[ziggy]

New Matt Small on BRP, nice but not for me.

[manchestermike]

I like it... my first Matt Small, Saul seemed a little small, but this one looks quality

[carlito]

31 of these were bought quickly!

[BlackRatPress]

numbers will go up and down a bit - shopping baskets time out after 20 mins - its not that we can't add up (although that may also be true)

[carlito]

ah hah! I wondered why it had crept up again...


is their a time of day we should check for new prints fazeley? love to know when the logan Hicks and d#faces will be appearing?

[BlackRatPress]

when i've had enough coffee - usually 11 or 12 ish - logan will be signing first week may and release will be the same week. Not sure on the dface - at least a couple of weeks.

[carlito]

coool cheers for the knowledge - glad to know I can actually look like I'm doing some work first thing rather than f5'ing

[numusic]

fazeley said:

when i've had enough coffee - usually 11 or 12 ish - logan will be signing first week may and release will be the same week. Not sure on the dface - at least a couple of weeks.

Hey Mike, you had another release recently hope it went well and the family are good ;D

[smashedhat]

Thanks BRP newsletter rocks.

19 Colour screenprints also rock. I can see why the printers have substance problems

[BlackRatPress]

nu
was amazing - she was born at home - incredible experience!
Thanks

[numusic]

fazeley said:

nu
was amazing - she was born at home - incredible experience!
Thanks

congrats mate ! crazy experience isn't it. Mine's currently laid sick on a mattress on the floor..took the day off work for his first birthday, just had to cancel the party

Poor kid, maybe i'll buy him a banksy to make up for it ;D

Glad to hear the family are well !

[Tyler Durden]

Can you adopt me?

[dmandpenfold]

tylerdurden1uk said:

Can you adopt me?

;D ;D ;D

[ABC]

Matt Smalls work all the way, See you at Novas if anyones there.

[irf2112]

I got a call from the Leonard Street gallery - informing me a new Matt Small was available. IN the words of Hannibal Smith... "That's the kind of service you don't get on a bus"...

[mammal2]

whats the new dace then? ay...

[stuey09]

Hope this doesn't come out until June. I can see financial ruin looming on the horizon. Modern Tarot cards and new releases from Static this week, Electrik sheeps exhibition AND D*Face on top of all that. Does anyone want to buy my house?

[stylus]

stuey09 said:

Hope this doesn't come out until June. I can see financial ruin looming on the horizon. Modern Tarot cards and new releases from Static this week, Electrik sheeps exhibition AND D*Face on top of all that. Does anyone want to buy my house?

Would you swap it for love rat?

[Tyler Durden]

I'm sure if you ask my ex I qualify as a prime love rat? Hang on, that means I'm trading myself for your house. Cancel that..

[Tyler Durden]

Looks like they've got some good stuff coming out!

This Newsletter woke up late this morning, stubbed its toe on the stairs and spilt its coffee over the cat.

The Eleven Exhibition, Leonard Street, Opening Night

So we krumped, we clowned. We spilled out onto the streets, but realised it was raining and spilled back in again. We did the slide, the electric boogalo. Sarah performed her experimental jazz tap, Mike threw in the tango, Nick did the polka, and Dominic mashed it up big style, throwing shapes over in the corner by the Swoons. Slinkachu contined his Honey I Shrunk The Art project, D*Face and Eine ghosted through looking for beer, Elbowtoe was tall, Judith Supine was taller, Blek was French, and Matt Small was very, very, drunk. So drunk in fact that even boffins using computers have failed to come up with a graph that adequately charts just how drunk he was.

Occasionally people tried interrupting us to try and buy some of the artwork, but we shooed them away and carried on ecstatic urban dance moves. Then we remembered we were working on commission and stopped and sold them some artwork. But were really street about it.

New Prints Due Out In No particular Order (except they will be in this order)

Blek Le Rat
D*Face
Logan Hicks
Matt Small

A Quick, Factual Note About The Blek Le Rat print, Dream But Don’t Sleep, While This Newsletter Has a Brief Moment of Coffee-based Lucidity

We have a striking new Blek edition, due out sometime over the next two weeks. These prints will be sold mostly as a set of 4 colourways. From the edition of 30, 5 will be broken down and sold individually.

And Now Some More Rambling

D*Face’s Dead Che is perhaps the highest quality screenprint we’ve made yet. The colours are so rich they’ve got their own spot on the Sunday Times Rich List, just behind JK Rowling. It’s all vibrant reds, bible blacks and sundrenched yellows. And if that wasn’t enough we’ve gilded the lily with a real gold leaf insignia on Che’s remarkably well preserved beret.

In fact, between you and me, the print is so good we’re a little worried about the printers. We can’t help feeling it’s slightly too well made, if you know what we mean. We’re worried they’re throwing themselves into their work and nelgecting their homelife. We’re all for dedication and stunning varnish finishes, but what about the family? What if the kids can’t remember what daddy looks like anymore and their wives have started coming home drunk at four, smeary with drink, in the morning in a vain hope of making their obsessive printer husbands jealous. Only to find their husbands, the printers, passed out in the paint-spattered overalls at the foot of the stairs, murmuring something about perfecting the William Morris-esque blood red skyline for the Logan Hicks?

So, if you have any shred of decency you won’t buy the new set of Bleks, nor the new D*Face, nor the upcoming Logan Hicks, or the stunning new Matt Small we have secretly planned for next month. Instead you’ll write to the printers and demand that they drop their ridiculously high standards. Tell them to forget about Black Rat Press for a day or two. Tell them to go home, get some sleep, take the kids out to Chessington World of Adventures and tell your wives you love them and that they still look as beautiful as the first time you saw them – even though the first time they actually saw their wives they were slumped messily against their hotel room door at their sister’s wedding reception, hiccuping softly and turning their bags inside-out to try and find their keys before they threw up right there in the hall.

A Word on The Last D*Face

We apologise to anyone who missed out on the last D*Face which, as you know, was painstakingly etched, and hand-coloured and sold out in under half an hour. The demand was so high it crashed the system. Which was great. Because we all k now you’re not a real street art publishing house until your ordering system has melted at least once.

We Don’t Mean to Keep Talking About D*Face, But…

O Contemporary Presents D*Face: Eyecons Exhibition, Brighton, 31 March – 06 May, 2007

www.ocontemporary.com/exhibitions.htm

Kind Regards
The Black Rat Press Ltd

[corblimeylimey]

banksyforum.proboards82.com/index.cgi?board=othergalleries&action=display&thread=1174501057

[Tyler Durden]

Cheers CBL.. just been reading it below.. Doh!

[7eny]

Hi guys, here's the latest news letter from BRP, apologies if this has been posted elsewhere but I couldn't see it:

Dear Jeny

So it’s the end of term and Black Rat Press is breaking up for the holidays. Which basically means Dominic will be off summering in the Hamptons with the Cheneys, Nick will continue his work on curing hiccups, heartache and the common cold (except, to be honest, Nick discovered the cure for those years ago. But he’s having trouble with the soluble tablet – it’s just not effervescing the way he wants it to..) and Mike will continue to make sure the printers work until their protective Mylar suits hang like Robinson Crusoe rags around their ragged, daylight-starved bodies.

But don’t worry, we will return on September 5th with new prints, new artists, our first exhibition and a few other surprises. This means that your families can have their loved ones back. For the next seven weeks you won’t need to sequester yourself away refreshing every other second, or drowse through the night listening out for your early warning software to shake the fixtures and rattle the neighbours.

In the meantime you can still buy prints we have online and c**ty McChops can still try in vain to bring down our system from his musty windowless basement.

Happy Trails,

BRP.

PS. To prove we weren’t telling fibs in our last newsletter, (yeah, like we’d make anything up!) here’s Scott Rayburn’s article for the Royal Academy magazine..

www.royalacademy.org.uk/ra-magazine/summer2007/preview/the-artful-shopper,125,RAMA.html

Kind Regards
The Black Rat Press Ltd

[manchestermike]

Union mask...

[biggayal]

I like the look of that but am going to pass due to other releases that are wanted...........

[chrisps303]

Arse! 2 prints from BRP that i want but dont have the cash, i hope these hang around for a week or 2.

[rob123rob]

As much as I love the Peter Kennard prints on BRP right now, I am saddened by their prices. I know this is the Banksy effect, and everything is out of whack right now, but it all seems a little steep. Great prints though. Wish I was half as poor as I am right now....

[atkuefler]

I think BRP in general is very expensive with all of their prints. Thats why I love SOS soooooooo much

[BlackRatPress]

rob
Sorry that the prints are perhaps a littlemore than you would like them to be. Just thought I should try and defend our position a little - these are v difficult to make with 4 - 5 times as many colours as your average screenprint. When you print you usually pay for time, paper, and how many colours you use. If you think a 4 colour screenprint is fair at say - £100 then these would be fair at far more than we are charging. It's not really the Banksy effect in this case - they just cost a small fortune to make because they used so many screens and are so detailed. I think whilst it may be a lot of money to spend on a print - it is fair. We would certainly be better off financially doing 4 colour prints at £100 - £150 but we'd also be bored shitless.

[numusic]

fazeley said:

rob
Sorry that the prints are perhaps a littlemore than you would like them to be. Just thought I should try and defend our position a little - these are v difficult to make with 4 - 5 times as many colours as your average screenprint. When you print you usually pay for time, paper, and how many colours you use. If you think a 4 colour screenprint is fair at say - £100 then these would be fair at far more than we are charging. It's not really the Banksy effect in this case - they just cost a small fortune to make because they used so many screens and are so detailed. I think whilst it may be a lot of money to spend on a print - it is fair. We would certainly be better off financially doing 4 colour prints at £100 - £150 but we'd also be bored s**tless.

Can't you just use 4 colours to get all the others

Lovely print mate. My orders in.. and don't be sending me those dodgy A/P's.. I want a proper one !