I received an email yesterday from a Norwegian fellow called Morten yesterday. He was explaining to me a new street art auction that is taking place in Norway, fortunately for most of us, the auction will be taking place on the internet and over the phone at the same time as I’m sure most of us aren’t prepared to make our way to Norway despite our love for great art. The best way I think to explain the project is to tell you what Morten said:

I work for a street paper in Norway, called Megafon. We help homeless people by giving them a job selling papers, and they keep half the coverprice, like “The Big issue” which you may know already.

We have contacted street artists around the world to gather some of their works, and will now have an auction of all these artworks in Bergen, Norway. However, we will make sure it will be possible to participate in the auction, both by phone, and by internet. For those who are interested in this, they can contact me on morten@megafon.no.

We have been promised artworks from the following artists:
Dolk, Pøbel, Rene Gagnon, Terp, Mogul, 108, Zef, El Celso, Akay, Orticanoodles, Elyasaf Kowner, Ignorancia, Dr. D, Bandit, Bonk, Nomad, Klone, Funk 25, Difusor, Jef Aerosol, Dan23, Ripo, F-codes, Mr. Mucho, Vihls, Ocosio, El Cartel, Ikkeno, Chris Stain, Know Hope, Snub, Ame 27, Beth Granter, Arofish, John Grider, Is This You?, Luke Da Duke, The lover, Rugman, Santy, Tek 13, Kinsey, Fremantle, Zevs, Kama, Goro, Specio, Dave Warnke, Mon53, Zonenkinder, Senso, Strøk, John Fekner, Royce Bannon, Sztuka Fabryka, Lunar, Veng (RWK), 3+1=4, Gaetanosk, The 5683, M-City, and SixTen.

The auction of the art is Nov. 16th, at 19:00 local time. We will make the auction available for everyone, so if someone wants info on how they can partake in the bidding, through internet or by phone, they can contact me on phone +47 90773295, or mail: morten@megafon.no and I will send them a brochure with pictures, info on the paintings, bio of the artists, and opening bid.

Some great artists have already signed up so I’m looking forward to seeing whats in the auction.

We brought your attention to the Fusion Street Art eBay Auction last month. It has now gone live, as of October 1st so jump onto their eBay store and bid bid bid. Remember all the money raised goes to the Australian charity Kids Under Cover.

The put together quite a moving video/advertisement too which I have put below.

At the time of writing everything is still nice and cheap so there’s an opportunity to grab some work by some really talented artists for a low price.

Click here to go to the auction.

So our Charity T-shirt competition is now in its final phase and the most important phase. This is the time everything comes together and we can finally start raising some money for Cancer Research.

The t-shirts are in today and look incredible. I am really pleased with the final results. Big thanks to Shirty Something for making this possible.

If you have already preordered a shirt it will be dispatched today and should be with you shortly along with a massive pack of stickers. If you haven’t bought a shirt yet, DO IT NOW!

Click here to get to our shop and buy buy buy!

Finally the moment you guys have been waiting for is finally here, the chance to preorder your inkJoy or FAKE t-shirts from our Charity T-shirt competition to raise money for Cancer Research. Preorder your shirts to avoid disappointment.

Click here to visit the shop.

Remember to tell all your friends so we can raise as much money as possible.

Thanks for everyone’s help. Please get in touch if you would like to send us some stickers to put in packs with the t-shirts.

The charity t-shirt competition voting stage is now over. The designs we received were outstanding and I’d be happy to print all of them but unfortunately my wallet won’t, hence why we started the voting stage. We would like to thank everyone that made a submission, everyone that raised the profile of the competition and everyone that voted. Thanks to all.

The votes have been tallied, and after a frantic last battle between FAKE and inkJoy (maybe some unsportmanship there) it was a close one to the end. inkJoy won it by just 3 votes. Below is inkJoy’s design that we will be getting printed. You’ll be able to preorder these later today:

But, we have left you in the dark dear reader. From the outset we always planned to have the top 2 designs printed (although we never told you this) and released for Cancer Research. So, we’d like to announce that we’ll also be getting FAKE’s design (seen below) printed too.

As I said earlier, you’ll be able to preorder these designs and they will be despatched to you as soon as we get them. Preorders will open later today so keep checking back for our new shop to open.

A big congratulations to FAKE and an even bigger congratulations to inkJoy!

EDIT: Shop won’t be up tonight, sorry, been having a few issues with the rip off merchants Paypal and their damn fees. Expect it up tomorrow.

We’ve seen a lot of charity events revolving around street art, we’ve seen a lot of charity events involving auctions (Cancer Sell anyone?) but I’m yet to see a street art charity auction involving eBay, which would seem a logical step.

Someone has finally stepped upto the mark and Fusion 2008 is the event to do it. Fusion 2008 is utilising the global expanse of eBay to raise money for Kids Under Cover, an Australian charity which tries to take homeless kids off the street and give them some shelter. Current artists donating work are Tesura, Indigo Child, Fray and Seldom.

Auctions for the work start on October 1st. Go to their website for more info on the artists, artwork and the charity.

Links:
Fusion 2008 Website
Fusion 2008 eBay Auction Page

We’ve have some big support surrounding the charity t-shirt competition we are hosting. Thanks to everyone for supporting the competition. The sign up stage to the competition end on September 1st so sign up in our forum here. We have decided on a charity to donate the money to aswell, Cancer Research.

Today we are moving the competition into stage 2 - the submission stage. All those that have signed up are now allowed to submit their entries. Please PM them to me (Nova) in the forum.

Below are some photoshop templates that will be useful to use (save target as):

We recommend downloading this template for you to construct your design. Then put your design onto this template to submit. If you feel you want to submit a bigger picture then remember it must have a higher resolution than 300dpi and be no bigger than 29cmx40cm.

If you don’t have photoshop and are happy using pen and paper, please draw the design on paper and scan it in then PM them to me.

If you know anyone who would be able to support us in any way by helping print the t-shirts or sponsoring us for example it would be appreciated if you could pass the news on.

Deadline for submissions is the 10th of September.

Concrete Canvas has been fortunate to grab a lot of support since launching in July and we’d like to give a little more back to artists by giving them the opportunity to have their designs printed onto t-shirts to sell for charity. Inspired by the Cancer Sell event we want to produce high quality shirts, for charity. The charity we have chosen to support for this first batch of shirts is Cancer Research.

The event will run in three stages:
1. Artists sign up to the competition by September 1st in our forum.
2. The signed up artists submit their designs. More details to come about this.
3. The Concrete Canvas readers vote for their favourite design.

The highest voted designs will be produced for sale for charity.

If you’d like to help out and get your designs printed onto t-shirts please sign up here.

Links:
Cancer Research Website
Competition Sign Up Page