[digitalkid]

May be worth a little nose around..

www.selfridges.com/index.cfm?page=1316&articleID=12059&artname=Urban%20Art%C2%A0at%20the%20Ultralounge



February 2009 sees the launch of three very special art exhibitions at the Ultralounge in Selfridges London. Urban Art enters the Ultralounge on Friday 20 February, with all exhibitions culminating in a public auction of all the works on display on Thursday 26 February. This auction will be a first in nearly 100 years of Selfridges’ history.

The new Urban Art exhibition, curated by Mary McCarthy, will run concurrently with Artcore and will feature works by some of the leading national and international street artists of today, including Banksy, Guy Denning, Bast, Seen, Matt Small, Rene Gagnon, Jeff Aerosol and Mimi the Clown.
Several artists will be creating work primarily for the sale, such as Goldie, Ame 72, CBloxx, Inkie, Dan, Mau Mau, Eelus, K-Guy, SPQR and Kev Munday. They will be joined by auction virgins, Chu, Pam Glew, Faith 47, Klit, TRXTR, Byroglyphics, Danny O’Connor, Ben Slow and Grafter.

The Success Collection is twenty works by the leading lights of the British street art scene that will be sold specifically to raise money for the Prince’s Trust. It opens to the public on 20th February.

The Urban Art exhibition and The Success Collection will be on display from 20th February. An auction for all the works will take place on 26th February at the Ultralounge.


Sorry if this has been posted before..

[fielder]

Great stuff! I was planning to go to Selfridges on the day of the BRP show to have a look at the Kidrobot store. Really looking forward to it

[G-Man]

Just popped in there most of the art on display is for the Artcore exhibition of rave related posters and flyers and stuff all the street art is being displayed from Friday.

The banksy is up and looks AMAZING in the flesh well worth a look but prob best to wait till friday to see some of the street art

The Walker hand finished Ratatouille looks very very cool with the splats in blue and yellow and the Jago og looks good too

There are a fair few Banksy in the auction nice signed prints and a Heavy Weaponry canvas it will be interesting to see what prices the non-charlty stuff raises considering the market, might be a good time to bag a signed print at a good price?

[digitalkid]

Thanks for the advance preview G-Man I may change my mind and come to London on Sat to catch Selfridges and BRP..

[annar50]

hey! nice find digitalkid, down for the day this saturday, so will po along to see this!
cheers for the heads up!

[annar50]

do you think we can take pictures?

[G-Man]

No you cant

[annar50]

thought so, the bunch of stuck up tw*ts !
cheers g-man!

[doyle]

please let us take pics

flickr.com/photos/mistersnappy/3091112162/

[romanywg]

Feb 17, 2009 23:57:41 GMT 1 doyle said:

how come selfridges are jumping on the street art bandwagon.they should stick to balenciaga and chanel et al.at least let us take pics! oh well, at least proceeds are donated to charity.

Wasn't it at Selfidges the last time.

[G-Man]

Yes Selfridges have had an exhibition previously with Drew, The First Great weston print was released with the exhibition

This is the first time that the actual auction will take place there though

[yapsey]

all the urban stuff is hung on thursday on the other side of the room - and it's all being sold by dreweatts - they're just using the space in selfridges.

[Fragile]

I brought my original banksy prints from selfridges many many years ago - Laugh Now, Bomb Hugger, etc. there was a nice little concession in the basement. :-)

[eyectopus]

Popped in last Friday, some nice stuff there. Went to have a look at the Kidrobot store also.

[G-Man]

Just been in there this morning and have to say it's definately worth a look round if you are in London

Some great stuff on show

The Banksy corner is great! A Kate Moss, Laugh Now, Flower Thrower, CND, Golf Sale, DiFaced Tenners and an AWESOME HAND FINISHED RUDE COPPER!!! all signed and all around a lovely little Heavy Weaponary canvas

I managed a sneaky little pic that I'll post over the weekend when I upload my camera

The Jago for the charity auction is also amazing and the NW small shadow canvas

Grafter's splash piece is huge on wooden boards

WELL WORTH A LOOK

[annar50]

few photos from the show.

check out the reast at flickr annar_50

[cashman]

safe for the pics...love the dface

[baileymontana]

Popped in yesterday. Entered via the entrance near the Louis Vutton bag shop and some huge gold bags which looked like parodies of a footballers wife bag from some TV sketch show (but they weren't). Couldn't decide whether Beejoir's LV child looked out of place amongst the art or in the right place but came to the inclusion it's good that it crashed into Selfridges consumer celebration.

[Deleted]

who did the piece next to the DOC? looks good

[annar50]

Feb 22, 2009 13:24:02 GMT 1 jopkop said:

who did the piece next to the DOC? looks good

i think its trxtr!
not to sure tho

[Deleted]

thx! you are right!

nice stuff.. (redpropeller)

[Rose Popay]

The art Tart captured the opening night live on a canvas!

[etched]

Feb 23, 2009 1:24:32 GMT 1 Rose Popay said:

The art Tart captured the opening night live on a canvas!

nice one - t art