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 […]
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Mike Ballard I.D.S.T
Block 336 336 Brixton Road, London 1 – 29 June 2012 All photos NoLionsInEngland Mike Ballard’s second solo show this year, I.D.S.T opened in Brixton last night. The venue is a non descript utilitarian basement concrete box, perhaps a bit too labyrinthine to be described as a plain box, various rooms, slots and box rooms […]
Edel Assanti Project Space276 Vauxhall Bridge RoadLondon SW1V 1BB Thursday 24th March – Saturday 30th April 2011 All photos NoLionsInEngland except HowAboutNo where stated.Video by Mark Gostick via GalaxyRays Hanging a few canvasses and calling it a show isn’t Mike Ballard’s style. Ballard deals in whole room illusion experiences, multi-media sonic and video assaults, challenging […]
Walker’s Tailor 157 Robert St, London, NW1 3QR 8 – 23 October 2010All photos: nolionsinengland “I woke with a bolt this morning. I had been dreaming about the night my jacket went missing. I could see it all in the dream. Where everything and everyone was in the pub. M and E were sat at […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]