As most of us can’t make it to London right now here is a Video from the Urban masters Exhibtion. Hope you are up to speed with your French…

Urban Masters 2012 at Factory 7 / Opera Gallery London / Butterfly / ANV ( 09/11 – 18/11 ) from BEYONDER on Vimeo.

I am honoured to be part of this group show that opens this weekend in London.

The brief was to ‘create work paying tribute to any master artist of the century of your choosing’

You can see the works I created and the reference below

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Opera Gallery London and ANV in association with Butterfly present

URBAN MASTERS

An urban and street art installation paying tribute to the Masters of the history of art



Opera Gallery London and ANV in association with Butterfly are pleased to present URBAN MASTERS – an alternative art installation giving street and urban artists a chance to render homage to the masters, masterpieces and muses that have influenced their journey through the world of art and played a part in who they are nowadays.

URBAN MASTERS is an intense urban display in a former Victorian factory in London’s trendy yet subversive Shoreditch area. It will present the works of 33 of the world’s best street artists of the moment:

Line Up: Bom.K – Blo – Brusk – Gris1 – Jaw – Kan – Sowat – Lek – Roa – David Shillinglaw – Zezão – Sweet Toof – Blek Le Rat – Ron English – Mac1 – Matt Small – Alexandros Vasmoulakis – El Mac – C215 – Joe Black – Seen – Risk – Remi Rough – Sixeart – Zeus – Mentalgassi – Nick Gentry – The London Police – StinkFish – Rone – Banksy – Kid Zoom – Nick Walker – Shepard Fairey

Opera Gallery is renowned for proposing very high standard exhibitions of street and urban art. This will be the biggest urban and street art exhibition yet hosted by Opera Gallery in London, and most certainly one of the most important events on the London street art scene this year.

With a broad scope of contemporary urban and street artworks and installations, URBAN MASTERS attempts to capture the feelings and experience of the artists who were invited to give their personal interpretation on the marks left by art history-makers.

The exhibition will also offer attendees a unique opportunity to meet some of the artists involved as there will be a poster / book signing featuring many of the aforementioned artists on the day of the public opening of the show:

Friday 9th November 2012, 11am-7pm.

Urban Masters will be opening on November 9th in London at Factory 7, 13 Hearn Street, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3LS.

Thats the way

RONE – 2012

66in X 66in

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I Dont Care

RONE – 2012

66in X 66in

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Thanks to the amazing team at the Hours I am stoked to be part of this project they have been working on with Verb Syndicate in Wollongong.

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WONDERWALLS is a three day art festival presented by The Hours, Verb Syndicate and Ironlak, featuring some of Australia’s most well known Low Brow artists. The weekend of the 9th – 11th of November we will be hosting an exhibition, an exclusive panel discussion AND a series of small & large scale murals being painted around the Wollongong CBD.



Featuring:

RONE, YOK, SHERYO, MEGGS, PHIBS, ROACH, NUMSKULL, BEASTMAN, THOMAS JACKSON, JUMBO, ZEALOT, PUDL, SAYNT, VANS THE OMEGA, JUMBO, EARS, JAE COPP, TWO ONE, BRIDGE STEHLI, CAM SCALE, BAFCAT, KATSE, SKULK.



If you’re in Wollongong, come join us on the weekend. If you’re from Sydney, it’s only a short drive down the coast. Come for the day, stay for the weekend. Enjoy three days of Australia’s best street and graffiti art, absolutely free.



Visit the WONDERWALLS website for more info.

Whilst in San Fransico I was able to paint a few walls thanks to Rogue Projects but this one was by far the largest.

A huge thanks to Luke McManus for taking a few days out of his holiday to help me out

One of the locals invited me to his apartment to take this birds eye view photo

The locals make this area what it is, some of the things people said to me were really entertaining so I started to write them down:

-”Looks great”

(just buffed the background)

-”I’m an artist too… Let me know if you need any tips or whatever”

-Overheard “Hi baby, I thought you went to jail”

-”You are so handsome”-( from a really drunk half Samoan/Portuguese transgender person that was stroking my back while I painted)

-”Hey y’all doing this wrong I said; cocain white, marijuana green, heroin brown!- Start Again!”

Guy called James; cro- mags singers older brother. Full face tattooed. 20years on rikers island.

“…I had to ice pick motherfuckers just to eat. Now I’m a buddest, I won’t raise my hand to nobody.”

“…I grew up in new york this the best painting I have ever seen.”

‘…she is so beautiful I could lay next to her for a thousands years just to be close to her.”

Asian Woman from brothel across the street really wanted me to repaint there front. “…we can pay you good”

“You should paint the girls from ‘charmed’ they are amazing… I’m wearing 2 charmed hoodies right now” (then shows me both.)

Kimberly, young Asian American girl with Pravda handbag who writes about love:

Her: “…I lived in Australia for 20years then 16 years here”

me: “so your 36?”

Her: “no!!!!!!”

” …I got a baby kangaroo at my place wanna come see?”

” …I was so drunk there I peed my pants”

-”You should paint Obama… Nekeed!”

-”She so beautiful…

She put the letters in beautiful!”

-”I like your drawing”

-”Thats amazing I should give you a million dollars”

Me: “Do you have a million dollars?”

“Is this worth a million dollers? Shows me a broken electrical adapter”

Me: “Sorry I don’t think it is”

“What about this?”

(shows me her boobs)

-”Look there’s a butterfly in the shitty ally! “(Butterfly was attracted to the fruit in the painting)

One guy even wrote me this poem:

Fruit of your Labour - The Blight of Carmen

Technically aspects that are normal led

yielding the gilding that will produce the miranda head

resulting in this grand design

orchestrating the fruit of your labours with your mind

now you find the time to feel so quant

eager to be a creature of creation

who’ll paint in the city of

Francis the saint ain’t it

grand nothing harmin’ to understand the

blight of Carmen

But this would have to be my favourite moment in San Fran.

After a long day of painting I came back to White Walls Gallery to find this happy bunch of people dancing to a car stereo. One lady, Mary Perry asked me if I could film her signing a song- I hope she likes it as much as I do:

Mary Perry // Bobby Brown – My Preogative from Everfresh Studio on Vimeo.

Thanks to everyone who dropped in to the opening of my first US exhibition at White Walls Gallery in San Francisco.

If you can’t make it to the US all images of the works are here

A huge thanks to White Walls Gallery for having me, you can read an interview I did with them on their blog here

As part of the ‘Darkest before the Dawn’ exhibitor at White Walls Gallery I produced 4 works on brick. As these are way to heavy to ship I produced them in San Fran. Here are some of the pics of them in the making

Here are all the works made for the Darkest before the Dawn exhibiton at White Walls Gallery. It closes this week so if you have a chance drop in before it is too late.

Here’s a few detail shots of the works I just finished-

‘Darkest before the Dawn’ open Sept 8 at White Walls

Thanks to Callum for putting together this amazing vid for my show

RONE. White Walls San Francisco preparation from Callum Preston on Vimeo.

So i’m currently in San Francisco getting ready for my solo show at White Walls that opens on Sept 8.

Awesome to be back here after exactly 12 months since the massive ‘Young & Free’ exhibition.

about 30% of this store was under lock & key:

Amazing Mexican food everywhere:

I am also creating 4 works on brick for the show, here is a bit of the process

Time to start painting!