ORGAN THING: Those paintings from last month’s Camden Inspire festival, now on show at Camden Open Air Gallery, who’ll be Prime Minster by the time the show ends? Who’s in charge today? Is anyone driving?

Many years ago, well several Prime Ministers ago anyway. at least four or five dubious Chancellors ago, oh lifetimes ago, actually it was only at the start of September, about fifty days ago, back when we were all younger and electricity was much cheaper, back when we were all in the Sunshine enjoying Camden Inspire,…

ORGAN THING: A rather fine piece of art from Akse P19 unveiled yesterday, a glorious piece, a tribute to the late great Buzzcocks legend Pete Shelley in his home town of Leigh…

Organ Thing of The Day: A rather fine piece of art Finally unveiled yesterday, July 10th, 2022, a massive 200 sq metre mural, a glorious piece, a tribute to the late great Buzzcocks legend Pete Shelley in his home town of Leigh (Greater Manchester, UK) designed by graphic designer Malcolm Garrett (who designed the original…

ORGAN THING: Upfest, It was just cheering, the whole thing, the whole weekend in the Bristol sunshine, the people, the art, the positive feeling around Bedminster for Upfest 2022…

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,…

ORGAN PREVIEW: “We’re back and bigger than ever” say Upfest. The massive urban art festival returns to Bristol in May 2022 with “a whole new vibe” and a healthy bit of crowdfunding…

“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…

ORGAN: The latest #43Leaves piece just ended, 43 paintings left hanging on the streets of East London throughout January….

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…

ORGAN THING: Pop flavoured street artist Fat Cap Sprays hard at work in the Hackney Rain…

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…

ORGAN THING: Petro and The World’s Most Stolen Book, a new collection of eleven original paintings and…

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…

ORGAN THING: Pez at StolenSpace, what is there not to like about all that smiling?

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…

ORGAN THING: Don’t stay within the lines, street artist Charlie McFarley releases a colouring book…

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…

ORGAN THING: Lakwena, the London-based contemporary artist gave Martin Luther King Jr. Park’s basketball courts in Pine Bluff Arkansas a rather uplifting makeover…

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…

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