The Captains Rest have kindly sponsored Dark Horses, so come down and enjoy a wee drink on them. After the show everyone is welcome back there to carry on the party at 185 Great Western Road, Glasgow, G4 9EB

Thanks so much guys!

Check this beauty of a flyer out that the girls collabed on for the show that opens this Friday, see below for more info...

Popped into Focus and looks like they're helping throw a bash for Numbers turning 5 whole years old this Friday, why not come to our show, have a few drinks at the Captains Rest then hit the Sub Club for dancing fun. Check out their websites and BLOGs for more...

We're opening a new show this Friday, the 4th of July from 7-10pm. It's called Dark Horses. The show has been curated by our friend and helper at Recoat, Emma Balkind. The exhibition is of work from three young, emerging artists:

Anna Peaker, Leeds (Leeds Metropolitan University)
Hooray Hoorah Collective
http://www.annapeaker.co.uk/
http://www.armyofcats.com/hoorayhurrah/
Flickr Portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/delinquentwink/

Margarita Louca, London (Central St Martins)
http://drinktothedregs.blogspot.com/
http://www.free-range.org.uk/cgi-bin/portfolio.pl?yearID=11&exhibitionID=335&memberID=8137
Flickr Portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/people/louca/

Kitty Clark, London (Slade School of Fine Art)
Famicon Collective
http://www.kitty-clark.com/
http://im-with-zombie.livejournal.com/
Flickr Portfolio - http://www.flickr.com/people/kittyclark

Check out some of their work here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/recoat/sets/72157605174517484/

Don’t panic if you can’t make it on Friday, the show will be open till Wednesday 6th August 2008. open from Tuesday to Sunday 12pm- 6pm.

X is coming down tomorrow, it got a lot of attention, hope you saw it, but if not you can have a read of the List feature here:

http://www.list.co.uk/article/8551-x-group-show/

And the review they did:

http://www.list.co.uk/article/9230-x-group-show/

Or the Scotsman review here:

http://living.scotsman.com/features/Art-reviews-Mladen-Stilinovic-.4182391.jp

Thanks Roddy.

On Friday 30th May we opened our 10th exhibition, X. We are exhibitiing work from John Grider, EJEK, Kirsty Whiten, GAZMAC, Swampdonkey, REKOR, Katie MacKinnon, MAYBE, ASKEW and SuzyQ.

It was a brilliant opening, sponsored kindly by Carhartt and supported once again by Red Bull, cheers guys!

You can see all the work and photos from the opening at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/recoat/sets/72157604918770159/

info@recoatdesign.com
+44 (0) 1413410069
323 North Woodside Road,
Glasgow,
G20 6ND.

Open Tuesday to Sunday 12-6pm.

Look what Ali found. This is for real.

Tagging up the gallery front is one thing, but missing cats? You must be fucking kidding!?

While we were over in Edinburgh we noticed one of our flyers being put to good use.

Our friends have just opened a new streetwear store for boys called Pageant over in Edinburgh and they asked us if we'd be up for decorating it for the opening on the 16th May 2008....

Check out more photos of the mural and the opening at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/recoat/sets/72157605483838691/

Check out Pageant at No 10 Laurieston St, Edinburgh. www.pageant-store.com

Whoop whoop. Carhartt have just said that they will sponsor our next exhibition- X, cheers again guys.

Carhartt have just opened a new store in Manchester, check it out:

http://carharttstoremanchester.co.uk/

Heres the photies from the opening too.

http://www.factory311.com/carhartt/

We open our next exhibition on the 30th May, 7-10pm. Its our 10th show, so its called "X" and we have 10 brilliant artists showing with us.

Kirsty Whiten
SuzyQ
John Grider
Swampdonkey
ASKEW
EJEK
GAZMAC
REKOR
MAYBE
Katie MacKinnon

On Monday we left Glasgow to travel the country dropping off the big pieces from ELPH's show to their new lucky owners. We went to London town, visited INSA on Monday, ate meat with meat and visited Stolenspace on Tuesday, then cruised on down to Cornwall and all the way back to bonny Scotland on Wednesday. We travelled a cool 1300 miles.

We opened our latest exhibition, Bizarre Brood, a solo exhibition from Russell Dempster last Friday. It was lovely and busy, everyone enjoying the bar sponsored by The Flying Duck, our new well stocked fridge sent over in support from Red Bull, and all the beautiful pencils sent up by Derwent.

The work is amazing, everything we had hoped for from graphite obsessed Dempster. You can see all the photos and pieces at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/recoat/sets/72157604437806320/

The show will be open till Wednesday 28th May from Tuesday to Sunday 12pm- 6pm.

Last week we went on a wee mission down to Newcastle to check out the Barry McGee exhibition at the Baltic. Was fantastic show, highly recommend it.

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

Also checked out Electrik Sheep, a wee shop and gallery run by some lovely fellas. Check out their site:

www.electriksheep.co.uk

Peeppeep road trippin!

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.