I’ve always loved the style of street art collective The London Police (and am even more fond of the fact that they trump the real London Police Force in Google searches). It’s bold, fun and intrinsically linked to the Hip Hop culture we all know and love through thick black lines and shell toe sneakers. [...]
Pop surrealist David Shillinglaw came up painting walls in a playful, illustrative style full of colour, words and interaction and has since had a successful gallery career over the past decade. His most recent show, My Idea of Fun is currently at Stolenspace gallery in the Truman Breweries just off East London’s Brick Lane and [...]
Parisian based artist JonOne was raised in New York, and thus has experienced and been a part of two of the most prolific graffiti cultures in the world. One of the first graffiti artists to successfully transfer his skills across to the fine art world, his latest show in LA, A Beautiful Madness, explores the [...]
Returning to London for the first time since Artillery for Pleasure in 2009, Part2ism’s latest exhibition is currently running at Red Gallery. Titled New Horizons and Future Love Songs, it explores the relationship between sight and sound, something close to Part2ism’s heart as part of UK Hip Hop crew New Flesh. My favourite pieces are [...]
ATG are probably London’s most infamous graff crew, having monopolised the rooftops and generally been all city for quite some time now. Having in recent years moved on into publishing, club nights, clothing and more, they’ve become a massive part of the cities thriving street culture, something that doesn’t look set to slow down any [...]
Set in a Dickensian old shop and basement space in Shoreditch, Pure Evil Gallery is the brainchild and namesake of renowned street and gallery artist Pure Evil. After leaving England to persue a sunnier life in California, eventually designing for clothing label Anarchic Adjustment and producing music for German label Fax, he returned to London, [...]
So we’ve featured a few urban explorers on here, and I’ve always been interested by this little culture that are basically very well equipped writers who leave no marks. There’s an exhibition opening on 10th May (closing 27th) at the Delicate Mayhem Gallery (Russell Street, West London) featuring a selection of London City’s lesser seen [...]
I just stumbled across this really fun, light hearted project from Munich based graff artist Berni Valenta. Using shipping sleeves for twelve inch records, he’s made a hundred cardboard masks of a variety of different characters for a show at the ‘Nina Sagt. Kunstgallerie’ in Düsseldorf, Germany. It’s hard not to laugh at all the [...]
Boxi’s new piece as part of the German show entitled “Street Art – Meanwhile in deepest East Anglia, thunderbirds were go . . . .” is looking heavy! A nice mix of stencil and freehand work on a massive scale for a really powerful, eye catching piece. It’s called The Wanderer after 19th Century German [...]
Word to Mother, one of my favourite street inspired artists, is returning to the gallery D-Face founded, Stolenspace, for his fifth show there entitled ‘Essence of Adolescence’. It features his signature style of mixed media paintings on wood, and opens it’s doors on the evening October 13th. Word to Mother’s work always manages to stay [...]
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