Ema has arrived in Scotland, she is busily drawing and painting inside and outside of Recoat Gallery. The work for the exhibition is beautiful and intricate, a series of ink paintings with art deco-inspired backgrounds that incorporate various influences including typography, 90's hip-hop, and 70's science fiction.

You can see the event on FB here. See more images here. Read more about Ema at her website. Trisickle just did a great wee interview with Ema, you can read it here.

The exhibition opens this Friday 7-10pm. The show then runs till the 9th of October open Tues to Sun 12-6pm.

Brooklyn Lager are sponsoring the event so I hope you can make it down to have a beer with us on Friday.

Introducing the next member of Team Recoat, Scottish Graffiti unicorn, Elph. Go hear how and why he works the way he does and what inspires him at Trisickle Magazine.

Introducing Team Recoat Member No.4, our illustrator extraordinaire, David Galletly! Go check out his interview at Trisickle Magazine.

Ford approached us to ask if Team Recoat would make one of their new Ford Focus cars into a moveable gallery and paint the whole car. We were glad to oblige! We painted it last Tuesday on Buchanan Street, you can view all the photos here. Artists who painted were Mark Lyken, Al White, Rue Five, Death Rattles, FiST and Syrkus.

We're introducing our Team Recoat members one by one. This week you can go read all about Kirsty Whiten, one of the leading graphic artists living and working in Scotland. Her bio, interview and print are all here. She has a solo show coming up at StolenSpace in London, the work is just amazing. We recently did a studio visit with her, go see the photos here and you can visit their website to hear more here.

Ema began spray-painting the walls of her hometown, Montpellier (Fr) in the early 90's. Instantly hooked by graffiti, it wasn’t long before her works adorned buildings and trains throughout the South of France, Paris and Barcelona before moving across Europe and North America.
As a resident of New York for the past 10 years, Ema's work can be seen throughout the city, both inside and outside the gallery; from exhibitions in Chelsea, to wheat-pastes in Brooklyn and large-scale murals across Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx.
For this exhibition, titled Breuckelen (the original name for Brooklyn), Ema presents a series of original works celebrating a decade of soul-searching, creative explorations and one-hell-of-a-time in the city so good, they named it twice.
Brooklyn, we go hard.
The exhibition opens on 9th September 7-10pm. The show will then run till the 9th of October open 12-6pm Tuesday to Sunday. Go read and see more of Ema here.

A couple of months ago we visited one of our Team Recoat members, Kirsty Whiten, while she was creating work for here solo show that opens at StolenSpace Gallery in London on 1st Sep. It is called Feral Family- Mammalian Pastoral, an amazing collection of new paintings and drawings. If you haven't already, go "Like" her Facebook page for more updates and photos.

We're off to Nottingham today, our Team Recoat prints will be on show at one of the satellite exhibitions happening at the V&A Nottingham Street Art Festival, it opens this Friday. Huge honour to be invited, we're all very excited. We'll be there for 2 days, hanging the prints and originals and each painting murals in the space. Team Recoat road trippin'!

The 10 amazing, beautiful prints created by Team Recoat for your pleasure are now online for you to view and purchase. They are all A2, editions of 25, numbered, signed and Recoat stamped. They are only £80 each, what a bargain. Go check em!

Team Recoat is our brand new collective, it consists of 10 Scottish Artists we rate highly and who showcase the varied styles of work we exhibit. To introduce them to you all we have partnered up with Trisickle magazine, they will feature 1 artist per week for the next 10 weeks. Go check out the first, it's FiST!!

Gamma Proforma have been busy and are also opening a similar show of sound and art work by Elph this month. Make sure to be there!
Venue: XOYO, 32-37 Cowper St, London. Date/ Time: Friday, August 19 · 6:00pm - 9:30pm

Mark Lyken has a music and art show exhibition opening on the 26th of August in London with Gamma Proforma. If you're there you should deffinately go check it out. He has been working his socks off so sure it will be a belter!
Venue: XOYO, 32-37 Cowper St, London. Time/ Date: Friday, August 26 · 6:30pm - 9:30pm

Couple of weeks ago we went for a bike ride found all the murals from Rudimentary Perfection. Quality day, thanks to everyone who made it down.
For more info check out the blog. To see the film go here. To find the murals you can use this map.

Wow, we've had a cracking time running Recoat thus far. We've showed work from 5 continents, held 42 exhibitions at Recoat, and 15 at other spaces, and the Fool's Gold Tour and Rudimentary Perfection show have really been the icing on the cake!
This summer we celebrate 4 years of Recoat by launching Team Recoat, a collective of 10 Scottish artists who we rate massively for their excellent and well-crafted work. We've commissioned each of them to design a limited edition screen print, these will be on show next Friday alongside original paintings and drawings.
Exciting times!
Show opens 7-10pm on the 12th August and then runs till the 4th September.

Brilliant feature on FiST and the show he had with us in Indicate this month. Big thanks to Yasmin for all her hard work and continued support!

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!