Category Archives: Graffiti

Eine: Everything Starts Somewhere | #TCTalks Episode 42

Episode 42 of tikichris Talks features an interview with street artist Ben Eine. More widely known simply as Eine, the Southeast London born artist has found international success and garnered quite a fan base for his large-scale block letter paintings. Continue reading

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Sushi Shop 20th Anniversary Limited Edition Box

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Sushi Shop has partnered with three legendary street artists to create three distinctive designs for a limited edition 42-piece sushi box. Continue reading

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East End Mob at BSMT Space, Dalston

A graffiti-riddled Memory Lane cuts through Dalston with East End Mob, a newly opened exhibition at BSTM Space featuring works by some of London’s most influential and prolific street artists from the past decade. Continue reading

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Lie Lie Land Stencil by Bambi

Remember when President Chump and Prime Minister Theresa Maybe were caught holding hands as they took a walk together at the White House? Maybe they’d just come from dancing cheek to cheek around the Oval Office? Or at least that’s how street artist Bambi imagined the pair in her new Lie Lie Land stencil on view in Islington. Continue reading

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London Daily Photo: Drear Cheer

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London Daily Photo: Textures

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London Daily Photo: Street Art

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London Daily Photo: Sclater Street

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London Daily Photo: Wellington Row

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London Daily Photo: Cheques 4 Cash/Souls 4 Gold

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London Daily Photo: You Too

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London Daily Photo: Soho

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London Daily Photo: RIP SOHO

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London Daily Photo: Smoking Penguin

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London Daily Photo: Excesses

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London Daily Photo: Brixton

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London Daily Photo: Organisation

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London Daily Photo: Bethnal Green Road

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London Daily Photo: Turville Street

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London Daily Photo: Hackney Wick

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London Daily Photo: Fish Island Stencil

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Fem Graff Group Show at Lollipop Gallery

Fem Graff at Commercial Street’s Lollipop Gallery, has one mission: to bring the best of London’s female street artists indoors for a transformative experience. The collection of work sits right on the cutting edge, with stimulating, colourful imagery that contests traditional ideas of art and pushes boundaries, all the while bringing the best of East London’s graffiti culture indoors. Continue reading

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Mark Jenkins | Moment of Impact | Lazarides Rathbone

Moment of Impact at Lazarides Rathbone is (to the best of my knowledge) the first solo show in London by DC-based artist Mark Jenkins in a quite a few years. Although his trademark life-sized sculptures and three-dimensional canvases actually lose a bit of their impact in a gallery setting as opposed to on the street for the unsuspecting public to encounter, the show is nonetheless a winner and well worth checking out. Continue reading

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London Daily Photo: Ali

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London Daily Photo: Portrait

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London Daily Photo: Wick(ed)

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London Daily Photo: Fading

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London Daily Photo: On or Off?

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London Daily Photo: Brick Lane

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Athens, Greece: Street Art City (OneTravel)

Athens, Greece is probably best known for its ancient sites like the Acropolis and for being a starting point for any number of island hopping excursions. But there’s another more current and vibrant reason to pay this age old city … Continue reading

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London Daily Photo: Untitled

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London Daily Photo: Ladbroke Grove

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Sickboy: Make It Last Forever at The Outsiders London, Greek Street

Maybe it had just been awhile since I had enjoyed the pleasure of viewing much work by street artist Sickboy, but his latest offering, Make It Last Forever on view now at The Outsiders London in Soho, seemed to pop with vibrancy while providing plenty of personal symbolism to ponder. Continue reading

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See Basel: A City Artfully Designed to Please

Keen to take a city break that’s chock full of eye candy treats by some of the world’s greatest modern architects, designers, and artists? Go to Basel. I was blown away by all the fascinating stuff I got to behold during my few days there. Continue reading

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London Daily Photo: Ladyeve Ltd

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