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Nick Walker – A Sequence of Events – Book Review

When I first recieved this book to review I was trying to look for positives. Free book, pretty much packed with “stencil art” many of which political. Unfortunately, that’s about where it ends.

The pages of this book would have been better filled with photos of stencils in location on the streets rather than just the stencils themselves. They’ve even been done badly to show that they’re stencils. Another thing that narked me was that some of the images spanned across two pages (i.e. across the bind) and you can’t see them properly. This book would appeal to those who collect graffiti/street art books to put on their shelf and never look at again.

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“A new look for the UK’s best graffiti magazine, back to A5 and now every photo has been printed full page. So this time the artwork doesn’t get lost in a mass of colour next to others, you can see each peice framed on its own.

Displaying the best graffiti and street art from the UK ONLY! We are proud to be the only magazine
displaying purely graffiti from the UK and this time we have a collection including writers from Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

A new feature in this issue is ‘Writerswives’ where artists have painted girls and teamed up with a
professional photographer. This has produced some stunning images and certainly keeps the eye
interested while flicking through.

From now on Wordplay will be a quarterly magazine thanks to the help and support of our sponsors.”

Issue 5
84 pages, heavyweight cover
21 x 14.85cm
Released 15th January 2009

This December, the highly-anticipated Stay Free exhibition, Sickboy’s first major solo show, sees him transform a Victorian Grade II listed building in east London into a 3D creative playground, bringing in inspiration from the children’s story ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. Packed with colour, humour and satire, the show is a culmination of the alternative reality Sickboy has created over the years, and promises to be the most spectacular street art show of 2008.

Stay Free launches on 3 December from 18.30 to 22.00 and is open to the general public from 4-10 December 2008 between 12.00 to 18.00.

Venue: The Tramshed, 6-8 Garden Walk, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 3E

From the owner of Lazarides galleries in London and Newcastle, this substantial 262 page book is full of artists you should know. A lot of the work has been seen before on Flickr and the like, but you just can’t beat a book! Covering work inside and out, personal favourites come from David Choe, Lucy McLaughlin, Blu and Mode2. Cover price is £14.99 but readily available for a bargain price of £8.99.

“They started in San Francisco, spread throughout the States and are now appearing in cities worldwide ghostly white bikes adorned with fresh flowers that mark the spot where a cyclist has been killed. As they begin to appear across Britain, Geraldine Bedell talks to the creators of these poetic shrines and the victims families.”

More here and here.