urban art - uk

SHOWS

STENCH SHOW
Lazarides, 8 Greek St, Soho W1D 4DG

Those of you lazy, feckless, blonde beer drinking idlers who haven’t made it down to The Stench show have got until September 30th to do so. The show is amazing and features original art by many of the artists from the POW site: Ben “Big Daddy of Street Art” Eine; Jamie “Gorillaz” Hewlett; New York collective and oversized canvas makers, FAILE; supreme chubby chaser Mode2; and some new kid called Banksy who, frankly, none of us have heard of, although apparently he just did a show in L.A. or something.


SPANK THE MONKEY
The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, NE8 3BA 27th September - 7 January 2007


But anyway, the show should be incredible with work from artists including: Chiho Aoshima, Banksy, Dzine, Dr. Lakra, FAILE, Freaks Gallery, Shepard Fairey, Groovisions, Invader, Kozyndan, Barry Mcgee, Ryan Mcginness, Takashi Murakami, Miss Van, Neasden Control Centre, Os Gemeos, David Shrigley, Natasha Struchkova, Swoon, Aya Takano, Ed Templeton,Yasumasa Yonehara. And rumour has it that a number of pieces will go up around the walls of Newcastle - and then be whitewashed or stolen.


D*FACE SOLO SHOW “DEATH & GLORY”, 12th - 24th October Stolen Space Gallery, Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, E1

D*”I’ll design a hat for any high street brand” Face is finally putting on his own eagerly anticipated show.

NB. D*FACE and POW will be producing a show poster for the event.


BLEK LE RAT’S FIRST SOLO UK EXHIBITION, 12TH Oct - 13th Nov Leonard Street Gallery, 73 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4QS

'Everytime I think I've painted something slightly original, I find out that Blek Le Rat has done it as well. Only twenty years earlier...'
Banksy

Grandfather of the stencil, all-round street art legend and cheese-eating surrender monkey, Blek Le Rat (Xavier Prou), is also getting his first UK solo show -- on the same night as D*Face.

The exhibition, we are reliably informed, will be a complete overview of Blek’s work from the last three decades and should give the current interest in street art what the boffins are already calling ‘a historical context’.

cut and pasted from POW newsletter