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Based on the fact there are very few left of prints number II and IV available it would be safe to say they will be popular and now is the time to buy as they are currently still at the release price so potentially a great investment. The set of 5 prints honours Rauschenberg’s influence of the great Pop artist’s own work in his use of found object and collage. The prints are of astounding quality with collage elements, diamond dust and glazing making them so much more than the average silkscreen.  They are available to buy singly or as part of the set of 5.

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Combine your love of art with your feelings for your true love and give a long lasting Valentines gift. Our art experts have gathered some of our best expressions of, love in art, perfect for your Valentine.

This collection includes many discounted prints from famous artists such as Klimt, Warhol, and Chagall. Plus we've many limited editions to make your gift even more collectable, like Rob Ryan’s All of the Words in the World and Peter Blake’s I Love You. Make this your most memorable Valentines!

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Jackson Pollock's best known paintings only counted for four years of his work. The intensity and scale of Pollock's finest abstract works has led him to be regarded as one of the most important American artists of his day, and major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.

Pollock's best known works are created by the 'drip and splash' style. He fixed his canvas to the floor or wall and, holding the brush or stick a foot or so away, threw lines of paint towards it, allowing chance to direct the evolution of a painting. He then manipulated the paint with an assortment of instruments, sometimes achieving textured effects using elements such as sand or broken glass.

Jackson Pollock struggled with alcoholism all his life and died in December 1956 age of 44 in an alcohol-related car accident.

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The Hospital Club were playing host to London’s press on Tuesday evening, where they were outlining what is in store for 2012 at the prestigious members club for creatives in Covent Garden.

As a fitting backdrop to the event, we were invited to guest curate the space with Sir Peter’s brand new found art editions and his superbly printed Homage to Rauschenberg set, amongst other editions both past and present.

2012 will be a huge year for Peter as we look forward to celebrating his milestone 80th birthday.

If you would like more information on Blake’s artwork please email soho@artrepublic.com or call +44 (0)20 7240 7909

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Tools of the Trade is available in several colours each heavily coated with diamond dust.  They have been created using a combination of a giclee print with two silkscreen’s on top one of which is the diamond dust.  The pink has pink diamond dust the green has clear diamond dust and the grey has 'silver' diamond dust. The controversial imagery is a new direction for Ryan Callanan and is bound to be a conversation starter in any home. 

Each colour is available in a small edition of just 5 prints and we do not expect them to be around for very long. 

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Read our latest article and find out more about dragons in art and the year of the dragon

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Paintings inspired by Yorkshire landscape, many large in scale and created specifically for the exhibition, will be shown alongside related drawings and films. Highlights will include three groups of new work made since 2005, when Hockney returned to live in Bridlington, showing an intense observation of his surroundings in a variety of media.

One not to be missed if you are in London it runs until April 9th.

Read our full review of the exhibition

View all David Hockney prints

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In 2004, the Jersey Heritage Trust commissioned light artist Chris Levine to create a portrait of Her Majesty to celebrate 800 years of loyalty to the English Crown.

The final portrait of The Queen is the first ever 3D portrait of the Monarchy to be commissioned.

The lenticular edition is signed and numbered verso and is presented in a bespoke white wooden frame with conservation backing.

Film clip taken from documentary made about the Queen Project

Visit our London gallery page for details of how to find us or simply email us at soho@artrepublic.com

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This pink spay colour way was created EXCLUSIVELY for artrepublic by Prefab77. First they applied the pink spray paint then the black high gloss silkscreen to create this amazing signed limited edition of just 25. Other versions of Lick London have now sold out so we don’t expect this one to be around for long!

Other prints by Prefab77 including Crown and Country are selling fast so don’t miss out. 

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2011 was a great year for Copyright with many of his limited editions selling like hot cakes including ‘Filth’ and ‘Purity’ and ‘Precious Damage’ which are now all sold out. 2012 looks like another vintage year with a joint show planned in March with Gemma Compton, and more exciting new prints in the pipeline.

But to keep you going until then we have the lovely Morning Star mini silkscreen signed limited edition released just before Christmas and some hot new originals coming into our Brighton and Soho galleries very soon.

In what was originally scheduled for January, this interview was brought forward as a tribute to award-winning British director Ken Russell, who died aged 84 last December. Filmed in August, this turned out to be Russell’s final TV interview.

Film clip taken from Living the Life: Sir Peter Blake Meets Ken Russell screened on Sky Arts 1/SA1HD on Friday 2 December 2011 at 8.00pm

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He was inspired to create this one by the nude paintings of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. As in Ingres’s Grande Odalisca the model for Man Ray’s photo Kiki also wears a turban. He then altered the classical nude image by adding the f-holes of a stringed instrument. These were painted on to the photographic print which was then re -photographed to create the finished piece.

The title Le Violon d'Ingres  is a French idiom that means "hobby” and seems to suggest that, while playing the violin was Ingres's hobby, toying with Kiki was a pastime of Man Ray. The picture maintains a tension between the objectification and appreciation of the female form. 

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As in all of his work, the image is made up of the lyrics to the songs. The gold text is the words from “Love is Losing Game, the Red from “Valerie” and the Blue/Black from “Back to Black”. The artist states “I wanted to make a portrait that made Amy an icon of singing/ song writing and a direct contrast to the portrait of her created out of pills by Jason Mercer, making her an icon of drugs”. 

Check out the Brighton gallery if you are interested in this beautiful print of Amy Winehouse or any of his other prints.

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Bridget Riley was inspired to create this work by a trip to India she took in 1981.  The movements of the dance and the many arms are created in this piece by the use of vertical bands of colour that are cut across by diagonals. The use of contrasting colours and shapes to create the sense of movement in a flat work of art is typical of the Op Art movement which Bridget Riley was part of in the 1960’s

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He includes a line up of nine actors from John Wayne to Clint Eastwood each of whom have made significant contribution to the Western film genre.  He also includes a factsheet of interesting details about each man.  See if you can guess who they all are!!

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More details and photos of the night can be found in our article

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The famous British Pop artist has given the statue a modern make over, using the three colours of the Union Jack flag turning the BRIT Award statue into a modern trophy for 2012, but one with echoes of the swinging sixties, the decade when Blake first rose to prominence. Blake has created some of the most iconic artwork for album sleeves from The Beatles Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band to Paul Weller’s Stanley Road.

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Katie Cruel will be performing an exclusive one-off complimentary gig, plus DJ sets from the Hush Club. 

With past collaborations inc. Queens of the Stone Age, We Fell to Earth and Mark Lanegan, Wendy Rae Fowler (AKA Katie Cruel) has an eclectic history of excellence.

After the gig, the party moves to Riki Tiks (also in Bond Street) where there are 2-4-1 cocktails until 3am! 

For your chance to be on the guest list please email with your name and the name of up to one guest to: artzine@artrepublic.com 

We anticipate a great turnout, so this will be a strictly invite only event and you must print the confirmation email you receive and bring it with you to gain entry.

Katie Cruel is dark and damn sexy. This is an event you won't want to miss!

The poll asked 1000 British artists themselves (including Charming Baker) who is the most influential artist is of all time.  The results proved unexpected mostly for the absence of some of the most famous names in the art-world. David Hockney was voted the number 1 followed by:  J.M.W. Turner (2) Grayson Perry (3) Francis Bacon (4) Jack Vettriano (5) Lucian Freud  (6) Thomas Gainsborough (7) Sir Peter Blake (8) Banksy (9) and Stanley Spencer (10). It is interesting that the artist themselves selected 10 artists that are not necessarily the most successful in terms of PR. Surprisingly, artist such as Damien Hirst and Tracy Emin do not feature in the list. 

Do you agree with the list or do you think there are other more influential artists who have been missed out? Give your feedback on our facebook poll

View the article in the Independent

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Creating a landscape in the gallery, Boyce’s works interrogate urban forms along with the history of Modernist design and its working processes. The other three nominees were installation sculptor Karla Black, video artist Hilary Lloyd and painter George Shaw.

You can still go and see all the nominees work at The BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Gateshead until the 8th of January. This is the first time the Turner Prize has been presented beyond Tate’s galleries. 

Read our review of the Turner prize exhibition.

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For this project Static screen printed 1400 CD cases in 2 colours, including 400 promos which featured an extra spray painted layer, as well as 110 limited edition screen prints. We are very lucky to have a very limited number of the Boxes silkscreen limited edition produced for this in our Brighton gallery signed by Static and Corey.

Find out more about the Artrocker Awards

View all Static prints

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He has been named one of art’s “Pop Idols” due to the way he combines the commercial with the iconic.  As a child growing up in Thailand he collected old vintage advertising signs which are now used as the base of his work, painted with influential figures such as Andy Warhol and Frida Kahlo placing them as the subject matter. He admires the way such figures challenged the art scene in a way that is still relevant today stating, “Without their art, maybe I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing”.

Check out the great prints that we have framed in the Brighton gallery now

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If you missed it you can catch it again on 4OD

Alex’s unusual works are created through a painstaking manual process of cutting symbols and punctuation from newspapers and documents and arranging them together to make amazing collages. Sadly Dots and Full Stops has sold out but we do still have the beautiful Stars created from 100’s of stars collected from all sorts of newspapers and magazines, plus the A Line of Dashes and Hyphens.

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We have another of his chalk figures, this time its the chalk horse on Osmington Hill. This particular figure was carved in 1808 to celebrate George III’s patronage of the nearby Dorset port of Weymouth.

There is an interior view of Furlongs a remote shepherd's cottage on the edge of the South Downs near Firle, which became a hive of artistic activity in the 1930s. This image also featured in a recent article in the Guardian newspaper on Eric Ravilious.

Finally there is Train Going over a Bridge at Night, which Ravilious painted of the Colne Valley railway line, close to the  his home in Castle Hedingham.

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They form part of a set of 5 prints honouring pop artists Robert Rauschenberg’s influence on Peter Blake’s own work in his use of found objects and collage. The prints are of astounding quality with collage elements, diamond dust and glazing making them so much more than the average silkscreen.  They are available to buy singly or as part of the set, currently at the release price, so potentially a great investment opportunity.  The full set will be coming soon but we recommend pre-ordering the set as available edition numbers are already going down as customers recognise their potential before the price increases.

Please call the Brighton gallery on +44 (0)1273 724829 to enquire about available edition numbers and pre-ordering the sets.

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Lidia has transformed the gallery with twelve new mixed media artworks and a bespoke soundscape she has created that both represents and reflect upon elements within the artworks, offering a deeper immersion in their themes and preoccupations.

There are still some original pieces to purchase in the show PLUS a new hand-finished limited edition print scheduled to be released in the coming weeks, so keep watching our blog for further details...

Read more about the show

View all Lidia de Pedro work

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Alex’s unusual works are created through a painstaking manual process of cutting symbols and punctuation from newspapers and documents and arranging them together to make amazing collages. These include Chihuahua Puppy created from the boarders around adverts in the Friday Ad and Stars created from 100’s of stars collected from all sorts of newspapers and magazines.

See all Alex Dipple prints

Read the article online in Candid Magazine (page 99)

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Following on from the huge success of the “Warrior” and “Eagle” limited editions Dave White has just realised Cougar.  It’s another great example of his unique style full of enormous energy and power achieved through bold colour and expressive brush-stokes.  In this amazing print the Cougars neck is extended, eyes alert and literally ready to leap off the page! 

Cougar is available in two versions and standard version and an XL version that has also been hand finished by Dave White.

View all Dave White prints

Read the Ralf Lauren Magazine Interview

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They follow a group of seven people as they go about their daily lives and address the issues and prejudices surrounding gender and their identity.  As they undertake different gender affirmation procedures the group comes together to provide advice and support through the difficult decision to change gender. There are some lively characters and all of them have a story to tell.  We are really proud of Fox for speaking out so openly about a not so openly discussed subject in a genuinely interesting documentary. 

My Transsexual Summer is on Channel 4 Tuesday at 10pm

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Each print contains the full text in a 4 point font which should be legible for anyone with 20/20 vision and only need a small amount of magnification for others. Works we have include Pride and Prejudice,  Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Wind in the Willows and The Hound of the Baskervilles to name but a few. They are both something beautiful to look at something to read on your wall and a real conversation piece.

Their Pride and Prejudice design was featured on BBC2’s Something for the Weekend last week as one of their top ten selections for this year's Christmas gifts. 

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RETNA, a hot graffiti artist on the LA art scene, creates his own code formed of these beautiful symbols that draw on influences such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, old English texts.  Executed freehand rather than using a stencil RETNA’s print are quite mesmerising. So watch this space to find out when it reaches the gallery walls as this is a beauty you don’t want to miss out on!

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Hutch first met Stinkfish while working at a Colombian street art festival, and they have gone on to create both this limited edition and some street pieces together.  Including this new piece recently spotted in the Brighton Lanes.

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Lidia uses her work as a way to record thoughts and ideas, as well as commenting on recent news and events. She describes her approach as creating a comic strip but within a single frame and without dialogue. Instead she creates the narrative through the layers of images through which the viewer has to navigate their own path. 

Find out more about the show

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Read our Biography of Lidia de Pedro

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Following the royal fever of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, Shuby was inspired to make her own royal works. The bunny heads have developed from a series of ceramic biscuit jars that feature masked bunnies that have become quite the collectable among the likes of comedian Noel Fielding. The bunny heads have also been seen graffitied on the shop shutters of east London. Read the full article…

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We will have works by Dave White, Banksy, Mr Brainwash, Charming Baker, Dan Baldwin, Copyright, Graham Carter, Ben Allen, Prefab77, Damien Hirst and Sir Peter Blake to name but a few. We will also be bringing some really exciting rare pieces and one offs.

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The panel debate brought together prominent figures from the worlds of art and advertising in a chaired debate that explored how these two creative industries intersect.

From the world of art were two leading contemporary artists - the legendary Sir Peter Blake and Dave White. The panellists discussed, debated and joked for over an hour on the creative process in both disciplines, examining how each sector has historically influenced and appropriated from the other, and exploring possible avenues for future collaborations and synergies.

Alongside Blake and White were industry experts from the ad world - Chris Lockwood, Head of Invention at Mindshare and Shaun Cooper, Marketing Director of Bray Leino on a panel chaired by Claire Beale, editor of Campaign magazine.

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He was propelled to fame in the Oscar nominated film “Exit Through the Gift Shop”, where he bizarrely becomes the subject of the film as Banksy turns the camera onto him as the subject.  

The film showed how he started to produce work on an epic scale after following and filming the work of established graffiti artists such as Space Invader, Banksy and Sheperd Fairey.  

Mr Brainwash aka Thierry Guetta moved from his home in France to LA to persue his new career in the art world. With no formal training, his work is almost a montage of all his influences taking elements from his heroes such as Warhol and reassembling them Brainwash style with vibrant spray-painting and stencil work. 

He is a controversial artist:  However you feel, his show is definitely worth a look.

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Images of the musical artists’ faces appear as colourful stamps with the statement, “None of my heroes appear on no stamp”.   A homage to the influence of hip-hop and its rise to global proportions form humble beginnings , rap royalty are rightfully honoured with their own stamps. 

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In particular, it was Banksy works that set a new precedent for 2011, and not just for original works. His signed editions too saw huge results compared to their estimates with the highlight being a signed standard edition ‘CND Soldiers’ selling for over £13,000. 

Leonora Oldfield, from Bonhams, said "Banksy was the star of the sale. All of his works sold, fetching above their estimates, showing that the appetite for Banksy continues."  The sale in total realised £534,700 with a very strong 95% sold by value.

The September Urban Show eclipsed Bonhams’ previous show in January this year demonstrating again that contemporary & urban artworks are bucking a current trend and it’s not all doom and gloom out there.

For more details on urban and/or contemporary art please call our London gallery on +44 (0)20 7240 7909 or email soho@artrepublic.com

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Prefab77 were invited by ANewSpace who in collaboration with the Dublin Contemporary 2011 have commission a host of Irish and international artists to cover 22 urban sites, as part of the festival under the title Road Works.

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 The crew filmed as he showed Lindsay his new prints and she was interviewed responding to his new work which is available on the artrepublic website. Fox founded  Salute design collective working with a range of different clients and well as on projects of his own. The documentary will be aired in October on Channel 4 so watch this space for more details.

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To coincide with this he has realised two new silkscreen limited editions entitled Mushroom Girl and Balaclava. We will be getting both prints (one of which has already sold out with the publisher) in very soon so watch this space for more details…

Read more about Dolks solo show

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Screen Price has created a series of prints featuring musical icons where using text images (Calligrame) the words used by the subject literally bring them to life. In this case Kurt Cobain is bought to life with the words of the song ‘Come as You Are’ which was one of the tracks from the Nevermind album.

Screen Prince hand-draws and then hand-prints all his work, making the colours and tones unique to each piece.

Risk's layered colour fields signify, from top to bottom: sky (orange/yellow), pollution (purple), and water (green and blue). The colours serve as a beautiful, metal-flaked backdrop to RETNA's trademark hieroglyphics. From top to bottom, that text reads:  Oceans At Risk, Heal The Bay, Sea Shepherd, Mad Society and Restore And Protect The Worlds Oceans.

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A few weeks ago we got in an amazing print from Bonnie and Clyde made up of images she took of PJ Harvey playing live at a music festival. (Gold) Polly and (Red) Polly are both black silkscreen’s on 300gsm Fabriano paper hand-painted either gold or red and in signed editions of 20. We also have a framed version on the walls of our Brighton gallery. A great gift for any PJ Harvey fan.

He has also been doing some work in London with Gemma Compton at the Kings Road office of marketing agency TMW. This is the video of them at work.

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This is a truly striking canvas and certainly one of the best pieces to come on to the market in recent times. The work is from a series of two paintings (the other produced on board), primarily created with a combination of spraypaint and acrylic. It is signed and titled on the reverse.

Hush merges various street art approaches with traditional art practices to create complex and original work. He has participated in both solo and group exhibitions in numerous major cities worldwide and has been heavily featured in countless publications.

For more details or to purchase please call or email our London gallery on +44 (0)20 7240 7909 email soho@artrepublic.com

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Prints now in our Brighton gallery, view all prints here

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Jo’s original for this print is currently touring Japan's major cities, in a charity exhibition to raise money for the earthquake appeal in Japan. 

View all Jo Peel prints

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Alongside exhibiting original works, AME72 has painted a magnificent 10m x 4m mural inside the museum consisting of stencils and mixed media to create a powerful combination of colour and thought provoking imagery. 

Museum visitors will have the added surprise to leave their virtual mark in the museum by way of using the new AME72 iPhone & iPad iTag Graffiti, a graffiti paint application which will be projected onto the inside walls.

Don’t miss AME72 - G*d does not play dice, print release for the show that's exclusive to artrepublic.

Read our review of the show here

A new print release is due soon so watch this space.

Video credit Magdi at wearehq.com

The launch also received a lot of coverage around the web. Here's a selection of websites:

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Meanwhile don’t miss your chance to get hold of Ryan Callanan’s lovely Melon limited edition silkscreen that featured in his recent solo show at the Ink_d gallery in Brighton.

Also his alter ego RYCA has just released a new Ghostbusters print in a very small edition of 17.

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He also Tweeted the following:

‘I have a massive new art crush on Penelope Kenny’

Penelope Kenny called into artrepublic yesterday and was delighted to hear about her latest fan. 

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Interestingly it’s found its way onto the internet via Banksy’s website rather than being spotted by a member of the public. Speculation suggests it may be somewhere in Wapping near the News International head quarters.

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RETNA has created his own text inspired by Old English text, hieroglyphs, Arabic and Asian calligraphy and graffiti. It is up to the viewer to interpret this text, as he offers no translation to his code.

We only have a limited number and all are small editions so make sure you don’t miss out on the chance to own a piece from one of today's hottest graffiti icons.

artrepublic's EXCLUSIVE new Dave White print was unveiled at a special launch evening at artrepublic Soho on Thursday 28th July.  Thanks to everyone (especially Dave White himself) for coming along.

Read more about the evening and this EXCLUSIVE print.

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artrepublic is to release a fantastic new Dave White limited edition next Thursday (28th July 2011). The print will be a UK exclusive to artrepublic and will be unveiled at 6pm at our artrepublic Soho gallery in London.  If you would like to attend the evening, please email soho@artrepublic.com to be added to the guest list. The print will also be added to the Dave White collection on our website, the same evening.

artrepublic arranged for Sir Peter Blake to attend a dinner and informal Q & A session for our customers in London recently. The event included a reception aboard his spectacular Art Bus. 

To hear about future artrepublic events, sign up to our email list.

The artrepublic Brighton gallery is currently looking to hire a Senior Sales Consultant.  If you would like to sell art in one of the most culturally thriving cities in the UK and live and work by the sea, find out more.

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Grab yourself a copy of July’s Art of England magazine, there’s an excellent interview with Dan Baldwin inside.  You can’t miss it, because his brilliantly detailed piece ‘Cyclone’ has taken over the front cover.

INSA uses powerful black and white patterns to play with and distort spaces and to entice the viewer into the fantasy world of materialistic aspiration which questions contemporary consumer culture and commodity fetishism.

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All the posters will be on show in a free exhibition at Tate Britain as part of the London 2012 Festival, and will go on sale this autumn.

There will also be a range of other free events taking places as part of the Cultural Olympiad finale, which takes place 21 June – 9 September 2012.

Image Credit: Launch of London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Poster Artists © LOCOG

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M16 Assault Lolly is a very early silkscreen from a signed limited edition of 150. Murdoc from the band Gorillaz was release as a series of four prints with Noodle Gob, 2D and Russel, and is very hard to come by these days.

For more details or to purchase please call our Brighton gallery on +44 (0)1273 724 829

Also featured in the window the Peter Blake’s fist real pop shoe

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Alas is inspired by the famous speech in Hamlet ‘Alas poor Yorick’, and continues the Shakespearean theme of his last print Juliet. It is an amazing combination print with a giclee base and silkscreen colours and varnishes on top it has also been hand finished with silver leaf.  

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This is your last chance to get hold of ‘You Shop We Drop’ as we only have a very limited number left. Plus don’t miss our EXCLUSIVE silkscreen singed limited edition of just 50 called ‘Red Mist’. 

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We have some amazing mosaic tile collages from ceramics master Carrie Reichardt and the latest glass sculpture artwork from RYCA a glittering bronze heart. From Pinky we have a beautiful little 3 layer paper cut framed between two pieces of glass so you can very the intricate detail form both sides. Finally we have two new Marc Quinn limited editions framed a looking stunning on the walls.

For more details or to purchase please call or email our London gallery on +44 (0)20 7240 7909 email soho@artrepublic.com

Get a taste of what else is in our London gallery

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The pop art image Peter Blake created for the Mending Broken Hearts appeal, which he has been heavily involved in, as well as an image of Heart Strings by BHF researcher Dr Patrick Hales helped inspire Ann-Marie Powell in the creation and design of the garden.

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Winrer is setting in and the Yetti’s are setting up camp pitching tents lighting fires and putting the baby Yetis to bed. The hunter is still on their trail but all he can find is a fox on the path.A signed limited edition of 80 don’t miss your chance to get this classic Graham Carter.

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In May 2011 Pure Evil came down to Brighton and did some work on the outside of our Brighton gallery. The image is his homage to Andy Warhol’s iconic portrait of the late Elizabeth Taylor. This is also available as a limited edition silkscreen in yellow or orange entitled Richard Burton's Nightmare - First Marriage and Richard Burton's Nightmare - Second Marriage, a reference to the fact the two actors were married to each other twice,  both of which ended acrimoniously.

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If you are coming to Brighton this weekend do not miss this stunning new Peter Blake canvas signed limited edition of just 10. In the flesh Vichy- A Convention of Comic Book Characters will just blow you away with the colours and details of this print which is over a meter buy a meter. A must have for comic book and Peter Blake fans alike.

For more details or to purchase please call our Brighton gallery on +44 (0)1273 724829

Tate and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art today announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for The Turner Prize 2011. The artists are (in alphabetical order).

Karla Black, Martin Boyce, Hilary Lloyd and George Shaw.

Work by the shortlisted artists will be shown in an exhibition at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead opening on Friday 21 October 2011. The winner will be announced at BALTIC on Monday 5 December 2011.

Prefab77 came down to Brighton in May 2009 and put up this amazing paste up of their exploding telephone box.

Now we have a new release also featuring the classic British phone box but this time its exploding with wild life. Always in England is available in a hand finished and a standard version both signed limited edition silkscreens.

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Yvette Vickers who starred as voluptuous Honey Parker in Attack Of The 50ft. Woman in 1958 has been found in her Beverly Hills home. It's thought she was dead for up to a year, she was 82.

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10 colourful and eye catching pigment print signed limited edition’s by Marc Quinn have just arrived at our Brighton gallery.

Each one is printed on 300gms Somerset Photo paper and signed by the artist and numbered on the reverse. 

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This week saw a frenzy of media activity about the sale to a buyer in the US of the famous Banksy ‘Kissing Policemen’ image, which is on a wall outside the Prince Albert pub in Brighton.

artrepublic’s very own Lindsay Alkin was asked for her comments by several national newspapers and the BBC.  Here’s a selection of articles:

The Daily Mail

The Guardian

The Pink Paper

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Jim Goldberg has won this year's £30,000 Deutsche Börse prize for photography, in a ceremony hosted by the Photographers' Gallery in London.

The Magnum photographer, who has documented the experiences of refugees, immigrants and displaced people from Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe since 1983 in a project titled Open See. Goldberg, who lives in San Francisco, and won the 2007 Cartier- Bresson Prize for an earlier version of the same project, describes himself as a documentary storyteller.

We have got some amazing new prints by Pop Art icon Peter Blake.

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Firstly there is the return of the Butterfly Man in the new Homage to Damien Hirst series. In each of the five new prints the Butterfly Man visits various locations and meets all sorts of people including African tribesmen, Elvis, Marilyn and Judy Garland.  We expect these to be flying out of the door.

Also in is Matchboxes a large scale 22 colour silkscreen with glazes, which really captures Peter Blake’s lifelong hoarding mania, showcasing a selection of matchboxes from around the world that he has collected over the years.

Finally we have the next piece in his Found Art series Red Band, a combination print of Giclee and silkscreen glazes.

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The Andy Warhol self-portrait completed shortly before his death will go under the hammer on 11th May at Christies in New York and is expected to sell for up to $40m (£24.3m).

The red-on-black piece, measuring nearly 3m per side, is considered a landmark work by the American pop artist. Self-Portrait was painted in 1986, and is among the last to be exhibited before his death in 1987.

The other six large self-portraits Warhol painted in 1986 are all in museums or in collections.

Watch how the artist Hush creates one of his beautifully intricate works.

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The Blek Le Rat print ‘The Man Who Walked Through Walls’, featured in the Sunday Telegraph yesterday, as part of a feature about the author Simon Toyne.  The piece looks fantastic in the room featured in the ‘My Space’ section within their Life supplement. 

The piece also highlighted artrepublic.com! We certainly have sold many rare Blek Le Rat pieces in recent years and plan to have more soon. To find out when we’re adding more, you might  like to sign up for our email updates.

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Just arrived in to our London gallery are some classic artworks from D*Face and Antony Micallef. With both these artists hosting events in April these are two names on everyone lips and with prices still very attainable on these artist’s work, now is the time to buy.

Need more persuading… D*Face’s ‘Dog Save the Queen’, with rare silver colour wings, is a perfect print to obtain right now. What with all the Royal wedding hype this year and the queen’s jubilee in 2012 anything featuring the queen or any of the Royal Family should be snapped up super quick.

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We have two amazing new prints just in from Dave White inspired by American heritage and the spirit of the Wild West which has also inspired the work for his latest exhibition.

Sure Shot (pictured) and Warrior are available today from our website as well as our Brighton and London galleries.

We also have some great new pieces by Copyright just in

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For all enquiries please contact our London gallery on 020 7240 7909 or email soho@artrepublic.com

Between now and the end of June the Modern Masters gallery at London Wall has an exhibition of rare Salvador Dali sculptures.  Find out more in this article from The Independent.

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A woman has attacked the painting Two Tahitian Women by Paul Gauguin hanging in the National Gallery in Washington DC. 

Ms Burns, 53, from Virginia was charged with attempted theft and destruction of property and is being held pending a mental evaluation. She told police she thought Gauguin was ‘evil’ and the painting should be burned, according to court records viewed by the Associated Press news agency.

The 1899 oil-on-canvas painting, which depicts two women's bare breasts is on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The painting is said to be unharmed and is expected to go back on display as part of the Gauguin: Maker of Myth exhibition on Tuesday morning.

Gauguin: Maker of Myth will be on display at the National Gallery of Art, Washington until June 5th 2011.

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Carmen Spera’s amazing prints have just come back from our framers and are now on the walls of our Brighton gallery. Modern Multiples, took these gorgeous sculptures and transformed them into multiples by photographing them and turning the into five colour silkscreens that were then dusted with gunpowder and diamond dust, to give a really stunning finish.

See more images and red more in our biography of Carmen Spera

For more detail or to purchase framed please call our Brighton gallery on +44 (0)1273 724829

If you come into the London gallery this weekend don’t miss these fantastic new arrivals.

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LV Child (Silkscreen Limited Edition of 400) by Beejoir, this was the image to have when it was first released and the one that launched Beejoir into the global street art stratosphere. We also have a selection of his latest Pills in our London gallery.

Also just in two new resin pieces by RYCA and an amazing original by Dan Baldwin.

For more details or to purchase please call or email our London gallery on +44 (0)20 7240 7909 email soho@artrepublic.com

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We only have a very limited number of the Charming Baker ‘Love Is’ prints left so if you don’t want to miss out call our Brighton or London galleries today.

Each print in the set of four is a Giclee and Silkscreen print with varnish on Somerset Enhanced Satin Paper signed and numbered by the artist. 

For more details or to purchase please call our Brighton or London galleries on +44 (0)1273  724829 or +44 (0)20 7240 7909

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Christ of St John of the Cross has just returned to Scotland after six months in the US on loan to The High Museum of Atlanta for an exhibition on Salvador Dali.

It will now go back on show in an improved position at its permanent home in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.

It has only left the UK six times since it was bought for Glasgow's collection in 1952.

The title of the painting was said to have been inspired by a drawing made by a Spanish Carmelite friar who was canonised as St John of The Cross in the 16th Century.  It was made after the saint had a vision in which he saw the crucifixion from above.  Dali painted his crucifixion scene set above the rocky harbour of his home village of Port Lligat in Spain. 

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The artrepublic Brighton gallery has paired up with Richard Duardo the man they call the ‘West Coast Warhol’ to bring you an incredible collection of new prints, hot from the US.  Including exceptional new pieces by Saber and Shepard Faire, and new stateside artists, many who are available through artrepublic for the first time.  Read more

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These amazing limited editions sold out of the day of release. We have nine different colour ways available but only one of each. Each of these has been hand made using 31 pills in a Perspex box, and is signed and numbered by Beejoir on the back.

Call our Brighton or London galleries on +44 (0)1273  724829 or +44 (0)20 7240 7909 for more information

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The most expensive painting to be sold at auction Nude, Green Leaves and Bust 1932 by Pablo Picasso is now on public display for the first time ever in the UK. The work has been lent to Tate from a Private Collection and will be on display in a new Pablo Picasso room in the Poetry and Dream wing on Level 3.  

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It would appear that with 'Exit Through the Gift Shop' up for an Oscar graffiti artist Banksy is in Los Angeles. Three new pieces have sprung up overnight fuelling rumours about what might happen on the night of the Oscars.

The pieces include: 'Pissing Dog' shows an English Bulldog urinating an enormous line of yellow paint on a building in Beverly Hills. 'Livin The Dream' which has already been taken down but was on the Sunset Strip. 'Crayola Shooter' which pictures a child soldier with a chain-fed machine-gun full of crayons, and is in an alley in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, near the UCLA campus. 

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Hot on the heels of Exit Through the Gift Shop receiving a Best Documentary Oscar nomination this large piece of street art showed up on La Brea at San Vicente, a favourite space of Mr. Brainwash. Mr Brainwash has even signed his giant hoodie-shrouded Oscar statuette which is at the end of a sidewalk red carpet, plus it has an entourage of Storm Troopers hanging around and hovering around from above, too. 

Read more about the Oscar nomination

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Chinese New Year or the Chinese Lunar New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. The festival begins on the first day of the first month in the traditional Chinese calendar and ends with the Lantern Festival which is on the 15th day.

Get the bunny in every season of the year with Kozyndan’s beautiful Season of the Bunny prints.

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Graffiti artist Banksy’s controversial first film Exit Through The Gift Shop featuring Mr Brainwash has received an Academy Award nomination and been nominated for a BAFTA.

The film which premiered at last year's Sundance Film Festival tells the story of the incredible rise of Thierry Guetta, aka "Mr. Brainwash," Read more

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Don’t miss this hot new 8 colour silkscreen in a signed edition of just 50 

Red Mist (Silkscreen Signed Limited Edition of 50)

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As we reflect on the heady highs and laborious lows of 2010, artrepublic in true tradition are putting their best foot forward and boldly naming British talent to watch out for during 2011.  

Find out who artrepublic have picked as their six sensational artists to watch out for this year.

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Cadillac Moon 1981 by the late American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat has been the victim of vandalism in a mystery felt tip pen attack whilst on display as part of a major exhibition of the artists works at Paris's Modern Art Museum (MAM). Read More

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Ohhh...Alright... - painted in 1964 by Roy Lichtenstein sold at auction for $42.6m (£26.4m) - a new record for the US Pop Artist.

The Lichtenstein sale smashed a previous record for the artist set in 2005, when his work In the Car fetched $16.2m (£10m).

See all Roy Lichtenstein prints

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Thank you to everyone who came along to our stand at the Manchester art Fair over the weekend.

Thank you to everyone who came along to our stand at the Manchester art Fair over the weekend.Don’t forget if there is something you saw on the stand and cant get down to our Brighton or London galleries you can browse through a huge range of our prints online, all with  free delivery worldwide.  If you can’t find what you are looking for online please do not hesitate to email us at info@artrepublic.com and we will be happy to help.

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To pre-order call either our Brighton or London galleries or 0845 644 5334 (Lines open 9am to 6pm (UK time))

We have just got hold of two hot new prints from Dave White. Each one has been hand finished with paint and gold leaf by Dave White as seen in this video.

Only ten of these prints were hand finished but we also have the standard edition print which is just as amazing with 21 individual colour silkscreens on Fabriano Artistico 300mg paper in a signed limited edition of 50.

View all Dave White work

It is the first time an artist has been invited to storyboard part of the show, and the topics in Banksy's storyboard led to delays, disputes over broadcast standards and a threatened walk out by the animation department.  "This is what you get when you outsource," joked The Simpsons executive producer Al Jean

Watch the full sequence and decide for yourself

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The prints are giclee with silkscreen colours and varnish and each is then hand embellished with gold leaf. With each print being from an edition of only 35 they are bound to disappear very quickly.

See all Copyright prints currently available

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These hi-top shoes featuring embroidered motifs on recycled cheque-book wallet leather are a limited edition of 600 and even have the artist’s signature embossed on the back. The design was inspired by the pair Blake wore in his 1961 painting ‘Self-portrait With Badge’s’, belonging to the Tate Collection.

See more details of The First Real Pop Shoe by Peter Blake 

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Gauguin: Maker of Myth is the first major exhibition in London to be devoted to the work of Paul Gauguin in over half a century, and has generated a huge amount of interest already.

Bringing together over 100 works from public and private collections from around the world, the exhibition takes a fresh and compelling look at this master of modern art. 

Read our full review here

Image Credit: Paul Gauguin, Self-portrait with Manao tu papau 1893, © RMN (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski © Paris Musée d'Orsay, Oil on canvas, 460 x 380 mm

During the Brighton Fringe Festival in May 2010, artrepublic invited Sir Peter Blake to give a talk about his life and work at a special lunch for artrepublic customers.  The Q & A session below gives a fascinating insight into one of the leading figures in British pop art since the 1960's.