“Hypocrisy is the state of promoting or administering virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually have or is guilty of violating. Hypocrisy often involves the deception of others and thus can be considered a kind of lie.” Wikipedia Just after I published this post about the upcoming Team Rex exhibition starting […]

 

“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.“ William Blake For years our collective intelligence has been insulted by blockbuster shows by manufactured artists, showing tired and threadbare worn out clichés, sweet and sour gimmicks , stolen ideas, and often […]

  The Channel 4 documentary, Robbo vs Banksy ‘Graffiti Wars’ by Jane Preston and TwoFour has won the Royal Television Award for Best Arts Programme on UK TV in 2011. The other two shortlisted documentaries in the running were… In these times in which we find our precious culture dumbed down beyond recognition and sold […]

  The Robbo vs Banksy ‘Graffiti Wars’ documentary for Channel 4, the first ever documentary to challenge the spurious myths propagated by the ‘Street Art Establishment’, has been nominated for a Royal Television Society award and is in the shortlist as one of the three best arts programmes on UK TV in 2011. Robbo would […]

  Thanks to Fuel for this…pic by Choci Roc Robbo’s 25 year old masterpiece, on the back of BTP HQ, by Regents canal in Camden, despite being tagged was still visible until it was ruined by Banksy two years ago. It was restored on Christmas Eve; finally, after the ‘battle’ that commenced two years ago […]

No blog posts from me for a while, I’ve been extremely busy on an exponentially expanding project which actually seems to be going covertly viral pre-release, radicalising the unlikeliest sources to far reaching effect!!! Stay tuned… More on that to come, I’ve been painting some new canvas that I’m delighted with in ‘break times’ so […]

I couldn’t make it along but £20,000 was raised toward the ongoing care of Robbo and his family at Cargo on Sunday. Robbo R on section of ‘concrete’ with dishevelled black rat sliding down the protective perspex by Fuel CCD. After a two week battle with Banksy’s lawyers the Channel 4 Graffiti Wars documentary is […]

Newly finished canvas, ‘Let There Be More Light’, oil 90cm x 90cm Inspired by the old Pink Floyd song of the same name from when they were still a psychedelic rock band, from the Saucerful of Secrets LP 1968, and visions it first brought to my head when listening to it many years ago (and […]

Have you tried to…. Watch Channel 4 Robbo vs Banksy Graffiti Wars documentary online, or Watch Channel 4 Robbo vs Banksy Graffiti Wars documentary on YouTube, or Watch Channel 4 Robbo vs Banksy Graffiti Wars documentary on Channel 4 OD On Demand? Well you can’t; here’s why. Channel 4 Robbo vs Banksy Graffiti Wars documentary […]

To raise funds for King Robbo’s ongoing treatment and to help his family, London’s premier crew We Rock Hard in association with The Doctor’s Orders present… The King Robbo Fundraiser & Art Auction Youtube link to the Channel 4 Documentary at the bottom of this post. King Robbo Fundraiser & Auction… …which is to be […]

Sorry I’m late blogging this; Robbo’s documentary is on Channel 4 tonight (14th August) but can be viewed again online here I’m on there giving my two bobs worth as are many oldskool. I first started watching them bombing the tube trains properly when working as a messenger boy in the city in 1986 as the […]

Back in the eighties I went to countless acid house parties, Wayne Anthony’s ‘Genesis’ was one amongst many such as SIN, Hypnosis, Dungeons, Land of Oz, Biology, Trip City, Krazy Klub, Karma Sutra, Hell, Rage, the Fitness Centre, Nut House, Phantasy and others… LSD Elate Blotters Now in 2010 acid house party pioneers Wayne Anthony […]

My rediscovery of the technique of spirit photography, but freed from the trickery of the Victorian parlour would seem to have given entities a new way to manifest. As we journey back into darkness and the nights draw ever in we mark the end of harvest and the time of Samhain, the Festival of the […]

The spirit and brotherhood of Hip Hop and Graffiti lives on and gains momentum in London in 2010. Thanks to Chrome and Black for organising a wicked Jam in the Leake Street tunnel for real graffiti writers…“The Battle of Waterloo”… Although it was a crew battle the rivalry was friendly and lots of people, myself […]

  I’d like to say a massive thank you to everyone who has shown me support and encouragement during the ongoing campaign of stalking, harrassment, threats and intimidation, which began shortly after I announced my plans to open a new art gallery in East London. These events seem to infer that certain people in the […]

Magic Window Studios is a concept for a new London art gallery that I’ve been working hard to put together over the last year as anyone who follows this blog will know. Due to interference and a campaign of intimidation, it has not seen the light of day. I have also encountered other adverse reactions […]

A Message to the Graffiti Community and Beyond: ……………………………………………….. I haven’t posted on my blog for a few months, here’s why… Artist Under Attack Note – close up I have been subject to a campaign of intimidation and aggression after announcing plans to open a gallery at Brick Lane and painting legal graffiti on prized […]

Having been a homeless person myself once I know how difficult it can be to try to satisfy your creative needs when you are busy all day trying to fulfil the most basic human requirements of shelter, food, personal hygiene and warmth. Such vital needs for expression don’t however just go away. In the face […]