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The candidates are tasked with representing two street artists and selling their wares to customers and high profile corporate clients. Tom is Project Manager for Phoenix and is keen to impress one of the street artists, named Pure Evil, with his knowledge of the area. Laura and Tom think they have done a good job at the meeting but Nick Hewer is not convinced. SCREENS WEDNESDAY NIGHT 9PM
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click on the image to view the amazing show by a new wave of VYBA'S
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Street Art in Limassol Cyprus this week...
https://www.facebook.com/pages/ArtHouse-59/231267453626998
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Lisa Cole a.k.a ‘Crossie’ is a fine artist working and living in East London. She has exhibited her works in London, Paris, Cologne, Vienna and in her former hometown of Brighton.
Crossie has recently re-located to London to focus solely on her development as an artist, her works fast becoming part of private art collections across Europe. In January, Crossie’s artwork was selected and exhibited in Vienna . Her brightly coloured images were hung within the impressive vaults of a 600 year old Viennese church.
Metamorphosis is Crossie’s debut one-woman show at Pure Evil Gallery, Shoreditch.
The show will run from 5th until 18th April 2012.
“I’m currently in a continual flow of representing winged creatures of all kinds. I make no apologies for a particular obsession with butterflies, exploring them both as an iconic symbol and for their exquisitely fleeting natural fragility.
I work with stencils, spray paint, fabric and collage on found paper sources including old music scores, antiquated books and prints. I carefully collect my backgrounds, usually from dimly lit second hand bookshops. The paper has already lived it’s own life: gathered it’s own history of dirt, fingermarks and forgotten personal annotations. When I imprint my butterflies and birds onto the surface it gets a second chance, a new voice. Although I love antiquity, I definitely get a slightly perverse pleasure out of ‘defacing’ it, like giving a grandparent a neon Mohican but then finding out that it suits them and they rather like it. I love the combination of aged paper and period fonts from a bygone era with the decadent artifice of hot acidic spray colours - allowing their edges to bleed and my lines to drip.
My background in textile and knitwear design definitely plays its part with the textures and surfaces I create and paint over. I have always particularly loved rebellious creatives such as Alexander McQueen, which is why I think I’m also so drawn to street art. I am particularly influenced by the work of ROA, Swoon and Lady Aiko. I have also been incredibly inspired by the current Yayoi Kusama retrospective at Tate Modern
I’ve lived in Brighton for many years where you cannot help but be infused by the faded grandeur of the Georgian buildings all around you. The Pavilion, the plaster ceiling moldings, faded lace curtains, antique brass door furniture come as standard in the communal hallways I’ve frequently passed through. I’m now enjoying the juxtaposition of combining these notions of perished elegance and ‘dulled’ sparkle with the hot colours and clean stencil lines of street art.”
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Yah mo B There
Pick Me Up Contemporary Graphic Art Fair 22 March – 1 April 2012 Daily 11.00-20.00, late night Thursdays until 22.00 Embankment Galleries, South Wing
Like us on Facebook or join the conversation on Twitter and use #pickmeuplondon for all the latest news. Pick Me Up, the UK’s first annual contemporary graphic art fair returns for its biggest edition yet this spring. The fair showcases the best new work from around the UK and the world with original works and prints available to purchase from just £10. With loads of events and workshops for you to get involved with, expect eleven days of graphic mayhem!
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Sex & Moderate Violence THE DIRECTORS CUT
I have been toiling away at this for over a month now...
Part 2 and part 3 of Sex and Moderate Violence, the sequel and prequel of the first print...
Also available as a 270cm long 'DIRECTORS CUT' of all 3 prints in a humungous landscape of sex and moderate violence...
* OUT NOW *
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Vienna
Just did a SWEET show in Vienna with Crossie...Thanks to everyone who made us feel welcome !
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In the Pure Evil Gallery radio show we'll be scratching the surface to see what kind of dark electronic moods lie beneath... mixing the world of music, dreams and culture with artist interviews and whatever takes our fancy.
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Pure Evil exhibits artwork from DJ Food’s album ‘The Search Engine’ and Henry Flint’s book ‘Broadcast’. Expect original art, photos, limited edition prints and postcard records, sound installation and more… DJ Food, aka Strictly Kev, has read the British sci-fi comic 2000ad, home of Judge Dredd, since he was 8 years old. He’s also been collecting original art from it for over a decade and a large proportion of his collection is the work of one man – Henry Flint. Studying at Falmouth University, Henry has worked in comics since the early 90′s – mostly for the anthology title 2000ad but also for US publishers like Marvel, DC and Vertigo. He slowly refined his craft and became a fan favourite with his ultra-detailed storytelling, seemingly able to combine several different styles from the comic’s first golden age in the 80′s alongside his own distinctive pen work. He has drawn many of the comic’s main characters, including Judge Dredd, as well as created his own characters Shakara and Zombo with fellow script writers. One of his latest illustrations graces the cover of a collection of Alan Moore’s short stories, first published in the title in the 80′s. Upon buying some art from Henry a few years ago, Kev discovered several postcards with crazed characters and abstracts included in the package, promotion for a small local exhibition in Exeter of Henry’s ‘doodles’. The images were exactly what he had been looking for as the starting point for the artwork on a series of EPs he was making, later to form an album on Ninja Tune. Henry sent a stack of images for Kev to pick from and gave him permission to colour them for the artwork, which were issued as foldout poster covers on three 12″ EPs. By the time the album was ready to be compiled Kev had a solid visual direction and commissioned Henry to draw “a cosmonaut, hanging in space, strapped into an unfeasibly large backpack, the kind you could only wear in zero gravity”. The result became the cover of ‘The Search Engine’. Coupled with press shots of Kev in a replica astronaut suit, shot by photographer Will Cooper-Mitchell, this completed a sci-fi theme with Kev’s colours fleshing out the black and white line drawings. Incidentally, since the start of the collaboration, Henry was approached by a publisher with a view to compiling these drawings into a book, which has just been published under the title ‘Broadcast’ by Aam Markosia. The exhibition will feature lots of original Flint artwork including drawings and elements used to create most of the artwork surrounding the album as well as comic pages from Kev’s personal collection. Cooper-Mitchell photos will be on display as well and high quality signed giclee prints will be available to buy as well as a limited edition postcard record made specially for the show. Kev’s love of psychedelic art will also be in evidence with typographic mandalas, zoetrope discs and unique splatter vinyl DJ controller records on display to complete the picture. An audio visual installation in the basement, based around the album, will also be present.
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dream blog
http://t.co/Ya6c9OI5 This is my first dream of 2012... I woke up and had to record the whole thing as i recalled it .. im sorry about the yawning.. I was still half asleep.. "Hatsuyume (初夢) is the Japanese word for the first dream had in the new year. Traditionally, the contents of the dream would foretell the luck of the dreamer in the ensuing year.....so what does this dream mean.. ??" (thanks for the info aiko !)
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east end street art map
streety spots are in pale red.. galleries and paint shops in black helvetica upper case
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Victoria & Albert STREET ART show in Ulster
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FIJI DUDE
This fine print comes out at the 12 PRINTS show that printclublondon are doing on the 1st of December..
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University College Hospital (UCH) Macmillan Cancer Centre commission
Grayson Perry, Rob Ryan, Peter Blake, Pure Evil and Morag Myerscough have created floors for the waiting areas within the new University College Hospital (UCH) Macmillan Cancer Centre, bringing colour and interest to patients whilst they wait.
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AIKO
Unstoppable Waves London opens this friday....
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Pure Evil Butterfly in the ruins of the Bank of England
An exclusive stencilled print for Nelly Duff on Columbia Road
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Pure Evil at La cantine du Faubourg Paris on NOW
PURE EVIL, Charles Edwards, s’inscrit dans un mouvement artistique en plein essor, le Street Art, datant de la dernière décennie, à Londres et à New-York. Il fait fleurir des visuels sur les murs de Londres qui dépassent le simple graff identitaire pour intégrer une attitude, un aboutissement et un questionnement post wharolien et dadaïste. La particularité artistique de PURE EVIL est de combiner, non sans humour, une Amérique des années 50 sous le prisme et la griffe d’une signature toute britannique ! Une exposition lui est consacrée à “La cantine du faubourg” à Paris dans le 8 ème arrondissement du 27 SEPTEMBRE 2011 à la fin du mois de JANVIER 2012 ! Venez nombreuses ! Horaires d’ouverture : Lundi / vendredi 12h/3h - Samedi / dimanche 19h/3h Adresse : 105 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré 75008 Paris
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Pure Evil in Stockholm at The Scarlett Gallery
A Pure Pleasure So the Pure Evil event has passed and for those of you who couldn't make it lets just say you missed a treat. One can never be sure how many will turn up to a thing like this so there were a few nerves bobbling around between us and Pure Evil. We put him and his lovely lady up in a quaint one bedroom hotel on a roof surrounded by tomatos and herbs. Donated to us by 100Hus, and where the event was to take place. The evening started with the sun shining, beers and wine flowing and thank the gods, the gale force winds had died down. Pure Evil got to work on the first of his 4 canvas' of the night, JFK's nightmare. More people turned up, more beer got drunk and a lovely Liz Taylor (Richard Burton's nightmare) appeared before our eyes. By this time the dark had set in and so a mad scramble for some make shift lighting resulted in a few borrowed industrial lamps from the neighbouring work area. Rain was in the air and we all knew it but we carried on and a beautiful Sharon Tate graced the next canvas. With fingers twitching and nerves jingle jangling Pure Evil got right onto the last canvas, and 10 minutes in the skies opened. A frenzy of motion began, grab the sound system, save the wine from being watered down, grab the cans, canvas' and leg it on inside under some cover. Everyone piled inside to where we had predicted the turn of weather by setting out a few chairs and exisiting artwork and a huge Tower Of Bunnies banner that Pure produced eariler on. This is where the final canvas was completed, a superb Roberto Rosellini's nightmare, Ingrid Bergman, a little salute to Sweden. With the work over Pure Evil could relax a little and the night just got better. People loved it, and at the end a free for all, grab a can and spray the walls proved an apt ending to the whole night. Big thanks to Montana Colours for sending over some much appreciated cans and to Terrific wines for some Terrific wines, the Rosé was just lovely, the beers of course from Heineken kept people smiling and we cant forget our regulars from Vitamin Water offerning the Non Alcoholic option. And of course not a lot of this could have happened without our good friends at 100Hus, who gave us the great space and accomodation for this event. We have been fortunate enough to meet these guys who are as interested in what we are doing as we are. The exhibition runs until the 15th October so pop along and take a look, its worth a visit. http://www.thescarlettgallery.com/events/evil.html
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Crossie is so HOT right now Check out her WEBSITE
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Pure Evil Gallery presents ‘Birth of Namahage’ new Monotype prints by Grady Gordon. PRESS RELEASE *********************************************** Opening July 7th, 2011 at Pure Evil Gallery 6-9pm opening event. In his fifth series of monotype prints, Grady Gordon examines the ‘Namahage,’ an elusive member of the Japanese Yokai, an amalgamation of various monsters and myths. In Western culture, the Namhage is equivalent to the boogeyman. The strangely ironic wretch is known for donning the masks of other monsters. In this series the faces aim to show what is hiding behind the mask. Utilizing a grouping of nondescript patterns and textures as the vessel, Grady illuminates the beast that moonlights as another. ‘I want people to make their own monsters when they look at my prints. I’m interested in the internal dialogue this may create; a remembered boogeyman,’ explains Grady. ‘Birth of Namahage’ is composed of 23 new monotype prints on rives bfk paper. It is Grady’s first solo European show. There will be a limited edition show zine available during the shows run. (b.1979) Grady Gordon is originally from santa fe, nm. in the high-desert he grew up alongside various art forms, most notably the native American ‘katchina’ wood carvings of numerous spirits. these spirits allowed him to investigate the world beyond our limit. The japanese ‘yokai’ are also another great source of inspiration. In his prints, grady searches for xrayz of mortality, the face behind the veil, and aims to illuminate what is staring back at us. The monotype print is a study of impermanence. unlike other forms of printmaking the monotype offers only one copy. the original image on the plate is then given back to the ether, back into the fabric. Grady has shown work in santa fe, los angeles, london, and paris…
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graffititv dot net website I have a new project, re-jazzing-up the tired and out of date WWW.GRAFFITITV.NET website… its AWESOME…. My team of sub saharan web designers have rocked it.
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Isaac Cordal rocks... or concretes
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Gustavo ortiz just dropped off some bloody AWESOME artwork… This makes me really happy.
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bhopal medical appeal
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ROBBO solo at PE Gallery 30th September private preview evening 6-9 1 October writers evening 6-9
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Mongolia !!! I just got back from an incredible trip to hang out with Ben Frost and paint with local artists in Ulaanbatar Mongolia…
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photo by RomanyWG
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TAKE A PANORAMIC TOUR OF THE GALLERY
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music from the pure evil gallery music studio
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PURE EVIL : DARK CARNIVAL AT CHOQUE CULTURAL SAO PAULO BRASIL
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DRAN BOM-K JAW HENG SHOW
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Father of PURE EVIL : John Uzzell Edwards is AMAZING
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Run-the old world is behind you PURE EVIL@ ATM Gallery & Shop 30.05.08 to 30.06.08 Brunnenstr.24 10119 Berlin Mitte
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The Cans Festival London
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gustavo ortiz show
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Pure Evil in Brasil
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Did a 3 day happening with Jarvis Cocker
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Website for THE KILLS I spent 2 months or so working on the website for THE KILLS… its full of their photographs and art and videos and music and I think it totally RULES. You will too..
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SEX AND MODERATE VIOLENCE GET SOME HERE
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Heath Ledger / Joker Following the BIG ISSUE FOUNDATION show at Black Rat Press, The HEATH LEDGER / JOKER painting that was donated is now released as a C-Type print on Fuji Archival paper
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Pure Evil in Geordie Land !
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Death Planet
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Pictures on Walls sealed my fate I was hanging in San Francisco for just under 6 months in 2006 when I got an email from PICTURES ON WALLS to see if I was interested in doing a print for them.. YES.. so inna James Bond fashion I flew back to London to make the PANDAS ROCK print, and then ended up extending my stay to work at the SANTAS GHETTO show on Oxford street , which was AWESOME.. I hung out at POW , did a spot of screenprinting and never went back to Cali.
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SANTAS GHETTO BETHLEHEM PURE EVIL got UP ! In the birthplace of the baby Jesus, on the Palestine side of the West Bank Wall.. thanks Andy at POW for the pic!
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STEN & LEX at PE Gallery
