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Underground:Overground 6TH JULY - 1ST AUGUST... the opening

Wow! Well it's a few days after the opening night party. Apologies for the delay in posting anything but I'm still knackered. It's amazing how I can function on 4 hours sleep a night for weeks and then when I don't have to my mind and body completely shut down... old age I guess!
Anyhoo, the opening went brilliantly. I didn't get very many photographs but there are loads floating about. The was a great turn out for a Monday night opening a few days before the twelth of July (if you are not from Norn Iron then let me explain - the 12th July is the day that the Orange Order parade all over the place... and sometimes this brings a lot of disruption i.e the odd drunk riot etc., it's also when a LOT of people get the hell out of Belfast/ Norn Iron and take their holidays), and there were a lot of people who were genuinely there to see our art.
A big thank you has to go to Chris Caul for Djing for 2 hours and giving the whole thing a nice vibe, and to the two Trans girls for maning the merch table.
As I said I haven't got many photos of the opening but I did remember to get some of the artworks...so:

1) I imaginatively called these "Blue", "Green", "Red" and "Yellow" (acrylic and aerosol on 1m x 1.2m canvas - £250 each).
Ble and Yellow are collaberative pieces between myself and Filth, well I say collaberative.... he did the cool backgrounds and I doodled over the top of them ha,ha!
(close up of Green)

(close up of Red)

 

2)L-R: "Dance like nobody's listening" - Filth (acrylic on wood panel and canvas - £200), "Happy Win! 0's & X's" - Mytarpit (acrylic and aerosol on wood panel with individual canvases - £320", "Until I rest" - Filth (acrylic on wood panel and canvas - £180).

 

(close up on "Happy Win! 0's & X's")

 

3) L-R: "And Then" - Filth (acrylic and aerosol on wood panel - £200), "I will watch the world burn" - Filth (acrylic, ink and aerosol on wood panel - £180), MayDay - Filth (acrylic, ink and aerosol on wood panel - £200).

 

4) L-R: "In your dreams" - Filth (acrylic, ink and aerosol on wood panel - £160), "Unfamiliar skies" - Filth (acrylic, ink and aerosol on wood panel - £200), "Red Mist" - Filth (acrylic, ink and aerosol on wood panel - £180).

 

5) L-R: "Amounted to Nothing" - Filth (acrylic, ink and aerosol on wood panel - £200), "God$" - Filth (acrylic, ink and aerosol on wood panel - £200).

 

6) The Skateboard Graveyard.....

 

Clockwise from top Left: "Hell's Barbers" - Mytarpit (acrylic and aerosol on broken skateboard) - £75, "Chimp" - Mytarpit  (acrylic and aerosol on broken skateboard) - £75, "Frank EYEfield" - Mytarpit (acrylic and aerosol on broken skateboard) - £75, "Gunther" - Mytarpit (acrylic and aerosol on broken skateboard) - £75.

Clockwise from top Left: "Element of Filth" - Filth ( acrylic on broken skateboard - £50), "Battered and Bruised" - Filth ( acrylic on broken skateboard - £60), "Do the right thing" - Filth ( acrylic on broken skateboard - £60), "Skate or Die" - Filth ( acrylic on broken skateboard - £50), "If I were you..." - Filth ( acrylic on broken skateboard - £60).

 

Clockwise from top Left: "Mammuf" - Mytarpit ( acrylic and aerosol on broken skateboard - £75), "Smokey Joe Crow" - Mytarpit ( acrylic and aerosol on broken skateboard - £75), "Pffvvttt!" - Mytarpit ( acrylic and aerosol on broken skateboard - £75), "Look up more" - Filth ( acrylic on broken skateboard - £60)

 

7) Bill's Fence Panels...

 

"Hell's Teeth Woman! You're Naked!" - Mytarpit (acrylic and aerosol on reclaimed fence panels - £280)

 

"Look what I did in woodshop" - Mytarpit (acrylic and aerosol on broken skateboard - £75)

 

"La Brea Pete" - Mytarpit (acrylic and aerosol on broken skateboard - £75)

 

"Your shooting has..."- Mytarpit (acrylic, screen printed stickers and aerosol on reclaimed fence panels - £280)

 

"Fish" - Mytarpit (acrylic and aerosol on reclaimed fence panels - £280)

 

"Awful Knawful" - Mytarpit (acrylic and aerosol on reclaimed fence panels - £280)

 

"Grassy Knoll" - Mytarpit (acrylic and aerosol on reclaimed fence panels - £320)

Having posted all these photo's I've realised how crappy they are, I took most of them on my iPhone! I will take better photo's and post them in a gallery.... or you could just pop along to the Ulster Hall and have a look yourself.

Underground:Overground 6TH JULY - 1ST AUGUST

Ha,Ha! Filth and I are gonna rock this joint! There are gonna be brand new large scale pieces, collaborative pieces and they're going to let us paint straight onto their historic walls!!!

Fair-Do's

Filth and I were invited to take a table in the first of many (hopefully!) Black Market Art Fairs in the Black Box (Belfast). I'm not hugely keen on touting my wares at these events but we thought we could have a laugh!
The gorgeous Rockpoolcandy helped us out...I say helped us out but what I should say is ran the stall, talked to people and drummed up interest in our pieces. I quickly realised that I'm not a people person, and I'm definitely not a salesman!
I decided to sell some silk screen prints that I've been working on and take along the Ghostboards to see peoples reactions.

The feedback was great. I sold a print (YAY!) and Filth sold a board of his artwork. We also got a brilliant invite to take part in a festival.....more later!
Filth's stuff was soo cool, I could've bought his boards myself...see below.....

 

 

(all 3 of the above images content copyright Filth '08)

Will we be doing another one...maybe. It was cool 'n all but I think I'll have to make stuff specifically for it....although I still prefer to set my work free and let people take 'em if they like 'em.

There were other cool underground artists there but I couldn't help think that it'll be a cooler fair when/if it's solely art and artists....BUT it's a great idea and I'll be supporting it in other ways.

Big thanks to Helen and Ryan for inviting us and for being bloody talented artists!
There is another Black Market on Sunday Dec 14th...go along and spend some cash!

Ghostboards

"Mr. Tarpit, sir, where do skateboards go when they die?"
"Well Jimmy, first of all it's Mr. MYtarpit to you, secondly we here at Mytarpit peel them off the pavement, bring them to Mytarpit Towers and feed them into the big Painteriser (TM) machine."
"What's a Painteriser (TM) machine, sir?"
"Well aren't we full of questions today Jimmy! Well it takes the essence of all the fun and excitement that the skateboard has been part of and translates it into a painted image, a snapshot of the skateboards life and dreams if you will."

"Mr.Mytarpit, my dad says your full of it!"

"That's funny Jimmy, I didn't think you'd met your real dad, when did he get out of prison?"

 

More Ghostboards HERE.