Bring It On In 2007

Well well well folks it has been a good while since I last updated this with some fresh news and images and this is because for the most of December and first half of January with out my Mac which has been an absolute nightmare for me, yet I was lucky cause I took my mac to get fixed to only find out that the warrenty ran out the day after I handed it in so I was a lucky swine there. So what has been happening....... I managed to make the deadline for sending my submissions away to Australia for the Adelaide Fringe just on the deadline and here are the two pieces that flew over there.



The painting with the figure ( who is my good friend AZZ ) was from a photo I took a few years ago when Azz and myself where in NYC and I have been wanting to do this as a painting for a while and wanted to wait for the right moment to tackle it. The Building piece is a second version of the live painting at the Rebelo show yet I wanted to do it as a mutli-layer and only focus on the fire escape instead of the whole building. I would like to say that the stencils for the live piece had been distroyed. So I sent them off to Satta and JD who in 2004 gave birth to the Melbourne Stencil Festival and I am honoured that they invited me to be apart of the Adelaide Fringe.
Since I sent those paintings away I have been working on a couple of commissions especially the project that I have started to call 'Klingatron v Jam-Factory.' Basically I am painting a skate deck for my dawg Gav of Jam-Factory which is looking good and nearly completed, stay tuned to that.

But I totally missed the chance to wish y'all a merry christmas and a happy new year. Since I had been a good boy in 2006 Santa was generous enough to hook me up with a Mr Jago print, check this beast.



I love this piece which has taken pride of place in my hall for all to see who come and visit, my Guinness boxers were a real treat also for christmas and my girl got me a belter of a pair of Puma Clyde trainers and my Gran did a fine job with the christmas dinner. But moving on as we are now in 2007 and with the new year came a new calender.



And a powercut that lasted for around four days which sucked but it came back on in time for me to catch 'the South Bank Show' which was interesting as it was a documentary about the artist Damien Hirst and how he has bought a £3,000,000 estate and is spending £10,000,000 to fix it up as a home for his collection of art.



It was really interesting to see some of the pieces in his collection and some of the views and opinions he had on the art world and the people outside of it, and to find out that some artists are in such demand that they are unable to produce their work on their own but have studios full of folk creating their pieces which was interesting to find out.

With the success of the Rebelo:06 show the one and only Mr Lee has started a new venture that is opus-underground which has "has leaped from its first show into an urban art and design store specialising in original artwork, prints, books, DVDs and urban vinyl and plush by some of the planets best a brightest artists, designers, illustrators and graffiti writers." I headed once again down to Newcastle to see Mr Lee to see how he was getting on, catch up and take down a couple of paintings for him.



We got chatting about his plans and what he will be looking for in the work that will be on sale which allowed me to form ideas on what I will try to do next for him and most importantly make the pieces affordable, as I put it art twork that is "less than an i-pod."

After a good catch up with a fine cuppa tea I got back in the tron mobile and headed back to Scotland which is frickin freezing still but you get use to that. It feels good to be doing a blog again, this is quite a long one and if you made to the end then like me you may be spending to much time infront of the computer. All the best for 2007 to everyone and thank you for the support in 2006.
Stay Tuned. peace