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Wednesday, 13 October 2010

The Krah's latest film of all his recent exploits

New amazing film of what The Krah has been up to as of late. Pretty damn good. Check his prints up at the LAB POP UP SHOP

Monday, 22 March 2010

Urban Art At The Foundry - 25/03/10

Downstairs at Ye Olde Street's 'The Foundry'.
LAB favorite 'The Krah' and friends come together to celebrate the launch of his brand new clothing line,
with Urban Art at the Foundry.
Featuring The Krah, Dr. D, Rugman, RYCA, Teddy Baden, THE5683, Milo Tchais (from Brazil), Zadok, Justin Harrison and many more...limited edition art prints from ours truly (LAB) and the coolest street-wear from Roktic.
Art, Music, Drinks, T-Shirts simply how it should always be!
OPENING NIGHT: THURSDAY 25 March 2010
From 7:00PM TIL 11:30PM
show runs: 26/03/10 - 4/04/10
Free entry- Foundry 86 Great Eastern Street London EC2A 3JL

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Tate the Biscuit - East End Arts Club show 3rd - 6th Dec

Tate the Biscuits by the East End Arts Club's exhibition is displaying a huge collection of street artists, conceptual artists, installation artists, painters, graphic illustrators and photographers, who all come together under the roof of Shoreditch Town Hall to create interpretations of proverbs and phrases. view a huge selection of street and urban art, and then ponder at the life size sculpture of a seven year old boy made with green fiberglass. Poking from the corner of one of the rooms you can see a strange doll with many arms, a painted image of a monkey lounging on a sofa. A huge display of contemporary urban painting which show chases the best of what is present today.
Private View 6-9pm - Thursday 3rd December 2009
12-8 Friday 4th December 10-6 pm Sat 5th December / Sun 6th December 2009
SHOREDITCH TOWN HALL 380,Old Street, London EC1V 9LT, London

ARTISTS Rugman, The Krah ,David Bray, Snub, Schoony, Asboluv ,Tinsel Edwards, Twinkle Troughton , Ben Allen, Patrick Hughes, Infinity Bunce, Lorraine Clarke, Mark Fraser- Betts, Edd Pearman , Jane Grosvenor, Espira, Up The Arts- Kerry Roper, John Doe, Craww, Tate Sisters, Stuart-Koenig Roach, The Kuntists, Grafik Warfare Emporium, Swifty, Martin Grover, Dr D, Mark Perronet, Kate Pritchard, Tamara Dubnyckyj, Dan Kitchener, Eyesaw Pilot, Wayne Chisnall, Patrick Hughes, Martin Kingdom , Richard Stone, Katherine Lubar, Russell Chater , Chris Koning, Tom Wilmott , Nathan Eastwood, Bob London, Ting Ting Cheng, Danilo Murru, Arina Orlova, , James Tebbutt , Blair Zaye, Augustine Coll, Paul Hill, Constance Slaughter, Annabel Tilley, David Gomez Maestre, Amyhyejung Shin, Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, Shona Davies, David Monaghan, Kevin Green , Andrew Salgado, Jess Wilson, Jboy, Anja Jane, Rachel Eardley,Lara Hardwood ,Helen Lang, ARTHOUSE, Daniel Locke,Liz Toole,Anthony Peters, Phil Sheffield, James Brown, Trent Sidharrta, World of Moose, Jennifer Camilleri, Helen Musselwhite, Martin Grover , Angie Crowe, Piers Secunda, Chad Macfalene, Amy Wicks, Natalie Taylor, Phillip Osbourne, Michael Vanderson, Anja Jane, Peter Sylveire, Jboy, Elod Beregszazi, Andrew Johnson, Hannah Marie Luxton, Michael Cranston, Mychael Barratt, Lou Trigg, Suzy Taylor, Robin Clare, Ros Shiers, Gavin Edwards, Karen Lockhart......e

Thursday, 8 October 2009

Mutate LAdbroke Grove

Don't forget the amazing Mutate opens it's doors once again from tomorrow. One foot in the Grove this time housed under the Westway in Ladbroke Grove. This is the all talking, machine walking, spray paint all over the mofo, biggest in town show. This has to be the highlight in the Urban/Street art calendar of 2009.

3-6 Acklam Road, London W10 5YU nearest tube Ladbroke Grove.
Daily from 2pm-late

Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Mutate - One Foot In the Grove

Mutate Britain is back 8th - 25th Oct, Under the Westway Ladbroke Grove, W10 5YU. Open Fri/Sat & Sun 2-10pm.

It's back! Mutate Britain is returning west; to the Westway in fact, with its One Foot in the Grove exhibition featuring some of the most diverse and cutting edge sculptures, paintings and installations seen yet.
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Tuesday, 11 August 2009

The Krah - Solo show in Berlin

Our very own The Krah is currently taking Berlin by storm with his newly opened solo show at the ATM gallery. ATM has previously hosted exhibitions from artists including Pure Evil, C215, and Dave the Chimp and are one of the most respected galleries in Berlin.
The show runs for a month, so if you're in the area then make sure to check it out. A few of the opening are available here

Friday, 15 May 2009

TB & TC Brighton

If you're lucky enough to be Brighton bound this weekend, you need to be checking the TB & TC show about town.

Our good friend Snub is co-ordinating one big artist paintathon around Sunny Brighton on Saturday. They will be painting The Gym (2 walls 65ft by 15ft, and each end wall)with canvas work to be hung over the weekend. Including furniture rejuvenation, pillars and a big paste up at the entrance. Also painting at Tom's bar in the 'south laines' where reportedly the party is at. The back of The Globe pub & a Mechanics workshop with much much more happening over the weekend.

Check the blog for more info
http://thebeautifulandthecanned.blogspot.com/

Artists Include.
Snub, Pure Evil, Pinky, Hutch, Hop Louie, Imbue, Agent Provocateur, Charles Dada, Trans 1, K-Guy, Grafter, Ben Slow, Blam, Orticanoodles, Dan Kitchener, Req, Don, Eye Saw, Osh, Funky Red Dog, Fake, Avian Security, Faunagraphic, Rocket, DBO, Dep, T.WAT, Inkfetish, Shuby, The Krah, Limbo, Finbarr, Asboluv, Stickee, Defacto, Sinna, Orco, Fark, Foundry, Is This You?, Mishfit & MNKY.

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Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Nightmare Before Christmas Pictures

Better Late than never, we finally got it together to get the photo's up from our regular superstar photographer Jo Wilson.

The Nightmare Before Christmas show was put together in three days with the amazing effort of the artists, LAB & Day Dream Network. When we first walked into the space 9am on a freezing cold Sunday morning the revelers were still enjoying the refreshments. Everyone pitched in teamed together to create what was the Nightmare Before Christmas. The photo diary follow's the days up to the party. Hope you enjoy them as much as we did putting the show together.
Special Thanks to Focus for bringing our attention to the location. Look out for his latest print exclusivly through LAB in the next few weeks.

Click Here for all the Photo's

Tuesday, 2 December 2008

The Krah Interview by Concrete Canvas

The guys from Concrete Canvas have recently posted an interview with our very own Krah. To read the full interview follow this link

Sunday, 26 October 2008

Little Art Book Presents......

Join us to Celebrate the launch of RUGMAN'S’s latest diptych screen prints onto comic book and aerosol hand finished paper, exclusively created with Little Art Book. Launch Party Tues 11th November from 6.30pm.

Also featuring
VILCHEZ, DAVE THE CHIMP, OH DEATH,
INKFETISH, SUPEROBOTURBO, THE KRAH,
ADAM MALLETT, SZTUKA FABRYKA,
ABE LINCOLN JNR, ROURKE VAN DAL,
HENRY REEVE, PAINTSHOP STUDIO,
DAN KITCHENER, RICHARD HOGG,
PURE EVIL, GABRIEL MORENO.

WIN a pair of these fantastic Rugman prints on the night, plus an event screen print for the first 50 people through the door.

Music by LAB regulars Oh Death & Adam Mallett.

Refreshments provided by Tiger beer.

Show runs until December 24th 2008.

RSVP art@littleartbook.com for guest list.

Alphabet Bar, Beak Street, Soho, London W1R 3LF.

Sunday, 10 August 2008

Black Rat Press Gallery - Big Issue Show

We checked out the great Black Rat Press, Big Issue show and took a few photo's. Highlights included the amazing Joker CMYK dots painting by Pure Evil. DFace, The Krah, Ron English, Blek Le Rat & Eine were among the many artists who donated work for the good cause.

More Photo's from the show

Saturday, 9 August 2008

Underground Urban Art The Foundry London

The Krah & co have put together this fine urban art show.
Head over to East London on Thursday 28th August at The Foundry, 86 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JL. Old Street tube. With Artists such as Pure Evil, The Krah, Hutch, Snub, Copyright, Pam Glew, Blam, Kai1, 45rpm.

Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Where Mighty Giants Dwell - Byron Bay Australia

Our Australian friends Stupid Crap have put together this fine urban art exhibition, straight out of Splendor in the Grass festival, Byron Bay. Little Art Book is represented by Oh Death, Adam Mallet, Ink Fetish & The Krah. If you are lucky enough to be in the area be sure to Check it out!

Other artists on show Buff Monster, Kelsey Brookes, Ben Frost, Jeremyville, Numskull and many more. At the Retrospect Galleries from Friday the 1st August.

Tuesday, 5 August 2008

Big Issue Art Exibition 9th August 2008

The Krah is one of the many amazing artists who have donated work for this one day charity event at the Black Rat Press.

A charity show in aid of the Big Issue Foundation. In what must be one of the most impressive line ups of the year 40 artists have kindly donated works to this show and all proceeds go towards helping the homeless. Confirmed artists so far include: Dotmasters, Dface, Eine, Mantis, Matt Small, Swoon, Nick Walker, Peter Kennard, Cat Picton Phillipps, Ron English, Herakut, Jamie Reid, Andrew Mcattee, Charming Baker, Robert Sample, Elbowtoe, Hush, Pure Evil, Julian Opie, Miss Bugs, Modern Toss, Ruth Marten, Dan Baldwin, Peter Blake, Logan hicks, Armsrock, Cyclops, Beejoir, Chris Stain, Labrona, Anthony Lister, Copyright, Blek Le Rat, Gaia, K Guy, James Mylne, Eelus, SPQR, Neverwork, LET, Dog Byte, Static, Jef Aerosol, The Krah, Pam Glew, Mr Jago, C215, Part2ism, Tony Gray, David Walker, RYCA, Dr D, Mighty Monkey, AME72, Christopher Remy, Rene Gagnon, Zac Walsh, Bandit, with more artists to be announced closer to the time.

Wednesday, 21 May 2008

The Krah Exhibition Opening Night Photos

Here's a few photo's from the opening night of the Krah's exhibition at the Pure Evil gallery.

Tuesday, 6 May 2008

Cans Festival

Banksy organised 'Cans Festival' was truly amazing and LAB had a few of our own down with paint cans at the ready.
Including our new man of many stencils and fresh in the LAB fold FOCUS. Keep your eyes peeled for this up & coming London artist.

FOCUS - Homemade Graffiti since 1987

FOCUS- Cowgirl

OH DEATH - Summer

THE KRAH

DAN KITCHENER

Friday, 28 March 2008

Interview with The Krah

Fresh from another midnight graffiti run (probably) Laura Martin got hold of The Krah - Greece’s best export since Ouzo - who tells the story of the night he had to swallow his memory card, introduces us to Krahotherapy and explains why spitting at him at his new exhibition is to be encouraged.

Artwork from The Krah is available exclusively through LAB

What are the inspiration for your characters? Do you dream in graffiti?

Being a mentalist is what I do best. I wouldn’t say I dream graffiti, ok some times I do. But seriously folks, I ponder on current affairs and despair at the state of the world around me constantly, except when I am living in my own little world (which thankfully is most of the time). My every waking moment I try to jazz up the monotony around me by imagining animated stories where my characters do extremely rude things. Really the only way to get any peace these days is to attempt to get all these characters out of my head by applying them to the real world around me. I call this Krahotherapy and it involves going out and putting all these little ideas in other peoples heads by exposing them to the illness that is the krah and secretly hoping that this will somehow make things better. Well, for me at least.

A lot of your work features on transport such as trains and subway lines – have you had any close calls? What was your most adventurous tag?

When I was a young lad waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day, I liked drawing on things like every other teenage kid (well some of them anyway). But with me it just wasn’t enough to scribble things on toilet walls. So I thought, I know, why not draw my pretty pictures on all over the city. That’s bound to annoy someone! What started as an innocent underground urban hard core game, ended as a never ending downward spiral (which was fun by the way) and involved a lot of falling from fences on to rocks and running away from the sound of sirens coming closer and the countless attempts to explain to my parents how having stitches was part of a normal night out…... It was all fun and games back then with plenty of close calls and non-stop adventure (I wont bore you with the details). Somehow I never fell into the hands of the law, im still not quite sure how I managed that. Well maybe once or twice…. The last time infact I had to eat the memory card from my camera while in the back of a police van. To this day it hasn’t reappeared, I miss that memory card, there where some good photos on it…….. But to be honest, now I am far too mature (old) for that kind of strenuous activity, so I stick to creating casual chaos in the streets instead.

Would you recommend trains and public transport as a good canvas for art?

Not really it’s a bit difficult to hang up on your living room wall! Ha! See what I did there…….no but seriously if you want to get up and you want to make a bajillion people nauseous at the sight of your scribbles every day, it’s definitely the way forward! The adrenalin is nice too.

You tag all over the world – does your art reflect each city’s personality?

I find that when I travel I become somewhat akin to a cultural sponge. I just absorb everything around me and then that inspiration just eeks out in my work. All the different cultures, people and places I have experienced drive the creative machine that is Krah. However by far the most inspiring trip I have taken was to Tokyo, it was like a different planet, I loved it and I definitely want to go and paint there again. But I still hate sushi.

What kind of reaction do you want to evoke from your art?

CAUTION VIEWING MAY CAUSE: swelling, itchiness, defecation, hang over-like effects, ring-sting, ingrown toenails, the desire to tear off all your clothes and run down the street singing “we all live in a yellow submarine” (hopefully this will affect mostly the females of the species), anger, rebellious tendencies from the waist down, vegetarianism, procreation, and a deep disconcerting desire to take up some ridiculous sport like under water golf.

Much of your work contains cyborg-like creatures – would you cryogenically freeze yourself in the hope of becoming half man half human in the future? Or perhaps a bionic man – which part of your body would you bionofy?

I used to know a girl who made me want to freeze myself. I tried some diy cryogenics in the refrigerator at home but my girl friend eventually found me and following a vigorous defrost I was ok. I think. But I still get an erection whenever I see penguins on tv…... So I guess I missed my chance to see the future, but if I was a cyborg-like creature I would be the bastard son of Tetsuo from Akira and those sexy Gigger bitches with bionic wrists because repetitive strain syndrome isn’t a joke people it’s the doom of all truly talented artists.

Some of your stuff’s up on youtube – do you think this is the future of street art, so the public see the process and the creation of the piece, rather than just the finished article?

No, I don’t think the revolution will be televised and neither is the future of street-art going to be video documentaries of street actions on poo-tube. I truly believe the next step is “graff-happy slapping” recorded on mobile phones, there will come a day when gangs of street artists will roam the streets pouncing on innocent citizens and paint them to create living street art. Sadly this is a bit reminiscent of what the hippies use to do back in the day spraying paint on women that wore fur coats! What is this world coming to when the generation of today cant come up with any original ideas ay? Still…… it would be fun wouldn’t it?

Where would be your dream place in London to tag, no holds barred?

I would like to hack into the Piccadilly circus animated advert screens and show animated anti-establishment videos, however my hacking abilities border on dysfunctional so I don’t think I will manage that. It would be cool to get remote controlled helicopters big spray cans attached and paint the Gerkin tower, or just to crash them into the queens palace, that would be strangely fulfilling I think.

You’ve got an exhibition opening at the Pure Evil gallery in May – is this your first gallery show? How do you feel having your work shown in a gallery space as opposed to the streets? Does it change the context of your work or how it is received/viewed?

The space is a part of the gallery 3 rooms in the basement, it hasn’t got freshly painted white walls like a normal gallery, it has an underground feel to it, it looks more like a dungeon. It strangely has an open air bit that is exposed to the elements that gives it that out-side feel. The pure evil gallery shows work of street-artists from all over the globe so I am proud to show my work there. This will be my first solo show in the East End, I have previously exhibited in Tokyo Japan, Athens Greece and in the UK. I don’t think exhibiting in a gallery changes my work the only difference is that its legal and its on sale (horray!), the work that I do in the streets is aimed at the everyday type of person that is just passing by that spot and I do it for free! its like little surprises that pop up all over the city to brake the monotony of day to day routine. I am hoping that people by seeing my work at the show, will come to truly hate Krah and then through reverse psychology I shall become rich and infamous. But the best way is to see it for your self, come along on the 22nd of May and get a bit tipsy, please don’t hurt me. Spitting is ok.

Is your move to sculpture recent? Is this something you think you’ll work more with? What other mediums would you like to work in?

Its something I wanted to do for a log time, I like to experiment with different materials, however most of the materials at my disposal at the moment can be described using the words “cheap and cheerful”. Working in 3d is very effective and it’s easier for the viewer to relate to it. I want to evolve my style and try making sculptures with plastic and vinyl in the near future. I love the shiny plastic surfaces with the vector like curves a bit like huge toys. I also want to start making installations with projections for lighting, and maybe even making metal sculptures and welding them in the street.

Do you think Banksy killed or raised the appeal of street art – has it killed the underground quality?

I remember seeing Banksy’s work before he was blown up in the media, I like his work and love his ideas. But who cares really, so what if he’s rich and famous …… I’m a lover not a hater! I think the man brought the worlds attention to a fresh politically and socially stimulating style of graffiti and happened to cash in on the way. But he wasn’t the first and I hope he won’t be the last! So lets keep Graffiti today as an urban underground art movement, lets try and retain what little street cred we have left and then sell out when the price is right because to be perfectly honest I’m tired of beans on toast for dinner every night.
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Tuesday, 4 March 2008

The Krah Exibition at The Pure Evil Gallery

22nd May - 4th June 2008
108 Leonard Street
Shoreditch
London
EC2A 4RH
Our favorite man in the alleys is coming up for air with his one man show from May 22nd get it inked in your diary.

Tuesday, 29 January 2008

New Print From The Krah

January was a month spent organising for LAB. We've been doing a lot of work behind the scenes and are now ready to kick off some printing.

First off the press is a great two colour hand pulled screen print by The Krah. We've sourced some really high quality handmade paper and gotten our crazy French screenprinter to work to produce these prints.

For a more detailed view and to spend some money head to our site.

Monday, 28 January 2008

The Krah - Profile

The Krah is one of the most known and cutting edge street artists to come out of Greece. Brought up in Athens he started graffiti from a very young age starting off as a common vandal tagging his neighbourhood and working his way up to his first characters sprayed on a wall in 1997.

Inspired by the street art scene he started creating comics, posters and flyers (for punk gigs and underground raves) before landing his first full time job as an illustrator working for a skate wear company in Athens called ‘Nicotine’. His talents earned him a spot in the SR Squad, one of the top graffiti crews in Athens notorious for doing graffiti on both the subway and metro lines. SR Squad quickly became known around the graffiti scene in Europe through graffiti magazines, videos and from frequent inter-rail tours around Europe. In his late teens he went to study illustration in the UK where he was drafted into the 101 crew and continued to terrorise the trains for many years to come.
He frequently visits Athens, and together with b. was one of the first graffiti artists in Greece that moved from the classic graffiti style to using paint brushes, stencils and other techniques to draw in the streets.
Now he lives a life of leisure and works as a freelance illustrator. However, he still finds time to be an active street artist living and scribbling all over London. His passion is particularly evident in the streets around Brick Lane and Shoreditch areas of East London. His street art can be seen in websites like: Wooster collective, Eco-system and Art-Crimes. Occasionally he even puts down his paint brush to attend live painting graffiti festivals such as Write4Gold, Sleeping Giants and Meeting of Styles.
Many of his characters have found their way onto the pages of numerous magazines and books all over Europe and he has also worked as an animator for an on-line computer games company.
He is continually exhibiting and has held previous exhibitions in Tokyo Japan, Athens Greece and in the U.K.

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