GraffotoAll photos: Dave Stuart aka NoLionsInEngland except where stated The big challenge to a writer attempting to review a year of street art is that the chosen subject is so vast, so vague and so difficult to categorize. Efforts to place a boundary around the subject always create a problem of what to do about […]
Lazarides Rathbone 16th Oct to 12th Nov 2015 All photos: Dave Stuart aka NoLionsInEngland Ephemerality – a quality word we like to bandy around when generalising about the culture of street art. We tend to forget that also gallery shows don’t last forever so if you are reading this review after 7pm today, Graffoto apologises […]
29 Sep – 30 Oct 2015 Cass Bank Gallery 59-63 Whitechapel High Street, London, E1 7PF All photos: NoLionsInEngland Did you see it? The best street art exhibition of the year? It was in London too, not somewhere overlooking the gloopy mud of the Bristol Channel at low tide. Flyposter clusters around London have been […]
Weston-super-Mare 22nd August – 27th September 2015 All photos: NoLionsInEngland except Dismaland logo courtesy www.banksy.co.uk It has been a while, street art has been wallowing in the doldrums. There has been too many art graduates choosing careers as muralists, not enough vandals (particularly from America, we like American vandals) and a prolonged period of inactivity […]
71 Redchurch St 1 August 2015, one day only Photos: NoLionsInEngland except 71RCS where stated Every now and again someone comes along whose art stands apart from the rest of the street art canon. A few years back quirky skeletons started to live a somewhat traumatised and confused life on Shoreditch wall. Thus began an […]
Shoreditch, London 10 – 12 July 2015 all photos: NoLionsInEngland Meeting Of Styles returned to Shoreditch last week for the second Summer on the trot. Over a 2 day period spraycan graffiti writers and street artists from Brazil to Russia via Spain and UK threw a wild ribbon of colour around Shoreditch. Ekto & friends […]
Unit 4 199 Eade Road (see directions below) London N4 1DN (about 10 mins walk from Manor House) Fri 3 April – Sun 5th April Fri 1930 – 0000 Saturday 4th 2pm – midnight/Sun 5th 2pm -2300 See event page all photos: NoLionsInEngland Featured artists painting indoors and out: Kenor, Zosen Bandido, Vinnie Nylon, Pablo […]
Dr d., London’s top political malcontent street artist is on a roll and has been out again, this time taking over pavement advertising sites. The new version of HMP London (HMP: Her Majesty’s Prison] open prison advises us that innocent or guilty, we are all now being spied on. Highlighting the pernicious erosion of freedoms […]
London Newcastle Space 28 Redchurch St Shoreditch, London 5 – 26th Feb 2015 All photos: NoLionsInEngland Spanish street artist Borondo moved to London in early 2014 and blew us away with his street art. It was painterly, impressionist and frankly very inventive. Shoreditch, 2014 Had we ever seen a piece of street art specifically designed […]
The Hoxton Gallery 16 Jan 2015 All photos: NoLionsInEngland Videos: Keith K. Hopewell, NoLionsInEngland This scribe’s ugly and wizened fizzog appears for a nanosecond in an artist’s video. Quite sufficient justification for a belated blog musing, a video clip and a video clip of the making of the video clip. Keith K. Hopewell is many […]
all photos: NoLionsInEngland (with anonymous passerby help gratefully received where noted!) Dr D is a perhaps the perfect street artist. His paste up works are epic in scale and they commandeer outdoor channels generally exploited for advertising or control, if they can advertise there, Dr D will hijack it. His guerrilla advertising talkeovers inject political […]
All photos NoLionsInEngland except Jef Aerosol where stated On Weds 7th January, two masked men claiming to belong to Al Qiada armed with Kalashnikov rifles burst into the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris and embarked on a killing orgy that saw 12 killed in the that building including editor Stephane Charbonnier and cartoonists […]
All photos: NoLionsInEngland We’ve done our 2014 review ,twice, already but we just fancy signing off 2014 doing our favourite things..taking photos and spouting shite. All these photos were taken mid afternoon on New Years Eve and we believe the art to have been put up in the preceding 24 hours. Donk had an epic […]
Photos: NoLionsInEngland Undoubted star of the London street art scene this year was Spanish artist Borondo. Among a series of great pieces the stand out has to be the upside down canalside face in Hackney Wick, a gem of site specific dynamic art. With just the right wind, a gentle slop of the water surface […]
All Art: by Louis Masai locations: Shoreditch, Camden, Brixton All photographs: NoLionsInEngland You wait all year for conscience driven awareness raising street art campaigns then two come along at once. A couple of weeks ago, not long after Graffoto wrote about Dan Witz’s Empty The Cages project, Louis Masai was spied on the streets of […]