The art gallery careers developed by graffiti writers from new York and London
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Ezra St Paste Up Frenzy
Shoreditch is full of little corners where street art survives and accumulates in layers, like a busy kitchen pinboard. Last week one such canvas near Columbia road was transformed by, in no particular order, Donk, Skeleton Cardboard, Rider and Tommy Fiendish into this beautiful paste up collage. Donk, Rider, Tommy Fiendish, Skeleton Cardboard […]
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Sweet Toof back, with friends
If there is one thing Shoreditch has lacked in the past few years it is the regular sightings of shocking pink gums and pearly teeth from Sweet Toof, the last proper dental checkup around Brick Lane was a paste up bombing session with Insect in 2013. Paul Insect, Sweet Toof, 2013 Last Christmas a glorious […]
Weston-super-Mare 22nd August – 27th September 2015 All photos: NoLionsInEngland except Dismaland logo courtesy www.banksy.co.uk It has been a while, street art has been wallowing in the doldrums. There has been too many art graduates choosing careers as muralists, not enough vandals (particularly from America, we like American vandals) and a prolonged period of inactivity […]
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Day Off Urbexing
So, I had a rare free day planned a week in advance to go to a few abandoned sites around East Sussex – namely a closed technical college on the sea front. . . And then on to a long closed private school in the countryside Now whilst on these trips I do expect to […]
Lots of fun recently quietly observing a furtive pair of artists working silently and swiftly on one of London’s less accessible rooftops. Sweet Toof and Paul Insect, London Rooftop, 2011 from NoLionsInEngland on Vimeo. It took 4 nights and about 50 litres of paint for Sweet Toof and Paul Insect to blend signature imagery in […]
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Is Street Art Dead?
all photos: NoLionsInEngland I come to praise street art not to bury it. If that gives away my answer to my own question fear not, for purpose of dramatic suspense the best is still saved till last. There are a myriad variety of ways I can cycle across London from home in the West to […]
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Paul Insect – Poison show
London, 12 – 21 Sep 2008 Sleazy hookers, cartoon pimps, retro Ford Capri motors and un-usual whispered business offers are all part and parcel of the Kings Cross experience, though regulars may find Paul Insect’s Poison show at Caledonian Road scrapes the knife a little too close to the brain and retina for comfort. Mandatory […]