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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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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 […]

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Alex Young “Portraits Of Alter Egos”

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 […]

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Remed, Grems, Zbiok, 3TTman – The New Fantastic 4

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 […]

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Warped and Pieced – Return to Huncoat (Part 3)

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 […]

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Matt Small, Zac Walsh – This Is Us joint show

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 […]

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Warped and Pieced – Return to Huncoat (Part 2)

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….. […]

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Warped and Pieced – Return to Huncoat (Part 1)

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….. […]