Art On Our Streets – Farkfk

You’ve been walking round with your eyes shut if you haven’t seen the work of Fark  dotted round our fair city. A prolific wall painter and wheatpaster, Fark has been decorating the walls of Portsmouth (and pretty much everywhere else) with his bold graphic cartoon like characters in super clean lines. Ring leader of the paint crew PAM (Pompey Alleys Mush), Fark has worked tirelessly to paint and repaint the outside of Fratton park with the rest of the PAM crew and visiting writers. If you haven’t been down there you really should check it out.

Aside from the street and alley walls, Fark’s flickr page is a good place to see his work www.flickr.com/photos/farkfk/

The Utility of Space – Zurich House

We Are Pseudonym (WAP) are getting a serious team of graffiti artists together in Portsmouth on 29th January 2011. The event, entitled ‘The Utility Of Space’ will see respected artists such as Aroe (MSK + HA), Trans 1 (TND + AP), Gary (MSK + HA), Ebee (TND), Fark FK (TND + PAM), Snub 23 (GW), and many more, all coming together to paint hoardings around the iconic Zurich House in the city centre.

The event will be the first of its kind to attract such big names to the seaside city, but hopefully it won’t be the last. Long time collaborators Pseudonym and Fark FK are helping lead the way in the upsurge of street art and graffiti projects in Portsmouth and Southsea. Aiming to reclaim some of the under developed or forgotten areas of the city for more creative and inspirational use, We Are Pseudonym are hopeful that Portsmouth is taking the first steps to a more colourful future.

For further information contact: us@wearepseudonym.com

Live Paint Jam

The live paint jam in the garden of Little Johnny Russells went off on Saturday with a strong turnout and some awesome artwork being produced. At the same time there was also an indoor market in the bar. Below are a load of photos from the day, be sure to click on Read More link below to see them all.

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PRIMARY – Extended & Improved

We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:

- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.

- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.

- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!

- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.

- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.

Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.

It’s going to be a Strong Movember – Closed at £725

Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.

You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.

Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.

The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.

Poster: Tristan Savage