I enjoyed keeping people updated - u'd have been 63rd in the queue at 4am Thursday Am and een had you walked in at 8.30 u'd have been 72nd. but at least yu had chance to see the show and meet Nick & every1 else.

I'm not being dismissive, just expressing my opinion, and having spoken to lots of other people, artists and collectors alike, I find it's an opinion i sharw with plenty of other people......
but fair shout, guys been in the game a while, works hard, I don't begrudge him his success, it's more I find it hard to understand those that buy into it. It feels as though people are buying it because it's there rather than judging it on it's own merits....and I feel that if it were judged on it's own merits it wouldn't stand up to much scrutiny.

So is D*Face, so is Swoon, so is Blek, so is Eelus, so is Hutch...

I could go on...

and banksy prices?

i think NW work is great, but he hasnt had the consistency of Banksy and thats where the diff is. Banksy has been knocking out good work for years, but I dont think the same thing can be said about Nick.

It will be interesting to see what he does when he puts the Vandal series to bed.

i have to agree that this guy who was talking to nick was just trying to big himself up earlier in the night saying how big a fan he was, he also said he was a good friend of nicks. so it was a classic moment when he didnt even recognise him. i didnt know what nick looked like this time last year and i went to an exhibition of his at the workshop in bristol, so i do understand the comments about fans of his work not def knowing what he looks like.
this guy and several others with him were definatly paid to cue by one bloke and they were very clearly not into art at all and in fact they were really not very pleasant at all. im not going to go into details, but they were nasty.

most of them - besides Mr B of course.........

is this a thread to show what we thought of the nick walker show?

i might get some serious negs here if the respect system was still around but i decided to go yesterday to avoid the queues and....

i dunno... if anything i was very disappointed and came out feeling very underwhelmed to be honest. i was seriously very disappointed... i brought a friend there and she was trying to get some inspiration for her Dissertation at RCA and she too came out feeling very empty and we left after about 15 mins.

thanks mike... but yeah.. . i dunno... i mean i rememeber seeing the TMA London yonks ago with my now gf (i'll always like to think BRP and Nick Walker brought us togther...) and i was absolutely blown away. she immediately went to buy a print (back then, there wwere like 20 prints left and we could still consider...), and it was her first art purchase.

Anyways, i got one too. cos well, i thought it was brilliant.

And then i go to the show expecting the same feeling.

but i dunno. i was actually thinking of starting a separate thread on this but i fear (and i wish it aint so) that this genre has peaked? (for me at least) i really hope NW or Faile or Swoon will be able to do something again which captures my imaginaton.

but back to NW, i go in, and all i see are Vandals. and Vandals. and more pinstripey guys doing "haha, isnt this funny/cool!" stuff. so to be honest, i wasnt wowed anymore. i was bored. looking for one pictrue to the next, it didnt take a genius to figure out what the next picture would be.

My RCA dissertation friend, she didnt like any of it because it was too literal. she felt it didnt take a genius to figure it out. it was literally, what it was. it wasnt high art. didnt have any meaning. it just IS. She said that art is either good EXECUTION or good CONCEPT. and she felt this was neither. She was especially underwhelmed when i told her that the vandal was probably actually a real human model which NW took a photo of and later photoshopped and then cut a stencil from (i gather this from seeing romanyg's photos of NW's studio? i might be wrong).

So she was like... "i dont geddit. why's people seeing this as amazing. All you need is photoshop. a cutter. And patience. And the concept isnt very high brow too." So she was completely befuddled...

Anyways, I dont want to start a flame war or a imaginary negging system.

Thats my opinion and the second half is my tranlsating my friend's opinion.

the only thing i found vaguely interesting was the two collages behind. that was pretty well done i thought. but still... it doesnt capture me the way, the david choe exhibition did... or the very first time i saw TMA London...

that being said, i had friends who went who thought it was a smashing success.. and these dudes only went cos there was free beer! and they thought NW was amazing!

PS .. there's more to art than just banksy & i like banksys work too.

However u guys go on about banksy like the sun shites out of his $hitter.

I loved Nicks work. And as far as affordable goes ... even I could afford one of Nicks canvas pieces .. albeit a smaller one. & talk about flogging a dead horse .... how many 'CCTV' pieces are we gonna see from 'Mr Invisible' aka Banksy??

fair point.

i hope you reference o "you guys" wasnt to me. cos i didnt mention banksy in my entire rant.

Great uplifting positive 1st post. Epiphany was great, I liked the b/w's on paper too.

That was very cool too, was in too late to get any original's! Did you manage to get anything? Many thanks for your comments!

I agree Romanywg, was the best no doubt, me thinks its was sold before it began though