Wednesday, 1 September 2010

Meeting of Styles London 2010

Meeting of Styles graffiti events are held all around the world as way for graffiti artists to meet up, paint and exchange ideas. Originating from Wiesbaden Germany, it is now a global event, with Meetings as far flung as Malaysia and San Francisco, with each event inviting artists from overseas to participate as well as from home.

London's event this year was quite weirdly held in Highbury Studios, a nice posh estate, near Hollowway Road station.

Organised by our friends at EndoftheLine, check www.meetingofstyles.co.uk for more details.












Above photos by Photograff92.
Photo below of Dep from Paintshop by Alex Fakso

Paintshop at Meeting of Styles London 2010.

Tuesday, 31 August 2010

Digging in the Lambeth archives....

Really love these photos I found a little while ago in the Lambeth Archives, so thought I would share.










These are all studio portraits taken in the Lambeth. There is something really interesting and quite funny about how people want to be seen by the rest of the world.

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Graffiti makes the BBC news... but this time, for the right reasons!

Yesterday the BBC news braved the Stockwell estate to interview Paintshop friends Solo and Bonzai, also featured this week in the Evening Standard and Metro. There seems to be a bit of a buzz at the moment about the Stockwell Park Estate 'Hall of Fame' which has been the home of London graffiti for decades.







Stockwell Park Estate, in London, was completed in 1974 with the ambition to be a prime example of modern living, but very quickly the estate showed its weaknesses with seeping water, insect infestations and major safety and security concerns with the high walk ways and dark garage areas on the ground floor. The high smooth walls of the sunken ball court in the center of the estate soon attracted your typical 'Tracy loves Nigel' and 'Westham FC' type graffiti, but over the years the graffiti art form developed and gained popularity the walls became more of an urban gallery attracting visiting artists from around the world.

This year more than any other I've know, has seen the standard of work increase to a new level but at the same time the talk of the council closing it down has also become louder.

Solo's aim is to raise awareness for this amazing, organically grown creative space which has, and still has buried under the many, many layers of paint, seen the work of some of the best graffiti artists in the world and a history of London's graffiti art.

Its not glamourous, comfortable or really all that safe, but its still our favorite place to paint and would be a massive shame to see it closed down like most of the other legal sites in London over the last few years.

Find out more...





Monday, 23 August 2010

FiveO said freeze!!...




More from this weekends Meeting of Styles event coming very soon.

Photo by urbanartcore.eu

Thursday, 19 August 2010

London Meeting of Styles...

The London Meeting of Styles graffiti event will be this Sat 1st at Highbury Studios behind Holloway Road Tube. COme down and see an amazing line up of international and home grown artists do their thing as well as enjoy a block party style BBQ and music.

For more info go to www.meetingofstyles.co.uk.

We'll be there of course, look out for us and say hello and watch this space for the pics.

For Alec....