Lots of fun recently quietly observing a furtive pair of artists working silently and swiftly on one of London’s less accessible rooftops. Sweet Toof and Paul Insect, London Rooftop, 2011 from NoLionsInEngland on Vimeo. It took 4 nights and about 50 litres of paint for Sweet Toof and Paul Insect to blend signature imagery in […]
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Edel Assanti Project Space276 Vauxhall Bridge RoadLondon SW1V 1BB Thursday 24th March – Saturday 30th April 2011 All photos NoLionsInEngland except HowAboutNo where stated.Video by Mark Gostick via GalaxyRays Hanging a few canvasses and calling it a show isn’t Mike Ballard’s style. Ballard deals in whole room illusion experiences, multi-media sonic and video assaults, challenging […]
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Skewville – Slow Your Roll
High Roller SocietyUnit 10 Palmers Road,London E2 0SY (Click for map) 19 March – 24 April 2011 photos: NoLionsInEngland New York twin brother street art legends Skewville are bombing London for their first solo show at High Roller Society gallery. Fame on the streets worldwide has been secured thanks to their sneaker mission but Skewville […]
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Brian Adam Douglas – Due Date
Black Rat ProjectsRivington Street,London 10 Mar – 7 April 2011 photos: NoLionsInEngland I first came across Brian Adam Douglas’ gallery work in a project room installation at The Leonard Street Gallery in 2007 and was knocked out by it. Poo-Tee-Weet from that show remains one of my favourite pieces art. Poo-Tee-Weet, London 2007 Brian Adam […]
Bussey Building, Peckham Rye, London, SE1 54ST 25th Feb – 5th March 2011 All photos: NoLionsInEngland Headed way down South of the river last night, really far south, way off the map to Peckham for this week’s Roa show alongside Phlegm and Robots. Roa is up everywhere but this was my first encounter with the […]
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Space Invader Chequered Past
all photos: NoLionsInEngland Three or four years ago, I can’t recall precisely when, I spotted an Invader mosaic piece from a taxi as we swept through one of the higher back streets of Monaco. I didn’t have a camera on me and there was little sense in going back. On subsequent trips I brought a […]
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Banksy Locations (and a Tour) Vol II
All photos: Shellshock Remember Banksy Locations and Tours, a pocket size book produced in 2006 which detailed locations of Banksy street artwork? That was structured around around 3 tour routes of Banksy’s wall art in London that a lucky few experienced free of charge at the time, though a bit like the Sex Pistols at […]
Putting the erm… into Vermin All photos by shellshock “Given the state of the planet, humans, or some humans, must now be categorized as vermin” (John Carey in ‘The Intellectuals and the Masses -Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939‘) I’ll spare you the weak reasons for the complete tardiness of this ‘review’ of […]
photos: NoLionsInEngland except Joeppowhere noted Standby for a bit of a rant at inappropriate sentencing. Artist unknown – view LARGE London tagger, bomber and graffiti artist 10FOOT has been sentenced to 26 months in prison for a long list of acts of graffiti, also known as crimes. On release, he has a weird 5 year […]
Lord Napier, Hackney Wick18 – 20 Nov 2010 photos: NoLionsInEngland except Howaboutno where stated We like our street artists a bit elusive and few come more enigmatic than Mantis. The mystery revolves around the un-signed socio-political work on the streets and the comparative scarcity of paintings and prints. Mantis is a regular street defacer, his […]
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Swoon Scene in London
Photos: NoLionsInEngland (who is slightly peeved that blogger is trimming the right hand edges of landscape pics so that central elements shift to the right and important info is not visible. Click through landscape pics to see the original image) Swoon was recently in London combining the installation of her part of the Small Acts […]
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Cept, Sweet Toof – Backyard Colouring
all photos: NoLionsInEngland Graffoto went out hunting Swoons yesterday lunchtime, Boris Bikes for transport, cameras for the kill, separating and meeting again to cover more of the East London concrete jungle. Diddley squat, nada, nothing new, just the three recent pieces already located. However, at the last rendezvous HowAboutNo excitedly reported that a known Burning […]
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Underbelly Project – NY subway art
Photos as credited by: Luna Park, Ian Cox aka Wallkandy,RemiRough,James Garrett Sources – Sunday Times, New York Times The duty of the street artist shall be to create art taking risks, pushing boundaries and exploring territories so that the more risk averse among us may vicariously thrill and admire. Note for once the curious omission […]
Moniker Art Fair, 14 – 17 Oct 2010Holywell Lane, London EC2A 3PQ Adam Neate “The Flock Series”, 12 – 30 Oct 2010Elms Lester Painting Rooms, 1-5 Flitcroft St, London, WC2H 8DH Frieze Art Fair, Regents Park, 14 – 17 Oct 2010 {links above go to location maps} All photos: nolionsinengland Graffoto had an awesome day’s […]
Leake St,WaterlooLondon12 – 17 October 2010 All photos: nolionsinengland Hells Half Acre promises to be a Halloween-ish subterranean wandering loosely based upon Dantes’s inferno. You enter off Leake Street, now one of London’s premier graffiti halls of fame and therefore generally only worked by visiting writers from Prague and New Zealand. The transition from graffiti […]