Semi-Finalists Notified

Congratulations to all of those who made it into the semi-final of the Oi You! 2011 Competition and commiserations to those who missed out.

An email has now been sent to all those who’ll be progressing.

As I’m sure you can imagine the standard was red hot and the people fortunate enough to get through this round now have the opportunity have their work presented to Faile who’ll then decide the final 20 in each Section.

Thanks to everyone who took part we had a fabulous response with more that 300 people taking part across the two Sections.

Good to luck to all those lucky enough to get through.

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Faile – Winners Images Now In

The winners of both Sections (Youth & Open) of the Competition will each receive one of the awesome limited edition Faile prints shown below.

Both of them are huge (top image is approx’ 70cm x 99cm, bottom approx’ 96.5cm x 63.5), beautiful multi-coloured signed screen-prints very kindly donated to us by Brooklyn’s finest.

Which Section will receive which print is yet to be decided

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Entries are flying in!

With just over a week to go before the closing date for the Oi You! Competition 2011 entries are coming in thick and fast.

Make sure you don’t miss out on the opportunity of winning a fabulous Faile print and get your submission uploaded now.

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Oi You! – It’s All New!

We’ve got a new Website – a new 2011 Oi You! Competition – A new Logo  - a new Shop



We’ve quite for a few weeks but we’ve not been dormant.

An invitation has just gone out to every high school and university in the country inviting them to take part in the Oi You! 2011 Competition.

Register now and get busy!

To handle all of the additional traffic and the registration and submission process we totally rebuilt the website – it’s shiny, it’s new and it’s announcing the Oi You! 2011 Exhibition – the biggest Urban Art Exhibition ever to be seen in NZ.

Starring loads of stuff from the man himself – Banksy.

Have a good look around and give us your feedback.

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Oi You! 2010 – The Movie

Against a backdrop of classic Urban Art installations the 20 finalists, 10 from the Youth Section and 10 from the Open Section, of the Oi You! 2010 Urban Art Compitition were invited to recreate their submissions on large MDF panels….and Nelson loved it!

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Oi You! on Facebook

Oi You! is now on Facebook – we have uploaded a whole heap of pictures of Oi You! 2010 onto the Facebook page and there’s even a small video clip with another larger one to follow very soon.

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And the winner is…………….

The Cut Collective nominated their first and second in each category and these were announced by Te Radar directly after the auction.

Open Section Winner – Anna Johnstone

Open Section Runner Up – Ghstie

Youth Section Winner – Jesse Allardice

Open Section Runner Up – Hayden Gundry

Kindly Te Radar waived his appearance fee and in response Oi You! upped the amount going to the artists from 80% to 100% of the hammer price.

More on the auction an lots of photos to follow after the final day of the show tomorrow, holiday Monday.

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Oi You! The Auction

All the 20 finalists pictures are now finished, framed and up in place!

The quality of the work is simply stunning (see below), so if you’re after an art bargain come on down to Founders Park, Nelson tomorrow at 6pm have a drink, pick your favourite and prepare to bid (auction starts at about  7.15pm).

The human Powerstaion Te Radar is running the auction so if nothing else it’ll be entertaining!

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Oi You! It's Nearly Here

Oi You! 2010 is getting really close, the venue’s taking shape and we have an awesome weekend to look forward to.

This weekend October 16th & 17th is ‘Artists in Action’ when the majority of the finalists will be down at Founders creating their work ready for installation.

To set off what the artists are doing we’re working all hours to create an amazing backdrop for the event. This includes a whole heap of installations with massive Urban Art images and even a painted car!?

We also have some fantastic news; Chris Finlayson, the guy who painted the brilliant Aotearoa mural at Wakefield Quay, is coming along to create a installation of his own and to lend a hand to the younger artists.

So come on down; if you’re feeling inspired there’s a Scrawl Wall for you to create your own masterpiece or simply have a mooch, see art show that’s a bit different for Nelson and soak up the atmosphere.

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Finalists Announced

The Cut Collective www.cutcollective.co.nz have now selected the finalists for Oi You! 2010.

They chose their favourite 10 in no particular order in both sections (Open & Youth) and then appointed three reserves in order; so if someone drops out they will be replaced by the 1st reserve another drops out they’ll be replaced by the 2nd etc.

Congratulations in the Open Section go to:

Janet Fletcher, Aubrey Findlay, PNTR, Khalid Shafar, Ghstie, Miriam Hansen, Matty, Gwilym Devey, Astrid Visser and Anna Johnson.

1st reserve – Atom1746, 2nd reserve – Simon Owen, 3rd reserve Shaun Oughton.

Congratulations in the Youth Section go to:

Monica Nelson, John Dover, Amber Ford, Kelsy Frost & Jaimee Taylor, Brody Haussmann, Hayden Gundry, Jesse Allardice, Michelle Rooke, Ben Callow and Belinda, Georgia & Madaliene.

1st reserve – Renee & Jenna, 2nd reserve Youth Nelson, 3rd reserve Scott ‘Sums’ Sumby.

Our commiserations go to all of those who missed out and thanks to everyone who has participated. The response that we had and the standard of the entries has far exceeded everyone’s expectations.

The Cut Collective have asked us to relay that you posed them a very difficult task and that all should be very proud of what they produced.

Oi You! would like to take this opportunity to say a great big thank you to both everyone who entered and to the Cut Collective.

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