Category Archives: London

London: Risk and Ron English live painting at Cargo

Risk and Ron English

Following their installations at the London Pleasure Gardens (covered here ), Risk and Ron English enjoy some live painting at Cargo, spreading humorous messages on the walls , next to the infamous Banky stencil.

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Full set of pics here

Risk: Edible Bus Stop installation at Hampton Court

Risk - Hampton Court

The Edible Bus Stop is a guerilla garden project adjacent to a bus stop aiming to transform neglected sites across London’s bus network into valuable community growing spaces and celebrated by local residents and users of the bus route.

For the Royal Hampton Court Flower show, L.A. graffiti artist Risk got involved in the project and created an installation called “Riot of Colour”, inspired by last year’s London riots and a colourful view of how nature over time, will transform a damaged urban landscape..

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Risk - Hampton Court

Video: CNN interview with Risk, Saber and Ron English

CNN interviewed Risk, Saber and Ron English for their show “Letters from America” in London. Also featuring some still pics from Butterfly.

Preview: London Pleasure Gardens

London Pleasure Gardens

The Paradise Gardens  is  a free family festival and a feast for all the senses in the new London Pleasure Gardens site. Featuring a vintage fair, performance arts, live music, pyrotechnic galore and all kinds of entertainment, this is definitively a destination for the summer.  But a festival wouldn’t be the same without street art and graffiti…

Fresh from Paris, Shepard Fairey and the Obey Giant team finished a large scale mural.
London Pleasure Gardens

To top it all, celebrated US street and graffiti artists  Risk, Ron English and TrustoCorp are joining in and completing outdoor intallations, as part of Letters of America. The project then continues its UK invasion with an all-American Independence Day celebration – in association with Corey Helford Gallery LA  on Wednesday, July 4 at Black Rat Gallery.

London Pleasure Gardens

London Pleasure Gardens

London Pleasure Gardens

Full set of pics by Butterfly here

Check the  LPG programme

London Pleasure Gardens
Gate 1, North Woolwich Rd, London

London: Mr Brainwash returns – Part 1

MBW London Show 2012

Four years after officially launching his “MBW” pseudonym at the Banksy’s Cans Festival, Thierry Guetta aka Mr Brainwash has landed in London for the preparation of his first huge European show to date.

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2008 Banksy Cans Festival

Celebrating both the Queen’s Jubilee and the Olympics, the  MBW show will take place end of July in central London, opposite the British Museum.  Needless to say that the building is massive, known as the former post office.

MBW put up some huge colourful paste-ups around the building with some added  trademark pink paint. Stay tuned for more details.

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View the full set here