GraffotoIf 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 […]
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 Styles Nomadic Community Gardens, Shoreditch 26 – 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 […]
“Missing” The Crypt Gallery St Pancras Church London 24th – 27th May 2018 “and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth” […]
Scale is nothing important in street art, otherwise only the biggest murals would count. A few years back curiosity was stoked by bizarre little cement structures appearing on the streets. Someone on the London scene a bit smarter and better connected identified the artist as 3x3x3. 3x3x3 has a Flickr profile, 56 followers (!) and […]
One of the many justifications given by street artists for their wanton abuse of other people’s property is that it’s a response, a push back against the use of the public visual space to host corporate propaganda, known in the indoctrinating the masses trade as advertising. One of Graffoto’s favourite proponents of advertising resistance is […]
Do you recall broccoli panic gripping the nation in Spring 2017? Something to do with the weather led to crop failure in Spain which triggered a desperate broccoli shortage in England. It is not known if the Cobra committee met to discuss rationing. Waitrose steeled itself for riots and Fortnum and Masons dusted off the […]
WORDPLAY Cartoonneros and Pure Evil Pure Evil Gallery Thursday 25th January – one night only In 2008, people with no discernible creative talent were invited by Banksy to Cans Festival to make some spray paint art. I don’t think have picked up a spray can since. Oh, to avoid doubt, Banksy also thought to invite […]
All photos: Dave Stuart except Lumiere London where noted Sat 20th Jan update: A wander around different locations, more Light Art photos added at the bottom Michael Davis – Ilumaphonium Millions of magical ingredients make up a great London night but its not often a cloudless sky is one of them. Lumiere London is back […]
Cut and Run Sweet Toof and Rolf Carl Werner BSMT Space 5d Stoke Newington Rd, Stoke Newington, London N16 8BH 14 Dec 2017 – 14 January 2018 All photos: Dave Stuart Long time ago in a ghetto far far away, pink gums and teeth chomped sections of roof tops, walls and anything else they could […]