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Found these two pictures I took on Kingsland Road back in July...not sure who this is by but really like it...

 

Mode 2 and Prefab 77

I went to the opening of the new Mode 2 show 'Reality, Fantasy and the Web' at Lazarides Newcastle when I was back at home last week. The work was chalk and pastel drawings (mainly erotic portraits of women) which had been drawn on-site on flattened cardboard boxes stuck up around the downstairs walls of the gallery. The Lazarides site says Mode was recently made artist in residence at Coco de Mer, where he paints customers from a cubbyhole in the changing rooms (with their permission, thankfully) and the drawings on display here had that voyeuristic feel to them. I also liked Mode's pencil drawings upstairs, which haven't been exhibited before.

While I was there I bumped into the guys from Prefab 77, who appear in our new book Street Artists: The Complete Guide – had the first copy of the book back from the printers so showed them it and they seemed pleased – they said they would order 1000 copies for their shop Electrik Sheep! (don't worry guys won't hold you to that...)

Here is one of the Prefab spreads in the book (showing the huge screenprinted piece they pasted up on the side of The Ship Inn, Byker, Newcastle in 2008):

There is a Seb Lester show currently on at the Electrik Sheep gallery which you can see on the shop's new flickr page here. Mode 2 had been to the opening for that the week before...who needs Shoreditch, its all about the Toon: maybe Newcastle could be the next street art destination...

Street Artists book: hot off the press...

Here are some photos of our new book, Street Artists: The Complete Guide on press in Lisbon, Portugal. Have been working on it with Glenn (Arango) the book's main photographer for over a year, so its very exciting to see it finished! The book will be on sale on our website and in shops soon, keep checking for updates...