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Vernissage Sample Culture

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who came down to support the vernissage of Sample Culture and also to the good people at Young Gallery...

Sample Culture

Lifting/borrowing/homage/theft/referencing/reproduction! Whatever term is preferred often depends upon your perspective, but these are...

Analog Boom Bap Champion

Cesar Comanche x Ashwan collab! Recently I was contacted by Cesar Comanche, asking "What would it take to have you do my next tee...

Inheritance Wax project

Inheritance Wax was a project that started around 2006, when Ashwan was working with the elderly in Liverpool, UK. As they passed on,...

30 Seconds: Reflections on Guru, creative collaborations and inadvertently inventing Mumble Rap (i)-

Artistic collaboration is never easy! The pig-headed ego of the artist makes compromise difficult; at times impossible. Once you start mixin

BienCuadrado and YGW on BeTeVe

Earlier this week, BienCuadrado worked in collaboration with Young Gallery Weekend to host a collective group show entitled State Of The...

Vernissage: "I Like The Way You Talk" at Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Regensburg

Please join us this coming Wednesday 28th of November at Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister in Regensburg, Germany for the vernissage of "I Like...

Exhibition Opening Night - Barcelona

Thanks to everyone who came down for a fun and succesful opening night of 'We Used To Do It Out In The Park' at BienCuadrado Galeria in...

We Used To Do It Out In The Park

A celebration of DIY and old school, analogue cultures in Ashwan's latest art exhibition in Barcelona

You Can Lick Me Everywhere

Built from wood and cardboard, this 6.5 metre wall text piece is based on the lyric 'You Can Lick Me Everywhere' from Mtume's 80