Forgot to post this picture taken a while back (well, mid-January) when I visited the London Art Fair 2013 courtesy of our friends TAG Fine Arts, Catlin Art Prize (welcome back to Londonewcastle Project Space in 2013!) and ALISN.

The print on the left was on a gallery booth wall mounted innocently enough in a nice picture frame with an even nicer price beside it. It is, however, dwarfed by the massive free-to-view-everyday piece that the artist created back in October in Shoreditch for his sell-out London show at Stolen Space gallery (read the original blog).

The piece is still free to view if you are passing the area off Bethnal Green Road (opposite Box Park). Who knows for how long.

Legendary US graffiti artist Sherpard Fairey has just completed a new wall in Ebor Street, Shoreditch to coincide with his forthcoming show at the StolenSpace Gallery. The Obey “Sound & Vision” is showing from 20th October to 4th November.

The Sound and Vision show is Shepard Fairey’s first UK show in five years and will feature a range on new material including mixed media paintings on canvas, works on paper, retired stencils collages, rubylith cuts, and as well as serigraphs on wood, metal and paper.

The new wall replaces the piece produced by FLIP earlier in the year and is keeping the calibre of creative collaborations at a peak.

Check out this piece and then get down to the gallery to see the rest!

If you’ve been hiding and know nothing about the artist…

Shepard Fairey has been on a meteoric rise over the past five years. In 2008, his ‘HOPE’ portrait of then Democratic candidate, Barack Obama, became an internationally recognised emblem of the campaign and a symbol of political change for many. In 2009, Fairey’s Obama portrait was inducted into the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery as the official presidential portrait.

Since last exhibiting in London, Fairey has continued to progress with his art and with a 20 Year Retrospective museum exhibition that began at the ICA, Boston in 2009 and continued to the Warhol Museum and Contemporary Art Centre in Cincinnati. In 2011, he was commissioned by TIME Magazine to design his second cover for the magazine.