Walker’s Tailor 157 Robert St, London, NW1 3QR 8 – 23 October 2010All photos: nolionsinengland “I woke with a bolt this morning. I had been dreaming about the night my jacket went missing. I could see it all in the dream. Where everything and everyone was in the pub. M and E were sat at […]
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A brief retrospective on the Souls on Fire (SOF) lads, and a special mention for Vermin who has his own show this month All photos by shellshock “If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves“ (Aldous Huxley) I’ve always been partial to a bit […]
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Papal Bull
Pope In London – Street artists rise as foretold photos Nolionsinengland except S.Butterfly where noted Benedictus episcopus servus servorum Dei, Pope Benedict, Bishop, Server of The Servants of God, etc etc is in the UK to give us a bit of a telling off and to enjoy one of the most expensive inter-city long-weekend breaks […]
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Poster Boy In London
Dog days of Summer suck and taking a family holiday at the end of August can involve compromise. For me the compromise became apparent a couple of weeks ago when an calling-all-art-knobs email arrived announcing a Poster Boy multi-location book launch, one leg of which would be at the Pure Evil Gallery, London. Within minutes, […]
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CEPT – Cosmic Interceptor
London Aug 2010 Graffoto had the pleasure of a morning with Cept as he freestyled a London shutter writing CEPT with an awesome intergalactic perspective buggering fill. Look too closely at the end result and you’ll feel like you are about to fall into deep space. Check the movie, in particular see some impressive backwards […]
Pure Evil Gallery108 Leonard StLondon EC2A 4RH VNA Issue 12 launches this coming Thursday (12 Aug 2010) with a party at Pure Evil Gallery, London, K.O. 6pm. 98 pages (100 counting the covers?) are packed with features and photos. The cover artist ROA has screenprinted a unique image on 100 copies, his first ever screenprint […]
Hackney Wick30 July – 1 Aug 2010 Hackney Wick is bohemian, decaying, swampy and trendy though a lot of its post industrial bleakness is being surrendered to the concrete sports temples rising out of the mud and mire. Some of the resilient local artist community, 670 or so the promotional bumpf proclaims like some kind […]
HIGH ROLLER SOCIETY10 PALMERS ROADLONDON E2 0SY 24 July 2010 photos: NoLionsInEngland except High Roller Society where noted. After last week’s hugely fascinating screenprinting workshop, Graffoto completed its 6 hour crafts major at High Roller Society’s linoprinting workshop. Guest demo man this week was printer, book illustrator and lecturer (among many other illustrative activities) Nick […]
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C215 – Midnight Dreams
Signal Gallery, London23 July – 7 August Globetrotter C215 hails from France and burst into the upper echelon of acclaimed street artists with an appearance as one of Banksy’s invited anointees at the 2008 Cans Festival in London. He followed this with a worldwide campaign of gritty single layer portraits of anonymous grizzled street people. […]
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EINE INTERVIEW
Eine Goes L……Errrm, Small. Then GLOBAL HowAboutNo & Nolionsinengland interview Ben Eine and take snaps, except knocked-off flicks where stated. Some may have thought that Eine’s fairly recent departure from the big smoke to the sleepier climes of East Sussex would have meant a quieter existence for the man with probably the most raw pigment […]
HIGH ROLLER SOCIETY10 PALMERS ROADLONDON E2 0SY 10, 17 and 24 July 2010 (at time of writing, 24 July is next Sat)photos: NoLionsInEngland When Graffoto professes ignorance of something, deep rooted fundamental mental blankness is only the start. Screenprinting is a term whose meaning hadn’t troubled us too much. Whatever it was, the result could […]
On My Travels I travel on overland rail in the UK maybe a dozen times a year. Filter that for sober trips with a charged camera and I have more chance of winning the lottery than I do spotting graff on rolling steel. So it was with delight on my way to Gatwick that I […]
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Crack and Shine – book review
Photos from Crack and Shine, used with kind permission. Care about the copyright? Buy the book and check the copyright stated there. Graffoto rarely reviews books, usually because we just drool over the pictures and don’t understand the words. One book that has “4Real” written right through it is Crack and Shine and having completed […]
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Mike Ballard – Shadows Of Tomorrow
Mike Ballard has done two previous illusion room shows. Amid the intense imagery fusing fine art collage with wild style forms and the synapse searing contrasts of the black and white colour scheme, Graffoto has never really done justice to those experiences. His latest illusion project is located in a private upstairs room above the […]
Pure Evil Gallery London 8 April – 2 May all photos: nolionsinengland Autumn last year, London’s walls (and a concertina door) turned into one of the largest scale bestiaries possible and those of us who had been watching the flickr photos of Belgan street art documenter Kreibel knew the moment eagerly awaited for over a […]