We will be celebrating our 4th birthday on Friday 12th of August with the opening of our 42nd (I think) show, details to follow... Get it in the diary!

The Happy Hour July 2011 by The Happy Hour
The lovely gals at Sunny Govan Radio featured us last week, we're about 11 mins in. Interviewing us tomorrow, wish us luck!

This Sunday we are hosting a bike ride to go visit each of the murals painted during the Rudimentary Perfection Project at Recoat Gallery. We're meeting at 2pm at Recoat Gallery, we'll cycle round, head back to gallery and watch the documentary of the project at 4pm at the gallery. It is a family friendly Sunday afternoon ride, so please bring your friends and spread the word! We'll be using this map.

More Rudimentary Perfection love here with an interview from Derm on Breaks of ten. Cheers to Danny for the coverage...

Check it here.

We've just put the finishing touches (although I expect it'll get added to) to the Rudimentary Perfection blog, it's an overview of all last weeks action in the run up to the show from murals to the exhibition to the party times. We're so proud of everything achieved in the project, hope you enjoy checking it all out.

Check out the Rudimentary Perfection blog here.

Boooooo! Awful quiet at Recoat now all of the guys have left. At least it's given us time to load up the artwork still for sale from the show so you can purchase to your hearts content!

We have created a map for you so you can visit all of the mural sites. My first one so hope it works. Good luck!

We've had all 10 artists here painting murals all week from the Rudimentary Perfection project. Now the show is going up and it opens tonight. The work is looking amazing and the murals across the city are mind blowing. We'll release the map of where they all are this weekend. The exhibition opens tonight 7-10pm, then runs till the 31st July. See you tonight!
We've got a cool Blog up on Central Station about Matt.W.Moore's working practice, really intersting, check it out.
The Skinny are working with us too on this project, they've done a quality feature, so make sure to grab a mag or you can read some of the feature here.

Matt.W.Moore arrived today! Painting starts tomorrow. Rudimentary Perfection approaches, art work is arriving daily. Check out The Skinny Magazine feature about Graffuturism to learn more. The exhibition opens this Friday 7-10pm.

Booking travel for artists for Rudimentary Perfection today. Exciting times. All 10 artists will be here next week to paint murals across our fine city, Glasgow never felt so lucky.

Wow, you haven't been to see Mutanat Veneer at Recoat yet? You're a disgrace! Get down here. You can go here to see a 360 of the show, give it a sec to load then scroll with your arrow keys. NICE! All artwork still for sale is here.

Real nice feature on the Graffuturism blog about the next show with hints at some of the work being produced. Wow its going to be so good!

Plans for the Rudimentary Perfection project are really coming togther, watch this space...

Wow, check out Kofie's work in progress for the next show, real nice write up on keepdrafting.com

At 3 for £10, how can you resist? Get yo paint oan!

More Recoat family news... Al white (who we've exhibited in the past and have got some plans for very soon) is teaming up with Jamie Johnson for a show at such and such in Edinburgh, here's the blurb!

Such and Such present Anomal; an exhibition by recent Duncan of Jordanstone Illustration graduates Al White and Jamie Johnson.

Exploring hypnagogic autonomous landscapes, the work will be a collection of both collaborative and individual works using a variety of mediums including printmaking, intricate collages of salvaged material and three dimensional pieces.

Anomal

10th - 19th June

Such and Such
105 Brunswick Street
Edinburgh
EH7 3HR

suchandsuch
alwhite.tumblr.com
jamie-johnson.co.uk

We just got the new VNA magazine delivered to the gallery, featuring interviews with Shepard Fairey, Logan Hicks, Burning Candy, Nychos and Recoat fam favourite Elph!

£5 only, bargain.

Our next exhibition, "Rudimentary Perfection" opens on 1st July 7-10pm. Mark Lyken has been a helluva busy and has brought together the UK's first comprehensive "Graffuturism" Exhibition. The exhibition pulls together an impressive group of notable international artists linked by their innovative spirit & shared graffiti heritage. The project has been heralded as one of the finest of its kind to take place anywhere in the world this year.

Each of these artists has ventured down unique paths in their post graffiti output & each offers a radical take on expressive, figurative & letter-based abstraction. These works, while differing in approach & execution retain the sense of movement, assured marks & imperfect beauty of graffiti itself.

The participating artists include SheOne, Duncan Jago, Jaybo Monk, Matt W. Moore, Augustine Kofie, Nawer, Morten Andersen, Poesia, Derm, and Mark Lyken. Yeah I know, too good! Can't wait.

Want to read all about us, how we got started and our plans for the future? Read on in this Trisickle feature.

Mutant Veneer opened on Friday, was a great opening, best seller of the year! No wonder, work looks amazing. Check it all out with photos of all the prep, the opening and the gallery here. Work is for sale here. Added bonus, FiST feature on Trisickle, read all about it!

Mutant Veneer opens tonight 7-10pm. FiST has been working hard and the show looks amazing, make sure you don't miss it. If you can't be here tonight don't panic, the show runs till the 19th June.

On Sunday we held a closing party for Elph's solo show, 1133. Was quality afternoon, Elph did a talk and we launched a limited edition print and zine. We even had a lucky raffle winner who won one of Elph's new sculptures. You can view all of the photos on our Flickr and buy either the prints or zines here.

Ruefive show is ace, make sure you check it out. Details are here. See more photos here

Heading through for this tomorrow night, you should too!
Here is what RueFive is saying about his new show...

"Deathlust" my new solo show opens in my home town of Stirling in a few weeks. I'm quite looking forward to it, even if I do find the whole "home town" aspect slightly daunting. Come by and show your support if you can and in return I'll give you drinks, smiles and some kind words. My friend Peter James will be playing a short acoustic set at some point during the night, he rarely plays his solo material live and it's well worth seeing.

Read more info here.

Opening Party: Friday 13th May 2011 7pm-10pm
Show Runs: Saturday 14th May 2011 till 5th June 2011

Downstairs in Barnton Street Music
32 Barnton Street
Stirling
FK8 1NA
01786 479 888

www.ruefive.com

One of our favourite artists, Susie Wright, is in a new exhibition down in London soon, if the flyers anything to go by its going to be amazing! Make sure you go if you're in the big smoke.

Only a week till we let FiST loose in the gallery! Here is a sneak peek at where he's been working away for the past few months on what is shaping up to be an amazing show!