The Cardiff based arts collective ‘Peaceful Progress’ have transformed an old Boiler House into Wales’ first dedicated Graffiti and Street Art Gallery. The Boiler House includes a large indoor graffiti gallery space, over 100ft of outdoor wall space, a shop and a studio. This innovative project provides a legitimate space for graffiti artists to reach a wider audience and showcases Graffiti art as a positive and sustainable art-form. Through workshops with Schools and Community Centres the Boiler House will inspire young people to get creative, and will be especially good at engaging with hard to reach groups of young people.

The Boiler House will hold monthly exhibitions featuring the best of local and national Graffiti artists. The independent shop is open to the public and stocks original and affordable canvas work by graffiti artists based in South Wales. The grand opening is on the 27^th February, from 12pm – 10pm, come down and experience counter culture at its best.

See www.boilerhousegraffiti.com for more information.

Peaceful Progress was founded by Graffiti artist Bryce Davies in 2000, and now represents a number of artists and performers based in South Wales. Peaceful Progress were responsible for the Fair Play festival held in Canton in 2008/2009 which raised over £1000 for War on Want (08) and the The SAFE Foundation (09). Currently Peaceful Progress run the monthly ‘Dub in the Pub’ nights at the Lansdowne Pub and the group tour the festival circuit throughout the summer with the Peaceful Progress Graffiti Tent. The Boiler House is a community based project to bring people of all ages and backgrounds together through Graffiti art.

See www.peacefulprogress.co.uk for more info.

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Portrait of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), 11″ x 8″, mixed media on 140 lbs hot press

Portrait of Charles Darwin (1809-1882), 11.5″ x 8″, mixed media on 140 lbs. hot press

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Panik loves David Rickard’s latest exhibition in London – Test Flights, where it appears that these massive balls of clay have been hoiked over and dropped from the roofs of the Economist Plaza towers.  It seems that David had pre-made the sculptures during a residency at the European Ceramic Work Centre (ECWC), Amsterdam, there’s a video on YouTube!  David has said that the idea of the sculpture is to show the differences in scale of the three towers in the Plaza, each ball was drop from the equivalent height of each of the towers (4, 8 and 16 storeys) and the resulting effect is what now sits in the square.

He said “After looking at materials I was surprised that clay, such a traditional material, did everything I needed it to, especially as I started by looking at thermoplastics. The constancy of gravity made me want to present and reveal it in simple way.”

The exhibition runs until the 12th of March – so get down and have a feel!

Panik has been a fan of David’s work for a long time – check out David’s varying and intriguing work here.  Panik particularly likes his performance art piece Exhaust!

Images below, taken by David himself, show a 400KG clay ball being released and the sculptures in the Plaza.

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Some of you may have seen Sebastian’s work on promo for Overthrill who we have featured on Panik several times.  Sebastian is a versatile graphic designer working in fonts, typography and images.  On his website he has loads of examples of his past work from logo work to sexy images for band artwork.  He has a unique ‘electrographic’ style to his work which suits a lot of the projects he has found himself involved in.  His blog – which is basically a cornucopia of images – is pretty intriguing too, as an insight into his influences and inspiration which seems to be a cocktail of 70s and 80s fashion, some iconic images, illustration, pop art and some pretty weird stuff too!

Below is Sebastian’s latest work for Overthrill’s upcoming EP

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I came across these guys when looking at In Flagranti’s page (who incidentally, I love!).  I know the mix is a bit old from last year to be precise.  Overthrill is a two man outfit from Germany, who are in my opinion some of the best electro/grind house remixers in the business.  They tirelessly release new stuff, mixes and mix tapes via their MySpace page – their Devastate EP is now out.  I just had to mention them on Panik as I they have a unique style and have some great artwork done by band member, Sebastian Bentler aka thirtythr33 some of which have a haunting SUPERSTUDIO style to them (look below).  For a full track list go to Discodust.  The mix encompasses music all across the genres, a bumper 82 tracks to be precise!  Check ‘em out, big tings ya know!

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copyright Karl Keelaghan

Karl is an artist/illustrator based in the UK whose work consists of single pieces and continuing work on a graphic novel.  Karl’s work uses mixed media and materials. He combines collage, photography, detailed drawing and paints. His work has a very ‘weird and wonderful’ in his own words, sometimes with a dark and sinister edge to it.  The mixture of media creates vivid, unforgettable, unique images that have been used by DJs, venues and bands.

Visit Karl’s site here or his myspace

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Dash Snow died on the 13th of July 2009, days before his 28th birthday.  Though I have never seen or know much about his artwork (aside from internet articles) I saw a link to some images of his.  A variety of polaroids taken mainly by himself and some by others documenting his, some might say shambolic life.  Illegal graffiti, tagging, drug taking, sex and partying.  The photos explore a darker side of New York life of a mis-spent youth some might say. The images make you laugh, smile, turn away in disgust and some make you think what pushed Dashiel Snow of the famous de Menil art aristocracy to become an outcast from his own family.
All I know is the pictures are an amazing documentation of a child of my generation and depicts youth culture in gritty reality.

Take a peek at Tiny Vices for some of Dash Snow’s polaroids or

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Pete Nash is an artist/sculptor originally from Carlisle.  Having done a model making course in Kent at KIAD, Pete moved to Sheffield and did Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam.

The unique chess sets that Pete makes are created solely from reclaimed pieces of timber and uses traditional carving and finishing techniques.  Pete decided to use his skills as a sculptor to make chess sets when a neighbour of his saw a set he had made for himself and commisioned him to make a unique set as a Christmas gift.  Pete now has started a small industry of his own with his own website where one can have a bespoke chess set made.  If you have an idea for a set of your own you can contact Pete via his website: www.uniquechesssets.co.uk

Panik likes Pete’s chess sets and thinks they would make the ideal Christmas present.

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