Phibs took me for a paint in Sydney yesterday and suggested I go over one of his previous works.

But it lined up so well I tried to keep as much as it coming thru as possible

and made a great match to listers head that was also there

Congrats to Lister on making the cover of the latest VNA mag, also nice to see TwoOne gets a feature.

Also if you are in Sydney get along to the Launch Party:

Some time in the last 18 months Meggs and myself were lucky enough to be part of this Underbelly project, now thanks to the hard work of those involved there is a book that captures the entire project:

Collector’s Edition of We Own the Night: The Art of The Underbelly Project Sold Online Exclusively Through Vandalog

Vandalog is excited to announce the exclusive online sale of We Own the Night: The Art of The Underbelly Project through The Vandalog Shop. Originally sold at The Underbelly Project Show at the recent Miami Art Basel, the remaining collector’s editions will be sold online for the first time exclusively through Vandalog.



The We Own the Night: The Art of The Underbelly Project collector’s edition package includes a hard cover book along with 9 unreleased photos packaged in a handcrafted oak box engraved with the names of each artist that contributed to the project. Each box is laser engraved with the individual number from the edition of only 100 plus 10 artist’s proofs. The photographic prints include depictions of work by Roa, Anthony Lister, Skullphone, Kid Zoom, Revok, Ceaze, Jeff Soto, and more. The package is priced at $250 plus shipping and handling and is availabl

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Documenting The Underbelly Project’s first underground takeover, We Own the Night is a must have for any street art fan. From 2009 – 2010, over 100 artists were taken to a disused subway station in New York City where street artists, graffiti writers and contemporary artists alike left their creative mark on the station before the entrance was sealed. Among the international group of participating artists included Ron English, Dabs & Myla, Swoon, Haze, Rone, Meggs and Faile.



RJ Rushmore says “The Underbelly Project is one of the most fascinating projects to ever happen in the street art or graffiti worlds. While there are photos all over the web showing what the project looked liked, reading We Own the Night is just about the only way to get a sense of what it was actually like to participate in The Underbelly Project. I saw The Underbelly Project in the flesh, but hearing other people’s stories shed new light on it even for me. I’m extremely pleased that The Vandalog Shop will be selling the collector’s edition of We Own the Night, giving people who couldn’t make it to Basel Miami a chance to pick up a copy. My copy of We Own the Night was the best thing I’ve received under a Christmas tree in years, and I hope other people will enjoy the book and the photographs as much as I do. To be able to stock products as unique and exciting as this is a large part of why I started The Vandalog Shop.”

For more information on We Own the Night or The Vandalog Shop or images of the We Own the Night collector’s edition, please contact Stephanie Keller at [email protected]


Big props to Lister for his killer new show in L.A. at New image art Gallery.

Some good pics over at Vandalog

I haven’t got any great opening night pics but here is a bit of a tour of the Underbelly Exhibition

the video wall has a time lapse of everything that was painted in the tunnel

Ripo:

Ron English

Swoon:

Lister:

Dabs & Myla

Meggs:

Surge:

Logan Hicks

Rone:

Kid Zoom:

Faile:

Roa:

Most of the works in the show were huge, even compared to other exhibitions this show had the best works from most of the artist, it looked like they had all gone the extra mine to do something new and huge for this show- stoked to be involve.

I Started this wall but had to bail on it when the guy who owned it turned up…

The Ironlak boys are here- sofles on the boom lift:

Dabs & myla having there pics taken by Martha Cooper:

Pixel Pancho from Mexico:

and more Aussies- Askem:

New2

Dvate

Lister:

I checked out some of the art fairs also- some cool things there:

Tons of murals are getting painted but the place is getting smashed in all sorts of ways

Ben Frost Ghetto Ink from The Institute of Excellent on Vimeo.

Here are a few more pics from the Outpost event:

You know times are changing when you see street art events advertised on commercial billboards

Listers ballon head

No Trespassing- Reka/Meggs/Makatron/Phibs/Sync/Wonderlust/Prizm

Meggs

Reka

Makatron

Stabs

Sync

Roa- in progress

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Later that night- Lister had a pop-up show in the city, as expected it was amazing. Bogan Paradise- pokie machines, crack dens, sharks with laser eyes- what more could you want

You may remember the underbelly project (see here) well now there is going to be a book launch and an exhibition in Miami to go along with it.

Meggs & I are honoured to be in this line up:

The full line-up of artists include: Faile, Dabs & Myla, TrustoCorp, Aiko, Rone, Revok, Ron English, Jeff Soto, Mark Jenkins, Anthony Lister, Logan Hicks, Lucy McLauchlan, M-City, Kid Zoom, Haze, Saber, Meggs, Jim & Tina Darling, The London Police, Sheone, Skewville, Jeff Stark, Jordan Seiler, Jason Eppink and I AM, Dan Witz, Specter, Ripo, MoMo, Remi/Rough, Stormie Mills, Swoon, Know Hope, Skullphone, L’Atlas, Roa, Surge, Gaia, Michael De Feo, Joe Iurato, Love Me, Adam 5100, and Chris Stain.

Presents

THE UNDERBELLY SHOW
Private View 30th November or by appointment
General Opening 2nd December 8-10 pm
Open to the public 2nd December – 5th December
South Beach Miami

6 November- After a full year underground, The Underbelly Project is resurfacing this December in Miami during Art Basel

Fashioned to simulate the rawness of the abandoned station four stories beneath the bustle of New York City, the exhibit will attempt to capture the experience of artists’ that were invited leave their creative mark four stories beneath the city streets. The show will feature video footage of artists at work, still documentation, as well as recorded sounds heard in the tunnel.

Exclusively at The Underbelly Show, the unreleased We Own the Night: The Art of The Underbelly Project book, will be available as a limited edition collectors boxed set before the public release in February. This boxed set will include a hard cover book along with 9 unreleased photos packaged in a hand crafted oak box engraved with the names of each artist that contributed to the project. Before the general viewing there will also be a book signing featuring many of the aforementioned artists.

The gallery is located at 2200 Collins Avenue South Beach in Miami.

I’m sure you may have heard about this by now but here is the full press release for you to have a read of:

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OUTPOST PROJECT – Art from the Streets

Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour

November 4 – December 11, 2011

The crown jewel of Sydney harbour, Cockatoo Island, a former military outcrop and penal colony will be transformed this November. In conjunction with the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, witness the island wide invasion as aMBUSH Gallery launches a curatorial take-over – transforming the industrial monument into a battlefield of street-art. The Outpost Project will be the Southern-hemisphere’s largest Street Art Festival to date, with a projected 90, 000 visitors over the course of 5 weeks. Amongst a myriad of forums, educational programs, aMBUSH will bring to the table the nexus of content featured on the island.

Kid wonder and Australia’s very own rising star, Kid Zoom, who has been described as “Rembrandt with a spray can” will be dominating the Turbine Shed with his project Kid Zoom: Home.  

Our very own subversive Australian delegate for the International street art and graffiti movement, Anthony Lister, will pepper the island with his signature garish faces grinning larger than life transposed on enormous balloons.

Letterform king, DMOTE, arguably Australia’s prime delegate of the traditional graffiti school, will be gracing our shores across multiple projects but primarily in his own panel installation demonstrating the new leaps and techniques which compliment his ever evolving style.

Nestled in a cocoon of cotton, draped adjacently to the Turbine shed lies NEXT. Curated by Eddie Zammit, founder of T-world (the only T-shirt journal on the planet), NEXT sets the benchmark for T-shirt graphics globally. The exhibit celebrates the street art category using the T-shirt as its most accessible canvas. As part of the exhibition, over 1,000+ T-shirts will be displayed from over 200 international and local labels. The space is accompanied by an exclusive portrait photography exhibition by Nicole Reed, featuring some of the most influential designers, artists and label founders from the T-shirt world, with content spanning 7 continents she will be presenting the culmination of her photojournalistic documentation. The project offers 20 artists and labels determining the future direction of T-shirt graphics from the likes of leading creatives 123KLAN, jeffstaple and Alex Trochut.

Beyond it’s previous two inceptions, Pastemodernism 3, curated by Sydney heavyweight Ben Frost will be the largest yet. Pastemodernism 3 will see every inch of surface area covered in wheatpastes posters from a slew of hand-picked artists. In what is the most populated exhibition of OUTPOST, Pastemodernism 3 will include over 250 artists, both local and International.

Joining us from Melbourne, is powerhouse creative collective Everfresh Studio. The crew whose stellar lineup includes Phibs, Meggs, Rone, Reka, Sync, Prizm, Wonderlust, Stabs and Makatron will be tackling the East Apron Cliff Face with a tongue-in-cheek statement of the anti-graffiti rhetoric of yesteryear, over the course of the festival’s first three days. It will be left towering over the island, welcoming patrons as they arrive on the ferry.

A sight for sore eyes, Project Ugly will sit gazing over the harbour displaying 20 pannels from interstate street artists, including an onsite live painting on an industrial scale by Sydney figure Sprinkles and as well, Brisbane based Shida will unleash his feline extra-dimensional creatures. Shida will be painting on the Saturday 5th, and Sprinkles the Sunday 6th November between 10am and 5pm. Amongst the pre-created collection will be Above (San Francisco), Creepy and Daek (Last Chance Studios, Perth) and Drypnz (NZ).

The Mays Lane collection, evolved from a way to promote graffiti in a legal context from cultural bastion St Peters, into the distilled efforts of the finest National and visiting International artists.

Serving as the festivals inundation, the rite-of-passage, Artery, located in the Dog Leg Tunnel will greet patrons upon first landing – being a sample of the creative tone to come. This will be Australia’s most premiere group show to date, featuring a who’s who of major players in the Australian art scenescape including Meggs, Haha, Rone, Yok and Drewfunk amongst other featured Outpost Artists.

A metaphorical passing of the torch, Foundations will see Sydney’s original oldskool graffiti delegates who shaped the local scene and context today, alongside newschool up-and-coming crew the Insomniaks. From the old stable will be Kode2, Rexy, Kerupt, Mistery, Mare, Unique, Spice, Gane2 Phibs, Kade and Paze. Representing the new wave from the Insomniaks will be Jota, Daks, Joshuair, Opens, Oricks, Roter, Loks, Hules, Ouch, Ugly Greg, Yzer and Owel.

The highly successful Secret Wars, will be progressively intensifying over the course of the festival, with two artists battling head-to-head in a 90 minute freestyle creation each heat. Throughout the duration of the festivals run the battle royale will be staggered with heats being:

12 NOVEMBER, 6:00 – 7:30PM – Houl v Scale
19 NOVEMBER, 2:00 – 3:30PM – Mike Watt v Shannon Crees
26 NOVEMBER, 6:00 – 7:30PM – Deb v Teem
3 DECEMBER, 2:00 – 3:30PM – Ben Bigeni v Ken Taylor

Melbourne folk artist hero Ghostpatrol will translate his dreamy, fantasy universe into a bi-locational installation with Tristan Jallelah. The projects will replicate his stylistic world of wonder akin to a boy and the universe. Featuring kilometers of coloured wool, the project will be an exploration of the Moon Titan of Saturn and humanity’s place in relation.

In her signature, delicate, dark yet feminine style, Vexta will be tackling a sheer mass of corrugated iron on the Island with her fluid use of stencils and intricate hand painted detailing. Her work will be a personal extrapolation onto the medium complete with neon-drenched figures suspended in time and space.

Born from complementing styles, Phibs, Beastman and Numskull, three Sydney based heavyweights in the Street Art scene, are collaborating to fabricate an installation called Temple. The trio are creating a teepee in their whimsical dreamlike character and tribal leanings.

Also included will be the Oi You! Collection featuring the largest private collection of Banksy’s, amongst works by David Choe and Herakut. As well, live painting by Sao Paulo artist Ethos and Belgian monotone muralist Roa. Throughout the duration of the festival will be the Pro-AM tour Grand Final run by Skateboarding Australia. Inclusive will be an array of forums, family friendly activities and educational workshops and much more throughout the festivals tenure. Pick up a guide to see all the details.

The festival itself will run from the 4th of Nov to the 11th of Dec 2011, in a joint collaborative effort withaMBUSH Gallery and the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust. For more information please visitwww.outpost.cockatooisland.gov.au or www.ambushgallery.com For media enquiries please contact John Wiltshire on 0433 015 790.

Where: Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour
When: November 4 – December 11, 2011

Nice little video of Lister in S.F.

Hat tip to Jimmy Bliggs.

Anthony Lister from Spencer Keeton Cunningham on Vimeo.

Great interview with Anthony Lister at Vandalog for Young & Free. The man has been busy…

Read it here.

Here’s some flick from today:

I don’t know why but Reka now works surrounded by light

Lister:

Prizm: