Created by artist Sam Spenser. Photo by Jessica Rolland

Photo nicked from Charlie Todd’s awesome blog.

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I have seen and admired Jim Starr’s work on the Net before, and was meaning to get around to reviewing his work, but with my panic about setting up my own studio (I will write more about this soon), time constraints as they are have made me put a lot of things to the side I’d rather not. However I’ve just received an email from Arien Signs (a definite future resource for my hand printed A0 screen prints) and a friendly guy Steve who works there told me Jim Starr had talked favourably about my work. I want to repay the guy for his kindness and tell you all about Jim Starr’s amazing talents as a graffiti artist, graphic designer, illustrator, photographer, in fact the list is endless, this guy has the world of arts all wrapped up, he has a killer style and a unique knack for crossing mediums which is very rare in today’s arts market.

You can find Jim’s work at his portfolio site www.jamesstarr.co.uk and his design studio site at www.inchbyinchdesign.co.uk – this guy is both a perfectionist and prolific in his work (which is no mean feat), he’s worked for all sorts of big names including TopMan (Arcadia Group), Levis, Lever Faberge and The Elton John Aids Foundation, The Times, The Economist, Formula One and many more. He produces an amazing range of unique and challenging art works across the board, and even prints many of his smaller prints from his tiny studio based in Bristol. This is truly a one man band artist on a mission. Just take a look at some of these amazing works by Jim, I’m sure you will agree, his work is rather dazzling.

 

Doris Day

An amazingly eclectic composition that explodes on contact, I’d always seen Doris as a rather tame icon in the annals of Hollywood’s history but this design really does jump off the page.

Final Bikini Eagle

I love this design, the combination of weathered torn typography and a fantastic spectrum of colour across the figure, and my favourite, a very subtle inclusion of an American Eagle, not clumsily attached as many artists would be tempted to compose this work, but simply and confidently arranged to flit between fantasy and reality. The eagle merely sits behind the bathing beauty, no she has wings, no she doesn’t…

British Airways

The great thing about printing is you can experiment, be it colours, design, composition, and even materials. My point is proven here by Jim’s design for a British Airways project, this is beautiful, in essence hyperrealist ephemera, a record of a journey that never was (but always could be). I can imagine a great deal of trial and error went into this work, creating such a composition takes a great deal of skill, experience and illustrative balance. What’s more it’s rubbed away that corporate edge I expect from commissions of this nature. Excellent resolution to what I imagine was a difficult brief.

I’d have loved to have featured some of Jim’s illustrations from his portfolio site as well, however it’s a Flash site (a very flash site!) and so I wholeheartedly recommend you take a look at some of his more personal works there – www.jamesstarr.co.uk.

James Star has travelled the world on expeditions for BSES, creating art works in the USA, South Africa, Iceland and Arctic Norway. His unique combination of painting, screen printing, collage and illustration earned him a feature in Clin D’oell magazine in 2004. He is available for commission work and is certainly worth considering for any major commercial campaign requiring a more creative resolution to your brief.

 

 

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From our friend Romanywg comes this terrific little video featuring current Wooster obsession Herakut. The video was put together for an upcoming show at Phillips Contemporary and Urban Art Auction that takes place on Saturday the 14th March. Herakut‘s painting ‘For Sure’ is being auctioned with the proceeds going to the charity Warchild.

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So who wants some instant fame and glory? Can you handle the pressure? How fast can you stencil, paint and spray? I’ve just been contacted by DNA Networks, the promoters for the biggest event in Indian cricket this year, the gala opening ceremony of the IPL (Indian Premier League) in Mumbai on the 10th April 2009.

 Here’s what they’re after:

They want, wait for it, 8 rapid-fire artists who can paint like the clappers, I mean fast.

Each artist/painter/graffiti artist has to paint the captain of the team in under ten minutes.

What you get:

They will pay for your flight there, a stay in a swanky hotel, and they reckon there’s some cash in it for you as well. The fact is beyond all that it looks like you’ll be instantly famous, I mean this event won’t only have a massive crowd it will be televised. It will be broadcast to over 200 MILLION viewers across the world including subscribers to Setanta Sports in the UK.

Can you deal with the pressure?

It’s all very well taking on a few artists at a graffiti battle down a local club, but this is the real deal, I mean the pressure is on. can you paint that fast, can you? If you feel you’re up to it and want the world to sit up and notice in a second’s flash, you had better be great at coping with crowds and noise, amazingly fast, and be able to knock out something that looks like the captain of the team in just 10 minutes!

So, who’s up for the challenge of a lifetime???

Okay, you’ll need to be available from the 9th of April to the 11th of April 2009. You’ll be flying to India and staying in Mumbai for the ceremony and a spare night. If you want to get in on the act here are the contact details…

Send your name, telephone number, site/portfolio (if you have one) or your best portrait pic to:

subramanian@dnanetworks.com

Or for more details contact DNA on either

Mobile – +00919980999905.
Landline – +00918023616683.
(Country Code for India is +0091.)

Go for it!!!

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The Switzerland graffiti week continues, I visited the mountain lair of Blofeld from the James Bond movie ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’, it’s actually a rotating restaurant, and has some pretty nice airbrushed and painted wall art in the shop there.

It was a particularly cool thing because Blofeld is famous for not having and ear lobes, and I also have none. It was a pilgrimage.

Also, are some more train graffiti bits from the journey south from Zurich through Berne, Switzerland, got so many… Tomorrow is the last day, then I’ll save the rest for a slow week.

This took an entire wall…

The detail on this was awesome, look at the reflections in the goggles!

Train graff from Zurich to Berne, Switzerland, 2009.

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