Elmar Lause (born 1973 in Bochum, Germany) is a collector of flattened Coke cans, scrapbook stickers, multicoloured mon-sters made from plastic, vintage family photographs, antlers, comic strips, newspaper tear sheets and other seemingly ir-relevant small details of everyday life are what he carefully retains in boxes, albums and in display cabinets. All of them form the foundation of the artist’s odd and queer world that he evokes in his works. The 37-year-old Elmar Lause enjoys manipulating the familiar and extracting something surpris-ing and unexpected from the habitual. He works with the set-pieces of various imageries: comic and advertisement, art and lowbrow kitsch, video games and graffiti. In his paintings, collages and installations, these different elements of our reality are superimposed and in their combination yield or-chestrations of a fantastic and crazy kind. “Everything that fascinates me, all that draws my attention, is incorporated into my works”, states Lause. The son of the brilliant actor and art aficionado Hermann Lause, deceased in 2005, studied painting with Dieter Glasmacher and design with Welfhard Kraiker in Hamburg, Germany. “I am a story teller”, says the artist about himself. His painted, air-sprayed, and glued stories full of surprises, horror and wit bear witness to this.

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ELMAR LAUSE

A gigantic weightless astronaut floats above the city in the centre of Berlin. The astronaut is an impressive fig-ure, faceless and oversized, which cannot be overlooked. The work is a classic mural but painted in the style of a huge black stencil, black paint still running and dripping down the wall. It is one of those images black on white which in a simple and effective manner imprints itself in the mind of a passer-by. After one has passed by the astronaut he still lingers on the retina for a while. In this sense Ash’s works are immediate but will stay with you for a while to make you think, to annoy you, or to make you reflect.

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VICTOR ASH

Penny was educated at Chelsea College of Art Design and Cen-tral Saint Martins and upon graduating, quickly established himself within the stencil art scene in London. He has re-ceived critical acclaim for his highly technical, intricate-ly detailed hand-cut stencils, which he brings to life with the application of an idiosyncratic colour palette.

Penny regards the complex, lengthy process of stencil pro-duction as important as the final piece and his methodology greatly informs his work. Other themes include the juxta-position of the industrial with the organic, playing with scale, the subtle subversion of reality and the creation of narrative within the inanimate. All these notions trans-late equally well to canvas or street, and with every street piece, further considerations are given to the context and environment. The interaction with the environment is an im-portant part of Penny’s work.

Penny’s artworks are produced using highly complex stencils and spray paint. Penny hand cuts all his stencils using a scalpel, and one stencil alone can take hundreds of hours to cut. This process allows Penny to produce images with a yield so highly detailed that they are almost photographic.

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PENNY

HANNAH PARR

Born in 1984, based in Berlin. Hannah Graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design with a BA (Hons) Graphic Design 2006. HANNAH’s paintings are indicative of her engagement in the process. Colourful, playful and often dark, her work reflects a passionate energy that intersects the static with the fluid and invites the viewer to enter into striking combinations of colour and movement. It is her deliberate choice to paint on found wood. She thrive’s off finding a forgotten or abandoned object or piece of wood and is interested in putting it in to a new context; a rebirth. HANNAH find’s satisfaction in renewing the forgotten beauty of these unwanted pieces of old furniture, and by present-ing them once again to the world they reveal a revived value which in itself calls out for new attention.

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NOMAD

If you ask Nomad what his profession or mission in life is, he answers : “Freedom”. Nomad is the blueprint of the con-temporary Urban Artist. Educated and inspired by the Skate-boarding, Hardcore Punk, Graffity, HipHop and Rave Coun-tercultures of the 80’s, his visiual imprint on the early Berlin Streetartscene was immense. His Thousands of free-style Roadside trash paintings and markerdrawings on Ber-lins streets, earned him countless admirers and collectors and made his art visible all over the world - from Blogs and books to the homes of Hollywood Stars.His style - created by his lifestyle as a a vagabond- is al-ways evolving and incorporates “the necessary” - as he pro-claims to use whatever style or material is available to maximize the focus on the pleasure of the creation. This can be a Renaissance inspired canvass in his studio, a marker-scribble on a doorway or trashcan, a grafittybombing on the wall of a huge dam or a sculpture made out of some tumble-weeds in the desert.

VARIOUS &GOULD

Various & Gould, an artist duo who have been working together since 2005. Their common interests are the love for paper, the enthusiasm for accidental beauty in everyday life, collabo-rations with artists and friends, especially the work in the urban area form the basis for their joint work. They’re pre-ferred techniques are screen printing and collage. They live and work in Berlin

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ANTON UNAI

Rough and elegant artwork from traditional aesthetic bounda-ries. Meta-narratives, pop, science, subculture artefacts, re-ligious iconography and a wide breath if literary references.

Born in 1974 in Spain, moved to Berlin. His work has been ex-hibited internationally. Inspired by vegetable garden, the seaside, Leo Messi, my Father , my Mother, Sister, girlfriend and daughters. And never in this order.

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Mother Drucker x Art against Knives present - ‘As the Crow Flies’ an urban art screen print show. Please join us at the opening reception on Thursday March 1st 6 - 9pm at Art Against Knives Gallery, BoxPark, Shoreditch, or view the show from March 2nd - March 29th.

For further details on artists or to contact them directly please email gemma@mother-drucker.com for further details.

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