Basically says he's been chucked out of his own gallery as they have massive issues from the shows where peoples work is being held by authorities.

Basically guys, never give your work to these fake shows, I've heard some horror stories.

Work coming back damaged or work not coming back at all.


 

Steve jobs , can make a turnaround

Investors invested probably with the interest in banksy link and vast banksy collection he has,seems he's still chasing the next banksy

People over the age of 11 that wear Superdry should be shot ! 

The FT article:

"The art gallery that turned Banksy, the graffiti artist, into a bankable commodity for collectors has received a “seven-figure” investment from a Qatari magnate.

Steve Lazarides, a former photographer turned street art gallerist, said he would use the investment from Wissam al-Mana to move his Lazarides Rathbone gallery from Fitzrovia to Mayfair and to start selling screen prints of street art online.

“I have spent every single penny we have made in this gallery to reinvest and to try to grow it,” he said. “We now have a manufacturing business making screen prints and we have developed our whole ecommerce business. Now we need investment to grow them to what they are capable of.”

But Mr Lazarides would not comment on whether the market for street art is still booming. At the beginning of his relationship with Banksy, Mr Lazarides sold the artist’s screen prints for just £25 each. In 2014, the same prints had risen in value to tens of thousands of pounds.

Mr Lazarides said: “We have had up years and we have had down years. Anywhere between £3m and £5m in terms of turnover. It has been the same for 4-5 years. It is almost entirely dependent on what kind of shows you put on.”

He said his projected move to Mayfair did not run counter to the edgy vibe of the work he deals in.

“These guys [artists] have never been anti-capitalist, they are pro-human rather than anti-capitalist.

“They do not have a strong smash-the-system outlook on life. Even if your paintings are selling at the low end, for £3,000 to £5,000, you have already moved way out of the smash-the-system end of the market.”

“It is about protest, it is quite often political, more political than anti-capitalist. Even Banksy isn’t really anti-capitalist,” he said.

Mr al-Mana is reportedly a billionaire and is also the husband of Janet Jackson, the singer. He owns the al-Mana group, a family company with retail, property and media interests.

Mr Lazarides said he met Mr al-Mana when he visited one of his galleries one day and that his investor was interested in the “visceral feel” of the art he sells."

Way over priced and over editioned snaps ...

Too pricey for me but i'll get a book