Moniker Art Fair

Moniker Art Fair in October 2012 was an amazing event, with artist installation spaces created by many urban international artists including Hush, C215, Penny, remi rough and Niels Shoe Meulman.

For the show I created a vintage waiting room train station vibe, including new work on antique american quilts, vintage luggage and ephemera.

http://www.monikerartfair.com/2012/artists/

Photos of Beautiful and Damned solo at Blackall Studios

Thanks to Ben Eagle for taking these lush gallery shots. Here's a taster of the Beautiful and Damned show at Blackall Studios. Above from left is: Black Rose, Flapper, Double Portrait (just seen) and Bette Davis.

on the left After Hours, Shanghai Lily & China Rose.

Above is just one of the many pics from the opening night, it was pretty rammed and i only got chance to speak to people for afew moments, many thanks to everyone who came, great to see so many familiar faces and meet so many new ones too.

The illustrated dictionary project is back on

After a mega long gap while I was working on the Circus series, I'm happily back to the drawing board. Nothing like quiet time with just a pencil and a bit of chalk to entertain. I'm loving my new 'inktense' pencils, they are like compressed charcoal but in a pencil, and it becomes like indian ink when abit of water is added. Pretty lovely. The thing i disliked about normal pencils is the shiny colour of lead, it was a real battle with this drawing project, as that sheen was bit distracting, so now armed with my 'inktense' doddlers I have the tools to carry on........

Below is a sketch of Marion Davies using these lushly dark pencils in Bark and Ink Black.


This is a sketch of Clara Bow, with 'Boheme' on the Dictionary page, so I called this one La Boheme, one of my favourite operas. I guess Clara was a kind of bohemian, all that lolling about in velvet and reclining on chaise longues, makes me want to wear satin house robes and drink nothing but gin fizz.

And a portrait of Polish actress Pola Negri. While drawing this one I obsessed over the camel and camel keeper behind the left eye, so I called her 'East'.

I'm trying to add new drawings weekly, as each sketch is really useful prep for the next solo show in London (in Mauger Modern, May), So check back to keep tabs on my progress, hopefully I'll start on the rest of the Es soon, ah that'll be nice, 5 letters down

xP

http://shop.pamglew.co.uk/category/illustrated-dictionary

Taxidermy, skin and domes

Yesterday was London Art Fair day for me, had a thorough mooch on all the 3 floors with my good old mate from college Nina. Took a whole 5 hours to see all the Fair, 2 coffee breaks and necessitated a stiff drink afterwards.
above • Geza Szollosi • Fox • Taxidermy • Mauger Modern
in background • Pam Glew • Eden • Bleaching on fabric • Mauger Modern

I noted a leaning towards a more subtle pallet in the work on show. Much less shock & awe, more pastel and skin. London art Fair is on 19-23 January

Heres my highlights:

above • Martin C Herbst • Oil and Lacquer on steel ball • Mauger Modern

above • Tessa Farmer • Insects • Vitrines

above • Ione Rucquoi • Second Skin • Ultrachrone on alu-dibond • Bo-lee Gallery, Bath

above • Kelly Ratchford • Vanilla • Jill George Gallery

above • Valeria Nascimento • Pods • Porcelein • Woolf Gallery

Very nice day, although I nearly got into a shouting match with the mini-Hitler-jobsworth-security-nincompoop on the door as i didn't present him with a 'docket' for my purchase. I have a receipt, is that ok? No i am not going back up to the third floor for an f-ing docket. Can I now leave the building please? A strong drink was needed afterwards. You just cant get the staff these days. I recommend that the security men should watch an few episodes of Mary Queen of Shops.

Circus Official Video is now online!

Pam Glew Circus Show from Kyla Simone Bruce on Vimeo.

London Art Fair opens 19 January

Happy new year,
After a good rest, plenty of Quality Streets and a good few rounds of Trivial Pursuit & over-eating & drinking, its back to the studio for me.
The First event of the year that I will have work at is London Art Fair (represented by Mauger Modern, which opens 19 January - 23 January at the Business Design Centre, London. For more info please visit www.londonartfair.co.uk

ART STAR in STOCKHOLM

Circus Gallery shots

ere's some pics of the Circus Solo Show, Presented by Death by Daylight & Eddie Lock at Red Bull Studios, London Bridge.


The show was fantastic, thanks to everyone that came and made it wicked!


And here's some pics of the space after the Opening Night:
Gallery View from left: Dancer (Portrait of Francoise Dorleacas as Solange in 'Les Demoiselles de Rochefort', with circus lights.) Hunter (Portrait of Hunter S Thompson with Vegas lights.) A Certain Kind of Love (Portrait of Edie Sedgwick from Warhol's Screen test.)

Gallery View from left: Kate - above the piano (Portrait of Kate Moss on vintage Union Jack), Twiggy (Portrait of Twiggy with bow tie.), Blondie (Portrait of Debbie Harry.) , Loop (Portrait of Jane Birkin.)


Gallery View from left: Kate, Twiggy, Blondie, Looop, Wonder Wheel (Portrait of Mia Farrow from 'A Dandy in Aspic' with Coney Island lights.), Erotica (Portrait of Jane Fonda as Barbarella.)

Check out the retro carpets.

The show closes December 2nd, but I have got a handful of catalogues left, so email me or get in touch with Eddie Lock.

Theres more pics on the FACEBOOK PAGE which I am much better at updating than this rather unkept and erratic blog!

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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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Fizzy Pop

hello chaps,

Its Friday and I've been feeling the 1960s vibe, so the studio walls are covered in dolly girls, factory girls, cult legends & red and white twisted psychedelic patterns. I'm collecting some pretty awesome cola signs, this 'Nichol Kola' sign is my first and certainly the start of something of a collection..... I dont drink cola, make my mouth feel abit to sugary, but I love the slick typography. Apparenly its got vitamin B1 added, which has got to be good for you, right?

I watched the fab Julie Christie in 'Darling' the other night, awesome for sixties inspiration, pattern, infidelity, swinging, black eye-liner and a hauntingly good performance by the actress. Theres something lovely and nostalgic about phone boxes, they don't seem to be needed anymore, with everyone shouting on their iphones, but what a beautiful image, so secretive and conspiratorial to be in a phone box calling a lover.

New interview on I the God

I the God is a good read, lots of interviews with artists from all over. Hayden Kays asked me some pretty interesting questions (not the usual stuff about who what why and when) take a look here

Sketching cult legends - guys

I'm prepping for the London show at the end of the year. (its going to be a very cool show in Winter- all based on cult legends, with a strong retro vibe). So I'm debating between which cult figures to depict. You will all have your favourites, I have mine...... Whats so interesting though is that someones cult idol is anothers hideous hate figure! I like Dennis Hopper, and am pretty keen on Warhol too, but theres such a fine line between cult figure and 'over-exposed-legend-thats-done-to-death'.

Personally I like writers, dark rugged ones that look like they dont get enough day light. But also beautifully hip kids. Its hard to decide, so far I've been given a massive long list through facebook (thanks friends!) So in order to narrow it down abit I'm doing some sketches to decide whose faces are worth making a flag for.

Some of the latest drawings as part of my self-inflicted drawing project called The Illustrated Dictionary include a young Dennis Hopper (top), with a rugged vibe, and Jack Kerouac (below), writer of On the Road. The beats is an era I'm playing with at the moment, but am also massively drawn to the early 1960s girls. I'll pop back with a progress report soon!

I've been drawing

So after a bit of a break from the drawing project, I'm now back from Sydney and fully emersed into UK time zone and loving getting back into drawing.

The idea is to fill every page of an antique French dictionary with a drawing, I'm somewhere around the D's now, and think at this rate it will probably take another 2 years, so stay posted!

I'm into inks at the mo', so the next batch is in brown ink, white ink which is pretty lovely to use and indian inks... the first few drawings were pencil and charcoal, so I'm slowly evolving....

New ones are now online here in the shop

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Art Star in Progress

Here's some pics of my Art Star in Progress, I made back in January when it was snowing and oh so icy cold. The actual wooden star was made in Munich and a guy drove it all the way from Munich to my studio in the snow! Poor guy, he was knackered when he delivered it. We had to get it in the studio via an ice covered fire exit in the dark. Tricky and more than abit dangerous.

Anyway, so me & Victoria got to work making a denim patchwork for it (kinda like making a poncho for a star), which was appliqued, dyed and bleached, washed and bleached some more, and washed again, all stitched up. The front is based on a carousel, wheel of death/ knife throwers star, in the circus kinda vibe, with a portrait in bleach of an all American girl. The whole star is hand sewn and upholstered, so it looks kinda neat.

See the movie: Pam Glew Art Star video here

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Interview for BBM

Here's an interview I did in Sydney for BBM

Click here to read the interview

Who will be lucky number 300

I've loved having my own online shop, and have so far had 298 sales.... so only 2 more to go to the 300 miles stone.

So I've decided that as big thanks who ever makes the lucky 300th sale will get a free tote bag & postcard pack (worth $25). So you can write to your friends on the lush cards and strut around like me on the beach with a nice new bag (or give it to a girlfriend!)

Be lucky number 300 & Check out the shop here
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Preview of LA Show

The online preview for the LA group show at Carmichael is available to view here
Please contact art@carmichaelgallery.com to purchase available work.

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12 Days of Xmas is open now

Once again Steal From Work have crow-barred their way in-between the mince pies, mulled wine and bumper Radio Times to cram 70 of the world's most loved & loathed contemporary urban artists together under one leaky roof for 12 festive fuelled days.

Last year was the first 12 Days of Xmas exhibition. It was held in Bristol's former Bridewell Police Station, and was hugely successful, attracting over 4,000 visitors over the 12 days. It has gone down in history as one of Bristol's best ever art shows and certainly kick started a huge interest in Street Art in the city. As well as proving that you don't need to be in an established, white walled gallery to show brilliant art and attract the crowds.

This year they've assembled art from 70 local, national and international artists, once again mixing some of the scenes leading lights with up and coming artists to provide a massive range of work available to buy at prices to suit all purses or simply just to gaze at…

45RPM - Bristol, ACE - London, ACERONE - Bristol, ADAM KOUKOUDAKIS - UK, ALEXANDROS VASMOULAKIS - Greece, ANDY COUNCIL - Bristol, BEN SLOW - UK, BON - Thailand, CEPT - Hackney, CHINA MIKE - Bristol, CHU - Warsall, CYCLOPS - UK, DAN - Italy, DICY - Bristol, DOC VEK - UK, DOLK - Norway, DORA - Bristol, DOTMASTERS - London, DSCREET - London, EELUS - UK, EMESS - Berin, EMMA CATON - Bristol, FILTHY LUKER - UK, FLX - Bristol, GHOSTBOY - Bristol, GOLDEN SNAFU - unknown, GOLDIE - UK, GUY DENNING - France, HUSH - UK, IAMCXXX - London, IMBUE - Brighton, INKIE - UK, IRI5 - UK, JAMES BAKER - UK, JEF AEROSOL - France, JOHN CLARK - UK, KATE WESTERHOLT - Thailand, LINDA'S EX - Berlin, LUKE DIXON - UK, M:M - Berlin, MARK WARD - London, MAU MAU - Devon, M-CITY - Poland, MIGHTY MONKEY - London, MOTORBOY - Bristol, MR JAGO - Bristol, OZZY MANDUST - unknown, PAM GLEW - Brighton, PANIK - London, PATCH - Bristol, PØBEL - Norway, PREFAB - Newcastle, RICHT - Bristol, ROWDY - Bristol, SEPR - Bristol, SICKBOY - UK, SIMON MILLS - Bristol, SIXTEN - Sweden, SP38 - Berlin, SPQR - UK, SWEET TOOF - London, THE ART TART - Bristol, TOM HINE - Bristol, TRXTR - Devon, WE DREAM OF MEAT - Bristol, WHAT COLLECTIVE - Bristol, WILL BARRAS - UK, WILL ST LEGER - Dublin

Open everyday 12pm-7pm from Saturday 13th - 23rd December 2008

15 -19 Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS1 3PY

This is a show you must see if your anywhere within a sleigh ride of Bristol

Click here for the Map Link

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Affordable Art Fair London agogo

A very, very early Friday morning saw me frantically bubble wrapping and labelling massively big framed flags for AAF london. The work looks so sexy in its new frames that tim at Fairtrade Gallery has made, beautiful black box frames that really pop.

So, 5 spanking fabric works are going to be at Art-file gallery stand at this years AAF london.

I will be there at the opening night on Wednesday 22 October

These original works will be at Artfile Gallery stand at AAF.
'Crime Scene' and the new 'Shock Awakening' print will be launched that night at Artizan Editions at AAF too.

www.affordableartfair.com

Opening Times

Wednesday 22 Private View 5.30pm - 9.30pm

Thursday 23 11.00am - 5.30pm
Drinks Reception 5.30pm - 9.30pm

Friday 24 11.00am - 6.00pm
Saturday 25 11.00am - 6.00pm
Sunday 26 11.00am - 6.00pm

So heres a sneak peek at whats in the show:

Pause 2008 143 cm x 83 cm
Discharge, bleach & dye on vintage appliquéd stars American flag – framed in glazed deep set Black box frame
£2995
Art-file Gallery stand- AAF London 23-26 October

The Key 2008 141 x 81 cm
Discharge, bleach & dye on vintage appliquéd stars American flag – framed in glazed deep set Black box frame
£2995. Art-file Gallery stand- AAF London 23-26 October









A Sound 2008 42 x 70 cm Bleach & dye on vintage American flag - framed in Black box frame
£1495. Art-file Gallery stand- AAF London 23-26 October












Fairground 2008 Approx 80 x 50 cm
Bleach & discharge paste on vintage Union Jack – framed in glazed deep set White box frame £1495
Art-file Gallery stand- AAF London 23-26 October

Kook 2008 approx 24cm diameter, Hand embroidery on dyed black found fabric, Attached with brass tacks, in glazed white box frame, £395. Art-file Gallery stand- AAF London 23-26 October