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Modern Art Oxford – Late
Late at Modern Art Oxford was a series of late night events encouraging visitors to the gallery in the evening to experience art, music and good food. I was commissioned by Modern Art Oxford to devise a logo for the ‘Late’ series. It needed to be adaptable yet work with Modern Art Oxford’s existing branding and…
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Arnolfini tour
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 team. All the other galleries were taken up by Glasgow…
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Difusor Festival – the aftermath
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 a short interview with yours truly. I was also interviewed…
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Sao Paulo: City Without Ads
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 was passed banning all outdoor advertising in the city. As…
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Bucharest calling
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.html Slav poster is by artist and designer Kasia Korczak. For more about her work check here – http://www.slavsandtatars.com/
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Lisbon Adventures
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 put out work in the streets for the International Museum…
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Nuart & Difusor
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 Barcelona at the end of June. 84 artists from…
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Lambe Lambe
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 city. Due to the city cracking down on flyposting…