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Art Programme 2007


The People Show presents
The Bus Show
Featuring: Gareth Brierley, Ben Carrick, Fiona Creese
Westbourne Studios Fri 3 – Sun 5 August
Come and meet a misfit family of ‘entertainers’. They’ve been touring for 40 years and are making a rare stop at the Portobello Film Festival to pick up fellow travellers... Featuring lessons in loviní, too much alcohol and the baby of all guitar solos.Capacity is strictly limited, so please do book early for this unique event.Running time 15 minutes. ‘People Show is a national treasure’ The Independent
www.peopleshow.co.uk

3000 Hangovers Later
Photo exhibition
August 2–5, 11am–6pm
The Roughler Gallery Archive
Craze Gallery, 253 Portobello Road, W11 1LR
The first major retrospective of Ray Jones’ illuminating pictures from the legendary Roughler Magazine, which captured the final flowering of Bohemian Portobello. Recently his portraits of Joe Strummer, Will Self and Damien Hirst, alongside John The Dog, John The Hat and Steve Underground, have been rediscovered. Like Harry Diamond’s portraits of 50s Soho, they capture the genius loci of a unique place and time.

Molly Parkin
8–19 August
The Muse Gallery, 269 Portobello Road, London W11
Molly Parkin is best known as a writer and fashion icon. However she famously went bankrupt after several years of drinking at the Colony Club with Francis Bacon and his circle – "if you had a choice of paying your taxes or drinking with Francis what would you do" (see 5 August – Boozing With Bacon at Westbourne Studios). Bacon inspired Molly to take up the paintbrush. Portobello Film Festival is proud to present old and new paintings by Molly, who calls herself a colourist and is represented by Christie Contemporary Art.

Inkie graffiti art
westbourne studios
1–21 August
After getting busted in 1988 in the UK’s largest ever graffiti shutdown – codename Operation Anderson – Inkie went on to come second in the World Street Art Championships of 1989. He’s continued for the past two decades to push the art in his own inimitable style and ways (alongside Banksy he organized the largest ever UK graffiti event, a 1.4 km painting around the Bristol docks entitled ‘Walls On Fire’.
Unconfirmed at time of going to press – we are also hoping to present work by Eine, Joe Rush, Gordon McHarg and Nick Reynolds in the Westbourne atrium space.

Shoot Portobello
Photo exhibition
1 –22 August Westbourne Grove Church, Westbourne Grove, W11
Over the weekend of the 31st March hundreds of people took to the streets of Portobello for the Shoot Portobello Weekend – a photography treasure hunt event, presented by Rough trade shops and Shoot Experience. Locals and visitors alike took the opportunity to re-discover the streets of Portobello and uncover the hidden musical history of the area by deciphering clues and recording the answers photographically.
Selected photographs from Shoot Portobello Weekend will be exhibited from the 1st to 22nd August at the Westbourne Grove Church, where the event took place. The Church offers the perfect environment in which to display the photos from the event, a wonderful collection of creative, spirited and inspiring photos which capture the unique and eclectic culture of the area.
For more information about the event visit www.shootexperience.com.

Snug
Snug has been a free lance graffiti artist & illustrator for 20 years. He trained at Chelsea and Byam Shaw Schools of Art, before taking up aerosol paint as a serious tool for art and design. In the summer of 2004 he was the lead artist on the largest graffiti mural in the British Isles; a community project celebrating the diverse cultures and life of Kilburn situated outside Kilburn Underground station, the ‘gateway to London’. In Spring 2005 he completed a 150 square-metre mural at ‘Damage’ in Trafalgar Street, Brighton. Recently he has finished two commissions for Hugo Boss in their ‘orange’ stores in Carnaby Street and their head offices in North London.
SNUG has been asked to paint two works depicting the theme ‘Magic’ for the Portobello Film Festival this year showing in Westbourne Studios. An accomplished artist, he has undertaken corporate works and additionally painted live at private parties, events and music festivals.



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