Mid Nite Crisis 14 – 22nd December 2018 Rocket Barber Shop 118 Stoke Newington High St, London N16 7NY Sweet Toof, East London’s legendary dental illustrator is back for a show in the unlikely surroundings of a North London barber shop cellar. The unorthodox location heaves with canvasses, prints and bizarre objects. Knick knacks with […]
Year: 2018
Street Art Against Hate
In a weekend when a lot of new street art appeared in Shoreditch one creation particularly stood out, the new “Wall Of Love” from the #NoHate family of street artists. This consists signature art from 355 artists rendered in a circular format under the slogans #StreetartAgainstHate #ToLiveAndLetLive . This London installation was put together by […]
RYCA DANCE ACID RAVE!
Ryan Callanan aka RYCA “DANCE ACID RAVE!” 8th – 18th November 2018 BSMT Space (see photo below) 5D STOKE NEWINGTON ROAD LONDON N16 8BH On One There is a canon of legendary musical events where the number of people claiming to have been there far exceeds a venue’s capacity, oft quoted is the Sex Pistol’s […]
The S Sense of Eine
Everything Starts Somewhere StolenSpace Gallery 17 Osborn St, London E1 6TD 25th October – 18th November 2018 Break out the bunting, a typopgraphy typhoon has struck London, it’s an Eine exhibition. Back in 2007 EINE had a solo show at Kemistry Gallery, late of Charlotte Rd, and the power of seeing EINE’s typography migrate indoors […]
xEnso – Xenz’ Nelly Duff Show
Xenz 2nd – 8th November 2018 Nelly Duff Gallery 156 Columbia Road London E2 7RG If there is a niche for graffiti writers who paint exquisite, delicate nature pieces with a dash of fantasy landscape thrown in then a huge chunk gets filled by Hull’s finest escapee, Xenz. Meeting Of Styles 2009 Cans Festival II, […]
Dscreet Top 40 Covers
BSMT Space (see photo below) 5D STOKE NEWINGTON ROAD LONDON N16 8BH In December 2008 a parliament, for that is what a group of owls is called, assembled in the famous Pure Evil Gallery cellar for a solo show by Dscreet. Graffoto raved about Dscreet’s solo show in that famous cellar and indeed a pair […]
Banksy Love Is In The Bin
Banksy Love Is In The Bin Sothebys, New Bond Street 13th – 14th Oct 2018 The art world lives in a truly weird parallel biosphere: it wears different clothes, eats different food, holidays in places Club 18-30 does not reach and it treasures bizarrely different values. Condemning art world indulgences and privilege is something the […]
Sweet Toof back, with friends
If there is one thing Shoreditch has lacked in the past few years it is the regular sightings of shocking pink gums and pearly teeth from Sweet Toof, the last proper dental checkup around Brick Lane was a paste up bombing session with Insect in 2013. Paul Insect, Sweet Toof, 2013 Last Christmas a glorious […]
BSMT Space 5D STOKE NEWINGTON ROAD LONDON N16 8BH Skeleton Cardboard doesn’t make art show aficionado’s lives easy. In fact he could be said to drive people to death as the skeleton count on the street and in the gallery piles up thanks to his art and at the same time his exhibitions are always […]
HENI Gallery 1st floor 6-10 Lexington St, London W1F 0LB (press the buzzer!) 14th September — 13th October 2018 It’s art week in London, a bunch of clever and many not so clever arty people meet a bunch of artlessly rich people in large tents to exchange money, business cards and air kisses but if […]
Late last week whilst contemplating a new piece of graffiti on Great Eastern Street an amusing diversion arose as a small gaggle of folk rolled up with a pushbike laden with rolls of blue backed paste ups and proceeded to bish bosh a lot of gloopy paste onto virgin building site hoarding. “Here will do” […]
Shoreditch street art is a little bit different, in many ways and for many reasons, it just is. One aspect in which Shoreditch however may be a bit off the pace is the gargantuan mural. The social media feeds of many brilliant photographers of street art from around the world are full of truly epic […]
Think Shoreditch and inevitably thoughts are of clubs, parties and street art. A more considered assessment of the past 20 years would oblige image wizards to render Shoreditch in the collective memory as a place of creativity, craftsmanship, experimentation, fashion, film making, music making and art performance to name just a few. Sadly this week […]
Scarfing a bit of impromptu graffiti hunting on to a week abroad with the family was never likely to prompt delirious enthusiasm on their part. On the coach trip from the airport to the hotel that was to be our compound for a week of what turned out to be fairly British weather, our coach […]
Meeting Of Styles UK 2018
Meeting Of Styles Nomadic Community Gardens, Shoreditch 26 – 28th May 2018 At the end of May there is a Bank Holiday in the UK though really no one knows why or cares what for. This provides a marvellous opportunity for a huge array of spraypainting talent to gather in Shoreditch for a frenzy of […]