The London Police News 2009
10-09-2008
New Series with Chaz at the Adhoc Gallery in New York
Under the name The London Police, Bob Gibson has once again teamed up with Chaz to make three original works on canvas for the “4 Geezers” show at the Adhoc Gallery in Brooklyn, New York (www.adhocart.org).
After a successful opening night the duo are now busy making new work, combining their two contrasting styles not seen since the Dutch Masters Show in 2006.
11-02-2009
New London Police collaboration
Chaz and Bob have teamed up once again and made a new work. The founding members of the London Police created the piece on location in Brooklyn NY...Thanks Markus
15-03-2009
10 Years on the Circle Line
Coming soon. The London Police celebrate their tenth birthday with the founding members back together in their home town. Opening night is 9th April at the Stolenspace gallery, London. See the future shows section at http://www.stolenspace.com
14-04-2009
10 Years on the Circle Line opens in London
After weeks of careful hand drawn preparation (and a couple of nights sleeping in the studio on bubblewrap) 10 Years on the Circle Line is now open at the Stolenspace Gallery www.stolenspace.com. The opening night was a great success and we would like to thank Richard, Eve, Beth, Clare, Tom, Tab and of course The Monk for all their hard work. See the TLP collabs section for all the finished work.
The sketch book drawings of the opening are by Boston’s own Brian Butler. www.theupperhandart.com
28-05-2009
10 Years Later opens in Amsterdam
TLPs 10 year celebration continued in Amsterdam this May. The opening night saw a strong turnout from friends and socialites in Amsterdam’s famous Jordaan quarter. 8 new hand drawn works were on show plus a limited edition print . Following on from the “EVERY 20 MINS” photo project seen at last years Brooklyn (NYC) show TLP decided to repeat the idea but this time with Bob participating too. The rules were the same. Take a photo every 20mins 24 hours a day for seven days and then deal with your weak immunity system and failing relationships later. We’d like to thank Mo, Minivila, The School of Chris, Oscar and Farud for all their patience and hard work. For a panoramic view of the show see http://www.c360.nl/gogallery_tlp/
08-06-2009
Green Day Artwork.
When he’s not necking tequilas and playing oldskool arcade games Logan Hicks is busy making world class stencils and, on this occasion, selecting a team of artists to collaborate with some band called GREEN DAY on an art/music project for their new album. The show including 14 other artists will tour with the band over the next year or so. Thanks to Logan and Green Day for getting us involved
10-06-2009
Big Amsterdam Wall Piece
Work in progress....more pics soon.
10-06-2009
Amsterdam Wall Piece is finished
How pleasing it was when the seemingly nice bloke who lives at Prinsengracht No.70 allowed TLP to adorn the facade of his building with a choice black and white image of a totempole lad being constructed by a Bob Gibson robot. How displeasing then, when on the fourth day, the Amsterdam Gemeente (city council) officials arrived and politely told us we needed extra permission to paint any building in the city centre. They kindly allowed us to finish the characters but we were not allowed to make a start on any further background etc. The case is currently under review with the city council whether to keep the painting. They must decide whether normal everyday human beings would prefer to see a considered art mural or a banal grey wall which serves as a breeding ground for weak graffiti and posters advertising drug fuelled house music events where DJs spin other peoples shit records.
14-08-2009
Preparing for the LA show “Brothers in Arms” opening September 10th 2009 at the Carmicheal Gallery
For more info on the upcoming show visit http://www.carmichaelgallery.com/
This year has seen the return of Bob Gibson to The London Police after five years of touring with the band ‘MOSS’ and flipping burgers in a filthy Dutch snackbar. And so the original founding members are re-embarking on their quest to combine making artwork and travelling the globe to better themselves and spread artistic love through the world. The blueprint for this year was to produce solid back-to-basics black and white artworks collaborating the iconic LADS characters drawn by CHAZ with the tight architectural and illustrative landscapes of BOB GIBSON.
To celebrate 10 years in the field TLP penned in shows for LONDON (april), AMSTERDAM (may), LOS ANGELES (sept) and NEW YORK (dec).
15-09-2009
Brothers in Arms opens in the Carmichael Gallery Los Angeles
TLP’s 10 year celebration continued in LA last week. Thanks to all of you who came along. We had the best time of our lives in tinseltown...
Thanks to Seth, Elisa, Dave, Nate, Christian and Nomad (The Earl of Cundington) for all your hard work.
Coming soon. See how we survived 5 days in LA handcuffed together 24 hours a day in the short film “Brothers in Arms” but for now you can click here to see the making of the “Brothers in Arms” art show on youtube
12-10-2009
Big wall painting in KOSOVO
Off to Kosovo to finally paint a mural in the city centre of PRISHTINA. With the old school wrists of ZEDZ and the youthful skills of Prishtina-based TAKI we painted the side of the University Science building located just a stones throw from the huge public library. The company that gave us the lift to go up the wall also kindly provided us with a bloke (Fetim) to work the lift who only spoke albanian. ' Pak majtas Chaz' he would say and , obviously, i would reply 'shume mire Fetim, faleminderrit'. The days flew by.
A 'Piece for Positivity' was curated and organised by Rienke Enghardt. Her website www.hopebox.nl shows all the work she has done to instigate art and music events in places that otherwise wouldnt have them. Dont be shy to look at it.
29-10-2009
True Self expo curated by Gary Baseman opens in New York
It wasnt two months ago when that cheeky chappy Gary Baseman managed to stop hanging around with asian women for a minute and took time to invite TLP to submit a piece for his TRUE SELF show which opened at the JONATHAN LEVINE GALLERY last week. We thought long and hard about our true selves and realised that the classic LAD character is kind of a portrait of CHAZ and the linear architectural style is wholly representative of BOBs life and therefore we just did another canvas like normal. Dont be shy to pop along to the gallery and take a butchers at the work alongside many other fine and warm artists. click here to see the Jonathan Levine gallery site
03-11-2009
10 Years Later in the Go Gallery Amsterdam SOLD OUT!
We’re pleased to announce that all paintings from the Amsterdam show ’10 Years Later’ are now SOLD OUT. There are still a few pieces for sale from both the London and LA shows. See ‘New work 2009’ for availability and see the ‘purchase’ section to be directed to the respective galleries.
03-11-2009
TLP at the Offset design conference this weekend in Dublin.
Come join us this Sunday in Dublin’s fair city for a 45 minute speaking extravaganza of TLP history, present day activities and wistful glance into future endeavours. TLP will be showing slides, films and possibly singing a few dog ballads for good measure. If you can’t make it don’t worry as it’s completely sold out and even Roy Keene probably wouldn’t be able to get in. for more info see http://www.iloveoffset.com/
03-11-2009
TLP and Miami ART BASEL. See our work at the following locations:
Hope to see you there
03-11-2009
‘Fresh Geezers’ to open on 10th December at the Factory Fresh Gallery. Brooklyn, New York
The London Police and GALO group show
It’s almost time for our final show of the year. If you are in the New York area come and join us for the opening night starting at seven sharp.
For all the info see www.factoryfresh.net
click on images to see new work 2009
17-12-2009
‘Fresh Geezers’ opens at the Factory Fresh Gallery. Brooklyn, New York
The London Police and GALO group show. Click here to see the new work
A massive thanks to Ali and Adam and all at Factory Fresh for their hard work www.factoryfresh.net
19-12-2009
A short film from ‘Style Curator’ with Naltalie Kates about The Factory Fresh show
19-12-2009
A nice review of our Factory Fresh show from the Brooklyn Street Art blog
19-12-2009
The London Police goes big in Miami
As part of the Miami art week Primary Flight gave us a wall to paint together with the likes of our good friend Galo. More info and picks soon...
