Kingsbury School hosted the first ever Secret Wars School Edition battle on Tues. Two teams of students involved in the Brent Street Art project battled it out using the illustration skills that they have been developing over the past month of workshops with professional Street Artists.
It was a close battle with the crowd vote evenly split between the two teams. It was one of the judges Mr Price who eventually had the deciding vote and went for Stika’s team.
The ‘Most Improved’ prize of an Ecko watch went to Carla or ‘Floral’ as she is now known for her flower patterned style.
A good crowd turned out to see the two teams fill 3 large canvases with black and white drawings in just 60 mins. Each team had half of the canvases and an imaginary line down the centre meant that the teams had to fuse their drawings with the opposing team. The standard of work was very high and the pros were truly impressed by their teams work.
Congratulations to all involved. Feedback from the audience which was made up of students, teachers, local press, London Borough of Brent, friends and family has been excellent and everyone was very impressed by the standard of the work.
Participants of the Brent Street Art project visited the Monorex’s studio today in preparation for the Secret Wars Skool Edition on Tues 13th May.
Monorex work out of renovated tube trains situated on top of a warehouse events space in Shoreditch. The site is called Village Underground.
The visit gave the participants a good understanding of what life working at the creative site is like. Auro Foxcroft, the project Director at Village Underground, gave the team a short presentation on how the trains came to be, Stika led a tour to a nearby legal graffiti wall, the team visited an exhibition in the warehouse space below the trains and then the Monorex team led some illustration practice in their studio. The participants were put to the challenge yet again as Monorex gave them black canvases to work on. They used bright neon paint pens to create the work which looked really great all lined up at the end of the afternoon. They seemed to almost glow in the sunlight.
Thanks to all at Village Underground for a great afternoon and to the students of Kingsbury school for their hard work and enthusiasm.
Students involved in the first ever Secret Wars Skool Edition marketed their event to peers at Kingsbury School gates last night. The team created a real buzz with music, handing out flyers designed during the workshops and demonstrating their Secret Wars Illustration skills.
The team also presented some of the work in their assembly to make sure the word was out.
Now we are busy practicing and preparing for the event which is next Tuesday.
Tuesday night saw the second of the Street Art workshops at Kingsbury School. Everyone is preparing for the Illustration battle which is only weeks away.
We developed a range of characters and used them to create a banner to help with the marketing of the battle. The banner was great practice at fusing drawings with other people who are working around you in your team. Have a look at the pictures from the workshop below…
Graffiti Report Card stickers for rating street art and graffiti have been developed by DesignCrack.
This project has sparked debate and controversy from all sides of the Art/Vandalism debate. Some taggers are annoyed at the notion of having their work judged whilst some graffiti critics see this as just another layer of vandalism.
What do you think?
Read more here.
One of the aims of the Brent Street Art project is to debate ‘What is Art and what is Graffiti?’
Recently the Tate Modern announced that a series of giant Graffiti murals are to be painted on its walls for the summer season. More info here.
What does this say about Graffiti and the way it is viewed in our society?
What do you think?
Sign Up to the Brent Street Art Project
Published January 30, 2008 Project Information Leave a CommentAPPLICATION NOW CLOSED
Do you want to get involved in the project? Find out more here ….
The Brent Street Art project is the opportunity for you to develop your creative skills, working with professional Street Artists.
If you are involved or interested in graffiti, tagging or Street Art then this is your chance to put your skills to use and learn from professional Street Artists. You will be working with professionals who make a living from legally using their skills to promote big brands such as Reebok, Xbox and Nike, and host street art events across London.
The project is a series of Street Art workshops, that will all lead towards the Youth Secret Wars event which is like a break-dance battle but with Wall Art. Find out more about Secret Wars here.
There are only 15 places available, so if you want to get involved email us@uscreates.com with all your contact details (name, age, school or organisation, email, telephone number and mailing address) and the reason you want to get involved. There are limited places available so to help you stand out from the crowd try and make your reason for being involved as creative as possible. Why not turn you reason into a piece of Street Art, take a photo, do a drawing, whatever ….
The deadline is Monday 11th February
Hopefully all the answers to your questions are below but if you have any queries or want any further information then contact Vikash Mistry T: 020 8937 1973 E: vikash.mistry@brent.gov.uk
FAQs
When is it happening?
There will be 5 workshops and a Street Art event:
Tues and Thurs evenings beginning Tues 22nd April
Where are the workshops?
The workshops will be at a range of venues.
Transport will be provided if the workshops are out of the Brent borough.
Who is running the workshops?
Uscreates and Monorex
Uscreates are a design practice specialising in social and community art projects. More info. www.uscreates.com
Monorex are a Street Art and Design company who with work for big brand clients such as Reebok, Xbox and Nike and produce the famous Secret Wars event which is a wall art ‘battle’ between artists. More info. www.monorex.com
What will the workshops be like?
The workshops will cover a range of activities to develop your Street Art skills. They will work towards producing the Street Art Event. Some examples of workshops:
Intro Workshop:
Meet the Street Art team and get your Street Art equipment. Monorex artists will give you a solid overview of the street art techniques.
Shoreditch Walkabout Tour:
Tour of Shoreditch, visiting famous Street Art sites, galleries, shops and studios.
Merchandise Design:
Creating and applying designs to merchandise such as caps and t-shirts
What is the Street Art Event?
Monorex started the famous Secret Wars Event, which is now touring internationally. Secret Wars is a Wall Art battle between artists. The Street Art Event will be a youth version of Secret Wars and your opportunity to show off your new skills in front of your friends. You will have the chance to create a piece of wall art in front of an audience.
If you do not want to show case your skills in front of a crowd, you get still get involved by helping to organise the event, choosing the music / dj, designing flyers, and much more.
Please note: If you already involved in graffiti you are not in danger of getting in any trouble from the police or any other organisation. The project has the support of the Council, the Police and is the opportunity for you to put your skills to use and will give you the opportunity to legally develop your technique.
Last night saw the launch of the Brent Street Art Project at Brent Town Hall. The event brought together professional Street Artists, representatives from the Youth Parliament, students from local schools, councillors and many more.
The event gave young people the opportunity to sign up to the Brent Street Art project; a series of Street Art workshops leading up to a Youth Secret Wars event. The Youth Secret Wars event is like a Break Dance battle but artists battle with Wall Art instead of dance. Find out more about Secret Wars here.
There were live Street Art demos from the artist and a voting wall where people could comment on different graffiti samples. Everyone there got involved in sketching and doodling and picked up tips from the artists.
Brent Street Art Project 
