Graffiti vs art exhibition...

   Last Tuesday,(18th October) was the open night for my first solo graffiti exhibition called " Graffiti vs Art".. It is/was being hosted by The Moseley Exchange and is/was on until the 19th of November..I had two, maybe two and a half weeks notice before the date of the opening, which quickly dissappeared with loads of late nights painting, drawing, thinking, sizing, cutting, mounting, and framing..

   Everything happened with next to no money, most of the frames were salvaged and re-sprayed, which took ages, one by one, in my tiny work space..I couldn't really afford to buy materials, so I had to make do with what I had around me, old pieces got painted over, I sacrificed my dust pan brush to use to get  2 big pieces of board emulsioned fast and painted everything in scraps of paint or old paint.. In other words, it was a struggle, but I enjoyed the challenge of it all..

   It all somehow came together with a little bit of help from a few of my family and friends and it turned out better than I had ever expected, considering I hadn't really spread the word or planned much. For the whole time leading up to it, I was busy focusing on trying to get at least 30 pieces done and ready to hang, which I achieved, and more, including a collaboration piece painted by me and Fluid the night before..

  I have to give a special massive thankyou to " Little A" Amy of  "AVA Event Styling" for being such a huge help and making the night so easy for me.. I don't think i could have done it without her, and if I had, it definately wouldn't have been as good..So thankyou Amy, you rock..

  The show also included a few of my custom toys and cans, a collaboration piece, "The Graffiti King of Diamonds" by me and Anna, and two of her original paintings, which I'm happy to say, sold...check out her work at http://www.annabeledevetten.com/ .
   We had cakes too at the open night, ( infact, every graff show should have cake,) lovingly made by Mrs.Bou of The Boutique Baking company and The Cake Conjurer Anna.. They tasted as good as they looked, and I can't thank you enough! Everyone commented on how nice they were, some people had to be told that it's o.k to eat them and that they weren't an art display.. Some graffiti only has the lifespan of a cake, so I found peoples reactions quite interesting to them..

   Here's a few flicks I've gathered from off the net from the open night, mainly from my dad, the moseley exchange's facebook, and my good mate wez..

My pal Trauma dropped by and made a cool little video of the open night.. You can watch this here if your interested.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgPvTNTmkM4

Thanks to everyone who came, showed support, helped and purchased stuff too !!

And last but not least, thanks to The Moseley Exchange for having me..

NEW GUNDAM GRAFF BOMBERS 2 and 3

   After two solid weeks of painting on canvas,boards, framing pictures,getting prints and all the rest of it ready for my exhibition, ( which I will post about later) , I decided to make a few more of these while I relaxed and sat watching movies.
   My first one, which wasn't on sale for long, got snapped up by the cool people of tru:teknology and they even wrote me a nice article on their blog, before I'd even posted the item out....big thanks to them,. you can read this here.. http://truteknologyfiles.wordpress.com/tag/hoakser/

Here are a few snaps of numbers 2 and 3... number 4 is almost ready too, he'll be announced in a couple of days.. they are about to go up for sale in my BIGCARTEL store for £29.99.. thats about 48 U.S dollars..

Figure stands about 13 cm tall
Lightweight but strong plastic..put together and modified by me.
handpainted with a rusty worn effect, ready to go and bomb the sytem with new york fat cap faces..
Arms legs and feet are slightly poseable from shoulder, hip and ankle joints.. they are models and not toys..

Thanks for looking...

cctv munny -

    This is my latest custom I've just finished working on.. Made with a munny body, a replica cctv camera, some altering and a rusty paint job, he is now ready to walk the streets where he belongs..
    I made 2 of these a while ago, one I sold blank, the other I kept, until a few days ago he was unpainted.. I have signed him on one side of his face, and on the other I wrote "most dominant speciez".. With all the surveliance cameras around these days, soon they might be..MDS is also my crew that I put up when I paint..

The light on the camera still  flashes, (there is a new battery inside, this should last a year maybe even two, as my other one did)

He stands about 18cm tall and is a one off..

He is now up for sale in my bigcartel store ... also comes with the cctv sign I made, printed on card...

thanks for looking.. and thanks to Spankystokes and Toysrevil for covering this on their blogs too...