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Paving slab and bow photographed near St Paul’s, London (holly added courtesy of Flickr) Read the original post at Art of the State

Roa’s back in town and creating more of his giant creatures. These two are a bit special and have appeared in London in December. First up is this lenticular effect piece in Curtain Road, Shoreditch where Dr D originally carried off the same trick earlier in the year. Its interesting to watch the reaction of [...]

Running every day until the 23rd December the Fiesta Resistance at the Commercial Road premises of Pictures On Walls is a fine chance to see work by Mexico’s Saner and Smithe amongst others. The usual rows of hanging prints have been replaced by corrugated iron and wooden structures to recreate an admittedly very clean little bit of Mexican slum life in [...]

Anyone who stooped down to go through a little door and into a grade 2 listed Tramshed last year knows that Sickboy can put on a show. ‘Stay Free’ was blessed with its own unique style which combined the red and yellow of Sickboy’s trademark temple graffiti with some altogether more fine art pieces (not [...]

I don’t know what it is about my luck and the Lazarides gallery. The last three times I’ve been the gallery has been 1). closed (website opening times now amended), 2). first floor closed on a two floor exhibition and 3). on this, my most recent visit, the top two floors were closed on a [...]

Following on from his recent curation of the ‘Other Side’ show at the Mile End Arts Pavilion Stik has a solo show in the same venue. Featuring multiple instances of his trademark Stik figure he takes its very basic form and uses it to create a variety of situations. In fact as the majority of [...]

In some ways the Mutate Britain show ‘One Foot In The Grove’ resembles a twisted offspring of the main room of the Imperial War Museum. Recent additions since it re-opened last week include a customised full size plane to sit alongside the already installed helicopter and a mechanised triceratops courtesy of Wreckage. Mutate have added to their extensive [...]

Fresh new work from Shok-1 in Borough, South London (just by the Tube station). Money, Fame and Power looming ominously over the streets.   Shok-1, Borough Shok-1, Money Shok-1 Fame Shok-1 Power On a nearby wall there’s further work from Shok-1 in another twist on his negative / biological style Read the original post at [...]

Just when we thought street art was dead the buildings of the city are once again adorned with work worthy of getting on a tube just to go and have a look at. There’s plenty of it too courtesy of artists involved in the Lazarides ‘Grifters’ exhibition which opens in Rathbone Place later this week. [...]

Banksy’s had the dinghy out for his new work in Camden….  Fishing boy by Banksy in Camden ‘I don’t believe in global warming’ Read the original post at Art of the State