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Finally got my hands on the book, The Participation Revolution, written by my good friend Neil Gibb. Absolutely delighted to see my work “When the Revolution Starts” on the cover, which was done in collaboration with an US illustrator and political artist from Texas, Todd Kale.

Book description: 
"It can at times feel like everything is falling apart. And there is a reason for this. It really is. We can either see this as an end or a beginning. In this uplifting and essential guide to a bewildering future, Neil Gibb claims that we are witnessing the birth of a new world, in which passive consumers are being replaced by active participants. We are at one of those rare points in human history, he argues, when a whole way of thinking is on the turn, just as it was in the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution. Those who catch the swell early are the ones who prosper. Those who don't get it will be left behind."

Want to grab a copy of this limited edition book, please email Neil Gibb directly.

Two of my street art (and political) pieces including "When the Computers Take Over" are heading this week over to Atom Gallery to exhibit in their latest group show, "Tomorrow's World". Taking over 40 international artists vision of the future. As you guess, mine isn't such a cheery view.

Tomorrow's World will incorporating printmaking, painting, digital art, photography and small-scale sculpture.

For more details check out
Tomorrow's World
Atom Gallery
8 Dec 2017 – 27 Jan 2018

My second solo show of the year. This one I'm very excited about as I'm playing to my home town - in Saffron Walden. I moved out here in 2014, setting up home and creating a studio. This is where my art career started.

‘Natives’ is a retrospective of my art, shown for the first time together in one place. The work explores the themes of power and greed that are confronting many of us - both at a global level and home.

Private view Friday 1st December, 2017. 
6-9pm
R.S.V.P Urban Picnic.

The exhibition is will showing until the 24th December, 2017.

The long-awaited Blisters show is back after 3 years away and it as promised it was bigger and better! 

This year’s show was based on books! With 50 artists drawing inspiration from their favourite book, quote or author to produce a limited edition screenprint!

My piece was inspired by the 1954 novel "Lord of the Flies" written by Nobel-prize winning British author William Golding. The print builds on one of the sub-themes of the book by describing the end of innocence as the boys are transformed from boys to savages.’

Available exclusively from Print Club London
Lord of the Flies
£50
Limited edition 50
Size: B2 (500x707mm)

I had the honour of being interviewed by Italian indie magazine, NeoMag. Lots of questions thrown at me enquiring about where I get my inspiration from to my current involvement with having my artwork Masks of Fear appear on the cover of Wired magazine. 

Read the interview here.

I was commissioned to do a new piece for a new gallery/bar opening in September. Located in Southbank, I was taken by how the area has radically altered in the last 10 years. The dusty old streets are being replaced by shiny new skyscrapers and the usual crowd of branded coffee shops, ubiquitous retailers and supermarkets. Southbank has a proud tradition of working class residents, but over the years has been gentrified replaced by upper middle class.

Finished work on a new piece that has taken many iterations to get to here. I'm pleased with the result.

‘When the Revolution Starts’ was inspired by ‘Liberty Leading The People’ by Eugène Delacroix – a classical painting depicting the French Revolution. In the original the main character is bare breasted, stripped of her dignity, but defiant. All around her are corpses. The message is that she would rather die than give in. We live in a time when again people are taking to the streets. They seem defiant, angry. But would they really die for the cause? Or has protest become a new form of entertainment?

This was collaborative piece working with US artist Todd Kale who provided the beautiful sketched background.

The print will be on sale online soon. Please get in touch with me if you'd like more details.

I'm excited about the release of my latest Rich Enough to be Batman - 24ct Gold series. This is an entirely new phase for the print. One of the biggest differences is the size which is 75 x 75cm (29.5 x 29.5in). Previous collections were A2 (42 x 59.4 cm / 16.5 x 23.4 in). Of course what make this print particularly special is the mask is 24 carat gold leafed.

Big thanks to Jealous gallery.
Photo credit: Bernie Dechant Photography

It's quite an honour to have been commission by Wired magazine (Italy) to create artwork for a feature article, it's an even bigger honour to have my artwork (see Masks of Fear) appearing on the cover of the magazine.

Slightly hard to believe that my artwork appears multiple times behind K-Pop and YouTube sensation Ryan Higa (19m YouTube subscribers) in this BgA (Boys Generally Asian) video film clip - "Who's It Gonna Be".