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Win Screen-Printed & Signed Back Issues of VNA

You’ve seen the special edition magazines we produce with each issue, you’ve yearned after them, you may even own some. But today we have created this one-off opportunity for you to get your hands on them again. We’ve gathered together special editions from VNA issue 10, through to our most recent issue 18; which feature [...]

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Mark Gmehling ‘In Style We Trust’ Mural

By now most of London will have heard about the epic Dudebox launch last week, and if you haven’t, well lets just say it was pretty darn impressive! Prior to the event they got Mark Gmehling to paint this mural outside Village Underground with their motto ‘In style we trust’ – here’s how it went [...]

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AnyForty & T-world – The Australian Invasion

Our friends over at clothing brand AnyForty have had a busy couple of months working on a new series of t-shirts in collaboration with Eddie Zammit’s T-world. With designs from Australian based artists like Beastman, Ken Taylor and Meggs, we have been eagerly awaiting this release for a while. But the wait is over.. nearly! [...]

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The Hundreds x The Seventh Letter: Revok

The Hundreds collaboration with The Seventh Letter present this honest and unbelievably interesting video with Revok; I’ll let it do the talking.

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Mau Mau

For the last couple of weeks Londoners have been afforded the privilege of seeing Mau Mau’s work displayed in the Westbank Gallery. We caught up with the elusive man for a brief yet insightful Q&A. Here’s what he had to say. A lot of your work carries political or social undertones, do you feel this [...]

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Herakut Time Lapse

Check this time lapse by Colin Day which shows the creation of one of Herakut’s pieces for their show at 941 Geary. Hera wrote a poem by an exiled Iranian poet for the texture behind the character and the time lapse enables the viewer see what lies beneath the surface. Enjoy! We did.

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Ronzo’s Birdz

To coincide with our Ronzo interview in issue 18; João Retorta was given the opportunity to follow him through the process of creating and rolling out his famous birds on the streets of London. To win one of these unique birds (pictured below) from Ronzo just answer this question and email your answers to ro@verynearlyalmost.com [...]

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Faith 47 paints a 7 Storey wall

Check this epic wall entitled ‘if winter comes’ from Faith 47 which went up in Melbourne last week. It was painted ahead of her joint show with Dal East which opens on 26th April at RTIST Gallery, Melbourne.

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Yok Prints

VNA favourite The Yok has got some super slick prints up for sale on his website! The prints are hand pulled on a high quality thick art paper in rich black ink, 48cm x 51cm. Limited to 25 prints, hand singed and numbered, with a Yok Sticker pack – at $80 a pop that sounds like [...]

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Sticker Competition

After much deliberating over the many entries to this competition, we have chosen a winner – Pete Boaz! He has won a limited edition VNA 18; we’ve also chosen two runners up – Kain Marshall & Ben Broome who will receive VNA goody bags. Check the winning photo and some of our favourite entries below. [...]

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