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Airborne Mark Antony Lister JR Louis Masai Monsieur Qui Saki and Bitches Sweet Toof

Diggin In The Archives 4

Diggin into the archives bring back lots of mostly good memories but some of these artists have done so much brilliant street art that picking just one or two highlights is cruelly dismissive of their street opus. Another week of suspended animation has rolled past so here we go with the 4th collection of flashbacks […]

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Best Ever Burning Candy Cept Deadleg Dscreet Gold Peg Isaac Cordal K-Guy Mighty Mo Otto Schade PS Stewy's Stencils Sweet Toof

Diggin In The Archives 3

Four weeks of Lockdown now, most sensible countries have extended their lockdown period for a few more weeks but don’t worry, the archive isn’t going to be running on fumes any time soon. The relationship between impact and size is not at all clear in street art. Isaac Cordal‘s forlorn concrete figures were found in […]

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Eine Ella et Pitr Jeff Soto Macay Paul Insect Phlegm Tinsel Edwards Toasters Twinkle Troughton vhils

Diggin In The Archives 2

Another seven days of posting photos of street art dredged from the archives. In lockdown you have plenty of time with your thoughts and the wandering mind generates random recollections. Those which stand out lead to a photo being thrust into the limelight. So there was some kind of logical process behind the selection of […]

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Ace Corrosive 8 Faile Jamie Reid Rider Shepard Fairey

Jamie Reid – Taking Liberties

Taking Liberties! Jamie Reid political work 1970 – 2020Horse Hospital, Colonnade, BloomsburyLondon WC1N 1JD Opened March 6th, extended to end April Jamie Reid is the activist artist who is probably best known in popular culture as the artist behind the Sex Pistols album artwork. The Horse Hospital in London has a retrospective exhibition of Jamie […]

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Digging In The Archives 1

Two weeks ago today I received a text message from the NHS telling me I had to isolate, though I had pretty much gone into a self imposed lockdown a week earlier when I returned from my Father’s funeral in Ireland. On a daily basis I have been digging through the photo archives and posting […]