace of Wall
For a number of years I have been in communication with the writer and journalist Chris Parkinson. During a number of visits to East Timor, Chris began to document the walls which reflected the turbulent times this country has been through. His idea was to turn this into a book, and during our correspondence I…
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Offerings to the volcano
The eruption of southern Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull caused chaos over the last week and I think many of us will know some one effected. Escif’s show at Pictures on Walls was short of 30 Spanish visitors who were meant to arrive for the opening night. Friends of mine also found themselves stranded in Chicago, while other…