It’s all been go this week turning the plans into actions and EKO spe nt bank holiday monday at the Mark My Words screen-printing studio perfecting the all new EKO print to be release at the Brother Dolomite show opening on May 17th.
Here’s a little teaser for you all – further details to follow.
Co-LAB HQ was a hive of productivity all day yesterday, things are really beginning to take shape and we are all getting super excited.
A massive thanks to everybody who helped out yesterday, it made a huge difference and thanks to all those who put their heads round the door to show some love. Get the word out there, this place is going to be happening!
Taking a breather today to go visit some lovely Mum’s and then back to it on Monday!
After a decade of traveling the globe, taking in New York, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, the Gambia and many points in between, SheOne brings his signature bold expressive strokes and highly personalised abstract over-spray to Art-el Gallery in Bristol.
Opening at 6pm on the 26th October and entitled ‘Blackatelier’, the exhibition will feature a collection of brand new works and installation pieces created whilst in residency at the gallery. The work reflects on his expansive history of mark making that is deep rooted in the era of New York subway graffiti.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I discovered graffiti as a fully formed art culture, I took the idea of spray-painting a name and have been abstracting that concept ever since.
The new works are the latest entries in an aesthetic journal, information mapped out in a stylised argot, gathered from the immediacy of site specific painting in the abandoned edges and questioning the transient nature of public art.
In graffiti you have to be prepared to walk away from your works. It is a one shot deal, whether it’s a rooftop in the Bronx or an abandoned farmhouse on a Sardinian hillside, you will never personally see the work again. What is important is committing to a moment and the experience of making the works.
This latest show captures fragments of these journeys, externalised private moments, experience translated into permenance.
Blackatelier is wherever I am working, an ambient studio where internal impulses can be realised, a sloganised output made physical with spraypaint.
Please come and join us for what will be Art-el’s final exhibition of 2012. It’s been a great year and we’ve hosted some amazing show’s with some super talented artists, including Mark Lyken, Ermsone and Pinky. The remaining work from these shows can still be purchased through the Art-el website.
The show runs until the 17th November – normal Art-el gallery opening times apply.
The sun is shining, the tunes are pumping and the paint is flowing.
Join us for a fun and free day out at The College Project, Timsbury Walk, Bedminster Bristol, BS3 5JJ.
Come and join us at The College Project this Saturday for a day of painting fun.
Big thanks and love to all of you who helped make this happen – you know who you are x
Coming soon to Art-el, a stunning new collection of paintings and drawing by Pinky in his solo exhibition ‘REMEMBER WHAT YOU STAND FOR’.
The new College Boutique is having a Launch Party on Friday the 13th from 4.30pm-8pm and you are invited to join them.
There will be children’s activities in the afternoon 4.30pm-6pm and drinks from 6pm onwards.
The College Boutique showcases the talents of The College Project residents and friends. From custom handmade clothing, stone sculpture, jewellery, paintings, original prints, hand knitted goods, metalwork plus much much more…
The boutique is open Thursday to Fridays 11:30am to 5:30pm and Saturday 12:00pm to 4:30pm at The College Project, Marksbury Road, Bedminster, Bristol, BS3 5JJ.
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Email us at thecollegeboutiquebristol@gmail.com
It was a very busy week last week. Erms arrived into Bristol from Paris on Sunday 27th May and on Monday the work began.
First up deciding the order of the paintings and marking out the walls ready to go to town with the Montana!
Tuesday – and it’s time to make a start on the show installation piece and fashion some aerosol caps out of buckets. Just for the record, DIY stores do not make downpipe in lengths that will fit into a standard hatchback car – so for any of you out there in Bristol who saw some crazy woman in a car park attacking downpipe with a hacksaw – that was me and this is why!
Great waves made on the painting front on Wednesday.
As if it wasn’t enough that the walls have eyes, it’s also time to add some skeleton hands – lots of them!
Painting done it’s time to start hanging – string, clips and a man who can tie knots desperately required (and found in the form of Aeddon who was amazing, big up and thanks for all your help).
On Friday printmaster and sticker king Stickee arrived to add some vinyl finishing touches.
Not long to go and the gallery is looking somewhat …….. unready! It’s a mad dash to the 6pm deadline and we didn’t quite make it, a little wait was necessary but we hope it was worth it.
The work is absolutely amazing and with the exception of the show print all the work that you can see in these photo’s is freehand and original, using a range of media including, gouache, permanent marker and posca. The detail is just outstanding.
Paper Jam Series detail
Last Night on Earth
detail
All remaining original work is now available at Art-el Gallery.
The show is open until June 22nd. Thursday & Friday 11:30 – 17:30 and Friday 12: to 16:00.
Don’t miss it and please don’t mention luggage tags!!!
So this event occurred just over a week ago now but since then things have been a bit crazy for us at Art-el, however it’s still worth a mention and a few pics.
In Bedminster Down you can found a little gem of a communty art space, ZION promotes art from within the local community by showing regular exhibitions and holding creative events and other activities including quiz nights, markets and workshops.
In April of this this year artist and illustrator, Andy Council painted Zionasaurus in the centre’s garden to celebrate the official opening.
Since then Andy has spent a fair bit of his time at Zion turning this painting into sculpture, and after a complicated construction, Zionasaurus was finally installed at Zion Community Art Centre, Bedminster Down, Bristol and received an official launch party on the 26th May.
And, whilst on the subject of Andy Council, here’s the piece he painted at Upfest this weekend (a bit more current!), on North Street’s Workout Gym, Bristol.
