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Tuesday
Dec022025

Monkeybird 'La Revelation' Print Available

Artist: Monkeybird
Title: La Revelation
Medium: 5 Color Screen Print
Size: 65 x 90 cm
Edition: 70
Price: €280

   

 

Monkeybird is the collaborative identity of French artists Demian Lacour and Edouard Ebel, a duo renowned for their intricate, poetic street art and fine art pieces. Their work masterfully blends naturalistic imagery with architectural and symbolic elements, creating narratives that explore the relationship between humans, nature, and the urban environment. The artists met while studying fine arts and quickly discovered a shared aesthetic and philosophy, leading to a partnership that has flourished internationally.
Their distinctive style is immediately recognizable, primarily utilizing stencils to achieve a level of detail and precision that is remarkable for street art. They often work in a monochromatic palette of black and white, occasionally accented with gold leaf, which lends a timeless, illustrative quality to their murals and gallery works. The core motifs in their oeuvre are the majestic, yet vulnerable, birds and monkeys (hence the name "Monkeybird"). The birds symbolize freedom and the ethereal, while the monkeys often represent human intelligence, cunning, and our inherent ties to earthly concerns and material possessions.
The backdrops of their pieces frequently incorporate elaborate patterns inspired by antique wallpaper, gothic architecture, and scientific illustrations, transforming plain walls into grand, layered compositions. Through this fusion of meticulous technique and potent symbolism, Monkeybird addresses themes of balance, duality, and the delicate equilibrium between the wilderness and civilization. Their art serves as a visual fable, inviting viewers to pause and contemplate the narratives hidden within the detailed lines and shared spaces they inhabit, leaving a lasting impression of thoughtful elegance and profound depth.

 

Wednesday
Nov052025

PDot 'C3PO' Ghost Available

Artist: PDot
Title: C3PO Ghost
Medium: Framed Foil on Foam Board
Size: 40 x 40 cm
Edition: UNIQUE
Prices: €200

 

PDot is a British mixed-media artist who turns urban debris into luminous contemporary relics. Born in 1981 and raised in the post-industrial landscape of northern England, he grew up skateboarding past crumbling mills and collecting rusted bottle tops, an archive of discarded metal that now forms the backbone of his practice. Working from a former textile warehouse in Leeds, he layers aerosol, screen-print and resin over sheets of reclaimed steel, tin and lead, building surfaces that shimmer like oil slicks caught in sunrise.
His imagery merges hard-edge abstraction with fragments of pop culture: torn sweet wrappers, vintage toy adverts and cryptic slogans float amid geometric shards of chrome and cobalt. The process is both additive and reductive; he sands, scratches and torches the metal to expose raw oxidisation, then seals the decay under high-gloss resin so rust becomes jewel-like. Each piece is titled after forgotten brands or playground rhymes, nudging viewers toward half-remembered childhoods while confronting the throwaway culture that fuels climate anxiety.
Commercial clients including Dr. Martens and Red Bull have commissioned large-scale walls, yet PDot balances paid work with grassroots projects, teaching local teenagers to turn scrap into statement pieces for community gardens. Recent exhibitions at Sunny Bank Mills and The Art House Wakefield sold out, with collectors praising the way his work “makes entropy beautiful.”
Whether welding a three-metre shard of factory roof into a wall relief or hand-painting a limited vinyl toy, PDot approaches every surface with the same goal: transform what society discards into objects worth preservation, proving that beauty can bloom anywhere corrosion and creativity collide.

 

Wednesday
Nov052025

SKIO 'Mondrian's Castle' Print Available

Artist: SKIO
Title: Mondrian's Castle
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 50 x 70 cm
Edition: 30
Prices: €140

 

SKIO is a contemporary street artist and muralist whose vivid, large-scale works transform urban walls into celebrations of colour and movement. Born in the early 1990s and raised in a coastal town in southern England, he grew up surrounded by sea air, skate culture and the ever-changing light of the shoreline, influences that now pulse through every spray-painted surface. Working almost exclusively with aerosol, he builds luminous compositions that merge graffiti handstyle with abstract expressionism, creating pieces that feel both spontaneous and meticulously balanced.
His process begins with loose charcoal arcs that map the wall’s energy, then layers of high-pigment spray paint are pushed and pulled with caps ranging from fine line to soft feather, allowing drips, overspray and sudden colour shifts to remain as evidence of motion. SKIO’s palette leans toward hot corals, turquoise, sunflower and metallic silvers, hues that shimmer against raw brick and concrete, suggesting sunrise over water or the shimmer of fish scales caught in sunlight. Figures rarely appear; instead, swirling ribbons, fractured letterforms and botanical silhouettes drift across the surface, inviting viewers to project their own narratives into the abstract field.
Recent commissions have brightened university campuses, coastal promenades and inner-city basketball courts, while festival appearances at Upfest and Sand, Sea and Spray have drawn crowds who watch him complete a six-metre wall in a single, continuous session. Despite growing demand, SKIO continues to paint without stencils or projections, insisting that the slight wobble of a freehand line keeps the work human.
When he is not on a lift or scaffold, he teaches community workshops, encouraging teenagers to treat spray cans as tools of optimism rather than vandalism. Through every burst of colour, SKIO offers a simple promise: look up, breathe deep, and remember that even the greyest city wall can become a window into joy.
Tuesday
Oct282025

Guy Denning 'Hope' Print Release Details

Artist: Guy Denning
Title: Hope
Medium: Hand Embellished 1 Color Screen Print
Size: 24 x 35 cm
Edition: 200
Price: €80

*available at 11am EST on Thursday October 30th, 2025

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Guy Denning is a British painter who channels raw human emotion onto weathered surfaces, creating urgent portraits that feel like pages torn from a private journal. Born in North Somerset in 1965, he is self taught, developing his craft through obsessive study of Rembrandt, Goya, and Bacon while working daylight jobs as a carpenter and illustrator. He gained underground notice in the early 2000s by plastering Bristol streets with stark mixed media faces, each sheet scorched, torn, and stained to suggest lives battered by politics, love, and time. Denning now lives in rural Finistère, Brittany, where the Atlantic wind seems to blow through his studio. Using reclaimed wood, tar, ash, bitumen, oil stick, and aerosol, he builds dense surfaces that hover between drawing and sculpture. Figures emerge from this debris: eyes burn with protest, mouths open in silent howls, hands clutch books or weapons.Color arrives in bruised reds or sulphur flashes, yet the dominant tone is charcoal black, evoking both cave painting and newspaper print.

The artist cites the Arab Spring, refugee crises, and local fishermen’s strikes as catalysts, but insists the work is not reportage; it is an attempt to mirror shared vulnerability. Solo exhibitions in Rome, New York, and London regularly sell out, while public murals in Naples and Los Angeles transform crumbling walls into pleas for empathy. Denning also posts daily sketches online, offering them freely for non commercial use, believing art must circulate like breath. Whether rendering a single protester or a writhing crowd, he seeks the moment when private grief becomes common language, reminding viewers that history is written first on the human face.

Monday
Oct272025

Alexis "Bust" Stephens 'Felides Couple' HPM Available

Artist: Alexis "Bust" Stephens
Title: Felides Couple
Medium: Hand Embellished Screen Print
Size: 45 x 30 cm
Edition: 45
Price: €170

Alexis Bust Stephens, alias Bust the Drip, is a Paris born painter who turns motion into pigment. His mother is French, his father Jamaican, and from childhood he felt music as vibration in his bones. Hip hop dance came first; he competed across Europe, spinning on cardboard, feeling the beat as waves that traveled from floor to heart. When he picked up a brush he kept that rhythm, translating leaps and freezes into streaks of spray, acrylic, and graphite. He sees the body as an organized storm of waves, each gesture a note in an unseen score.

On canvas he choreographs lines that twist, stretch, and break, letting color drip like sweat after a six step. The process is both technical and instinctive: he layers, scrapes, revises, until figures emerge mid movement, caught between blur and focus. Abstract expressionism gives him freedom, graffiti gives him speed, and dance gives him pulse. Recent years have brought major recognition: a mural for Barack Obama’s Brilliant Minds gathering in Stockholm, inclusion in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne celebrating hip hop’s entry into the games, and sold out shows in Paris, Düsseldorf, and beyond. Yet he still slips out at night to paste paper or set tiles on suburban walls, sharing positive frequencies with commuters who rarely enter galleries. Whether on a huge public façade or an intimate sheet of paper, every piece is a reminder that we are all sums of organized waves, pulsating, leaning, reaching for the next beat.

Tuesday
Oct072025

SKIO 'Alcove' Wood Inlay Original Available

Artist: SKIO
Title: Alcove
Medium: 12 Different Wood Inlays
Size: 30 x 40 cm
Edition: Original
Price: €850

*really like these wood inlay pieces by SKIO for his Mensch & Form show at Pretty Portal Gallery

Sunday
Nov032024

Oliver Rake 'Stromkasten' Orange Print Release Details

Artist: Oliver Rake
Title: Stromkasten (ORANGE)
Medium: Hand Pulled Screen Print on Silver Metallic Paper
Size: 50 x 70 cm
Edition: 35
Price: €130

*available at 10am EST on Wednesday Movember 6th, 2024

Monday
Aug192024

SKIO 'Asian Spleen' Print Available

Artist: SKIO
Title: Asian Spleen
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 50 x 70 cm
Edition: 30
Price: €180

Sunday
Apr092023

Alexis 'Bust' Stephens 'Betonblume' Print Available

Artist: Alexis 'Bust' Stephens
Title: Betonblume
Medium: Acrylic, Pastel on Screen Print
Size: 56 x 38 cm
Edition: 50
Price: €130

Monday
Dec052022

ARDIF 'Owl Mechanimal' Print Release Details

Artist: ARDIF
Title: Owl Mechanimal
Medium: Screen Prints
Size: 56 x 76 cm
Edition: Sun/50 Dusk/30 Midnight/15
Price: €200/€230/€250

*available Wednesday December 7th at 10am EST