FREEDOM ARTS ON THE STREET; CAMBERLY

Free Art

Here is some of Fane Flaws Art being given it's freedom, back into into the community, through the Peoples Revolutionary Arts Councils Freedom Arts Project

I came riding back past about 10 minutes after this one was put out, and saw a bunch of kids looking real excited about their find.
Looks like this piece found a new happy home.

Fane's art connecting directly with people in the hood.
When I was hanging this t shirt out, a couple of kids asked what the hell I was doing, when I told them, one said "I know what this is, it's a waste of money", I said he was probably right, but would he like to take this shirt home for his Dad or brother, he said that would be cool, so he did, and that my friends was cool.

Sound track for this action; Stevie Wonder, Innervisions.

FREE ART FOR THE PEOPLE!

FREE VOINA; RUSSIAN ACTION ART GRUOP

Check out these guys, some serious action art from the
sleeping Bear, Russia.

 

This piece is called;Dick captured by KGB, as you see it is painted on a draw bridge, must have been really funny watching the bridge go up the first time.

http://en.free-voina.org/actions

Coppi in the country side.

I was out on a training ride with a couple of pals today when we came across this cool stencil of Fausto Coppi on a bridge about twenty km's out in the country on a little concrete bridge.
Looks to me like someone is putting a couple of tasteful little stencils about, maybe to inspire the roadies out on training rides, what a great idea!Spotted this one in town.

Free the fish

A cool little action
I found out about this really cool bit of local direct action over the weekend. This young comrade decided to release some little mosquito fish into a city water feature. First he tried a couple out to see if they would survive ok, and when he found that they did,
he proceeded to release a whole heap into the pond.
He tells me he is going to stop by on the way home from school to feed them.

This is the pond, usually a boring town feature with no life or purpose, now the home of a happy bunch of little fish.

Like some sort of god, this action man has brought life to a desolate world, in the photo above you can just make out the little guys in their new home.

It's brilliant and funny.

John Key telling it like it is

Straight from the horses mouth(or is that ass)

Good to see someone taking a little direct action in Hastings.

I just like this one, and I guess an annoying fly reminds me of
John Key.

The Sting, Tees for sale

OK, so here's the thing, we love to print and then give away all this free art and free t shirts in the Freedom Arts Project. However we are also living pretty close to the bone like most people.
So here is how you could help, we have a couple of pretty cool Tees for sale.

I will disclose all our costs, if you want to buy one, you can pay what it costs us to make one if you are broke or just a tight ass, but if you pay more than the basic costs, this will be considered a donation to the Freedom Arts Project, and we will use that money to give more stuff away.

OK, so here are the costs

T shirt 6.00
printing costs 4.50
overheads(for the printing gear/dryers etc)3.00
Postage, New Zealand 4.00
So if you are in New Zealand cost is $17.50, but try and give a little more, so we can keep printing and giving away great
New Zealand art for free, yay.
If you are over seas email me and I will let you know postage.

Sizes are S-M-L-XL

adrian@theflyingwheel.com


Idiot box t shirt, says it all.
Turn off, read and get smart.

Comrade of the Peoples Revolutionary Arts Council t shirt
Tell the man your hip to his jive.
It's also in camo green, so as you can go incognito, you know what I'm Saying...

A Couple more Stencils from Hastings
Some nice work from the achives

Peoples Artist, Brother Fane Flaws.
All thanks and a big shout out to Fane Flaws,who provided PRAC with a beautiful piece of original artwork 'Yellow Tiki' for the Freedom Art Project.
Above; Fane signs 'Yellow Tiki' prior to PRAC setting the prints free.
Below; Swing tag designed by the good comrades at Black Robin clothing, this is attached to the t shirts, which are also set free.

FREE STREET ART PROJECT
A number of years ago it was realized that art, if not dead was dying, you go to a opening and the same old faces are always there, it seemed like a religion, and always preaching to the converted.
What to do...

Most people are so scared or bored of art that they would never walk into a gallery.
It came to us, take the art to the people, you know move the mountain etc.
This is how the Free Street Art Project got under way.

Stencil great pieces of New Zealand art on the street. Now this takes courage, 3,4 and 5 colour stencils around town is nothing to be sneezed at, unfortunately we didn't record most of these early efforts in their street form, and most are now of course, long gone.

This project is still ongoing, although now in a different form.
We soon saw that a lot of people wouldn't know what the hell these stencils were, not having seen much in way of New Zealand art before.
We decided to start the project over from the beginning, but this time start with really famous paintings, so that by the time the New Zealand art started showing up as stencils, people would understand what was going on!

Mona Lisa,from the second part of the Free Art project.
Notice how the council have painted around the stencil when they repainted the power box,very considerate.
These later stencils were one colour, easier on the nerves(I guess)

Rita Angus with original free art logo, this is from about 2003

SOME RANDOM STENCILS FROM HASTINGS

Here is a small selection of stencils from around Hastings. I can't say if Peoples Revolutionary Arts Council members did any of these....but I wouldn't be surprised

THE FREEDOM ARTS PROJECT

Fane Flaws, a real peoples artist, was only to happy to provide PRAC with this piece of art for the first freedom art project action.
In the photos above you can see one of the t shirts and printed Artwork, waiting to be signed and set free.

The Freedom Arts Project

The Freedom Arts Project, is to put it simply, a way to get good quality contemporary art into the poor communities.
The project works thus; we approach an artist, and ask them to create for us a piece of original art, using no more than three colours.
We then screenprint about 35 t shirts, on which we attach a swing tag with a short bio of the artist.
Using the same set of screens, we then screen print about 30 prints on nice art paper, the artist then signs and numbers the prints.
We then take the limited edition signed prints and the t shirts and hang them (at night) in bus stops, parks shopping centers etc, for people to take or do what ever they will do with it.

Before we leave the art hanging around, we contact the schools in the area, so that the teachers can give the kids a heads up.

All of this printing is undertaken at Black Robin Clothing, good comrades! Thanks guys.
The action of taking thousands of dollars of art work and setting it free into the community is a thing of rare beauty and a real act of love. Brother Lee printing the good stuff

The Freedom Arts Project
Manifesto
1. Deliver contemporary Art for free to the community
2. Expose people to Art and artists who are not normally in the environment to do so.
3.Expose artists to people in the community that they would normally have access to.
4.To encourage through this action, rising the consciousness and love of both these groups of people.
The Peoples Revolutionary Arts Council is a non profit
organization dedicated to freeing the mind that the ass may follow.

WHO WE ARE

WHO WE ARE

Welcome to the peoples revolutionary arts council blog.
This is a organization of activist artists and creative comrades, who have come to the understanding that to not use at least part of their creative output, for the purpose of attacking the right wing ideologues and reinstating the radical left,
(as it has always historically been) back to it's traditional place as the moral high ground, for an evolving modern society, is to be complicit in the slow motion destruction of the artistic ethos of free thought and ideas.

The Peoples Revolutionary Arts Council is also actively involved in reinstating the balance between artist and art-dealer, art collector and art critic.
While we rightfully acknowledge the important place of the last three mentioned, it is obvious for all to see, that these people hold and wield to much power inside the artist community, thereby overtly; either consciously or unconsciously, distorting the natural rise and fall of artists and real artists movements.