GraffotoPhotos: Dave Stuart aka NoLionsInEngland except where stated News involving refugees is a daily staple, police using CS gas makes disturbingly frequent headlines, a new Banksy appearing in Central London, that IS hold-the-front-page news! Banksy has appropriated and modified the image of Cosette, victim/heroine in les Miserables originally drawn by Émile Bayard to illustrate the […]
Brixton BlocStockwell Road, London SW9 9TP 2 Jan – 8 Jan (possibly to be extended)UPDATE – EXTENDED TO 30 JAN, contact Neonita for details Hello Saarf London, I see you got a new universe and jolly impressive and colourful it is too. Neonia, created by Neonita, is an all enveloping psychedelic experience, a woodland glade […]
All photos: Dave Stuart aka NoLionsInEngland except where stated The big challenge to a writer attempting to review a year of street art is that the chosen subject is so vast, so vague and so difficult to categorize. Efforts to place a boundary around the subject always create a problem of what to do about […]
Lazarides Rathbone16th Oct to 12th Nov 2015All photos: Dave Stuart aka NoLionsInEngland Ephemerality – a quality word we like to bandy around when generalising about the culture of street art. We tend to forget that also gallery shows don’t last forever so if you are reading this review after 7pm today, Graffoto apologises as it’s […]
29 Sep – 30 Oct 2015Cass Bank Gallery59-63 Whitechapel High Street, London, E1 7PF All photos: NoLionsInEngland Did you see it? The best street art exhibition of the year? It was in London too, not somewhere overlooking the gloopy mud of the Bristol Channel at low tide. Flyposter clusters around London have been co-opted by […]
Weston-super-Mare22nd August – 27th September 2015 All photos: NoLionsInEngland except Dismaland logo courtesy www.banksy.co.uk It has been a while, street art has been wallowing in the doldrums. There has been too many art graduates choosing careers as muralists, not enough vandals (particularly from America, we like American vandals) and a prolonged period of inactivity from […]
71 Redchurch St1 August 2015, one day only Photos: NoLionsInEngland except 71RCS where stated Every now and again someone comes along whose art stands apart from the rest of the street art canon. A few years back quirky skeletons started to live a somewhat traumatised and confused life on Shoreditch wall. Thus began an unconsummated […]
Shoreditch, London10 – 12 July 2015 all photos: NoLionsInEngland Meeting Of Styles returned to Shoreditch last week for the second Summer on the trot. Over a 2 day period spraycan graffiti writers and street artists from Brazil to Russia via Spain and UK threw a wild ribbon of colour around Shoreditch. Ekto & friends Meeting […]
Unit 4199 Eade Road (see directions below)London N4 1DN(about 10 mins walk from Manor House) Fri 3 April – Sun 5th AprilFri 1930 – 0000Saturday 4th 2pm – midnight/Sun 5th 2pm -2300See event page all photos: NoLionsInEngland Featured artists painting indoors and out: Kenor, Zosen Bandido, Vinnie Nylon, Pablo Fiasco, Lapiztola Stencil, Dotmasters, Mudwig, Paris, […]
Dr d., London’s top political malcontent street artist is on a roll and has been out again, this time taking over pavement advertising sites. The new version of HMP London (HMP: Her Majesty’s Prison] open prison advises us that innocent or guilty, we are all now being spied on. Highlighting the pernicious erosion of freedoms […]