Beautiful and Damned opening night pics by Ben Eagle

Here's just a few photos from the opening at Blackall Studios by Ben Eagle.



Thanks to all who came!

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Beautiful and Damned opens its doors

(Ginger Rogers close up)

Thanks for everyone who came to the opening last night. It was a busy night, I was really touched by the positive feedback. Seriously I've never chatted to so many people at an opening night, and the reaction was a jolly firm thumbs up, nice one if you came.

The show is on til Sunday 29th. Open 10-6pm daily and theres a late night opening on Thursday

(Bette Davis close up)

All the show is now live on the website: http://www.pamglew.co.uk/gallery-209

Beautiful and Damned 25-29 May 2011 Mauger Modern • Blackall Studios • 73 Leonard Street • London • EC2A 4QS

Please contact richard@maugermodern.com for sales enquiries

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Opening night at Moniker

So, we dropped in on Moniker Art Fair tonight, and I have to say thats the nicest and coolest Art Fair experience going, great vibe, the best urban art I've seen for a long time, friendly face... great to finally meet the Carmichaels & to chat with the lovely Jasmine & Falk of Herakut.

Big props to Frankie Shea for co-organising and ta for putting up 'Haunt' my flag on the Campbarbossa stand! Haunt has a new framing stylee- white background instead of the usual black. I took abit of convincing but it does looks pretty nice, so maybe I'll get afew more framed in white in the future.


The opening night was busy, heaving with the London Shoreditch cool sipping on the sparkling pink vino and having very engaging chats. With stunning art throughout, the Project spaces by Herakut and Polly Morgan were a particular highlight for me. Good to see some of the Art Star artists around too; the brilliant Matt Small had a wicked piece in Black Rat & Stefan Strumbel's clock was a nice treat.
Moniker is a perfect start to Art Fair season, check out the programme over the weekend...


The fair continues:
October 15th
- 11am-9pm/ Open to the public
- 12pm onwards/ Live Paint on Exterior Walls by Artists HERKUT
- 11.30pm-12.45 / RJ Rushmore Inside/Outside Fair Walk-through
- 1.30pm-2.45 / RJ Rushmore Inside/Outside Fair Walk-through
- 5pm-7pm/ Film Screening - Guerilla Art by Sebastian Peiter
- 7pm-9pm/ Very Nearly Almost Magazine Launch - Guest List Only

October 16th
- 11am-9pm/ Open to the public
- 12pm onwards/ Live Paint on Exterior Walls by Artist CASE
- 7pm-9pm/ Film Screening - Beautiful Losers by Aaron Rose

October 17th
- 11am-5pm/ Open to the public/
- 12pm onwards/ Live Paint on Exterior Walls by Artist TITI-FREAK
- 1pm-3pm/ Film Screening - Bomb It 2 by Jon Reiss

www.monikerartfair.com

I've added all my photos to Flickr here,

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Old Glory is open.....

The candles were lit, flags draped, beers popped open and the doors were open for the curiously warming show that is 'Old Glory'...... Friday night was a good night to remember, its one of those rare shows that I can happily stand back from and fully say that I'm happy.....Steal From Work have made the show look phenominally gorgeous. The night was also good to put faces to names & meet peeps that I had only met through cyber world... and before i knew it I was sipping white russian and contemplating the odd journey I've been on this year... This year has been a good one..... and for that I feel incredibly lucky......

So, 'Old Glory', conveniently titled now that America is perhaps discarding the politics of 'old' and bringing in the new...

I can't help but think of how my use of American flags now almost seems to have a new meaning, could we happily be seeing the end to fear culture? Obama has a huge ball of crap to untangle, but I believe he is the man for the job, the world should be safer now that the war mongering ignorant clown that is Bush has less than 2 months to cause any more mischief. Anyway, enough rambling, heres some pretty pictures of the show... all the images are on my flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/pamglew/

The Flag Screen print: Crime Scene Print - Original Screen Print - edition of 45 - 1 metre x 70 cm (click on the image to view it larger)









Book stencils: Spray paint, acrylic, tea & antique book paper on vintage hardbacked book cover. Framed in black box frame

Fable: Frame: 42 x 33 cm, image size: 31 x 21 cm.
Nightmare: Frame: 42 x 33 cm, image: 32 x 23 cm
Escape: Frame: 42 x 33 cm, image size: 31 x 20 cm
Night Shade: Frame: 35 x 27 cm
Hidden: Frame: 38 x 32 cm
Key: Frame: 38 x 32 cm
(click on the image to view it larger)

Window to the World - Original Screen Print - edition of 30 - 1 metre x 70 cm (click on the image to view it larger)









Night Shade image size:143 x 69 discharge & dye on brocade. Framed in black box frame
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View of the embroidery wall

Smoke & Mirrors Fabric size: 28 x 19 cm
A Glimmer of Light in the Distance- Frame: 75 x 31 cm, image 63 x 20 cm
Save Us: Fabric size: 27 x 23 cm
Storm Fabric size: 26 x 20 cm
Shock & Awe Fabric size: 25 x 21 cm
Strangle Hold Fabric size: 27 x 21 cm
(click on the image to view it larger)


From Within 139 x 107 cm Dye and Bleach on brocade
fabric, on the deep red wall. -->
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Glory image size: approx. 143 x 78 cm discharge and dye on vintage american flag. Framed in black box frame, on the deep red wall.
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The Hunted 175 x 112 cm u/f Discharge & dye on vintage
American flag, another blue flag (colour stripped out of it and dyed blue, then bleached, on the deep red wall. ->
(click on the image to view it larger)

All the work is now available to download as a pdf now from Steal From Work: http://www.stealfromwork.org/



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opening night

well.... the opening night was a blast, lots of wine was drunk, the place was packed, lots of friends old & new, and then as it hit about midnight i thought i should take some photos....



yeah i know they're a bit blurry, i think i probably was in full celebratory mood when i eventually picked up my camera


The band played a couple of sets, mesmerizing the crowd with some good, low down bluesy tunes,


They set the scene for a kinda dirty deep south chilled mood.

The Gin Club played til the wee hours, satisfying the crowd fully, the neighbours weren't best pleased though (sorry....)


the party went from civilised to hedonistic and the last peeps left about 6a.m.
just like a opening night should be.