The G's magazine tagline is "Illustration & Surroundings" and that's exactly what the book provides us with. In 60 black and white xeroxed pages, we get an excellent selection of illustrators from around the globe, including the infamous Jean Jullien, Craig Atkinson and Jon Burgerman...

We are in Berlin right now at the Urban Affairs Extended Festival.
With more than 2.000 qm exhibition space in the ancient swimming hall in Berlin Wedding, the WALLBREAKERS festival will join the independant Urban Art Scene at Urban Affairs from 1st - 31th July 2009.
The Opening will be tonight!!

This Saturday, July 4th will be the last chance to see Remi Rough's newest show up at the Urban Angel Gallery in London. Abstract and graffiti inspired, his work won't disappoint. The gallery will be serving up drinks to all who get there between 1-3pm. Check out more on his website and at the gallery's site.

Since 2 years kingdrips supports faith21 with quality artworks to create a unique fashion line. This summer its time to stick together - the guys from kingdrips explore the faith21 homebase in capetown.

On the 17th of july the team will present artworks, fashion and custom-shaped & handpainted surfboards in hamburg.

I love old books and this one has been making me chuckle all week. It's a 1940s knitting pattern book I picked up from a local vintage shop in Worcester, and it's called 'Modern Knitting Illustrated' by Jane Koster and Margaret Murray (Odhams Press, 1940s). It's full of unintentionally hilarious photos and captions. Such as:

"Three smart girls, who know the value of comfort, choose to wear knitted jumpers at informal afternoon tea parties..."

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ive developed a fascination with this certain style of painting...ive seen it in cape town and durban... harbour towns.. the stowaways from boats that travel from north and central africa, to south africa and then to europe leave these messages.
its a very undocumented and harsh journey that they go through and the places that you find their work is under railway bridges and hidden shelters... like them elusive and hard to find...
see faith47 artist blog

Anthony Lister is working on a One Night Only show entitled 'No Win Switch' in Sydney, Australia opening on July 17th. No word yet as to where it is exactly but he sent over some new works that we'd love to share.

New Pictures from Urban Affairs arrived...a big thank you to Just / Just.Ekosystem.org.
Check the event, if you're in Berlin these days!
We'll keep you updated with new footage soon...

Location:
STATTBAD // Gerichtstr 65 // 13347 Berlin

louis minaar is an artist that hails from pretoria, south africa... his show - 'originale' was held at salon91 last week. see the write up and pics from the show by ernst alex and here is a link to two of his videos - one on youtube
and his picturebook experiment video on facebook
from faith47's artist blog

Wendell McShine is an artist hailing from Trinidad and Tobago who has spent the last few years between his native country and Mexico. This hand-crafted stop motion video is a piece he did working with 12 the Band, also from Trinidad. Utlizing any and all mediums he spends years creating entire worlds filled with his characters telling mystical stories relating to the everyday life he grew up with. Check out more of his work at 72ironmen.blogspot.com.

painting by ROA

Another bunch of Photos arrived from Berlin.
Nils Mueller took these shots from the WALLBREAKERS FESTIVAL.....

David Shillinglaw will be opening his newest solo show, 'Knee-Jerk,' next Thursday, July 11th at the Nancy Victor Gallery in London. His work certainly has that feeling of a gut reaction put out in full color and he recently sent us over a whole slew of new works that are just a taste of what's in store at the show. Check it out.

New Pictures from the WALLBREAKERS exhibition in Berlin...thanks to JUST!!

Our good friend Victor Castillo is bringing his newest body of work to the Merrry Karnowsky Gallery in Los Angeles for his first solo show there. Entitled 'Gameland' his newest works juxtapose juvenile innocence with sinister violence in his signature style that only continues to get richer in its ability to disturb and delight.

Lucas Ribeiro recently curated a strong three-person show in Porto Alegre, Brazil entitled '+Apto' (More Apt). Mateus Grimm, Diogenes DSM and Trampo were brought together to show their work in a temporary gallery space set up in the PUCRS MCT Museum of Science and Technology. The museum is hosting a year long show on Darwin and in connection with the exhibit they set up the temporary space to show the work of these three artists and their visions created around the theme of evolution. This includes a collective mural painted inside the museum that will continue evolving every month until the end of the year.

Eliot has been working as a man-of-many-trades as a 'rock' of the German hip hop movement since 1988. Friday, July 10th he's opening his solo show at ATM Gallery in Berlin. Pulling from his graffiti and comic book background he's made a set of embroidered canvases for the show and will also be showing some of his recent prints.

Our friend ROA at WALLBREAKERS Festival....

This Thursday, July 17th Gallery Nosco in London will open up 'The Summer Exhibition.' The show will only be up for two weeks which sounds about right for a Summer Exhibition in England. Sweat it out to works by Dran, Nicolas Ruston, Naomi Doran, Brusk, Ptolemy Elrington.

Last night Carmichael Gallery in Los Angeles opened both Eine's solo show 'The A-Z of Change' as well as Frerk and Marc C. Woehr's show in their project room. This is their first show in Los Angeles. They just sent us over a few images of their new works and we just had to share them with you. Both shows will remain up through July 30th so if you're in LA there's still time to check it out.

Photos are now online of the impressive group show that is The Joyful Bewilderment. See them at The Here Gallery's Flickr page. The show, curated by members of The Outcrowd, includes work by (to name just a few) Marcus Oakley, James Jarvis, Log Roper, Chris Bourke, Bfree, Nigel Peake, Stefan Marx and Steven Harrington.

From Jo Waterhouse's Blog.

Ron English recently opened his newest solo show at the picturesque Don Gallery in Milan. We just received a nice selection of photos of the work that's up and on view until August 25th.

Art Friendly is a new effort combining high quality art prints and an environmental conscience. Of course our favorite part of this project is the No New Enemies Collection curated by our very own Harlan Levey. Great new works by Will Barras, Ephameron, and Ripo among others are now available and as with all Art Friendly prints for each print sold one tree will be planted (no bullshit). Check out the Art Friendly website and pick up some new artwork today.

For the 6th edition of the widely renowned yearly "Art Trek" expo, 14 young international artists present their illustrative works in an exciting collective exhibition from August 1 at Galerie Mekanik in Belgium...

This Saturday, July 18th Signal Gallery in London will be hosting Jaybo's (AKA Monk) solo show entitled 'Headscape: Tales From The Drifters'. He was one of the pioneers in Berlin's street and hip hop scene by simply having had his hand in every aspect of it for decades now (even preceding the fall of the Wall). He's gone from painting graffiti, being a street actor, hip-hop musician, starting the streetwear label 'Irie' as well as the magazing 'Style' to now focusing on his studio work finding influence from Francis Bacon to Mickey Mouse. This new show will be a great opportunity for anyone in London to check out his new work and understand more of where he's been and where he's going. Also take a moment to read a great interview with Jaybo from Whitehot Magazine here.

Tonight Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California in will be opening what looks to be a really nice group exhibition entitled 'Momentum' with original works from Tiffany Bozic, Chigi (also known as Neri), Ina Kyung Lim, Tessar Lo, Veronique Meignaud, and Brooks Salzwedel.

The other day I helped Chris print up his biggest lino print yet. It was a two man job just to manoeuvre the roll of paper into position over the two A2 sized lino blocks. We started with the finished lino blocks placed onto paper taped to the floor:

More at Jo Waterhouse's Blog

Kudzanai Chiurai is a young revolutionary Zimbabwean pop-artist who lives in South Africa.
Ive been following his work for some time...
Last week Kudzi opened his first show in Cape Town at the Goodman Gallery.
Entitled Dying to Be Men, Kudzi’s striking mixed media works are politically charged and carry with them a certain energy from the streets...
Heres is a link to some of his work from the show and his last project yellow lines...
from faith47's blog

Kid Acne was recently asked to redesign a record sleeve as part of Beck's (the beer not the band) ‘Music Inspired Art' project. He chose Paul's Boutique and redrew it in his take on Stephen Wiltshire's style. So to clarify that's a visual remix not the audible kind, although surely that would interest the Kid as well. Read on for more pics and links.

Our good friend Kenor has just redone his entire website. Tons of work on concrete, metal, canvas, cardboard, glass and pretty much anything else that's gotten in his way in the past ten or so years that he's been putting in serious work in the streets of Barcelona. Check it out for yourself at www.elkenor.com.

EXHIBITION OPENING/CITYWALK von ABNER PREIS und me... starts around 18.00h at Stattbad Wedding , Gerichtsstrasse65. We put you on a surreal trip through the wastelands of Berlin... The walk ends around 19h at our galleryshow opening "OMG-HAPPY EVER AFTER" at BROT.UND .SPIELE GALLERY, Gartenstrasse 2.......
Admission : Free/ 0Euros .....

If you read this blog regularly you might remember reading about Anthony Lister's one-night-only installation in Sydney last week. From what we hear it was a big success and Lister sent the pics to prove it.

To promote our Vintage & Craft Fair event we did a spot of Guerrilla Knitting around Worcester town centre, including this bold move of giving Worcester's famed and precious Elgar statue some lovely new leg warmers!

Read more at Jo Waterhouse's Blog

Check out this black and white zine made by the good or evil people of Good vs. Evil. This newest issue has work based on the timeless theme of 'Man vs. Mescaline' and includes some really nice work from some of our favorites like Jim Philips, G, Andy Rementer and plenty more. Go to www.goodvsevilzine.blogspot.com to check out more and pick up a copy.

This is how our everyday-life is like at the UrbanAffairs in Berlin...A lot of nice visitors find the way to this fine exhibition these days - come by as long as we are here....3 more days left and a huge party on friday!

Location:
STATTBAD // Gerichtstr 65 // 13347 Berlin

Check: urbanaffairs.de

Check: artwallbreakers.com

A bit last minute on this one but since it's summer and we know a lot of you are traveling this is one you should check out tonight in Valencia if you're nearby. Our good friend Davide Zucco aka Rekal will be participating in the XI CONVOCATORIA INTERNATIONAL (aka Call 09) at Luis Adelantado Valencia. This show of 14 young artists from all over the world will be opening tonight.

Our friend Labrona is back in Nova Scotia and has been putting out some nice new prints with Homegrown Skateboards. Check them out and pick up something for yourself at www.hgskate.ca.

my good friend motel 7 is an artist of sad inverted fairy tales....castles and weeping childhoods. skulls and candyfloss.... were really sad to lose her in cape town as shes moved over to europe.... but her work needs to fly...for sure- here is her new website....
http://www.motelseven.com/
feast your eyes and your inner twisted child......*******
taken from faith47's blog