Welcome pop pickers! A post I have meant to do for the last few years on Graffoto has been a look back at the year, be it a good or a bad one. The problem in previous years was that I just always ended up leaving it too late in the holiday, my bingo wings […]
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Cept, Sweet Toof – Backyard Colouring
all photos: NoLionsInEngland Graffoto went out hunting Swoons yesterday lunchtime, Boris Bikes for transport, cameras for the kill, separating and meeting again to cover more of the East London concrete jungle. Diddley squat, nada, nothing new, just the three recent pieces already located. However, at the last rendezvous HowAboutNo excitedly reported that a known Burning […]
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CEPT – Cosmic Interceptor
London Aug 2010 Graffoto had the pleasure of a morning with Cept as he freestyled a London shutter writing CEPT with an awesome intergalactic perspective buggering fill. Look too closely at the end result and you’ll feel like you are about to fall into deep space. Check the movie, in particular see some impressive backwards […]
Hackney Wick30 July – 1 Aug 2010 Hackney Wick is bohemian, decaying, swampy and trendy though a lot of its post industrial bleakness is being surrendered to the concrete sports temples rising out of the mud and mire. Some of the resilient local artist community, 670 or so the promotional bumpf proclaims like some kind […]
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Mike Ballard – Shadows Of Tomorrow
Mike Ballard has done two previous illusion room shows. Amid the intense imagery fusing fine art collage with wild style forms and the synapse searing contrasts of the black and white colour scheme, Graffoto has never really done justice to those experiences. His latest illusion project is located in a private upstairs room above the […]
all photos Nolionsinengland except where stated Shoreditch is a colourful, artistic furiously beating heart within the borough of Hackney. Among many forms of creative and cultural excellence, street art within Shoreditch is significant on the global scale if not even world leading. Visitors come from far and wide specifically to see the street art and […]
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Mike Ballard: The All Of Everything
The Art Gallery,University Of The Arts, London10 Dec 09 – Feb 2010 all photos: NoLionsInEngland and Howaboutno where stated Two major solo shows, a couple of crew shows not to mention some shutter painting have already made 2009 a prolific year for Cept. Bethnal Green Rd, 2009 Not to be outdone, Cept’s alter ego Mike […]
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CEPT – A Frozen Explosion
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 […]
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CEPT – Galaxy Rays Show
The Long Arm GalleryBridewell St, Bristol,20 Feb – 13 March 2009 all photos: Howaboutno and NoLionsInEngland It seems like moments ago that Cept and Mike Ballard got up with a joint show in a Dalston, London workshed yet here we are 4 months later and half a world away in former police station in Bristol […]
30 Hertford RoadDalston, London22 Nov – 30 Nov 2008 Photos: NoLionsInEngland except where stated A natural separation in graffiti culture requires art fags admiring street art to take their asymmetric haircuts and pink glassless glasses to Shoreditch, while the hard core graff guys get their secret society writer-shall-write-only-for-writer thing up in the provinces, like Hackney, […]
Am really looking forward to this one, a long wait for a solo show from Cept and hopefully gonna be well worth the wait! It’s been seriously quiet from Cept on the streets, so thats got me really excited for what he has been tucked away and creating. He’ll be releasing a print of the […]
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Cept Update
I knew it would be worth waiting a while to update on the lushness that is painted by Cept……actually, that’s a complete lie, I didn’t have a clue quite what was gonna happen in the last month and a bit around his usual Sclatter Street wall. It had been in this guise below, fairly suitably […]
Fairly hot on the heels of the new Eine going up (it may have even been at the same time) This new piece by Cept went up on his fave spot in East London. Am gutted that I haven’t documented the spot better than I have as there has been some amazing stuff over the […]