Roa 🇧🇪 Street Artist • Animals & Birds • Art For Sale

[wizzy]

What does the Russian translate as PE?, any idea?.

[Deleted]

love both! nice placement on the ROA

[fingerz]

Oct 24, 2010 9:36:26 GMT 1 @wizzy said:

What does the Russian translate as PE?, any idea?.

prob 'the gates of hell' or something with him been pure evil...

[Pure Evil]

bizarrely enough , i found a ROA piece around the corner of the place where Im painting in Moscow this afternoon , and there are 2 C215 pieces in the same area... it definitely is a small street art world...

[hlarmy]

Cheers PE, amazing!

[Coach]

Great pics PE. Gotta love Roa.

[Guest]

The Rams head is really cool, thanks for the pics PE.

[goaty]

ROA in spooks?

[Prescription Art]

www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/oct/25/roa-graffiti-rabbit-hackney-council

[wizzy]

Had Rabbit pie the other night.

[Deleted]

looks like a hare to me!

love to eat rabbit or hare, both delicious!

[wizzy]

"Here, Hare here".

[Deleted]

If I was the owner of the wall I would give Hackney Council permission to remove it if in return they would remove all the advertising billboards and posters in the Borough.

[wilfsboy]

Oct 27, 2010 15:03:16 GMT 1 @wizzy said:

Had Rabbit pie the other night.

me too at the brecon hotel....tasty

[speebe]

Oct 27, 2010 14:49:08 GMT 1 @plurker said:

So The Premises Studio in Hackney.
They've a Roa rabbit painted on their premises. (I repeat - their premises - not a public wall.)

They've been served a 14-day removal order, or Hackney Council will remove it themselves and then bill the Premises for the time. If they get a good number of signatures on their petition here:

www.petitiononline.com/PremROA/petition-sign.html

this might make the Council rethink - gotta be worth 20 seconds of your time ;D

thanks

I was No# 888.

I feel lucky and hope it helps?

[Standard]

Hackney council suck big time. I'm posting this around to see if we can get more sigs on that petition.

[saint]

One of the nicer bits in the area, is the toaster opposite it still up or has that been buffed?

Will sign the petition now, and agree with comments made that a nice bit of rabbit/hare would go down well for me tea. yum.

[Pure Evil]

So the article in its expanded form online says that it is 'As part of our enforcement policy, which is informed by Defra guidance'...

I looked into this : DEFRA : The DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS....they say

"Fly-posting and graffiti
Fly-posting is the commercially driven defacement of the local environment through the display of advertisements pasted or attached to buildings, street furniture or other structures without the consent of the owner, contrary to the provisions of the Regulations (Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations 1992.

Fly-posting is illegal, and those responsible for it, or benefiting from it, can be prosecuted). The Department for Communities and Local Government has responsibility for this policy area.

Fly-Posting Action Group
In September 2004 Defra set up a new Action Group on Fly-posting to help develop proposals for improved fly-posting legislation in the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill.

Graffiti
Graffiti can spoil the enjoyment of the local environment and lead to a situation where crime and other anti-social behaviours can thrive.

This has a knock-on economic effect, as it is a burden on businesses and the local authorities that are left to clean up graffiti on property and public spaces.

If graffiti is not dealt with it can engender a negative perception of an area, including fostering a feeling that nobody cares about, or takes pride in their local environment. This stifles regeneration by acting as a barrier to economic investment and leads to further crime and anti-social behaviour.

Furhter information
Guidance on Defacement (graffiti and fly-posting) (PDF 350 KB)
Types of anti-social behaviour
Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill.
Flycapture - national fly-tipping database for vehicle registration details"

Heres a link to their guidelines... its really boring and will suck the soul out of you... I just looked at the nice pictures of graffiti... www.defra.gov.uk/environment/quality/local/legislation/cnea/documents/defacement.pdf

If You enjoyed that, and didnt have to gnaw off your own arm to make it through the crushing tedium , heres another one you are going to enjoy, the : drum roll :

"Graffiti Removal Notice Pilot Exercise - a Consultation Paper
Chronic graffiti can lead to an area becoming more and more run-down, with a corresponding increase in crime and fear of crime. Untackled graffiti undermines faith in the services that authorities provide.

That is why Sections 48, 49, 50, 51 and 52 of the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 (“the Act”) enable a local authority to serve a “graffiti removal notice” on the owners of street furniture, statutory undertakers and educational institutions whose property is defaced with graffiti. The notice requires the owners to remove the graffiti within 28 days. If the person responsible for the property fails to remove the graffiti, the local authority can intervene, clean up the graffiti and recover reasonable costs.

In response to concerns about the regulatory impact of these powers, we decided to pilot these powers before wider rollout."

and the PDF of their findings.. webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/2004-cons-graffiti/2004-cons-responses-graffiti

Happy reading friends...

[wizzy]

Defra is a pile of shyte. I contacted them firstly as i found some freshly cut off cattle ears in a country lane (it was when the cattle movement ban was on due to Foot and Mouth, woman there said she would look into it but nothng came of it, i even gave her the tags that were in the ears!, suspect its who knows who! Second time was when the Hunt was up here last year hunting with Hounds (not all old families in the sticks agree with it), same result, had to resort to sitting in Land Rover blaring horn all day to mess their day up (where are the Hunt Sabs when you need them???).

[doyle]

up to 1293 now.

[Thinkspace]

ROA is coming!!! by thinkspace_gallery, on Flickr

We're happy to announce that we will be presenting Belgian-born artist ROA's debut west coast solo show coming up on Sat, Nov. 13th. This will be a special pop-up event presented by Thinkspace and taking place at New Puppy Gallery just outside of downtown Los Angeles. ROA has been extremely busy of late having visited New York this past June for a show with Factory Fresh in Brooklyn and traveling all over Europe, the UK and Russia over the past several months. So far this summer he's put up amazing pieces at Nuart (Stavanger, Norway), Infart (Bassano del Grappa, Italy), Critica Urbana (Madrid, Spain), Secret Garden Festival (London, England), Popup! (Ancona, Italy) and Stroke.03 (Berlin, Germany). On top of that he did a special piece while in the UK that ended up on the cover of a recent issue of VNA.

ROA's organic animals, huge both in presentation and reputation, will soon take over the streets of LA as well as the walls of New Puppy Gallery, reminding the city's art lovers that there is indeed nature all around us, even in the middle of the City of Angels. His street work brings to mind the natural world before it was covered in skyscrapers and highways. His stark black and white illustrations are as much home on the walls of galleries as they are on the walls of abandoned factories. As the cities of the world continue to push nature further and further away... and closer and closer to extinction, ROA's work acts as an ardent cry to arms for us all to take action.

ROA's work has been exhibited in London, Berlin, Warsaw, Brooklyn, Amsterdam, and Paris and this show will mark his first solo show on the west coast of the States.

Check out ROA's Flickr here:
www.flickr.com/photos/roagraffiti/

Also be sure to check out a nice set of ROA's work on the streets courtesy of Unurth here:
www.unurth.com/index/filter/Roa

More details will be announced soon...

ROA
Opening Reception: Sat, Nov. 13th 6PM-Midnight
On view: Nov. 13th - Nov. 24th

Taking place at New Puppy Gallery
2808 Elm Street in Los Angeles

Website: www.thinkspacegallery.com
Blog: www.sourharvest.com
Twitter: twitter.com/ThinkspaceArt
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Los-Angeles-CA/Thinkspace-Gallery/28011916680
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/thinkspace

[mylilly]

Hackney council are shit, but wouldn't it be more fun if they painted over it so we have a nice new canvas for someone else! should it last forever? or should we see what another artist responce would be once painted over...

[highinla]

very excited about this!!!

[Daniel Silk]

Roa's really been getting around this year Should be a great show.

[Thinkspace]

ROA is coming!!! by thinkspace_gallery, on Flickr
Photo by Romany WG

Thinkspace presents a special pop-up event with ROA

Sat, Nov. 13th 6PM-Midnight
On view: Nov. 13th - Nov. 24th

Taking place at New Puppy Gallery
2808 Elm Street in Los Angeles

We’re excited to announce that we will be presenting Belgian-born artist ROA‘s debut west coast solo show on Sat, Nov. 13th. This will be a special pop-up event presented by Thinkspace and taking place at New Puppy Gallery just outside of downtown Los Angeles.

ROA has been extremely busy of late having visited New York this past June for a show with Factory Fresh in Brooklyn and traveling all over Europe the past several months. So far this summer he's put up amazing pieces at Nuart (Stavanger, Norway), Infart (Bassano del Grappa, Italy), Critica Urbana (Madrid, Spain), Secret Garden Festival (London, England), Popup! (Ancona, Italy) and Stroke.03 (Berlin, Germany). On top of that he did a special piece while in the UK that ended up on the cover of a recent issue of VNA. ROA's organic animals, huge both in presentation and reputation, will soon take over the streets of LA as well as the walls of New Puppy Gallery, reminding the city's art lovers that there is indeed nature all around us, even in the middle of the City of Angels. HIs street work brings to mind the natural world before it was covered in skyscrapers and highways. ROA's stark black and white illustrations are as much home on the walls of galleries as they are on the walls of abandoned factories. The work acts as an ardent cry to arms to not ignore the nature that surrounds us all and that the cities of the world continues to push further and further away... and closer and closer to extinction.

ROA's work has been exhibited in London, Berlin, Warsaw, Brooklyn, Amsterdam, and Paris and this exhibit will mark his first solo show on the west coast of the States.

Check out a nice set of ROA’s work on the streets courtesy of Unurth here:
www.unurth.com/index/filter/Roa

Watch for more details to be announced soon... as well as works from ROA popping up about town...

ROA
Opening Reception:
Sat, Nov. 13th 6PM-Midnight
On view: Nov. 13th – Nov. 24th

Taking place at New Puppy Gallery
2808 Elm Street in Los Angeles

[Thinkspace]

He's just been on a tear across the world I tell ya'. He's out to make this his biggest show yet. The space we have for him is just huge and already set up with proper gallery walls and lighting. He's energized with ideas and I can't wait for him to make it all his own over the next few weeks.

Will post some pics from today's progress later this evening...

[Thinkspace]

Those in LA - 7th and Mateo is the location of his first piece... posting pics tomorrow once I can grab a good shot in the AM.

[Thinkspace]

ROA's 1st mural in downtown L.A. - corner of 7th and Mateo... much more to come! by thinkspace_gallery, on Flickr

[Thinkspace]

We are aiming to have a digital preview ready the day before the show... he has big plans, lots of smaller sliding pieces, larger sliding works, doors, a lenticular piece, street signs, and much more.

Please shoot a mail to [e-mail] to get on the list. Any questions at all, please hit me up.

[Thinkspace]

Check out pics of his Los Angeles street pieces here:
www.flickr.com/photos/thinkspace/sets/72157624913019641/