Slow Your Roll, the first UK solo show by Brooklyn art duo Skewville, launched last Friday at High Roller Society. AM took advantage of the East London gallery’s new Sunday opening hours to visit over the weekend in the calm of a non-preview atmosphere. On the way, we spotted one of Skewville’s recent outdoor pieces, featuring the painted and foam-stamped word “BEEF” aptly done on the shopfront shutter of a local butcher. Plenty of stamps were also in evidence along the Regent’s Canal towpath, at times going over the existing tags of local vandals — and perhaps bringing a whole new meaning to the term “graffiti beef”.
The exhibition continues until 24 April. See a recent Vandalog interview with Skewville here. More photos and a video by Butterfly after the jump.
'She Loves Me Not'
'Sucks Either Way'
From the 'Bottled Emotion' series
'It Wasn't Me' (left) and 'BEEF Boxes'
'No Sponsor'
'Today's Special'
Metal shutter of a butcher shop recently painted by Skewville on Roman Road, near High Roller Society
Video by Butterfly documenting the making of the BEEF street piece on a butcher shop shutter:
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- ‘She Loves Me Not’
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- ‘She Loves Me Not’ (detail)
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- ‘Sucks Either Way’
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- From the ‘Emotional Traps’ series
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- ‘All in a Day’s Work’
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- ‘Half Full’
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- From the ‘Bottled Emotion’ series
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- ‘Love East Hate West’, ‘Fake a Death’ and ‘Day Job Sucker’
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- ‘Fake a Death’
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- ‘It Wasn’t Me’ (left) and ‘BEEF Boxes’
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- ‘No Sponsor’
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- ‘Ghetto Faster’ (centre)
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- ‘Your Side of the Fence’, ‘OK’ and ‘If You See Something, Say Something’
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- ‘Your Side of the Fence’
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- ‘Today’s Special’
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- ‘Honey I’m Home’
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- ‘Brooklyn BEEF’
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- Metal shutter of a butcher shop recently painted by Skewville on Roman Road, near High Roller Society
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- Metal shutter (detail showing the Skewville ‘BEEF’ stamp)
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- Regent’s Canal
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- Plenty of BEEF along Regent’s Canal
Text and photographs by Patrick Nguyen.
