GraffotoLazarides 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 […]
Weston-super-Mare 22nd 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 […]
71 Redchurch St 1 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 […]
Unit 4 199 Eade Road (see directions below) London N4 1DN (about 10 mins walk from Manor House) Fri 3 April – Sun 5th April Fri 1930 – 0000 Saturday 4th 2pm – midnight/Sun 5th 2pm -2300 See event page all photos: NoLionsInEngland Featured artists painting indoors and out: Kenor, Zosen Bandido, Vinnie Nylon, Pablo […]
London Newcastle Space 28 Redchurch St Shoreditch, London 5 – 26th Feb 2015 All photos: NoLionsInEngland Spanish street artist Borondo moved to London in early 2014 and blew us away with his street art. It was painterly, impressionist and frankly very inventive. Shoreditch, 2014 Had we ever seen a piece of street art specifically designed […]
The Hoxton Gallery 16 Jan 2015 All photos: NoLionsInEngland Videos: Keith K. Hopewell, NoLionsInEngland This scribe’s ugly and wizened fizzog appears for a nanosecond in an artist’s video. Quite sufficient justification for a belated blog musing, a video clip and a video clip of the making of the video clip. Keith K. Hopewell is many […]
5 Sep – 18 October Elms Lester Paint Rooms Flitcroft Street Covent Garden London WC2H 8DH all photos: NoLionsInEngland Sometimes Graffoto is blown away by an exhibition to which the street art epithet has only a distant relevance but it is still worth sharing the excitement. In the case of Adam Neate, the street art […]
29 July – 18 August 2014 Saatchi GalleryKings Rd, London, SW3 4RY all photos: NoLionsInEngland There is a sort of generally accepted progression for ambitious street artists, something along the lines of work on the streets; participate in edgy totally non commercial and correspondingly un-profitable group show in a remote shared space; group show in […]
Stolen Space Gallery17 Osborn Street, London E1 6TD 13 Jun – 6 July 2014 all photos: NoLionsInEngland It would be easy to sneer “Sell out, same ol’ shit, run out of ideas” in a week when shows by two of the giants of street art open in London*. However, in the case of Roa, the […]
30th November – 12th December Black Rat Projects/Gallery 223137 – 139 Lower Marsh StreetLondon All photos: NoLionsInEngland Shopping is an evil which I put off until the need is way past the point others might have deemed a shop a necessity, as those who have checked my utilitarian taste in garms can testify. A trip […]
22 Nov – 29 Dec 2103 The Residence Gallery229 Victoria Park Rd, London E9 7HD Words, photos: nolionsinengland Experiencing a Mike Ballard show tends to induce a profound revelatory consciousness and his latest offering “Advertising The Invisible” prompts the thought what a crackingly versatile word “warp” is. Obviously there is the connotation of intergalactic travel […]
Lazarides/Vinyl Factory180 Strand, LondonTuesday 15th to Sunday 27th October 2013 words and photos: NoLionsInEngland A nailed on dead (literally!) cert highlight for each of the past few years has been the Lazarides’ offsite exhibition expedition which in the past saw the gallery packing their toiletry bags for Bedlam, The Minotour and Hell’s Half Acre in […]
Fun Factory133 – 135 Bethnal Green Road29 August, 1 night onlyall photographs: NoLionsInEngland Cranio has been busy in London for the past few weeks painting a load of his characters on very visible walls across the metropolis, and a few low key not so legitimate walls but hush hush about that apparently. Cranio, Brick Lane, […]
London West Bank Gallery133 – 137 Westbourne Grove, London 15 – 23 Aug 2013All photos: NoLionsInEngland When mountains of rubbish started to take on a sculpted human form in Shoreditch, Londoners fell head over heels in love with trash art. The work of Francisco de Parjaro is literally rubbish! He takes our rubbish, reassembles it […]