eco bags

ok, so anyone who knows me knows that I'm more than abit obsessed about bags.
I have a vast collection of eco totes to avoid the supermarket checkout people from telling me off ..... (they tut if you ask for a plastic one!)
which is fine as I hate plastic bags, they are ugly, dig into your hands and don't ever biodegrade. So I am pretty amazed that we still use them atall.

So ............ I have designed my very own tote bag, it will be launched at 'Noir' my solo show at Stella Dore, London, heres a sneak peak... they havent actually arrived so this is a kind of preview!
If you'd like to pre-order a bag, please contact stella@stelladore.co.uk.
Stella Dore

MATERIAL: Cotton calico, dyed using traditional pigment dyes

SIZE: 38w x 43h - handle length 63cms

PRINT AREA: 28 x 28cms

LIMITED EDITION OF: 200

£15 each

And they are fairtrade accredited, so the cotton is from farmers who have decent working conditions and get a better price for their work.


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cards a go go

A good week.. I had a meeting at stella dore, and took photos and videos of their gorgeous gallery space and started to cunjure up ideas for 'Noir' my solo show there....






.... rough brick walls, rivington street, a little boudoir-like front room/ shop downstairs- its really quite special, so im looking forward to it already, ... still lots to make and do though before the opening night




I received these postcard packs, which I have added on my Etsy shop... so you can now buy them as a slick lickle pack, or individually to send to someone you like enough! they are pics of Decadence, From Within, Night Mare, Night Shade, Glory, Apparition & Fable



Check them out here

Quote of the day

Another blindingly evocative film quote for the day.......


Diane Taylor: [Diane is cuddling with Max as he is driving] Why are we going this way?

Max Cady: Better scenery.

Diane Taylor: What would you know about scenery? Or beauty? Or any of the things that really make life worth living? You're just an animal: coarse, lustful, barbaric.

Max Cady: Keep right on talkin', honey. I like it when you run me down like that.

Diane Taylor: Max Cady, what I like about you is... you're rock bottom. I wouldn't expect you to understand this, but it's a great comfort for a girl to know she could not possibly sink any lower.

Cape Fear 1962

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Noir

OK, So its 2009, its gonna be a good year,

First up is my London solo show titled 'Noir'

I'm the newest addition to the extraordinary and wonderful family of artists at Stella Dore Gallery and am busy working on my show 'Noir' which opens the evening of February 26th, so put that in your diary now....

The work in the show is an exploration of the cinematic imagery of Film Noir. More sophisticated and richer than the horror series, where as the women in the 'fear' work always seemed beautiful but scared, and were basically 'beautiful bait'..... victims....

Times have changed, and America has changed, I'm no longer looking at US as a country run by a loon, no Obama is now in control and I hope the biggest of hopes that he can sort out the can of worms he has inherited, I think he has an incredible job ahead, no one is perfect, and it will take time .. Now our attention is drawn to economy, the money system, banks, corruption and how very fragile our systems are. Corruption, crime, deviousness and winter have led me to watch a lot of Film noir. For it is the movie genre which is set in the darkest of underworlds, dens, gambling joints, seedy clubs, court rooms, its 1940-50s America in the post war era, yet Noir is a seductively delicious feast for the senses.


In quite a reversal, the women in Noir are bad girls; femme fatales, murderesses, adulturers, criminals, hussys.... you get the idea. Dark.

Brocade, flags, and some other surprises will comprise the show.. no more secrets

Check out the 'noir quote of the day' on the homepage:

My current favourite:
"I know you like a book, ya little tramp. You’d sell your own mother for a piece of fudge. But you’re smart with it. Smart enough to know when to sell and when to sit tight. You’ve got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart." The Killing (1956)


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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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Stella Dore now open

A few pics from the Stella Dore private view on Thursday, super-busy night- great vibe, cool music, cool kids and a good solid helping of streety urban eye fodder including:

Eelus, I-Lib, me, Pure Evil, Twinkel & Tinsel, Modern Toss, Cat Johnston, Kid Acne & more that I should mention!

* The Gallery is NOW OPEN * The newest addition to the mecca of street art that is Rivington Street

Check out: www.stelladore.com the gallery is open Tues- Sat 10-6

47 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3QB (Old Street Tube)

Click for Map

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Very Exciting

The brand spanking, new, spangly and rather sexy Stella Dore gallery space is opening on Thursday 27th (open 6-9pm), its a group show including:

Eine
Pure Evil
Cept
Modern Toss
Cat Johnston
Chu
Eelus
I-Lib
Shok 1
Kid Acne
Pam Glew
Rugman
Tinsel Edwards
Twinkle Troughton

So certainly one to see, its also the same night as the Herakut show, which is certainly another show to check out on Thursday.

If you would like to go on the guest list for the Stella Dore show, contact : stella@stelladore.co.uk
maybe see you there x

(click here for map for the new Stella Dore space)

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Stitchy Stitchy

Call it OCD or insanity if you will, but stitching words has become a major part of my latest work and occupied a good part of the 'Old Glory' Show.

I spent many many hours hand sewing these small works. Its like the antithesis of most of my other work, its slow and methodical, repetative but strangely satisfying.

It certainly occupies a completely different head space to spraying stencils.... but I guess cutting stencils is just as repetative. Stencilling is seen as rebelious because of its street art roots, but its easy to forget that someone needs to cut out the stencils for hours & they have probably spent ages staring at their screen in photoshop tweaking the image, so its all a choice of methodology, cutting, stitching, photoshopping, stencilling, ironing, its all an ongoing process...

Heres my latest::


See more here on my stitch 2 gallery page.........

The PDF catalogue of the latest show can be found on the steal from work website here

New Work added & PDF Catalogue

I recently had a Massive Website rehaul and have now added all the new work to the Flags & Fabrics Galleries, also added the new 'Book Stencils' section that were all in my solo show 'Old Glory' in Bristol.

The pdf, catalogue can now be downloaded from here: http://www.stealfromwork.org/

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shhhhhhhh..... Im now on Stella Dore

I'm now on Stella Dore, exciting things planned for 2009 with Stella Dore..... and they are opening a new gallery soon.....

http://www.stelladore.co.uk/Store.asp?Artist=Pam%20Glew

I particularly like that I am sandwiched between Modern Toss & Pure Evil.. thats cool.....

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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
(click on the image to view it larger)








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. -->
(click on the image to view it larger)







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.
(click on the image to view it larger)








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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Beautiful crime

The brand new street/ urban art blog/ news/ gossip and art chat and appreciation site that is Beautiful Crime did a little piece about my upcoming show in Bristol and a 3 in one interview

i was asked to come up with 1x video
1 x artist
and 1 x picture that inspires me

tricky to choose, see what i came up with here:
http://beautifulcrime.com/shows/pam-glew-3-x-1/

Bristol solo show

I have a big solo show opening in Bristol on 7 November.... hope you can make it x p

click here for map

Shock Awakening now available

Shock Awakening is now available online at my etsy shop!

Shock Awakening Original Screen print

I only have 10 prints available to sell.

Approximate convertion £165 / $269

2 colour original screen print by Pam Glew, brand new release for October 2008.

The portrait is based on Kate Yeung in The Pang Brothers film The Eye Infinity.

Printed on heavy weight 300 gsm Bockingford Acid Free mould made, buffered paper.

Title - Shock Awakening
Medium - Screen Print
Published - 2008
Paper Size - 60 cm x 80 cm (23.5 x 31.5 inches)
Edition of 40 - * I only have 10 of these prints!*
Signed & Dated - Bottom right

Buy online: www.pamglew.etsy.com

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Its also launched tonight at Affordable Art Fair at Artizan Editions- the PV is tonight so hope to meet some of you that are on my mailing list there! I will have work at the Art-file Gallery stand and Artizan Editions gallery too...

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

New embroideries

Just took some pics of the framed evil, psycho, killer, now avilable through Art-el:

http://www.art-el.co.uk/collections/artists/products/evil