GraffotoLondon Art FairIslington13 Jan – 18 Jan 2009Went to London Art Fair tonight, optimistically hoping to find some inspiring and directional contemporary art prior to optimistically popping out to watch Southend beat Chelsea in the cup replay. London Art Fair isn’t the kind of “annual fair” that is going to have Heathrow flight marshals working […]
Martin Lea Brown: Fools GoldUpstairs, Sartorial Art, Kings Cross, Sweet ToofDownstairs, Sartorial Art, Both Dec 19-20 2008, Jan 13 – Feb 4 2009 All photos: NoLionsInEngland Imagine a line between the mean streets of Kings Cross and the regency drawing rooms of Fitzrovia and Bloomsbury, and somewhere along that line physically and spiritually you will […]
Pure Evil Gallery, Basement London 13 – 24 Dec 08 photos: NoLionsInEngland except HowAboutNo where stated Acid-eyed flourescent owls have been roosting around London, night and day, for the last six years or so. Like their more conventional rural cousins, these DScreet painted urban owls can be harder to spot in the daytime, specially when […]
The Tramshed Rivington St, London 3 – 10 Dec All photos NoLionsInEngland except where stated If Street Art needed a hero, an anonymous posterchild, then Manc rat Sickboy would be your man-with-a-can. For large scale wall lushness all over the world, this artist’s portfolio ranks with the very best and most loved. Firstly there are […]
Back to Mutate Britain show – again – one of those rare shows that sustains repeated visits. All the key sculptural elements familiar from earlier visits (and blog blurgghhhs!) remain in place. Jibbering Arts have an awesome selection of work by street artists from outside London and Auction Sabateur has curated a room, but the […]
England based French artist Stef (also friend of this blog and LINK DELETED) sends a very Anglo-Saxon message to folk in Shoreditch, London. On close inspection, the installation appears to be a glazed twice-fired stoneware hand. The background is the junction of Willow St and Great Eastern Road where a very large group of people […]
Every Fri, Sat, Sun from 21 Nov 08 Behind The Shutters GalleryCordy HouseCurtain Road, LondonPhotos NoLionsInEngland except Wallkandy where noted Mutate Britain is a mechanised art fuck up bursting the seams of the Behind The Shutters Gallery at Cordy House in Shoreditch, London for (we think) 5 weekends, starting about 2 weekends ago. There are […]
27th NOV – 7th DEC 200822 Wellington Street, London, As the year draws to a close (how do artists tell when its holidays?), German boy and girl duo Herakut have staged a show of new commissioned art works through Campbarbossa, gallery with no fixed abode. The show is a sumptuous ensemble of the recent fruits […]
30 Hertford RoadDalston, London22 Nov – 30 Nov 2008 Photos: NoLionsInEngland except where stated A natural separation in graffiti culture requires art fags admiring street art to take their asymmetric haircuts and pink glassless glasses to Shoreditch, while the hard core graff guys get their secret society writer-shall-write-only-for-writer thing up in the provinces, like Hackney, […]
Northern Rock had a run, house prices fell off the cliff, Lehman Brothers went to the wall and we all suddenly became bank owners as the government miraculously suddenly found billions and billions of quid to bale out the banks. This pisses K-Guy off, and he likes a rant and a rave and taunts hypocrisy, […]
Alphabet BarBeak St, London11 Nov – 24 Dec 08 In a world straddled by the behemoths such as PoW, Souled Out Studios and BRP, comparatively un-sung boutique urban art print operations like Little Art Book come as a more personable and significantly less frantic tonic. For a start, consider the free-at-the-door limited edition show print; […]
Lilian Baylis Old School, London SE11 6PY 7th – 16th Nov 2008 Photos: nolionsinengland and (where stated) Wallkandy What we love, want and require of street art is that the artist applied some skill and sweat putting up work illegally on street walls. Faile qualifies, mixing permission (Tate Modern Street Art) and non-permissioned stencil street […]
Pure Evil Gallery, London29th Oct – … Nov 2008 Craig Cooper? Nope – I’ve not heard of him before either but any excuse for a trip to Pure Evil’s basement will do. The thing that immediately catches the eye, mainly due to the penetrating brightness shattering the drizzle-hanging post clock wind-back gloom is an awesome […]
Regents Park, London16 – 10 Oct 2008 With most of the leading contemporary galleries present there’s bound to be some stuff that will intrugue, impress, mystify, bamboozle or delight any one prepared to pay to go in. Stuff I liked included Perpetual Void by Petrov Sesti, the trippy colours come from Ian Lavender’s Riley-esque poured […]
Sartorial Gallery, London15 Oct – 11th Nov 2008photos NoLionsInEngland unless stated Something of huge significance is afoot when you open your week-to-view pocket diary (luddite alert) on Monday lunchtime and find that despite clashing with an England world cup qualifier there is there is barbed wire around a Wednesday evening do. That event is the […]