Tag: Mark Worst

Storytellers

by theholmesteader, posted in Glasgow, Street Art

I paid a visit to the inaugural Storytellers exhibition at The Glue Factory in Farnell Street on Saturday 23rd June.

This exhibition showcases Glasgow’s street culture and creatives, providing a space and a platform for artists to present their work.

There was a wide range of mediums on show, with something for everyone across the entire ground floor of the Glue Factory, from graffiti and paintings to sculptures and videos, there even was a wall where kids, of all ages, could express themselves.

I will admit that I took the wrong camera with me to the event, however, I still managed to get some good shots of works from Mack Colours, Ejek, Priest!, Chelsea Frew, Barry the Cat, Micheal Corr, and Ross MacRae. I loved the area Conzo & Glöbel had set up, this displayed their typical sense of humour, and I was mightily impressed by Mark Worst’s display wall. Saving the best to last, up high on the back wall of the space is a tremendous piece by GazMac, which highlights his status in Glasgow’s Street Art community.

GazMac
Ross MacRae
Michael Corr
Molly Hankinson
Boondocks_art
Boondocks_art
Imrie
Imrie
Jay Ventone
Conzo Throb
The Guzler
William Spaceboy
Ejek
Ejek
Mack Colours
Priest!
Priest!
Vues1
Chelsea Frew
Alicesillustrations
Siguel
KMG
KMG
Barry the Cat
Barry the Cat
Shona Hardie
Shona Hardie
OhPanda
Ellie Type
Alko
Itois Bru
Full Swing
Josh Thomson
DEV
Utopid
Conzo & Glöbel
Jay Ventone
Charlie Anderson
Lukas Suchy
Conzo & Glöbel
Alko
Conzo & Glöbel
Mark Worst
Mark Worst
Mark Worst
Mark Worst‘s wall

Street Art in Northern Ireland

by theholmesteader, posted in Street Art, Travel

Now that I’ve had a bit of time I’ve put together a couple of pages of the street art I photographed during my recent trip to Northern Ireland. I discovered so much I have split it into two pages, one for Belfast City and the other for the pieces I found in the other towns I visited on my trip. A few sample images are shown below.

The complete set of photographs can be found on the Street Art in Northern Ireland page.

Arch Project

by theholmesteader, posted in Glasgow, Street Art

I took a trip to SWG3 today to see how Yardwork’s Arch Project is progressing, it was really great to see a new piece by Inkie, the London based painter and street artist, originally from Bristol.  much as I love Rogue-One’s masterpiece for this year’s Yardworks, I was a wee bit sad to see Inkie’s Glasgow Girls go, his piece on the Arch is almost a homage to the original.  New works from OhPanda, Sledone, and Voyder have been added during the week and add to Mark Worst’s beautiful unfinished artwork I photographed last week.

On the way there I stopped off to see the Cobolt Collective’s 20-metre high piece for this Year’s Open Doors at Brown Street near the Broomielaw,  This and the work completed last week at SWG3 with the Design Kids, a group of recently qualified design students, is up to the usual standard expected from the Cobolt crew, I really love their style.

SWG3 Today

by theholmesteader, posted in Glasgow, Street Art

I had to visit the homebrew shop in Whiteinch for supplies, so I nipped into SWG3 while I was in the area, the place was busy with loads of metalheads there for the Lords of the Land festival, lots of long hair, leather and torn jeans, and bands I have never heard of, from what I could hear, it was pretty loud music!

Lords of the Land.jpg

It was good to see some new artwork in the yard, I was pleased to see that Mark Worst has finished the portrait I spotted him starting in January, noticed that Scent is developing his skills and a lot of good work by EJEK with AERS, SMUG amongst others.  It looks like they are gearing up for this year’s Yardworks in May.

Mark Worst
Smug
Scent
EJEK

On the Paisley Road

by theholmesteader, posted in Glasgow, Paisley, Street Art

I decided to head down to Paisley this morning to see Mark Worst’s latest piece of work. I was very impressed with the painting of his mate Scott. It’s in a little ‘garden’ area next to Leisureland on the High Street, some may remember his mural with a fox on the same wall.

Walking along Paisley High Street towards Leisureland, I noticed that the Little Book Transfer murals are still there on the empty shops, they can be seen on the LBT page here.

While I was on the Paisley Road I stopped off at the Pacitti Community Gardens to see Rogue-One’s latest work. This spectacular piece attracted plenty of media interest, it was on the front page of the Scotsman, in the Evening Times on Tuesday 19th March and The Metro even covered the story, well earned praise indeed.  Also on Paisley Road West is another nice community mural created by Rogue-One and EJEK using a design created by the local school pupils, as you can see, there was bright sunlight when I took this image, I’ll return later and get a better shot.

I will add all these images into the relevant pages in The Artists section.

SWG3 – Again

by theholmesteader, posted in Glasgow, Street Art

With not a lot to do today, I took a trip to SWG3 to see a new piece by Conzo and Glöbel I had heard about. While I was there I bumped into Mark Worst as he was getting started on a new large scale mural, from what I have seen it will be really good, I took a photograph of his preliminary work but I won’t post it until the work is completed. Mark told me that this new work is part of his new direction of portraiture murals for 2019, I look forward to seeing more of his work.

While I was there I also had the chance to have a chat with Garry Mackay aka Gaz Mac, the director of swg3, it was great to eventually meet up with the man who many say is Glasgow Graffiti’s Driving Force. We blethered about the development of art in Glasgow and this year’s forthcoming YardWorks which I’m hoping will not be on while I’m away travelling.

I took some other photographs whilst there, mainly of stuff that the lads were working on last week.  I’ll credit the images later.

New Section added

by theholmesteader, posted in Glasgow, International, Street Art

To try and make it easier to find photographs of street artists with a significant quantity of murals, I have created a new top-level section called The Artists.  I have added as much information on the artist as currently known by myself and a gallery of images.  I will add more information and Images as I receive them.

Artistic Paisley

by theholmesteader, posted in Paisley, Street Art

Briony, my daughter-in-law, and Graeme’s pal Stephen Frew let me know that they had seen some pretty good murals in Paisley, so after a wee bit of research, I headed off by train from Glasgow Central for a 5km trail capturing some pretty good images.  Thanks should go to Briony and Stephen for tipping me off.  You can follow the trail here.