Santa's Ghetto Open daily from 10am until 8pm, (9pm
on Thursdays, 5pm on Sundays) until December 24th
9 Berwick St, Soho, London W1
The ghetto is a street level free-for-all art gallery that brings
you some of the most feared names from the failed artist circuit
FEATURING... I LIKE DRAWING
- a bloke called Ian who has a beard and draws on rubbish 3D
- former boy band member who paints in the shed at the bottom of
his garden BANKSY
- stencil graffiti artist who likes to be anonymous but gets in
the papers a lot SOLO ONE
- sticker king of south London who works in a swimming pool DAVID SHRIGLEY
- king doodler, painter and film maker JAMIE HEWLETT
- responsible for the biggest cartoon band the world has ever known GEE VAUCHER
- former crass collaborator and official portrait painter of the
Left STANLEY DONWOOD
- 'the fifth member of radiohead' yet strangely the best looking SICKBOY
- graffiti with a middle-eastern-temple-type twist KELSEY BROOKS
- awkward animal angst from San Francisco FAILE
- poets of the New York fly-poster revolution LUKE EGAN
- purveyor of inflatable sculptures and novel uses of the traffic
cone CHRIS CUNNINGHAM
- maker of video nasties and related novelty goods ANTHONY MICALLEF
- One of the few artists in this show who can actually draw SPACE INVADER
- Parisian nutter who rides round on a scooter and glues mosaic
space invaders wherever he likes MODE 2
- graffiti supremo and professional voyeur PAUL INSECT
- East end graphic design king-pin EINE
- obsessively paints letters of the alphabet but is crap at spelling D*FACE
- draws a strange ball with wings everywhere and insists on calling
it a 'dog' SIMON MUNNERY
- stand up alcoholic comic and writer of nifty philosophical one
liners JO RUSH
- makes sculptures out of old metal on a travellers site by the
Thames POLLY MORGAN
- Britain's hottest bird stuffer CABLE STREET COLLECTIVE
- young London graffers, designers and illustrators ZEUS
- bizarre Parisian who has devised the only accurate map of the
London
underground system ever made