BSMT Space (see photo below)5D STOKE NEWINGTON ROADLONDON N16 8BH In December 2008 a parliament, for that is what a group of owls is called, assembled in the famous Pure Evil Gallery cellar for a solo show by Dscreet. Graffoto raved about Dscreet’s solo show in that famous cellar and indeed a pair of Owls […]
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Banksy Love Is In The BinSothebys, New Bond Street13th – 14th Oct 2018 The art world lives in a truly weird parallel biosphere: it wears different clothes, eats different food, holidays in places Club 18-30 does not reach and it treasures bizarrely different values. Condemning art world indulgences and privilege is something the art world […]
If there is one thing Shoreditch has lacked in the past few years it is the regular sightings of shocking pink gums and pearly teeth from Sweet Toof, the last proper dental checkup around Brick Lane was a paste up bombing session with Insect in 2013. Paul Insect, Sweet Toof, 2013 Last Christmas a glorious […]
BSMT Space5D STOKE NEWINGTON ROADLONDON N16 8BH Skeleton Cardboard doesn’t make art show aficionado’s lives easy. In fact he could be said to drive people to death as the skeleton count on the street and in the gallery piles up thanks to his art and at the same time his exhibitions are always almost impossible […]
HENI Gallery1st floor6-10 Lexington St,London W1F 0LB (press the buzzer!) 14th September — 13th October 2018 It’s art week in London, a bunch of clever and many not so clever arty people meet a bunch of artlessly rich people in large tents to exchange money, business cards and air kisses but if you’re reading this […]
Late last week whilst contemplating a new piece of graffiti on Great Eastern Street an amusing diversion arose as a small gaggle of folk rolled up with a pushbike laden with rolls of blue backed paste ups and proceeded to bish bosh a lot of gloopy paste onto virgin building site hoarding. “Here will do” […]
Shoreditch street art is a little bit different, in many ways and for many reasons, it just is. One aspect in which Shoreditch however may be a bit off the pace is the gargantuan mural. The social media feeds of many brilliant photographers of street art from around the world are full of truly epic […]
Think Shoreditch and inevitably thoughts are of clubs, parties and street art. A more considered assessment of the past 20 years would oblige image wizards to render Shoreditch in the collective memory as a place of creativity, craftsmanship, experimentation, fashion, film making, music making and art performance to name just a few. Sadly this week […]
Scarfing a bit of impromptu graffiti hunting on to a week abroad with the family was never likely to prompt delirious enthusiasm on their part. On the coach trip from the airport to the hotel that was to be our compound for a week of what turned out to be fairly British weather, our coach […]
Meeting Of StylesNomadic Community Gardens, Shoreditch26 – 28th May 2018 At the end of May there is a Bank Holiday in the UK though really no one knows why or cares what for. This provides a marvellous opportunity for a huge array of spraypainting talent to gather in Shoreditch for a frenzy of graffiti and […]