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HISTORY! – Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant Subway Art Interviews Back In The Day!

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 […]

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Best of London Street Art Part 2 – The Mural Bites Back

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 […]

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London’s Street Art 2013 – Nostalgia is so last year

They said it wouldn’t last and dammit they were right. The year turned out to be mortal, just 365 days long but attaching electrodes to 2013’s nipples, street artists cranked the generator handle to keep fresh work fizzing on the walls right to the very death. Let’s look back over the highlights, the brilliant walls, […]

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Giles Walker & Candice Tripp: “I’m Never Shopping Here Again”

30th November – 12th December Black Rat Projects/Gallery 223137 – 139 Lower Marsh StreetLondon All photos: NoLionsInEngland Shopping is an evil which I put off until the need is way past the point others might have deemed a shop a necessity, as those who have checked my utilitarian taste in garms can testify.   A trip […]

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Mike Ballard: Advertising The Invisible

22 Nov – 29 Dec 2103 The Residence Gallery229 Victoria Park Rd, London E9 7HD Words, photos: nolionsinengland Experiencing a Mike Ballard show tends to induce a profound revelatory consciousness and his latest offering “Advertising The Invisible” prompts the thought what a crackingly versatile word “warp” is. Obviously there is the connotation of intergalactic travel […]

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Hit Shot Walls – October 2013

words, photos: NoLionsInEngland October sees itself out with a celebration of the macabre by the ghoulish, while people who aren’t street artists celebrate Halloween. This month has been a cracking month for new art and splashes of colour in our world, a large portion attributable to the Moniker Art Fair relocating from its previous village […]

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Brutal Lazarides Vinyl Factory Group Show

Lazarides/Vinyl Factory180 Strand, LondonTuesday 15th to Sunday 27th October 2013 words and photos: NoLionsInEngland A nailed on dead (literally!) cert highlight for each of the past few years has been the Lazarides’ offsite exhibition expedition which in the past saw the gallery packing their toiletry bags for Bedlam, The Minotour and Hell’s Half Acre in […]

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Cranio at Fun Factory, London

Fun Factory133 – 135 Bethnal Green Road29 August, 1 night onlyall photographs: NoLionsInEngland Cranio has been busy in London for the past few weeks painting a load of his characters on very visible walls across the metropolis, and a few low key not so legitimate walls but hush hush about that apparently. Cranio, Brick Lane, […]

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Art Is Trash: “Police and Horse”

 London West Bank Gallery133 – 137 Westbourne Grove, London 15 – 23 Aug 2013All photos: NoLionsInEngland When mountains of rubbish started to take on a sculpted human form in Shoreditch, Londoners fell head over heels in love with trash art.  The work of Francisco de Parjaro is literally rubbish! He takes our rubbish, reassembles it […]

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D*Face “New World Disorder at Stolen Space

Stolen Space GalleryOld Truman Brewery, London 7 Jun – 23 Jun D*Face’s stunning show closes tomorrow (Sun 23 Jun, 2013) and with it, Stolen Space pulls down the shutters on its current location until it re-surfaces somewhere else.   Below is a small selection of photos from around the show and Arrested Motion kindly let us […]