Monthly Archives: December 2018

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Happy Christmas, Maybe

Here is how a few street artists have wished yuletide greetings to anyone who tears their eyes away from the bright lights and window displays to observe their seasonal street art.

I’m sure many of us emphasise with Benjamin Irritant’s swipe at excessive Christmas consumption’

Benjamin Irritant – Hysterical Mass Consumerism

Inkteractive has gone a little bit robust with the fond felicitations, lets hope the weather is a good as captured in the instamatic polaroid pic.

Inkteraktiv MERRY FCKN XMAS

Inkteraktiv MERRY FCKN XMAS AGAIN YOU FCKRS

The MisFortuneTeller has a new business line selling Christmas Unicorns as the healthy alternative to Turkey, bloody GM research!

The MisFortuneTeller – Have A Unicorn For Christmas

Some artist really entered into the Christmas spirit by placing free art out on the streets as lovely stocking fillers for the eagle eyed.  On Christmas Eve a lovely Sean Worrall piece found a new home, this one seemed to be some kind of “re-issue” or a rare “number error” piece, the Sean Worrall equivalent of a Penny Black!

Inkteractiv also left a lovely framed piece on the street which Santa should now be conveying to North Car

to a nice home, from Inkteraktiv

Inkteractiv also left a lovely framed Xmas gift on the street which Santa should now be conveying to North Carolina if all goes to plan.

 

Finally, all that remains is to wish all a Happy Christmas or Seasonal Greetings as appropriate and best wishes to all for the New Year.

Dave

LINKS:

Benjamin Irritant instagram

Inkteraktiv instagram

The MisFortuneTeller Instagram

Sean Worrall website

all photos: Dave Stuart

 


Outside! NOW!

One of the best programmes on British TV over the past couple of weeks has been a long running comedy programme called “The New”s.

Last week the British Parliament was scheduled to have a “meaningful vote” following 5 days of posturing and debate in Parliament, the day before the vote the Government, meaning actually Theresa May, postponed the vote. The next day she faced a vote of no confidence from her own parliamentary party which she survived.  The title of this blogpost is a reference to that hilarious slapstick moment the day after that vote when Theresa May squared up to Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels.

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YOU OUTSIDE NOW (photo courtesy RTE)

Satirist and subverter Joe Bloggs pasted up a lovely modified mayonnaise jar on Brick Lane selling “Maygo” with “zero confidence”, referring to the vote of no confidence in Theresa May last week, which we know actually 200 conservative MPs indicating that they did not at this moment wish  Rees-Mogg to be their leader.  Kraft is now Krapt, a phonetic reference to crap (for the benefit of readers reading in their second language) and Mayonnaise becomes Real Malaise.   Note also Joe Blogg’s trademark subverts “Boots The Chemist” which becomes “Bloggs The Alchemist”.   Fast, political, amusing and on point, this is just everything we hope for from street art.

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Maygo by Joe Bloggs

Compare and contrast:

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Kraft Mayonnaise (product illustration, believed creative commons license)

Jonesy has done a hand drawn illustration which makes the point that  leaving with a deal or without a deal is basically two versions of the same thing, just like shit or crap are the same thing.  Using shit and crap as the similes for Brexit probably indicates that actually the better thing would be to not leave.

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Finally, spotted yesterday this rather bizarre but gorgeously drippy slogan on Great Eastern Street, “Gloria 22/02 BrexItalia” with the BREX component deleted.   It is fairly obvious that the intention is political but an online search does not reveal too much in relation to any political events in Italy scheduled for 22nd February.  Tweet or facebook #shoreditchstreetarttours if you can shed any insight on the significance of this message.

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Gloria 22/02 BREXITALIA

Late Addtion: Blunt Rollers, evidently a member of the Secret Society Of Supervillain Artsits also had a particular view of a warlike Theresa May last week, stencilled on paper.

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Theresa May prepares for her next cabinet meeting

British street artists were a bit slow out of the blocks with comparatively little Brexit related street art appeared during the 2016 referendum campaign but since the result Brexit has been a very visible recurring theme.  Street artists were anything but “nebulous and imprecise” last week as they showed via the public art gallery known as street art.

Gloria 22/02 BREXITALIA

Gloria 22/02 BREXITALIA audience

LINKS:

Joe Bloggs Instagram

Jonesy Facebook

All photos Dave Stuart except where stated