Top night down at Paintworks last night for the Get Dring Mobile auction, some great live painting outside, great music and a whole lot of bidding for a great guy. Well, bidding for art to raise money for a great guy, Mike himself of course not being for sale.
It was interesting to see how the bidding went. Some pieces were an absolute steal, other went for far more than you would ever have thought. As a wise man put it last night, ‘a picture’s only worth what someone is willing to pay for it’. Stencil work still seems to be very much in fashion with the buyerati, wonder how much longer that will last.
In total, the auction raised something like £24,500, before you count in the bar receipts, pieces that sold outside of the auction and all sorts. So well on the way to getting Mike’s car sorted then, awesome stuff.
There’s more to come still too, lots of pieces left to be sold on Ebay very soon, including a lovely Will Barras that lots of people were coveting last night, so keep an eye out.
Here’s some photos from it all then, the live painting as it went along, and the works inside the auction as well.
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- Boswell marking out
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- Paris paints his Pop Stop Shop sign
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- Lokey early on
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- Milk and Dora painting together
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- FLX early on
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- Boswell and Vermin a bit further along
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- Inkie earlier on
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- Mr Jago starting out with a roller
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- Mr Jago and Inkie
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- Eelus hangs his first stencil
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- Xenz with the can control
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- Eelus masking off another triangle
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- View from up high
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- Inkie and Jago
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- Mr Jago further on
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- Boswell and Vermin further on
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- Lokey on the background
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- More Milk and Dora
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- Eelus removing another layer of stencil
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- Xenz clouds finished
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- FLX nearly finished
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- Inkie with masking tape
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- Boswell and Vermin nearly done
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- Mr Jago nearly done
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- Lokey adding a silhouetted tree
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- Xenz finished
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- Inkie finished
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- Boswell and Vermin come back after the auction to add an ink and cider wash
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- Boswell and Vermin finished
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- Mr Jago finished
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- Milk and Dora Finished
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- Paris sign finished
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- Lokey finished
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- Sepr, decks and so on
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- Long wall of work
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- Andy Council et al
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- Miss Bugs, Brian Jones, etc
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- Xenz on its own stand
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- Huge Mudwig and nice Richt
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- Turroe, Acer, Jef Aerosol, etc
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- Eco, Milk, Guy Denning
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- The Dora that started a bidding war, top left
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- Very nice Mr Jago up top
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- That statue totally had a nob
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- Jody juxtaposed
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- Nice framing on a Nick Walker AP print
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- Some of the £50 work upstairs
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- The ‘artier’ side of things downstairs
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- With some of the postcards all framed up
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- FLX up high, above Pure Evil
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- Huge Will Barras
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- Dicy up behind the bar
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- Nick Walker opening the auction
