Saturday, 24 October 2009
Sunday, 6 September 2009
Cartrain and Damien Hirst's pencils - Theft Or Ransom
Press Release
This week our story has been in the following news papers...
New York Times
The Independent
The Guardian
The Daily Mail
The Telegraph
The Evening Standard
This week our story has been in the following news papers...
New York Times
The Independent
The Guardian
The Daily Mail
The Telegraph
The Evening Standard
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
New SNUggLES Art Available to Buy @ 100
A few words form the artist...
Q: Who is Snuggles?
A: Well I'm definatly not a doctor and have no money to build an animal home (That was a very bad joke. Those who ever watched the cartoon will know what I mean).
Q: How did you get into graffiti art?
A: Whats that?
Q: Describe your work.
A: ...Snugglish?!? No to be honest Im all about exploring and experimenting. Theres nothing too deep about my stuff. If I find something funny in my head I will try and bring it out in my work.
Q: What plans do you have for the future?
A: Well as long as its not bright and orange Im just gonna keep on doing what I do and go with the flow and see where the future takes me.
Q: Meagan Fox or Cheryl Cole?
A: Pat Butcher
Artwork comes framed
Artworks is hand cut and spray painted using a stencil.
Limited edition of 2
Hand signed by the artist.
Size 9" x 11" inch
Click the image below to jump to artwork...
Q: Who is Snuggles?
A: Well I'm definatly not a doctor and have no money to build an animal home (That was a very bad joke. Those who ever watched the cartoon will know what I mean).
Q: How did you get into graffiti art?
A: Whats that?
Q: Describe your work.
A: ...Snugglish?!? No to be honest Im all about exploring and experimenting. Theres nothing too deep about my stuff. If I find something funny in my head I will try and bring it out in my work.
Q: What plans do you have for the future?
A: Well as long as its not bright and orange Im just gonna keep on doing what I do and go with the flow and see where the future takes me.
Q: Meagan Fox or Cheryl Cole?
A: Pat Butcher
Artwork comes framed
Artworks is hand cut and spray painted using a stencil.
Limited edition of 2
Hand signed by the artist.
Size 9" x 11" inch
Click the image below to jump to artwork...
Sunday, 12 July 2009
Cartrain's Demands...
Cartrain's Demands...
"For the safe return of Damien Hirsts pencils I would like my artworks back that Dacs and Hirst took off me in November. Its not a large demand he can have his pencils back when I get my artwork back. Dacs are now not taking any notice of my emails and I have asked nicely more than five times to try and resolve this matter. Hirst has until the end of this month to resolve this or on 31st of July the pencils will be sharpened. He has been warned."
"For the safe return of Damien Hirsts pencils I would like my artworks back that Dacs and Hirst took off me in November. Its not a large demand he can have his pencils back when I get my artwork back. Dacs are now not taking any notice of my emails and I have asked nicely more than five times to try and resolve this matter. Hirst has until the end of this month to resolve this or on 31st of July the pencils will be sharpened. He has been warned."
Thursday, 9 July 2009
Cartrain has stolen Damien Hirst's pencils - Theft Or Ransom?
16 year old graffiti artist Cartrain walked in to the Tate Briton (London) early last week and removed a packet of pencils from one of Damien Hirsts exhibits. Damien Hirst and Cartrain have a long standing rocky history. Earlier this year Hirst targeted the young graffiti artist Cartrain using Design and Artists Copyright Society (DAC's) for breach of copyright infringement on his latest series of artworks being sold vir 100artworks.com.
Cartrain is a 16 year artist whose work can be found mostly in backstreets of East London's Brick Lane and Old Street. Cartrain's left wing stencils and collages often contain recognisable figures such as George Bush and the Queen.
The box of very rare "FABER CASTELL dated 1990 Mongol 482 series" pencils were removed from Damien Hirst's "PHARMACY installation" by Cartrain on Thursday the 2nd July around 4pm. Not long after the pencils were removed from the installation a fake police 'appeal for assistance' posters appeared all around London.
This is the latest in a string of events surrounding the feud between the two artists. It began when Damien Hirst contracted the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DAC's) to send a string of legal letters to Cartrain's artdealer Tom Cuthbert at 100artworks.com in regards to Cartrain's series of artworks 'For the Love of God'. The online gallery surrendered the artworks to Damien Hirst with a verbal apology. The legal grounds in which Hirst requested the artworks are very questionable and the story spread across the internet like wild fire. It was reported by The Independent, The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, Pop Bitch, Popbitch and many online blogs.
The urban art community are currently heavily debating the actions of Cartrain and what his next steps will be. Is this a random act of vandalism or a calculated guerilla art stunt? Only time will tell.
Click below to have your say...
http://banksyforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=37766
Cartrain is a 16 year artist whose work can be found mostly in backstreets of East London's Brick Lane and Old Street. Cartrain's left wing stencils and collages often contain recognisable figures such as George Bush and the Queen.
The box of very rare "FABER CASTELL dated 1990 Mongol 482 series" pencils were removed from Damien Hirst's "PHARMACY installation" by Cartrain on Thursday the 2nd July around 4pm. Not long after the pencils were removed from the installation a fake police 'appeal for assistance' posters appeared all around London.
This is the latest in a string of events surrounding the feud between the two artists. It began when Damien Hirst contracted the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DAC's) to send a string of legal letters to Cartrain's artdealer Tom Cuthbert at 100artworks.com in regards to Cartrain's series of artworks 'For the Love of God'. The online gallery surrendered the artworks to Damien Hirst with a verbal apology. The legal grounds in which Hirst requested the artworks are very questionable and the story spread across the internet like wild fire. It was reported by The Independent, The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, Pop Bitch, Popbitch and many online blogs.
The urban art community are currently heavily debating the actions of Cartrain and what his next steps will be. Is this a random act of vandalism or a calculated guerilla art stunt? Only time will tell.
Click below to have your say...
http://banksyforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=37766
Monday, 6 July 2009
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Introducing - PROLE - Graffiti/Urban/Steet/Canvas/Artworks
Q: Why the name Prole?
A: My name "Prole", comes from the word "Proletariat" that features heavily in 1984, the proles in 1984 could have established a better world if they revolted....but they never needed to revolt against the system because all the proles cared about were films, football, beer, and the lottery, which were all provided to them by the state, a bit like modern times. If only Orwell could have known how right on the mark he was.
Q: How did you learn your techniques?
A: Printing and stencil work are much the same bedfellows, you make up an image with solid colours forced through an open mesh for printing and you do the same but using spraypaint and holes cut in card. I'm a fully trained screen printer (large format, traditional hand, and textile), art was always a "part time" thing until i lost my job at the end of 2008. The chance arose to do what i wanted to do "full time" and being versed in the screen printing technique enables me to understand the layering of images to make the "bigger picture". This is a great help when working with stencils.
Title: Skunk
Edition: Signed run of 5
Location: West Yorkshire
Materials: spray paint on a deep box canvas
Size: 51 x 76 cm approx
Title: Epiphanys
Edition: Signed run of 5
Location: West Yorkshire
Materials: spray paint on a deep box canvas
Size: 50 x 70 cm approx
The painting has glow in the dark elements. The face and arm bone glows in the dark.
Click the link below to see more artworks by 'Prole'...
New 'Prole' Graffiti Street Urban Canvas Artworks In Stock Now
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