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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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Skewville – Slow Your Roll
High Roller SocietyUnit 10 Palmers Road,London E2 0SY (Click for map) 19 March – 24 April 2011 photos: NoLionsInEngland New York twin brother street art legends Skewville are bombing London for their first solo show at High Roller Society gallery. Fame on the streets worldwide has been secured thanks to their sneaker mission but Skewville […]
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Brian Adam Douglas – Due Date
Black Rat ProjectsRivington Street,London 10 Mar – 7 April 2011 photos: NoLionsInEngland I first came across Brian Adam Douglas’ gallery work in a project room installation at The Leonard Street Gallery in 2007 and was knocked out by it. Poo-Tee-Weet from that show remains one of my favourite pieces art. Poo-Tee-Weet, London 2007 Brian Adam […]
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 […]
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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Banksy Locations (and a Tour) Vol II
All photos: Shellshock Remember Banksy Locations and Tours, a pocket size book produced in 2006 which detailed locations of Banksy street artwork? That was structured around around 3 tour routes of Banksy’s wall art in London that a lucky few experienced free of charge at the time, though a bit like the Sex Pistols at […]
Putting the erm… into Vermin All photos by shellshock “Given the state of the planet, humans, or some humans, must now be categorized as vermin” (John Carey in ‘The Intellectuals and the Masses -Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939‘) I’ll spare you the weak reasons for the complete tardiness of this ‘review’ of […]