Where will I spend my happy days?....Market Estate N7

Saturday 6th March saw the opening for one day of a huge project involving over 75 artists located on the Market Estate on North Road N7.
I was invited to participate in the project and instantly fell in love with the space I was given.
Estates are weird places in a sense that strangers make their lives together or alternatively people can live out reclusive lives on their own.
I tasked myself to paint out all the rooms under the theme 'Where will I spend my happy days?'
The first week was spent totally transforming the garden and the shed and getting rid of the rubbish which seemed endless. During the painting I met the previous tenant Andrea and her children who managed to tell me a little history of the place and their memories of living on the Market Estate.
Whilst clearing out the shed I found a fascinating stack of books from a deceased tenant including a 50s book on magic and a racist titled book since re-titled and written by none other than Agatha Christie.
The Market Estate is soon to be demolished along with the work. You can see the project here and a film version here

On the day, some of the artwork was given away including a huge teddy from the kitchen and some specially made hand cut miserable wood flowers.

Home sweet home

Garden needs a bit of work

Nice bit of wood panelling

Lovely living area, ideal for parties

And now the headlines..

The bedroom features en suite Graffiti

Bedtime stories

I make a start with new Montana Black samples

How does my garden grow? Miserably..

Jules takes ownership of my misery flower

Outside in the garden

Most people want this

Man hanging as performance art. So tough

Tamworth House in full

Laura from Hungerford Primary school wins the green alien face

Chester P gets the Graf piece

Martina Sprengart and Amanda Adomaitis are looking after teddy

Green face giveaway proves popular

You're scaring me now

This lady gets the last of the flowers.

Deb and Josh take a peak outside

The mask from the ground up.

Tonight the streets are ours.... Goodnight!

The Tunnel of Hell: Leake St.

Of course the title for the latest expedition into London's dark and dingy spaces is quite apt. Leake St tunnel started its life as an exhibition space for stencil art by Banksy, it sits in the heart of Waterloo and is a magnet for worldwide street art/graffiti lovers, models doing photo shoots, blinged out boy racers with their souped up minis and monster munch eating degenerates looking to steal paint.
Myself, Bonzai, Lovepusher, Towns and Vibes decided to call a committee meeting and give this space some extra paint treatment. Special guest was Rask from TDA Klann in Ireland.
We decided to go for a basic out of space background, nothing too fancy but just let some good graf sit in the space. Future Leake St treatments are being planned. Watch this space.

Special thanks to Towns and Vibes who dropped incredible pieces of art. Check out them flying the flag for UK graf on www.representlondon.com

I feel something big coming on

Lovepusher is in the zone

This could take a while..

Todays special mix

Bonzai gets involved

Boy racers join in with cranked up stereos.... nice!

Finished Towns from RT crew

Nice Vibes. go check RT Website. www.representlondon.com

Bonzai's Intergalactic journey. Where will it end?

Lovepusher with a classic ' Remember Jesus '

Rask from TDA / TNB family

The tunnel gets lifted

Detail shots....more....more

Was that Octopus I ate last night?

Cipher Sessions - Part 1

I recently worked on a great idea with DJ Sarah Love from 1Xtra, me painting the wall for the first Cipher Session to be screened on Spine TV!
Freestyle rhyming is the essence of hip hop culture, it's a hard game to play but when you have some of the UK's greats in one space doing this its great to watch.
The background piece was a freestyle but based on a protective mask.
The MC's who stepped up were Sonny Jim, Ramson Badbonez, Scandalous and Chester P. Kyza was there to perform but had to rest his vocal chords so get well soon Kyza. The venue was the Carhartt store on Earlham Street in the West End.

Many thanks to Alex at Carharrt, DJ Gone and the lyricists for doing what they do best.

Check out DJ Sarah Love, Fridays 1am to 3am on 1Xtra on DAB or listen to the podcast when you should be working.

Could all the MCs step forward.....now

Sick Lyrics, Scandalous.

Ramson Badbonez is what it says on the tin.

DJ Sarah Love works the Technics.

Chester P with a brand new verse... ink's still wet!

The first lady of Hip Hop, DJ Sarah Love, every Friday on BBC 1Xtra. Don't miss!

Where will I spend my Happy Days?

During February over 60 artists will be taking part in an exhibition on the soon to be demolished Market Estate. The launch of this exciting show will be March 6th, 2010.
For further information check out www.marketestateproject.com

Where will I spend my happy days? March 6th, 2010

Valentine away day

I don't usually celebrate Valentines day as I give love 364 days a year, so what better way to celebrate my 'day off ' than to head to Stockwell Park and do an all dayer.
I have been blessed with a new radio so all the power ballads got played during this piece which was painful but pulling away from the wall to change the channel is something I need to work on.
Bonzai did another super production to the left. Enjoy the art, enjoy your environment. You only live once so paint the place you live.

Love Stockwell Park Estate

Love life

Love each other

Love a good cuppa

Love is like a journey I don't have a map for...

Love your community

Bonzai deals the realness

Big ideas.

Sunday it was time to go big!
Today I was joined by London legend Keen and on the opposite wall Team Robbo. Also joining in the fracas was Bonzai and guests Epok and Kai One from Bristol.

Climate change arrived a day later.

Close up details.

The circus has arrived!

more movement..

This could be your house!

Epok from Bristol

Kai One from Bristol

Bonzai completes the picture

Hurry up Global warming.

This weekends endeavours in the Stockwell Park Estate saw a whole heap of special guests come and leave their art. After the previous weeks monsoon painting, this weekend it was the icy colds turn to see what we were made of.
Watching paint dry is not something that happens in this weather as it often doesn't dry so I dedicated my latest artistry to the cold as a thank you for testing my faith.
The piece features an ice crystal border and in the middle an ice mask inspired by my obsession with African masks.
It's Winter folks, enjoy the art and get plenty of vitamin C.

Ice Ice Baby, Stockwell

The Ice Demon cometh

Moody blues

All iced out