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 […]
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Banksy Nose Nothing
Many moons ago Banksy came up with a fairly comical visual joke involving a policeman and a line of coke, the policeman would be stencilled on wall and a meandering line of white paint would be dribbled on the streets. Wry chuckles all around at The Snorting Copper. photo: Martin Bull, 2006 One of these […]
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Stik In Time
Street 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, […]
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Banksy on Brexit – About Time
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 […]
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No, I’m Banksy (The Bandwaggon 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 […]
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Banksy is Miserable over Calais Jungle
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 […]
Weston-super-Mare22nd 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 from […]
The Hoxton Gallery16 Jan 2015 All photos: NoLionsInEnglandVideos: 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 things, probably […]
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Stealing Banksy?
“Stealing Banksy” London25th – 27th April 2014 Photos: NoLionsInEngland except Art of The State and others where stated It’s not often a piece of street art produces a profound shift in my thinking but now I’ve seen the “Stealing Banksy?” exhibition, I get why Athenians insist that inside the British Museum is not the right […]
Two new Banksy pieces in England All photos by shellshock It’s official (almost). Banksy has come away from the dirty nappies and dropped two sumptuous pieces in his old stomping ground; a.k.a. God’s own backyard, the West Country of England. Not surprisingly Banksy has never done anything in genteel Cheltenham before, as the local ‘krew’ […]