all photos: NoLionsInEngland To echo The Socialist Worker’s famous “traffic delays in London” commentary on the wedding of Charles and Di, large amounts of Britain came to a standstill today as workers enjoyed an extra day off work and a 4 day weekend. Kate Middleton, slim, looker, married Prince William, privileged, inherited. Street artists, resplendent […]
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Lots of fun recently quietly observing a furtive pair of artists working silently and swiftly on one of London’s less accessible rooftops. Sweet Toof and Paul Insect, London Rooftop, 2011 from NoLionsInEngland on Vimeo. It took 4 nights and about 50 litres of paint for Sweet Toof and Paul Insect to blend signature imagery in […]
Bussey Building, Peckham Rye, London, SE1 54ST 25th Feb – 5th March 2011 All photos: NoLionsInEngland Headed way down South of the river last night, really far south, way off the map to Peckham for this week’s Roa show alongside Phlegm and Robots. Roa is up everywhere but this was my first encounter with the […]
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Space Invader Chequered Past
all photos: NoLionsInEngland Three or four years ago, I can’t recall precisely when, I spotted an Invader mosaic piece from a taxi as we swept through one of the higher back streets of Monaco. I didn’t have a camera on me and there was little sense in going back. On subsequent trips I brought a […]
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Hastings & St Leonards Moth Project
Eagle eyed residents of Hastings and St Leonards may have noticed the sudden crop of giant geometrically patterned moths appearing on walls around parts of both town centres recently. The reverse graffiti being the work of a UK artist called Moose, one of the people to have pioneered the movement of “Clean Art” where stencils […]
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Swoon Scene in London
Photos: NoLionsInEngland (who is slightly peeved that blogger is trimming the right hand edges of landscape pics so that central elements shift to the right and important info is not visible. Click through landscape pics to see the original image) Swoon was recently in London combining the installation of her part of the Small Acts […]
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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 […]
Photos as credited by: Luna Park, Ian Cox aka Wallkandy,RemiRough,James Garrett Sources – Sunday Times, New York Times The duty of the street artist shall be to create art taking risks, pushing boundaries and exploring territories so that the more risk averse among us may vicariously thrill and admire. Note for once the curious omission […]
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Papal Bull
Pope In London – Street artists rise as foretold photos Nolionsinengland except S.Butterfly where noted Benedictus episcopus servus servorum Dei, Pope Benedict, Bishop, Server of The Servants of God, etc etc is in the UK to give us a bit of a telling off and to enjoy one of the most expensive inter-city long-weekend breaks […]
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Poster Boy In London
Dog days of Summer suck and taking a family holiday at the end of August can involve compromise. For me the compromise became apparent a couple of weeks ago when an calling-all-art-knobs email arrived announcing a Poster Boy multi-location book launch, one leg of which would be at the Pure Evil Gallery, London. Within minutes, […]
Pure Evil Gallery108 Leonard StLondon EC2A 4RH VNA Issue 12 launches this coming Thursday (12 Aug 2010) with a party at Pure Evil Gallery, London, K.O. 6pm. 98 pages (100 counting the covers?) are packed with features and photos. The cover artist ROA has screenprinted a unique image on 100 copies, his first ever screenprint […]
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EINE INTERVIEW
Eine Goes L……Errrm, Small. Then GLOBAL HowAboutNo & Nolionsinengland interview Ben Eine and take snaps, except knocked-off flicks where stated. Some may have thought that Eine’s fairly recent departure from the big smoke to the sleepier climes of East Sussex would have meant a quieter existence for the man with probably the most raw pigment […]
On My Travels I travel on overland rail in the UK maybe a dozen times a year. Filter that for sober trips with a charged camera and I have more chance of winning the lottery than I do spotting graff on rolling steel. So it was with delight on my way to Gatwick that I […]
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Banksy v Robbo – War Continues
………Or does it? Are these latest changes by Banksy or not? Opinion in the Graffoto bunker has been divided. Can’t say that passions rose to anywhere near bloodshedding levels though. All the changes basically involve buffing the Team Robbo wording, tidying up and re-working the defaced images. The Waiter rat has changed to this, little […]
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 […]