Street Art Without Borders

Way back in November Marilyn from Kamoon called me up to see if i would like to hang out with her street art loving friend from France, I of course said yes.

We met up outside my fave pho restaurant. I arrived early and began stickering the door  when a man in his 50′s, 6 foot 5″ with grey hair walk towards me with my friend Marilyn. As I shook his hand, he noticed the newly placed sticker and said “cool” as he proceeded to add a sticker of his own!

I found out shortly after that his name was Eric and that he started a project called Street Art Without Borders. The project is focused at providing street art and art in general to the masses. He doesn’t create the art himself but acts more as a curator as he goes around various cities choosing ideal sites for the artwork to be displayed. He told me that he carried over 200 pieces with him on arrival in China and plans to display them all during his time in China. The artwork ranges from A4 sized pieces to artwork over 2 meters high!

The project is amazing as he posted work from over 400 artists who send him artwork to display in the cities he visits.Cities and countries he has visited include; Paris, Sau Paulo, Shanghai, Beijing, Russia, Finland, Japan, Korea and more!!!

I was lucky enough to spend an afternoon with him in Shanghai wheat-pasting some artworks around the old town on the Bund. He explained that these are the perfect locations for the art as the locals rarely step into art galleries but that they shouldn’t be deprived of art.

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Eric at Work next to my Marilyn

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He also took some of my stencils with him and are now available to view in Sau Paulo and Paris!!!

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Destroy Dirt in Paris

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Destroy Dirt in Sau Paulo

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Feder sample art for Shanghai Masters finds a home in Sau Paulo

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Photos Courtesy of Street Art Without Borders

 

36 Days of Siuper in Hong Kong

Just arrived back from our trip in Hong Kong. It was mayhem as we had parents and grandparents to visit, two weddings to attend and numerous friends and family who wanted to meet Siuper Jr.
However, I still made time to show Siuper around town!

36 days of Siuper

Cantina Agave – Poster Art

Here’s a poster I recently designed for Cantina Agave’s Cinco De Mayo party on, you guessed it 5th May!

UPDATE: for some reason the poster looks lime green on this upload!

 

Tales from the Crib – Comic Strip goes monthly!!

Hi avid readers and followers!

I have been working to publish a comic strip on a regular basis for a number of months now since finishing up the daily “Siuper Each Day” comic strip (BTW if you see me, ask for your free Siuper sticker before they are gone for good, I have a handful left) Continue reading

Lions of Puxi: Isobel – Music Video

On the day before I left for Hong Kong, I was invited by an amazing video and photography extraordinaire Nicky Almasy to take part in the filming of a music video for local reggae band Lions of Puxi. The song is called Isobel and the street art portions feature yours truly in disguise as the lead singer Gautier, tagging the streets of Shanghai!

Enjoy!

Here are a few links to the video depending on where you are in the world

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTM5MTkzOTU2.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kiW_0bxK7k

In the Press – Parenting & Kids, Pop-Up Card

The Feb-Apr issue of Shanghai Parenting & Kids magazine has an article featuring my art work and details on how to make a pop-up card. Apologies as life has been hectic these past few weeks and I don’t think its available on newsstands anymore but I have scanned the pages in if you wish to follow the steps on how to make my pop-up-apalooza of a card!

WWF + Earth Hour Wallpapers

This is a project I recently completed for WWF China for the Earth Hour event on Saturday 23rd March. The concept was to engage people in doing more than just turning the lights out for an hour, but to continue devoting their time help save the environment by taking on one of seven green initiatives.

These included: Eating more vegetables once a week (as the rearing and production of meat has a higher impact on the environment), using public transport or pedal power once a week, using recyclable containers, sharing food and so on.

I came up with the idea of tying in endangered animals into the wallpaper images to create a stronger link to other key causes the WWF supports. You can download the wallpapers here

The final art work is also below

 

 

Cantina Agave – Part 1: NACHOOOOOOO!

It’s been a busy month of Feb and March and apologies for the lack of postings on the site. I hope I can be forgiven as the birth of our first son Aaden Lowe Tang (on 17th Feb) has taken up most of my time. If it’s not nappy changes, bottle feeds, the dreaded night feeds or just spending my days watching him fall asleep, I have had little time to even catch my breath!

However, my patient and understanding wife has been there to support us both and therefore the work coming in hasn’t suffered and it has been business as usual! I will be making several other posts regarding work done this month, but I wanted to start by updating the site with my work done just this past weekend.

Cantina Agave is a Mexican restaurant in China. They have two restaurants in Shanghai and are due to open their first restaurant in the capital city, Beijing. They called upon myself to help come up with some creative and fun artwork to adorn the walls of the Beijing branch. My inspiration came from two key words the client said to me: Nacho Libre. The rest is well… check out the pics to find out! Due to time constraints on this trip (i.e. not being away from my wife and son for too long) there will be more to come as I finish off the rest of the art in May.

Siuper Each Day – 3rd Feb 2013

The last few days have been a little busy, so apologies with the delay in the last letter of my A to Z of Chinese animals. I will be compiling all these lovely creatures into a book in the coming weeks and will let you know once its available in the ibookstore!

For now Z is for Zokor!

 

 

Siuper Each Day – 30th Jan 2013

Y is for Yak