GraffotoPhotos: NoLionsinEngland except where stated There are few joys greater than the unexpected discovery of a stunning piece of street art. Finding something with beauty and meaning and which you were totally unaware of gives a buzz very little else can match. While cycling along my well worn route into Shoreditch recently something caught my […]
All photos NoLionsInEngland except where stated (Update: see new news on NO AD in footnote at bottom) Street artist INSA has explored the far off boundaries of technology with his latest hi-tech work “The Cycle Of Futility” in Shoreditch. With most street art basically what you see is what you get, the image is the […]
Art Is Trash is back in town and installed this most unlikely tearful tribute to Robbo on a wall tastefully utilised by Drax and Oker and Pure Evil (out of shot) as a Robbo tribute then distastefully partially painted over too soon by Endless. I doubt there is a more flamboyant performer in the world […]
5 Sep – 18 October Elms Lester Paint Rooms Flitcroft Street Covent Garden London WC2H 8DH all photos: NoLionsInEngland Sometimes Graffoto is blown away by an exhibition to which the street art epithet has only a distant relevance but it is still worth sharing the excitement. In the case of Adam Neate, the street art […]
29 July – 18 August 2014 Saatchi GalleryKings Rd, London, SW3 4RY all photos: NoLionsInEngland There is a sort of generally accepted progression for ambitious street artists, something along the lines of work on the streets; participate in edgy totally non commercial and correspondingly un-profitable group show in a remote shared space; group show in […]
all photos: NoLionsInEngland The graffiti community mourns the passing of a giant. Robbo, King Robbo to many, sustained serious injuries in an accident in 2011 and after being in a coma ever since passed away last week. RIP. Robbo was a true legend of the London graffiti scene being one of the leaders of the […]
all photos NoLionsInEngland except HowAboutNo where stated Meeting Of Styles is an international celebration of the art of the spraycan, graffiti and music. Since 2002 Meeting Of Styles spraycan art jams have taken place in 16 countries. Last weekend it was the turn of Shoreditch to host the Meeting Of Styles UK 2014 event. Billed […]
“cos the city’s out to get me if I won’t sleep with her this eveningThough her buildings are impressive and her cul-de-sacs amazingShe’s had too many lovers and I know you’re out there waiting”– “Sheffield Sex City”, Pulp All photos: NoLionsInEngland Sheffield, up North, 3 hours ish out of St Pancras, why I have not […]
Stolen Space Gallery17 Osborn Street, London E1 6TD 13 Jun – 6 July 2014 all photos: NoLionsInEngland It would be easy to sneer “Sell out, same ol’ shit, run out of ideas” in a week when shows by two of the giants of street art open in London*. However, in the case of Roa, the […]
“Stealing Banksy” London25th – 27th April 2014 Photos: NoLionsInEngland except Art of The State and others where stated It’s not often a piece of street art produces a profound shift in my thinking but now I’ve seen the “Stealing Banksy?” exhibition, I get why Athenians insist that inside the British Museum is not the right […]
Two new Banksy pieces in England All photos by shellshock It’s official (almost). Banksy has come away from the dirty nappies and dropped two sumptuous pieces in his old stomping ground; a.k.a. God’s own backyard, the West Country of England. Not surprisingly Banksy has never done anything in genteel Cheltenham before, as the local ‘krew’ […]
All photos: NoLionsInEngland (HowAboutNo pretending there were no trains all month from the South Coast, that’s 4 x 5 = 20 days working from home, yeah!) February has been a month of unrelenting street art activity by street artists clad mainly in anoraks and wellington boots. Going to kick our look back this month, a […]
All photos: NoLionsInEngland Every once in a while a street artist creates a soaring spectacular piece of street art which resets the benchmark and blows the mind, and recently Spanish artist Borondo did just that with a breathtakingly original piece in Hackney Wick. A little bit of recent history first though, he came to London […]
I don’t know how I have missed this, I have not seen it before but this contemporary short film is absolutely fascinating. A sprightly Martha Cooper jumps on top of car roofs to get those outdoor whole train panorama shots while Henry Chalfant does one of the best impressions of Keith Haring ever (ok…maybe I […]
London has witnessed in 2013 a pretty significant growth in the number of large scale street art productions created with permission and indeed it seems, a growth in the number of organisations arranging spots for artists. Whilst Graffoto’s natural tendency is to prefer street art created without permission, we don’t judge just because something is […]