HIGH ROLLER SOCIETY10 PALMERS ROADLONDON E2 0SY 24 July 2010 photos: NoLionsInEngland except High Roller Society where noted. After last week’s hugely fascinating screenprinting workshop, Graffoto completed its 6 hour crafts major at High Roller Society’s linoprinting workshop. Guest demo man this week was printer, book illustrator and lecturer (among many other illustrative activities) Nick […]
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C215 – Midnight Dreams
Signal Gallery, London23 July – 7 August Globetrotter C215 hails from France and burst into the upper echelon of acclaimed street artists with an appearance as one of Banksy’s invited anointees at the 2008 Cans Festival in London. He followed this with a worldwide campaign of gritty single layer portraits of anonymous grizzled street people. […]
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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 […]
HIGH ROLLER SOCIETY10 PALMERS ROADLONDON E2 0SY 10, 17 and 24 July 2010 (at time of writing, 24 July is next Sat)photos: NoLionsInEngland When Graffoto professes ignorance of something, deep rooted fundamental mental blankness is only the start. Screenprinting is a term whose meaning hadn’t troubled us too much. Whatever it was, the result could […]
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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Crack and Shine – book review
Photos from Crack and Shine, used with kind permission. Care about the copyright? Buy the book and check the copyright stated there. Graffoto rarely reviews books, usually because we just drool over the pictures and don’t understand the words. One book that has “4Real” written right through it is Crack and Shine and having completed […]
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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ROA
Pure Evil Gallery London 8 April – 2 May all photos: nolionsinengland Autumn last year, London’s walls (and a concertina door) turned into one of the largest scale bestiaries possible and those of us who had been watching the flickr photos of Belgan street art documenter Kreibel knew the moment eagerly awaited for over a […]
Westbourne StudiosAcklam St, London W10April 5 – May 10 2010 all photos nolionsinengland Graffiti artists need a lot of skill to make a successful transformation to canvas. Alex Young’s new outing at the London Miles gallery shows him using not just a completely different non-graff skill set but also strong ideas too. Tat Escarriot Young […]
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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 […]
Pure Evil Gallery, London18 March – 5 April Photos by nolionsinengland except pure evil where stated Superheroes gain un-human powers and infinite energy from all kinds of sources but rarely do they apply them to a good deeds and art combination. 3ttman (Madrid), Grems (Paris via London), Remed (Lille), and Zbiok (Wroclaw) aren’t just the […]
Back in July 2009 I wrote a piece about the graff co-existing with the rubble of the old Huncoat Power Station in Lancashire. Join me for the final return visit and a visual ride into them thar hills… All photos by shellshock Quick link to the July 2009 blog…… Quick link to Part 1 of […]
Signal Gallery, London 11 March – 1 April 2009 all photos: NoLionsInEngland Londoner Matt Small, nominated for the BP Portrait award in 2001 shortly after graduating from the Royal College of Art, has a compact and colourful joint show with Manchester boy Zac Walsh at Signal Gallery in London. Matt Small has been a darling […]
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Eelus – The Colour Out Of Space
Blackall Studios73a Leonard StreetLondon 25 Feb – 6 March 2010 all photos: NoLionsInEngland except where stated A few years back Eelus was a full time working guy making a valid contribution to society when along came street art to ram an exacto knife right through those wh-Eels. The release of Shat At through Pictures on […]
Back in July 2009 I wrote a piece about the graff co-existing with the rubble of the old Huncoat Power Station in Lancashire. Join me for a couple of return visits and a visual ride into them thar hills…. All photos by shellshock Quick Link to the July 2009 blog – if you are interested….. […]