GraffotoEverything 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 […]
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 […]
“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” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]