tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23722084588173894372024-02-19T04:21:04.266+00:00Graffoto BlogUp to the minute happenings on the streets of London. Street art, graffiti and shows too.
We write about what we like, when we like.HowAboutNohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17452817169484997948noreply@blogger.comBlogger407125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-78442408068053955662022-10-05T15:25:00.002+00:002022-10-05T17:18:13.288+00:00Portland and NY gang up on Shoreditch<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/09k92P5gqK" title="Gang mural: City Kitty, RX Skulls, Toastoro, Voxx Romana and local friend Wrdsmth"><img alt="Gang mural: City Kitty, RX Skulls, Toastoro, Voxx Romana and local friend Wrdsmth" height="458" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399854199_1e5d4238e6_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="color: #cc0000;">Gang mural: City Kitty, RX Skulls, Toastoro, Voxx Romana and local friend Wrdsmth</span><br /><br /><br />
This August a group of street artists from Portland, Oregon as well as their friends from other ends visited Shoreditch to bless the public realm with their creativity. Various combinations of this group have been <a href="https://graffoto1.blogspot.com/2016/09/stick-em-up-portland-vs-london.html" target="_blank">visiting Europe</a> regularly over the years and the street art they create is never short of impressive. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/2s41xU3qED" title="Gang mural: City Kitty, RX Skulls, Toastoro, Voxx Romana and local friend Wrdsmth"><img alt="Gang mural: City Kitty, RX Skulls, Toastoro, Voxx Romana and local friend Wrdsmth" height="442" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399568106_3a2cdb5727_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="color: #cc0000;">Gang mural: City Kitty, RX Skulls, Toastoro, Voxx Romana and local friend Wrdsmth</span><br /><br /><br />
RX Skulls and Voxx Romana have been at the centre of the previous manifestations of this team, on this occasion they were joined by City Kitty from New York, Toastoro from Portland and team photographer Cody Keto.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/QR20mUr234" title="Cat Bus Toaster by Toastoro & RX Skulls"><img alt="Cat Bus Toaster by Toastoro & RX Skulls" height="603" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52400060513_9c20568bb5_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="color: #cc0000;">Cat Bus Toaster by Toastoro, Chonk by RX Skulls (also feat Boxitrixi, ODDO, DaddyStreertFox)</span><br /><br /><br />
Each artist has embraced differing themes and influences yet there is commonality in the techniques, placements and energy. Paste ups, stencil, stickers and various installations are all deployed in the name of public decoration, sometimes in adventurous and novel ways.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/1YBstSU2Za" title="Voxx Romana stencil"><img alt="Voxx Romana stencil" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52400060233_5de50a7d8c_z.jpg" width="426" /></a><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">My name is Voxx Romana, observe my stencil</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/43HbF7XSk8" title="Toastoro stencilled paste up"><img alt="Toastoro stencilled paste up" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52400060993_98d099cc98_z.jpg" width="500" /></a><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">Toastoro stencilled paste up</span><br /><br /><br />
RX Skulls is one of the best known art sticker makers around and he came prepared with masses of stickers, as well as paste ups and stencils.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/Gj472w378C" title="RX Skulls paste up"><img alt="RX Skulls paste up" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399052002_840a082d86_z.jpg" width="441" /></a><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">RX Skulls paste up</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/8j1PU0389d" title="RX Skulls sticker"><img alt="RX Skulls sticker" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399569016_94029d0f3a_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">RX Skulls sticker</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/0883tL3x35" title="RX Skulls, Voxx Romana, Toastoro"><img alt="RX Skulls, Voxx Romana, Toastoro" height="430" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399946132_d9dc5d8313_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">RX Skulls, Voxx Romana, Toastoro</span><br /><br /><br />
Visible in the photo above is a small RX Skulls paste up on the corner of the window ledge, a relic from 2018 which can be seen in its early days in the photo below. Also visible in the following photo is a sculpture by 3x3x3 and a paste up from C3, C3 is one of the UK artists RX skulls has collaborated with and if you look closely above you can see the carbonised remains of that C3 in the layers of historic grime.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/9b87P29F3h" title="RX Skulls vs C3 also feat 3x3x3, 2018"><img alt="RX Skulls vs C3 also feat 3x3x3, 2018" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399994755_a5e63060cf_z.jpg" width="425" /></a><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">RX Skulls vs C3 also feat 3x3x3, 2018</span><br /><br /><br />
Which leads to the next photo in which another aspect of the art practice of this posse is apparent, their enthusiasm for an art collaboration. A collection of conjoined skeleton RX Skulls characters called the Chonks are seen in partnership with art from his UK friends D7606 and C3. The Chonkening reflects RX’s intention to cram in tons of movies this year, don’t we all have an accumulated cinema deficit following the pandemic? Another conjoined couple are off on a tattoo spree with a tattoo gun.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/49z5JKU5x7" title="RX Skulls hall of fame"><img alt="RX Skulls hall of fame" height="461" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399568316_043818dc4c_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="color: #cc0000;">RX Skulls hall of fame</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/8m0e5kjEdb" title="RX Skulls & C3; RX Skulls & D7606"><img alt="RX Skulls & C3; RX Skulls & D7606" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399050282_061baaf16f_z.jpg" width="491" /><br /></a><span style="color: #cc0000;">RX Skulls and C3, RX Skulls and D7606</span><br /><br /><br />
In a lovely gesture RX gave a number of stickers which were hugely appreciated by guests of the Shoreditch Street Art Tour.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/03GcKZP1au" title="RX Skulls sticker giveaway"><img alt="RX Skulls sticker giveaway" height="524" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52400720660_ce6a265cb6_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">RX Skulls sticker giveaway</span><br /><br /><br />
By the way, sticker placement at seriously impressive height was achieved using a special applicator I have seen on the net but never seen in action before.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/38Lr99ndV7" title="Toastoro sticker"><img alt="Toastoro sticker" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399050347_fae694316b_z.jpg" width="480" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Toastoro sticker</span><br /><br /><br />
Voxx Romana came similarly prepared and perhaps most striking were his collaborations with Danny Ebru who provided the marbled paper background to Voxx Romana’s stencils, something Voxx brought with him on his previous visit. The backgrounds are simply delicious.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/RP3022v932" title="Voxx Romana & Danny Ebru collaboration"><img alt="Voxx Romana & Danny Ebru collaboration" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399854729_edc4fdf6f4_z.jpg" width="510" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Voxx Romana & Danny Ebru collaboration</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/4Jr7cE7ex8" title="Voxx Romana & Danny Ebru collaboration"><img alt="Voxx Romana & Danny Ebru collaboration" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399853099_46e9b7b8db_z.jpg" width="480" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Voxx Romana & Danny Ebru collaboration</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/YE2Xa6Vdk8" title="Voxx Romana & Danny Ebru collaboration"><img alt="Voxx Romana & Danny Ebru collaboration" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399050527_8380f1acdf_z.jpg" width="470" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Voxx Romana & Danny Ebru collaboration</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/y0EXGDxPit" title="Voxx Romana & Danny Ebru collaboration"><img alt="Voxx Romana & Danny Ebru collaboration" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399050902_640870f898_z.jpg" width="572" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Voxx Romana & Danny Ebru collaboration (salute the colour coordination!)</span><br /><br /><br />
Voxx got inventive with stencils wrapped around corners, borrowed background colours complement the stencilled definition of the face as if the whole thing was a single original collaborative art piece<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/8vUh80c16U" title="Voxx Romana 90 degree stencil"><img alt="Voxx Romana 90 degree stencil" height="535" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399994130_395b665fa1_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Voxx Romana 90 degree stencil</span><br /><br /><br />
Another returning member was the collaboration machine City Kitty. City Kitty focusses more on hand painted paste ups rather than print runs and consequently gets up fewer pieces than the other guys. City Kitty does the street art podcast <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/679sUTc0usZJLEn5rlLb5s" target="_blank">Scratching The Surface</a> which is so damn good, several recent episodes were interviews recorded on this European foray. If you are interested in the sticker arm device mentioned above then listen to all of City Kitty’s podcasts, one of them is with the artist whose side hustle is selling those poles.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/b6un0Cg8y1" title="City Kitty"><img alt="City Kitty" height="469" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399051022_c380abc117_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">City Kitty</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/20656286ii" title="City Kitty"><img alt="City Kitty" height="574" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399853244_717848f890_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">City Kitty</span><br /><br /><br />
Toastoro, whose pseudonym is a fusion of the word “toast” and the name of the Studio Ghibli animation character “Totoro”, has had art up in Shoreditch in the past courtesy of friends putting him up but this visit really marked his first overseas in-person “campaign”. Toastoro introduced two art techniques rarely seen in London street art: LED illuminated street art (hold tight Lost Hills) and layered art which Toastoro calls vinyl topography, the textured layered effect is hard to relive or convey through “mere” photographs.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/2aeu35U313" title="Literally lit Toastoro"><img alt="Literally lit Toastoro" height="480" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399853189_9371fd1427_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><span cc0000="">Literally lit Toastoro</span><br /><br /><br />
<a dhref="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/te9n92YU36" title="Toastoro vinyl topography"><img alt="Toastoro vinyl topography" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399996110_3894188f48_z.jpg" width="478" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Toastoro vinyl topography</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/bukcC4J33v" title="Toastoro vinyl topography"><img alt="Toastoro vinyl topography" height="565" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399995520_e351e71835_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Toastoro vinyl topography</span><br /><br /><br />
The Studio Ghibli reference implicit in the compound name Toastoro influences his subject matter which included sightings of Totoro (obvs) with a body shaped rather like a slice of bread, susawatari dust bunnies and funniest of all, a souped up cat bus ("My Neighbour Totoro") with added toaster functionality. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/301671i285" title="susuwatari pavement stencils by Toastoro"><img alt="susuwatari pavement stencils by Toastoro" height="485" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399854129_2031a7d4de_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">susuwatari pavement stencils by Toastoro</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/h29P4M8322" title="Cat Bus Toaster by Toastoro"><img alt="Cat Bus Toaster by Toastoro" height="474" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52400059578_9d31683818_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Cat Bus Toaster by Toastoro</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/k772pFzfG0" title="Toastoro sticker"><img alt="Toastoro sticker" height="456" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399996090_6752cf7a8f_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Toastoro sticker</span><br /><br /><br />
Voxx, RX and Toastoro all felt pavement stencilling was in order, something Voxx Romana and RX Skulls have done in Shoreditch on previous visits.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/40EM76j640" title="RX Skulls & Voxx Romana pavement stencils"><img alt="RX Skulls & Voxx Romana pavement stencils" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399568891_ac1087b571_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">RX Skulls & Voxx Romana pavement stencils</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/6y3s20C70p" title="Pavement Stencil by RX Skulls"><img alt="Pavement Stencil by RX Skulls" height="577" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399051857_a6e3911c90_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Pavement Stencil by RX Skulls</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/M85gQ1B82S" title="Toastoro pavement stencil"><img alt="Toastoro pavement stencil" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399568951_e1436b7247_z.jpg" width="504" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Toastoro pavement stencil</span><br /><br /><br />
The boys from Portland also put out some #FreeArt. RX Skulls became only the second street artist I can recall putting out bronze street art.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/XT14t741MT" title="RX Skulls"><img alt="RX Skulls" height="565" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399853809_3f05f3f95f_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">RX Skulls</span><br /><br /><br />
Accompanying the street artists was the amazing and super cool photographer Cody Keto. While out one evening the group bumped into Stik, a chance encounter which gave Cody the opportunity to create some amazing light trail photographs at Stik’s famous Hoxton Couple statue. Cody has kindly given permission for his stunning photos to appear here.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/8HJ075s4FF" title="Portland guys vs Stik with Stik guest appearance. Photo courtesy Cody Kato Photography"><img alt="Portland guys vs Stik with Stik guest appearance. Photo courtesy Cody Kato Photography" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399994685_dabbc7dedc_z.jpg" width="427" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Portland guys vs Stik with Stik guest appearance. Photo courtesy Cody Keto Photography</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/0f147Jrxxk" title="Catching Brick Lane Action - Cody Kato and Toastoro"><img alt="Catching Brick Lane Action - Cody Kato and Toastoro" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399853169_669e06e5d8_z.jpg" width="480" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Capturing Brick Lane Action - Cody Keto and Toastoro</span><br /><br /><br />
The love extended to this group of visiting artists is really a reflection of the way they reach out to and embrace the wider world. This is most apparent in their collaborations, these guys are total collaboration engines and it is not surprising to see them collaborating by design, on opportunity and by chance.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/Gch8HUYg34" title="tn__DSC7331 copy"><img alt="tn__DSC7331 copy" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399568061_2eb6d53697_z.jpg" width="519" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">City Kitty and Toastoro collaboration</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/56QY2ceDj0" title="City Kitty"><img alt="City Kitty" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399051217_e851f0ce3d_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">detail</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/CFNo1BaKi1" title="City Kitty & RX Skulls collaboration"><img alt="City Kitty & RX Skulls collaboration" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52400059368_a3db1fdc03_z.jpg" width="472" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">City Kitty/RX Skulls collaboration</span><br /><br /><br />
City Kitty hooked up with Neon Savage, the pair having collaborated many times down the years since meeting in Croydon in 2017 a fact gleaned from their <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/1AyPGYjM45lTnJo1Jx78Mn" target="_blank">podcast conversation</a> on the always excellent City Kitty <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/679sUTc0usZJLEn5rlLb5s" target="_blank">podcast</a>.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/Hh8jx589E9" title="City Kitty & Neon Savage collab"><img alt="City Kitty & Neon Savage collab" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399994600_d5e2b7d4b2_z.jpg" width="508" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">City Kitty & Neon Savage collab</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/a04369214u" title="RX Skulls & Polar Bear collaboration"><img alt="RX Skulls & Polar Bear collaboration" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52400060653_87b8d517a7_z.jpg" width="534" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">RX Skulls & Polar Bear collaboration</span><br /><br /><br />
One of the group told us that the highlight of the visits had been the welcome they received in Europe, visits were made to Manchester, Hackney Wick, Paris as well as Shoreditch and Southbank. There were planned hook-ups as well as chance encounters with street artists and many artists and fans travelled to meet the team.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/1j1t0B6N8V" title="Hanging at Montys"><img alt="Hanging at Montys" height="496" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52405463405_6845a30d0c_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Hanging at Monty's Bar, Brick Lane</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/L746H9MLmK" title="Toastoro at Southbank Undercroft"><img alt="Toastoro at Southbank Undercroft" height="498" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399995655_545a85d0b2_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Toastoro at Southbank Undercroft</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/EHmc5tn354" title="City Kitty at Southbank Undercroft"><img alt="City Kitty at Southbank Undercroft" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399568656_0d735f9c6b_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">City Kitty at Southbank Undercroft</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/586Z8x0z00" title="RX Skulls at Southbank Undercroft"><img alt="RX Skulls at Southbank Undercroft" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399995760_195756b9a7_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">RX Skulls at Southbank Undercroft</span><br /><br /><br />
Mowcka has previously collaborated with City Kitty and travelled to hook up in Shoreditch.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/T05S3e6o61" title="Toastoro, City Kitty and visiting friend Mowcka"><img alt="Toastoro, City Kitty and visiting friend Mowcka" height="442" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52402045023_b00c8bd00d_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Toastoro, City Kitty and visiting friend Mowcka</span><br /><br /><br />
The combination of artists in this travelling circus changes on each visit but fear not, art by absent friends appears courtesy of those who do make the trip.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/3929qVJDC2" title="RX Skulls vs C3 also feat 3x3x3, 2018"><img alt="RX Skulls vs C3 also feat 3x3x3, 2018" height="566" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399051212_c02132e84e_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Vane PDX and Voxx Romana</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/tyH8dZP9f7" title="Vane PDX transparent sticker"><img alt="Vane PDX transparent sticker" height="486" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399853819_4ef0b1284e_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Vane PDX transparent sticker</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/vanepdxart/" target="_blank">Vane’s</a> sticker is printed on a transparent background, Voxx’s placement on Vane’s behalf intentionally responds to the red letterpress print by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jeanpeutetre/" target="_blank">Jean Peut Etre</a>. One of those "chance" collaborations perhaps.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/5221a6jtt1" title="DRSC0"><img alt="DRSC0" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399854064_c34852763c_z.jpg" width="462" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">DRSC0</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/x6378c2P14" title="tn__DSC6755 copy"><img alt="tn__DSC6755 copy" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399052157_996682a4c6_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Pam Goode</span><br /><br /><br />
Also making appearances were friends from their local scenes that London did not have the pleasure of welcoming in person this time such as <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cheerupofficial/" target="_blank">Cheer Up</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/_cuz_chris_/" target="_blank">Cuz Chris</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/chrisrwk/">Robots Will Kill</a><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/33rGj153G7" title="Cheer Up"><img alt="Cheer Up" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399051472_7cc18f4524_z.jpg" width="426" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Cheer Up</span><br /><br /><br />
Notice the writing of Cheer Up's name in the glitched font in the face – genius!<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/7047tH6b29" title="Cuz Chris"><img alt="Cuz Chris" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399852874_7650a4c8ce_z.jpg" width="480" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Cuz Chris</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/Mtn1bn1zn4" title="City Kitty & Chris RWK sticker collaboration"><img alt="City Kitty & Chris RWK sticker collaboration" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52400059448_df71ca7570_z.jpg" width="611" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">City Kitty & Chris RWK sticker collaboration</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/fp1101W8N3" title="Tracy Blackstock by Dreph admires stickers by RX Skulls and a Chris RWK/Knor collab"><img alt="Tracy Blackstock by Dreph admires stickers by RX Skulls and a Chris RWK/Knor collab" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399051127_46e9594612_z.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">Tracy Blackstock by Dreph admires stickers by RX Skulls and a Chris RWK/Knor collab</span><br /><br /><br />
This visiting group of artists peppered Shoreditch and other parts of Europe with new street art embodying innovative, novel, collaborative, improvised fun wherever they went. There were so many dimensions to the art and the activities they got up to that this little flashback really does not do justice to their contribution to the street art scene.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/y389456n52" title="RX Skulls stencil"><img alt="RX Skulls stencil" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399567421_31a4d51fbb_z.jpg" width="429" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">RX Skulls stencil</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/46ej3j3M1C" title="RX Skulls stencils"><img alt="RX Skulls stencils" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52399051927_7df6d46bae_z.jpg" width="385" /><br /></a><span cc0000="">RX Skulls stencil</span><br /><br /><br />
Links:<br /><br />
RX Skulls <a href="https://www.instagram.com/rxskulls/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> "<br /><br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/1tbrHR6 " target="_blank">Art From Arrex. Stick It.</a>" RX Skulls stickers in Shoreditch, 2014<br /><br /><a href="https://graffoto1.blogspot.com/2012/03/secrets-of-sticker-shed-sticker-making.html" target="_blank">"Secrets Of The Sticker Shed - Sticker Making Workshop"</a> (How to become RX Skulls) <br /><br /> Voxx Romana <a href="https://www.instagram.com/voxxromana/" target="_blank">Instagram </a> <br /><br /> City Kitty <a href="https://www.instagram.com/citykittystreet/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> <br /><br />Toastoro <a href="https://www.instagram.com/t0a5t0r0/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> <br /><br />Cody Keto Photography <a href="https://www.codyketophotography.com/" target="_blank">website</a>
NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-15817432196792276892022-09-19T20:48:00.003+00:002022-10-05T17:37:36.201+00:00Helch - The Dog's PollocksIt being that day, Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral, I decided to go out graff hunting and what a great decision that turned out to be. “Helch Watch” has been running for several months following the addition of an incomplete piece of graff close to our hood in May. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52369971021/in/photostream/" title="Helch, May 2022"><img alt="Helch, May 2022" height="472" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369971021_2532c0d154_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Helch, May 2022</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52369028882/in/photostream/" title="Helch, May 2022"><img alt="Helch, May 2022" height="402" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369028882_05bee4efce_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Helch, May 2022</span><br /><br /><br />
My fave graff lookout, Lady Nolions, reported back a couple of weeks ago that Helch had returned to transform and complete that piece and it was looking epic. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52370205403/in/photostream/" title="Helch - Sep 2022"><img alt="Helch - Sep 2022" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52370205403_1382a8361d_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Helch - Sep 2022</span><br /><br /><br />
<a dhref="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52370205363/in/dateposted/" title="Helch - Sep 2022"><img alt="Helch - Sep 2022" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52370205363_66a4d9bf0b_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Helch - Sep 2022</span><br /><br /><br />
After suitably urban looking “context” shots, stepping in for some context shots revealed a stunning surprise. Helch has gone full Jackson in a ground level oil spill trap and it's more or less invisible until the moment you fall into it. Helch does brilliant fills generally but this time a new level has been reached. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52369028987/in/photostream/" title="Helch - low pollocks"><img alt="Helch - low pollocks" height="417" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52369028987_cf75f6e2ca_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Helch has low pollocks</span><br /><br /><br />
Another new Helch appeared in Shoreditch at the weekend and again the fill looked stunning. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52370205438/in/photostream/" title="Helch Sep 2022"><img alt="Helch Sep 2022" height="630" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52370205438_9577d4dc29_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Helch Sep 2022</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52370285829/in/photostream/" title="Helch - glitchy fill"><img alt="Helch - glitchy fill" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52370285829_d81d36e1dd_z.jpg" width="555" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Helch - glitchy fill</span><br /><br /><br />
Helch has kind of taken over one end of the road behind the old Truman Brewery, this time the combination of blues and whites in the fill suggest Helch seeks to give nature a run for its money in providing best cloud and sky colours. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52370285889/in/photostream/" title="Helch Helta Skelta up to the clouds"><img alt="Helch Helta Skelta up to the clouds" height="480" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52370285889_c28e38c670_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Helch Helta Skelta up to the clouds</span><br /><br /><br />
Helch has created many more stunning text based artworks in Shoreditch over the past 12 months, consolidating a burgeoning reputation among fans of art as well as graffiti. <br /><br />
Link: Helch <a href="https://www.instagram.com/helch_walls/" target="_blank">instagram</a><br /><br />
All photos: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/shoreditchstreetarttours/" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a><div><br /></div>
NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-16525822065217400482022-08-31T17:44:00.005+00:002022-08-31T20:26:49.279+00:00Carnival of Graffiti<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52322693400/in/photostream/" title="Carnival Route Westbourne Grove"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52322693400_4befc98bfb_z.jpg" width="640" height="402" alt="Carnival Route Westbourne Grove"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Carnival Route Westbourne Grove</span><br /><br /><br />
Carnival returned to Notting Hill this weekend after a COVID hiatus of 3 years, this meant the return of one of the best and most temporary HOFs (Hall of Fame) going – the Notting Hill Carnival shopfront hoardings. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52321448142/in/photostream/" title="Notting Hill"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52321448142_39f909aeeb_z.jpg" width="640" height="349" alt="Notting Hill"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Notting Hill</span><br /><br /><br />
One person who played a major role in grabbing the head of graffiti and twisting it 180 degrees until it became street art was Mode2. The jaw dropping highlight of my exploration of the Carnival graffiti was unexpectedly coming across a new piece by Mode2. Check the Mode2 writing, I have not seen that spidery angular swirl since he painted that old since demolished industrial laundry building in Islington in 2010. While it is a shame the character on the corner is not intact, that’s life, to see Mode2 put up TCA in the Carnival girl’s tail feathers feels pretty special. Writing alongside is another London graff legend Teach DDS, hence the DDS in the feathers.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52322677064/in/photostream/" title="Mode2"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52322677064_91bdbfcca2_z.jpg" width="640" height="404" alt="Mode2"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mode2, Teach</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52322693270/in/photostream/" title="Mode2"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52322693270_80e99baf4b_z.jpg" width="596" height="640" alt="Mode2"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mode2</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52322693240/in/photostream/" title="Mode2"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52322693240_112d03e345_z.jpg" width="640" height="437" alt="Mode2"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mode2, Teach</span><br /><br /><br />
Also putting in a major shift was Shine.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52322693305/in/photostream/" title="Shine Quest"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52322693305_aa6256fdef_z.jpg" width="640" height="398" alt="Shine Quest"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Shine Quest</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52322567748/in/photostream/" title="Shine"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52322567748_94d929d4ac_z.jpg" width="640" height="424" alt="Shine"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Shine</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52322567758/in/photostream/" title="Shine"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52322567758_66555c4c1f_z.jpg" width="640" height="532" alt="Shine"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Shine</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52321448362/in/photostream/" title="Shine"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52321448362_1fddf07576_z.jpg" width="640" height="517" alt="Shine"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Shine</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52322567808/in/photostream/" title="Shine"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52322567808_0b039d2773_z.jpg" width="640" height="427" alt="Shine"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Shine</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52322677369/in/photostream/" title="Shine"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52322677369_e3a988eef8_z.jpg" width="640" height="410" alt="Shine"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Shine</span><br /><br /><br />
RIP pieces were a recurring theme, names of the fallen are still honoured within the community.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52321448317/in/photostream/" title="RIP Lover, Trip, KBag. Kaoz"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52321448317_0c3839ffc2_z.jpg" width="640" height="386" alt="RIP Lover, Trip, KBag. Kaoz"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">RIP Lover, Trip, KBag. Kaoz</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52322567823/in/photostream/" title="Kaoz RIP Lover"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52322567823_d264b7a709_z.jpg" width="640" height="487" alt="Kaoz RIP Lover"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Kaoz RIP Lover</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52322567923/in/photostream/" title="RIP Type"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52322567923_dce7a813c4_z.jpg" width="640" height="454" alt="RIP Type"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">RIP Type</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52322693480/in/photostream/" title="LOST RIP"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52322693480_dfe4a24f29_z.jpg" width="640" height="440" alt="LOST RIP"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">LOST RIP</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52322677299/in/photostream/" title="RIP KBag RIP Lover"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52322677299_67db262d87_z.jpg" width="640" height="459" alt="RIP KBag RIP Lover"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">RIP KBag RIP Lover</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52321448437/in/photostream/" title="RIP Wino. Vade"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52321448437_2c6c98d6a2_z.jpg" width="640" height="578" alt="RIP Wino Vade"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">RIP Wino. Vade</span><br /><br /><br />
The last photo in that set features Vade’s ubiquitous throw which was everywhere but there were also some Vade pieces.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52322677379/in/dateposted/" title="Vade"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52322677379_7814e3656d_z.jpg" width="640" height="495" alt="Vade"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Vade</span><br /><br /><br />
Grenfell fire disaster was over 5 years ago but the horror has not been forgotten and the campaign for justice still fuels graffiti in the area.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/d083e6CM62" title="Justice 4 Grenfell"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52323348278_55df4755a2_z.jpg" width="640" height="571" alt="Justice 4 Grenfell"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Justice 4 Grenfell</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52321448432/in/photostream/" title="Priest"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52321448432_2a759c8b9b_z.jpg" width="640" height="523" alt="Priest"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Priest</span><br /><br /><br />
Artik is a roller king, at Carnival there was a rare sighting of a spraypainted Artik piece.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52322250046/in/photostream/" title="Artik"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52322250046_dbf7a26d28_z.jpg" width="640" height="390" alt="Artik"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Artik</span><br /><br /><br />
Riotous colour really turned up in party mood in Kiwie and Finito’s pieces.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52322567693/in/photostream/" title="Kiwie Finito"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52322567693_5d9d7f5b0d_z.jpg" width="640" height="439" alt="Kiwie Finito"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Kiwie Finito</span><br /><br /><br />
Quite a lot of graf from prior years makes an appearance, those frugal shopkeepers hoard the hoardings but usually can’t be bothered to do the jigsaw puzzle, which makes for quite brilliant collaged mosaics.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52324781396/in/dateposted/" title="my head spins"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52324781396_abc44c993c_z.jpg" width="640" height="440" alt="my head spins"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">my head spins</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52322693520/in/photostream/" title="my eyes hurt"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52322693520_7137d217a1_z.jpg" width="640" height="418" alt="my eyes hurt"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">my eyes hurt</span><br /><br /><br />
Last Thursday I cycled past the Global Street Art team painting an advert on a wall in Notting Hill, I hope their terms and condition on this one ensure they get paid regardless of any tags, cos there was no chance a Cillian Murphy advert would survive the weekend!<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52323744422/in/dateposted/" title="Cillian Murphy spraypainted advert acquires character"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52323744422_b9d1907291_z.jpg" width="556" height="640" alt="Cillian Murphy spraypainted advert acquires character"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Cillian Murphy spraypainted advert acquires character</span><br /><br /><br />
Carnival is about participation, music, food and partying and even early doors that was well underway.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/G85EnJ1VLq" title="Carnival 2022 Dancer"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52323472890_62d512ca89_z.jpg" width="535" height="640" alt="Carnival 2022 Dancer"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Carnival 2022 Dancer</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/098rir4a1r" title="10FOOT/Findac"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52323036086_2e86207320_z.jpg" width="640" height="426" alt="10FOOT/Findac"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">10FOOT/Findac</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/8xWR9gMu48" title="Carnival 2022 Dancers"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52323348248_107c328a5a_z.jpg" width="640" height="426" alt="Carnival 2022 Dancers"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Carnival 2022 Dancers</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/772505716h" title="Carnival 2022 Dancers"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52323348298_4b315a37b9_z.jpg" width="640" height="531" alt="Carnival 2022 Dancers"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Carnival 2022 Dancers</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/460b71yFRM" title="Ladbroke Grove Carnival Route"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52323472930_f60919ba92_z.jpg" width="640" height="612" alt="Ladsbroke Grove Carnival Route"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ladbroke Grove Carnival Route</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/6M3bA4USNX" title="Carnival 2022 Dancers"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52323036096_f18f3b1112_z.jpg" width="640" height="574" alt="Carnival 2022 Dancers"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Carnival 2022 Dancers</span><br /><br /><br />
Apologies to creators whose writing features in the photos but has not been attributed. This is most likely ignorance on my part, perhaps some omission in there as well, send an email if you want crediting.<br /><br />
All photos: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/shoreditchstreetarttours/" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a><div><br /></div>
NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-83686331350344998862022-08-18T01:01:00.002+00:002022-08-18T13:20:42.780+00:00NoveLondon Miro BugsStreet art from the artist Novelondon has appeared around Shoreditch within the past week and there is nothing we love more than delicious new art from an unfamiliar artist.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52293601500/in/photostream/" title="Novelondon vs The Rolling Stones"><img alt="Novelondon vs The Rolling Stones" height="479" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52293601500_5dd801a68f_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Novelondon vs The Rolling Stones</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52292132687/in/photostream/" title="Novelondon in Shoreditch. August 2022"><img alt="Novelondon in Shoreditch. August 2022" height="443" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52292132687_af9d9fbffa_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Novelondon in Shoreditch. August 2022</span><br /><br /><br />
Novelondon’s new street art combines characters and text with the unmistakable influence of Spain’s Miro. The Rolling Stones and The Beatles lyrics feature. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52293116248/in/dateposted/" title="Novelondon vs The Rolling Stones"><img alt="Novelondon vs The Rolling Stones" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52293116248_c8ca87d7dd_z.jpg" width="545" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Novelondon vs The Rolling Stones</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52293379334/in/photostream/" title="Novelondon vs The Rolling Stones"><img alt="Novelondon vs The Rolling Stones" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52293379334_057213429c_z.jpg" width="513" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Novelondon vs The Rolling Stones</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52292132672/in/photostream/" title="Novelondon vs The Beatles"><img alt="Novelondon vs The Beatles" height="495" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52292132672_8709b2de1c_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Novelondon vs The Beatles</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52293379359/in/photostream/" title="Novelondon vs Jimi"><img alt="Novelondon vs Jimi" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52293379359_7473eb32c8_z.jpg" width="455" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Novelondon vs Bob</span><br /><br /><br />
There is great consideration given to placement, colour coordination with the background looks superb.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52293116358/in/photostream/" title="Novelondon in Shoreditch. August 2022"><img alt="Novelondon in Shoreditch. August 2022" height="427" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52293116358_062ae312d4_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Novelondon in Shoreditch. August 2022</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52293379349/in/photostream/" title="Novelondon vs Jimi"><img alt="Novelondon vs Jimi" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52293379349_f4038dc1e7_z.jpg" width="456" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Novelondon vs Jimi</span><br /><br /><br />
A particular favourite seems to tip its hat to Rothko with its placement over graffiti removal colour washes.<br /><br />
Links:<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52293379344/in/photostream/" title="Novelondon in Shoreditch. August 2022"><img alt="Novelondon in Shoreditch. August 2022" height="480" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52293379344_e1046ee6fd_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Novelondon in Shoreditch. August 2022</span><br /><br /><br />
Links:<div>Novelondon <a href="https://www.instagram.com/novelondon/" target="_blank">instagram</a></div><div> <br /><br />
All photos: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/shoreditchstreetarttours/" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a><div><br /></div>NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-75986032688198166292022-08-14T12:26:00.004+00:002022-08-14T12:26:59.926+00:00Birmingham Street Art - More than Just Banksy“It’s A Brum Ting” has been the signature of the past fortnight as Birmingham hosted the Commonwealth Games. So what is it about Birmingham, why is it so great? Armed with a cheap cheap day return rail ticket I set out several weeks back to discover what Goldie, Trevor Francis and Banksy (might have) appreciated about the UK’s “Second City” (tm).<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269517865/in/photostream/" title="tn__DSC4316 crop"><img alt="tn__DSC4316 crop" height="447" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269517865_08e55416ee_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Justin Sola, Void One & Mose78</span><br /><br /><br />
The art started right outside the train station, FokaWolf was well represented as was Brummy staple Tempo, of whom more later.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269298849/in/photostream/" title="Foka Wolf"><img alt="Foka Wolf" height="469" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269298849_0d65116586_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">FokaWolf</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52275397381/in/photostream/" title="Tempo 33"><img alt="Tempo 33" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52275397381_728b1b65bb_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Tempo 33</span><br /><br /><br />
Gent 48 is a giant of Birmingham’s street art scene so perhaps it was either fitting, or just inevitable, that the first mural spotted was by Gent48, painted in January this year when Birmingham was sorting out the torch relay for the opening of the Commonwealth Games. The mural features Haseebah Abdullah, England's first hijab-wearing boxing coach and Salma Bi, who founded the first all Asian women’s cricket team. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52268067742/in/photostream/" title="Gent48: Salmi Bi & Haseebah Abdullah"><img alt="Gent48: Salmi Bi & Haseebah Abdullah" height="414" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52268067742_6cdc01da96_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Gent 48 feat: Salmi Bi & Haseebah Abdullah</span><br /><br /><br />
The one flag planted in my vague, unplanned plan was to locate Birmingham’s 2019 Banksy. Tick the box, complete the set. The route took me through a cluster of architecturally fascinating buildings. London by staid by comparison, so many planning luddites have ensured our post war rebuilding really lacks the surprise, flair and modernism a waddle around the centre of Birmingham will reveal. The interior of the Birmingham Library is so worth exploring for its design as well as its exhibition content.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52268067437/in/photostream/" title="Birmingham New Street Station Alejandro Zaera-Polo"><img alt="Birmingham New Street Station Alejandro Zaera-Polo" height="344" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52268067437_36c04e21b1_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Birmingham New Street Station, Alejandro Zaera-Polo</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269028546/in/photostream/" title="Birmingham Library Centernary Square"><img alt="Birmingham Library Centernary Square" height="420" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269028546_90d53682ac_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Birmingham Library Centernary Square</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269047168/in/photostream/" title="Birmingham Library Interior"><img alt="Birmingham Library Interior" height="436" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269047168_5af2333c9f_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Birmingham Library Interior</span><br /><br /><br />
The route to the Banksy had already been mapped out by the Charm Bracelet trail by Mick Thacker and Mark Renn.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52275671400/in/photostream/" title="Birmingham Jewellery Quarter Charm Bracelet pavement plaque trail, Mick Thacker and Mark Renn"><img alt="Birmingham Jewellery Quarter Charm Bracelet pavement plaque trail, Mick Thacker and Mark Renn" height="533" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52275671400_96d32e1694_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Birmingham Jewellery Quarter Charm Bracelet pavement plaque trail, Mick Thacker and Mark Renn</span><br /><br /><br />
What’s to say about the Banksy on Vyse Street. Great placement, great use of the street furniture and a poignancy likely to rise as rampant inflation and fuel poverty drives up homelessness next winter. It is well preserved and thankfully no gallerist twat has laid his grubby “Preserving street art for private collectors” hands on it. So far. It’s a pig to photograph clearly and parts of its execution are a tad indifferent. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/39YW3xaR31" title="Banksy - "God Bless Birmingham""><img alt="Banksy - "God Bless Birmingham"" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52275706255_6af1017edd_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy "God Bless Birmingham"</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/43i9e9bKF6" title="Banksy - "God Bless Birmingham""><img alt="Banksy - "God Bless Birmingham"" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52275221306_576bd6e9eb_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy "God Bless Birmingham"</span><br /><br /><br />
Banksy confirmed this stencil as genuine with a website message saying "God bless Birmingham. In the 20 minutes we filmed Ryan on this bench passers-by gave him a hot drink, two chocolate bars and a lighter - without him ever asking for anything." - Banksy<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/850z2xw33i" title="Banksy - "God Bless Birmingham""><img alt="Banksy - "God Bless Birmingham"" height="459" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52275241203_c1967c28af_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy "God Bless Birmingham"</span><br /><br /><br />
Arriving in Birmingham I expected graffiti; thanks to an awareness of its recent history of street art festivals I expected murals; I wasn’t fully prepared for the brilliant explosion of sticker art. Every lamppost, traffic light, street sign and pole had been claimed by sticker art, one of my favourites being the huge variety of brace faces by Tempo who we used to see fairly frequently in London 10 or so years ago. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52275444781/in/photostream/" title="Tempo sticker montage"><img alt="Tempo sticker montage" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52275444781_688776fe5a_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Tempo sticker montage</span><br /><br /><br />
When Tempo was up in London our main delight was his large circular non permissioned paste-ups so finding a number of larger spraypainted murals was a pleasure.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52276703804/in/photostream/" title="Tempo 33"><img alt="Tempo 33" height="478" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52276703804_9f277bcf11_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Tempo 33</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52276458443/in/photostream/" title="Tempo 33"><img alt="Tempo 33" height="546" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52276458443_9562eaf388_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Tempo 33</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269028391/in/photostream/" title="Tempo"><img alt="Tempo" height="486" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269028391_a61539117a_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Tempo 33</span><br /><br /><br />
Other sticker artists included Wreck1, Lisk Bot, Never A Servant, the legend Fokawolf and a very impressive scattering of the playful and rare (to me at least) street art of Pahnl.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52275462742/in/photostream/" title="Pahnl"><img alt="Pahnl" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52275462742_a7bc683173_z.jpg" width="482" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Pahnl</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52276440106/in/photostream/" title="Werck1, Lisk Bot"><img alt="Werck1, Lisk Bot" height="454" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52276440106_a68918f07f_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Werck1, Lisk Bot</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52276920740/in/photostream/" title="NVRASIR"><img alt="NVRASIR" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52276920740_97bf9dc03c_z.jpg" width="457" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">NVRASIR</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52276703844/in/photostream/" title="Fokawolf & "Titty""><img alt="Fokawolf & "Titty"" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52276703844_a5f9378dd1_z.jpg" width="583" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Fokawolf and Titty</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269298844/in/photostream/" title="Pahnl"><img alt="Pahnl" height="473" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269298844_9a581bdc1f_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Pahnl</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52268067682/in/photostream/" title="Pahnl"><img alt="Pahnl" height="485" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52268067682_5e7aa24731_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Pahnl</span><br /><br /><br />
Birmingham embraces adventurous and exciting architecture but the ancient brick and steam midlands’ post-industrial relics co-exist alongside the modern. Graff was popping up in some breathtaking spots and with more canals than Venice (Brummies say), canal-side vistas in particular are worth hunting out.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52276458488/in/photostream/" title="Birmingham & Fazeley Canal"><img alt="Birmingham & Fazeley Canal" height="411" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52276458488_57daf5b28c_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Birmingham & Fazeley Canal</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269028356/in/photostream/" title="River Rea Birmingham"><img alt="River Rea Birmingham" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269028356_5fac854319_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">River Rea Birmingham</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52276623243/in/dateposted/" title="Farmers Bridge locks"><img alt="Farmers Bridge locks" height="320" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52276623243_0cb26c58b2_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Farmers Bridge locks</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269518040/in/photostream/" title="Digbeth River Rea"><img alt="Digbeth River Rea" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269518040_311eb487e6_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Digbeth River Rea</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52268067712/in/photostream/" title="Smokers by canal"><img alt="Smokers by canal" height="447" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52268067712_b9860286d8_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Smokers by canal</span><br /><br /><br />
The urban huddle of car parks, streets and old factories in Digbeth just to the east of the city centre forms an amazing gallery. It is dominated by amazing murals, some appear to be permission murals liable to change, some look like relics of street art festivals with tags acknowledging “City of Colours” (2014 - 16) and “HighViz Festival” (2019-21) as well as our perpetual favourite – get up and get away with it.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52275561159/in/photostream/" title="Gent48, Ziner"><img alt="Gent48, Ziner" height="433" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52275561159_fb3e93e4b1_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Gent 48, Ziner</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269028371/in/photostream/" title="Goldenboy 924"><img alt="Goldenboy 924" height="430" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269028371_0de998d09d_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Goldenboy 924</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269028396/in/photostream/" title="Liskbot"><img alt="Liskbot" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269028396_97f255356b_z.jpg" width="626" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Lisk Bot</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269298664/in/photostream/" title="tn__DSC4319 copy"><img alt="tn__DSC4319 copy" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269298664_f830fe19f3_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ziner (below) TBC above</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269298769/in/photostream/" title="Drop Burners Not Bombs Gent48 Ziner"><img alt="Drop Burners Not Bombs Gent48 Ziner" height="388" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269298769_d7e651432b_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Drop Burners Not Bombs Gent 48 Ziner</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269517910/in/photostream/" title="tn__DSC4304 copy"><img alt="tn__DSC4304 copy" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269517910_3195df32f2_z.jpg" width="426" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ziner</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269298669/in/photostream/" title="Ziner"><img alt="Ziner" height="527" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269298669_870168a83c_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ziner</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269047038/in/photostream/" title="Broken Fingers"><img alt="Broken Fingers" height="356" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269047038_a2789be44a_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Broken Fingers</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269028451/in/photostream/" title="Cryola 1"><img alt="Cryola1" height="329" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269028451_0f0ba8717a_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Cryola 1</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52268067637/in/photostream/" title="Peaky Blinders _ Aske P16"><img alt="Peaky Blinders _ Aske P16" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52268067637_7f9a8a1a04_z.jpg" width="592" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Peaky Blinders, Aske P19</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269518070/in/photostream/" title="Philth"><img alt="Philth" height="411" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269518070_129af7d79c_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Philth</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269518025/in/photostream/" title="Inkie"><img alt="Inkie" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269518025_2e1ed9308a_z.jpg" width="485" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Inkie</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52268067667/in/photostream/" title="Cryola1"><img alt="Cryola1" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52268067667_e3155b6a7d_z.jpg" width="426" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Cryola 1</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269028526/in/photostream/" title="Gent 48"><img alt="Gent 48" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269028526_2cf04f22ab_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Gent 48</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269298649/in/photostream/" title="tn__DSC4338 copy"><img alt="tn__DSC4338 copy" height="390" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269298649_f0297ae67b_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Philth, Never Ready</span><br /><br /><br />
Paste-up action in the vicinity was fairly limited, the paste-up hall of fame hunt will have to wait till the next visit.
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269047158/in/photostream/" title="Foka Wolf, Void One"><img alt="Foka Wolf, Void One" height="458" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269047158_f6f3c5fb29_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Foka Wolf, Void One</span><br /><br /><br />
Chance plays a key role in street art spotting in a city you haven’t explored before. There is the chance of what artists are “up” at that moment; your experience, your sample will possibly or probably be completely different to that of anyone else before or after. Also, what route do you take across the urban spider web of streets, alleys and paths? From A, B may be sought by going right then left; or you can turn left then go right, that’s two different street art galleries right there. While slaloming through the mainly industrial streets from Digbeth back to the train station, a glance over the shoulder into an open door revealed a delicious collection of political and tribute murals inside a fortuitously empty car park. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269517785/in/photostream/" title="Void One memorial tribute mural to Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Astro (UB40) and Captain Tom"><img alt="Void One memorial tribute mural to Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Astro (UB40) and Captain Tom" height="425" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269517785_3c453dc600_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Void One memorial tribute mural to Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Astro (UB40) and Captain Tom</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269298569/in/photostream/" title="Gent48 Ziner The Brolly Works"><img alt="Gent48 Ziner The Brolly Works" height="468" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269298569_3a3b5338bd_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Gent 48, Ziner The Brolly Works</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269298539/in/photostream/" title="The Brolly Works"><img alt="The Brolly Works" height="453" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269298539_d8f235e698_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Theresa May by Title</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269046938/in/photostream/" title="Two faced Jeremy Hunt is NHS Joker, Void One"><img alt="Two faced Jeremy Hunt is NHS Joker, Void One" height="489" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269046938_a43a9659c5_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Two faced Jeremy Hunt is NHS Joker, Void One</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52269046908/in/photostream/" title="The Brolly Works"><img alt="The Brolly Works" height="572" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52269046908_79ca0c254f_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">The Brolly Works</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52268067487/in/photostream/" title="Malcolm X and Martin Luther King by Title"><img alt="Malcolm X and Martin Luther King by Title" height="404" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52268067487_23c3f90215_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Malcolm X and Martin Luther King by Title</span><br /><br /><br />
A good street art city should house a collection which is too vast for you to cover in your limited time, especially on a one day visit. It should also have change, renewal, vibrant health and life and Birmingham’s street art scene has both of these. It is hard to put it better than Birmingham’s own Prince Of Darkness when Black Sabbath reunited <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhhjgXLVZbI" target="_blank">last Sunday (Paranoid starts 1 min exactly)</a> for a spine tingling <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001b0rp/commonwealth-games-closing-ceremony" target="_blank">surprise set (BBC iPlayer, certain areas only, go to 2 hours exactly, next 3 months)</a> at the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony.<br /><br />
“You are the best…..Birmingham for EVVVAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH”<br /><br />
Links:<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/gent48/" target="_blank">Gent 48 instagram</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/zinzinahh/" target="_blank">Ziner instagram</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/tempo33_twc/" target="_blank">Tempo 33 instagram</a><br /><br /><a href="https://banksy.co.uk/" target="_blank">Banksy Website</a> (please tell Banksy you found him through Graffoto.co.uk)<br /><br />
All photos: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/shoreditchstreetarttours/" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-56012090298597209112022-07-30T23:15:00.001+00:002022-07-30T23:15:28.876+00:00Banksy Antonelli and Marziani Book ReviewBanksy, the best known living artist, is an enigma with a perverse attitude to celebrity status and personal information. In an age where non-entities share every plate of food, change of eyeshadow and ill-advised swimwear hot, this is this is a major anomaly. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/1XK5869BQ8" title="Banksy cover"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52219037234_27891d3179_z.jpg" width="554" height="640" alt="Banksy cover"></a><br /><br /><br />
Anonymity and secrecy fuels curiosity so there have been many books about Banksy, though none actually by him since “Wall and Piece” in 2005. The economically titled “Banksy”, Stefano Antonelli & Gianluca Marziani, Rizzoli International Publications, 2022, unauthorised, collects together a significant amount of material addressing Banksy the street artist, the art world darling, the enfant terrible and Banksy the “polite vandal”. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52252249433/in/dateposted/" title="Banksy Antonelli Marziani p 16 17"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52252249433_4a681ab469_z.jpg" width="640" height="365" alt="Banksy Antonelli Marziani p 16 17"></a><br /><br /><br />
Liberally illustrated with large photos, Banksy’s indoor gallery art and his outdoor street art get pretty much equal billing.<br /><br />
Having two authors lends two distinct dimensions to the book. A significant portion of the book is basically chronological, with photographs illustrating Banksy activity from very early freehand collaborations in Bristol right up to screengrabs of the two videos released by Banksy during lockdown. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52252516694/in/photostream/" title="Banksy Antonelli Marziani p 154 155"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52252516694_00ab83621f_z.jpg" width="640" height="365" alt="Banksy Antonelli Marziani p 154 155"></a><br /><br /><br />
The years 2014 and 2016 are omitted so curiously no references to Banksy’s only known signed confession (Mobile Lovers) and his use of a QR code in 2016 to link the Gassed Cosette street image opposite London’s French Embassy to his underlying humanitarian political point.<br /><br />
The second and perhaps more interesting aspect is the philosophical, art history and political analysis which are covered with far superior writing quality. Perhaps I am too easily impressed when I have to google the words. The book makes a strong case for Banksy as a serious and art-world credible artist, something art critics are often inclined to deny. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52252516669/in/photostream/" title="Banksy Antonelli Marziani p28 29"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52252516669_d4342eb15d_z.jpg" width="640" height="362" alt="Banksy Antonelli Marziani p28 29"></a><br /><br /><br />
The one thing no one wants revealed is thankfully not addressed in any great depth. The authors simply acknowledge the oft-repeated un-confirmed guess from the Telegraph years ago, seemingly on the basis that prior repetition by enough other people provides validation. The car park attendant in Weston Super Mare must be gutted. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52252761905/in/dateposted/" title="Banksy Antonelli Marziani P189"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52252761905_ba2388a1c1_z.jpg" width="556" height="640" alt="Banksy Antonelli Marziani P189"></a><br /><br /><br />
Some cultural nuances are strangely overlooked such as in the dissection of the title of Banksy’s last book, there are cross references to Tolstoy’s “war and peace” and a tricky allusion to a wall as a source of social media output (me neither) but Banksy’s key joke that to a graffiti writer, a “piece” is a complex multi-colour graffito is not mentioned at all.<br /><br />
There is an excellent Banksy mind-map placing Banksy in context between street art and graffiti with a stream of influences and effects. Many similar graphics exist such as Cedar Lewisohn’s hand scribbled 2008 street art mind map, they are endlessly fascinating and never easy to agree 100% with, this is the first I have seen regarding Banksy and the authors have done a great job with it.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/52252736355/in/photostream/" title="Banksy Antonelli Marziani p 14 15"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52252736355_38a85399d3_z.jpg" width="640" height="368" alt="Banksy Antonelli Marziani p 14 15"></a><br /><br /><br />
The book would have benefited from more careful fact checking with errors in dates slipping through and even one artwork not by Banksy but is not attributed to anyone else either.<br /><br />
There is always room for another Banksy book in the market. The passage of time provides perspective on Banksy’s earlier career and as long as he remains active there is scope for updating on his latest twists and subversions of the act of creating and disseminating art. Its range of photographs earns it its position on the bookshelf of the Banksy curious and the in-depth analysis will provide food for thought for the die-hard fan base.<br /><br />
© Banksy, by Stefano Antonelli and Gianluca Marziani, Rizzoli Electa, 2022<br />
Hardcover / 10.25” x 11.25” / 240 pages / 194 colour illustrations<br />
£29.95 / ISBN: 978-0-8478-7276-3<br />
Rizzoli Electa / Release date: June 2022<br />
NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-29449139274623728972022-07-19T22:30:00.002+00:002022-07-21T09:53:07.969+00:00Jean Peut-Etre and Boxitrixi batter Brick Lane<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/" title="Jean Peut-Etre & Boxitrixi"><img alt="Jean Peut-Etre & Boxitrixi" height="416" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52226489972_d6d31bc1fe_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jean Peut-Etre and Boxitrixi (also feat My Dog Sighs)</span><br /><br /><br />
A wonderful new batch of paste ups from a pair of overseas artists really gave a huge make over to some of Shoreditch’s paste up halls of fame. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/M5435551Q4" title="Jean Peut-Etre & Boxitrixi"><img alt="Jean Peut-Etre & Boxitrixi" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52227979680_a6a99b506e_z.jpg" width="591" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jean Peut-Etre and Boxitrixi</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/8k3fN52fK9" title="Jean Peut-Etre & Boxitrixi"><img alt="Jean Peut-Etre & Boxitrixi" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52227508603_17669b418d_z.jpg" width="418" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">We can see.... Jean Peut-Etre and Boxitrixi</span><br /><br /><br />
Jean Peut-Etre is from France, quelle surprise, and collages letterpress and screenprinted paste ups on found vintage paper. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/t25otD4X33" title="Jean Peut-Etre"><img alt="Jean Peut-Etre" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52227508483_d95cf97c9d_z.jpg" width="480" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jean Peut-Etre (also feat Subdude, Face The Strange, Ghead, City Kitty)</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/rwcK356My1" title="Jean Peut-Etre"><img alt="Jean Peut-Etre" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52227767244_5189b116f8_z.jpg" width="430" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jean Peut-Etre</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/11Q25pv40g" title="Jean Peut-Etre"><img alt="Jean Peut-Etre" height="456" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52227496521_f824668dd7_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jean Peut-Etre</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/5wc14T1Zi8" title="Jean Peut-Etre"><img alt="Jean Peut-Etre" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52226489932_c0dd46cdf5_z.jpg" width="480" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jean Peut-Etre</span><br /><br /><br />
Boxitrixi is from Argentina and is currently a welcome resident in the UK with a glorious line in wood block printed naïve tribal characters. Boxitrixi’s paste-ups were applied with an urgent roughness leaving ripples, wrinkles and textures in the paper. The art acquired an instantly aged appearance entirely in keeping with the roughness of the printed images. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/607aUkpSS3" title="Jean Peut-Etre & Boxitrixi"><img alt="Jean Peut-Etre & Boxitrixi" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52227508518_57754e3e89_z.jpg" width="476" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Boxitrixi</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/5fp5744Ya2" title="Boxitrixi"><img alt="Boxitrixi" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52227767134_fdf3e31e13_z.jpg" width="452" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Boxitrixi</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/z7099pfBM7" title="Boxitrixi"><img alt="Boxitrixi" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52227979685_1bc09b3758_z.jpg" width="508" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Boxitrixi</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/u68030nt3P" title="Boxitrixi"><img alt="Boxitrixi" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52227508623_b22c5f32f5_z.jpg" width="503" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Boxitrixi</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/MbJU57n31D" title="Boxitrixi"><img alt="Boxitrixi" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52227767219_e9047f15e4_z.jpg" width="471" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Boxitrixi</span><br /><br /><br />
The way the pair attacked the walls leaves you admiring both the individual prints and also the combined collaged sum of the parts. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/6424Dh2019" title="Jean Peut-Etre & Boxitrixi"><img alt="Jean Peut-Etre & Boxitrixi" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52227496531_58c146c18d_z.jpg" width="426" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jean Peut-etre and Boxitrixi</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/7ShC4Atzm0" title="Boxitrixi & Jean Peut-Etre"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52228261585_48c62b8949_z.jpg" width="552" height="640" alt="Boxitrixi & Jean Peut-Etre"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jean Peut-etre and Boxitrixi</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/Lc5K5jM2cH" title="Boxitrixi & Jean Peut-Etre"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52226773852_d2e974d9d9_z.jpg" width="482" height="640" alt="Boxitrixi & Jean Peut-Etre"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jean Peut-etre and Boxitrixi</span><br /><br /><br />
Links: <br /><br />
Jean Peut-Etre <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jeanpeutetre/" target="_blank">Instagram </a><br /><br />
Boxitrixi<a href="https://www.instagram.com/boxitrixi/" target="_blank"> </a>Instagram<br /><br />
all photos: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/shoreditchstreetarttours/" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a>NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-33344199669547135112022-07-10T00:34:00.000+00:002022-07-10T00:34:08.271+00:00Pride Street Art In Shoreditch<p> </p>
Last weekend marked London’s main 2022 Pride celebration and a lot of new street art appeared in Shoreditch in celebration of and support for the LGBTQ community. <br /><br />
On the Shoreditch Street Art Tour on Sunday I was asked by one guest why the London Pride was in July rather than June as they were used to. Post tour digging revealed that “Pride in London”, the official title at present, is timed for the closest Saturday to the anniversary of the Stonewall riots in NYC which followed police raids on the Stonewall gay bar on 28th June.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/JK37kf" title="Beirdo"><img alt="Beirdo" height="455" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52205264096_c73d8e71ea_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Beirdo</span><br /><br /><br />
The pride rainbow flag features in a lot of the Pride art pieces in its 6 colour traditional colour form, as opposed to the usual 7 colour representation of a rainbow. The first rainbow flag was designed by the artist Gilbert Blake in 1978 at the request of Harvey Milk (see the film Milk, excellent). It had 8 colours, the traditional 7 colours of the rainbow plus hot pink above the red. Each of the 8 colours was assigned a specific meaning. In 1979, aiming to increase flag production, the pink strip was dropped as hot pink material was not readily available. The turquoise stripe was also dropped so that the flag could be split and displayed in symmetrical paired halves each having three stripes. Thus the common Pride 6 colour rainbow evolved.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/subdudelondon/" target="_blank">Subdude </a>used an 8 stripe Pride flag to highlight statutory homophobia on the African continent.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/8154bR" title="Subdude"><img alt="Subdude" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52204241597_92680379e5_z.jpg" width="449" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Subdude</span><br /><br /><br />
Street artist <a href="https://www.instagram.com/billboorman/" target="_blank">Beirdo </a>prefers 6 colours, or perhaps was just out of hot pink and turquoise A4<br /><br />.
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/YE3p5t" title="Beirdo"><img alt="Beirdo" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52205249136_d0ff25837e_z.jpg" width="480" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Beirdo - Pride London 2022</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/apparan/" target="_blank">Apparan </a>sends her greetings and wishes you Happy Pride, with 7 rainbow stripes.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/4vfQ4X" title="Apparan"><img alt="Apparan" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52204241587_7d5989ef5e_z.jpg" width="460" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Apparan - Pride London 2022</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/drash_la_krass/" target="_blank">Drash La Krass</a> has a list. No homophobia, no biphobia, no transphobia, no sexism!<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/dG9592" title="Drash La Krass"><img alt="Drash La Krass" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52205249216_c4ae14e2c7_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Drash La Krass - Pride London 2022</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/ghead_tra/" target="_blank">Ghead_Tra</a> is a new name this year to the Shoreditch street art scene and his art hates hatred and Conservatives. The God Loves Gays tricolour specifically aims at the vile spewing Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas USA. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/ZgZg0D" title="Ghead_tra"><img alt="Ghead_tra" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52205268418_cec08ca45d_z.jpg" width="621" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ghead_art - Pride London 2022</span><br /><br /><br />
If this next text based piece isn’t Ghead then Ghead ought to get together with the Unknown Artist as the message seamlessly blends that two big issues Ghead.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/h5G10V" title="Artist not known"><img alt="Artist not known" height="450" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52205249186_f60270d9fc_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Unknown artist - Pride London 2022</span><br /><br /><br />
Sidenote: on another matter the same so-called place of worship also holds extreme views on abortion and Ghead_tra parodies another specimen of Westboro extremism in opposition to that message.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/57ZnF2" title="Abortion Is My Bloody Choice - Ghead_tra"><img alt="Abortion Is My Bloody Choice - Ghead_tra" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52205823895_75d7a50934_z.jpg" width="478" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">"Abortion is my bloody choice", Ghead_tra, July 2022</span><br /><br /><br />
Ahead of this week’s Tory party implosion <a href="https://www.instagram.com/_social_sniper_/">Social Sniper</a> homed in on an issue which highlighted the breakdown of trust by members of the LGBTQ community in politicians. This may need to be read slowly. Conversion therapy is a process aimed at “curing” or changing expressions of gender behaviour, identity or expression. To describe it as controversial would be to miss the most unacceptable aspects of the practice by a million miles. Boris Johnson decided not to proceed with legislation to ban the practice which provoked howls of horror, at which point he flipped and decided there would be a ban except it wouldn’t apply to trans conversion therapy. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/2925WY" title="Social Sniper"><img alt="Social Sniper" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52205750435_16453fc866_z.jpg" width="485" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Social Sniper - Pride London 2022</span><br /><br /><br />
For the curious, the background to Social Sniper’s art is another form of colour spectrum specifically representing the trans community and their supporters. Trans Pride is taking place this weekend, the weekend after Pride weekend.<br /><br />
Wandering down a parallel track again, one senior tory we didn’t know about before appeared on TV regretting that he had had to support the flip flops on conversion therapy policy. When politicians publicly admit to supporting policies they fundamentally disagree with, how can voters expect to elect a representative possessing even the tiniest fragment of integrity.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/pMZ280" title="Mike Freer MP, Equalities Minister (quit)"><img alt="Mike Freer MP, Equalities Minister (quit)" height="367" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52204241547_77f055debd_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mike Freer MP, close to Boris, Equalities Ministser (resigned)</span><br /><br /><br />
I am hugely indebted to my <a href="http://www.shoreditchstreetarttours.co.uk" target="_blank">Shoreditch Street Art Tours</a> co-guide Subdude for his insights and information regarding the content and installation of the art discussed.<br /><br /><br />
All photos: <a href="https://bit.ly/3CVRc6f" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a> except where stated
NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-55355565457108216102022-05-14T01:16:00.004+00:002022-05-14T01:16:38.791+00:00Daytripping – Cardiff Street Art and GraffitiAny excuse to blow the London vapours from the lungs will do so my travels recently took me to Cardiff thanks to a cheap rail ticket promotion. Cardiff is the capital of Wales and, as a specimen of street art informs me, the 6th most “at risk” city in the world from rising water levels.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/CV187A" title="Cardiff At Risk - artist unknown"><img alt="Cardiff At Risk - artist unknown" height="441" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52065114348_0a6da815e5_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Cardiff At Risk - artist unknown</span><br /><br /><br />
I have previous with Cardiff, having been born there, schooled there and fled from there. It was a shithole until I left, now look at it! In the mid 00s when I joined Flickr with its global community of artists, writers and photographers I realised early on that Cardiff has some seriously good spraycan artists, so an art visit was well overdue. This is not a guide to Cardiff’s street art and graffiti scene, I am certain there is more and there are different artists and other locations; think of it as me sharing a snapshot of some of the stuff I happened to find and enjoy on one particular day.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/3F6084" title="My Dog Sighs & others"><img alt="My Dog Sighs & others" height="480" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52071743771_e3b9ae0f30_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">My Dog Sighs & others</span><br /><br /><br />
I headed into the area south of the train station, dark streets where we used to drink and play pool in the old Bristol Hotel, drawn in that direction not by an awareness of any art locations, just simple curiosity at a new exit from the train station which I don’t think existed when I was a kid.
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/7q67A4" title="N3KOcardiff trans rights stickers Cardiff"><img alt="N3KOcardiff trans rights stickers Cardiff" height="520" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52065114518_7c0797573c_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">N3KOcardiff trans rights stickers</span><br /><br /><br />
South of the station there was barely a single building I recognised but one thing they never change are the railway bridges so it was nice to find to rough and raw pieces on those familiar surfaces.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/46Wb0V" title="Past Jams Cardiff"><img alt="Past Jams Cardiff" height="457" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52064056472_0fa44786a7_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Past, Jams</span><br /><br /><br />
Rmer1, as in “Armour”, stood out in my online remote appreciation of Cardiff’s street art scene, my 150% certainty was that if I did find any Rmer artwork it would be one of his photorealistic portrait pieces. I was dead pleased when one of the first tags I found was Rmer1.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/77Q83E" title="Hoxe1 Rmer1 Cardiff"><img alt="Hoxe1 Rmer1 Cardiff" height="431" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52064056467_15fcdd7545_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Hoxe1 Rmer1</span><br /><br /><br />
That tag was found on Womanby Street, a drag that screams “diehard 18 year old drinkers from the valleys” and most of the art seemed bar related. There was some good stuff and when you have talent like Dr Zadok combining with Karm and Rmer the result such as this portrait of 2015 Welsh Music Prize 2015 winner Gwenno Saunders is inevitably impressive. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/s9uw2v" title="Zadok, Karm, Rmer1 Cardiff"><img alt="Zadok Karm Rmer Cardiff" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52065330729_81d5f1d375_z.jpg" width="508" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Zadok, Karm, Rmer1</span><br /><br /><br />
After a delicious humus and felafal sourdough in the indoor market a hired bike took me west the short distance to Sevenoaks Park in Grangetown where I found this enormous RIP tribute to deceased graffiti writer NERVE. The fragmented blockbuster letter outlines served as a frame within which writers paid their respects in a coordinated colour scheme.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/36Jtu5" title="Nerve RIP wall Grangetown Cardiff"><img alt="Nerve RIP wall Grangetown Cardiff" height="248" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52064056452_29d25e4573_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Nerve RIP wall</span><br /><br /><br />
I couldn’t believe my luck in coming across this crisp, clean, colour coordinated graff seemingly painted quite recently given its pristine freshness. It was quite a surprise when a bit of research revealed it dates back to June 2021, there is absolutely zero chance, almost, of anything lasting that long unscathed up here in London.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/4509GE" title="Nerve RIP wall Grangetown Cardiff"><img alt="Nerve RIP wall Grangetown Cardiff" height="324" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52065589025_bd3d33e4d2_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Nerve RIP wall</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/89P2jC" title="Nerve RIP wall Grangetown Cardiff"><img alt="Nerve RIP wall Grangetown Cardiff" height="462" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52065589015_7128690a0d_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Nerve RIP wall</span><br /><br /><br />
One writer who's style caught my eye in that Nerve tribute and a couple of other spots was Elvs.
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/04M7w3" title="ELVS Grangetown Cardiff"><img alt="ELVS Grangetown Cardiff" height="418" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52065098881_51300c42e4_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">ELVS</span><br /><br /><br />
TIP: When exploring art in a new town, never take the same road twice. A different route back to the centre led to the chance find of a long extent of graffed up hoardings on the embankment of the River Taff leading to an entrance to the Rugby stadium. Rugby fans have to have something to piss against I suppose. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/7q4k13" title="Millenium Stadium Taff Embankment Cardiff"><img alt="Millenium Stadium Taff Embankment Cardiff" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52065330654_e9d1e217b1_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Millenium Stadium Taff Embankment</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/T1Ay7J" title="Newer Cardiff"><img alt="Newer Cardiff" height="404" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52065330639_b557737985_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Newer</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/6q2247" title="AMOK Cardiff"><img alt="AMOK Cardiff" height="404" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52065098846_90d11cca66_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">AMOK</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/X6tr98" title="Cesto Cardiff"><img alt="Cesto Cardiff" height="407" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52065098866_8e288931e0_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Cesto</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/Sb4Y1B" title="Sepr Cardiff"><img alt="Sepr Cardiff" height="474" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52065098826_3fe2b60e4d_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Sepr</span><br /><br /><br />
Apart from strange spiky posts covered in furious tags, the pieces on the boards were virtually unblemished with little to no dogging or lining out. Close inspection of one piece did show evidence of some local beef, lining out had been repaired and the same taking out style deployed against the same writer was observed in several spots across the city.<br /><br />
A longer ride took me through Cardiff’s impressive civic centre towards the Roath area where spectacular murals and cobbled alleyway pieces can be found.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/55Jc51" title="Lowther Keys Dan Green Cardiff"><img alt="Lowther Keys Dan Green Cardiff" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52065114443_0f691eabd7_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Lowther Keys Dan Green</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/4B2MNy" title="Helen Bur, Colour Doomed collab Cardiff 2014"><img alt="Helen Bur, Colour Doomed collab Cardiff 2014" height="365" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52064056377_06bdd0359e_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Helen Bur, Colour Doomed collab</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/Pc1ja0" title="City Road ish, Cardiff"><img alt="City Road ish, Cardiff" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52065588945_328ccba0c3_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">City Road ish</span><br /><br /><br />
Familiar artists abound though the art piece that excited me most was a My Dog Sighs painting in support of Ukraine in which the photorealistic eyeball reflection expresses the explosive horror or a Russian missile attack. My Dog Sigh’s painting went viral on social media in the early weeks of the current conflict.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/n3nmA2" title="My Dog Sighs Ukraine Cardiff"><img alt="My Dog Sighs Ukraine Cardiff" height="483" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52065114388_40d0659d57_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">My Dog Sighs support for Ukraine</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/9CF771" title="My Dog Sighs Cardiff"><img alt="My Dog Sighs Cardiff" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52064056347_4c882e3f02_z.jpg" width="440" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">My Dog Sighs</span><br /><br /><br />
With spring light holding up well a random loop up the side of Roath Park then back west hemmed in by the Western Avenue revealed individual isolated art works are to be found by the vigilant eye. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/6vyM2m" title="Alex Pawson"><img alt="Alex Pawson" height="469" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52065098731_0de5f01b19_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Alex Pawson</span><br /><br /><br />
This mural by SPK dating from 2015, survives on a wall which has all the hallmarks of a building extension jerry built on top of an existing garden wall, Boris was a pariah among the righteous even before becoming PM (but you knew that).<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/d58K2Y" title="SPK Anti fox hunt Boris Johnson"><img alt="SPK Anti fox hunt Boris Johnson" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52065330534_bf2b87419f_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">SPK Anti fox hunt Boris Johnson</span><br /><br /><br />
It’s the legs of the badger down the badger sett painted where once would have been a garden gate is a use of wall topography that amuses and impresses.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/0hKivB" title="Boris Johnson fox hunt supporter - SPK"><img alt="Boris Johnson fox hunt supporter - SPK" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52065588900_67e0122dd4_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Boris Johnson fox hunt supporter - SPK</span><br /><br /><br />
They say one of the first signs of gentrification is street art moving in; I remember this cut-through to the train station opening some 35 or so years ago, seems Cardiff’s street art lags the gentrification :-))<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/T7qk4j" title="Helen Bur / Wasp Elder Collab"><img alt="Helen Bur / Wasp Elder Collab" height="456" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52072200125_dc9a06b589_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Helen Bur / Wasp Elder Collab</span><br /><br /><br />
This trip to Cardiff was part art, part graffiti and part nostalgia. Despite no prior research into locations a random exploration of Cardiff yielded a satisfying quantity of art and for that randomness was actually all the more interesting. We shall return.<br /><br />
All photos: <a href="https://bit.ly/3CVRc6f" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a>NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-2027702218133015522022-03-15T01:40:00.005+00:002022-03-15T01:40:51.211+00:00Extraordinary Portrait Painter Dale Grimshaw’s Street Art<p> </p>
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/5H2SXP" title="Double portrait, 2016"><img alt="Double portrait, 2016" height="490" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51938879021_ecc22bd861_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Double portrait, 2016</span><br /><br /><br />
Street artist Dale Grimshaw featured in a brilliant BBC programme on TV last night so here is a little profile of Dale’s street art pedigree and a huge recommendation that you to catch up with Dale’s moment of TV glory.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/k29vY7" title="free West Papua Dale Grimshaw 2019"><img alt="free West Papua Dale Grimshaw 2019" height="427" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51937888977_e1954de146_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Dale Grimshaw work in progress, 2019</span><br /><br /><br />
In the early years, from about 2009 Dale Grimshaw put paste up street art featuring elaborate dynamic portraits. Motion was a key characteristic, bodies plummeted from the skies, subjects kicked out at us, heads twisted with dizzying speed. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/3rM4hf" title="The Fool, Dale Grimshaw, 2009"><img alt="The Fool, Dale Grimshaw, 2009" height="455" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51938958843_2c4f099d19_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">The Fool, Dale Grimshaw, 2009</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/8ov00J" title="Self portrait and raven, Dale Grimshaw, 2009"><img alt="Self portrait and raven, 2009" height="425" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51938958833_c4b6a5d14c_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Self portrait and raven, 2009</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/Hn299a" title=""Falling Kicking" Dale Grimshaw, 2010"><img alt=""Falling Kicking" Dale Grimshaw, 2010" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51937888912_571fac613e_z.jpg" width="615" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Falling Kicking; 2010</span><br /><br /><br />
Dale’s involvement in the scene extended to running the Signal Gallery in Shoreditch with his partner. They staged exciting shows by street art luminaries such as Jef Aerosol and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/christianguemy/" target="_blank">C215 </a>and urban art stars including Matt Small and Jaybo, all of whom are predominantly portraiture specialists. Of course there were also several great Grimshaw shows. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/5463vX" title="C215 Shoeshiners exhibition, Signal gallery, 2009"><img alt="C215 Shoeshiners exhibition, Signal gallery, 2009" height="341" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51937951572_ce4d41859c_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">C215 Shoeshiners exhibition, Signal gallery, 2009</span><br /><br /><br />
Although Dale did paint murals on permission walls right from the off, his distinctive aboriginal portraits emerged in spraypainted mural form about 10 years ago.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/ti96Lr" title="Who's taking who for a ride, Dale Grimshaw, 2009"><img alt="Who's taking who for a ride, Dale Grimshaw, 2009" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51938958863_2bd9ddbddc_z.jpg" width="480" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Who's taking who for a ride, 2009</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/8WX51n" title="2 Worlds, Dale Grimshaw, 2013"><img alt="2 Worlds, Dale Grimshaw, 2013" height="350" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51938879041_d10d30bf4a_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">2 Worlds, 2013</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/X2kX0v" title="Dale Grimshaw Man and Eagle, 2015"><img alt="Dale Grimshaw Man and Eagle, 2015" height="444" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51937920112_8667fbe7c3_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Man and Eagle, 2015</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/7Z5Y9U" title="Dale Grimshaw, 2017"><img alt="Dale Grimshaw, 2018" height="477" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51938958858_dc7c6b3f1d_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Hanbury St, 2017</span><br /><br /><br />
Portrait paintings have been an indulgence for rulers, kings, religious icons and rich art patrons with the moolah necessary to immortalise their image through portrait commissions. Extraordinary Portraits, presented on the BBC by British rapper <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tiniegram/" target="_blank">Tinie Tempah </a>redresses the balance pairing unsung heroes with artists for a portrait sitting to honour real people and real lives. For this edition Tinie matches up Dale Grimshaw with Patrick Hutchinson who made the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/18/man-rescued-by-uk-black-lives-matter-protester-is-ex-police-officer" target="_blank">front pages world wide</a> in 2020 for his selfless rescue of an isolated white BLM “counter protestor” under attack.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/K08012" title="White man rescued by Partick Hutchinson at BLM protest, London, 2020"><img alt="White man rescued by Partick Hutchinson at BLM protest, London, 2020" height="375" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51938879091_ae5005e761.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">White man rescued by Partick Hutchinson, London, 2020</span><br /><br /><br />
After Dale and Patrick’s initial meeting the programme pursues Dale’s commitment to reveal something deeper than the superficially obvious, they meet Patrick’s family, visit his place of work and then of course there is the grand reveal. Fascinating sequences unveil Dale’s photography session, his varied and very detailed painting process and his studio environment. It’s not just about Dale of course, Patrick is an equally heart-warming character and it is quickly apparent that his credentials as a role model for humanity and harmony go way deeper than that one photographed incident. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/i8d58q" title="Dale Grimshaw instagram grab"><img alt="Dale Grimshaw instagram grab" height="476" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51938879106_5de47f7651.jpg" width="441" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Dale Grimshaw and Tinie Tempah, Extraordinary Portraits, 2022</span><br /><br /><br />
What has Dale painted? Will the family like it? To find out track down Extraordinary Portraits Series 1 Episode 3 (link <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0015ffm/extraordinary-portraits-series-1-episode-3" target="_blank">HERE</a>), available on BBC iPlayer until April 2023.<div><br /></div><p>Links:</p><p>Dale Grimshaw: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dale_grimshaw/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">instagram</a></p><p>Patrick Hutchinson: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/iampatrickhutchinson/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">instagram</a></p><div>Photos: <a href="http://bit.ly/2lwIt6d" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a> except where noted <br /><br />
</div>NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-55278352762471157872022-02-28T01:18:00.001+00:002022-02-28T01:18:09.472+00:00Street Art Solidarity With Ukraine<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51908713024/in/dateposted/" title="Solidarity with Ukraine"><img alt="Solidarity with Ukraine" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908713024_4b2191af05_z.jpg" width="480" /></a><br />
Three days ago Russia invaded Ukraine. Street artists in Shoreditch have united with the rest of the world in putting out street art with messages of solidarity with Ukraine and revulsion at war breaking out on the European continent.<br /><br />
This afternoon (Sunday 27th February, 2022) these pro Ukraine messages were seen in Shoreditch, shown dovetailed with photographs from protests outside Downing Street in Whitehall, London yesterday.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51908390216/in/dateposted/" title="Peace and Love, our thoughts are with Ukraine"><img alt="Peace and Love, our thoughts are with Ukraine" height="420" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908390216_07a5288a7e_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Peace and Love, our thoughts are with Ukraine</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/87du1X" title="Shelter the sky over Ukraine/Block Putin war"><img alt="Shelter the sky over Ukraine/Block Putin war" height="360" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908712979_db3b1537cb_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Shelter the sky over Ukraine/Block Putin war</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51908483453/in/dateposted/" title="Putin Danger To Life, by Pegasus"><img alt="Putin Danger To Life, by Pegasus" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908483453_bd3da064cb_z.jpg" width="532" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Putin Danger To Life, by Pegasus</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/Q1hPZ4" title="Ukrainian flag flying over Downing Street, London"><img alt="Ukrainian flag flying over Downing Street, London" height="364" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51907422447_74e2c0ec7d_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ukrainian flag flying over Downing Street, London</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51909017595/in/dateposted/" title="Solidarity with Ukraine and Putin poison warning"><img alt="Solidarity with Ukraine and Putin poison warning" height="585" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51909017595_27156472ba_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Solidarity with Ukraine and Putin poison warning</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/9A37G5" title="Solidarity with Ukraine in Whitehall"><img alt="Solidarity with Ukraine in Whitehall" height="360" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51908712984_b5757f10f2_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Solidarity with Ukraine in Whitehall</span><br /><br /><br />
Street artists not known except <a href="https://www.instagram.com/pegasusart/" target="_blank">Pegasus </a>where stated<br /><br />
Street art photos by <a href="http://bit.ly/2lwIt6d" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a><br /><br />
Whhitehall protest photos by anonymous contributor with thanks
NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-91256792588055603482022-02-21T21:40:00.003+00:002022-02-22T23:21:21.161+00:00Enigma In ShoreditchJust suppose someone decided the missing ingredient in street art was monochromatic medieval woodcut images of public hangings or fantasy horror representations of bizarre sea creatures attacking intrepid seafarers venturing beyond the realm of worldly knowledge. Japanese street artist Enigma has stepped up to fix this obvious void in Shoreditch’s globally acclaimed street art scene.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/902c0M" title="Enigma Sea Serpent"><img alt="Enigma Sea Serpent" height="424" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51895032744_030437680b_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Sea Serpent, 2021</span><br /><br /><br />
Street art has developed to a level of variety and sophistication that it takes something quite special to stand out. As observed in our look back at Shoreditch street art 2021 favourites, the street art of this new (to us) artist Enigma was a highlight of a rather unusual year. It won’t escape your attention that the leviathan serpent traumatising that unstable looking ship above spells out ENGM, a contraction of Enigma’s moniker in a style barely removed from graffiti. The sea serpent was our first stop-you-in-your-tracks encounter with Enigma’s art last year.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/7oytiW" title="Enigma Ready To Fly"><img alt="Enigma Ready To Fly" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51894700556_181f2df796_z.jpg" width="546" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ready To Fly</span><br /><br /><br />
A sepia appearance coupled with extensive use of cross hatching lends Enigma’s art an unfashionable antiquated appearance. Street art is awash with pretty but very average photorealistic portraiture, there is a huge gap for new artists prepared to buck the trend, to not follow fashion. Enigma's vision of Lucifer cast out of heaven, based on a detail of Cabanel’s Fallen Angel, has butterflies where others paint wavy locks of hair. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/e343nF" title="Enigma Fallen Angel"><img alt="Enigma Fallen Angel" height="524" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51894787658_ac3df72b4e_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Fallen Angel, 2021</span><br /><br /><br />
Elsewhere faces are sliced to reveal what a proper clockwork orange looks like.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/13J41n" title="Enigma The Clockwork Orange"><img alt="Enigma The Clockwork Orange" height="505" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51894794593_c72f244c6d_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">The Clockwork Orange</span><br /><br /><br />
Surrealism and distortions suggest an artist enjoying playful imagery and experimentation. How many eyes can you or indeed should you fit on a bowler hatted whale or on a chequered finish flag winged stag beetle? <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/b82iLR" title="Enigma Whale Watching"><img alt="Enigma Whale Watching" height="599" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51895352305_dd6f4a6d2e_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Whale Watching</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/R0AEK0" title="Enigma Love Is A verb"><img alt="Enigma Love Is A verb" height="429" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51893738757_17c4a15749_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Love Is A Verb</span><br /><br /><br />
Fish currently feature frequently in Enigma’s compositions, though the circumstances are typically bizarre.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/07HW90" title="Enigma Santa"><img alt="Enigma Santa" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51894787693_99e86a04d0_z.jpg" width="480" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Santa, 2021</span><br /><br /><br />
Enigma’s representations of body parts might resemble pages torn from vintage anatomical studies though a recent fish emerging from an ear could owe more to Hieronymus Bosch. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/20T44S" title="Enigma Pink Fish"><img alt="Enigma Pink Fish" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51895080994_6d2eb24966_z.jpg" width="519" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Pink Fish</span><br /><br /><br />
Another theme in Enigma’s recent art has been shadow hands creatures. Those “how to” guides to shadow puppetry never convince you that the contortion of the hands could cast the demonstrated shadow, Enigma teases you into the same shadow guessing game.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/4q5226" title="Enigma Shadow Puppet Series"><img alt="Enigma Shadow Puppet Series" height="510" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51894700566_1ed2bcf2c9_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Shadow Puppet Series</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/54236V" title="Enigma Shadow Puppets"><img alt="Enigma Shadow Puppets" height="502" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51894700661_3ac123940f_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Shadow Puppets</span><br /><br /><br />
A conceptually paired couple of paintings play with the notion of a shadow rabbit created by hands then the actual creature casting a shadow of a hand. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/857RtG" title="Enigma Don't Follow The Black Rabbit"><img alt="Enigma Don't Follow The Black Rabbit" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51893738687_b2333cc97d_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Don't Follow The Black Rabbit</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/" title="Enigma Follow The Rabbit"><img alt="Enigma Follow The Rabbit" height="464" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51895032774_8fdc053c83_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Follow The Rabbit</span><br /><br /><br />
Jeopardy crops up frequently in the paintings and this ship in its shattered bottle certainly faces stormy seas and rocky Shoreditch shores.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/95Gcfx" title="Enigma Bon Voyage"><img alt="Enigma Bon Voyage" height="472" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51895032749_00f74c9740_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Bon Voyage, 2022</span><br /><br /><br />
Enigma even infiltrates occultist references onto Brick Lane walls, the grinning jester in his harlequin clothing is based on the Hanged Man in the tarot card system and represents submissive states such as surrender or sacrifice.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/938Ts3" title="Enigma Hanging Jester"><img alt="Enigma Hanging Jester" height="532" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51893738702_e425376aff_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Hanging Jester, 2022</span><br /><br /><br />
Enigma garners respect and praise from fellow street artists and when you watch Enigma’s painting style close up you can see why. His can control would be admired by many graffiti writers, those fractured cross hatching strokes come from practice and skill not accident or chance. <br /><br />
<a ref="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/6C7Q7S" title="Enigma"><img alt="Enigma" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51895352275_caf7dec9d8_z.jpg" width="426" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">2nd Century Greek bust with butterfly mind</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/G03534" title="tn__DSC2141 copy detail"><img alt="tn__DSC2141 copy detail" height="296" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51894787783_8fe90b1d03_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">detail</span><br /><br /><br />
Enigma has thus far had few gallery outings in London, what has been seen indicates his street art translates beautifully onto rough canvas, as spotted at the Secret Life Gallery in Shoreditch last year. Instinctively it feels like there is more and better non street art to come from Enigma.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/1W61NJ" title="ENigma Love Is A Verb Canvas"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51895823936_fe767e67bd_z.jpg" width="640" height="444" alt="ENigma Love Is A Verb Canvas"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Love Is A Verb Canvas</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/K1Ez74" title="ENigma Whake Watching Canvas"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51895910653_d24b578b98_z.jpg" width="640" height="398" alt="ENigma Whake Watching Canvas"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Whale Watching Canvas</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/s2k0uP" title="Enigma Follow The Rabbit Canvas"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51895823956_812ca57fe0_z.jpg" width="640" height="481" alt="Enigma Follow The Rabbit Canvas"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Follow The Rabbit Canvas</span><br /><br /><br />
There is a lot of fun to be had with a little light painting, a long exposure at night and Enigma’s high contrast imagery.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/t3167m" title="tn__DSC2346 copy cropped"><img alt="tn__DSC2346 copy cropped" height="483" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51895032799_1ca0ee2800_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Stag hands</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/qkh9Se" title="Enigma Hanging Jester at night"><img alt="Enigma Hanging Jester at night" height="404" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51895032829_63f30c6437_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Hanging Jester at night</span><br /><br /><br />
Enigma has proved to be very engaging with the public.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/LC2X7t" title="tn__DSC1907-002"><img alt="tn__DSC1907-002" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51893738752_13b5aab637_z.jpg" width="404" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Hello</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/6zX773" title="Enigma Work In Progress"><img alt="Enigma Work In Progress" height="601" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51895352220_0cf0bdc671_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Work In Progress</span><br /><br /><br />
We just don’t see enough thematic street art paintings, if you want an idea of the kind of level Enigma is operating at it Ed Hicks might be a suitable peer, a comparison that neither insults Ed nor flatters Enigma. The sources Enigma mines for his art, fractured ancient Greek busts, tarot cards, cast out demons and psychopathic Kubrick films do a bit more than merely hint at dark undercurrents within his art. There is an intellectual depth and creative variety to Enigma’s painting and in the high turnover here-today-forgotten-tomorrow world of street art it is testament to Enigma that his paintings are memorable. Let’s hope Shoreditch continues to play host to his street art for a long time to come.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/63AJVN" title="Enigma Mackerel"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51895215174_7f68bf04c3_z.jpg" width="517" height="640" alt="Enigma Mackerel"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mackerel</span><br /><br /><br />
All photos except gallery canvasses: <a href="http://bit.ly/2lwIt6d" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a><br /><br />
Canvas art photos courtesy Enigma
Photo captions mostly from Enigma’s <a href="https://www.instagram.com/enlgm/" target="_blank">Instagram</a><br /><br />
NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-3377697769688321792022-01-03T12:17:00.005+00:002022-01-03T12:17:38.043+00:00Street Art v. Graffiti starring Jim Vision
Should this Shoreditch Street Art Tours post start with an apology to the spraycan virtuoso Jim Vision? Perhaps. <br /><br />
Last night [31 Dec 2020, new Years Eve] we held a short notice online virtual ramble through some of the art that provided great food for thought on the Shoreditch Street Art Tour in 2021. With the benefit of being able to show slides from the past, we were able to look at the waxing and waning of Jim Vision’s Jerome St mural which concluded with the photograph shown at the top of this post mural taken 2 days earlier on 29th December. This is the story of that mural and it ends with the dramatic update based on what we found today! <br /><br />
The history starts in 2020 with a curved wall pretty heavily battered with graffiti of varying styles and levels of accomplishment. The artistic highlight on the wall was probably back in 2014 with a beautiful paste-up from the French street artist Ludo. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/zt981x" title="Wild! Featuring Noze, Lap406 Oct 2019"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51796698174_0202e86846_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="Wild! Featuring Noze, Lap406 Oct 2019"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Wild! Featuring Noze, Lap406 Oct 2019</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/NB04ki" title="Ludo, 2014"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51797058790_d82b31131c_z.jpg" width="481" height="640" alt="Ludo, 2014"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ludo, 2014</span><br /><br /><br />
Forward to 2020 and Jim Vision secures consent to paint the wall with permission and has claimed the spot as his since, painting a couple of portraits as part of his admirable “Colourful Women” series. In the artist’s words this was “celebrating all women of colour with their vibrancy and strength, at the same time addressing an imbalance in the representation of women of colour on walls. This first dates from early Summer 2020. <br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/D0b0jm" title="Jim Vision, June 2020"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51796326466_0c95a1cd77_z.jpg" width="640" height="426" alt="Jim Vision, June 2020"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jim Vision, June 2020</span><br /><br /><br />
The next portrait on this wall came complimented by a pod of killer whales. In this next early December 2020 photo we see the mural in great condition with 8 killer whales swimming through, to the right is a cluster of illuminations and the background is an abstract veil of almost luminous vertical streaks. <br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/3L19w0" title="Jim Vision, 2nd Dec 2020"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51797058910_350d0637d3_z.jpg" width="640" height="432" alt="Jim Vision, 2nd Dec 2020"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jim Vision, 2nd Dec 2020</span><br /><br /><br />
Just a few days later the negative spaces in the margins have been targeted with graffiti, including sundry tags and a nice piece by Lap in the background: <br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/2265h6" title="Jim Vision, lap406 , 22nd Dec 2020"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51796449948_28c16236fc_z.jpg" width="640" height="432" alt="Jim Vision, lap406 , 22nd Dec 2020"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jim Vision, lap406 , 22nd Dec 2020</span><br /><br /><br />
Things are relatively unchanged by July 2021, a throw has gone over the cluster of lights to the right, a couple of tags and Lap in the background appears to have been painted out. Still the augmentations are occurring away from the main subject: <br />
<br /><a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/P0jz2v" title="Jim Vision July 2021"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51796449903_1a86476de9_z.jpg" width="640" height="492" alt="Jim Vision July 2021"></a>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jim Vision July 2021</span><br /><br /><br />
By October there is fascinating development in the artistic interactions taking place on this wall, Jim Vision covers up new tags with the creative and playful expedient of adding Orcas where the tags were. Now the pod has grown to 20 killer whales and something a bit albino, or perhaps a 21st whale with only its white parts turned to us: <br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/2W7419" title="Jim Vision Oct 2021"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51796449893_49debac66c_z.jpg" width="640" height="430" alt="Jim Vision Oct 2021"></a>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jim Vision Oct 2021</span><br /><br /><br />
Halfway through December heavy tagging appears in quite aggressive spots at the centre of the portrait and a green tag close to the front of the face where the white whale was. Ours is not to cast judgement! <br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/5cN3K4" title="Jim Vision, tags, 19th Dec 2021"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51795383167_01aa9db17c_z.jpg" width="640" height="430" alt="Jim Vision, tags, 19th Dec 2021"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jim Vision, tags, 19th Dec 2021</span><br /><br /><br />
Then, on 29th Dec, a new killer whale appears to be likely to see in the New Year, its placaement jumping through the earring brings to mind the cruelty involved in keeping these beautiful beasts in captivity in sea life parks. This was the state of play at the conclusion of the timeseries presented in the “The Best Of Shoreditch Street Art Tours 2021” virtual tour last night (New Years Eve): <br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51794547338/in/photostream/" title="Jim Vision 29 Dec 2021"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51794547338_1028e59897_z.jpg" width="640" height="431" alt="Jim Vision 29 Dec 2021"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Jim Vision 29 Dec 2021</span><br /><br /><br />
New Years Day, this morning, look what we found: <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/8k791P" title="New Years Day 2021 Jim Vision with Slak & Cuso"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51796698159_8b5e8762be_z.jpg" width="640" height="464" alt="New Years Day 2021 Jim Vision with Slak & Cuso"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Enigma</span><br /><br /><br />
Gonna take a lot more whales! <br /><br /><br />
All photos: <a href="http://bit.ly/2lwIt6d" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a><br /><br />
NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-34212358878457907942021-12-26T17:48:00.005+00:002022-01-14T10:28:48.618+00:00What Graffoto saw in 2021Well done 2021 for having the audacity to follow a totally weird year with an equally weird year, way to go! Although life was not “business as usual” the year did yield some wonderful street art with unexpected and inspired new forms of creativity and a re-evaluation of the significance of paste-ups. We are delighted once again to share some of the past year’s street art highlights and we are talking 4 real, none of that “curated from the internet” bollocks. For once there is even a couple of nominations for “straight in at number 1” personal favourites moments, the risk being that the day after posting I will change my mind for different number 1 favourite. <br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/bvf9G5" title="Fanakapan - anamorphism"><img alt="Fanakapan - anamorphism" height="494" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51777621050_f549e86b38_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Fanakapan anamorphism</span><br /><br /><br />
So, how did the global pandemic continue to affect street art in 2021? Most obviously the number of street artists from foreign shores who came to visit London was almost none. So it was a great pleasure to welcome Stinkfish from Columbia, a regular visitor last spotted around these parts in 2017. A significant number of his favella child paste-ups appeared but this mural really showcased those graffiti based spraycan skills.<br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/0oy7V9" title="Stinkfish with Fat Cap Sprays"><img alt="Stinkfish with Fat Cap Sprays" height="449" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51775137761_30b1734823_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Stinkfish with Fat Cap Sprays</span><br /><br /><br />
The main opportunities to see overseas artists in Shoreditch came through paste-up art exchanged by overseas mail between artists then pasted up in reciprocal “you here, me there” arrangements. NY artist City Kitty was quite visible in Shoreditch this year and he is what I describe as a “collaboration machine”.
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/h5256m" title="City Kitty Lunge Box Neon Savage"><img alt="Citty Kity Lunge Box Neon Savage" height="537" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51776020170_58dae0527b_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">City Kitty, Angry Elephant and Neon Savage collab</span><br /><br /><br />
It was a real delight to find this basketball playing City Kitty collaboration with New York sticker legend Chris RWK aka Robots Will Kill, and just a couple of inches tall.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/2F08cA" title="RWK & City Kitty"><img alt="RWK & City Kitty" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51774322357_c62efdffc0_z.jpg" width="480" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">RWK City Kitty collab</span><br /><br /><br /><br />
Neon Savage neatly swerved locked down screenprinting facilities by improvising a hand finished screenprinting effect using images inkjet printed onto marker pen coloured paper earlier in the year. Then right on the very last weekend before we descended into an unofficial lockdown-for-all-purposes-except-opening-Treasury-coffers, Neon Savage papered Brick Lane with gorgeous halftone acrylic and screenprinted pasteups. Printing of this quality and beauty is the kind of cultural treasure street art delivers to those who seek. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/17172V" title="Neon Savage"><img alt="Neon Savage" height="480" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51775137391_7b33b9e745_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Neon Savage</span><br /><br /><br />
Fat Cap Sprays channels neon in a different way with super cute renderings of popular cartoon characters, depending upon which cartoon character era you grew up in of course, I still haven’t seen Marine Boy! Fat Cap Sprays made a big impact in 2021, the growth of his social media following (stay off tik tok folks!) contains a message I am sure about the link between street art and “success”.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/yt4CPb" title="Fat Cap Sprays"><img alt="Fat Cap Sprays" height="541" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51775233651_fcf077ebee_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Fat Cap Sprays</span><br /><br /><br />
David Speed also continued to hammer out his phenomenal pink neon eye candy portraits. There is a point at which cats in street art suggest the "cute" card being played but in this case David claimed a spot perfectly framed in the bus stop glass, nice use of street architecture.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/5j3qeg" title="David Speed at the bus stop"><img alt="David Speed at the bus stop" height="451" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51774611602_507d740939_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">David Speed vs bus shelter</span><br /><br /><br />
Artistic spats conducted on walls are a constant delight but when David spotted a paid for spraypainted advert in his signature neon pink he really took it out in style, nice one!<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/PqcBRs" title="Ed Sheeran advert"><img alt="Ed Sheeran advert" height="494" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51776164090_0b297fe477_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ed Sheeran advert</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/0GQcHg" title="David Speed vs Ed Sheeran"><img alt="David Speed vs Ed Sheeran" height="485" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51776164060_f14afd9000_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">David Speed vs Ed Sheeran</span><br /><br /><br />
Although Enigma is not new to our streets, this Japanese artist only came to my attention after his post lockdown return from Japan upon which he embarked on a prodigious outpouring of stunning murals styled as old school woodcuts. Almost as remarkable as his street art are his garms when painting, smartly attired in a beige raincoat he looks nothing like the stereotypical street artist you might imagine. This surreal sci-fi beetle is novel for its pinkish hue, Enigma's art is usually a distinctive creamy magnolia.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/2J284h" title="Enigma"><img alt="Enigma" height="429" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51775428061_22f6ff6fce_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Enigma</span><br /><br /><br />
Dramatic light and shade and classical imagery came to London’s street art through the work of talented painter Alessandro Lioviero. The Southbank Undercroft location has hosted several Liovero works, my favourite being this beautiful painting of a contemporary bronze statue by young Ukrainian artist Maksym Haydar. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/tf74Aa" title="Alessandro Loviero"><img alt="Alessandro Loviero" height="473" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51775138071_6ae4459206_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Alessandro Loviero</span><br /><br /><br />
Alessandro often finds inspiration in the work of others, often sculptors, which moves him to provide his own painterly interpretation. A curious dynamic occurred when Loviero painted a detail of the Alexandre Cabanel’s Fallen Angel in response to Enigma’s rendition of a slightly larger detail just one week earlier on the same wall. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/097B53" title="Fallen Angel by Alessandro Loviero"><img alt="Alessandro Loviero" height="425" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51775137976_a5544a7e75_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Alessandro Loviero</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/20E1j6" title="Enigma"><img alt="Enigma" height="473" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51774322377_72279ea478_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Fallen Angel by Enigma</span><br /><br /><br />
There is a lot to be said for anonymity as a contrast to the self-promotion which seems often to trump actual art as a street art motive. In the first part of the year reports came in from all over town about strange single line characters with half formed sentence morsels suggesting clues to the character’s mental state. Street artists and geeks alike were intrigued by the identity of the artist, <a href="https://bit.ly/2TZnpYi" target="_blank">questions asked went un-answered</a>. I may have been much later than many smarter people but I only pierced the Why Reuben veil in November when some clues appeared drawing attention to the artist’s part in a group show. Self-promotion wins every time!<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/5ra8PN" title="Why Reuben"><img alt="Why Reuben" height="481" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51774322552_85bda92795_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Why Reuben</span><br /><br /><br />
If potty sums up your taste in humour then “I farted in yoga” is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face and is seemingly an alias used by Why Reuben.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/xdWvdP" title="Why Reuben"><img alt="Why Reuben" height="523" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51776020075_84939a84d8_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Why Reuben/I Farted In Yoga</span><br /><br /><br />
Ahead of the London International Paste-up Festival I did not anticipate what a successful event it would transpire to be and my reservations weren’t just concerned with the awkward status battle in the first half of the title. The open call event in early November brought art from all over the world and a lot from artists not seen before in Shoreditch. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/R99656" title="The Beast wall"><img alt="The Beast wall" height="489" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51670506191_ca94decc4f_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Various artists at London International Pasteup Festival</span><br /><br /><br />
Rather than an “Oh wow” at any particular pieces of art <a href="https://bit.ly/3wFSyim" target="_blank">my main take-away</a> was a reminder and re-appraisal of the impact paste-ups had in the formative years of street art with the emergence of street artists from a non graffiti background with a preference for quicker means of getting up and less beholden to the spraycan, unlike those with a graffiti background who generally preferred stencils. Full write up <a href="https://bit.ly/3wFSyim" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/y77c20" title="Various artists London International Pasteup Festival"><img alt="Various artists London International Pasteup Festival" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51774323077_e47e13b9b1_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Various artists London International Pasteup Festival</span><br /><br /><br />
Someone else who doesn’t need to be anymore brilliant than he already is is ALO, he had a prolific year on the streets crowned of course by a major solo show at the Saatchi Gallery at the year end.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/2t2A6k" title="Banksy"><img alt="Banksy" height="346" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51775384778_eeac9f4c8d_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">ALO</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/01Dpv9" title="ALO"><img alt="ALO" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51775779614_d82660d0a5_z.jpg" width="465" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">ALO, feat his good friend Dmintn</span><br /><br /><br />
The pandemic lockdowns really gave Airborne Mark an opportunity to ramp up his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/AirborneMark" target="_blank">multi-angle multimedia painting and video game</a>. Most people’s videos are a kind of “ooooooooohhh, look at me and my skills” whereas Airborne Mark’s premise is “This is an experiment and I don’t quite know if it’s going to work”, his videos are like art painting tutorials. This year’s master spraypainting output included a number of signature origami creatures places on beautifully rendered strips of torn cardboard. It is well work tracking down the video of him explaining the complexities of painting something as mundane as a torn piece of cardboard and his video of his second attempt to paint origami birds inside a glass jar is genius. And having seen Mark paint quite a few times the videos are all the more impressive when you realise that its him on his lonesome doing the video, the commentary and the painting, not a video team in sight.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/M8jvBx" title="Airborne Mark work in progress"><img alt="Airborne Mark work in progree" height="556" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51775780109_689298dc81_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Airborne Mark work in progress</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/suZS9L" title="Airborne Mark Frog"><img alt="Airborne Mark Frog" height="539" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51776020535_92cc134c11_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Airborne Mark Frog</span><br /><br /><br />
Dan Kitchener’s Bladerunner-esque rainy Tokyo night scenes morphed recently into an impressionist view of the same through a rain drenched window. On a small screen such as the one you are using right now, the eyeball resolves more clearly details like the cars in the image, there is no real substitute for seeing a painting like this in the flesh to appreciate its true life beauty. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/J157sc" title="Dan Kitchener"><img alt="Dan Kitchener" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51775779119_6366b8c4ab_z.jpg" width="525" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Dan Kitchener</span><br /><br /><br />
Wrdsmth, the vowel eschewing scriptwriter, took the dramatic step of moving to London after years of charming us with his mixed media typewriter life affirming mottos on his frequent visits from Hollywood. Quickly settling into a highly creative run Wrdsmth demonstrated an expanded repertoire including a clever site specific piece as one of several contributions to the London International Paste-up Festival.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/8S9d1P" title="Wrdsmth"><img alt="Wrdsmth" height="487" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51775779469_40244ffa70_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Wrdsmth</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/a6Tyg3" title="Wrdsmth"><img alt="Wrdsmth" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51775384518_0707a7cfe1_z.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Wrdsmth (detail from above)</span><br /><br /><br />
Covid didn’t feature as much in London’s street art in 2021 but Dr D still points the finger at the Coronavirus for being such a buzzkill.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/3QtXj8" title="Dr D"><img alt="Dr D" height="536" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51775192696_3aaab095f3_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Dr D</span><br /><br /><br />
Dr D is always going to bring political satire onto the streets, his pasteup conversion of a van into a prison transport van for the conservatives was bang on point for the shit show that developed around the UK’s Prime Minister.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/15H63Q" title="Dr D"><img alt="Dr D" height="480" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51774376867_258645e8e3_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Dr D</span><br /><br /><br />
We celebrate the innovative, the novel and the inventive and something which ticked multiple such boxes at the end of the year were Perspex living apartments set into walls (usually) by Brickflats. The purpose is to highlight how the outrageous cost of renting in London forces people to cram themselves into tiny boxes by squeezing modern looking perspex flats which take advantage of missing bricks in walls. Assisted by a fragment of a map I went on a good old fashioned street art treasure hunt and found that all his brickflats were still in situ, a testament to the solidity of their novel installation. The second installation below is actually a replacement of a missing cobble so you are looking into the flat from above.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/w9QNu8" title="Brickflats"><img alt="Brickflats" height="428" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51776020185_a298cae0c8_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Brickflats</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/b04B5T" title="Brickflats"><img alt="Brickflats" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51776019990_7d6bf32ebc_z.jpg" width="583" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Brickflats</span><br /><br /><br />
Perspicere also brought a totally different dimension to street art fusing string art with paste-ups in a way that so photorealistic it left you searching for the trick. Having seen Perspicere creating one live for a street jam I am willing to take an oath and state there is no artifice, the image is created entirely from the intersections of the threads, of which there is north of several miles.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/g815Jc" title="Perspicere"><img alt="Perspicere" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51774322787_62f529ab32_z.jpg" width="524" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Perspicere</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/A87yAB" title="Perspicere"><img alt="Perspicere" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51775779539_28ca3c3c11_z.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Perspicere</span><br /><br /><br />
In many conversations with old school graffiti heads the name Nylon comes up frequently as both a style innovator and a hardcore spot seeker. New Nylon art is always a blessing and the way each vase can be appear as a pair of tribal faces or as a single cubist face staring us out was particularly clever.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/Pgs7j6" title="Nylon"><img alt="Nylon" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51776019740_716b92ebab_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Nylon</span><br /><br /><br />
A Shoreditch street art year lacks vintage without Ace pasting up some exercises in screen printed iconography. It’s not just that his art really triggers the right retina receptors, it the sense of continuity that Ace represents, linking the current new wave of paste up artists back to the fumbling fathers of street art which is where Ace come from. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/VH6a1X" title="ACE"><img alt="ACE" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51775384328_65af67845a_z.jpg" width="471" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">ACE</span><br /><br /><br />
Ed Hicks’ tense, doom laden images channelled Victorian apocalypse painters. This 4 panel landscape is perhaps my single highlight of 2021, you have to pinch yourself to remember that this is done with spraypaint. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/k63SE2" title="Ed Hicks"><img alt="Ed Hicks" height="402" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51775779364_a80f9539d8_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ed Hicks</span><br /><br /><br />
Remaining with the painterly theme, Only HMZ not only blurred the boundaries between street art and graffiti with his gothic masterpiece fills within his letters, he went on to do crazy panel installations which in the case of the one presented below is mind-blowing for being, I believe, installed without permission. The work in progress photo illustrates the letter form that lurks within the painting, or does the painting lurk within the letters?<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/90ix98" title="Only"><img alt="Only" height="447" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51776664689_3e718093fd_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Only</span><br /><br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Only</span><br /><br /><br />
There is a further conceptual dimension associated with this installation not apparent in this photo, the trio of lights at the top were solar powered and by some means also people sensing, at night as people walked under the lights each one wold light up in turn from left to right or right to left according to the direction the passer-by was taking. Perhaps next time it will play a tune!<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/73Qh6y" title="Only"><img alt="Only" height="420" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51776920610_a91ebcd91f_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Only</span><br /><br /><br />
An artist who has had a sensational year was Pablo Fiasco. Pablo sets the bar for stencil art in terms of technical complexity of technique and the art embodied in his concepts and ideas. Bearing in mind that one of the key attributes of a stencil is speedy repeatability, PF reuses components from a library of stencils assembled over the decades in different combinations yielding completely different images. Subjects broached in 2021 included rapper tributes, Brexit and a skateboarding ex Federal Reserve Chairman [update - Mrs Greenspan got in touch and said she didn't think the skateboarder was her Alan; Mrs Burroughs said she thought it was her William but they both struggled to tell them apart] but this Mute8 stencil is the piece de resistance, I don’t recall every seeing stencilism of such complexity before. The narrative starts top right and broadly speaking turns anti-clockwise. In a laboratory a subject is to receive a vaccination, the subject mutates, escapes then there is a chase which concludes underwater. Pablo was quite categorical that this theme of scientific mutation has been in his art for several years and it wasn’t his intention that this necessarily be read as a comment on covid vaccination.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/63s5m9" title="Pablo Fiasco"><img alt="Pablo Fiasco" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51775779569_c644536dbc_z.jpg" width="565" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Pablo Fiasco - Mute 8</span><br /><br /><br />
With unauthorised exhibitions opening all over the globe and people taking advantage (I guess) of copyright loopholes to mint NFTs based on Banksy’s art it is easy to overlook that Banksy pulled off his best wave of actual street art since he did New York for 30 days in October 2013. East Anglia is just sufficiently close to London to be day trip viable so despite fairly poor location descriptions I was delighted to be able to locate 8 out of 10 new original and authenticated Banksy street pieces in August. At that time, even before Banksy’s authentication, it was not known that there were actually 10 pieces in the campaign. Since then they have suffered various indignities including being partially dismantled (3 kids in a boat), covered in perspex, buffed, added to or most unforgivably in the case of both “under the paving stone” and the Banksy tagged model stable, acquired for profitable so-called protection by the usual avaricious gallery owner. Although lacking any mind-blowing “bar just got set even higher” pieces, the collection displayed characteristic Banksy wit and audacity.
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/3R63Dx" title="Banksy"><img alt="Banksy" height="556" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51775384733_5c67da8ccd_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy</span><br /><br /><br />
On the whole most of the pieces were <a href="https://bit.ly/3iO9wGg" target="_blank">looking quite photogenic</a> at the time of my visit and I somehow charmed the Model Village owners to allowing exclusive behind the scenes access to photograph the stable.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/AwDzb0" title="Banksy"><img alt="Banksy" height="464" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51776020130_1d4ee35e40_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy</span><br /><br /><br />
So 2021, to call you a year is perhaps generous but what you lacked in meaningful real world calendar months you compensated for with brilliant and inventive street art. Many thanks to all street artists who have provided so much pleasure in their artistic endeavours and we look forward to plenty of new, creative and exciting art in 2022.<br /><br />
All photos: <a href="http://bit.ly/2lwIt6d" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a><br /><br />NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-73622754548128253532021-12-02T16:43:00.002+00:002021-12-02T16:43:19.043+00:00Mr Cenz Rewind<span style="color: #38761d;">
J G Contemporary<br />
45 Churchfield Rd, London W3 6AY<br />
25 Nov - 9th Dec 2021 </span><br /><br />
Graffiti writer and artist Mr Cenz spraypaints vibrant futurist females and photographing his street art portraits at night has given me immense satisfaction down the years.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/13C84E" title="Shoreditch 2019"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51718661528_68aab72357_z.jpg" width="640" height="427" alt="Shoreditch 2019"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Shoreditch 2019</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/p6487S" title="Shoreditch 2019"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51717600322_f6aca3b466_z.jpg" width="595" height="640" alt="Shoreditch 2019"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Shoreditch 2019</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/49f53T" title="Shoreditch 2021"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51719274930_c19f9578d5_z.jpg" width="640" height="489" alt="Shoreditch 2021"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Shoreditch 2021</span><br /><br /><br />
Rewind is Mr Cenz’s first solo gallery outing since his much raved about exhibitions at the Pure Evil gallery some 8 years ago. The collection here includes canvasses of course but also has framed prints, pen and ink illustrations and a light box as well as some Augmented Reality wizardry.<br /><br />
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Mr Cenz origins are unmistakeably in graff, evident in the spraycan techniques and stylisms employed in his portraits. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/7A83E7" title="Meeting Of Styles 2014"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51717600307_ef333c6445_z.jpg" width="640" height="389" alt="Meeting Of Styles 2014"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Meeting Of Styles 2014</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/595A93" title="Mr Cenz Rewind"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51717600157_dc791759bc_z.jpg" width="640" height="325" alt="Mr Cenz Rewind"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mr Cenz Rewind</span><br /><br /><br />
Mr Cenz has no fear of a bit of colour. Light spears in bars through his portraits; starbursts illuminate model’s skin and pinpricks of light dance like those 1970s fibre optic lights. Warm reds, yellows, oranges and purples abound. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/48G5N1" title="Mr Cenz Rewind"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51718403206_fb8659d364_z.jpg" width="640" height="454" alt="Mr Cenz Rewind"></a><br />
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Mr Cenz has constantly sought to push his art forward, evolving through the addition of portraits to his graff, then dropping the letter content and now, in his current show Rewind, to embracing the potential of digital technical to animate and illuminate these colours that have always made his painting so interesting and distinctive.<br /><br />
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Don’t ask me to explain the tech, it’s something to do with Instagram. This is one of those things you don’t actually need to go to the exhibition to experience, though Mr Cenz and the gallerist would sure appreciate if you did. Display one of the following images on a screen, open Instagram on your phone, go to Mr Cenz’s profile, press the three stars thing just above his photos, click on his version of the image and then click the “try it” button at the bottom of the screen. Simples. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/03n7L1" title="Mr Cenz You Cant Hide Your Love"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51718661438_0aefbbc449_z.jpg" width="606" height="640" alt="Mr Cenz You Cant Hide Your Love"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mr Cenz You Cant Hide Your Love</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/1p4SGs" title="Mr Cenz Intrinsic Rhythym"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51719274805_17eb5ca0e0_z.jpg" width="514" height="640" alt="Mr Cenz Intrinsic Rhythym"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mr Cenz Intrinsic Rhythym</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/3qw5CF" title="Mr Cenz Groove Thing"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51718403301_c7e0eaf511_z.jpg" width="495" height="640" alt="Mr Cenz Groove Thing"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mr Cenz Groove Thing</span><br /><br /><br />
I do love something new, something novel and in Rewind, as well as the beautiful colours you expect with Mr Cenz his exploitation of the tech has certainly delivered the “whooahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” moment.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/TD1E25" title="Mr Cenz Love Influx"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51719310430_a1d9950a93_z.jpg" width="640" height="637" alt="Mr Cenz Love Influx"></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mr Cenz Love Influx</span><br /><br /><br />
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All photos: <a href="http://bit.ly/2lwIt6d" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a><br /><br />NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-44757414543272032952021-11-24T01:14:00.003+00:002021-11-24T01:54:38.246+00:00Orrible Eau de Virus show<span style="color: #38761d;">
Secret Art Gallery<br />
28 Cheshire St, London E2 6EH<br />
21 Nov - 19 Dec 2021 </span><br /><br />
Inadequate ventilation is not normally an issue when viewing Orrible’s art as we are mainly familiar spotting it out on the streets. Indoors you better wear a mask for Covid 19 is definitely the theme for his London solo show at the Secret Art Gallery.<br /><br />
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Orrible first appeared on London’s street art scene some 5 years ago, his animal paste-ups combining stencil and paste-up techniques on decent quality paper stock.<br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">2017</span><br /><br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">That time Orrible was given a G, 2016</span><br /><br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">2016</span><br /><br /><br />
The past year has seen Orrible pasting up apt to be mis-interpreted Covid-19 art work spoofing and parodying the classic Chanel No19 spray bottle. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/X4X3K3" title="tn_IMG_4706 copy"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51699971132_f828d95b87_z.jpg" width="497" height="640" alt="tn_IMG_4706 copy"></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">2021</span><br /><br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">2021</span><br /><br /><br />
The two floor gallery just off Brick Lane is packed with Orrible’s spraypainted stencil artwork, the paper art and canvasses in essence are made the same way as the art that appears on the street.<br /><br />
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A Chanel bottle denotes luxury. The luxury in question could refer to the inequality in the availability of vaccines and the cruel irony of vaccines being produced in low cost developing nations being contractually destined for wealthy first world domains and almost completely unavailable in the country of origin. <br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Eau de Virus, 3 layer stencil with black diamond dust</span><br /><br /><br />
If one city may be held to characterise style and luxury that city would be Paris, hence its place of pride on the Chanel bottle. Paris is replaced with Wuhan in the Eau de Virus bottle which on the streets at least has triggered China ex-pat sensitivities against insults to the motherland.<br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">2021</span><br /><br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">2021</span><br /><br /><br />
A used stencil hanging in the gallery draws attention firstly to the fact that at least two different stencils were used in creating versions of the Covid-19 Spray bottle then, if you really dive into the detail, you discover one of the natural charms of a stencil in that no two uses of the same stencil will produce the exact same result.<br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Eau de Virus, 3 layer stencil on genuine Chinese notes, cast resin glaze</span><br /><br /><br />
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The Orrible show has a refreshingly honesty, a throwback to simpler times and earlier days. Urban art passed peak hype a long time ago. Street art media coverage now is dominated by hero artists doing massive murals who indoors morph into fine art painters; illustrators and graphic designers spewing day job by-product rule the paste up space on the streets but in this show, the artist takes the same art seen on the street, made using the exact same stencil technique, adds resin and diamond dust bling but still the art is essentially the street come inside.
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All photos: <a href="http://bit.ly/2lwIt6d" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a><br /><br />NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-38693235367991371792021-11-12T15:47:00.016+00:002021-11-12T23:03:36.082+00:00London International Pasteup Festival ReviewThe history of street art is a complex story whose content varies depending upon author, location, editorial preferences for a “creation” date and people’s differing actual lived experiences. The early phase of its ripping away from graffiti was for many reasons dominated by stencilism and the significant role of the paste-up technique is easily overlooked. Perhaps the London International Paste-Up Festival has addressed that.<br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">LIPF paste-ups</span><br /><br /><br />
LIPF was held over the first weekend in November and featured art on paper by 100s of artists who responded to an open call by the organisers and here is a hat tip to Outside The Zone (Trix Mendez) and Art House Project London (Apparan). I had the pleasure of kind of winding up proceedings by leading a street art tour around the spots. This gave me the unexpected joy of meeting some street artists whose work I have loved for many years for the first time as well as renewing acquaintances with familiar artists and friends, I learnt more from the experience than anyone.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/xfA467" title="LIPF Street Art Tour group led by Dave Stuart"><img alt="LIPF Street Art Tour group led by Dave Stuart" height="446" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51669707592_1dfa633dc4_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">LIPF Street Art Tour group led by Dave Stuart</span><br /><br /><br />
One reason why paste-ups were so significant was newcomers to street art who were not coming from a graffiti background were not going to spend hours creating, perfecting and refining a spraypainted piece of art under risky illegal circumstance, their art would be prepared at home, in the studio or at school and then pasted up in seconds. The paste-up was the ultimate in risk avoidance yet participants still experienced that buzz, the thrill of being a little bit naughty in a relatively harmless way.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/6u74N5" title="Wild paste-up wall in Shoreditch"><img alt="Wild paste-up wall in Shoreditch" height="364" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51669707832_d4c2242202_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Wild paste-up wall in Shoreditch</span><br /><br /><br />
More than other forms of street art paste-ups have an ability to acquire a history, to evolve. There is a joy in the aging of paper, the savagery of rips and tears, the marker pen additions from passers-by, the possibility that meaning is changed by clever juxtaposition of another piece of art. Some artists regard their art as having an independent life on the walls and indeed even photograph their paste-up to rejoice in those changes. <br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">D7606 Kurt Cobain</span><br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">D7606 at LIPF</span><br /><br /><br />
The LIPF art was pasted up in Shoreditch over the preceding couple of weekends by a coalition of willing and experienced locally street artists. One of the kind of predictable and I argue welcome consequences of this early installation was other artists subsequently adding their creativity in and around the LIPF displays.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51674303676/in/dateposted/" title="Corrosive8 vs Eartha Kitt Catwoman by Shuby"><img alt="Corrosive8 vs Eartha Kitt Catwoman by Shuby" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51674303676_397fb0d62a_z.jpg" width="476" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Corrosive8 vs Eartha Kitt Catwoman by Shuby</span><br /><br /><br />
Creativity is a word that means different things to different people, beauty being in the eye of the beholder and all that. Here we see WRDSTH explaining how his Winona Forever paste-up was “edited” by artist unknown and subsequently restored by him and he gave a wonderful articulation of his rationale for doing so. For the benefit of readers and those who heard WRDSMTH’s anecdote first-hand, the second picture below shows the redacted artwork.<br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">WRDSMTH presents his art to #LIPF</span><br /><br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Subverted WRDSMTH paste-u</span><br /><br /><br />
The festival locations facilitated several different presentation styles for the paste up. Two spots highlighted individual artists, Yu_wallart and JD Montaigne in an installation format, reminiscent perhaps of something by Ludo or early Camille Walala when walls were less cluttered! It would be rare these days to see single stand-alone paste ups like this but hey, organisers gotta make use of the spots they have available!<br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Yu_Wallart</span><br /><br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">J D Montaigne installation</span><br /><br /><br />
In four other spots the team had created massive banners of art pasted onto vinyl which was then tied to what in any other circumstance would be advertising frames. The first one featured below serendipitously referenced the world’s most prolific paste-up artist. Its placement and elevation high up the wall precisely matched a Lenin paste-up placed illegally by Shephard Fairey in 2007.<br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">LIPF Paste-up banner, Bateman’s Row</span><br /><br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Shepard Fairy 2007, Chris Stain 2008 below</span><br /><br /><br />
The two Old Street banners had to be taken down on Sunday evening but the others on Dereham Place and Bateman’s Row (above) could last a few more weeks.<br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">LIPF Paste-up banners on Old St</span><br /><br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">LIPF Dereham Place paste-up spot</span><br /><br /><br />
The location the artists referred to as “The Beast” became my favourite as it offered the closest approximation to the layering and direct application of art to the wall that we see in the wild.<br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">The Beast wall</span><br /><br /><br />
Collaboration is a wonderful aspect of most forms of street art and one beautiful collaboration that emerged in the festival was between Donk and Uberfubs. Donk pasted-up his brilliant “Higher Ground” piece a week before before the main crew got to work with the other paste-ups, the second photo shows the dramatic impact on his monochromatic composition after Donk invited Uberfubs to augment it with her flouro creatures, Natasha Searston also got in on the act. <br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Donk, Uberfubs, Natasha Searston collab</span><br /><br /><br />
Donk did his bit to shame the youngsters by getting his Dad’s art pasted up in the festival, a quartet of coppers with appropriate symbolic numbering which represents the acronym ACAB which…..go figure!
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">ACAB by Donks Dad</span><br /><br /><br />
Some collaborations arise through intentional placement, such as the kitty cat and rat living in perfect harmony with two foxes, others are actually created as single sheet collaborations <br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">City Kitty, a rat, Yaya and DaddyStreetFox</span><br /><br /><br />
Perhaps the guiding hand of the installers has had a role in placing a body positivity collaboration between Flakes Store and Planet Selfie adjacent to a Playgirl cover and Sam Fox in a box.<br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Body positivity collab Flakes_store and Planet Selfie, Samantha Fox by D7606</span><br /><br /><br />
The Live and Let Live/Street Art Against Hate project was initiated by the #NoHate family, an awesome group of street artists from Cologne. Artist were invited to support the anti-hate initiative by creating paste-ups adding their art within a circular "Live and Let Live/Street Art Against Hate" message. A version from Streetart.globe gave me the prompt to explain Sunday's tour group the Street Art Against Hate project and the opportunity to demonstrate the power of collective paste-up messaging with an anecdote about the time I came across their Brick Lane Wall of Love in the company of two parents who had lost a son in an American High School mass murder. Full 2018 story <a href="http://bit.ly/2DZ54Bl" target="_blank">HERE</a>. The impact of the message and the touching affect it had on Patricia and Manuel Oliver in 2018 truly demonstrated something about paste up street art. <br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Street Art Against Hate repping at LIPF</span><br /><br /><br />
As I told the story, street artist Face The Strange handed me two of his versions of the paste-up message, demonstrating perfectly that the project is actually still alive and doing good things.<br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Street Art Against Hate paste-ups by Face The Strange</span><br /><br /><br />
One of the more inventive uses of paste-ups we have witnessed down the years has been Dr Cream’s creation of online stop frame animations using paste-up linoprints.
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Daisy Riot animation frames by Dr Cream</span><br /><br /><br />
He has done loads of these in Shoreditch over more than a decade and something we have never succeeded in doing is to locate all the elements of an animation to have a go at rendering our own, it is nice to think that this game or quest was Dr Cream’s gift to the streets. Finally, courtesy his LIPF installation we have all the frames of a star jumping Daisy Riot animation and I was thrilled to get it to work, though my effort does appear to be a homage to the jumpy animation style of Roobarb and Custard (look it up!).<br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Dr Cream "Daisy Riot" animation</span><br /><br /><br />
As the social media flurry around the Festival subsides, I mentioned in my little digital contribution that I had enjoyed leading the Sunday tour and had learned a lot from the guests and artists present. As I pointed out the drama in the layering of Rider’s fluorescent prints against his darker monochromatic background, print artist MeandBlue helpful informed us that the two prints flanking Rider’s display were by David Shand, an artist who was new to me. David focussed on the residue of tears and colours generated by the action of time on flyposters on the streets, a phenomenon paste-ups are beautifully susceptible to. David passed away last year but as I explored his art online this week I got the sense that the spirit and intent of the festival would have chimed with him, it was a pleasure to be introduced to his work through the art on the wall.<br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Rider flanked by David Shand (RIP)</span><br /><br /><br />
No matter what form a piece of street art takes it will always by elevated by good placement and use of the environment. Wrdsmth scores highly for placing the “Hearts Shatter” message within the shattered glass window, happily no wrists were slashed in the placement of the oversize stencil through the jagged shards.<br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Hearts Shatter, mixed media by Wrdsmth</span><br /><br /><br />
The festival concept had a few minor and unavoidable aspects in which it deviates from the nature of paste-up street art in the wild. Pasting all the art up at one point in time denies the “patina” of a good street art spot that comes from artworks going over eachother, from the tearing, the layering, the decay and aging at different rates from different moments in history. Seeing the artists own particular eye and mind controlling placement and juxtaposition is often desirable. On the other hand paste-up street art actually facilitates collaboration, sharing and representation by mailing paper or digital art to friends in other locations and letting them get on with it.<br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Shuby, Uberfubs, Art.tits and Carl Stimpson</span><br /><br /><br />
Something rather less obvious from the participation in the LIPF was the gender balance. The art world is notorious for its discrimination on many basis especially gender. A crude assessment based on identification of artists in a sample of 155 photographs suggested a ratio of male to female artists of 5:3. It’s not great, it’s not perfect but it is likely to be better than the perceived state of play in the in gallery world. <br /><br />
Did the paste-up festival work? It got huge numbers of artists’ work visible on the streets, it introduced the art of many artists from overseas that we had not seen here before, it brought new artists to outdoor walls who have never displayed in public this way and it gave huge visibility to this under-sung street art genre. It was a success.<br /><br />NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-64832654349700772382021-11-02T14:38:00.002+00:002021-11-02T14:38:15.937+00:00London International Pasteup Festival<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/h070h2" title="London International Pasteup Festival LIPF"><img alt="London International Pasteup Festival LIPF" height="425" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51648587772_5d69c99516_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">London International Pasteup Festival sneaky peek feat Shuby, Uberfubs, Art.tits and Whatifier</span><br /><br /><br />
Street Art has many forms, different techniques have evolved to suit different artistic strategies and different environments. Stencilism is most closely associated with street art’s emergence in the early to mid 2000s thanks mainly to Banksy and the many artists he influenced and inspired. Muralism, on surfaces ranging from building site hoardings to massive end gable walls has come to dominate the public’s awareness of street art over the past ten years. Street art is most profound as an outlet for the unsung, the outsider, the radical and the romantic and the most convenient format for unauthorised street art is the paste up - images on paper glued to external surfaces.
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Uncurated pasteup street art, 2021</span><br /><br /><br />
On the heels of London’s first Mural Festival last year, 2021 brings The London International Paste Up Festival. 100s of pasteup street art over 6 locations and many artists seen in London for the first time complimenting many old favourites
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">KGuy, London International Pasteup Festival participant, pasteups from 2007</span><br /><br /><br />
The formal opening night takes place this Thursday 4th November at The Hoxton Gallery and the festival runs until Sunday the 7th. On Sunday I will be leading a free tour of the paste up locations and the art will remain visible for viewing for varying lengths of time depending on the location.
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">LIPF participant DaddyStreetFox gets up high earlier this year</span><br /><br /><br />
The full schedule can be seen below and you can check their <a href="https://www.instagram.com/londonintpasteupfest/" target="_blank">Instagram </a>for any updates.
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">LIPF program</span><br /><br />All photos<a href="http://bit.ly/2lwIt6d" target="_blank"> Dave Stuart</a> except LIPF programNoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-33015974943670700812021-09-28T09:03:00.001+00:002021-10-01T16:22:59.811+00:00Martha A Picture Story Q & A<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/LA1105" title="Subway Art 25th anniversary hardback cover"><img alt="Subway Art 25th anniversary hardback cover" height="499" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51527129304_ce03e8dce7.jpg" width="342" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Subway Art 25th anniversary hardback cover</span><br /><br /><br />
A bit of context to begin with. All over the world there are graffiti writers who will testify that their introduction to graffiti began with one book, Subway Art written by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant.<br /><br />
In 2009 I queued with literally hundreds of other graffiti fans and graffiti writers to get the Cooper/Chalfant signatures on my new copy of this bible at a book signing held at the Black Rat Press gallery under the railway arches behind Cargo Nightclub as well as NY graffiti legend Blade whose subway graffiti features in some of the most memorable photos in the book. Graffoto recorded the details of that night <a href="https://graffoto1.blogspot.com/2009/06/subway-art-25th-anniversary-edition_28.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/69M324" title="Martha Cooper is a photographer!"><img alt="Martha Cooper is a photographer!" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51525603942_6b0afe8edf_z.jpg" width="574" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Martha Cooper is a photographer!</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/oT6P54" title="Mobbed book signing, Black Rat Press, June 2009"><img alt="Mobbed book signing, Black Rat Press, June 2009" height="480" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51526648873_883fc60c30_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Mobbed book signing, Black Rat Press, June 2009</span><br /><br /><br />
The documentary movie “Martha: A Picture Story” by Australian director Selina Miles does a brilliant job of combining some amazing archive footage with interviews and over-the-shoulder experience photography to present a much more rounded view of Martha Cooper’s life journey and achievements. The film is being streamed free of charge for two days on the House of Vans website as part of their monthly Doc Nights series. Somehow, I got to play the role of host for a 30 minute Q&A session with Martha and Selina (first name buddies now, ha ha), I was in London, Selina was in Australia and Martha was in New York so you can imagine I got the best of the deal in terms of timing!<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51524302145/in/photostream/" title="Martha Copper, Selina Miles, DocrRoll films 'n me"><img alt="Martha Copper, Selina Miles, DocrRoll films 'n me" height="360" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51524302145_0d32363feb_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Martha Copper, Selina Miles, DocrRoll films 'n me</span><br /><br /><br />
Details on how to obtain access to the film and the Q&A can be found on the House Of Vans Doc Nights page <a href="https://www.houseofvanslondon.com/event/docnight-martha" target="_blank">HERE</a>. Unfortunately it is UK audience only, sorry to those of you outside UK.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/813426" title="Martha Cooper - photo courtesy House Of Vans"><img alt="Martha Cooper - photo courtesy House Of Vans" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51527334985_72112f5f74_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Martha Cooper - photo courtesy House Of Vans</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/748vjv" title="Martha Cooper - photo courtesy House Of Vans"><img alt="Martha Cooper - photo courtesy House Of Vans" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51526649828_721f8ddc30_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Martha Cooper - photo courtesy House Of Vans</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/5387M8" title="Selina Miles, Director - photo courtesy House Of Vans"><img alt="Selina Miles, Director - photo courtesy House Of Vans" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51526649798_1c1c94248b_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Selina Miles, Director - photo courtesy House Of Vans</span><br /><br /><br />
For the curious, the other tags in the book are friends from Burning Candy who were exhibiting Subway Art art at the event and TRP members also present.<br /><br />
Photos by <a href="http://bit.ly/2lwIt6d" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a> except where stated.
NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-58872045060853148032021-09-17T21:47:00.001+00:002021-09-17T21:47:35.978+00:00D*Face, Kai and Sunny and Shepard Fairey London art show "Unity"<span style="color: #38761d;">
StolenSpace Gallery<br />
17 Osborn St, London E1 6TD<br />
10 Sep - 3 October 2021 </span><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/4Zb807" title="Unity"><img alt="Unity" height="535" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51486164003_eacfd5ea17_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Unity</span><br /><br /><br />
Massive queues, a packed opening night at a gallery – is this 2008 all over again? Actually no, it’s D*Face collaborating with two of StolenSpace’s long term friends Kai and Sunny, a double act counting as one friend, and Shepard Fairey. <br /><br />
Many may recall that D*Face’s gallery StolenSpace has hosted three major Shep Fairey solo shows in the past (Nineteeneightyfouria 2007; Sound and Vision 2012 and <a href="http://bit.ly/2qGNWL2" target="_blank">Facing The Giant</a>, 2019). What may be less well known is that Kai and Sunny, described by the gallery as having a “shared college experience” with D*Face, have been exhibiting at StolenSpace since New Year 2009, pursuing a style which back then was way too “design” for my tastes, not “street” enough. See also 2011, 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2020! <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/u1Y249" title="NineteenEightyFouria by Shepard Fairey, London 2007"><img alt="NineteenEightyFouria by Shepard Fairey, London 2007" height="386" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51487621609_115b233180_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">NineteenEightyFouria by Shepard Fairey, London 2007</span><br /><br /><br />
Kai and Sunny have also exhibited at Subliminal Projects in LA, founder….Shepard Fairey, so connections are tight. <br /><br />
Now that the free beer and artist in-person appearances of the opening night have passed there is time to peruse the art at leisure. To appreciate who contributes what where, who combines with whom, it may be handy to really overgeneralise three massive careers in just three pairs of images. D*Face does D*Dog characters with wings and corrupted pop art; Shepard Fairey does Andre The Giant and striking political illustrations, Kai and Sunny come from a gorgeous geometric op art and flower painting direction. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/v29Fsk" title="D*Face's D*Dog love lock"><img alt="D*Face's D*Dog love lock" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51487130058_398ac7361e_z.jpg" width="529" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">D*Face's D*Dog love lock</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/9a6949" title="D*Face mural from 2020 with Obey GIant and D*Dog stickers in foreground"><img alt="D*Face mural from 2020 with Obey GIant and D*Dog stickers in foreground" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51486125782_893bb2ba02_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">D*Face mural from 2020 with Obey Giant and D*Dog stickers in foreground</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/bxA56D" title="Obey Giant Shepard Fairey"><img alt="Obey Giant Shepard Fairey" height="540" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51487622624_a3614eeb7a_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Obey Giant Shepard Fairey</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/8kD497" title="Shepard Fairey, Brick Lane 2007"><img alt="Shepard Fairey, Brick Lane 2007" height="425" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51487130003_4487469673_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Shepard Fairey, Brick Lane 2007</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/At0RR2" title="Kai and Sunny "Shifting Times", StolenSpace 2018"><img alt="Kai and Sunny "Shifting Times", StolenSpace 2018" height="309" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51487621209_3e0a7a67de_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Kai and Sunny "Shifting Times", StolenSpace 2018</span><br /><br /><br />
With artistic collaborations there is usually one artist whose contribution dominates, who drives the idea and the collaborators “fill in”. Great collaborators appreciate that sometimes they are the chief, other times they are the Indian. I am indebted to City Kitty, or possibly Lunge Box (can’t tell them apart on their podcast) for this stolen and bastardised insight. The online catalogue ducks the whole who collaborated on what intrigue by simply attributing one “lead artist” to each image. Often what makes the art interesting, the “arty” or clever part of the art, is actually what’s added by the others. With Unity Star No 3 below, the foreground is occupied by a D*Face winged Obey Giant but the piece is electrified by Kai and Sunny in the background <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/4tCg0m" title="Unity Star No 3"><img alt="Unity Star No 3" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51486660014_843440d7ef_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Unity Star No 3</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/63Sb30" title="Unity Star No 3 detail"><img alt="Unity Star No 3 detail" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51485946021_a6bd71696e_z.jpg" width="513" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Unity Star No 3</span><br /><br /><br />
A stand out feature is how Kai and Sunny absolutely illuminate a piece when their contribution appears to perhaps be the less significant. I confessed earlier that a decade ago I really didn’t get their work, I am so pleased that recent shows and most notably this current one have opened my eyes to the flow in their art. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/73407T" title="Ghost D*Moon Flower"><img alt="Ghost D*Moon Flower" height="516" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51486164808_1b94c605f1_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Ghost D*Moon Flower</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/93Rc1r" title="Obey Rise Up (above), Ghost D*Moon Wave (below)"><img alt="Obey Rise Up (above), Ghost D*Moon Wave (below)" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51485160682_55f46fe4a0_z.jpg" width="432" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Obey Rise Up (above), Ghost D*Moon Wave (below)</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/pAK4jA" title="Unity Obey Flower"><img alt="Unity Obey Flower" height="631" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51486870190_4fc30e5bf9_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Unity Obey Flower</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/R9uutF" title="Unity Obey Flower (detail)"><img alt="Unity Obey Flower (detail)" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51486660209_3cf1427002_z.jpg" width="480" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Unity Obey Flower (detail)</span><br /><br /><br />
The whole notion of the catalogue of a show of collaborations, as in “not a group show”, attributing artworks on the basis of lead artist only does rather confound the concept of collaboration. The collaborator redux appears to have challenged the compiler of the online catalogue as “Apply Unity” appears in both the D*Face section and the Shepard Fairey section. <br /><br />
More show images: <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/JneVoT" title="Sure Shot Spray Can"><img alt="Sure Shot Spray Can" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51486870030_e369d56336_z.jpg" width="490" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Sure Shot Spray Can</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/3xTe4R" title="D*Dog Icon"><img alt="D*Dog Icon" height="511" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51486870045_a9bc72f4ae_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">D*Dog Icon</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/eT243a" title="Unity"><img alt="Unity" height="410" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51485945496_f707ef8b5b_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Unity</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/ZcSzi4" title="Hope On The Tide"><img alt="Hope On The Tide" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51486660274_2e9e40febf_z.jpg" width="489" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Hope On The Tide</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/GGK9t4" title="Riot Everywhere"><img alt="Riot Everywhere" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51486164768_1c497bd4b4_z.jpg" width="542" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Riot Everywhere</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/UadoPd" title="The D*Face Treatment"><img alt="The D*Face Treatment" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51486660449_0332a52c65_z.jpg" width="479" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">The D*Face Treatment</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/4H78va" title="Burning Brighter"><img alt="Burning Brighter" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51486164293_c356b11e64_z.jpg" width="567" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Burning Brighter</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/646L0r" title="Burning Brighter Detail"><img alt="Burning Brighter Detail" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51485160147_acb423e819_z.jpg" width="480" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Burning Brighter Detail</span><br /><br /><br />
The catalogue compiler has a curious concept of “lead artist", “Magnified Unity” attributed to Shephard Fairey features his Andre The Giant image but the main artistic device is the Lichtensein-esque benday dots and magnifying glass and which is a D*Faceification previously seen in his “Magnified Dog” painting in 2013. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/6y45e6" title="Magnified Unity"><img alt="Magnified Unity" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51486660109_bb53396a57_z.jpg" width="540" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Magnified Unity</span><br /><br /><br />
To summarize, dudes all get on, artistic friendships have been put to the creative test and the artworks are genuinely harmonious interactions between the styles of the collaborators regardless of the lead artist nonsense. Back to the City Kitty/Lunge Box aphorism, justifiably large egos have been set aside to produce coherent beautiful art which is certainly worth popping in to enjoy. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/k1A3mE" title="Unity"><img alt="Unity" height="580" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51486163898_d7c2dea729_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Unity</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/GpoLN9" title="D*Faced OG Sticker"><img alt="D*Faced OG Sticker" height="616" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51485946601_1cf1083ff3_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">D*Faced OG Sticker</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/W247C4" title="Unity"><img alt="Unity" height="483" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51485946736_4e1af70bf2_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Unity</span><br /><br /><br />
Links: <br /><br />
StolenSpace Gallery <a href="https://www.stolenspace.com/" target="_blank">website</a><br /><br />
D*Face <a href="http://www.dface.co.uk/" target="_blank">website</a><br /><br />
Shepard Fairey <a href="https://obeygiant.com/" target="_blank">website</a><br /><br />
Kai and Sunny <a href="https://www.kaiandsunny.com/" target="_blank">website</a><br /><br />
All photos: <a href="http://bit.ly/2lwIt6d" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a><br /><br />NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-23700734418957727852021-09-13T15:52:00.008+00:002021-09-15T13:27:11.102+00:00Scenes From Whitecross Street Party 2021After the Sunday tour this weekend I cycled over to the Whitecross Street Party, always a reliable live street art/music/food fest. Here are some mainly work-in-progress highlights. Most of the ground level art, particularly those pieces on hoardings were only on temporary display so I regret not being able to hang around to see the finished artworks.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51465020537/in/dateposted/" title="Neonita Work In Progress"><img alt="Neonita Work In Progress" height="472" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51465020537_8d8e86d04a_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Neonita Work In Progress</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51465020637/in/photostream/" title="Stage watchers overlooked by Mr Cenz's epic futuristic portrait"><img alt="Stage watchers overlooked by Mr Cenz's epic futuristic portrait" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51465020637_4fee96512d_z.jpg" width="451" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Stage watchers overlooked by Mr Cenz's epic futuristic portrait</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51466519909/in/photostream/" title="Gent 48"><img alt="Gent 48" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51466519909_f9b1a08da4_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Gent 48</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51465785791/in/photostream/" title="Filthy Lucre inflatable paintbrush with rainbow painting by Stikka"><img alt="Filthy Lucre inflatable paintbrush with rainbow painting by Stikka" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51465785791_6f78c51558_z.jpg" width="612" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Filthy Luker inflatable paintbrush with rainbow painting by Stika</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51465020702/in/photostream/" title="Boris The Spider and his web of lies by Spore and Mr Oliver Switch"><img alt="Boris The Spider and his web of lies by Spore and Mr Oliver Switch" height="412" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51465020702_a9ecd08f7e_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Boris The Spider and his web of lies by Spore and Mr Oliver Switch</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51465785556/in/photostream/" title="Choir singing Glory Glory Hallelujah while Filthy Lucre's Goofs menace them from above"><img alt="Choir singing Glory Glory Hallelujah while Filthy Lucre's Goofs menace them from above" height="553" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51465785556_dd8f28508c_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Choir singing Glory Glory Hallelujah while Filthy Luker's Goofs menace them from above</span><br /><br />
This next shows Perspicere’s string art work in progress being admired by three passing policewomen.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51466520034/in/photostream/" title="Perspicere String art admired by 3 policewomen"><img alt="Perspicere String art admired by 3 policewomen" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51466520034_0ec6ce7e35_z.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Perspicere string art gets police attention</span><br /><br /><br />
Perspicere’s string street art has been a familiar sight over the last decade and these super complex string portraits are a new form of his art which have been appearing on the streets in the past year.<br /><br />
Regrettably I could not get to Perspicere’s solo show at BSMT Space last month so this was the first chance I had to see the string portraits being created live and it is just jaw dropping. Here is a short clip made yesterday at the Whitecross Street Party showing how magic is made.<br /><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Perspicere making magic happen</span><br /><br /><br />
Artist Links:
Perspicere <a href="https://www.instagram.com/perspicereartist/" target="_blank">instagram</a><br /><br />
Neonita <a href="https://www.neonita.co.uk/" target="_blank">Website</a><br /><br />
Mr Cenz <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mrcenzone/" target="_blank">instagram</a><br /><br />
Gent 48 <a href="https://www.instagram.com/gent48/" target="_blank">instagram</a><br /><br />
Filthy Luker <a href="https://www.designsinair.com/" target="_blank">website</a><br /><br />
Stikka <a href="https://www.instagram.com/joshstika/" target="_blank">instagram</a><br /><br />
Spore <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sporegraffiti/" target="_blank">instagram</a><br /><br />
Mr Oliver Switch <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mroliverswitch/" target="_blank">instagram</a><br /><br />
All photos and video: <a href="http://bit.ly/2lwIt6d" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a>NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-59683182801190541212021-09-09T13:36:00.001+00:002021-09-09T13:36:23.485+00:00David Speed "Light Of Life"<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/EG8FS1" title="Light Of Life"><img alt="Light Of Life" height="445" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51439953199_7220c877ea_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">David Speed Light Of Life</span><br /><br /><br />
Break out street artists are rare beasts. There are the street artists whose appeal grows way beyond the natural base of street art fans leading to popularity and commercial success. Commercial success doesn’t preclude artistic success of course. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51439981274/in/photostream/" title="Soundwave, Shoreditch 2021"><img alt="Soundwave, Shoreditch 2021" height="413" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51439981274_9a2e0a56bb_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Soundwave, Shoreditch 2021</span><br /><br /><br />
David Speed started his neon illuminated portraits and animal painting around Shoreditch a few years ago and has achieved such ubiquity that he is one of the few artists, other than Banksy and Helch, whose art is recognised by <a href="http://bit.ly/1n7r6xN" target="_blank">Shoreditch Street Art Tour</a> guests exploring street art for the first time. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51438479912/in/photostream/" title="David Speed Neon face, Shoreditch 2018"><img alt="David Speed Neon face, Shoreditch 2018" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51438479912_a5e6e90bc3_z.jpg" width="408" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">David Speed Neon face, Shoreditch 2018</span><br /><br /><br />
David certainly wasn’t new to spraypainting at the beginning of this neon pink phase, his double life has him as Director of Shoreditch based spraypainting outfit <a href="https://graffitilife.co.uk/" target="_blank">Graffiti Life</a>. Lockdown bestowed gifts on David in two ways –the reduced demand for commercial spraypainting services seems to have allowed him more time to focus on personal and artistic development and if you check out his Creative Rebels podcast that certainly comes across strong. There was also a significant increase in available street canvasses as business fearing a breakdown in law and order went for full plywood cladding as we went into lockdown in 2020.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51438478947/in/photostream/" title="Hoxton Ponies, Shoreditch 2021"><img alt="Hoxton Ponies, Shoreditch 2021" height="335" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51438478947_3035cfb5cd_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Hoxton Ponies, Shoreditch 2021</span><br /><br /><br />
David’s art exploded across Shoreditch property and caught a lot of attention.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51439479373/in/photostream/" title="David Speed neon "Creation" homage, Shoreditch 2019"><img alt="David Speed neon "Creation" homage, Shoreditch 2019" height="465" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51439479373_096e7d688f_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">"Creation" homage, Shoreditch 2019</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51440199955/in/dateposted/" title="It was a long wait, Shoreditch 2021"><img alt="It was a long wait, Shoreditch 2021" height="430" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51440199955_816ccf9dcc_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">It was a long wait, Shoreditch 2021</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51439228471/in/photostream/" title="Neon Tiger! Shoreditch 2021"><img alt="Neon Tiger! Shoreditch 2021" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51439228471_3e3b468147_z.jpg" width="572" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Neon Tiger! Shoreditch 2021</span><br /><br /><br />
In the street art world, London at least, David is synonymous with this pink neon street art style so it was an amusing irony earlier this year that a mural advert was painted in David’s signature colour combination by a rival spraypainted advert company. Many people erroneously identified David as the artist so he felt compelled to put up a deliciously executed take out. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51438478902/in/photostream/" title="Biting Style, Village Underground 2021"><img alt="Biting Style, Village Underground 2021" height="494" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51438478902_e66e36022b_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Biting Style, Village Underground 2021</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nolionsinengland/51440194870/in/photostream/" title="DS Style, Village Underground 2021"><img alt="DS Style, Village Underground 2021" height="485" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51440194870_01db468d1d_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">DS Style, Village Underground 2021</span><br /><br /><br />
He currently has a self-organised solo show running in Shoreditch, it turns out the neon illumination theme suits canvas and paper as well as it does brick walls.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/66C5GY" title="Fly"><img alt="Fly" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51440166765_8200911d64_z.jpg" width="463" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Fly</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/jhb5Eo" title="Reunited 1"><img alt="Reunited 1" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51439200491_030980444c_z.jpg" width="481" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Reunited 1</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/749v87" title="Skull Left Facing, Skull .... ,Skull Right Facing"><img alt="Skull Left Facing, Skull .... ,Skull Right Facing" height="493" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51439448663_e7c6f2a65e_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Skull Left Facing, Skull .... ,Skull Right Facing</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/5kQ3o3" title="Content"><img alt="Content" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51439200461_a0f0afa51e_z.jpg" width="480" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Content</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/T3U8s4" title="Distance 2, Hope, Distance 1"><img alt="Distance 2, Hope, Distance 1" height="518" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51439953119_ca5c60b562_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Distance 2, Hope, Distance 1</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/706wN1" title="Daily Walk, Poise and Reunited 2"><img alt="Daily Walk, Poise and Reunited 2" height="472" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51438450552_5a134445f1_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Daily Walk, Poise and Reunited 2</span><br /><br /><br />
A recent project that must have taken a long time to prepare was David’s “drop” of 1000 hand finished prints around the streets of London, to those with long enough memories this was a homage to Adam Neate’s 1000 print drop in 2008. We came across one of David’s murals on the Shoreditich Street Art Tour that day at which point a guest pulled a pair of prints out of his bag with a flourish and declared “I found those on the street as I was walking to the tour!” Lucky guy.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/6z7tF7" title="Various North, East, South, West"><img alt="Various North, East, South, West" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51439200451_cb69fc4b1f_z.jpg" width="544" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Various North, East, South, West</span><br /><br /><br />
The show is located just a couple of minutes walk from where our morning Shoreditch Street Art Tour ends, so perhaps book a tour this coming Friday, Saturday or Sunday and complement it with a visit to the show. Admission to the show is free.<div><br /></div><div>“Light Of Life” show runs until Sunday September 12th.<br /><br />
The Depot<br />
33 Boundary Street<br />
Shoreditch<br />
E2 7JQ<br /><br />
All photos: <a href="http://bit.ly/2lwIt6d" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a>
With all that pink and blue no attempt was made at colour correction in processing the exhibition photos!
</div>NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-48521321653249894082021-08-15T16:02:00.003+00:002021-08-17T14:00:24.837+00:00Banksy Street Art Staycation In East AngliaEast Anglia has in the past week or so became home to a spectacular trove of street art that finally this afternoon was verified as genuine Banksy. Banksy has verified a grand total of 10 new pieces of street art and to put this in context, there were only 5 outdoor Banksy artworks at his own Dismaland group show in 2015! <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/MChn9N" title="Banksy Chip Snatching Seagull"><img alt="Banksy Chip Snatching Seagull" height="501" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51379047265_e49167bdeb_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy Chip Snatching Seagull</span><br /><br /><br />
With my son for company as navigator (who needs sat nav when you have a boy armed with a smartphone and supersized data allowance) I headed off last Tuesday 10th August to explore the Fens and surrounds, hunting down the biggest collection of Banksy seen since New York, October 2013.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/n065a0" title="Banksy We're All In This Together"><img alt="Banksy We're All In This Together" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51379047465_d672d9fe64_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy We're All In The Same Boat</span><br /><br /><br />
The Norfolk Broads is an idyllic network of creeks and lakes which on the day we visited was looking stunning with boats gently sailing here, there and everywhere in glorious sunshine and perfect breezes. Nicholas Everitt Park sits at the inlet to Oulton Broad, a classic British daytrip destination full of playgrounds, bowling, tennis and ice cream vendors. It does its best to turn away from the sour, grubby creek that runs down its spine but Banksy hasn’t. “We’re all in the same boat” has three children in a distressed Swallows and Amazons tableau, a skipper and second in command upfront scan the horizon while, at the back a third child bails their leaking tub. The two children upfront have paper admiral’s hats suiting their privilege, the child dealing with the emergency in the bilges wears a worker’s beaney. Originally there was a decaying boat hull but that corrugated sheet of iron was hauled away as it was constricting the water course.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/RBj534" title="Banksy We're All In This Together"><img alt="Banksy We're All In This Together" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51378774799_1d2ff87499_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy We're All In The Same Boat</span><br /><br /><br />
“We’re all in it together” our leaders promised, that was until Boris decided to throw out all the pandemic restrictions and impose on us a doctrine of “personal responsibility” despite a 3rd wave delta variant surge. Banksy’s smartly dressed captain navigates blind to signs of imminent disaster while someone else, representing the NHS perhaps, heroically struggles to stop the ship sinking. Coming the week after Boris decided that he didn't have to isolate despite an office staffer who flew on a plane with him testing positive, Banksy mocks our political leaders’ inclination to shamelessly pick and choose which of the rules they can ignore.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/XVuGv3" title="Banksy We're All In This Together"><img alt="Banksy We're All In This Together" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51377272657_da21d5d80d_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy We're All In The Same Boat</span><br /><br /><br />
In one of Lowestoft’s shopping drags, one of those that can’t decide if it is pedestrianised or not, a chubby child in a sunhat plays in the sand with a crowbar rather than a spade, the beach is the sand under paving slabs which the scowling but resourceful child has prized up. The scene embodies the famous slogan from the French student riots of ’68 “Sous les paves, la plage!”, “Under the paving stones, the beach!” <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/29zo3f" title="Banksy sandcastle Lowestoft 2021"><img alt="Banksy sandcastle Lowestoft 2021" height="447" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51378037101_5eb75c904d_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Child delighted to find Banksy girl playing in sand</span><br /><br /><br />
This piece places the council in a quandary we will watch with amusement… Banksy is a great tourist draw for an economy “building back” but holes in pavements are a nailed on dead cert public liability nightmare! In appearance though not meaning, this piece recalls Banksy’s 2010 Tesco sandcastle at British seaside town Hastings.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/j13Ui6" title="Banksy Tesco Sandcastles, Hastings 2010"><img alt="Banksy Tesco Sandcastles, Hastings 2010" height="425" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51378078286_9112711c66_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy Tesco Sandcastles, Hastings 2010 </span><br /><br /><br />
Lowestoft has more, the largest of the bunch brilliantly reproduces that seaside promenade classic – the chip stealing seagull. This is the best realised of the current collection. The simulation of a bag of chips using cut up loft insulation and a rusty skip placed in situ without permission is next level, a real classic Banksy.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/Bt1WAq" title="Banksy Chip Snatching Seagull"><img alt="Banksy Chip Snatching Seagull" height="429" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51378774539_3892d19164_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy Chip Snatching Seagull</span><br /><br /><br />
We had the pleasure of chatting with a local who saw the work in progress. He recalls shrouded scaffolding, a van and a bored looking young man keeping watch. With nearly 2 decades experience of looking bored around street art, my boy could empathise with Banksy’s lookout. Our local observer explained the building was owned by an absent owner in London who let it to council-guaranteed temporary residents and that it had been subject of complaints in the past few years about the accumulation of crap in the front hard-standing. So locals were not in the least bit surprised at what looked like contractors carrying out maintenance though they were puzzled that the work required insulation. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/2Y7qwd" title="Banksy Chip Snatching Seagull"><img alt="Banksy Chip Snatching Seagull" height="504" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51377272482_1c63fced20_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy Chip Snatching Seagull</span><br /><br /><br />
The size of the painting and the installation of the rusty skip give this enterprise a degree of planning that few apart from Banksy have the skill to pull off without permission. It will be interesting to see what happens to that skip when the chips have been stolen, as they inevitably will be.<br /><br />
Outside Lowestoft we found a chilled rat reclining on a beach chair, sheltered under a parasol while enjoying a cocktail whose mix includes the drip from an adjacent outfall pipe. The rat is staring directly at the pipe in anticipation of the next top up. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/r516T9" title="Banksy Cocktail Rat Lowestoft 2021"><img alt="Banksy Cocktail Rat Lowestoft 2021" height="465" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51378272268_c0ef47cb7e_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy Cocktail Rat Lowestoft 2021</span><br /><br /><br />
It’s nice to see a Banksy rat again, in this case the black colour is predominantly freehand painted over a stencilled white layer which is unusual but Banksy has used the technique in the past, despite what a particular high profile Banksy street art acquirer/remover said. See for example the Basquiat tribute piece at the Barbican centre in 2017, though that is one that the art chiseller failed to acquire.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/P692p7" title="Banksy Cocktail Rat Lowestoft 2021"><img alt="Banksy Cocktail Rat Lowestoft 2021" height="456" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51379047080_5c5773318e_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy Cocktail Rat Lowestoft 2021</span><br /><br /><br />
“Au revoir Lowestoft, it was lovely visiting you” and “Hello” to Gorleston Beach with its newly decorated beach shelter now sporting an arcade grab machine claw. By the time of our visit, this piece had been opportunistically added to by local artist Raphiel Astoria, who signs their art Emo. Among the additions are a number of stencilled bears, a statement proclaiming this to be a collaboration between Banksy and Emo and most provocatively, a stencilled Banksy tag. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/JF4NJ3" title="Banksy"><img alt="Banksy" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51377272232_9b20d4da57_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy arcade machine claw. Teddy bears and text added by local artist</span><br /><br /><br />
The photo released on Banksy’s website shows the arcade claw before any additional artwork so the suggestion of collaborative intent on Banksy’s part can be dismissed. <a href="http://bit.ly/1zjRESd" target="_blank">Robbo </a>and Danny Minnick have made far superior interactions with Banksy street art in the past.<br /><br />The additional bears look like the kind of bait prizes that never drop into the hopper of the arcade game. According to <a href="https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/emo-adds-to-gorleston-banksy-8223732 " target="_blank">local news sources</a>, experts apparently think the enhancements mean the Banksy piece “Makes more sense now”. What Emo has done dramatically changes our point of view, our relationship with the artwork. Stencilling the bears on the wall means we are now looking from the outside at a selection of prizes, which of course includes any poseur sitting on the bench, inside an arcade game. What Banksy painted actually gamified the whole world. We were all, the whole world, inside the game and the claw was selecting “winners”, the allegorical touch was a nod to life as a game that confers privilege on a select few while the rest of us flounder unwanted. From that perspective this was until the additions probably the most conceptually accomplished Banksy of the whole East Anglia collection. It still makes a great Instagram photo opportunity though.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/7ep262" title="Dave in front of Banksy"><img alt="Dave in front of Banksy" height="570" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51377272127_dc0eeca91e_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Dave in front of Banksy</span><br /><br /><br />
Merrivale Model Village is a self-effacing Great Yarmouth beach front gem completely drowned out by the garish competition. Even the slush puppy concession outside is a bigger eye magnet. Inside is a different story - it’s big, it’s delightful and it’s brilliantly British in a classic wholesome way. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/wQ18eT" title="Merrivale Model Village"><img alt="Merrivale Model Village" height="420" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51378425971_a98f226b57_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Merrivale Model Village</span><br /><br /><br />
A clandestine Banksy addition to the model collection is a defaced stable in classic gingerbread vernacular style placed in a quaint village in front of a medieval castle. The vandalism inflicted on this fairytale scene is a Banksy fire extinguisher tag and a Banksy rat who has written “Go big or go home”, a very witty slogan to put up on the side of a miniature house. The rat defacing the property has been caught literally red-handed, like the “If Graffiti changed anything” rat in London in 2011.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/kj01B9" title="Banksy Graffiti house Merrivale Model Village"><img alt="Banksy graffiti house Merrivale Model Village" height="464" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51379046840_32e999ab6b_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy Graffiti house Merrivale Model Village</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/2QDfbc" title="Banksy Graffiti house Merrivale Model Village"><img alt="Banksy Graffiti house Merrivale Model Village" height="606" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51378774134_91c408b38f_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy graffiti stable Merrivale Model Village</span><br /><br /><br />
The Banksy tag is a model scale version of the fire extinguisher tagging hugely approved of by hard-core graffiti writers, reproducing the fire extinguisher effect at model scale is very impressive. Banksy has previous with fire extinguisher graffiti have sprayed the word “BORING” on the side of the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the Southbank in 2004. For purists concerned that Banksy doesn’t sign his street art these days, the Banksy tag here is not an artist signing their artwork, the tag IS the art which is a completely different thing. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/q76N9y" title="Banksy Graffiti house Merrivale Model Village"><img alt="Banksy Graffiti house Merrivale Model Village" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51379046870_7ca1855a79_z.jpg" width="596" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy graffiti stable Merrivale Model Village</span><br /><br /><br />
Things get a bit complex at this point, the model is only on display between 1pm and 3pm. We had a lovely conversation with the son of the owner who told us that since word got out people were stepping onto the model village to get close up photos, so for the time the Banksy model could only be displayed for limited supervised hours. On Tuesday we did not know that! However the owner kindly showed us behind the scenes and let us view the stable close up, so what you see here is the empty space where Banksy left the model and a close up of the model photographed in another location.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/897wng" title="Merrivale Model Village Banksy location"><img alt="Merrivale Model Village Banksy location" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51377661252_73203abee6_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Merrivale Model Village Banksy location</span><br /><br /><br />
UPDATE – it appears that the owners under advice have actually completely withdrawn the model from display.<br /><br />
UPDATE 2 – it seems that they may now display the model under perspex (plexiglass). Perhaps it is best to contact them before travelling!<br /><br />
Frank Newsome (Jr), son of the owner, told us was that it took them several days to spot the intrusion, an alert guest asked them if the Banksy defaced model was genuine and it took them a while to figure out what the guest meant. Their minds went back to an incident a few days earlier where a female guest had been particularly fascinated in the model making process and ended up backstage on a personal tour while simultaneously a drone intruded into the airspace surrounding the model village so they scrambled their air defences and knocked the drone out of the sky with a net. Management believes these activities were a deliberate distraction for the staff to facilitate the surreptitious placement of the new construction. Banksy’s Instagram account includes drone footage of the model village installation so the story truly deserves to become part of the Banksy legend and the model village folklore.<br /><br />
Banksy’s additions are an amusing comment on the ubiquitous intrusion of the modern form of graffiti into this idyllic setting, nowhere is safe. This is a companion to the Banksy humour seen in modified oil paintings such as “Tox Cottage”.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/23Zc3s" title="Banksy Tox Cottage"><img alt="Banksy Tox Cottage" height="527" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51378662403_9c66602bf1_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">"Tox cottage", Banksy - photo banksy.co.uk</span><br /><br /><br />
Close by the model village a stencilled dancing duo on top of a bus shelter trip the light fantastic accompanied by an accordion player. All the characters look like familiar Banksy cast but the most impressive aspect of this somewhat routine Banksy is its placement, it is a clever interaction with the street furniture and you have to admire Banksy for executing this on top of a council bus stop without being caught.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/508600" title="Banksy Bust Stop Dancers Great Yarmouth"><img alt="Banksy Bust Stop Dancers Great Yarmouth" height="559" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51379046800_124c44d1b5_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy Bus Stop Dancers Great Yarmouth</span><br /><br /><br />
Two aspects of the Banksy artwork that has appeared in Cromer that might deter those of a less completist nature are that it is a bugger to find and the schlepp from the others to this one piece is an hour through the flattest English landscape imaginable. Don’t be put off though as this is certainly the most detailed and colourful of the set. A hermit crab with three empty shells is refusing access to three naked and needy hermit crabs, a social commentary piece touching on privilege, property ladder manipulation and social exclusion. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/1YkAxo" title="Banksy Luxury Rentals Only Cromer 2021"><img alt="Banksy Luxury Rentals Only Cromer 2021" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51379046720_2aaba67322_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy Luxury Rentals Only, Cromer 2021</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/taV51T" title="Banksy Luxury Rentals Only Cromer 2021"><img alt="Banksy Luxury Rentals Only Cromer 2021" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51378773954_d25c021957_z.jpg" width="601" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy Luxury Rentals Only, Cromer 2021</span><br /><br /><br />
The arrangement and the placard device contain stylistic similarities with the 2014 “Migrants Not Welcome” piece in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/7crM7n" title="Banksy Migrants Not wewlcome"><img alt="Banksy Migrants Not wewlcome" height="415" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51379438410_6165deeaaf_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy "Migrants Not Welcome" - photo www.Banksy.co.uk</span><br /><br /><br />
So all told this is a very impressive and above all enjoyable collection of street art. The blending of political cynicism with humour is pure Banksy and above all, the execution bears Banksy hallmarks particularly the use of the scaffolding reported for the chip snatching seagull. The distraction strategy reported for the Merrivale Model Village installation may be new but it feels consistent with the degree of planning that characterises Banksy’s illegal street art. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/zG7vt4" title="Banksy Seagull attacks badly parked Mini Cooper"><img alt="Banksy Seagull Attacks Mini Cooper" height="546" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51379047330_76b6733272_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Seagull attacks badly parked Mini Cooper</span><br /><br /><br />
Interestingly two of the pieces in particular involved vandalism and dumping on public land, each of which could result in council jobsworths waving invoices for repairs to the pavement and removal of an abandoned skip in Lowestoft. <br /><br />
Banksy’s big reveal on instagram included two pieces which no one knew existed, they had not been spotted. The first one is a small one colour stencil image of kids by a paddling pool in peril from an inflatable dinghy.
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/ZrKxCJ" title="03-spraycation-dinghy-closeup"><img alt="03-spraycation-dinghy-closeup" height="427" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51379023107_af0e20362a_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Banksy Spraycation Dinghy close up - photo Banksy.co.uk</span><br /><br /><br />
By chance I happened to photograph the pool where that stencil was placed right next to the bench with the seated couple at the edge of the paddling pool. It had already been buffed by my visit on Tuesday and it seems probable it had gone the weekend before.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/b3UF2y" title="Great Yarmouth Paddling Pool - Banksy buffed"><img alt="Great Yarmouth Paddling Pool - Banksy buffed" height="415" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51378425976_b7b97d4c79_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Great Yarmouth Paddling Pool - Banksy buffed</span><br /><br /><br />
The council has stated that its contractors removed that one quickly because of an unfortunate resonance with the tragic death nearby of a young child a few years ago, they stated they thought that the stencil may have been an unfortunate coincidence rather than tastelessly intentional.<br />
The other undiscovered new Banksy was in Kings Lynn. <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/hH1gZW" title="Statue in Kings Lynn - Photo Banksy.co.uk"><img alt="Statue in Kings Lynn - Photo Banksy.co.uk" height="427" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51377832252_6528abc6cb_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Statue with ice cream cone and tongue in Kings Lynn - Photo Banksy.co.uk</span><br /><br /><br />At time of writing there were 8 remaining and it is possible to fit in all 8 East Anglia Banksys in a day, it’s exhausting but hugely enjoyable. It was a real pleasure that the pieces were not totally mobbed by crowds as is always the case for a new Banksy in London and also, other than the unfortunate augmentation of the arcade grab piece and the loss of the boat hull on another it was great to find them in pristine condition.<br /><br />
Links:
Banksy instagram "<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CShWMUwFKkI/" target="_blank">The Great Bristish Spraycation</a>"<br /><br />
Banksy <a href="http://www.banksy.co.uk" target="_blank">Website</a><br /><br />
Merrivale Model Village <a href="https://www.merrivalemodelvillage.co.uk/" target="_blank">Website</a><br /><br />
All photos: <a href="http://bit.ly/2lwIt6d" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a> except where stated
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Saatchi Gallery 4 June - 3 October 2021<br />
Duke of York's HQ, King's Road, London, SW3 4RY<br />
Booking essential: tickets<br /><br /><br />
One question I always flounder with is “Who do you think the up and coming future stars in street art are?”, like I have any idea about art picking! The easier question is “Who has emerged?” and if there is one person who can’t be left out of that answer it is French artist JR. JR: Chronicles at the Saatchi Gallery is a comprehensive examination of JR’s very impressive back catalogue of art on the streets. Through a succession of rooms a large number of JR’s street projects are reprised, dissected and explained, the best part of a couple of hours is recommended.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/NdPPF6" title="Portrait Of A Generation inside demolished building"><img alt="Portrait Of A Generation inside demolished building" height="435" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51353275740_d362c44747_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">Portrait Of A Generation inside demolished building</span><br /><br /><br />
JR’s artistic origins were as a not terribly stylish tagger in Paris who chances on a camera, takes some pretty cracking photos in fairly lairy sink estates dotted around Paris, print them out super cheap and pastes them up on the streets. Among the images is one of a young video maker surrounded by local “yoots”, that cameraman is now better known as the award winning director Ladj Ly and just to digress for a moment, watch Ladj Ly’s 2019 “Les Miserables”, it makes a superb companion to this exhibition as a semi fictional and unaffectionate look back to the environment that shaped JR’s early adult life.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/W342HL" title="JR: Ladj Ly at Les Bosquets"><img alt="JR: Ladj Ly at Les Bosquets" height="413" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51352115625_bf5844efb8_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">JR: Ladj Ly at Les Bosquets</span><br /><br /><br />
If you haven’t spotted the jarring “trick of the eye” in the Les Bosquets photo, if you find it inexcusably intimidating well you’re not alone, JR tells us that when that photo was pasted on the side of the Tate Modern in 2008, the Director initially refused the image as he thought it was a gun as well. That was the point, JR was challenging your inclination to jump to racist conclusions.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/Q5dNkf" title="JR: Tate Modern, 2008"><img alt="JR: Tate Modern, 2008" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51351324013_e1385dc150_z.jpg" width="414" /></a><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
JR: Tate Modern, 2008</span><br /><br /><br />
Banksy’s first London exhibition was an un-authorised street take-over in 2001, JR adopted the same tactic in the same year. His “Expo 2 Rue”, translated as “Sidewalk Gallery”, involved guerrilla pasting his photos on building site hoardings and to add emphasis to his paste ups he sprayed picture frames around the paste ups linked together by straight lines. JR: Chronicles has a little humorous play with the form of JR’s Expo 2 Rue concept, a blown up photo of an Expo 2 Rue installation incorporates a video screen framed where the paste up was. “Tres droll” he probably wouldn’t say.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/8tHNBr" title="JR - Expo 2 Rue"><img alt="JR - Expo 2 Rue" height="424" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51350366677_849c27dd49_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">JR - Expo 2 Rue</span><br /><br /><br />
The scale of JR’s achievements transcend the boundary between street art and fine art, appealing as readily to art world snobs as to people who would never normally contemplate attending an art exhibition. This can perhaps be appreciated by splitting his endeavours into three parts, vaguely and inadequately summarised (my inadequacy, not the exhibition’s) as Idea, Execution and Documentation.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/23i8n4" title="JR au Louvre et le Secret de la Grande Pyramid"><img alt="JR au Louvre et le Secret de la Grande Pyramid" height="490" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51351324058_9405d8aa9f_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
JR au Louvre et le Secret de la Grande Pyramid</span><br /><br /><br />
The ideas and concepts are the things that earn JR a place among the giants of contemporary art in the “proper” art world, and galleries like Saatchi. JR has completed a very impressive number of major projects in what is still a comparatively young career. The hallmark of them all is quality and originality, from his Expo 2 Rue at age 17 to Women Are Heroes and Gun Chronicles by way of Wrinkles Of the City, Portrait of A Generation and more, a mere 7 huge rooms at Saatchi’s Kings Road art palace is barely sufficient.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/uH9193" title="JR: Projects"><img alt="JR: Projects" height="341" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51350366547_b2d4206fe0_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">JR: Projects</span><br /><br /><br />
If JR has a secret cellar to which failures are condemned, surely there must be some, it is well hidden. The execution of them is undoubtedly thoroughly thought through, one of his charming trademarks is corralling local volunteer’s enthusiastic assistance in putting up his large paste up projects. For those who may have no idea how printed street art can be created on such magnificent scale various display cases, models and prop do great job of lifting the veil on those production secrets.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/Q3rVX7" title="JR Work In Progress, Tate Modern 2008"><img alt="JR Work In Progress, Tate Modern 2008" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51352118140_11210a95c4_z.jpg" width="413" /></a><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
JR Work In Progress, Tate Modern 2008</span><br /><br /><br />
How do you print out the images? They are all made from continuous sheets of paper 36inches wide and in one of the films you see an architect’s printer spewing paper like a long string of spaghetti; how many sheets? In one of the vitrines are JR’s working images with the construction lines drawn by hand which divides the image into the stripes for printing and ultimately for putting the strips in the right order, a laden trolley laden demonstrates how many rolls of paper go into one of those epic paste ups.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/1PDg1w" title="JR: work in progress"><img alt="JR: work in progress" height="551" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51351837859_e14f02e95e_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">JR: work in progress</span><br /><br /><br />
There’s nothing quite so unpredictable as the public which coupled with JR’s “suck it and see” approach to putting up installations in locations where authorities are hostile (Israel, USA border) has given him a wealth of anecdotes which are well with tuning into, you can access that element online away from the gallery, treat it like a podcast.
You might not find the “process” insights interesting, poor you, but scrutiny of those aspects can reveal secrets hidden in plain sight. The image of a tea party JR arranged to take place through the USA Mexico border fence is well known, JR explains in one of the videos that on the Mexican side they sit at a table; on the USA side the party was “guerrilla style” as the artist was denied permission so the party on the American side takes place not on a table but a printed canvas unfurled and passed through from the Mexican side. My chin dropped.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/akBZH9" title="JR: Migrants, Mayra, Picnic across the Border, Quadrichromie, Tecate, Mexico - USA, 2017"><img alt="JR: Migrants, Mayra, Picnic across the Border, Quadrichromie, Tecate, Mexico - USA, 2017" height="459" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51351097796_8d04bff679_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
JR: Migrants, Mayra, Picnic across the Border, Quadrichromie, Tecate, Mexico - USA, 2017</span><br /><br /><br />
JR’s contact sheets from earlier analogue photography projects are displayed in several vitrines in various rooms. In the contact sheet of the images of Ladj Ly holding his camera like a gun the famous image is the very first one on the sheet, it captures the ominous energy of the kids surrounding Ladj, in the other photos the kids were basically posturing and with the absence of spontaneity the menace becomes cartoonised.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/v89g03" title="JR: Portrait Of A Generation Contact Sheet"><img alt="JR: Portrait Of A Generation Contact Sheet" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51352115610_f8bc50bf1f_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
JR: Portrait Of A Generation Contact Sheet</span><br /><br /><br />
The third pillar of JR’s enterprise is the element that allows JR to produce stunning books and exhibitions. It’s the documentation, JR takes brilliant photographs of JR’s photography projects! <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/5bm529" title="JR: Portrait Of A Generation"><img alt="JR: Portrait Of A Generation" height="439" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51351837914_6c3507abca_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">JR: Portrait Of A Generation</span><br /><br /><br />
JR attributes his trademark hat and glasses to the early need to avoid being identified by a local mayor who wanted to sue him. He does however explain his art to camera in a comprehensive and articulate way but always in hat and glasses. For someone so preoccupied with anonymity shyness is not an issue! <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/4Fw8Nu" title="JR and Inside Out photo booth at Somerset House, 2013"><img alt="JR and Inside Out photo booth at Somerset House, 2013" height="425" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51351837749_4805386986_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">JR and Inside Out photo booth at Somerset House, 2013</span><br /><br /><br />
JR does not sign his paste ups though sometimes the artist is unavoidably present at a microscopic scale, check the reflection in the subject’s eyes in, for example, the Nairobi train!<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/3kW6Y7" title="JR: Women Are Heroes, Kibera, Kenya"><img alt="JR: Women Are Heroes, Kibera, Kenya" height="453" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51351324173_06c971e4d2_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">JR: Women Are Heroes, Kibera, Kenya</span><br /><br /><br />
JR’s projects are concerned with humanity, often illustrating the unnecessary impact that boundaries, borders and schisms in society have on humanity, or should that be the impact the unnecessary borders have? In essence he probes and highlights people’s impact on people.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/5o82c8" title="JR: GIANTS, Kikito and the Border Patrol, Tecate, Mexico - USA 2017"><img alt="JR: GIANTS, Kikito and the Border Patrol, Tecate, Mexico - USA 2017" height="486" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51351837814_3452b86e05_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
JR: GIANTS, Kikito and the Border Patrol, Tecate, Mexico - USA 2017</span><br /><br /><br />
The humanity becomes a teeming multitude in the Chronicles project, JR photographs up to a 1,000 people in basically the way they would like to be photographed then collages the individuals into a huge mural. There is a tendency for the impact to resemble a hyper realistic nightmare or disaster movie. Jr toys with your own interpretations of the evidence of your own eyes, is what you see really a violent disorder, or is it actually a community out playing and dancing?<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/GAoqx0" title="JR: Chronicles de Clichy-Montfermeil (detail)"><img alt="JR: Chronicles de Clichy-Montfermeil (detail)" height="363" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51351837834_4125ffa875_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">JR: Chronicles de Clichy-Montfermeil (detail)</span><br /><br /><br />
Another thing that the show achieves which you can’t really replicate on a book or in a tiny screen is to impress with the scale and the level of detail in the augmented reality Chronicles. Download the JR – net app then point your phone at the relevant Chronicles mural causes a pointer to skip from person to person in the mural and through the magic of multi media you can hear that persons’ story as recorded by JR. Gun Chronicles occupies the whole of a large wall and incorporates 245 different viewpoints on the gun issue. JR avoids casting judgement, pro and anti Right To Carry folk are included and your reaction to the arguments tells you all you need to know about yourself rather than the issue. Good luck on completing the dive into the stories of all 1,128 citizens in The Chronicles Of New York City!<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/96bW2k" title="JR: Chronicles Of New York"><img alt="JR: Chronicles Of New York" height="419" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51351837819_309d0e5537_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">JR: Chronicles Of New York</span><br /><br /><br />
The opening of JR: Chronicles in June was accompanied by another iteration in several London locations of JR’s Inside Out project. This manifests as a travelling photo booth in a van modified to look like a polaroid camera where, after a long queue, your photo is taken and printed out on a large sheet and pasted on the ground like a massive outdoor version of a school yearbook if you went to that kind of school, not me!<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/pHGs48" title="JR Inside Out Project, Somerset House 2013"><img alt="JR Inside Out Project, Somerset House 2013" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51351837739_c3dd5a0cd7_z.jpg" width="425" /></a><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
JR Inside Out Project, Somerset House 2013</span><br /><br /><br />
The same van stars in JR’s film “Faces Places” made with the acclaimed French director the acclaimed late Agnes Varda (Click <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKbjnLpxv70" target="_blank">HERE </a>for trailer)<br /><br /><a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/YsSZ11" title="The Inside Out photo booth at Somerset House, 2013"><img alt="The Inside Out photo booth at Somerset House, 2013" height="425" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51352890296_3da8a41264_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
The Inside Out photo booth at Somerset House, 2013</span><br /><br /><br />
That segues us nicely into an appreciation of how JR’s story is really like a street art fairytale. The promise of street art is that anyone can present their art to a public audience, you don’t need an art degree, critical approval or gallery acceptance, you create your own art world by placing your art on the streets. Direct from you the artist to the consumer, no middleman necessary. JR has basically parlayed this circumventing the art system system from untutored photography to hijacking wall space and from there to projects in Israel and Palestine meeting with military disapproval, to exhibitions in posh London galleries and films with the luminati of the film world. No formal art education or art world blessing required. Know <a href="http://www.banksy.co.uk" target="_blank">someone else</a> who did that?<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/244ca9" title="JR: Face To Face Contact Sheet"><img alt="JR: Face To Face Contact Sheet" height="425" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51351097846_be98442d24_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">JR: Face To Face Contact Sheet</span><br /><br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/oyF7TK" title="JR: Face To Face, Separation Wall"><img alt="JR: Face To Face, Separation Wall" height="426" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51352115565_1168b6c53e_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<span style="color: #cc0000;">JR: Face To Face, Separation Wall<br /></span><br /><br />
One more thing in a show where so much effort has gone into making the artist look effortlessly cool, the QR codes are functioning pieces of art. No doubt if I ask a young person I will find yet again I am ages...months behind the times.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/9cAdpc" title="QR Code Art (go on, test it)"><img alt="QR Code Art (go on, test it)" height="325" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51351097836_74ef2300b0_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;">QR Code Art (go on, test it)</span><br /><br /><br />
The show dissects it’s subject into 7 themed zones, in each an idea and to a greater or lesser extent the process is revealed. The whole show is the manifestation of the third dimension of JR’s activity, the documentation, it really earns that title “Chronicles”.<br /><br /><br />
Links:<br /><br />
JR’s <a href="https://www.jr-art.net/" target="_blank">Website</a><br /><br />
Photos of JR’s photos of JR’s Photos by <a href="http://bit.ly/2lwIt6d" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a>NoLionsInEnglandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12769028506475253334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2372208458817389437.post-9562034938579260742021-07-31T23:21:00.004+00:002021-07-31T23:21:58.689+00:00EINE Scary MonstersIt’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.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/n6o497" title="EINE SCARY 2021 Repaint"><img alt="EINE SCARY 2021 Repaint" height="364" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51349244699_4c97fa8a86_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">
EINE SCARY 2021 Repaint</span><br /><br /><br />
Painted in 2007, back in the days when if a street artist wanted a wall they had to damn well sort it out themselves, SCARY is London’s oldest street art mural (terms and conditions apply). <br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/fz5vF7" title="EINE SCARY Nights 2012"><img alt="EINE SCARY Nights 2012" height="425" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51349528355_26265f3dcd_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">EINE SCARY Nights 2012</span><br /><br /><br />
This SCARY was a partner to the VANDALISM mural on the corresponding wall on the next street, making the ironic statement “SCARY VANDALISM” in the year when EINE really came of age as a sought after street artist with his first solo show. Notice in 2007, no Citizen M, no elevated East London Line and no boutique next door to Village Underground!<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/43ym4j" title="EINE VANDALISM 2007"><img alt="EINE VANDALISM 2007" height="452" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51348728633_8a4d485acb_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">EINE VANDALISM 2007</span><br /><br /><br />
In 2019, Eine updated the mural as a charity art piece dedicated to Movember to raise funds in support of men’s mental health. The background was painted yellow and 60 stylised handlebar moustaches were added. 60 because the message on the wall was “Globally, 60 men die by suicide every hour” and moustaches because men raise sponsorship money for Movember by stopping shaving throughout November. Eine back up the awareness raising by releasing 100 copies of a signed limited edition screenprint sold for £100 each, proceeds going to Movember.<br /><br />
<a href="https://www.flickr.com/gp/nolionsinengland/Bw8a76" title="EINE SCARY 2019 Movember colour scheme"><img alt="EINE SCARY 2019 Movember colour scheme" height="480" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51349244704_b7ce718ba3_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">EINE SCARY 2019 Movember colour scheme</span><br /><br /><br />
The plan always was that it would eventually be returned to the original background and this week, Eine finally got around to restoring SCARY’s classic screaming redness.<br /><br />
All photos <a href="http://bit.ly/2lwIt6d" target="_blank">Dave Stuart</a>
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