We were lucky enough to be asked to spend weds and thurs this week down at Boxpark, lending a hand to Ron as he worked on his mural.

here are a few process pics...

Looking to buy Ron English - Status Faction
Anyone??

Edition of 100

Paper Size: 14 1/2" x 19 1/2"

Image Size: 12" x 17"

Published by Eyelevel Publishing

COAs and invoice included. Set cost $1,200 and framing was £150 each (£150 x 4)

Will accept £100 per print, including the UK resistant perpex box frames 

Pm

Special thanks To rillo. Best buyer! Very fast delivery. Coa extra. 1a top!

Would sell the smoking clown kids for £90 including shipping?

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PTA is happy to announce the next print release by legendary Ron English:


African Elephant
Ron English
6 Colors lithograph
60,5 x 87 cm
Paper : 270 gr BFK Rives
Edition size : 99

Available @ random time on 22nd of Sept via PrintThemAll.com!

I think it looks great, not really my style. But I dig it, the detail on it is fantastic. Nice work by PTA (I have definitely been hard on them in the past).

I like how he's made the ears in the shape of Africa.  Maybe it's the 'elephant in the room' ?

Is Brian Sewell still with us?

Who doesn't like elephants!? Or the cradle of mankind!? And who doesn't hate the oppression of Africa and it's people!?

It might help.
It looks like the sort of print that would be released to raise money for a good cause... but not sure if it is!??

Me, because I live in Africa, in cradle of mankind, and I can tell you that this all elephant thing is just a great way to milk the ignorant westerners...   

Here, just few reasons:

1/ There are - in some areas of Africa - too many elephants (despite alarming poaching recently)

2/ Governments spend billions of dollars to move elephants from one place to another (stupid waste of money)

3/ Elephants in Kenya kill about 120 persons per year and another thousand injurd per year. But this, nobody speak about.

4/ People killed or injured by elephants get nothing (may be a 1000 euros max per death)

3/ Overpopulation means nature is destroyed. Also they like to destroy crops and they consume lot of water (hydric stress)

4/ Most water resources are gazetted and included in national park and/or reserves, forcing nomadic people to move and walk for hours (if not days) to get water, same for cattle.

5/ Elephants bring lot of tourists, sure, but communities never ever got their share of money collected by authorities. Promises to share water by installing pump station and pipe were never done.

6/ A good one, money donated usually goes to British Trust or private trustees (rarely communities or authorities), it means that money you give goes to the grandson of a white colon who presumably live on stolen land and often behave like an arrogant white hunter.

7/ Most poachers have backup in police and government (yep, MPs are known to fund poachers) and money you send to the white guy in his farm will not help.  To fight poaching, it is simple, you need to fight CORRUPTION

In general, I find it amazing that animal life usually bring more interest than human life...  So yes, people in Africa are oppressed by the elephants, land grabbers, politicians and tourism and they don't get much.

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This said; this work is Ron English is indeed very odd, unusual and not very nice.

Still have one of mine for sale at 70 euros
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bigboss, no offense but this is some of the stupidest post i have seen on this forum... Nobody understand "africa" but you... Interesting... You may get a few things you see from your window but i fear that's about it. And please, stop saying you live in africa when you actually live in kenya. Africa, like every continent is big, complex, and with dozen of countries, all different thank you ?