Im gonna strap my running shoes on - I know exactly where to go and I'll sprint around all night finding them. I reckon I can carry about 5 prints under each arm, when they get too heavy I'll hide them and continue finding more. :-)

Just in case you missed oliversmark's link earlier in this thread! Read on...

ADAM NEATE: The London Show
As dusk falls on Friday 14th November, Adam Neate will be claiming the streets of London as his gallery by leaving 1000 artworks scattered across the city.

Old habits die hard, even the most conceptual ones.

In a one-off art happening of characteristic generosity, one thousand hand screenprinted paintings by Adam Neate will be left on the streets of London through the night of 14th November 2008. Teams of distributors will begin under cover of darkness at the furthest edges of the capital, working their way towards the centre by day break randomly distributing individually numbered ‘unique’ multiples.

For one night only, The London Show adopts the whole capital as its gallery space and rethinks the idea of the ‘private view’. There won’t be any queues to see the work, no chilled wine, the artist himself won’t necessarily be present - just one thousand chance encounters that make up a conceptually pre-meditated potlatch.

“The whole concept when I started the free art thing was challenging the notion of art as a commodity and its worth in society. Now I’m taking that to another level, testing the viability of separating art from commerce.”

Adam Neate reckons to have left around 6,000 paintings on cardboard on the city’s streets over a period dating back many years. But that was at the height of his anonymity and now, with his star in its ascendancy in the British contemporary art scene, his distinctive style has become instantly recognisable.

Taking a tip from Andy Warhol’s Factory, Neate has worked with a silkscreen printer to ‘mass-produce’ the same number of paintings in a couple of weeks that it would have taken him a year to make by hand.

“I’m interested in that Warhol idea of the brand as assisted readymade. Apart from creating the master image in stencil, I haven’t had to touch these works at any point in their production, even the signature is rubber-stamped – and although they’re multiples, each one is compositionally unique.”

Printed on cardboard and shrink-wrapped in cellophane, there’s a deliberate attempt to blur the boundary between painting, print and product.

“I remember as a kid going into Woolworths and seeing laminated prints of that famous Tretchikoff painting ‘The Chinese Girl’ and thinking it was great that people could have that iconic image at home for next to nothing. I’m hoping that for some people who come across one of these new paintings, they’ll pick it up not because they recognise it as one of mine, but just because they connect with the image and would like to hang it on their wall.”

When they get it home, each new owner can decide whether their chance acquisition of an art work by Adam Neate has greater value with the shrink wrap left on (pure product), or taken off (pure painting). Whichever they decide, they still own one thousandth of an extraordinary public art project.

Good point Baldwin but i would still go and find a Neate.

dont see at as a quest to get a neate, see it as an adventure, some will come back with one, and some wont, just go out and have fun

Yep fulham broadway is scary!!!!!!!! I'll be sticking to the seven sisters area in my quest.

Im working nights bar friday so will spend the night cycling the streets of London, im going all city like back in the days of street bombing. I'll be wide awake whilst the rest faulter with fatigue. The planning has already begun. 3 more nights of strategic mapping and im ready to roll. I've had trouble sleeping thinking about the fun i'll have!

I really dont think these will go for less than 700. Gallerys would snap them up. all shrinnk wrapped at any price below 500 as they know they will make profit, there for demand will be high and price will remain solid. Just my opinion.

seriously?A run of 1-0-0-0 that art all unsigned and not event touched by the artist? They are stunt posters and not worth more than a hundred quid, maybe two tops imho.

there's a banksy on murder mile. worth a visit, just watch out for the knives and bullets.

On the elms site.

Thank you Londonliam.

Absoultey safe as houses, I've got a flat round the corner adn have never felt safer anywhere else in London. They've also closed down the club (cascades) that was a precurser to much of the trouble

Yeah that wouldnt be in keeping with the idea, i've planned to meet a few forum members during the night and if ive got more than one then we share till everyone has and visa versa, woudl be good to see what type of crowd turn up.

I have just been informed that i seem to be ADAMENT to piss people off today! All i heard was ADAM NEATE. Feel free to bring me back some toe nail clippings anyone. I'm truley gutted i cant go and i hope you all have a great night and are lucky enough to get something nice.