It was just cheering, the whole thing, the whole weekend in the Bristol sunshine, the whole Bristol vibe, the people, the art, the music, the feeling around Bedminster for Upfest 2022. Now this isn’t going to be an attempt to critically review the whole festival or the art, for a start, as a participating artist,…
“We’re back… and bigger than ever! Upfest returns in 2022 with an earlier date and a whole new vibe” say the Upfest team. Upfest returns and they’re crowd funding to make the massive free festival happen again, surely got to be worth a tenner and you do get some goodies for your money, here’s the…
January’s month-long #43Leaves piece was completed yesterday, yesterday was the final day of January. This isn’t the first piece of this nature, there have been quite a few #43leaves pieces and piece of a similar nature over the last ten years or so, indeed there were year-long 365 pieced pieces in 2015 and again in…
Caught Mr Sprays painting our front door here in Hackney the other day. Do like his pop art style, his neon ways, his detsils and it is that often you catch a so called street artist painting with a pallette knife “Fat Cap Sprays is a London based artist and content creator, well known for…
That book certainly was a big part of some sort of revolution back in the mid 80’s, I didn’t steal my copy, I bought it in 1984, had to order it, had to wait weeks, several people did try to steal my copy though. I do remember a big crowd of people looking over my…
We passed a Pez on the way to the show, pretty hard not to pass a Pez on the streets of London, there’s been a lot of smiling out there, they’ve been documented often enough of these fractured pages over the years. “StolenSpace is excited to present the new summer group exhibition” so trumpets the…
A not so colourful Organ Thing of the day today, not until you get your pens and pencils out that is. Charlie McFarley has often featured in Cultivate shows, (you’ve surely worked out that Cultivate and Organ are different parts of the same thing by now haven’t you?) indeed he took the place over and…
2: Lakwena‘s basketball court – This just in from those JustKids people, they’re always doing interesting things of street art flavoured nature, they left the u out of colour but then they are American so we’ll forgive them = “London-based contemporary artist Lakwena gave Martin Luther King Jr. Park’s basketball courts in Pine Bluff Arkansas…
Organ Thing of The Day: ‘Holding Hands’ is a new piece of public work from the artist known as Stik, the piece was finally unveiled earlier this week over in Hoxton Square, East London (scene of Joshua Compston’s infamous Fete Worse Than Death of course). Stik has been talking about this piece for ages (and…
The much trumpeted London Mural Festival is almost upon us, it happens in the first weeks of September and it throws up all kinds of uncomfortable questions about the further commercialisation of street art, about gentrification and community, about art as mere advertising, about the integrity of it all. And as much as anything else,…
THE ORGAN 