The Flood Gallery recently visited the annual Flatstock poster convention at SXSW in Austin, Texas. The Flatstock poster show series is presented by the American Poster Institute (API) and is run throughout the year, in many cities, all over the world. The annual Austin event is by far the biggest and brings together the very best poster artists from all over the planet.
Our 'Flatstock Austin! 2012' show features some amazing, extremely rare prints which we are giving our customers the opportunity to own.
Please join us for the launch event on the evening of Thursday 29th March from 4pm 'til 8pm at our gallery at 8 Greenwich Market.
The show will hang for the rest of the week until Thursday 5th April, so be sure to pop down to see all the exciting new work we have on show.
The exhibition will feature prints by:
Rob Jones
Chuck Sperry
Jay Ryan
Jason Munn
John Baizley
Kevin Tong
Todd Slater
Tim Doyle
Freida Clements
Gary Houston
Land Land
John Vogl
Magnificent Beard
Billy Perkins
Two Arms Inc
Sonnenzimmer
Bad Moon Studios
We Three Club
Horse
DKNG
Empire Press
and many more!
Posts tagged: Launch Night
Led Zeppelin IV at 40 Launch Night Photos
Here are the photographs from the Led Zeppelin IV at 40 launch night. A big thanks to all the artists that took part, everyone that came along and bought prints and a special thanks to Justin Hampton for making the trip over.
Prints are still available from here, grab them before they're all gone.
All photos by Owen Richards
Kevin Tong & John Vogl Exhibition Launch Night Photos
We finally got round to uploading the photographs from the Kevin Tong & John Vogl exhibition launch night. A big thanks to everyone that came along and bought prints. Check out the photographs below. All photos courtesy of Kevin Tong.
Q&A session with Nick Hasted
Led Zeppelin IV at 40 POSTERS UNVEILED + ORDER NOW!
Black Dog by Justin Hampton
Edition of 200 signed and numbered prints
“To me, ‘Black Dog’ is the antithesis of Rock N Roll. Hard,
heavy, sexual and primal. The sentiment is as old as the beginning of
man and woman and the eternal subject matter of the earliest Blues song.
It’s about obsession, infatuation, lust, frustration, disappointment
and yearning. It’s mostly from a man’s perspective but there would be
no Blues or Rock N Roll if this emotion did not exist between the
sexes.”
Justin Hampton
20x30” Limited edition screenprinted poster
Edition of 200 signed and numbered prints
£40
To order go here
Black Dog Colour Variant
20x30” Limited edition screenprinted poster
Edition of 40 signed and numbered prints
To order click here
Black Dog (Hand Finished Edition) Only 4!
20x30” Limited edition screenprinted poster
The first four of the colour variants have been individually hand finished by the artist to create four one of a kind prints.
£200
Rock & Roll by Kii Arens
“What is more Rock and Roll than groupie sex in your hotel after a show with an actual shark?
The story of Led Zeppelin at the Edgewater is legendary in every form
it’s been told. The hotel boasts it’s added feature of fishing from your
room. Why? Because the Edgewater Hotel, in Seattle, is on the edge of
water.
Legend has it that a roadie caught a shark with John Bonham and things got a lil’ nutty.
Rock on!”
Kii Arens
18x24” Limited edition poster
Edition of 200 signed and numbered prints
Poster features model and actress Rose McGowan
£45
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The Battle of Evermore by John Vogl
“‘The Battle of Evermore’ has such rich and illustrative lyrics,
the most difficult part to approaching this piece was choosing what
elements to focus on. I wanted to showcase the battles between light and
dark, and highlight the tension and conflict in the song. It’s one of
my favorite Led Zeppelin songs, and was a thrill to work with.”
John Vogl
Edition of 200 signed and numbered prints
£40
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Stairway to Heaven by Jermaine Rogers
“What does ‘Stairway To Heaven’ look like? I’ll admit, I’m still
not quite sure: there are as many interpretations for this song as there
are individuals who’ve heard it. For me, it’s a song drenched in
‘duality’. It lyrically defines two paths: the choice to follow some
‘script’ in life, dictated by dogma, tradition, or teaching OR the
option of trusting the inner voice, the ‘humming’ in your head.
I believe that there is energy within each one of us that naturally
attempts to sync up with the pulsing of the universe, the grid
connecting everything and everyone in existence. As a race of beings,
we’ve become so very distracted over the ages that we’ve gradually
forgotten how to ‘hear’ it. I think the song celebrates the option to
‘listen very hard’ & to follow the primal music in your head.
Still, the choice is ours...and the image I created is dominated by
that same aspect of duality. Two paths. You can try to cheat the game
and buy the ‘stairway to heaven’...or you can surrender to the wheel of
fortune and just live it out day by day.”
Jermaine Rogers
Edition of 120 signed and numbered prints
£45
To order click here
Stairway to Heaven (Foil Edition)
20x30” Limited edition poster
Edition of only 30 signed and numbered prints on metallic silver foil paper.
£100
To order click here
Stairway to Heaven (Colour Variant)
20x30” Limited edition poster
Edition of only 50 signed and numbered prints using red and yellow ink.
20x30” Limited edition poster
Edition of only 100 signed and numbered prints using red and yellow ink.
£70
To order click here
Misty Mountain Hop by Nate Duval
“I have always been drawn to the lyrics “So I’m packing my bags
for the Misty Mountains where the spirits go now, over the hills where
the spirits fly. “ They not only paint a picture of what was going on
in the park that famed day in the song, but touch on the oft-mentioned
middle-earth interests the guys seem to have had throughout their
illustrious career. I wanted to let my mind run wild and send myself off
to the misty mountains where I was greeted by this very flying spirit.
I modeled our flying friend after the serpents and Dragons Jimmy has
been known to adorn on-stage.”
Nate Duval
Edition of 200 signed and numbered prints
£40
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Four Sticks by Dan Grzeca
“This was a really challenging piece for me to make. The power of
the songs opening riffs, with the relentless rhythms from the entire
band set the pace. Reading how Page and Co. took to creating the song
as an abstract, I latched onto this as I’ve been making prints of
semi-abstract landscapes recently. Taking imagery from the night, and
the woods, the belly of an owl filled with a river in the English
Countryside I hope I conveyed at least a part of what the song brings
out emotionally.”
Dan Grzeca
Edition of 200 signed and numbered prints
£40
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Going to California by Gary Houston
“There are so many things that conjure up thoughts of California.
There’s an old national lampoon radio show in which Hunter Thompson is
assigned to find the essence of Cali. He drives around the state in a
car with the radio blaring all things Cali, and encounters events
typical to his assignment, and he’s oblivious to it all. Can’t get a
handle on it.
To me, to represent Cali I used the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s not the
Hollywood sign which is L.A. The bridge is a Cali thing, with the fog
and ocean. The stamp border refers to travelling, going from here to
there, not stationary. I used warm colours and built around the yellow
sky. The illustration process was scratch board which is very organic
and in keeping with the California feel. [although i guess you could
argue that southern cali is pretty slick] All seperations are hand cut
with airbrush splatter on rubylith and then each colour is hand pulled.
There are 6 colour passes on this print. ”
Gary Houston
Edition of 200 signed and numbered prints
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When the Levee Breaks by Mike King
The print just moves the action forward from the moment “when” becomes “as”.
A women and remnants of her home and belongings sinking to the bottom of a river.
I added the praying hands in reference to the line “Now, cryin’ won’t
help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good” and also because I thought it
looked cool.”
Mike King
15x25 1/4” Limited edition poster
Edition of 150 signed and numbered prints
£40
To order click here
Kevin Tong 'Unfamiliar Objects' prints now available for PRE-ORDER!
Kevin Tong's new art print series 'Unfamiliar Objects' is now available for pre-order!
Here is a detailed look at all of the new prints...
Photographic Memories
This print is called Twenty Five Cent Treasure. It's a 4 colour screen print on
18 x 24" Off White Cover Paper. Edition of 200. This print is called Reaching For Love. It's a 4 colour screen print on 18 x 24"
Off White Cover Paper. Edition of 200. Anthem is a 3 colour screen print on 18 x 24" Black Cover Paper. Edition of 30. THIS PRINT IS A FLOOD GALLERY EXCLUSIVE! Kevin on this print... Capsule is a 3 colour screen print on 18 x 24" Black Cover Paper. Edition of 30. THIS PRINT IS A FLOOD GALLERY EXCLUSIVE! This print is called Capsule. It's a 3 colour screen print on 18 x 24 inch Dark Blue Cover Paper. Edition of 30. Kevin on this print... To pre-order this print for £60 - click here All these prints will be on show at the 'Introducting: Kevin Tong & John Vogl' exhibition at the Flood Gallery from October 13-17th. We are launching the exhibition with an opening party from 7pm on the evening of October 13th. A chance to come
along and be the first to see all of the work featured in the show.
Kevin will be in attendance and prints will be available for sale over the counter for
the first time. Our neighbours at Hola Paella will be open for the evening and
food and drink will be available. Filming for the
up coming Scout Shannon directed gig poster documentary 'Just Like Being There' staring Kevin will also take place on the night. Alongside the new print series we will also have some of Kevin’s highly sought after work
available to buy throughout the duration of the show.
"The
idea of recording an entire life on film has always had a profound
effect on me. Perhaps at the end, there would be millions of photos.
What if I could only put them onto a single roll of film? What
parameters would I use to decide which moments to discard, which to
keep? The very thought turns my mind into a lifeboat on the ocean, so I
chose the simple life of a butterfly as my test subject."
"Gum
Balls were one of many things I loved as a kid. The bright color and
candy flavor clashed with the reality that soon my cherished treasure
would be a hard and flavorless chunk of rubber in my mouth. On a long
enough timeline and when you stand back far enough, all treasured
moments are essentially a Gum Ball, so fleeting and so small, they might
not have even happened. Despite this, these Gum Ball moments still mean
something to us. They happen and they pass. We could choose to save the
Gum Ball by never chewing on it and keep it forever, but then we'd
never experience it either."
"There isn't a whole lot to say about this one, the idea is clear."
"Being
a person living in a modern metropolis is wonderful, but something gets
lost. With so many cars, signs, buildings, streets, lights, schedules,
phone calls, jobs, meetings, and other distractions, we all become
background noise. Often, I wonder just how much gets lost in the rush to
gain progress and momentum. Truly listening to someone these days means
adjusting one's antenna and tuning the knobs to get the right frequency
for the clearest sound. It means turning off the record player and TV
and computer and anything else that makes noise other than the Radio.
Even when the antenna and knobs are just right, the act of being near
the Radio can cause static."
"This
print builds on the same idea that "Photographic Memories" does. The
View-Master was a staple of my childhood. To my dismay, the only paper
disks I had were store-bought photo synopses of Disney films. I used to
pretend that I could see my future in the View-Master, that each click
would give me a view of a moment farther into things yet to happen. How
nice would that be? Imagine, before beginning your life, to have a
variety of paper disk futures to view which depict choice moments of
different versions of your life, then to choose a favourable version?"
"It's
an art print version of a poster I did for the Ayn Rand novel,
"Anthem". Books and reading have been the primary sculptor of my
ideas, the ideas in this series are no exception. I remember reading Ayn
Rand years ago and while I don't completely agree with her
philosophies, I can't argue that they pushed me to question things."
"It's an art print version of a poster I did for the Aldous Huxley
novel, "Brave New World". Books and reading have been the primary
sculptor of my ideas, the ideas in this series are no exception. The
book, despite being fictional, solidified within me the need to be
independent and to formulate my own ideas. I think it is extremely
appropriate because the city inside the capsule contains elements of
London, as the story of "Brave New World" takes place in London."
Also... just a reminder