GraffotoLondon Art FairIslington13 Jan – 18 Jan 2009Went to London Art Fair tonight, optimistically hoping to find some inspiring and directional contemporary art prior to optimistically popping out to watch Southend beat Chelsea in the cup replay. London Art Fair isn’t the kind of “annual fair” that is going to have Heathrow flight marshals working […]
Alphabet BarBeak St, London11 Nov – 24 Dec 08 In a world straddled by the behemoths such as PoW, Souled Out Studios and BRP, comparatively un-sung boutique urban art print operations like Little Art Book come as a more personable and significantly less frantic tonic. For a start, consider the free-at-the-door limited edition show print; […]
Regents Park, London16 – 10 Oct 2008 With most of the leading contemporary galleries present there’s bound to be some stuff that will intrugue, impress, mystify, bamboozle or delight any one prepared to pay to go in. Stuff I liked included Perpetual Void by Petrov Sesti, the trippy colours come from Ian Lavender’s Riley-esque poured […]
Brick Lane Gallery, London3 Sep – 8 Sep 2008 Cycled over to Brick Lane to see the HipArt show at Brick Lane Gallery, stopping to photograph loads of paste ups by The Krah. None of them were repetitions so big props for that but one stupid consequence was arriving in Brick Lane with a camera […]
Regular readers may have noticed the few subtle changes at Graffoto towers, hopefully for the better! We now have a subscribe function, where you can choose to be updated via email whenever there is a new post made. For the confused amongst you early subscribers, the title of the email that comes through was showing […]
we like having stuff we like on our walls. A self-styled accidental gallerist (no apologies necessary), an art establishment academic/critic and a “street art” gallerist spouted off at a panel discussion at Tate Modern on collecting street art. Pure Evil, the blushing gallerist, blew the debate out of the water with the truism that once […]
98 Leonard Street, London EC1. 6pm ’til 11pm Free Entry! http://www.cancersell.org.uk/ http://www.flickr.com/groups/cancersell Cancer Sell is almost upon us! With the quality of the artwork that has come in in the last few days, the organisers have been as pleased as punch and are really looking forward to putting on a great show. There is so […]
If you take two weeks out to get all hot and bothered chasing Athens graffiti on the back of a Vespa and stop keeping an eye on them, people will get mischievous. Councils have seriously stepped up their buffing campaign and artists have suffered irresistible urges to spray, marker pen and wheatpaste on the walls. […]
Why is it the best events are always the ones you don’t know a thing about?! The Meeting of Styles was going on as we took a random walk round the back of the “trains in the air” wall to see if there was any update to the progress of Fridays half painted out ATG […]
15.04.08 It was bound to happen…..especially in the middle of Hackney 28.04.08
Feat: Anton Unai, Marok, Jaybo, Andy Howell, Daniel Tagno, Ala Ebtekar, Kill Pixie, Bortusk Leer, Antonio Diaz The Leonard Street Gallery 18 Apr – 22 May A kaleidescope of art and entertainment opportunities within spraying distance of eachother meant a hectic night on Thursday 17 April. Cargo for Nick Walker was obviously going to be […]
For a couple of years we’ve been meaning to check out this space, walking home in a celebratory mood after watching United steal a 2-1 win from the Gooners it just seemed like a good thing to do. The London Frontline collective/Mighty Mo is the most obvious stuff seen from the top of any passing […]
What do we know about The Krah? Most apparently, at least to alley way loitering photographers and graff art affectionadoes, he brightens the walls (and other found objects) of London and Athens with his un-mistakable style of art, an abstract fantasy character world populated by multiple faced limb deficient organo-cyborgs. The Krah works alone or […]
Just to get my photographs of things other than graffiti out of the way, I thought I’d post a few of them.
Am back after what seems an eternity of not blogging, I went to the darkside, and thankfully made it out alive with my balls intact. Now is not the time to bore you with the whos, where’s and why’s (all one and a half of you still clutching on in despair for my return…….) Now […]