GraffotoStreet art is by nature generally ephemeral but every once in a while a piece of street art thrives for years so it’s informative to see how those pieces fare. Usually the things that enable a street art piece to survive are either plastic protection, as is occasionally the case for Banksy (2001) or inaccessibility, […]
Another year, another Banksy, at last! The port of Dover, the continent’s gateway to the UK, found itself the proud home of the latest outdoor street art masterpiece by Banksy. A huge version of the EU flag with a worker chipping away at one of the 12 stars greets inland arrivals coming into the port […]
2016 wasn’t all bad and neither was its street art. This is a small selection of the street art from 2016 that made me go “yummmmmmmm” writer unknown Street artists come and street artists go but a few have been consistently active over many years since the early days. Some of the elder statesmen of […]
Interview with the UK Reactivation Team Photos Dave Stuart except where stated Planet Earth faces invasion and the insidious arrival of aliens has been going on for years with few people noticing. This is not the formulaic plot of yet another sci fi blockbuster, this is an invasion of street art masterminded by a secretive […]
Loathe though we are to see street art pieces being removed from the streets and entering in the commercial market on this occasion, a piece of Stik street art to be auctioned has Stik’s blessing so I guess we can be ok with it. Photo via Stik From a message issued by Stik: Street Artist […]
all photos Dave Stuart except Dog Section Press as noted Street art is nothing without an element of subversion. All street artists doing permission murals or safe pasteups in highly tolerant art zones should be grateful to the proponents of illegal, subversive street art who boldly risk everything to lend street art its veneer of edgy coolness. […]
London is constantly blessed, honoured and privileged to receive visits from street artists from foreign shores and our scene is enriched by their creative mischiefs. Since last weekend a group of artists mainly hailing from Portland, Oregon have been absolutely caning London’s walls. The artists now represented in strength in London are Arrex skulls, Voxx […]
July 7th – 31st StolenSpace Gallery 17 Osborn St, London E1 6TD all photos: Dave Stuart aka NoLionsInEngland For decades stencilism has had a defining role in many movements from the student politics of the 60s to anarchic punk in the 70s through to its big moment at the heart of the street art culture […]
All photos: DaveStuart (NoLionsInEngland) About 3 weeks ago in Kings Cross I thought I saw a ghost, my eyes seemed to be playing tricks. A old, long departed friend, a Union flag Space Invader which had disappeared a few years ago had magically reappeared. Rule Britney, sorry – Britannia Subsequently I read a blog post […]
Photos: Dave Stuart aka NoLionsInEngland (except where pretty obvious) Yesterday morning I read a rather unexciting blog post by my friend RJ on Vandalog saying he doesn’t need or want to know who Banksy is, I’m with RJ on that one and its how most of us feel, its just a bit unexciting really. RJ […]
Photos: 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 Bloc Stockwell 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 […]
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 Rathbone 16th Oct to 12th Nov 2015 All 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 […]
29 Sep – 30 Oct 2015 Cass Bank Gallery 59-63 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 […]