Bookmark Malark – New Website
Malark launched his website the other week and it’s packed full of his illustrations as well as street pieces.
We also have the chance to purchase some of his work from the site too. Find it all here;
Get it bookmarked!!!
CoMusica #4 & #5
Bit of an update on the CoMusica wall. The August bank holiday weekend played host to a new jam at the wall. Photos follow.
Graffiti update #8
The art of Mr Owl
Followers of the blog will already be familiar with the work of Mr Owl. Over the summer he has been producing some fantastic new pieces including “Sailor Jeffrey” (above) and the colourful owl images that follow.
Malarky in Barcelona
As some of you may or may not be aware, a few months back Malarky jetted off to sunnier sky’s. He’s been a big miss to the scene in the North East but has been producing some fantastic new pieces whilst in Barcelona;
Collab with MISTERTHEFREAK;
Few new bits which are f**king sweeeet;
He’s been updating his blog/Facebook page pretty frequently so be sure to check it out!
(All pictures/photos were taken with permission from Malarks blog)
Street Art update #17
Mr Owl and The Cloud Commission hit Ouseburn with a couple of cheeky pastey’s a few weeks back. Also in this post there’s a couple new Mobstr pieces which I came across.
FiST – MiTHER TUNG
If you’re not on Electrik Sheep’s mailing list then you may not have heard about the new show which opens next week;
MiTHER TUNG opens Thursday 6th September at 6pm with one of Electrik Sheep’s famous street parties and will run for a month.
Buckets of discarded Victoriana feed FiST’s dirty habit: renovating the dead with graffiti-esque meanderings. Intricate lines adorn century-old anonymous portraiture. Faces are covered with lace-like masks and bodies ornated with cobwebbed clothing. The elegance of the static Victorian gaze contrasts with mutant weaponry and bulbous appendages that sprout like cyborgian add-ons.
The practice of FiST is more akin to sculpture than any other artistic tradition. It is associated with dirty things, with rummaging and digging through the buried and the dust-covered. Paint and line are laid and sprayed and dripped on fragments of yesteryear – on wood and photograph, signage and cabinet. Through this can be glimpsed a future for our own redundant image, buried in digital archives.
FiST certainly has some interesting work so defo worth a visit if you’re in two minds.
Keep an eye on www.electriksheep.co.uk for more info.
A few things Prefab77
The Prefab lads were recently in California for the US Surf Open. They had been tasked with making 3 x 80ft wall installations;
The walls they pasted onto were later turned into bespoke furniture;
Looks like a sweet trip – jealous much?
The Prefab77 site has also been updated so go have peek and check out the new online store too;
www.prefab77.co.uk (photos in the post were from their blog)
prefab77.bigcartel.com – new online store.
Just seen this on there store, 30″ x 40″ sticker love that. Loving the new Heist colour-ways too!
Modern Toss – The North East Felt Tip Shit House
A new show at Lazarides Newcastle is due to run from 3rd September 2010 through to 30th October 2010 featuring Modern Toss.
Bit info on the artists from the Laz site;
International cult cartoonists and creators of the Modern Toss Channel 4 TV series are bringing their unique brand of precision swearing and stylishly cak-handed drawing to the Lazarides gallery in Newcastle this September for an unmissable, ground-breaking exhibition of their artwork.
The scurrilously inventive satirists behind Mr Tourette and the Drive-by Abuser invite you along to witness their incredible range of top notch, limited edition prints, interactive art pieces and assorted, hilarious paraphernalia from the Toss Cabinet of Shit-Naks.
Expect some special treats – including their impressively researched ‘Periodic Table Of Swearing’ print, now adapted for use as a working fruit machine. The ever controversial Mr Tourette master signwriter will also be tackling the big issues with a new print illustrating his incisive summing up of the international
banking crisis.Modern Toss claim they will be concentrating even harder on addressing contemporary themes with this exhibition, so get yourself down there and check out their ‘Buy More Shit or We’re All Fucked’ shopping bags, a wall-friendly selection of superb ‘Space Argument’ prints and some highly collectible dirty pictures, hand-stitched in wool by enthusiastic mature ladies.
Haha.
