Many apologies on my belated posts TSG fans! A mixture of no internet connection, hangovers and a bout of flu are taking the blame.

So, Style Never Dies: The Scandalous Adventures of Erm One is on and poppin’ in the upstairs gallery right flippin now!
-Cheers to all who came out for the opening on Friday, real good of y’all!!!

As always, many beverages were bodied whilst Dillatron 9000 hit us up with some classic cuts on the wheels of veal. The night finally concluded after some terrible pool playing (more squid than sharkin’) at Bunters, a heap of meal deals at Cleopatra’s grill and a night cap at Vertigo with a severely tipsy PG in tow.

Mad thanks to style master Erm One for traveling all the way from Paris to Pastyland in order to grace the walls with his unmistakable flavour- it’s looking crazy tasty-so if you ain’t come through to check it yet, make sure you do real soon!!!

Everything is ready to purchase online right now so head on over and bag yourself a piece of framed funk asap.

All purchases will be dispatched after the end of the exhibition on the 12th December.

And as we know for some out there, them pennies are tight, if you come instore you can secure a purchase from the exhibition with a 40% deposit and then pay the final amount on collection.

Mega.

We gots a ridiculously hella hot show coming up for you!
This November The Soup Gallery proudly welcomes globe trotting, graffiti artist: ERMONE for his first solo show:

‘Style Never Dies: The Scandalous Adventures of ErmOne’

Graffiti artist ErmOne, who is originally from the North of England will be traveling over from his studio in Paris to exhibit a collection of work produced exclusively for his show at The Soup Gallery in Truro, Cornwall.

The Soup Gallery is extremely excited to welcome an artist who rides high in the estimation of his peers, a style captain who has been rocking on top with his groundbreaking approach to graffiti for over 15 years.

ErmOne is well versed in applying his unique style to any given platform whether it be canvas, concrete, metal or paper. Never failing to drop a mad fresh flavour that leaves fellow graffiti writers awestruck and eye candy enthusiasts hungry for more.

‘Style Never Dies: The Scandalous Adventures of ErmOne’ is an exploration of the classical graffiti elements – letters, arrows, connections, drips, splats and clouds.

The funk master will be flexin’ his unique style with an exhibition of framed original paintings and photographs, with a price range to suit all pockets.- This is defo not one to miss!!!

There will be an opening party for the exhibition on the evening of Friday 6th November @ The Soup Gallery 106 Kenwyn Street, Truro from 5 p.m – 9 p.m.
Refreshments will be provided together with live music and the artist will be in attendance, everyone is welcome.

All of the artwork from the exhibition will be available to view and purchase in our online @ www.thesoupgallery.co.uk from Monday 9th November. The exhibition will close on the 12th December.
We have a Facebook event page set up so if you are heading down (and you know you should be!) stick yo name on it so we know how much beer to buy.

You can also read the past interview with ErmOne and link to his flickr here

For anymore enquires please email info@thesoupgallery.co.uk or tel: 01872 278135

If you are fiending for a fix of gritty graf candy I thought I would point you all in the direction of UK Street Art, a crackin site-whose aim it is to provide you with a destination to find out about everything going on in UK galleries, on our streets and anywhere else in the world that our wealth of talented artists might have passed through.

UKStreetart.co.uk are always slingin the heads up on upcoming shows-and conducting interviews with some of the biggest names in the world of street art, together with links to the websites/myspace’s of pretty much every notable UK (and international) street artist you can think of.

They also have a wealth of links to other Street Art orientated websites, flickr groups, magazines and galleries (yep.we are there) -everything you need to set you off on a Wizard of Oz style brick road of discovery….

So there you go me lovers-get to checkin.

What up! Sorry for my lack of posts recently, I’ve been crazy busy getting some stuff together for a mini solo show I am gonna sling up at the end of this month- I won’t get into the details of that right now-but don’t fret, I will keep y’all posted…..

I will get back on the posting game full throttle this week…….

Firstly I thought I would hit you all with a music related post, as I can’t remember the last time me or the kid Tripswitch dropped a hot link for yo lugholes.

Whilst I have been getting mad crafty this week I have been hitting up one of my favourite websites:

We Funk Radio

WEFUNK is a weekly radio mix-show, hosted and produced for more than a decade by Montreal DJs Professor Groove and DJ Static. Its been going since way back in ‘96 and serves up the finest in hip hop, funk & soul from old to new, classics, rare gems, new releases and more. You can tune in any time to their archive section and choose from over 500 two hour long shows – its flippin great for digging up those old favourites you had forgotten about. My necks near breaking point after a week of heavy head nodding.

On We Funk they also have a feature named ’sample moments’ where they highlight the original samples from well known hip hop tracks, which is great for nerding it up and impressing all your mates with your encyclopedic noggin.

And if you like that- you will bloomin love Who Sampled? An ace site where you can browse artists’ tracks to find out where the original samples came from. A brilliant creation which will solve many a heated discusion and head scratching session down the pub.

Recently i have been rocking Redman’s debut ‘Whut Thee Album’ from all the way back in ‘92. Its up on itunes now for about 5.99 (bargain).

I will leave you with a track from that album: ‘Tonights da Night’ feat. Hurricane G which takes the sample from Mary Jane Girls, ‘All Night Long’

I have finally got around to putting the awesome Mister Millerchip prints I have here at the gallery into our online shop…..

All are the prints are limited edition, numbered and signed by Senor Millerchip and all purchases come with free postage and packaging!!!

Mister Millerchip is a retired Brumie socialite that has hung up his Cuban dancing shoes to produce delightful hand rendered imagery. After studying illustration (and the way of life) at the university of Wolverhampton, he relocated to pastures new, the exotic town of Slowmarket, where the unusual characters and mundane elements of the everyday rat race are bought to life with a charismatic twist…………and a pencil. Or his names Joel and he likes to Drink tea and doodle!

Be sure to check out his killa blog right
here

I have just finished putting some hot new artwork available for purchase in our online shop!!!

We have an awesome original piece from Texas based artist, Carlos Don Juan.

I stumbled across Carlos’ work whilst looking at some Fecal Face weekly competition submissions-his stuff is absolutely freakin awesome!

Be sure to check out his website to see some of the other amazing work he produces.

Here’s what Carlos has to say about his work……

‘The graffiti movement has been the biggest driving force behind my work since I am part of this growing art subculture. I approach and execute my work in almost the same manner that I would a piece of graffiti on a wall. The attitude that I have when I create a painting is similar to the one that I have when I am out painting the streets. My mentality is part ego, part adrenaline, part competitive, part street and always looking forward to the next project.
Mixed with the skills that I learned in the streets is the knowledge that I have gained in an academic setting. It’s binding painting’s traditional techniques with experimental forms of applying paint on a raw surface. Interweaving art history references with graffiti art’s history, which is still being made today. Creating a hybrid way of thinking made from art jargon and slang from the streets.
My paintings work as narratives that are greatly influenced by everyone from Michelangelo to Alice Neel to Twist to Revok. There are elements in these works that deal with personal influences such as Catholicism, Mexico, Oak Cliff, illegal immigration, politics and family. The portraits not only tell stories, but also document several cultures and movements that these individuals are a part of. Movements and cultures such as skateboarding, fixies, turntablelism, street wear, sneaker heads, graffiti and Hip Hop.’

Also in the Soup Gallery online store we have some additions from some Pastyland natives, including some limited edition prints from St Ives based Sam Bassett and a Tetraptych piece entitled ‘Little Bricks’ from Skinners sinking – Soup Gallery owner, Mr.Polglase.

Have a good weekend peeps-Till next week,

PEAS!

I have just finished putting all the mega affordable/super limited/crazy ace Autumnal prints online-

The prints were produced by a handful of local and international artists specifically for the exhibition here at The Soup Gallery, so be sure to go and check them out!!!

They will look bloomin lovely in a framed up and stuck in your living room. Postage is a mere pittance at £1.50, and remember any purchases will be shipped out immediately!

So don’t delay people-get that wall spruced with a desirable limited print that will make your friends go Ohhhhh!

Oh, I almost forgot…….. Mad Thanks to everyone who showed out for the opening party, your support was much appreciated, as always!

Thanks to Skinners for supplying the keg and Dillatron for working the wheels of steel- Twas a flippin blast.

Unfortunately I only managed to take one measly photo very early on in the evening of Dale rocking his ‘I Heart Kernow T’ on the decks. Then the battery ran out on the camera and Betty Stoggs got the best of me. I am lame. Sorry.

Sorry I have failed to get photos of the Autumnal exhibition up online yet. Been a bit ill this week, so have been out of the shop for a few days. But I am back at TSG towers now and gradually getting up to speed again.

The prints will hopefully be up in the online store by the end of the day.

In the meantime- I have just added an awesome booklet produced by recent FCA graduate Lizzie Frost entitled, ‘You’re not from round here are you?’

This brilliantly funny booklet is an editorial piece, designed as a guide for people visiting or moving to Cornwall for the first time, in order to prepare them for certain Cornish eccentricities. It covers topics including Cornish independence, slang, climate, transport and seagulls.

It’s an ace little book well worth a look whether you be an emmet or Cornish through and through!

Check it out in our online store!

Today it’s the turn of mega talented Mr. McCarthy, who after traveling the globe beautifying many a clump of bricks has finally settled in Qatar.

Me and Dale go way back, he’s is the first person I painted a wall with many many moons ago. Give the kid a pen, pencil or paint and he will dish up something hella slick- hell, give him some macaroni, some glue and a bag of glitter and he wouldn’t disappoint.

I have plenty of hilarious stories I could divulge about ol’ McCarthy, but we’ll save them for another time- Here’s a little bio on the jazzy so and so….

‘Dale McCarthy was born in South Africa in 1981, he currently lives and
works as an advertising Art Director in Qatar, a tiny peninsula in the
Middle East.

A modern day Jack of all trades, His talent spans across the visual
spectrum from filthy street style graffiti, photography, illustration,
animation, to polished digital artworking.

He thinks that mad stuff and shit on walls is the best thing since
sliced pitta bread.

He loves you, no matter who you are or what you do because he kind of
thinks that we are all one and the same.

His best friend is a set of bongos and an ipod stocked with dutty
reggae and old school hip hop.

Thats about it.’

You can check out more of Dale’s work on his Flickr, and on Doha Magazine on adabisc.com

I especially recommend checking out the new series he is working on, entitled Planet Doha.

A project that sees Dale trying to hone his TV presenter skills whilst attempting to experience all the diverse cultures of the world without ever leaving Qatars capital city of Doha.

Eat you heart out Palin!

Following on from yesterdays profile of David Shrillinglaw, today we are showcasing the superb talents of another two artists involved in our forthcoming exhibition, ‘Autumnal’ .

Ladies and Gentleman, Alex Higlett and Georgina Hounsome….

Alex studied illustration at Bath Spa university and is currently working freelance. She mainly produces work through drawing, painting and printmaking, but I also likes to make things and publish zines.

Her work is narrative based and focusses on people; interesting characters and their stories and backgrounds.

Georgina also studied at Bath Spa university and left with a BA (1st class) in Illustration. Since graduating she has been making pictures on her foldout Formica table. She enjoys drawing, collage, painting and printing. She collects papers, old postcards, stickers, fablons, lettratones and other collage bits, which she uses in her work.

Both artists take immense pride in producing professional, high quality and distinctive work and have just completed an Masters degree at Falmouth College of Art. Their MA exhibition is showing right now, until Thursday 10th September-so if you hot foot it down there you can check it out!

Be sure to have a look at their website; alexandgeorge.co.uk, which is stacked full of their fantastic work.