On my trip to London before Christmas I did make it to the
Concrete Hermit store, but unfortunately I didn’t make it in the door, as they’re closed on Sundays and I hadn’t checked the opening times, however there’s loads of
cool graffiti around their store and the market on Brick Lane on a Sunday, so my excursion to the East End of London wasn’t a total bust. I was quite excited to see some CH items in the shop at the Tate Modern though (we went there for lunch, on the top floor,
great food and a great view), including the poster version of this Anthony Burrill design
shown here in t-shirt form.
In the e-mail I got about this sale it said there was loads of tees at 40% off, but I can only see 2 in the store, perhaps a few more will be added to the sale between me writing this post and it going live (what? you thought I clicked ‘publish’ every three hours?). *Update: yep, I missed it, here’s the sale page… and I’ll just give myself a quick slap… and now all is right in the world again.
Whenever I visit the Tate Modern (I like walking along the South Bank when I’m in London, so I do pop in when I can), it reminds me that I know pretty much nothing about art. But then I get annoyed when people just trash the stuff in there because they don’t understand it, just because you don’t understand something doesn’t make it bad. I guess that’s the problem that can’t be avoided when an art gallery has a great position with a
killer view and it’s free to enter, everyone’s going to go in whether they actually enjoy art or not. Still, everyone’s entitled to their opinion, and I’m just some guy on the internet who just said he knows nothing about art…
… so check out this awesome art that Concrete Hermit have got in Tate Modern! I haven’t mentioned Concrete Hermit for far too long, but this lack of HYA-exposure has somehow not stopped them from being noticed by the Tate Modern development team, who saw what Chris Knight (CH founder) was doing with artist collaborations and wanted to showcase that to a wider audience. It’s a good opportunity for CH and the artists that they work with, which in this case is the recognisable names of Anthony Burrill, Ian Stevenson and Andrew Rae.
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Here’s the details:
Just to let you know we’ve got a Christmas Bonanza here on Sunday December 7th from 11-6pm where we will also have Lazy Oaf, Peep Show and Garudio Studiage selling prints, jewellery and other gifts as well as mulled wine and special offers on some of our products, as well as a Print sale this coming Thursday December 4th 6-9pm to coincide with the First Thursdays event. We’ll have our entire print collection out of the drawers and up for grabs, with work by Ian Stevenson, Jon Burgerman, Anthony Burrill and lots more.
Please note that this is an instore event, I don’t believe it will be replicated online, especially the part about mulled wine.
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I know that the vast majority of readers won’t be able to make it to this exhibition, but I really like the way that they’ve designed the promo poster, so I’m sure you guys can at least enjoy that. Here’s the press release for those of you that live in the London area and feel like checking out some fresh pieces from some top artists from Britain and beyond:
Concrete Hermit presents its summer show ‘We Have Been Expecting You’, a group show of selected prints and affordable work by both young and established international graphic artists we have presented and collaborated with.
The exhibition will include new works and pieces which have never been exhibited before in the U.K. from well–known artists such as Jon Burgerman, Ian Stevenson, Andrew Rae, Anthony Burrill, Neasden Control Centre, Jody Barton, eBoy, Supermundane, Cody Hudson, MWM Graphics, Andrew James Jones and many others…
Prints will start from £20 – £400.
Opening Night Thursday 7th August
Press and Buyers preview from 5:30 pm
Private View 7:00pm – 9:00pm
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