Studio Amour is fabric design and print studio founded in 2007 and based in Bristol.

In an industry dominated by digital design and production we are concerned to keep alive old flourishing traditional methods and craftsmanship.

Our main focus is the production of hand printed art works and fabric with a particular interest in one off or small runs for furnishing or architectural purposes and Interior decoration.

To promote the cause of hand printing over the machine, Studio Amour has decided to hold bi-monthly exhibitions featuring the work of local and international Graffiti artists, Designers, Makers and Friends.

We present you are first show,

One Thousand and One Nights

New exhibition opening on the 19th December
featuring artwork by:
Ponk . Aimee . Pref . Nylon . Dora . Paris . Dibo

Private view 19th December 7-10pm
Gallery Open Sat.20th-Sun.21st
10am-6pm

At: StudioAmour, Tin Shed, off Gloucester Rd, behind the Robin Hood Retreat Pub.

AimeeAMOUR

Aimee’s screenprints capture the tensions and gracefulness of movement, drawing from old and new traditions of mark making.

Influenced by the fluency and balance of Japanese brushstroke and graphic street art, she produces one off lengths of printed fabric and paper suitable for large scale commissions. Aimee works from her studio in Bristol, where she hosts international graphic art exhibitions curated alongside her partner.

A joint interest in Graffiti has led to this present collaboration. Combining contrasting techniques proves to be both a challenge and a source of creative inspiration.

Ponk

A Bristol based artist working in graffiti for over ten years, Ponk takes the essentials of graffiti letterforms, such as outlines, shading and highlights and adds his own fresh twist.

By contorting, extruding and embellishing shapes and patterns he creates his own style, making every piece look different from the last.

Often opting for a collaborative approach, Ponk enjoys the camaraderie and creativity of working together on a piece considering the overall composition of the wall in order to create the finished look of the production

Pariees

Please read the following and add your mark in the space provided,

Graffiti is Graffiti,
Art is Art,
"Urban Art" is neither,
"Lets face it -Urban art is shite"

___STRONGLY AGREE
___AGREE
___DONT GIVE A SHIT
___DONT AGREE
___STRONGLY DISAGREE

PARIEES 2008.

In over 20 years of painting PARIEES has mastered hand-styles, dubs,bubble letters, block busters, wild styles, straight letters & productions.

In all this time he has only "fannied about" with stencils once or twice. Neither has he ever produced a volume of work based mainly on post-punk icons or monkeys with machine guns, or nuns wearing barcodes and bazookas.

How certain so-called artists have the nerve to do this, and still sleep at night, then say "I dont think tagging is artistic" blah blah blah is beyond him...

Those guilty of the above are "Urban artists", something the world, and especially the Graffiti world could very well do without....

Sleep tight xxx

Dibo

This versatile creator began his career realizing murals in a town near Alicante, called Petrer.

From the beginning his work was based on illustration & the discipline that developed alongside Graffiti which lead him to study animation and graphic design as tool to develop his

creative work.

Nowadays, Dibone is a great designer and draughtsman taking part in many international events.

His work is loaded with dynamism, alluding to a world painted with primary colours and plenty of figures that are twisted in his own physics.

Dora

Dora has been working as a professional artist for 10 years and is one of the very few successful female British urban artists working both on the street and in galleries today. Based in Bristol, her distinctive style encompasses Graffiti, illustrative ink, drawing on reclaimed wood and canvas and reflects her many Influences from art nouveau, Japanese prints, modern day burlesque and 50’s tattoo design all entwined within natural free flowing forms. Her collaborations include; Paris, Milk, Rowdy and Hine. and her designs have been seen on the streets of Bristol, Berlin and London.

Pref

In 1001 nights time (about three years) the campaign for the 2012 Olympics will be in full swing.Over recent years London councils have begun to paint over track side graffiti with a view to have completely eliminated most of the eyesore by the time the games begin. This campaign is thought to intensify over the next few years pushing a zero tolerance approach to the railway sidings not just painting over everything once, but returning to paint over again and again walls which become re vandalised.

This horrible brown colored paint (hence the brown colour for the print) has wiped out pieces and walls which have never been painted over before.Traveling far out on overground sections of the tube and british rail networks alike taking out everything in view. The result is that our history as we know it is being eliminated. Pieces that have been a familiar part of the scenery for years, old names which have since retired and in some cases even died and Pieces which have been left for years out of respect by other writers now faded and disappearing into the moss covered brickwork are being mindlessly eradicated.

Stop the buff

Save our history

Pref 2008