Urban Art Association

OPEN STUDIO : STREET ART 2007, by Pure Evil on Nov 12, 2007 10:48:29 GMT 1, OPEN STUDIO : STREET ART 2007

1st to 23rd December .
19 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, London UK

PURE EVIL (uk) *, EINE (uk) **, (------) (uk) , (------) (eire) ,
FEFE TALAVERA (brasil), L’ATLAS (france), DEM666 (italy), M-CITY (poland),
SEAK / CLAUS WINKLER (germany), PABLO FIASCO (canada), CALMA (brasil), OTHER (canada), CHOQUE CULTURAL prints (brasil)
STAK/OLIVIER KOSTA-THEFAINE (france), PMH (uk), ZOSEN (spain), ANARCHIC ADJUSTMENT (usa),
VAGABUNDOS (brasil), KISSMONSTER (uk), ZEUS (uk) , DOTMASTERS (uk) ,
DEADBEAT DONNY (uk) , and NELLY DUFF *** ARTISTS TBC .

You are invited to an open studio in the heart of Shoreditch.
Contemporary street artists at the top of their game will work on developing new artworks within the space and take their work to a new level…..

Live painting, films , discussions and workshops… Music , Lights , Action !!!!

Prints and originals will be for sale throughout the event, but the focus will be on Art not Commerce.. what a concept !!??

The show preview party on the 6th of December begins with a row of blank canvasses that will be worked on and developed throughout the 3 week residency and there will be a big Conclusion party on Thursday the 20th when the finished artworks will be on display.



* PURE EVIL resides within the Dark Sciences of the Art world, nestled neatly somewhere between graffiti and Brit Shock. He assassinates popular iconography, dosing it with political satire and populating it with infamous despots and dictators. The ideas tread a fine line between the subversive and the nerdy and in doing so create a comfortable stage from which he snowballs his audience with highly charged critiques on the state of both World affairs and other intergalactical issues concerning Alderon and Hoth. Not shy of confrontation he embraces the chance to shock with elan . This is very modern graffiti at it's freshest and most humorous, and if you don't love the ‘Panda's Rock’ print; then your heart is black and made of sewage.

** Ben EINE is one of London's most prolific and original street artists having started his career over twenty five years ago as a common vandal, he has toned and developed his unique style into something which has been described as "the Fiona Rae of graffiti and spray paint". Eine specializes in producing huge letters on shop fronts across London, it has recently been said that "...Eine is doing for letters of the alphabet what Banksy did for rats and smiley policemen".... whatever that means.
Eine's work has been exhibited in New York, Tokyo and all over Europe including V1 in Copenhagen and Colette in Paris. His painting commissions have also taken him worldwide to as far away as Israel, Australia and India. Born 1970, Ben Eine lives and works in London.

*** NELLY DUFF is cockney rhyming slang for LIFE. No really. Duff rhymes with puff, puff meaning breath, as in ‘breath of life’. Which is where the phrase ‘...not on yer nelly!’ originates. As far as we know Miss Duff was fictitious, although we reckon she was a tattooed, arm wrestling pin-up girl, who walked the streets at night in a hoodie. We, however, would never be found wearing a hoodie. You can find us in our dusty old gallery on the very lovely Columbia Road in East London. Come and say hi on a Sunday morning (bring your hangover - we don’t mind) and enjoy a bagel and a bunch of daffs too.