Art-el Gallery opening 20th January 2012

Happy new year everybody and thanks to you all for your support throughout 2011.

Our new year starts with a bang as Art-el opens it’s first gallery space and we would like to invite you all to come and join us for food and drinks on the 20th January from 6pm – 9.30pm to help us celebrate as we embark on the next leg of the Art-el journey.

We will initially be showing a selection of works currently represented on the Art-el web-site but this will soon be changing so watch this space for future events and gatherings.

Look forward to seeing you all on the 20th.

 

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Max Rippon (RIPO) show in Barcelona

Just a heads up for anyone in or around Barcelona this coming Friday, which sees the opening of a new exhibition of paintings and installations by one of our favourite writers/artists the incredibly talented Ripo.

‘Don’t Get Me Wrong’ opens this Friday, January 14th at Galeria Cosmo, Barcelona and runs until February 14th.

Originating from New York but seemingly in love with Barcelona Ripo continues to tear things up around the walls of Europe and beyond with its unique textbased work and his unique and crazy fresh style. His choice of location for his outdoor work is always bang on the money and his ‘ Your Name Here’ project always had us waiting for his next piece to pop up. His recent ‘ Change in Vain’ wall was definitely one of our highlights of 2010.

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EVICTION of Classics Free Shop & Emporium Art Gallery

If you are not already aware, then now you will be:-

2 vital community resources are currently under threat of Eviction in Bristol’s most vibrant , political and ceative hub. These are Classics Free Shopand Emporium Art Gallery, 35 – 37 Stokes Croft. The latter has provided exhibitions for a very broard spectrum including: The Somalian Youth Project, Big Issue, Burning Candy Crew, Amnesty International and of course Dale VN Marshall’s ROOM 101 to name but a few.  Whilst the former also a Non Profit based organisation offers a range of  Clothing, Household Goods and Books all for free to the  Community, Local Homeless Charities are now reffering their clients to the shop. When you consider the welfare cuts now taking place as well as funding being slashed in the Arts, these buildings are providing an even more vital service than ever.

Click the link below for the full press release, look out for the petitions, get involved!

35&37 Stokes Croft Press Release

Lokey Solo Show @ WOC Gallery 12/11/10

At 6pm on Friday 12th November Weapon of Choice Gallery will be throwing open their doors to the first solo show from the artist  ‘Lokey’.  Lokey was born and raised in Bristol.  His passion for graffiti started in the mid 1980’s following  a chance encounter in a local park with some break-dancing kids who had returned from their American holiday armed with hip-hop mix tapes and photographs of graffiti. 

Lokey is a product of the  Kingswood Hip Hop scene that nurtured the likes of Deed, Cheo, Kato and Soker.  The youngest of the Veterans of Bristol writers he has been painting the streets for the last twenty years during which time  he has been a member of Bad Applez, Dry Breadz, collaborated with many of the big names in graffiti (including Banksy) and is now considered one of the best 3D letter writers around.

This show is an exhibition of artworks adapted from Lokey’s black books, his inspiration for his graffiti, and an insight into his imagination.  This one’s not to be missed!

Show runs until the 5th of December 2010.

Upfest 5th June 10

We popped by Upfest on Saturday 5th June to say hi to some friends and took a few snaps while we were there.

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CRIMES OF PASSION

If you only get to one exhibition this year, make it this one at the Royal West Of England Academy in Bristol, a major show of new work by the city’s best known and most successful graffiti and street artists and is the first show of its kind in the city since the Arnolfini’s groundbreaking 1985 show, Graffiti Art.

Celebrating Bristols rich and diverse contemporary scene, which has nurtured many of the UK’s most successful graffiti and street artists, including 3D, Inkie, Banksy, Nick Walker, Sickboy and TCF Crew, and continues to be a breeding ground for a wealth of exceptional creative talent.

We have been lucky enough to have visited the venue to watch the work being thrown up and it is going to be a killer of a show. It opens on Friday night and and is open for 6 weeks so get along.

69 Show Opens

The hard work paid off. After another frantic day of hanging the doors have finally opened to Bristol’s newest Gallery.

The art and the space were very well received and the venue was busy all evening, music played and beer flowed. In neighbouring units there were cyclists, live art and a burlesque fan dancer so plenty for all too see.

The show is open for the next 6 weeks so if you couldn’t make it last night there is still a chance to catch the show at 131-133 Wilder Street, St Pauls, Bristol open Wednesday – Saturday 11am to 7pm and Sunday 11am – 4 pm.

A big thanks to everybody that worked so hard in making this show possible, all the artists, Paul, Anabel, Sean Phil, Sam, Damian, Red Bull and to everybody that showed up and those that plan to.

New Gallery To Hit Bristol

Well this is the week that the all brand new Wilder Street Gallery throws open is doors to the public. Located at 131-133 Wilder Street, St Pauls Bristol, he building, Co2Zero, is a work of art in itself. The scheme is heavily ECO biased and is the first zero carbon live/work developement in the UK.

We have been working very hard co-curating the opening group show “69″.

69 group show flyer

Opening night is on Tuesday the 10th of March namely because this happens to be the 69th day of the year, featuring artists including Mr Jago, Inkie, Joeseph Loughborough, Dr.d and Brian Jones. There will also be a live music set and other visual delights.

The show is supporting the Terence Higgins Trust with 10% of sales from the show being donated.

THE GALLERY

Mr Jago Solo Show – Opens Tonight

Well Mr Jago has been a very busy boy this week preparing for his Bristol solo show “Keep From Going Under” at The Friend & Co Gallery that opens at 7pm this evening.

We are sure Mr Jago fans will not be disappointed, if you can’t make it to the opening this evening the show runs until the 4th March.

Sneak preview

We for sure can not wait to see the finished product as it was already looking stunning on Sunday and it still had quite a way to go.

Do you know what it is yet?

Mr Jago @ Friend & Co Gallery

On a corner, on the Gloucester Road Road in Bristol, is sited the Friend & Co Gallery. It’s the quaintest little gallery we ever did see, so tiny that next month the gallery could find itself becoming an exhibit in it’s own right as our good friend Mr Jago takes over the space in February.

If you want to know what the hell we’re talking about you’d better take a trip and see for yourselves, the show is open from the 11th February to the 1st March, plenty of time to come along for a gander.

Mr Jago Solo Show Flyer

For more information about the artist Mr Jago go to http://www.mrjago.com