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La beauté est dans la rue – Paris street art, part une

La beauté est dans la rue – a walk among Paris street art in Spring 2023, its not just murals in Paris!

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Street Art

Street Art on Redchurch Street

  Redchurch Street in Shoreditch has changed dramatically over the years yet despite gentrification it still houses some seriously good street art.  As part of the Shoreditch Design Triangle, itself a subset of the London Design Festival, I was asked to assess the impact of Redchurch St and the history of its street art.   The […]

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Hit Shot Wall – a wet month!

All photos: NoLionsInEngland (HowAboutNo pretending there were no trains all month from the South Coast, that’s 4 x 5 = 20 days working from home, yeah!) February has been a month of unrelenting street art activity by street artists clad mainly in anoraks and wellington boots. Going to kick our look back this month, a […]

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Art Show Review

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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C215 – Shoeshiners

Signal Gallery, London19 June – 11 July All photos: NoLionsInEngland except Romanywg and Artbleat where noted There are only a few people in any art niche who can be said to set benchmarks, who are the constellation in the heavens that every looks up and points at. In the world of street art stencilism, C215 […]

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Rule Of The Renegade

It’s a generally well known rule that graffiti taggers don’t go over eachother’s pieces unless the intent is a very public show of that charged notion of lack of Respect. Frenchman C215 burst into the wider UK street-art consciousness with an array of sumptious portrait stencils in March this year and he was invited back […]

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Banksy

Cans Festival

Leake St, 3 May – 5 May 2008 words/pictures: nolionsinengland. LA got its elephant in the room (has anyone else noticed the “Elephant In The Room” drawing added to Banksy.co.uk, curious since everything else on his site is publicly seen work), Notting Hill had the rats, Waterloo’s tunnel hosted possibly the finest selection of global […]