House of Dub
Outlook Festival was lots of fun. We took over a derelict building on the festival site, and transformed it into a pop up gallery. Emma Dexter and Forged Signatures created amazing optical illusions, which made a lot of festival goers trip out and shriek with glee. Mr Penfold decorated the exterior of the house at staggering [...]
LAVA + TIGER
We’re happy to announce our partnership with Tiger beer. They are sponsoring our programme of events at LAVA Gallery – and you guessed it, that means there will be plenty of free beer at our opening parties. The first event we’re putting on with Tiger is the Haervaerk opening party on 3rd February.
Otto Schade at LAVA Gallery
Smile Thames (2010) by Otto Schade The Otto Schade opening party was really busy, despite the foul weather. Thanks to everyone that came along, we hoped you enjoyed the evening as much as we did. Schade takes his work seriously but he’s also a lot of fun to hang out with. It was great having the [...]
Ricky Powell at The Montpelier
Method Man Portrait, by Ricky Powell We’re heading to Peckham Rye tomorrow to install a Ricky Powell retrospective at a lovely neighbourhood boozer in Peckham. The new owners want to attract a few more arty types as well as keeping the locals happy, so they got in touch to request our services… This will be [...]
Jo Peel + Stik – photos
Stik’s characters filled the space beautifully Still pretty busy at 10.30 pm Jo Peel gets started earlier that day Thanks to everyone that made it to The Rag Factory last Thursday. It was our third event in a row at the same location, we absolutely love it there but I think we’ll be doing our [...]
Jo Peel + Stik at The Rag Factory
Image Courtesy of Stik Thanks to everyone that came to the Ashes 57 show last Thursday – We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. In case you were wondering when the next show is, you don’t have long to wait. We’re back at The Rag Factory on Thursday, 5th August, a mere [...]
LAVA + Rooms hook up
Keep an eye out for the next issue of Rooms Magazine – It has a piece on LAVA Collective and an interview with Talita Hoffmann. We were also involved with the Rooms Magazine Launch Party, where Jo Peel represented LAVA at the live paint event. Rooms is a really cool little magazine, available in many [...]
LAVA promo video
Director: Shane McNamara Editor: Stephanie Tasker
Bruno 9li Interview
Image courtesy of bruno9li.com You have a solo show coming up in Sao Paulo, plus our show in London. Are you really busy right now? I’ve been very busy, visioning, researching and stretching time in my observatory. I just keep it going forward, always aiming to see more. Please tell me if you plan your [...]
Public Ad Campaign
Public Ad Campaign is the brainchild of Jordan Seiler. Basically, him and his posse go around New York looking for billboards to whitewash. Then they invite artists to come and decorate the blank spaces they have created. www.publicadcampaign.com Seiler’s war against commercial advertising hoardings began ten years ago. In that time he has developed the [...]