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Art Exhibitions At
The Portobello Film Festival 2006





Ripoulin

Westbourne Studios, 242 Acklam Road, W10

Porbobello Film Festival guests Ripoulin Bros to magnified the entrance of the Westbourne Studio with 14 wallpapers painting. Ripoulin Bros is an painter group created in 1985 in France, they quickly get an international fame as a Rock’n’roll group with their efficient colourful presence. With instintiv method they bring art a psychedelic presence with a clever fascination for shape and color. They glued their paintings outside the city on billboard. Making huges paintings with skillfull characters. They were seven Nina Childress, Bla + Bla, Ox, Manu, Pierre Huyghes (formely Piro Kao), Stéphane Trois Carrés,
please look at painting. What you see is what you get on Westbourne Hall Wall






John Hoppy Hopkins:
LSD meets CND

The Westbourne, 101 Westbourne Park Villas. W2. 020 7221 1332

Tuesday 1 – Saturday 26 August
Open Mon. 5pm–11pm, Tue–Sun 12–11pm

As one of the founders of the Notting Hill Free School, International Times and UFO, Hopkins was one of the key figures in alternative London. This exhibition concentrates on his photographs of life and art in Notting Hill between 1964 and 1966, including street life, demos, drugs, Allen Ginsberg and Malcolm X.




Joe Rush

Westbourne Studios, 242 Acklam Road, W10 and Portobello Green, Thorpe Close, W10

Joe Rush, founder of the Mutoid Waste Company and star of Julian Temple’s Glastonbury film, exhibits his Volkswagen Dinosaur and Fishing Boat on Ducks Legs.

Joe’s work is currently being cast in bronze by Damian Hirst.

Joe worked in Ladbroke Grove from the mid 80s originally from the Gentle Ghost studios by Shepherds Bush roundabout and the travelers camp, which he founded, on Evesham Street before moving on to a Gallery on Portobello Road (featured on Emma Freud‚s Channel 4 Media Show) next to Honest Jons, and the spectacular Mutoid Raves in St Marks Road and what is now the Monsoon building.

Also from Glastonbury festival and film, MySpace faves Screamin Blue Murder play the closing party at Westbourne Studios on Sunday 20 August.




Charlie Phillips

Inn On The Green, 3 Thorpe Close, W10

Charlie was born in Jamaica and earned a living in the 50s as a freelance photographer for Harpers Bazaar, Vogue and Life.

In his pictures international superstars and bohemians jostle with the respectable‚ and the notorious.

He photographed Portobello street life in the early 60s where natural nobilty was already beginning to shine through the Rachman slums.

He has recently had an exhibition at The Museum Of London.




Gordon McHarg/Dif & Dang

Westbourne Studios and Subway Gallery, Kiosk 1, Pedestrian Subway, Edgware Road/Harrow Road W12 07811 286503

Working as a father and son tag team, Dif & Dang take the art of graffiti from the street into the Portobello Film Festival and at the SUBWAY GALLERY the newest addition to west London‚s art scene.

Piece On You is a series of large-scale cut-out sculptures focusing on PEACE. The one word exhibition uses a wide spectrum of global languages to communicate the message of Peace through graffiti art. Each individual cut-out is a collaboration of son Dif’s graffiti designs, blown up and cut out of MDF by father Dang, then spray-painted.

Dif & Dang first explored the use of sculptural graffiti in Fuji Rock Festival Japan 2003, their first show in the UK was at the Notting Hill Arts Club in January 2004




Alex Martinez

The Muse, 269 Portobello Road, W11

Inquest of Mistic Art

Graffiti, is it surreal or real real? Counterculture meets the mainstream at The Muse; contemporary artists exhibit their portable wall to wall pieces showcasing spray can discipline, at low low prices.

Graffiti Writer Vol I: A Mistic Journey by Alexander Martinez is available at Amazon.co.uk and at Waterstones bookstores from 19 September 2006.




Ron Reid

Inn On The Green, 3 Thorpe Close, W10

Ron Reid was the house photographer at the Marquee Club in the 70s and 80s, and the official photographer of Lord Sutch‚s Screaming Monster Raving Loony Party. Taking to his bicycle he also lovingly recorded the street life and Carnivals of Notting Hill during this period, from skateboarding to punks, from gays to skinheads and squatters.

Reid died in 1997 before he could fulfil his wish to return to Australia leaving behind an archive of nearly 15,000 photos, most of which have never been published.