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 [...]
January’s slice of visual cake comes slightly late, purely because we’ve been so busy on the oral side of things, but I’d like to think that the ammount of steeze displayed below makes up for that somewhat…
I’ve been really feeling the work of Sheffield based street artist Phlegm recently. In a black and white illustrative style, he paints these slightly creepy caped characters acting out all sorts of surreal situations. The details are incredible and, even without them, the visual concept and style’s really strong, it’s dark, edginess suits the streets [...]
Situated in the back of the infamous BBQ garden at Cargo, a club/bar/music venue in East London, Black Rat Projects (which was originally Black Rat Press if I remember rightly) is a cavernous, warehouse style railway tunnel space that’s been coverted into a really nice gallery space. Focusing on street inspired artists, it’s played host [...]
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, [...]
You might have seen the flick through video we posted a week or so back of Monokrome, a new hardback coffee table book looking at the blackbooks and sketchpads of graff artists worldwide. I just got my hands on a copy and have been absorbing the 224 pages, beautifully printed on really nice canvas effect [...]
Since I saw a piece of his in an East London HOF, Zoer’s pieces have jumped out at me in a way no other writer has in a long time. As part of the CSX crew, he’s currently causing hysteria within the graff scene on the web as a master of all styles, from illustration [...]
Mehmet Ali Uysal, Chaudfontaine, Belgium Unknown: Anthony Freda The Button Man, Augusto Esquivel Pant One DOES Etam Cru
Eleven is not only an incredible graffer, but also an unbelievable illustrator, has a great eye for photography and isn’t too shabby with words either! Called Eleven due to the domination that number’s had on his life (living in a no.11 house, him and his parents all being born on the 11th, etc), he’s a [...]
Sean Freeman’s an illustrator/designer based out of East London who in the last few years has worked for a number of high profile clients (Microsoft, Nike, Penguin Books and The Guardian to name a few!). Working with photographers, he deals mainly in type which is often actually created physically in order to give a really [...]
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