What was your first ever Art Purchase?

[Dellboyy]

Mine was this:



I found out about pow from a couple of guys at work who were into Banksy, i preferred the Faile stuff which was sold out, stumbled across the faile site and bought this for about £120.. remember thinking it was a stupid amount to spend on a picture at the time! :-)

[Heavyconsumer]

May 14, 2009 17:14:12 GMT 1 eddiedangerous said:

May 14, 2009 16:51:26 GMT 1 Heavyconsumer said:

Dreamscape posters for £5 a pop I think from some record shop or other in town, when my bedroom was covered in rave flyers 17 years ago!!! f**k I'm getting old!

17 yrs ago
remember fusion?
only wish i could!!

;D Remembering hasn't been my greatest strength for the past 15 years or so either! ;D I think I remember Fusion. It was associated with World Dance at one stage. It's all a bit blurry though!!!

[retardthebear]

POW's Faile Bunny Girl
Thought £25 or whatever it was was a con but liked the image so much. Had it hanging in a ikea frame for years. To be totally honest I actually wished it didnt say 'Faile' at the bottom when I got it lol
£75 for a signed one just seemed like daylight robbery!

[curiousgeorge]

May 14, 2009 18:46:32 GMT 1 Heavyconsumer said:

May 14, 2009 17:14:12 GMT 1 eddiedangerous said:

17 yrs ago
remember fusion?
only wish i could!!

;D Remembering hasn't been my greatest strength for the past 15 years or so either! ;D I think I remember Fusion. It was associated with World Dance at one stage. It's all a bit blurry though!!!

Remember Fusion very well, still see part of the fusion crew, just yesterday in fact.Trying to do a one hour job and started listening to some old mixes with him, about 4 hours later the job was completed.

I think hand on heart if i had a time machine forgot all that go back and buy Art nonsense, I would go back to the good old days of raving, but this time remembering not take another 'one' so quickly and wait another 30 minutes or so

I'm stuck either Applause or Morons

[Andy'77]

My first limited edition prints were by Kozyndan and bought from Magic Pony in Toronto. The 2nd from top and 2nd from the bottom:


Dellboyy, I love that print, still remember seeing a full colour version sitting on the Laz site for £320... Regrets, I had a few....

[jimbob68]

my first original was from a spaniard street artist in Montmartre back in the 60s. Its been long lost now but i think i probbably hav better memories of it than what it actually was!!!

[Karl Read]

My First original was, well actually 2 paintings i bought in indonesia
and my first print was this:

[pointblank]

Banksy CWS

[Martin Whatson]

I bought theese two at the same time from POW at £25 a pop!
Im still very pleased with them and they hang above my bed!
The reason I pulled the trigger on something I thought was a bit expencive at the moment was that I saw them for sale in a shop in Oslo at 7 times the price!

[thorkil]

My first original was by Icelandic artist Sjøfn Har on our honey moon and the first prints were by Venezulian maestro Carlos Cruz-Diez. As for street art the first originals were signed by SPQR and the first print by Jef Aerosol. Who will be next...

[instinct]

First was a futura original from marharishi store, managed to get another futura original for free with it... i wanted to hang both together so was pressing and pressing for a price on the second. After much pressing i got a call from Hardy Blechman (owner Maharishi) saying "futura did that for us for free, we couldnt possibly sell it to you so just come and pick it up... its yours". I thought to myself if thats the culture behind this whole scene then i am hooked!
and i was... many more paintings and prints later im still going, trying to carry forward and promote that same idea!

[walters]

May 14, 2009 18:44:50 GMT 1 Dellboyy said:

Mine was this:



I found out about pow from a couple of guys at work who were into Banksy, i preferred the Faile stuff which was sold out, stumbled across the faile site and bought this for about £120.. remember thinking it was a stupid amount to spend on a picture at the time! :-)

jesus fucking wept!! my favourite print ever that is,and you got it for £120 i'm very,very jealous.

my first was ghostboys hooch girl print,from red prop.cost me way more than its worth now,but i still love it.

[Winter]

Mine was Damien Hirst's Opium for £500

[Sliding on the Walls]

Banksy - Happy Choppers for around £45

[spencerlee]

Got this about 12 years ago, signed litho, the cover of one of the greatest albums of all time.

[Deleted]

Screamadelica is my second fav album of all time.
my first art purchase was a commision from a school friend who did a drawing of my sister,brother and I as a present for my Mum. The artist was 13 as was I at the time.
he has done alright for himself since then check out
www.vincentbrown.co.uk and check out
the fiqure section and the supper at Ardmen painting he was recently commsioned to do. still find it hard to believe its a painting.

[Guy Denning]

1981, La Rochelle in France and I spent all my remaining holiday money (50 francs - which was about a fiver I think) on a little expressionistic landscape. Oil on cotton, stretched over wood and long lost now. Being a pencil squeezer myself I'm in the lucky position of frequently (not always) being able to swap work, which makes up for also never having enough disposable in the past to even buy the cheapest early BANKSY prints. But the first thing we bought when we had some moolah was this lovely and mahoosive Simmond's four piece screenprint.

[wiz]

Nice that one Guy!.

[crazyarsemother]

Mine was a big 70 x 100 lithograph print form the musee d'osey of Jasper Johns 0-9 in about 1992. My Mum went spare that I had spent £15 on it. Still my favourite.

[walters]

May 15, 2009 10:46:13 GMT 1 @slammer said:

Screamadelica is my second fav album of all time.
my first art purchase was a commision from a school friend who did a drawing of my sister,brother and I as a present for my Mum. The artist was 13 as was I at the time.
he has done alright for himself since then check out
www.vincentbrown.co.uk and check out
the fiqure section and the supper at Ardmen painting he was recently commsioned to do. still find it hard to believe its a painting.

his work is awesome!

[Heavyconsumer]

May 15, 2009 10:46:13 GMT 1 @slammer said:

Screamadelica is my second fav album of all time.
my first art purchase was a commision from a school friend who did a drawing of my sister,brother and I as a present for my Mum. The artist was 13 as was I at the time.
he has done alright for himself since then check out
www.vincentbrown.co.uk and check out
the fiqure section and the supper at Ardmen painting he was recently commsioned to do. still find it hard to believe its a painting.

Unbelievable!!!

[mred]

Vincents a legend around these parts RWA, BP, Holbourne.

Many times I have been tempted by his faces, jealous of you slammer :-))

[Deleted]

My first ever art purchase was when i was 12. I would get £15.OO
a week for delivering free papers. I borrowed £5-00 of my father went to the Comic Shack in Leytonstone high rd and purchased
Spider man 300 edition grade 9,2 sealed for £50-00 my next purchase was Banksy's book £20-00

[optiknerve]

My first piece was Prince Street by Ken Keeley about 10 years ago.

[veralynn]

Love threads like this, being introduced to new talent is one of the reasons I stay on this forum.

Slammer - Wow! Quite incredible, thanks for sharing. Also love the street scene by Ken Keeley, although now has a strangely haunting vibe with the twin towers in it - guess that day won't ever go away....

My first foray was really an Art Republic driven purchase of Banksy WSM in 2004, I sold this to Howlin Hooker back in 2007 and have rued that day ever since. All's not lost though, Hooker being a bloody nice bloke contacted me and told me he was thinking of selling and just this morning I bought it back. It's on my wall! I paid too much in 2004 but they switched me on to the 'scene' and for that I'm thankful.

[dudebro17]

May 14, 2009 22:06:25 GMT 1 instinct said:

First was a futura original from marharishi store, managed to get another futura original for free with it... i wanted to hang both together so was pressing and pressing for a price on the second. After much pressing i got a call from Hardy Blechman (owner Maharishi) saying "futura did that for us for free, we couldnt possibly sell it to you so just come and pick it up... its yours". I thought to myself if thats the culture behind this whole scene then i am hooked!
and i was... many more paintings and prints later im still going, trying to carry forward and promote that same idea!

great story

[Andy'77]

May 14, 2009 22:07:43 GMT 1 walters said:

May 14, 2009 18:44:50 GMT 1 Dellboyy said:

Mine was this:



I found out about pow from a couple of guys at work who were into Banksy, i preferred the Faile stuff which was sold out, stumbled across the faile site and bought this for about £120.. remember thinking it was a stupid amount to spend on a picture at the time! :-)

jesus f**king wept!! my favourite print ever that is,and you got it for £120 i'm very,very jealous.

my first was ghostboys hooch girl print,from red prop.cost me way more than its worth now,but i still love it.

I e-mailed Faile a while ago about the still to be released editions of the above and was told they will be released at some point but after all the Lost in Glimmering Shadows work has been released, so it means there'll be approx another 25 (in 5 editions of 5) released at some point although I'd imagine they'll be slightly more than £120 and pretty popular on FairQ.

[Damien]

love spencerlees litho,my first was off someone on the forum

[schlomo]

my first poster purchase was a signed pamela anderson poster. I was 12, she was hot, she still is to be fair but those days were the playboy days..... great days.
first purchase of anything worth mentioning was Bleks sheep in 2006, but cant remember what i paid for it. My missus thought i was mental. i have a new missus now and still have the sheep framed above my bed so......

[junta]

May 15, 2009 10:46:13 GMT 1 @slammer said:

Screamadelica is my second fav album of all time.
my first art purchase was a commision from a school friend who did a drawing of my sister,brother and I as a present for my Mum. The artist was 13 as was I at the time.
he has done alright for himself since then check out
www.vincentbrown.co.uk and check out
the fiqure section and the supper at Ardmen painting he was recently commsioned to do. still find it hard to believe its a painting.

his stuff is great, so realistic! was in berlin recently and got to see a photorealism exhibition in the guggenheim, that kind of stuff is way more impressive and... realistic than youd ever think possible. found a pic of one on flickr
www.flickr.com/photos/m_ariii/3422342660/sizes/o/
hard to believe its an oil painting.. how the hell do they make the foreground look OUT of focus? boggled i am.