Cover image by Just (just.ekosystem.org) Lueneburg, Germany.
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A sight for eye sores - EVOL
NEWS
Nottingham-based graffiti
artist SHOK1 has been
censored in China.
He was there painting
his iconic ‘Love Hurts’
heart-shaped noose piece
on the side of an apartment
building in protest at the
Nation’s continued use of
the death penalty.
Perhaps not surprisingly this
wasn’t warmly welcomed by
the authorities - who waited
until he left and converted it
into a bizarre tribute to the
fishing industry by craftily
changing the noose into
fishing hooks and adding
a couple of giant carp.
Winter print catalogue 2011
POW is an artist -run screen printing
facility and gallery space that produces
affordable art and hosts exhibitions. We’re
a fair trade non-profit making organization
(not for charitable reasons - it’s just very badly run).
We hope you find something to enjoy in
this season’s catalogue which contains the
usual mix of bright colours, technical waffle
and someone swearing at children.
The big winter exhibition is headlined
by cover star EVOL and opens
Shok has been developing
‘Love Hurts’ as a print with
us for some time and it should
be out early in the new year.
It will not include the fish.
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The ‘art’ of Tilt...
Tilt
Tilt is the renowned French tagger who paints on buildings, canvases and naked women.
His recent print of the American flag made out of the words sex and violence repeated
27 times in bubble letters was a big hit. So he’s followed it up with a union jack made
out of the lyrics from God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols.
‘Anarchy In The UK’
Signed 3 colour
screen print.
Edition 100.
£150.00
Zach Schrey
A seven colour print for cartoon revolutionaries everywhere. When
you absolutely, positively, have to cover that crack in the wall.
‘Mickey Mouse Club’ Signed 7 colour screen print. Edition 100. £95.00
Jerome Miller
Justin Kreitmeyer
‘Black Panther’ Signed 3 colour screen print. Edition 150. £110.00
‘Peace Promise’ Signed watercolour, acrylic and 1 colour screen print.
Shop sold only due to paper weight. £200.00
This is by Jerome Caine Miller and relax – it’s not a cheap
appropriation of protest culture by a graphics nerd trying
to fake some political credibility – Jerome actually believes
in this stuff. He comes from Brighton.
Invader
Dran
‘Warning Invader’ Signed 3 colour screen print - embossed.
Edition 125. £250.00
Signed 1 colour print - hand finished with watercolour. Edition 50. £325.00
Invader recently celebrated his 1000th hit in Paris with
a huge exhibition and this road sign piece takes us right
back to where it all started.
‘Art Thief’ another fine piece of work from the inspired
French genius. Each ‘masterpiece’ is hand-rendered
and unique.
Todd James
Paul Insect
‘Pirate Radio’ Signed 10 colour screen print. Edition 165. £225.00
‘Painted Mao’ Signed 8 colour screen print. Edition 80. £250.00
Somali pirates as nouveau pop art pin-ups? It’s Todd James
being naughty again. Here successfully making rapists,
kidnappers and murderers seem, well, kind of glamorous.
Is this the acceptable face of communist revolution?
A vandalised portrait of good ol’ Chairman Mao by
graphic designer-gone-bad Paul Insect.
Justin Kreitmeyer is from California and it shows.
You can almost smell the Pacific Coast Highway when
you look at this. The super vibrant watercolour inks
are hand applied on extra thick cartridge paper.
Mighty Mo
Mo is probably London’s most prolific painter of brightly
coloured monkeys in dangerous rooftop locations.
Been to Oxford Street lately? Try looking up.
An 8 colour close crop print of his trademark character.
‘Mighty Mo’ Signed 8 colour screen print. Edition 125. £175.00
Cept
Cept is (quite literally) a big name on the street and
made his television debut on Crimewatch painting a train.
This print is a crisp rendering of his much loved piece
on the side of a dirty old garage in Hoxton.
‘Again & Again’ Signed 7 colour screen print. Edition 85. £130.00
EVOL
It’s a small world
but you wouldn’t want to clean it
Welcome to the extraordinary art of EVOL
and his unique take on vandalism. Where most
graffiti artists set out to deface buildings this
chap constructs entire new ones.
Using up to fifteen ornate laser cut stencils
he transforms random street furniture into
lifelike replicas of the estate where he grew up
in East Berlin. The result is magical - art that
somehow transcends the banalities of everyday
life by replicating them in miniature.
On the eve of his first London exhibition
we asked Evol the important questions...
What’s your favourite smell?
Well I guess… Ah, no, let’s say - coffee.
What superpower would you have?
I hate energy drinks.
 
What’s your favourite painting?
A child’s drawing explaining to me
how volcanoes work.
How do you get paint off your hands?
Patience. What doesn’t come off
by washing, does while eating.
  
What’s your funniest painting story?
Setting myself on fire while checking
the coverage of the paint with a lighter.
 
Have you ever been
arrested while painting?
No.
 
What’s the most important
lesson life has taught you?
Things may be very different
than they appear.
 
Who’s your favourite artist?
None, but to quote a friend, ‘It’s hard
not to like Martin Kippenberger.’
 
What’s your favourite music to paint to?
It would change every 5 seconds.
Right now: Mulatu Astatke, Éthiopiques 4,
Tied & Tickled Trio, Observing Systems,
Slayer, Undisputed Attitude.
 
If you could change anything
about yourself, what would it be?
Most of it. And the need to do that.
Screen print available December 2011.
‘There Goes The Neighbourhood’ Signed, 8 colours.
Edition 125. £275.00
EVOL is at POW from December 1st
‘Dresden 09’ Spray paint on cardboard, 61x76cm, 2010.
‘Caspar-David-Friedrich-Stadt’ Disused Slaughterhouse, Dresden 2009.
‘(Block H 3273)’ Hilversum, Netherlands 2011.
Smithfields Market, London 2011.
Bill Barminski
Bill hails from Los Angeles where he specializes
in making cardboard sculptures, short films
and novelty gas masks. These life size spray
can sculptures are lovingly crafted from old
cardboard with a glue gun and decorated with
slightly fictionalised vintage labels. (they also
contain a hi-tech plastic widget so they rattle
when shaken).
Cardboard Can. Unlimited edition. Various designs. £250.00 each
Are you a young person hoping to make it big in the art world?
Then why not send us your drawings and get expert help and advice
from Dave - a man who writes a blog on the internet. Everyone we feature
will receive a special souvenir badge and some coloured pencils.
First of all, I don’t even know what this is.
If it’s supposed to be a person, then it’s
the shittiest person I’ve ever seen.
Nice try Megan, age 4. F
LOL!
What the fuck is this?
The burger king??
Oh wait, I know!
It’s a mobile castle
with satellite dish
type antennae?
Is that a pile of shit
on his (its?) head?
Perhaps it is a moving
pie chart? In any case,
horrible drawing,
Chris, age 8. F
“When I grow up I want to buy a
motor bike
and drive it on the road. - Sean”
When you grow up, hopefully you’
ll stop drawing
things that look like absolute shit
. Complete do-over.
Never going to get a bike at this
rate, Sean, age 6. F
This one would receive an “A”
if the assignment was to throw as much
random shit onto a paper as poorly
as you can. But, Jennifer, age 8,
just didn’t get it. F
Holy shit, I almost had a seizure when I saw this one.
Three words: too many colors. Also, clouds aren’t
supposed to have faces, dipshit. Jessica, age 11. F
bile.
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Terrible job, Dustin, age 5. F
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Victor Van Gaasbeek
Victor is a graphic artist from the Netherlands who’s generating quite a buzz
for himself. He does a nifty line in animal portraits rendered out of what he
calls ‘sliced pixels’. The Fox is by far the most complicated print we’ve ever
made - using 10 screens and translucent inks printed in a specific sequence
that generate over 180 different shades of perfectly registered colour.
Sounds boring, looks amazing.
‘Fox’ Signed 10 colour screen print. Edition of 85. £250.00
Wayne White
This is our first print with Wayne White and what an honour. Wayne’s genius
has been apparent for many years in a multitude of various legendary ways.
Originally from Chatanooga he illustrated for everyone from the New York
Times to the Village Voice before designing Pee-Wee Herman’s TV shows and
winning three Emmys. He then directed seminal award winning music videos
for people like the Smashing Pumpkins and has now forged a highly successful
art career painstakingly adding stupid phrases to vintage landscape
reproductions. The print is called ‘Beauty is Embarrassing’.
Signed 5 colour screen print. Edition of 25. £250.00
COMING SOON
Antony Lister
Maya Hayuk
A classic Lister print, if by ‘classic’ you mean a
delightful geisha-type portrait with vaguely troubling
stream-of-conciousness scribbled over the top.
The previous print from New Yorker Maya Hayuk
sold like a hot cake and this’ll doubtless do the same.
A fine piece of techno-colour abstract American hick hop.
Available early 2012
Available early 2012
Banksy
We’ve been sitting on this for a while waiting for
developments in glitter glue technology to catch up.
And now that moment has arrived. A three colour
print with various actual sparkly options on the mask.
Available March 2012
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