GraffotoIt’s back! Eine’s SCARY on Rivington Street, familiar to many many Shoreditch Street Art tour guests as the penultimate piece of art on the tour has been restored to its original colour scheme. EINE SCARY 2021 Repaint Painted in 2007, back in the days when if a street artist wanted a wall they had to […]
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 […]
Banksy street art hidden for many years has been brought out of limbo in Shoreditch, visible at last to the millions of street art fans new to Banksy’s art since it last doused itself under East London rain. Two images, a huge rat and a TV being chucked rock star style out of a window […]
Everything Starts Somewhere StolenSpace Gallery 17 Osborn St, London E1 6TD 25th October – 18th November 2018 Break out the bunting, a typopgraphy typhoon has struck London, it’s an Eine exhibition. Back in 2007 EINE had a solo show at Kemistry Gallery, late of Charlotte Rd, and the power of seeing EINE’s typography migrate indoors […]
13 Jun 2012 – 1 night only then Lovebox Festival, Victoria Park, London 15 Jun – 17 Jun 2012 all photos NoLionsInEngland, In case you missed Part 1 of Graffoto’s news and views from Banger Art, check it out here (opens new window or tab or something) for background and loads of artwork. Eine, Will […]
13 Jun 2012 – 1 night onlythen Lovebox Festival, Victoria Park, London15 Jun – 17 Jun 2012 all photos NoLionsInEngland, except HowAboutNo where stated OK, so who’s idea was it to mash up memories of an embassy car park (Banksy, Swiss Embassy, London) with the spirit of a secret NY subway station (Workhorse et al, […]
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 […]
Mighty Mo’s Monkey is cropping up in an amazing array of places….well actually not that amazing as they are nearly always on top of a train bridge, but placement and execution are second to none, all done with a roller and a very long pole. Parked my car IN FRONT of this billboard a few […]
I have often wondered if Eine is actually spelling anything out in placing his letters along our thouroughfares, from his latest spat of shutter realted daubery (at least in the order I have spotted them) here is what he has spelt so far : So, seemingly bugger all…unless it’s really subliminal?!
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 […]
Scary is how quickly he finished it. . . it was all still outlines yesterday afternoon. This quote from the man himself ( from www.einesigns.co.uk ) “So 3 weeks ago i started a new painting and finally after more problems then i care to share its done, all morning climbing up and down ladders using […]