When I say ‘ideas’ I actually mean they’re my ideas, not a random mood board I’ve collected. It reads like a portfolio and does its best to feel like a book.
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Nov 272009
Back in January I was asked to contribute to a new book entitled ‘MURAL ART book Vol.2′. I couldn’t remember seeing book one, although the book has since arrived and its looking dope.
Nov 242009
Two of my paintings from the 51 Degrees collection are appearing as lots in an auction in the south of France, this Saturday.
There’s some amazing work in the auction, you’ll have to see for yourself, links below:
Nov 192009
Once more the machines will have new backdrops. Mutate Britain kicks open a Christmas Special. Promising an alternative to the joyless chaos of Oxford Street, the venue is also licensed for drinking and selling prints of some of the pictures painted on the walls.
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Sep 272009
Officially opening on the 8th October 2009, the follow up to the Mutate Britain show at Cordy House in Shoreditch last year – this time under the Westway, up Portobello Road, west London. Its actually behind S&M, the pie and mash shop (scroll down for a map).
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I visited the site and made a few 360′s of the areas… guess where i’m planning to paint? [read full story]
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Aug 272009
I was invited to the public open day of the new Wisemore campus, on the old hall-of-fame site, next door to the leather museum on Littleton Street. The old factory had many graffiti paintings by Shok-1, Seak and Skank inside of it, probably as many human atrocities and needles on the floor as there were on the walls.
I have to say I was impressed with the new build, although much of the rooms were vacant, you could imagine the hive of activity it will soon become. Rumour has it that the old campus on Townend will become a superstore. Can anybody confirm this?
I took the oppurtunity to create some heavy 360 degree photographs, I hope you find them interesting. One of them is the first time I have made one within a corridor, and a bonus 360 photograph of the painting I did with Energ and Meek the same weekend I visited.
Aug 252009
The first graffiti show to hit the white isle went down a storm. The venue was simply breath-taking, set in the hills, a world class spa, probably the best venue I’ve attended in a long while so I’ll let the photographs do the talking.
Aug 132009
It was 12 years ago, to the day almost, that the final touches were being put to my first animated music promo. It was completed in the Truman building on Brick Lane, East London with help from Matt who owned the suite, and my good friends Kris and Matt from Birmingham. Its digitised from a VHS copy, so its not the sharpest image.
It was for an outfit called ‘ZUM’ from Stafford, who were partly responsible for the band known as ‘Blue Boy’ with the tune ‘Remember Me?’ (using the sample from Marlena Shaw’s ‘Women of the Ghetto’). The brief was a ‘modern scooby-doo’, see what you think…
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Aug 082009
I’ve been asked to put out the word, regarding a rather ambitious show being put on in October. Its basically a collection of memoirs, paraphernalia, ephemera, bits & bobs to do with the emerging hip hop scene in this country. I’m going to be submitting some tasty morsels from my archive, things that I just happened to keep. If you’re like me and a bit of a hoarder, and you’ve got something dying to make somebody else smile and feel educated, dig it out, dust it down and get in touch.
Aug 012009
A detail of one of the miniature series, ‘Across 110th Street’.
More after the jump…
Jul 282009
To honour the release of the DVD of the Watchmen (fantastic adaption), there’ll be a large installed piece of work down on the Southbank venue, central London, in the skatepark.
Jul 232009
Ibiza gets graffiti this summer as Urban in Ibiza hits the White Isle for the first time ever.
Prepare yourself for a visual feast this August with the anticipated arrival of URBAN IN IBIZA.
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Tuesday 28th July 2009 I will be painting underneath the Southbank complex in central London for the DVD release of the magnificent movie adaption of The Watchmen.
This wall was the first evidence anybody had of something going on, other than lots of aerial figures pulling tricks mid-air and the crowds of people gathered to watch. The whole painting on site took about 5 days in blistering heat. We watched the skin get applied to the framework of the wall-ride, the first target.
LA Creasoli Gallery Show – Urban Myths:
July 11th – August 10th
Opening reception: Saturday July 11th
Featuring work from some of the leading UK street artists
Inkie, Pure Evil, Zeus, Mysterious Al, Will Barras, Steff Plaetz, China Mike, Mudwig, MauMau, Eco, Andy Council, Sickboy, SHOK-1, Chu.
This will be the first time I’ve shown in the United States, so you can understand how excited I am that the prestigious Cerasoli Gallery has arranged this show. To view the gallery’s press release (in PDF format), click HERE.
All these photographs (…after ‘read more’) were taken with a fisheye adapter, and also taken without a cumbersome tripod. Its all part of my understanding of the cube and spatial experiences/installations.
There’s one panorama in particular that appears ‘wounded’ by distortion, although most of them have turned out nice enough. The low lit one in the basement (the first one) has turned out exceptionally well for the location. The walls and some of the floor had been painted in that cement paint and was quite monotone. See what I mean after the jump, you’ll need Apple Quicktime installed to be able to view the 360 degree images.
Painted a huge version of the new logo in Birmingham, next to Energ. [read full story]
May 042009
Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult
-Hippocrates
May 042009
CHU EXHIBITION from Trav on Vimeo.
Graffiti artist CHU’s solo exhibition, set up by Jibbering Art and held in Digbeth Birmingham.
Filmed and edited by EXM.
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New bodies of work on canvas and paper on display in Digbeth, near Birmingham City Centre on Saint George’s day 2009, Thursday April 24th.
Here’s an extract from the press release:
Aerosol cans become unstable at 51 degrees, pyramids are built at 51 degrees, secondary rainbows are only visible at 51 degrees, daisies open up to the sun at 51 degrees, and the northern hemisphere begins above the latitude of 51 degrees*. If the graffiti tradition of adopting a number after your tag (similar to Taki 183, from 183rd Street, NYC) then the artist Chu’s number is definitely FIFTY ONE.
Exploring (literally) new perspectives and embracing computer-aided technologies, Chu’s work has continued to push back the boundaries of graffiti since he first began experimenting with aerosol paint & home computers in the late 1980’s describing his creations as gently reminding us of the everyday conflict between digital and analogue devices.
This new collection charts a journey in the UK from the town of Walsall to the city of Birmingham, along the A34 road, the flagship route for bus number 51. 12 new paintings and simultaneous, limited edition, screen print releases will be shown alongside a warehouse space containing an installation created specifically for this long awaited comeback show.
I’ll be displaying all of the studio work I’ve created over the last 12 months, along with a few new vibes aswell. I’ve been working a lot more with tricks-of-the-eye, illusion and site-specific works, aswell as canvases and designs for print.
The Supersonic screen print will be on sale, limited to an edition of only 50, three colour prints on heavy cartridge.
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For further information please visit www.jibberingart.co.uk
Chu’s website: www.schudio.co.uk/blog
For press enquiries contact:
Laura: +44 (0)7980 153745 or email art@jibbering.co.uk
Feb 272009
I am submitting a little work and a piece of bespoke painting to the walls within the lush Westbourne Studios in West London this coming Thursday 5th March. I’ll be showing along with some old friends, Solo One, Inkie and Zeus.
We’ll be joined by the Graffiti Research Laboratories. and Dotmasters in the vast foyer area. The word is that GRL are bringing their laser writing sytem…
If anybody is in London over the coming months, pop in and have a look. Work will evolve and change as it is a semi-permamanent fixture.
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