Friday passed, saw the celebration of Recoat Gallery’s 3rd Birthday. To mark this special occasion, artist’s from their recent Fool’s Gold tour headed up to paint and exhibit some pieces. One of the highlights of the show came from Insa‘s and Inkie‘s massive piece in the alleyway. The background was painted four times and a series of photo’s taken by WCNS’s Alex Martin, transformed it into an animated GIF. Check out more of these grafitti gifs over at Insa’s blog. TenTen from Hamburg and Veuch from Belgium also jetted in, dodged the neds and painted the other half of the alley with their unique style and really completed the piece.

To complete the event, Insa painted a Mercedes Benz and this was offered as a prize through the raffle. Congratulations to Nick Mangos, who scored the winning ticket – not bad for £1.50! Can’t wait to see it driving around Glasgow.

We would like to offer a big congratulations to Amy and Ali (above), owners of Recoat. We wish them twice as much success for the next three years as the past three have provided. Be sure to check out the Fool’s Gold video tour below, made possible by them and new Glasgow productions company Pigeon Promotions.

There are also more photos from the night, over at the fashion blog, Style Scanner.

Fool’s Gold European Tour and Exhibition from Pigeon Promotions on Vimeo.

To celebrate their third birthday on 30th July, Recoat Gallery, have invited artists from each of the countries they visited from their Fools Gold tour, to exhibit in an international group show. There will also be a live mural painting by legendary writers, Insa and Inkie. Head on down as Recoat always put on an excellent night. We’d also like to wish them a hearty congratulations, on beating the three year crunch!

Also, check out our interview with Recoat’s owners here.

Klingatron got in contact to share a glimpse of him at work in Aberdeen. I was impressed to see just how delicate his stencils are, but at 1:14, when he scrunches it up…pfft i had to look away!

Swing by his site to see more of his work.

Tonight at Sub Club, Glasgow will be taking on Banksy’s home town of Bristol in their second leg of Secret Wars. Representing Glasgow is, Rekor, Conzo & Elph.

After Glasgow’s dissapointing 2-1 defeat to Malmo in the last round, be sure to head down to give as much support as you can. 16 European cities are partaking in this and tackling the might of Bristol, Inkie, Cheo and Andy Council. This should prove to be a fun and competitive night.

£4 in, £1.50 beers and Spectrum DJs are playing afterwards. Mm, Can you smell the ink vapours?

Conzo got in contact, to remind us all that the start of the fantastic Secret Wars European competition, will be kicking off tonight in the Sub Club. Some of Glasgow’s finest street artists, will be battling against the might of Sweden. Kicks off at 10pm, with nice tunes and beers, tickets are £6/£7.

Conzo is an artist based in Glasgow with a bold, rude style. Checkout his Behance folio here-the brand id for Cookie Scotland, in the south side, is brilliant. You can also follow his blog here.

Excellent!