Sartorial GalleryLondon4 June – 27 June 2009 all photos: NoLionsInEngland except Romanywg where noted Burning Candy crew of Bristol and London has knack for pleasing both fans of graff and street art. A crew show in October 08 was followed in short order by a Sweet Toof solo show in Dec/January and now it’s Rowdy’s […]
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Jeff Soto – Inland Empire
Stolen Space GalleryLondon14 May – 7 June 2009 all photos: NoLionsInEnglandOne characteristic of the austere and spendthrift new age we live in is that the great American giants of the urban art scene have been noticeable by their absence from London this year – give or take a Ron English show in the past week. […]
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Kid Acne – Smoke And Mirrors
Stella Dore GalleryRivington St, London2-25 April 2009all photos: NoLionsInEngland You can take the kid off the street but you shouldn’t take the street out of the Kid. Sheffield’s renaissance man Kid Acne covers the graffiti, gallery artist, music producer and DJ hipness angles and has staged his first London solo show in London at Stella […]
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dr. d “HMP Brainwash Launderette”
222 bethnal Green RdLondon5 March, continuing. all photos: NoLionsInEngland dr. d is one of London’s more mysterious street art institutions, their (the mystery extends to doubt as to whether dr. d is singular, plural, boy or girl) manipulation and subversion of street billboards flickers at the edge of public conscious, playing games via a medium […]
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CEPT – Galaxy Rays Show
The Long Arm GalleryBridewell St, Bristol,20 Feb – 13 March 2009 all photos: Howaboutno and NoLionsInEngland It seems like moments ago that Cept and Mike Ballard got up with a joint show in a Dalston, London workshed yet here we are 4 months later and half a world away in former police station in Bristol […]
Brick Lane Gallery, London5 – 16 Feb 2009photos: NoLionsInEngland except donnierobot and Prescription Art where statedSome Street artists wouldn’t be seen dead at their gallery openings. Some artists grudgingly turn up, mix with their mum and their crew and mumble “cheers my dears, been doin’ it for years”. Some front up with a natural effervescence […]
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Brad Downey – “An Honest Thief”
Presented by Stolen SpaceOld Truman Brewery, London29 Jan – 8 Feb 2009 Ever been jealous of someone’s lateral vision, been envious of the gift of conceiving and executing simple, subverted variations to the street scenery around us? If you’re an ordinary guy and have come across Brad Downey’s street art – then the answer is […]
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London Art Fair
London 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 […]
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DScreet – Words Up
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 […]
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Sickboy – Stay Free Show
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 […]
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Mutate Britain
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 […]
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Herakut – Dirty Laundry
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 […]