From the 5th June to the 15th, the Brick Lane gallery will be showing off their new exhibition, Six degrees of separation. All the work in it will bbe offered for sale by private collectors.
It’s got quite a good lineup of artists. Some of the ones I got listed in my email are:

Banksy
Faile
Jamie Hewlett
Gee Vaucher
Paul Insect
Mode 2
B-Toy
RUN
Antonio Cabrera
There’s some more as well.

Info and sales: info@thebricklanegallery.com

The Brick Lane Gallery

Ok, after some consideration, I’ve decided to start the second charity t-shirt competition, despite not all the shirts selling yet (You can still buy them from our shop!)

So for the first step, this time we’re adding an extra little incentive! A prize for the winner and also some lesser prizes for the runners up. It will be paid for using money from the ads. We can’t have anything too expensive, but we won’t go amazingly cheap either.

Please post your ideas here: http://concrete-canvas.com/forum/index.php?topic=308.0

Thanks!

Looks like the daily mail is running out of stories at the moment… Yesterday, they published a story, trying to repeat their previous accusation last year that he was “Robin Gunningham”. However, the reason because of this was a stencil, photographed by unusualimage, of a rat holding up a sign with a picture of him, which the Daily Mail is saying is a self portrait. However, this is unlikely for several reasons, particularly that Banksy has recently stopped using the rat image in his stencils, and the rat holding up a sign has been used several times by the Not Banksy group. Also, I find it a tad unlikely that Banksy would give up the majority of his income stream, by taking away his own anonymity, especially without mention on his website, unless he’s just trying to stir things up?

Anyways, here’s the stencil, you can decide for yourself.

##Via Vandalog. Vandalog

This week’s FOTW was submitted via email to me, and after carefully comparing it with the other submissions, I’ve decided that Myne’s page is this week’s winner. It was close, but I really like Myne’s stuff.

I really don’t ever know what to say with these things, I find that people should decide for themselves whether they like something rather than someone giving them reasons why they should like it, so I’ll let you see them yourself.

Heres some pics:

Flickr link:

Hi guys, I really apologise for my absence! Personal things, and all that shizzle. I’d like to really thank human, for continuing to post in my absence,  and to all the loyal members who still visited regularly, despite the lack of blog posts. I have however, been proactive with searching for some additional writers, so at least this should hopefully make sure the site is constantly updated, as I know I’m not the best with that! ;p Anyway, down to the main point of the article!

Brighton street blitz is an event running from the 1st to the 31st of May. The motivation behind this is that Brighton has become filled with art becoming overly commercialised, and how the colour and character is being sucked out of Brighton. They propose that Brighton be turned into an open air art gallery. For four weeks, all people living in or near Brighton, are invited to, in the words of the creators:

“Whether you make murals, stencils, stickers, posters, sculptures, street projections, sign modification/removal/additions, billboard subverting/defacing/destruction etc; Whether creative or destructive; whether to convey a message, brighten up a dull spot, rewire some corporate brainwashing  tactics; whether to leave your mark, remove a stain, express yourself or simply to show your disgust – it’s all valid and all adds to The Blitz!”

I know it’s a tiny bit late, but I still think it’s early enough to be posted.

I can’t wait to see the work produced by this, it should hopefully be good!

General street blitz website: http://www.streetblitz.org/

Brighton street blitz website: http://www.streetblitz.org/brighton/

~Joe