About See No Evil
This August, Bristol is the setting for one of the most ambitious urban art projects in the world. Between August 18th-20th, some of the world’s leading street artists will be taking over Nelson Street in the heart of the city, as part of the new international arts event, See No Evil.
Bristol has long been the centre for urban art in the UK and now hosts a project that will create some of the world’s largest scale paintings. Over twenty internationally renowned artists will take up residency in Bristol city centre as part of a free, three day long arts and music event.
Artists already announced include New York based muralists, Tats Cru whose aerosol based work is dubbed to have ‘changed the perception of graffiti as art’ and LA artist El Mac whose work is prolific across every continent. As well as the US contingent, artists from France, Holland, Spain and Brazil will also bring their own unique styles to Bristol. Bristol born Inkie, one of the most notorious and prolific graffiti artists to emerge out of the 80’s Bristol scene will be joined by a raft of UK artists including Zeus and Nick Walker.
See No Evil will culminate on Saturday 20th August in a Block Party curated by local crew Team Love, celebrating the best of Bristol’s art and music culture with live street painting, bands and DJ’s, cartoon drawing, screen printing, a pop up barber shop and fancy dress emporium, street theatre and street dressing with a mini garden area stretching along the length of Nelson Street.
The Westgate, a disused building designed by architect Giles Gilbert Scott who also designed the Battersea Power Station and iconic the British red telephone box will be opening its doors for three nights of the best of Bristol music and art.
Between Thursday 18th and Saturday 20th August, major club promoters, film and music previews and events will take over this unique space, creating a temporary interactive gallery and entertainment venue. The Westgate line-up along with Saturday’s Block Party will include Resident Advisor’s Real Scenes film screening and after party, new kids on the block Mosca and Melee and underground legend Greg Wilson, plus a selection of the great and the good of Bristol’s local DJ scene.
....So through my connections with upfest gallery in bristol, i got a call from stephen, nah in fact it was a text. typical steve...yeah so he said big paint event bristol, august, two days, 50 cans of paint, paid transport and hotel need to know yesterday if u want in...now let me think about this for a second... ummmmnah, im washing my hair...holy molly mother of god, fuck yeah, im there with lipstick on my collar...
Okay so i didn't wear the lipstick but my good friend, lipstung came along and sported a rather lovely shade of pillar box red lips for all of brizzle to pop a look at... the paintings just kinda about fun really. Personally, i hate lipstick and it was a take on how i think women look as stupid with red lipstick on as a orangtang. A sporting pedestrian asked if it was a critic on animal testing and i was like, well...... ummm..... yeah sure it is...it kinda was a second thought in my mind...haha...
RESULTING IN NEW COMMISSION
I have to say that im pretty stoked with this painting and the feed back has been ridiculous. Iv even picked up a commission from this paint, so im made to be honest... thanks Inkie for organising all this and thanks Stephen at Upfest for linking me up with a wall...the finished painting can be found at the bear pit in brsitol....
HOLY SHIT...... when ur painting for 12 hours straight u, well i don't notice the people... probably cos im stuck in to listening to some wefunk or something, but yeah my god the photos i found on facebook and flickr prove how many eyes were on the goldchain, glad that fence was there... every now and then i got caught out, eyes wondering and ended up with lines of kids wanting my tag...not used to this shit seriously weird stuff...happy to see so many little peeople admiring art though its refreshing...
this ridiculous colloboration was done by my new friends faunagraphic and rockit, was a pleasure painting along side these guys all day...hopefully more to come from us soon on a full scale production...
http://www.faunagraphic.com/
http://www.rocket01.co.uk/
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