GraffotoPresented by Stolen SpaceOld Truman Brewery, London29 Jan – 8 Feb 2009 Ever been jealous of someone’s lateral vision, been envious of the gift of conceiving and executing simple, subverted variations to the street scenery around us? If you’re an ordinary guy and have come across Brad Downey’s street art – then the answer is […]
London 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 […]
Martin Lea Brown: Fools GoldUpstairs, Sartorial Art, Kings Cross, Sweet ToofDownstairs, Sartorial Art, Both Dec 19-20 2008, Jan 13 – Feb 4 2009 All photos: NoLionsInEngland Imagine a line between the mean streets of Kings Cross and the regency drawing rooms of Fitzrovia and Bloomsbury, and somewhere along that line physically and spiritually you will […]
Pure Evil Gallery, Basement London 13 – 24 Dec 08 photos: NoLionsInEngland except HowAboutNo where stated Acid-eyed flourescent owls have been roosting around London, night and day, for the last six years or so. Like their more conventional rural cousins, these DScreet painted urban owls can be harder to spot in the daytime, specially when […]
The Tramshed Rivington St, London 3 – 10 Dec All photos NoLionsInEngland except where stated If Street Art needed a hero, an anonymous posterchild, then Manc rat Sickboy would be your man-with-a-can. For large scale wall lushness all over the world, this artist’s portfolio ranks with the very best and most loved. Firstly there are […]
Back to Mutate Britain show – again – one of those rare shows that sustains repeated visits. All the key sculptural elements familiar from earlier visits (and blog blurgghhhs!) remain in place. Jibbering Arts have an awesome selection of work by street artists from outside London and Auction Sabateur has curated a room, but the […]
England based French artist Stef (also friend of this blog and LINK DELETED) sends a very Anglo-Saxon message to folk in Shoreditch, London. On close inspection, the installation appears to be a glazed twice-fired stoneware hand. The background is the junction of Willow St and Great Eastern Road where a very large group of people […]
Every Fri, Sat, Sun from 21 Nov 08 Behind The Shutters GalleryCordy HouseCurtain Road, LondonPhotos NoLionsInEngland except Wallkandy where noted Mutate Britain is a mechanised art fuck up bursting the seams of the Behind The Shutters Gallery at Cordy House in Shoreditch, London for (we think) 5 weekends, starting about 2 weekends ago. There are […]
27th NOV – 7th DEC 200822 Wellington Street, London, As the year draws to a close (how do artists tell when its holidays?), German boy and girl duo Herakut have staged a show of new commissioned art works through Campbarbossa, gallery with no fixed abode. The show is a sumptuous ensemble of the recent fruits […]
30 Hertford RoadDalston, London22 Nov – 30 Nov 2008 Photos: NoLionsInEngland except where stated A natural separation in graffiti culture requires art fags admiring street art to take their asymmetric haircuts and pink glassless glasses to Shoreditch, while the hard core graff guys get their secret society writer-shall-write-only-for-writer thing up in the provinces, like Hackney, […]