Graffoto5 Nov – 28 Nov 2009Sartorial Gallery, London Panik ATG aka Mr P (and now – also known as Jack Murray) has been a feature of London streets for a decade or so, currently as a key member of ATG and formerly as a member of the now defunct London Frontline. His second solo show […]
Prescription Art GalleryBrighton, England22 Oct 2009 – all photos: NoLionsInEngland Heavy Artillery, awesome top end graffiti writers have opened their first whole crew show in Prescription Art’s gallery in Brighton. This show takes place in a distressed and dilapidated former music library with scene-of-the-crime tripod lighting, unlit external toilets and no running water, so a […]
Stolen Space, Old Truman Brewery, London1 – 18 October 2009 all photos: NoLionsInEngland except W10 where noted Miss Van – Lovestain In a year which has seen fewer significant international street artists coming to grace the walls of London’s grittier galleries it is a relief to find a major artist prepared to stage a large […]
The Writer’s Bench26 Argyll Square, Kings CrossLondon 3 Sep – 25th Sep, Thurs-Sat 1.30pm til 6pm or by appointment. Last time we met Cept, he was a cackling mad-man “I’m free; no more shows; painting streets…”. Cept, DScreet, Mighty Mo, Jeff Soto, even some Conor Harrington remnants So, a few months on here we are […]
Bristol June 13 – Aug 31 2009 Photos: Nolionsinengland, Howaboutno, Art Of The State, Shellshock Banksy is a bloke from Bristol who leaves messages on the streets and in Museums, you may have heard. Banksy In London; Nolionsinengland He is more than just my favourite cartoonist, even though he doesn’t have a daily newspaper slot […]
24-26 July 2009The Rag FactoryLondon Graffiti writers have been appearing in galleries for 25 years, though in the context of the hot ticket that was street art moving into galleries to prostitute itself as Urban Art, proper graffiti writers have trailed behind in the gutter. A welcome trend surfacing in chisel fringed, skinny-jeans wearing Shoreditch […]
Bateman Row Arches, London17 – 29 July 2009all photos: NoLionsInEngland I’m a sucker for Illusion rooms. From Cept’s mindblowing 3 week individual labour of love in Dalston last year to D*Face’s memorable Haring inspired room at his Apopalypse show, any time an artist gets to indulge themselves in something which is more experience than product, […]
By less than popular demand, shell shock (a train spotter and admin monkey at the Banksy group on flickr, and author of ’Banksy Location & Tours’) trawled 2,000+ photos, poured over a hotch potch of info, asked people stupid questions, and drove many miles to the Museum, just to bring you this short guide to […]
Rarekind GalleryLondonJul 10 – Aug 1 2009 all photos: NoLionsInEngland After a fallow period buried beneath the post Banksy tidal sludge of pasted lazer jet print-outs, real painted graffiti has been showing signs of a pulse the last four months or so in Shoreditch. Some spark has triggered an avalanche of graffiti in all its’ […]
The Wonderland CollectiveThe Royal Albert Hall, London22 June 2009 – only! The Royal Albert Hall has an almost un-paralleled status in the history of high-brow entertainment and in its’ 138 years has hosted some of the truely iconic performers. And my kids did a percussion workshop and this is the story of how a troupe […]
Signal Gallery, London19 June – 11 July All photos: NoLionsInEngland except Romanywg and Artbleat where noted There are only a few people in any art niche who can be said to set benchmarks, who are the constellation in the heavens that every looks up and points at. In the world of street art stencilism, C215 […]
Sartorial GalleryLondon4 June – 27 June 2009 all photos: NoLionsInEngland except Romanywg where noted Burning Candy crew of Bristol and London has knack for pleasing both fans of graff and street art. A crew show in October 08 was followed in short order by a Sweet Toof solo show in Dec/January and now it’s Rowdy’s […]
Stolen Space GalleryLondon14 May – 7 June 2009 all photos: NoLionsInEnglandOne characteristic of the austere and spendthrift new age we live in is that the great American giants of the urban art scene have been noticeable by their absence from London this year – give or take a Ron English show in the past week. […]
Stella Dore GalleryRivington St, London2-25 April 2009all photos: NoLionsInEngland You can take the kid off the street but you shouldn’t take the street out of the Kid. Sheffield’s renaissance man Kid Acne covers the graffiti, gallery artist, music producer and DJ hipness angles and has staged his first London solo show in London at Stella […]
222 bethnal Green RdLondon5 March, continuing. all photos: NoLionsInEngland dr. d is one of London’s more mysterious street art institutions, their (the mystery extends to doubt as to whether dr. d is singular, plural, boy or girl) manipulation and subversion of street billboards flickers at the edge of public conscious, playing games via a medium […]