Urban Art Association

its just incase anyone turn prints down

No, I've been at work where I can't access the forum. Are you going to explain what you mean, or do I have to guess?

Sorry it was a joke...im guessing they have to wait the 48 hours that people have been given, before they can re-draw the remaining prints

I just had an e-mail from POW in regards t opicking my print up, and was told that I have to have the confirmation by tomorrow morning, so I presume that all that aren't confirmed by then will go back in the raffle.

"partial success" seems an odd turn of phrase.

Yeah, I was a bit confused with the 'Partial Success' thing. Does this mean they were expecting more of a turn out?

Does anybody know an 'Andy' from POW ?

do you think that all people who got drawn for a banksy wouldve paid for one ?

I agree it prob was not what they imagined as sat was basically just a big line outside the street and very little else...couple of people putting up work but not many no real "party" atomosphere but i guess they have learnt some lessons for next year!!!

They should of hired out the HOXTON urban hotel and got Too Many Djs to play for the weekend!!!Now thats would have been a PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Big trouble was that at the back of the queue we didn't even know what we were queueing for!
If I was told it was to go into the shop, but there were other stalls outside, and you could buy your lottery tickets there, I wouldn't have bothered queueing... and loads other wouldn't have either. Just needed someone to come down the line and tell people.

happy shopper i agree i was not too bothered about going into the shop but when i found out that was what the queue was for i had been in it over 2hrs so thought i might was well stay in it

POW might have had Joshua Compston's 1993 art event 'A Fete Worse Than Death' in mind which put Hoxton on the map when they conceived the open day, it fell well short of that landmark event.

"Compston was a pivotal personality in the Shoreditch art scene of the mid 1990s, until his death at the age of 25 in March 1996. An enigmatic figure, his great creative energy was the driving force of his life, art his weapon. His lasting success has been to bring together a group of artists now at the forefront of the London art scene. Yet Compston¹s attempt to establish a 'capitalism of the avant garde' foundered, in part due to an inability to recognise the implications of his ambitious schemes. In 1992 Joshua Compston set up Factual Nonsense, a 'gallery and project centre' in Charlotte Road in Hoxton, in a Victorian furniture factory. From this space he organised a whirlwind seven openings in six months and began to feel the existence of a community, giving him the confidence he needed to organise 'Fete worse than Death', the first of many local events. This took place in the streets around Factual Nonsense, a mile away from Sarah Lucas and Tracey Emin¹s 'The Shop' in Bethnal Green.

The list of participants reads like a Who¹s Who of young British art Tracey Emin, Gillian Wearing, Matt Collishaw, Gavin Turk, Gilbert & George, Sarah Lucas, Gary Hume, Damian Hurst, Angus Fairhurst, Jessica Voorsanger, Sue Webster and Tim Noble, Molly Nyman, Hannah Greenway."
Taken from: No Fun Without You
The Art of Factual Nonsense
by Jeremy Cooper

I get the £24,406 , but the 61 pence?

Oh yes conrats to POW despite the slight issues, a worthy and worthwhile event. Sadly I failed to get a sniff of any of the raffle prints, but did come away with a Eelus and Xenz ( not to metion the Nola I bought the other week ).

Well done to the winners though.