Bristol streetart

heart

2012-02-09T21:16:00.001Z

heart, originally uploaded by knautia.

chalked

2012-02-08T09:05:00.001Z

chalked, originally uploaded by knautia.

Show

2012-02-07T18:18:00.001Z

Graff, originally uploaded by knautia.

subvertising

2012-01-26T08:08:00.001Z

subvertising, originally uploaded by knautia.

copyright

2012-01-25T14:57:00.001Z

buffed

2011-11-18T19:30:00.001Z

buffed, originally uploaded by knautia.

stencil

2011-11-15T07:33:00.001Z

stencil, originally uploaded by knautia.

buffed

2011-11-14T18:21:00.001Z

buffed, originally uploaded by knautia.

Taunton bridge

2011-11-12T19:23:00.001Z

bridge, originally uploaded by knautia.

Taken from the train

Cheo

2011-11-09T09:34:00.001Z

Cheo, originally uploaded by knautia.

D is for diamond

2011-11-07T08:31:00.001Z

D is for diamond, originally uploaded by knautia.

bridge graff

2011-11-06T19:29:00.001Z

bridge graff, originally uploaded by knautia.

North Street

2011-11-05T18:48:00.001Z

North Street, originally uploaded by knautia.

Yarnbombing

2011-10-27T09:47:00.001+01:00

Yarnbombing, originally uploaded by knautia.

North Street

2011-10-26T09:58:00.001+01:00

North Street, originally uploaded by knautia.

Funk

2011-10-22T20:07:00.001+01:00

Funk, originally uploaded by knautia.

London trackside graff

stickers, Brussels

2011-10-21T20:49:00.001+01:00

stickers, Brussels, originally uploaded by knautia.

Belgian streetart - AIDS niet

2011-10-21T20:48:00.001+01:00

streetart - AIDS niet, originally uploaded by knautia.

Copenhagen

2011-10-14T04:58:00.001+01:00

Copenhagen, originally uploaded by knautia.

Don't fart on fashion shows

2011-10-13T10:48:00.001+01:00

Don't fart on fashion shows, originally uploaded by knautia.

Copenhagen sticker

This is no place for streetart

2011-10-12T15:23:00.001+01:00

This is no place for streetart, originally uploaded by knautia.

Graff from Copenhagen

I love you too

2011-09-15T20:31:00.001+01:00

I love you too, originally uploaded by knautia.

Altenburg

2011-08-15T13:49:00.001+01:00

Altenburg, originally uploaded by knautia.

Altenburg

2011-07-25T14:01:00.001+01:00

Altenburg, originally uploaded by knautia.

German tagging

Jera

2011-07-22T23:46:00.001+01:00

Jera, originally uploaded by knautia.

German graff

Altenburg

2011-07-22T23:45:00.001+01:00

Altenburg, originally uploaded by knautia.

I'm in Thüringen, Germany, for a bike race. But I've also found some graff....

stuck

2011-07-06T13:05:00.001+01:00

Untitled, originally uploaded by knautia.

Graffiti on the roof of Bath Abbey

2011-07-05T12:00:00.001+01:00

Graffiti on the roof of Bath Abbey, originally uploaded by knautia.

It always makes me grin, seeing that there's been tagging & graff going back as far as writing - and probably further, thinking about cave paintings...!

khoi

2011-07-04T19:40:00.001+01:00

khoi, originally uploaded by knautia.

his heel, his heel, his heel....

2011-07-01T22:43:00.001+01:00

his heel, his heel, his heel...., originally uploaded by knautia.

Cheo

2011-06-27T11:03:00.002+01:00

Cheo sketchplace, originally uploaded by knautia.

I love Cheo - so I can't believe it took me this long to get to his studio.

Check out his online store as well - full of lovely stuff, the man's a warped genius!

torn

2011-06-26T12:26:00.001+01:00

torn, originally uploaded by knautia.

I liked this pasteup a lot when it was fresh, but I like it better torn

Chalked

2011-06-25T14:06:00.005+01:00

Chalked, originally uploaded by knautia.

Feek

2011-06-25T14:06:00.003+01:00

Feek, originally uploaded by knautia.

shop

2011-06-25T14:06:00.001+01:00

shop, originally uploaded by knautia.

stickers

2011-06-24T10:54:00.001+01:00

stickers, originally uploaded by knautia.

Street Summer streetart competition

2011-06-24T00:31:00.003+01:00

I love Cheba, he's a great artist and a lovely bloke, so when I was sent this, of COURSE I am happy to send it out! Everything in italics is from the press release... If you don't like it, you don't have to enter, right?

*****

Street artists, writers and vandals join Channel 4’s Street Summer here! Enter your work to win!

Don’t Panic is running a design competition on the Don’t Panic site for all budding designers, graffiti and street artists to come up with a creative design. The winners of the competition will have their design used as an advertisement for Channel 4’s Street Summer schedule of programming, as well as having their design printed on postcards and the Don’t Panic Poster to be distributed around the UK.

The regional winner will have the opportunity to work with top Bristol graffiti artist Cheba, and the national winner will receive various prizes including their work printed onto 80,000 posters and distributed nationwide.

Working with Cheba would be a massive opportunity for any up and coming street artist, he founded the Weapon of Choice gallery and his shows always sellout. Some might say he’s the corner stone for the Bristol graffiti community, working tirelessly giving people opportunities working alongside more established artists, which he's done with weapon of choice for years. Bristol's graffiti uncle of the moment.

The focus of the competition is to find new talent to help promote Street Summer across the UK in the only way which makes sense; using the competition winners’ designs as massive outdoor advertisements.

The winning entries need to represent one of the five elements of street culture which the Street Summer season is featuring: street dance, urban sports, spoken word, hip hop and street art.

Entrants will represent their region and the winning piece for each region will appear in a major city from their part of the UK.

The 7 competition regions are:
London
South East
South West
Midlands and East
Wales
North
Scotland

Prizes include:

- Winning entrants will be paid £300 for the use of their artwork
- Winners will have their design displayed on a premium outdoor space for two weeks (04th August to 18th August)
- Winners will get the opportunity to work with an established street artist from their region of the UK
- Winners’ work will feature on the Don’t Panic Poster and on postcards which will be distributed across the UK in Don’t Panic Packs
- Winners will be featured in a short film about their work

The competition will run from 13th June to 17th July. Voting will run from 01st July to 17th July.

Watch Cheba's video

pasteup

2011-06-23T20:52:00.001+01:00

pasteup, originally uploaded by knautia.

I belong here...

2011-06-19T19:07:00.001+01:00

I belong here..., originally uploaded by knautia.

pasteup

2011-06-16T22:01:00.001+01:00

pasteup, originally uploaded by knautia.

Cheo-3dom

2010-03-18T21:02:00.001Z

Cheo-3dom, originally uploaded by knautia.

On this wall

Weston Super Mare

2010-03-15T22:52:00.001Z

Happy Birthday, originally uploaded by knautia.

Taken on my half frame camera (before I dropped and broke it) - it took 2 pics onto the same negative

Soker-Cheo-Hemper

2010-03-11T23:14:00.001Z

Soker-Cheo-Hemper, originally uploaded by knautia.

On this fence

dogged

2010-03-11T23:10:00.001Z

dogged, originally uploaded by knautia.

Cheo 3dom commission

2010-03-07T22:44:00.001Z

jim kapowski plus cheo plus 3dom, originally uploaded by CHEO_BRISTOL.

Taken by Cheo, I love it, I wish it was in my garden

teeth

2010-03-06T23:45:00.001Z

teeth, originally uploaded by knautia.

On this wall

sticker

2010-03-06T23:44:00.001Z

sticker, originally uploaded by knautia.

Axis of evil

2010-03-01T23:44:00.001Z

Axis of evil, originally uploaded by knautia.

sticker

2010-02-26T10:08:00.001Z

sticker, originally uploaded by knautia.

Help!

2010-02-26T09:57:00.001Z

Help!, originally uploaded by knautia.

Midas

2010-02-25T11:06:00.002Z

Midas, originally uploaded by knautia.

TBP

2010-02-25T11:04:00.001Z

TBP, originally uploaded by knautia.

stencil

2010-02-23T17:01:00.001Z

stencil, originally uploaded by knautia.

door creature

2010-02-23T10:22:00.001Z

door creature, originally uploaded by knautia.

One planet, one chance

2010-02-22T17:25:00.001Z

One planet, one chance, originally uploaded by knautia.

Cheba

2010-02-22T17:23:00.001Z

Cheba, originally uploaded by knautia.

chrome

2010-02-21T18:10:00.001Z

silver, originally uploaded by knautia.

Deamz

2010-02-21T18:09:00.001Z

Deamz, originally uploaded by knautia.

The Art of Democracy - 5th March to 15th April

2010-02-14T21:42:00.006Z

New show in The Bristol Gallery, starring some of my favourite street artists - FLX, Jef Row (in his D*Frost incarnation, with Andy Stott) and Inkie, among others

Opening night: Friday 5th March, from 7pm
Show: 6th March to 15th April, Mon to Fri, 10-6, Sat & Sun 10-5

Bristol Gallery, Unit 2, Building 8, Millenium Promenade, Harbourside, BS1 5TY
http://www.thebristolgallery.co.uk/

(If, like me, you had no idea where that is, there's a map here)

More Malasaña graffiti

2010-02-12T19:46:00.001Z

Malasaña, originally uploaded by knautia.

Random news and stuff

2010-02-12T16:18:00.003Z

It's the last chance to see the Andy Council show at the Weapon of Choice gallery before it comes down on Sunday

Weapon of Choice, 14 St Michael's Hill, Bristol, BS2 8TD
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=251327759347&ref=ts

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Exit through the gift shop, the Banksy film is out on 5th March, and will be on at the Watershed then, according to Cheba, the source of all knowledge .

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3dom has got some great prints for sale, only 22 available, £40 each - check'em out here: http://3dom22.blogspot.com/2010/02/22.html

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MKWF has put this great collection of Bristol handstyles up on his blog. It's very simple, very lovely, shows the huge diversity of talent and variety in the city, I love it. Have a look here, and then spend some time on his blog, it's a nice one.

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The Sickboy Show is still on at the Friend and Co gallery, until 27th February

Friend and Co, 24 Park Row, Bristol, BS1 5LJ

Back in Bristol!

2010-02-11T22:10:00.001Z

Midas eye, originally uploaded by knautia.

And the best thing about being home (apart from the fact I can't here my neighbours in the beathroom or the bedroom) is walking past the Deaner and seeing brand new graff! This is by Midas, on this wall:

Also this, by Deamz and Ziml:

Patio de Maravillas

2010-02-11T00:16:00.001Z

Patio de Maravillas, originally uploaded by knautia.

This was something I found through the superb Urban Art trail, put together by Guillermo de Madrid for the Unofficial Tourism strand of Madrid Abierto - we'd passed the end of the street a few nights before, but hadn't gone down it, which would've been gutting if I hadn't seen this. I didn't see Guillermo's blog until this morning, which was our last in Madrid, but I wish I'd seen it earlier, it's full of amazing things, you should definitely look. (Massive thanks to dug da bug for pointing me in that direction, and also for all the info on Madrid writers)

(We only found the Unofficial Tourism caravan on our penultimate day, otherwise I would have done all the tours... especially the "bars over 100 years old" tour... and the flourescent lights tour.... and the rest of the urban arts tour.... The thing I liked best about it the brochure, though, was the words about the Cañada Tour - really hard-hitting)

Anyway, I'm back in Bris now, with about 11 films to develop and a massive backlog of Madrid graff - as I get around to it, I'll put it up in my flickr set if you're interested - but in the meantime, here's a wall we found earlier today...

3ttman

2010-02-10T09:20:00.001Z

3ttman, originally uploaded by knautia.

Calle del Pez

2010-02-09T13:16:00.002Z

Calle Pez, originally uploaded by knautia.

SINS

2010-02-08T17:13:00.001Z

door, originally uploaded by knautia.

stencil - Madrid

2010-02-07T20:13:00.001Z

stencil, originally uploaded by knautia.

kiss/speed

2010-02-07T10:26:00.001Z

kiss/speed, originally uploaded by knautia.

Madrid pasteup

2010-02-06T16:07:00.001Z

pasteup, originally uploaded by knautia.

Imagina - Madrid

2010-02-05T23:47:00.001Z

Imagina, originally uploaded by knautia.

Madrid

2010-02-05T23:45:00.001Z

Malasaña pasteup, originally uploaded by knautia.

Bye to Bris for a bit

2010-02-03T12:47:00.004Z

I'm off to Madrid, so be prepared for a big pile of "Not Bristol - Madrid" pics in the near future... and any hints of where to find graff over there, let me know!

Anyway, don't forget the shows this week:

Friday 5th - 27th February - Sickboy presents Logopop Bristol
Friend & Co gallery, 24 Park Row, information here

Saturday 6th February - Cheo night of pictures, live painting and noise
Golden Guinea, Guinea Street, information here

tag

2010-02-03T12:45:00.001Z

tag, originally uploaded by knautia.

Reality is merely an illusion

2010-02-02T18:27:00.001Z

Reality is merely an illusion, originally uploaded by knautia.

Boring

2010-02-02T00:04:00.001Z

Boring (Wake up!), originally uploaded by knautia.

Risqué

2010-02-01T21:37:00.001Z

Risqué, originally uploaded by knautia.

Sickboy presents Logopop Bristol

2010-02-01T20:57:00.003Z

holga sickboy, originally uploaded by knautia.

Break out your yellow and red paint and all your secret temples! Sickboy's back in town!

He's having a show at the Friend & Co Gallery (in their new venue, *not* the little small Glos Road one) starting Friday and lasting til the end of the month

You can see more of Sickboy's fabulous work here - and more about the show here. God, I love Sickboy's stuff, he's one of the reasons I got into graff in the first place, him and Jef Row. I miss his stuff being around Bristol, it made me grin and feel a bit happier to see his temples, even on the dullest days. Anyway, my pics of his stuff here

Sickboy presents Logopop Bristol
Private view: February 5th, 7-10pm
Show: 6th - 27th 2010, Tues - Sat 10am - 6pm

Friend & Co Gallery, 24 Park Row, Bristol, BS1 5LJ
http://friend-and-co.com/

Soker show 30th January

2010-01-29T21:43:00.001Z

soker, originally uploaded by knautia.

OK, all I know about this one is that the amazing Soker, the absolute king of Wildstyle, is having a show tomorrow at the Golden Lion Pub on the Gloucester Road. No idea what time it starts (guessing maybe 7? 8?) assuming some kind of music and painting, and I *think* it's on for 4 weeks.

But everyone should go, just in case, because Soker is incredible, I love the way he just rocks up and makes the most amazing lettering, beautiful style. My pics of his stuff here

45rpm Fanzine

2010-01-29T21:31:00.001Z

Free Fanzine, originally uploaded by 45rpm WHAT.

This photo is from 45rpm, not taken by me. Under it, he says

"Just got around to making a fanzine of my trip to New York New York. Loads of graffiti photos from Earsnot, Nekst, ATG, Ja one etc etc.
You can view it online and download it for free in the link below, over 100 full colour photos..."

http://issuu.com/45rpmwhat/docs/new_york_grime

And you do really need to look at it, it's amazing

Demz - faded

2010-01-28T22:22:00.001Z

Demz - faded, originally uploaded by knautia.

Cheo Show 6th February

2010-01-27T13:06:00.002Z

new show.....i love satuayz!, originally uploaded by CHEO_BRISTOL.

At the Golden Guinea, Redcliffe - with live music and live painting

Saturday 6th February 2010, 4pm - 2am

19 Guinea Street, Bristol, BS1 6SX

All politicians are Muppets

2010-01-27T10:26:00.001Z

All politicians are Muppets, originally uploaded by knautia.

tunnel

2010-01-26T16:37:00.001Z

tunnel, originally uploaded by knautia.

Chrome

2010-01-25T19:38:00.001Z

Chrome, originally uploaded by knautia.

Stickers fade over time

2010-01-24T21:41:00.001Z

sickboy, originally uploaded by knautia.

(but I still love them)

headless chicken

2010-01-23T19:16:00.001Z

headless chicken, originally uploaded by knautia.

monster

2010-01-22T13:01:00.001Z

monster, originally uploaded by knautia.

I don't know who you are, Peter, but this one's for you

2010-01-21T23:11:00.002Z

For you, Peter, originally uploaded by knautia.

There's got to be perfect place to take this shot from... aside from the student flats it's got to be aimed at....

Big wall

2010-01-20T19:44:00.001Z

Film pano, originally uploaded by knautia.

I loved this wall so much - Eko, Ziml, Paris, Feek and Xenz from months back

RIP Infoe

2010-01-19T17:57:00.003Z

Back wall - 19th January 2009 - RIP Infoe, originally uploaded by knautia.

I never met Infoe, but my thoughts are with all his friends and family

Even the snow gets painted in Bristol

2010-01-19T16:38:00.001Z

Snow graffiti!, originally uploaded by knautia.

frost on graff

2010-01-18T19:00:00.001Z

frost on graff, originally uploaded by knautia.

The first graff of the coming election

2010-01-16T00:08:00.001Z

You know it's election year in Bedminster when...., originally uploaded by knautia.

Snowmen!

2010-01-15T18:38:00.001Z

Chessels snowman, originally uploaded by knautia.

OK, even I can't claim snowmen are graffiti, but they definitely come under the banner of "street art", right? And like other kinds of streetart, Bristol does them *very* well!

Sick in the snow

2010-01-15T18:34:00.001Z

Sick in the snow, originally uploaded by knautia.

I really miss Sickboy's graff....

stencil

2010-01-14T18:33:00.001Z

stencil, originally uploaded by knautia.

Jef Row - D*Frost, Triple S Gallery, 15th - 24th January

2010-01-13T23:10:00.003Z

jef row monkey, zenit-style, originally uploaded by knautia.

I absolutely love Jef Row

These are old pieces, but from Friday there's loads of his new work at the Triple S Gallery on North Street in Bedminster

Pinched from their press release:

http://www.facebook.com/#/event.php?eid=245332241543&ref=nf

Following on from its first successful exhibition in December ‘09,
Southville’s new gallery, Triple S, will be hosting D*VOLVE, by Bristol collaboration D*FROST, running Saturday 16th January to Sunday 24th January.

**Opening night 15th January 7-9pm. All welcome. Music provided by
Barry Guffy and friends from Space Invader radio.com**

After a 10 year abscence from the South Bristol art scene, D*FROST
returns. Bringing back together Jef Row and Andrew Stott in a show
celebrating old and new work with new perspectives on techniques and mediums.

D*VOLVE includes the first artwork they made in 1997 for the exhibition 'Sole' at Eat the Beat record shop, original fridge doors painted between 2000 and the present day as well as new large scale collaborative work. Their social/political commentary on consumerism and waste often poses questions and provokes thought. As the pair say, "we are compelled to paint, as artists we feel we are beholden to make commentary on what's happening around us ... by whatever means"

http://www.triplesss.me/
200 North Street, Bedminster

Everyone should go, this will be a very good one

Sepr and Soker

2010-01-13T18:29:00.001Z

Sepr and Soker, originally uploaded by knautia.

Sunny graff, snowy Deaner

2010-01-09T20:16:00.001Z

8th January '10 - Tall wall, originally uploaded by knautia.

skateramp

2010-01-07T18:24:00.001Z

skateramp, originally uploaded by knautia.