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Picturesonwalls pop up shop ‘Marks and Stencils’ opened its doors to the public earlier this week. Forming a major part of the store is an exhibition by French artist Dran. Entitled ‘My Everyday Life’ it includes a character called Scribouill…

Eelus work up for auction at the Temwa charity auction in Shoreditch, December 4th 2010
I wouldn’t normally mention a street art / urban art auction but this one is a bit special. Temwa is a Bristol based organisation working with communities in Malaw…

Recently released is a short run two colour hand pulled silkscreen print by Dotmasters (50 prints at £30 each) of his Mad Pride poster design seen on recent demonstrations against the benefit cuts. A full scale original also appeared in the …

Everytime I go into Pictures On Walls one piece of artwork catches my eye – it’s  ‘Free Speech’ by Dran – an artist from Toulouse with a gift for drawing.
  
‘Free Speech’ by Dran
So it’s good news to hear that POW are putting on two sho…

For only a few days an East End pub will be the unusual venue for the first solo show by Mantis. The Lord Napier pub in White Post Lane, Hackney Wick will temporarily be home to an exhibition of paintings, sculpture and work on paper from the artist wh…

New York’s Underbelly Gallery – opens and closes.
Artofthestate is a sucker for access to man made underground tunnels and street art so when a story appeared over the weekend in the Sunday Times Magazine (subscription required) that combined both…

Seems the Toasters have been very busy in London town of late. An all too common sight in some areas are the grey, white and black blobs of paint that the graffiti removal teams leave behind when obliterating graffiti and street art. They like to …

I stuck my head around the door of the Moniker International Art Fair last week. It’s objective is “to advance networking between international galleries, artists, collectors and buyers with Moniker becoming an annual event, establishing a solid reputa…

It’s been a while since the last post on this blog so this is an extended one based on a lengthy walk around London last Friday looking for art actually on the street.
Is Street Art in London dead? Well, no. You just have to look a bit harder tha…

Following requests and suggestions you can now see every post regarding Banksy from artofthestate over the past seven years along with additional information on a separate blog: http://aots.co.uk/blog/.
New: Via Wooster Collective three new Banksy…

Has Banksy been to Hastings? Found on Rollerzorro’s flickr stream (which is full of interesting Banksy items). This piece also appears on the frequently on the money the banksy forum.

source: Rollerzorro
Also appearing yesterday were images…

International Meeting of Styles 2010 – 21st August 2010, Highbury Studios, Hornsey Street, Islington, London (nearest Tube Holloway Road)
This years international event sees 60 artists from all over Europe work on 12 huge walls at the Highbury Studios …

 
When I first saw this piece on Romanywg’s Flickr stream I felt a little uneasy about it’s location. In fact while he’d got a great photo and I thought the street art by Specter looked stunning I really didn’t like the fact that it had obviously …

Most shows consist of unpacking some canvases and choosing where to put them and how to light them. Schoony’s upcoming group show ‘Boy Soldiers’ is totally different to this tried and trusted approach - he’s been busy mass producing well over…

Elate’s (aka Jon Hammer) blog has recently been updated with a few great articles but pick of the bunch for me was this writers meet up which looked like a lot of fun. I seem to remember that the last time this happened torrential rain and more conspir…

Been too long since a bit of punk rock was featured on this blog but the Signal Gallery have given me the perfect excuse. ‘Beyond Punk’ features art from a batch of first and second wave punk band members along with  a few who wear thei…

Feet firmly on the ground Ben Eine teamed up with RYCA yesterday to paint these new hoardings in Hackney, East London. With a font comprised entirely of dots with smiley faces it turned into a marathon session with Ben choosing the wording ‘The St…

A couple of upcoming events well worth taking a look at:

 ’Rise of the Non Conformists’, Whitecross Street. As well as a two day street party two dozen artists will be turning the street into a giant canvas, including Burning Candy Crew, Carrie R…

Yes you read that headline right. In a strange turn of events that probably has left Ben Eine thinking he may have entered a parallel universe a painting of his has apparently ended up in the mits of US President Barack Obama via David Cameron and his …