Pearl Necklace

You can blame/thank Vikki Kink's cheeky comments for inspiring this one. . .

Cheers Vikki!

London

I somehow managed to make it to London on Thursday morning and after spending about four hours drilling holes in the walls of The Old Shoreditch with Vickie we finally got my show hung.

Here's a selection from the eighteen drawings I'm showing. . .










Fun times at the opening.

All work in the exhibition is for sale. Go buy!

Bah, Humbug!

Illustration students at Salford university asked myself and other artists' to design a christmas card for them to sell so they could raise money for their final show.

The cards are available to buy at Urbis, Cornerhouse, and Magma in Manchester, or online at www.cardboardsu.blogspot.com

. . .and here's what I think about Christmas! Only joking, I always have fun over the holiday, but I will end up skint, fat, and sick from all the booze. Can't wait!

Don't forget to come to my show this Thursday in London. See my previous post for all the details. . .

Oh, and if you like the T-shirt I'm wearing in the above picture then you should go to www.myspace.com/sketchstance and buy a copy of Sketch Stance fanzine. It's fucking boss!

Tattoos

I've recently been cleaning out my computer and found a lot of photographs I've either taken myself or have been sent of tattoos based on my artwork.
I know there are a lot of tattoos out there based on my work that I've been told about but never seen, or have seen them but been unable to photograph. I've also been sent tattoos of my work from cities across the U.S. and Europe so there's probably a lot I don't even know about. It's the biggest compliment when I see a drawing I made used for a tattoo and I'd love to see them all. . .
If anyone out there has a tattoo of my artwork please email it to me (hi-res if possible), and if you include your postal address I'll send you some stickers and maybe a zine or poster or whatever else I have lying around to say thanks.

My email: kev@kevgrey.com

Rockin Bones

My new exhibition Rockin Bones is set to open next week. It will also be the first solo show I've ever had in London.

The opening night is the 20TH of December, 7PM - late. Everybody's welcome!
I'll be there all night so if you're in town you should come along and get drunk with me.

I'll also be giving out free stickers to anyone who wants them.

Showing at:

The Old Shoreditch
1 Kingsland Road
E2

The show will run until the 3RD of February.

Lonesome Train (on a Lonesome Track)

I just made this drawing listening to Johnny Burnette, who I love!

Hicksville Horror

My friend Russ Henry who organises the Hot Soup 'art party' in Bristol recently put on the Hicksville Horror party at a squat near the city centre. I went over and painted a few walls inside the venue in preparation for the night.
Here's one of the paintings I made. . .

Juxtapoz

I have a profile in the new issue of Juxtapoz Magazine.

Cheers to Evan Pricco for asking me to submit my work.

Happy Halloween!

Sugar Head Quarters

I'm part of a new group show to celebrate the 3 year anniversary of Sugar Head Quarters in New York.
There are a total of 60 artists from around the world participating in the show, and it looks like it's going to be a belter!

If you're in New York on Thursday October 25th go join the party:
Sugar Head Quarters (SHQ)
174 Rivington Street
New York
10002

7:00pm - 10:00pm

Self Portrait

Small Talk Group Show in Orlando. . .

I'm part of a new group show at Beta Shoe Boutique and Art Gallery in Orlando, Florida.
If you're in town the opening night is October 11th from 7pm-11pm.

I'll post pictures of the show when I get them. . .

Beta Shoe Boutique
2428 E.Robinson St.
Orlando
FL 32803

Phone: (407) 228 1995

Physical Poetry

I went to Leeds today to pick up a few paintings I made for an exhibition I had at Physical Poetry tattoo studio.

This one is my favourite. . .

Smoking Monkey

Concrete to Canvas

Here's a preview of my pages from the new Concrete to Canvas book.

Painting with Phlegm

Since I painted this collaboration with Dan from Phlegm Comics I've been trying to get a photo without cars parked infront of it, but I've never been successful. Anyway, here's the wall. . .

If you haven't already seen Phlegm Comics have a look here

Postcards

These postcards were produced to promote the Bestial exhibition in Barcelona. You can also see some work by Jeremy Fish, Sunny Buick, Angelique Houtkamp and Eddy Fresh.
Nice.

East Skateboards R.I.P.

I finally received my Mackey board I designed! This is the final board to ever be released through East Skateboards. R.I.P.

Sliding Doors

The new Kid Acne video for his song Sliding Doors features Myself, Helga, Jason, Swainus, Jim, and Jimmy all getting our groove on with a belly full of booze.

Watch it here

New Zine

Here's the zine from Curious Creatures which collects everybodys work from the exhibition.

Here's my page. . .

And here's the original drawing. . .

Motorhead

I thought I'd lost this photograph about a year ago but found it this morning on an old CDR of my artwork. It's the only picture I have of Motorhead playing Download festival on the stage I designed the artwork for.

More Curious Creatures

Here's a photo of the Curious Creatures exhibition at Spine in Worcester. . .

Akwaba Magazine

I made this illustration for the French publication Akwaba.

I don't often use colour in my drawings but when I do I try and keep it as simple as possible. This one turned out nice.

Curious Creatures

I'm part of a new group show at Spine Skateboards in Worcester where I also recently had a solo show. It will run from the 14th of August - 22nd of September. For a full list of artists in the show and more info on what's happening at Spine visit their blog

Grinning Skull

A whop bop a-loo whop. . .

A whop bam. . .

Aaaaaaaaaaah!

T-shirts

I designed this artwork for the band Walk the Plank about two years ago but it was only recently used for a T-shirt. They're no longer together but you can still check them out on their myspace page
I also designed a 7" record cover for their Pieces of Hate series which you can see on my website

A T-shirt I designed for Paulie's Tattoo's in Liverpool. Paulie is engaged to my cousin, Debby.
Nice one!

I also designed a couple of T-shirts for Fenchurch. You can read an interview I did with them and see some new artwork here

Bestiality

I was asked to be part of the Bestial exhibition curated by Miss Van at the Iguapop Gallery in Barcelona.



Click here to go to Iguapop's website.

The Cure

I was pretty excited to have been asked to design Porl Thompson's signature guitar. Incase you don't know Porl's the guitarist in The Cure .

It was manufactured by and is available now through the excellent Schecter Guitars.