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, […]
Author: NoLionsInEngland
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
All photos: NoLionsInEngland May was a busy month for street artists and photographers of street art. London has been blessed by visits from a plethora of overseas street art stars, let’s start with a few shots of work by an artist new to us, Dede who is reported to come from Israel. Dede’s paste ups […]
Street Art Photography Group Show feat Alex Ellison, Cheff031, Delete08, Doug Sherman, HowAboutNo, Ian Cox, Joe Epstein, Mark Rigney, Myriam JC Preston, NoLionsInEngland, Unusualimage Curated by Esther F. Castelo Fun Factory at Top Office Machines, 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, London E2 7DG25 April – 19 May 2013Email funfactory at gmail dot com to confirm opening […]
All photos: NoLionsInEngland Not making any promises that this will become a regular feature but….here are some musings on and pics of street art and graffiti which happened to catch our eye around London recently. Sweet Toof and Insect knocked up some gorgeous paste ups and papered a broad swath of London’s East End. Choosing […]
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Nathan Ford’s latest work
Last summer as I walked into the 2012 BP Portrait Award in the National Portrait Gallery to see Nathan Ford’s entry ‘Joachim’, a tiny 28 x 20 cm canvas, I was immediately struck by its hanging and also by the surrounding competition. It was hung rather apologetically between 2 enormous canvases, and demanded the visitor […]
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Rae – Nocturnal Trips
Signal GalleryPaul St, London25 Jan – 16 Feb 2013 Photos: NoLionsInEngland except Brooklynite Gallery where stated This week I had the pleasure of showing Hraq Vartigan, co-founder and editor of Hyperallergic the state of play in Shoreditch’s art. I re-learnt an awful lot myself in the process, not least of which was how enriched our […]
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Cranio – Lost In London
Zero Cool Gallery @ Red Bull Studios, LondonNov 16th – 19th 2012 All photos: NoLionsInEngland Interesting opening in London this week of Cranio’s show “Lost in London” . Interesting because this guy’s work is beautiful, obviously, but also because the question arises “how come we see so little Brazilian street art talent in the UK?” […]
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Pablo Delgado: The Second Thirds
Pure Evil Gallery108 Leonard St, London4 – 28 Oct 2012 All photos by NoLionsInEngland Lilliputian tableaus started appearing at ground level in London about 2 years ago, firstly there were Georgian doorways, then a diaspora of ladies plying a darker trade followed more recently by surreal man-animal-space vehicle compositions. Figures and animals were always emphasised […]