This Spring Bristol’s oldest and grandest gallery, the Royal West Of England Academy is throwing open all 5 of it’s galleries to host a major show by 50 of the city’s best known and most successful graffiti and street artists. This is the first major show of its kind in the city since the Arnolfini’s groundbreaking 1985 show, Graffiti Art and is a full-blown celebration of the city’s rich and diverse contemporary scene.
Bristol has nurtured many of the UK’s most successful graffiti and street artists, including 3D, Inkie, Banksy, Nick Walker, Sickboy, Cyclops and TCF Crew, to name but a few. The city continues to be a breeding ground for a wealth of exceptional creative talent and continues to have one of the UK’s most diverse and thriving scenes.
Crimes Of Passion takes the love of (and heartfelt dedication to) the art form as its starting point, but is far from a typical gallery retrospective, all the artists will be showing completely new work, as well as installation pieces and working both directly onto (and into) the walls of the gallery.
Crimes of Passion will also include a city-wide programme of large-scale painting, a photographic exhibition, a film season at local arts cinema The Cube (
www.cubecinema.com) and a series of workshops and talks.
Exhibition venue:Royal West of England Academy, Queen’s Rd, Bristol
Exhibition dates:21st March – 2nd May
Artists:3Dom
45rpm
Acer
Andrew Council
Cheba
Cheo
China Mike
Cyclops
Dan
Dicy
Dora
Eco
Epok
Feek
Filthy Luker
Flx
Ghostboy
Haka
Inkie
Jody
K148 (photography)
Kai One
Kato
Lokey
Mag1c
Milk
Motorboy
Mr Jago
Mudwig
Nick Walker
Paris
Poer
Ponk
Richt
Rowdy
Sainty
Sepr
Seza
Sickboy
Silent Hobo
Soker
Sums
Tom Hine
Voyder
Will Barras
Xenz
Yaka
Ziml
Opening night:Due to expected interest and capacity at the venue the opening night on Friday 20th March is invite only – please email
stealfromwork@gmail.com if you’d like an invite.
Live Painting from:
Crimes of Passion at the RWA, go check it out on free entry day.
We will be setting up a little wall on stage the croft behind the acts, live painting from KTF's Epok & Sepr. 27th March. Happy Birthday Hip Hop Lounge!
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We are big fans of Stan's work here at WOC, so heres some works of his. Look out for his solo show at the WOC gallery in May + some sneaky previews of the show in our group show in April. More info soon...
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