UPFEST 09 is winding down and we've had an amazing festival weekend. It started Friday afternoon with Snik and Ben Slow painting two pieces on the gallery outer walls and one on the entrance floor (photo above). Take a look at photos of them making of these great paintings.
Then on Friday night we held the launch party and private view, where collectors and admirers were first to see the Urban Art show at View. Lots of happy people went away with anything from a small print at under £100 to a Banksy for thousands.
On Saturday we had a continuous stream of people visiting, from 9am (before we open!) through to the evening. It was wonderful to see so many people in the gallery and also to receive such positive feedback - our comments book is overflowing, thank you.
With the festival closing today we continue with our show for 3 weeks, ending with an auction on the last day. We've sold out of one artist and others are going fast. We hope to replenish stock with work made at the other festival venues. We'll let you know here.
There are many tired and yet happy people who organised and took part in a very successful festival. And lets not forget it was supporting a very worthy charity, NACOA.
1 comment:
The Upfest was an incredible wkend! It was great to be able to come to a Gallery where I could actually buy an art piece as oppose to dream, and window shop. And to watch it being made!! What a treat! I didn't think View would do the Urban Arts theme, its great, am excited with the freedom it holds with what comes next. Thanks very much, am loving this affordable Art!
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