Kev has uploaded some very nice photos of his new exhibition 'Everlasting Arms'that started last week (see previous post below) to his blog. Check them out HERE. Here's a cheeky taster I pinched - great stuff:

On Tuesday I was assisting with the exhibition change over at Spine Skateshop & Gallery. The new show is by our friend Rob who takes a mean photograph. The exhibition features 10 large, medium format images of local places familiar to Rob, hence the title 'Common Ground'. It's a great little show and the colours in the photographs are lovely, nice one Rob. Click more info for more pics.

A new exhibition entitled 'Street Art' is opening at the Tate Modern in London on 23rd May and is apparently "the first major public museum display of street art in London".

Contributing artists are: Blu from Bologna, Italy [Modart 16]; the artist collective Faile from New York, USA; JR from Paris, France; Nunca and Os Gemeos [Modart 15], both from Sao Paulo, Brazil and Sixeart from Barcelona, Spain.

There will also be a 'Street Art Walking Tour' which is "an urban tour of site-specific art from a group of five Madrid-based street artists: 3TTMan, Spok, Nano 4814, El Tono and Nuria – a map will be available in the gallery. Various events will take place during the exhibition, including an interactive evening with experimental New York artists Graffiti Research Lab, refacing Tate Modern with graffiti light projections."

Sounds like fun. More info on the Tate Modern website HERE. Click more info for the full press release.

Speaking of Blu [Modart 16] in the post below... you HAVE to watch this amazing animation film he's made. It's called MUTO, was filmed in Buenos Aires and Baden and is described on his website as "An ambitious animation painted on public walls." It's a work of genius. Visit his website for more info and credits for this movie, and view his other animation work (click Video) HERE.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

For the last few days I've been putting my meager art abilities to the test finishing up this painting for Chris's sister. She'd asked if I'd do a stencilly canvas of her favourite lady of rock: Kim Deal. After much holding of breath and near disasters, I'm pretty relieved with the result as I wasn't sure how it'd turn out. Click more info for the original image and the work in progress.

Talented French artist AlexOne has a new show on at Galerie LJ Beaubourg in Paris. The title of the show which started on May 15 is "assez d'essais" which translates as 'enough drafts' and is apparently also a joke about how the French say 'AC/DC'. A particularly interesting feature of the show is the 'drawing shack' which allows visitors to learn to draw like AlexOne. The show runs until June 10th.
Click more info to see a few pictures from the show. More details on the gallery's website at: www.galerieljbeaubourg.net

This is what happens when I find myself at a loose end which (probably for the best) doesn't happen very often: I painted a stoat on a tote bag so it would become a 'stoat bag'. Well, I thought it was amusing...

A few weeks ago I ordered myself a copy of this great little zine called Sobstory? by Andrew Scott who co-owns the fantastic gallery/handmade goods/zine emporium Needles and Pens in San Francisco.

Sobstory? has been going for ten years and is back after a two year break with issue 8. Described on the Needles and Pens website as "56 pages of photos, rants, doodles, and philosophical observations on humanity based loosely on and around a tale of solitary traveling around England and France." It's basically all round ziney brilliance, a great little read and I was super chuffed with my purchase!

Photo below pinched from Needles and Pens, see more pics and grab a copy HERE.