Urban Art Association

When is the show?

i hope it july/august - i have missed too many shows sunning myself in oz

Probably tied in with the release of his book!

Me too. Thats a horrible write up. They cant even cater to his fans who have been on board for a while. I cant read tis any other way than "HYPE!". Come on BRP. Get it together. Sell all the prints u have at the original price and not months down the line at a ridiculous markup.

eh? I don't remember that, there was only a few more ppl than the prospective 100 prints that were available, tickets were given out and payment details etc were taken - if anything it was hugely underwhelming - i think the days of ppl camping / queuing for days for a £750 print are well and truly gone unless it was a Banksy

I reckon it will be the Sydney Opera house, with some multi coloured paint splattered on it with a suited man in a bowler hat looking at it.

Or maybe the Moscow Kremlin, with some multi coloured paint splattered on it with a suited man in a bowler hat looking at it.

Or maybe some Easter Island heads, with some multi coloured paint splattered on it with a suited man in a bowler hat looking at it.

Or maybe a suited man in a bowler hat, with some multi coloured paint splattered on it with a suited man in a bowler hat looking at it.

Think your wrong klyde, maybe something totally mindblowing like a giraffe with a paint brush

"Nick’s solo show in May will generate interest on a global scale"

A slight case of hyperbole perhaps....a print run of 12 (?) baby with bomb in their heads thingys have failed or struggled to sell out on his website and some rather rubbish prints are still there for about 50 quid a pop.

I like some of his stuff, but I think Walker was caught up in the rush to find the "new" Banksy and the money shot went off a bit to soon.....

my bad for for not explaining my statement clear enough for the ppl at the back

I was talking about two separate sales initally the empires sale, and if there had been a 'buzz' about this, or in fact it had been some 6 months previous you would have had ppl queuing over night - the fact is the alot of the buzz around these artists has died down greatly

regarding my second statement about queuing over night for £750 print - those days have gone now too and i was talking about the 'lifes too short' sale

hope that helps

i spoke to mike at brp when i went down to see the matt small works and he said that the new nick walker stuff is going to be original works of images he's doing for a book in italy (i think).
''they will be smaller and more affordable originals''

I agree, are all Banksy print good? Not all Banksy prints sold out on POW site a few years ago, well according to others on here,and flippers have now been burnt on most prints, so i think most will stay away, well i hope so, and the market is slow at the moment, well judging by how many print ect are for sale on here at cheaper than cost prices and ebay results ect. Other galleries use the press to promote a show (and this is an old quote too), BRP did a great job at the London Art Fair IMO, they had to police the queue from 9am till well after 6pm, when i left, they had to let in a three or four people in at a time, because it was not their gig and the organizers requested it, so i understood.
Yes i wish i did not need to queue for a great print ,but it was worth it in the end and for the ones who got down there early to get a print, saying that people were still getting on the list to get a print in the afternoon if i remember correctly, so everyone had a fair chance to get a print IMO, yes it would have been nice for us all to start queuing at the same time, but it was not BRP fault that people (me included) did not listen to there request and felt the need to chance it a little and get down there early, is it? When BRP turned up in the morning to find the queue had already started forming they did not look over the moon about it, but when they were told that the security staff had already said it was OK, they then spoke to the event organizers, they all came out to assess what was going on, we smooth talked them a little and they agreed to allow us all to carry on queuing, BRP did the only thing they could do after they got the green light from the London Art Fair bosses. I was not leaving anyway, and if they made us all, we would have only stood round the corner queuing, and then there would have been a mad rush at 2pm, it would have not been pretty.
If you don't like it, there seems no reason to bitch on here about it, if you want a BRP print from a show ,then i feel it takes
An early start,
Loads of traveling (well for me it did)
An amazing amount of waiting standing around in the queue
Some common-sense
A bit of luck,
It's not rocket science is it?

So come on you guy's, it's an art show with free beer and loads of art, with many like minded people around, well most of them are ;D so just enjoy it, it's better than sitting at home bitching ;D

"Or maybe a suited man in a bowler hat, with some multi coloured paint splattered on it with a suited man in a bowler hat looking at it."

I'd buy it!

Wow topboy, well said! But I do have to pull you up on one thing, how can you use Banksy and Nick is the same sentence??
Worlds apart in talent/creative and execution imho?
Where the leader goes many will follow!