Fresh Nu Prinz (and other Odds n Sods)

Fresh Nu Prinz (and other Odds n Sods)

An Exhibition of Graphic Art by Austin Von New
at The Museum of Club Culture 10 Humber St, Hull HU1 1TG,

Opening Party: Friday 24th June - 6pm - 9pm.

Austin Von New is a Graphic Artist / Illustrator / Designer / Art Director and one of the original founding members of the influential NEW Studio (TM) in London.
Through NEW Austin worked on numerous high profile and award winning projects from music promos to progressive identities – from magazines to books to wall art projects and illustrations for clients that include; The Illustrated Ape, XL-Records, Heavenly, Dazed & Confused, The Face, Lodown magazine, Carhartt, Levi’s, Diesel, Pepe Jeans, BBC Worldwide, The Discovery Channel, Red Bull, The British Council, DaftTrax, MTV, Tiger Beer, Big Active,
Balance, Bunch, Intercity, Livity, Modus, Penguin, Onedotzero, AVA, TCOL, JBCP (M-real), Time Out, Creative Review magazine, The Guardian Newspaper Group – and many more…


AustinVonNew cites rebel-music, iced-cream and counter-culture as major influences. Bold colours and rude hues are present in everything he creates as Austin's endeavors began by working on late 90s indie-pop videos while painting and pasting up large portraits across London and far-away places. His frequent poster missions developed into a very graphic street art career, and he now works on fine artworks and select design projects. He paints on anything, taking great care to create his images and his work has been shown in galleries and magazines worldwide. AustinVonNew works tirelessly day and night to spread happiness, joy and the love of print.


Exhibition runs until 25th July

Japanese Street Style book

Japanese Street Style by Mark Wigan | Make Your Own Book

Sue Tilley at The Museum of Club Culture

Sue Tilley talking about Leigh Bowery at The Museum of Club Culture on Thursday.

An Evening with Sue Tilley

An Evening with Sue Tilley (7pm - 9pm on Thursday May 12th)
Sue Tilley, close friend of Leigh Bowery, Benefits Supervisor, Muse of Lucian Freud – (A painting of her holds the world record for the highest price paid for a painting by a living artist) will be at The Museum of Club Culture on May 12th.
Tilley is also the author “Leigh Bowery The Life and Times of an Icon” and will be recounting her life with him.
Places are limited - email us at museumclubculture@gmail.com to book a seat

Leigh Bowery (26 March 1961 – 31 December 1994) was a performance artist, club promoter and fashion designer based in London and is considered one of the more influential figures in the 1980's and 1990's London and New York art and fashion circles. His influence reached through the fashion, club and art worlds to impact, amongst others, Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Boy George and John Galliano
Leigh Bowery An icon of outrage embodied and transcended the hedonistic spirit of London's alternative nightclub culture in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Dressed in the wildest of costumes which he painstakingly made himself, he presided over the most bacchanalian of nightclubs the legendary Taboo at Maximus in London's West End.
Often described as one of fashion's true geniuses, Leigh designed costumes for his friend Michael Clark - Britain's finest modern dancer and toured as a performer in his company. He was invited by London gallery owner Anthony d'Offay to exhibit himself as an artwork and in 1988 Leigh embarked on the first of a series of shocking performances in London and abroad. An international cult figure and performer with his band Minty he became more famous still when he was discovered by Lucian Freud for whom Leigh became chief muse and model.

image: Leigh Bowery by Fergus Greer

Street Style exhibition and talk by Ted Polhemus

Street Style by Ted Polhemus

On Thursday 14th April from 6pm to 9pm The Museum of Club Culture in Hull has
great pleasure in presenting an exhibition, talk and book signing by legendary American writer, photographer
and social anthropologist Ted Polhemus.

Images from the new edition of the Street Style book will be exhibited on the walls of the museum for seven weeks from 16th April until 5th June and on Thursday 14th April Ted will give a talk on the past present and future of Streetstyle. Free entry but please email museumclubculture@gmail.com to reserve a seat

Ted Polhemus has written and edited over a dozen books and his talks are a must see guide to youthculture, identity and the sociology of style and the body in todays trans- global supermarket of style.
First published in 1994 his book Streetstyle from sidewalk to catwalk has become an influential sartorial style bible ever since its launch at a major exhibition curated by Polhemus at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. The book contained insightful essays, photography and illustrations chronicling the evolution of over 50 years of youth culture, highlighting the importance of social and communicative personal expression in street fashion and its relationship to music. Polhemus explored the worlds of diverse style tribes including Hipsters and TeddyBoys to Beats, Rockabillies, Mods Surfers, Hippies to Punks, Goths, B Boys and Ravers

Dvblog screening

You are invited to a dvblog screening on Saturday 26th March.
This is a 45 minute programme of artists video curated by Michael Szpakowski and Doron Golan of the online dvblog resource.
It will be running continuously between 1pm and 5pm. Free Entry.

Since the summer of 2005 DVblog http://www.dvblog.org/ has been an online resource for art & entertainment movies in QuickTime format.

Saturday 26th March will see an offline manifestation of DVblog.

Artists featured:
Martha Deed, Steven Ball, Robert Croma, Eddie Whelan, Rupert Howe, Morrisa Maltz, JimPunk, Donna Kuhn, Millie Niss, Kerry Baldry, Giles Perkins, Sam Renseiw, Alan Sondheim, Nathaniel Stern, Liz Sterry,

"We interpret our mission widely - whilst we don’t turn up our noses at the trivial, popular & amusing we also try to post the best (and the most intriguing or challenging) in new video work, so daily posts are exclusively prepared by folk who are themselves involved in making video work. We’ve insisted on always having a QuickTime copy of each piece for our server and so we have built up a large historical archive of the explosive development of online art video over the last few years'. dvblog