GraffotoA new Banksy has appeared in London and locations do not get much more central than on the roundabout at Marble Arch! A young girl appears to have planted a new sapling and seems mark the species with a plant label stating through the extinction symbol that it is the Extinction Rebellion and like any […]
Take Back Control Group exhibition curated by Bryden and Ellie Pennick The Crypt Gallery, Euston Rd, Kings Cross London NW1 2BA 14 – 24 March 2019 The Crypt under St Pancras Church, an appropriately gloomy yet incredibly photogenic spot, hosts a look back on the role British newspapers played in the 2016 Brexit referendum campaign […]
This evening the UK’s parliament voted to show that they had not changed their mind since December on a withdrawal agreement that hadn’t changed since December. This leaves the country up shit creek, a situation that hasn’t changed since, well, several years ago. Street artists have not been impressed with the political process over the […]
Canary Wharf January 15th – 26th 5pm – 10pm Lights! Cameras! Action!! We love the Winter light fests that seem to be becoming increasingly common. This year, rather than get wedged in the crowds at the West End spectaculars we schlepped all the way out to Canary Wharf (involuntary shiver) for the 2019 Winter Lights […]
Straddling the end of the year like a hurdler whose rear leg failed to follow the front leg, Graffoto tries to divine a little perspective on the street art we have enjoyed and endured on the annual lap just completed and first sight suggests things were not that painful. There is little doubt that the […]
Mid Nite Crisis 14 – 22nd December 2018 Rocket Barber Shop 118 Stoke Newington High St, London N16 7NY Sweet Toof, East London’s legendary dental illustrator is back for a show in the unlikely surroundings of a North London barber shop cellar. The unorthodox location heaves with canvasses, prints and bizarre objects. Knick knacks with […]
In a weekend when a lot of new street art appeared in Shoreditch one creation particularly stood out, the new “Wall Of Love” from the #NoHate family of street artists. This consists signature art from 355 artists rendered in a circular format under the slogans #StreetartAgainstHate #ToLiveAndLetLive . This London installation was put together by […]
Ryan Callanan aka RYCA “DANCE ACID RAVE!” 8th – 18th November 2018 BSMT Space (see photo below) 5D STOKE NEWINGTON ROAD LONDON N16 8BH On One There is a canon of legendary musical events where the number of people claiming to have been there far exceeds a venue’s capacity, oft quoted is the Sex Pistol’s […]
Everything Starts Somewhere StolenSpace Gallery 17 Osborn St, London E1 6TD 25th October – 18th November 2018 Break out the bunting, a typopgraphy typhoon has struck London, it’s an Eine exhibition. Back in 2007 EINE had a solo show at Kemistry Gallery, late of Charlotte Rd, and the power of seeing EINE’s typography migrate indoors […]
Xenz 2nd – 8th November 2018 Nelly Duff Gallery 156 Columbia Road London E2 7RG If there is a niche for graffiti writers who paint exquisite, delicate nature pieces with a dash of fantasy landscape thrown in then a huge chunk gets filled by Hull’s finest escapee, Xenz. Meeting Of Styles 2009 Cans Festival II, […]
BSMT Space (see photo below) 5D STOKE NEWINGTON ROAD LONDON 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 […]
Banksy Love Is In The Bin Sothebys, New Bond Street 13th – 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 […]
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 Space 5D STOKE NEWINGTON ROAD LONDON 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 […]
HENI Gallery 1st floor 6-10 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 […]