We painted a mural for the SPT festival at Kelvinbridge Underground. Check out all the flicks at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/recoat/sets/72157604587485112/

The Bizarre Brood is sponsored by the Flying Duck, a fantastic nightclub in town, who'll be helping us with a Red Stripe bar. Derwent are sponsoring the show with some of their new range of pencils so everyone who attends the show will recieve a fancy pencil and the first ten people through the door will win a whole box of them!

We open a new show on the 25th April 2008 between 7 and 10pm, a solo exhibition of Russell Dempster's work called The Bizarre Brood.

For those that don't know Russell and his work, he graduated in 2004 and has since taken part in 7 exhibitions in both Edinburgh and Glasgow. He draws hyper-real, distorted pencil drawings, and will be showing eight new ones at this show, all linked through their comments on human behaviour and relationships.

ELPH's exhibition has been pretty amazing, we've had loads of visitors, and we only have 10 pieces left out of 50, so better get your skates on if you haven't been down yet and are looking to pick up a piece.

Theres going to be an interview with ELPH in the List this month too, so make sure you grab one.

We're going to be down at Kelvinbridge Underground station this Saturday, the 12th April 2008, painting a mural for the SPT underground festival with ELPH and Sam Bates. We'll be there 11-3.

For those that haven't picked up on this story, DAZE, a graffiti writer from Glasgow has just been given 2 years in jail for "8 acts of malicious damage." 2 years in prison for a 23 year old for writing DAZE on trains and public property. It seems ridiculous. Would community service have not been a little more practical, money saving and beneficial?

Check out this website for more info: http://www.freedaze.co.uk/ and come in a sign the pretition we've got going if you agree with us.

ELPH's opening on Friday was amazing, totally rammed, check out the pics here, including photos of the mural we did at GSA:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/recoat/sets/72157604093692022/

Plus there was a great article in the Scotsman on Wednesday, you can read it here:

http://www.wildstylers.com/wstr/index.php?module=article&view=639

Make sure you pick up a Scotsman tomorrow, theres a big feature on our soon to be exhibiting artist, ELPH, with images from the up and coming show plus a juicy interview.......

Elph's exhibition opens this Friday, be here 7-10pm to see the show....
Plus tomorrow Elph and us are painting a mural at the Art School between 11-3pm in conjunction with the Mural Society, cheers guys.

Big thanks to Sailor Jerry Rum and Carhartt for helping us out for the ELPH show.

We're opening a new exhibition on the 21st March 2008, 7-10pm called "Spirits and Bitumen". Its a solo exhibition of ELPH's artwork. Hes showing large paintings, beautiful drawings, a life size sculpture of one of his characters, doing some painting in the space and launching a publication of his drawings and paintings. On the 19th we're all painting a piece at the Art School in the afternoon in conjunction with the Mural Society.

ELPH is a Scottish illustrator, animator, graphic designer and graffiti artist based in Edinburgh. He is famous worldwide for his big nosed, “wino” characters that now float and stroll around the streets of the UK. He’ll be painting one of these characters in a mural at the Glasgow School of Art in conjunction with the Mural Society in the week leading up to the show. He has exhibited across the UK and internationally and was recently included in the Tristan Manco, “Street Sketchbook”, published by Thames and Hudson. ELPH says, “There are many mixed ideas in the show, a bit like changing the channel on your cable television every 2 minutes. The show goes from war reportage to booze Britain and then to some weird fashion programs.”

See some work in progress here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/recoat/sets/72157604093692022/

Not many left. Only 50 made. 15 buckeroos. Better get in touch.

info@recoatdesign.com

We've just started stocking this fine publication, ouch, its hot!

Was in a bar the other day and noticed these tags from some pretty huge writers, kind of funny some dude called pat doyle got up with them...
Barry Mcgee has got a show on right now at the Baltic centre in Gateshead...

http://www.balticmill.com/whatsOn/present/ExhibitionDetail.php?exhibID=93

We opened a solo exhibition of INSA's work last Friday. Check out more photos and details here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/recoat/sets/72157603834753433/

A big thanks to Carhartt, Club Violate and Red Bull for all their support.

Carhartt's support meant we got these beauties made....

Our INSA exhibition opens this Friday, 15th Feb, 7-10pm. INSA's doing a 20 "Buy My Love" t-shirt giveaway to the first 20 people to arrive. Be there.

Look what arrived today. We've got in our Scottish version of the 'MY NAME IS' stickers at last. If you need some then swing by, they're free...

ROSYONE exhibited with us back in December. Her work was amazing, so much so that one buyer ordered up the original of one of the prints she sent over for the show. In the package she sent over she also sent us and the buyer 2 of her beautiful mix tapes each. We're feelin lucky. Check them out. My Super Woofer is lovin them!

Andrew made the cover of the Skinny this month, make sure you pick one up and check out the interview with him inside.

Carhartt have been kind enough to sponsor our INSA exhibition.

We're opening an exhibition of INSA's work on the 15th February 2008 7-10pm at 323 North Woodside Road, Glasgow. Its called "Buy My Love". He is an artist from London. Within his work he expresses the confusion of a generation who have grown up bombarded with brands, products and sex. He'll be exhibiting original paintings, exclusive limited edtion prints on stretched PVC and doing a large mural in the space. Hes giving a free limited edition "Buy My Love" t-shirt to the first 20 people through the door on the 15th.

Have a look at his site and blog:

www.insaland.com

Check out the chat so far:

http://www.slamxhype.com/blogs/d/Bothanspynet/2008/01/22/insa-in-glesga

http://scottishgraffiti.blogspot.com/2008/01/insa-exhibition.html

http://www.skinnycap.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=4&Itemid=123

http://www.duncancumming.co.uk/blog.cfm?ID=967

We're starting a wee block of solo shows this year, the first being an exhibition of work from illustrator/ animator Andrew Rae which we opened on the 11th Januray 2008. You might recognise his work from Monkey Dust. Him and his lovely wife Chrissey came up and we all had a whole lot of fun, Andrew did a mural, Chrissie soggied the toilet, and we played guitar hero into the night...

Photies:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/recoat/sets/72157603450156492/

Amelia's Magazine did a review for their blog:

http://www.ameliasmagazine.com/amelias_blog/2008/01/andrew_rae_exhibition.php

We opened an amazing show on the 7th December 2007. We managed to bring 5 artists and designers to Glasgow at the top of their game. We had illustrators from London, Hellovon and David Bray, we had Australian graphic artist, Innocentgirl, we had graffiti artist Rosyone and Scottish landscape artist Anna King. It was a belter.

See the photos here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/recoat/sets/72157603453769545/

http://www.graffiti.org/index/rosyone_2007.jpg

For our 4th show we exhibited work from the back catalogue of Kirsty Whiten's seven year career. The exhibition ended with all pieces being auctioned at a live event on the 30th of November 2007. All pieces sold for over their asking prices even though everyone got a bargain. The show was a great success, mon the Whiten sisters!

Heres the back-catalogue, deffinately worth a look:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/recoat/sets/72157602815855618/

Here are the photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/recoat/sets/72157603374461418/

Heres a lovely article about Kirsty and her work:

http://www.scotsman.com/visual-arts/Hole-lot-more.3544163.jp

For our third show we exhibited as many artists and designers as we could, we asked them all to make work that would sell for £40 and under. We had work from Bernie Reid, Amy Whiten, REKUR, ROGUE, Lachlan Rattray, ACORN, Gregor Louden and loads of other amazing artists. The exhibition recieved a great reaction from buyers, viewers and the press, it was covered in the Scotsman, the Herald, the Big Issue, the Metro, he List, and the Evening Times. It opened on the 28th of September 2007, kindly sponsored by anCnoc Whisky again.

Check out the photos here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/recoat/sets/72157602242476967/

And some chat here:

http://telltalepresents.blogspot.com/2007/09/recoat-rock-bottom-basement-bonanza.html

http://www.list.co.uk/article/5083-recoat-rock-bottom-basement-bonanza/

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/smgpubs/access/1343784041.html?dids=1343784041:1343784041&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Sep+28%2C+2007&author=ANN+FOTHERINGHAM&pub=Evening+Times&edition=&startpage=52&desc=The+art+of+finding+a+bargain