Graffotowe like having stuff we like on our walls. A self-styled accidental gallerist (no apologies necessary), an art establishment academic/critic and a “street art” gallerist spouted off at a panel discussion at Tate Modern on collecting street art. Pure Evil, the blushing gallerist, blew the debate out of the water with the truism that once […]
98 Leonard Street, London EC1. 6pm ’til 11pm Free Entry! http://www.cancersell.org.uk/ http://www.flickr.com/groups/cancersell Cancer Sell is almost upon us! With the quality of the artwork that has come in in the last few days, the organisers have been as pleased as punch and are really looking forward to putting on a great show. There is so […]
To fill the void of this incredibly dull period of inactivity on the local streets, lets have a look at some obscure, less well-known but not likely to have been forgotten Banksy pieces. Firstly, in one of those grotty yet achingly trendy shoreditch arty farty bars Mr HowAboutNo, obviously being younger and trendier and still […]
Pure Evil Gallery, Shoreditch, London11 July 2008 – fuck knows whenDeadbeat Donny somewhat underwhelmed on previous viewing at the Open Studio transient gallery in Dec 07. With a three week window to create something under the intermittent gaze of the public, a mess of cardboard shifted around between wall and floor and in a blizzard […]
The Parthenon, democracy, any song by Demis Roussos, this post about Athenian graffiti – one thing they all have in common is they never seem to get finished. Well here is part two, part one is either a little bit lower down the page or here. Thanks to its intractable bureaucracy where even a simple […]
Ink-d Gallery, Brighton4 Jul – 2 Aug 08 Un-diluted, 100% concentrated, fully refined malevolence filled the sea air surrounding the Ink-d Gallery in Brighton. This phenomenon has a sweet herbal scent and it manifests in the form of Pure Evil. The master of the double bluff shields his evil bunny alter-ego behind a veneer of […]
Over many years as London’s ambassador to Athen’s tavernas and bars, I have had the pleasure of observing quite a large amount of graffti, regrettably nearly always from the windows of taxis (when Athens taxis are moving it’s best to keep your eyes closed, thankfully they also spend a lot of time stationary). On my […]
I knew it would be worth waiting a while to update on the lushness that is painted by Cept……actually, that’s a complete lie, I didn’t have a clue quite what was gonna happen in the last month and a bit around his usual Sclatter Street wall. It had been in this guise below, fairly suitably […]