Upfest 2011 - Friday - Herakut/Case/Inkie/Lokey

A beautiful way to the start the weekend, and the sun is still shining on South Bristol!

Herakut painting the Tobacco Factory building facing the Aldi car park.

I will never get bored of seeing this everyday.

And as I took in my evening dog walk with the sun setting on North Street, the shops shutters were being painted by Bristol's finest.


The ever-charming (and prolific!) Inkie painting with Cheo & Lokey.

Also took in the View Art Gallery show 'Archetypes' - Herakut, Futura, Jago, Case, Remi/Rough, Kaws, Pam Glew.  The gallery had a photographer taking shots all night, so check out their website in a couple of days and the catalogue is online to check out the work www.viewartgallery.co.uk   

Case opposite the View Gallery on the petrol station.  He will be carrying on around the station the next day.

Inkie/Sepr/3Dom - Croft - Shiv Lizzy

I think the strength of the Stoke Crofts open air gallery, is the constant change, artists trying out new ideas and the fact they can still pull in a name or two. In the last six months a couple of memorial pieces have gone up for Bear (poet, and Croft resident) which were quite wonderful.  So I was really pleased to see such a beautiful memorial piece with respect to Shiv Lizzy (Shivon Watson, 28) who was tragically killed in London earlier this year.

Here's some progress shots from the new Inkie/Sepr/3Dom. 
(sorry for the slightly late posting)

GetDringMobile - Paintworks Photos

A great evening organised for the GetDringMobile money raising event, which managed to raise an astonishing £25,000 that night. Some fantastic work, good music and really nice feel to the whole evening. I think it's what some of the other 'graffiti' events should of aimed for. It was also great to see such a high calibre of contributing artists to the event (Nick Walker and Pam Glew getting nice cash amounts in for their work).

Bristol Graffiti blog and Bristol Urban Art have much better photos of the event, so definitely check their links out. I was filming it for a project, so hence my limited and unobserved photos, but here they are anyway.

Inkie's piece (half way through), Mr Jago on the side, Vermin in the distance.

Paris' pop up shop - another stop on his world tour.Milk and Dora's piece
Lokey working (Jody and Mr Jago, in the background)
Nick Walker and Eelus (and an investor)
Hmmmm gold. Wonderful piece from Xenz, which went for a pretty penny.