Following their installations at the London Pleasure Gardens (covered here ), Risk and Ron English enjoy some live painting at Cargo, spreading humorous messages on the walls , next to the infamous Banky stencil.
Full set of pics here
Risk: Edible Bus Stop installation at Hampton Court
The Edible Bus Stop is a guerilla garden project adjacent to a bus stop aiming to transform neglected sites across London’s bus network into valuable community growing spaces and celebrated by local residents and users of the bus route.
For the Royal Hampton Court Flower show, L.A. graffiti artist Risk got involved in the project and created an installation called “Riot of Colour”, inspired by last year’s London riots and a colourful view of how nature over time, will transform a damaged urban landscape..
Paris: Colin Christian
After showing at the International Museum of Art and Science in Texas earlier this year, the stunning sculptures from Colin Christian are now on view at the Opera Gallery in Paris. Made up of fiberglass and silicon, these cyber-erotic sculptures inspired by pinup girls, and sci-fi movie heroines are simply breathtaking.
And for those based in Los Angeles, Colin Christian is having a solo show opening tonight at Corey Helford Gallery with a new body of work called “Hello, Pretty, Pretty”.
Full set of pics here
Video: CNN interview with Risk, Saber and Ron English
CNN interviewed Risk, Saber and Ron English for their show “Letters from America” in London. Also featuring some still pics from Butterfly.
Preview: London Pleasure Gardens
The Paradise Gardens is a free family festival and a feast for all the senses in the new London Pleasure Gardens site. Featuring a vintage fair, performance arts, live music, pyrotechnic galore and all kinds of entertainment, this is definitively a destination for the summer. But a festival wouldn’t be the same without street art and graffiti…
Fresh from Paris, Shepard Fairey and the Obey Giant team finished a large scale mural.
To top it all, celebrated US street and graffiti artists Risk, Ron English and TrustoCorp are joining in and completing outdoor intallations, as part of Letters of America. The project then continues its UK invasion with an all-American Independence Day celebration – in association with Corey Helford Gallery LA on Wednesday, July 4 at Black Rat Gallery.
Full set of pics by Butterfly here
Check the LPG programme
London Pleasure Gardens
Gate 1, North Woolwich Rd, London
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