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Guitar Town at Tower Bridge

The Southbank at Tower Bridge, London, is currently playing host to ‘Guitartown’ a selection of ‘Gibson Guitars’. The Gibson Project is a collaboration of 30 well known artists and musicians, raising money for three chosen charities; The Princes Trust, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy and Teenage Cancer Trust.

Music legends such as Paul Weller, Slash, Ronnie Wood, Robert Plant, Rod Stewart, Noel Gallagher, Mark Knopfler, Roxy Music, New Order, Bruce Dickinson, Brian May, Gary Moore, Gorillaz, Dirty Pretty Things, The Lost Prophets, James Dean Bradfield, Ocean Colour Scene, Graham Coxon, The Kooks, The Magic Numbers, Ozzy Osbourne, Paul Rodgers, Suggs, KT Tunstall, Razorlight, Hard-Fi, Corinne Bailey Rae, Depeche Mode, James Morrision, Motorhead, Sir Cliff Richard and James Blunt are lending their support.

Each guitar is constructed by a 10 foot piece of fibreglass and then designed and hand painted by some of the Uk’s leading artists. Sir Peter Blake and Mauricio Ortiz from Eyestorm have been taking part and lending their support. Each guitar will be signed by the artist and an auction for the guitars will be held in November.

’Guitartown’ London finishes at the beginning of September so make sure you get down there over the August bank holiday weekend to be sure not to miss it.

Richard Trupp's sculpture a huge success!

One of our main exhibitors to the Eyestorm Summer Show 2007 is Richard Trupp. He presented 2 outdoor sculptures in the Eyestorm sculpture garden, entitled ‘Fixing Blocks’. During the Opening Evening, many flocked outside to see the sculptures and sit around them, engaging in friendly banter and a drink or two.


In the main room of the gallery, ‘Anticipating Mars’ is displayed for the first time and has generated a lot of interest from our guests. Richard Trupp comments on the nights success: ‘The new sculpture is ambitious but I was delighted with the final installation and response, in particular the ‘Anticipating Mars’ piece stirred up lots of conversation and enthusiasm.’


‘Anticipating Mars’ was inspired by Trupp’s interest in Roman Mythology. Inside the large steel casing exists a range of smaller pieces made from vulcanized bronze and rubber. Each piece reflects Trupp’s research into Roman mythology and the god of vulcanicity, Vulcanus.


‘Anticipating Mars’ and ‘Fixing Blocks’ will be on display at the Eyestorm gallery until mid August, where you can pick up more information about them.


Claire Cleverly - Website Editor

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Eyestorm has been the market leader for limited edition prints since the web was in its infancy, so over time we've become pretty opinionated on a bunch of art-related issues. So while we're here to provide you with the best art you can buy, we also wanted a flexible space through which to share our experience of working in the frenetic, ever-accelerating market for contemporary art. So this is it. The Eyestorm blog. Ups, downs, news, views and reviews.