Elate Graffiti at Royal Festival Hall, London
Late upload; hectically busy week…..my long-overdue first piece of the year was at the 30 years of UK Hip Hop mega-jam at the Royal Festival Hall, celebrating 60 years of the Festival of Britain, at the South Bank arts centre last weekend.
Elements of Graf-Futurism live painting session….
Psych/Prog-Rock LP cover influenced Elate piece with obligatory Eastern mystical twist, molten core and a heavy metal dose of that good ol’ London funk…..
Despite alternating torrential rain, grey skies and occasional pounding sun it was a blast…. thanks to people who came by for a chat, some tried their hand at painting for the first time, showed us their artwork, (especially the kind gentleman visiting from India who kept coming back all day to watch the progress) those who gained inspiration and everyone who helped organise it …Jenny for taking photos, I was painting alongside Brave, Andrew McAttee, Zia, Don and Cry, many apologies to Cry who didn’t get the space she was promised due to time overrun of other artists due to conditions outside their control…
Massive shout to Fuel for hooking me up.
Cry One painting a character by Brave as she couldn’t pull off her outline thru lack of space….Check out her Flickr for her own work….
Brave One and Andrew McAttee/Stet check out Andrew’s site
Brave One finished, check out his Flickr
The event was complimented with some highly topical and ingenious stencilling, Phone Tap Man by oldskool London train legend Don One nicked from Surrey Blonde’s flickr
Here’s a film of the first ever Festival of Britain in 1951, you can see the spot I painted at 2.50, how things have changed.
