Urban Art Association

your not wrong ! listed as sold now

Well i've placed an order but not heard back yet - anyone else ??

fingers crossed i egt one - otherwise it'll teach me yet another lesson for pondering !!

they've been there since about Jan but it's taken me a while to raise the cash !!

i only took the plunge yesterday and called but was told to send a mail via their site - hav'ent had a response yet so am expecting the worst !

Has anyone actually compared Bomber Girl and Minotaur Weapon in the flesh?

I have seen both and went for BG. They're both excellent but BG is more to my taste-simple yet beautiful. At the end of the day it comes down to individual preferences. Would be nice to have both though

And that is why I love simple B&W pieces-almost everything goes with them for the stunning results

Does anyone have a picture of their Bomber Girl, Minotaur Weaopn or We Come in Peace framed? Be good to see what people have done with theirs.

I'm not being cynical its just fact that these were being classed as a ridiculously over priced a while back. Since the Rise in Micallef prints values these have been snapped up without a thought for the 4.7k price tag. I know only a hand-full of people who bought them the week they were released, since then they have sat on the shelf until now that is when some can clearly see a profit in them. Am I wrong? I don't think so. After reading these posts over the last few weeks I reckon all of the remaining were sold to forum members. I do love them, all in fact, but at that price you can keep em. Id rather spend my money on something that no one else has got.

I hope you enjoy them, I couldn't at that price.

IMO the Micallef prints are outstanding but I do feel that starting at 4700 the potential for huge banksy style profit is low, simply because the amount of potential buyers has been slashed dramatically by this already high asking price.
Get them framed and simply enjoy them.
Still waiting for someone to post a framed one.

I agree that the starting price was much higher than Banksys were a good few years ago, but when you compare this limited run of 50 against Banksy's Radar Rat that was limited to a run of 75, which was sold for 15,000 GBP last month then I think the chances of the Laz Micallef prices increasing to a similar price or even higher isn't out of the question.

It has nothing to do with starting prices, thats just clever marketing. The recent sales at Sothebys is also a clever move, getting him ready for the US market.
Its all about PR and Laz is very good at it, as for comparing, IMO they are very different in so many ways. When do you see Micallef using Stencils? you don't, he paints free hand with all methods of mediums he can get his hands on, Banksy however uses stencil and spray most of the time as IMO his free hand is not up to the same standard. In their own way they are very effective artists.
The only thing in common with their art is Laz, thats about it.
There is a lot of moaning about price raises on here which I agree is annoying but Micallef has been around for a long time and Eyestorm couldn't shift them last year so why didn't people buy then?, Not being smug but I bought a few prints before the hype because I loved his style of painting (turned down 4 of 5 canvases as they were to expensive at around 2k)

At which time only a small handful of people were talking about him and thats the way it stayed for a long while, I didn't once think he would blow up like this, amazing what a bit of hype and PR can do to an artist. Art is about buying what you like and regardless of who the artist is, if its good and in the right mediums (Oils etc) what you buy normally rises in value slowly over time. These dramatic prices rises are a phenomenon and nothing more IMO. Ive been into art for 20 years and this is a first for these types of escalation IMO.

Yeah... professional speculators!

This is from another thread. About a week ago there was a link with all of them in white frames. Anyone have this link?

My sentiments exactly.

I got into Micallef a year or so ago a good wee bit before his Laz show, so i got me some of the Eyestorms (21CL, My Walk And HFUNG) all for less than 1k.

Just wish I'd had the money back then to buy a canvas, however I have 4 prints inc Bomber Girl, so I'm not all that upset.

My mate who works for a computer game company up here in Edinburgh (it doesn't take much to work out what company that is) and one of the head guys has a stoopidly fat house and a good couple of original Micallefs. Gunna have to get myself invited to his next big party! (probably around 16th Oct....)