More Sweets than you can stomach

 

Anyone reckon this might be Sweet Toof's studio?

Mr Toof gets around London but he makes sure he keeps it interesting, it is not just simple walls or shop shutters. This guy doesn’t mind going up high to put his mark on the LDN skyline, he doesn’t mind getting in a boat too and he likes to go out and about finding some rather obscure parts of the city.

Big Toof... tiny mouth

I think Sweet Toof is thinking to the future, the Olympics are a few months away and his will be the most visible art in London, it also sticks in the mind the big pink lips and huge gnashers meaning that people will be able to chart it across their journey to Stratford.

Even the tag is intricate

Expect to see another guerilla stunt like he did with the Metro last year…

Things I’ve seen…

Long wall of paint...

Few of my favourite shots from today, mooching down the canals of London in the East. One entire wall of graf which was about 18ft tall, here are a few pieces….

Silkey & TLY TRP

TRP

This is the best thing I have seen for ages…. madness

Not sure who it is but it's dead good

Plus this one I spotted around the corner

No idea... but looks nice

Sweet Toof by the waterside

Nose peg

Yet more from the man who has painted his way around the Eastend for at least the last 4 years.

He is anonymous and has not revealed his true identity, there are rumours that it is Martin Lea Brown, I have no idea at all and Brown would not confirm nor deny. You can see the similarities in a few of his pieces, sometimes it’s best not to know

Anyway… more bits for you here

Blurred

This one is a bit shit but we will put it down to the crap surface

Rotten Toof

I have also spotted another which has been started but not finished, once I get the time I’ll see if it has been filled in

The Toasters…

If you live in LDN then you will have certainly seen a toaster or two on walls around the capital. They are a collective who tag, stencil and graf across the world. Pretty prolific too.

Hackney Road toasting

I don not know a lot about the guys… as yet. Waiting to hear more, anyone got any more info for me? Website? Flickr?

Check out the vimeo

ROA exhibition out east right now kids…

I did not go ce soir, this was largely because I headed to Columbia Road and ended up having a drink with Gandalf’s Eastend younger balder funnier more laddy brother and my good pal who I know as Peter Pan.

Watership Down

In the meantime here is the link to ROA’s show

Lots of ROA’s stuff along Hackney Road, Tourists are always searching it out

Things I’ve seen….

Few random shots from my wonderings

Hugo Bossman

Motherbar (333)

Unknown off Brick Lane

Nazir Tanbouli

I have found a few extra little pockets of art around East London and will picture these v soon.

Any suggestions for good places to go in South London ya’l?

Here, there, every Nazir

Full wall of monsters

Following my previous post this month on Nazir Tanbouli we saw that the man is trying to single-handedly turn a semi-deserted eye sore in East London into his very own canvas. I am loving this big dinosaurs with upside down heads and multiple eyes.

Dino-boarded up

The playful imagery is like a acid version of Jurassic Park.

Bird in prey

Fish walls

As always… not telling you exactly where it is…. but it is between Kingsland Road and Queensbridge Road

Things I’ve seen…

anyone help with this one?

Fat mouth?

I like it… it is a big fat bald guy with Lean Body in his mouth… answers on a postcard.

Apologies for being lazy with my finds… I’ll pick the pace up next week ya’l

Cross Stik

Nice lil addition to a Stik piece in Shoreditch…. almost looks like the character is peering down on the artist painting over his legs

Bit of Stik

Fight the gentrification Nazir

A little of what you like....

Nazir Tanbouli is a resident of East London, he has worked here amongst his collective from 1995 so has probably see the changes to Whiston Road more than most.

Upstairs boarded up.... downstairs a little doodling

Recently Whiston Road saw a few pieces of new art to brighten up the slowly but surely closing housing estates. The estates are in disrepair and I can only imagine the council are ignoring them until the very last resident gives up the ghost and moves on. All around this area shiney new housing developments are going up. Makes you wonder where the people living there at the moment are going to go?

Bit blurry... but you get the idea

And another one....

Also makes you wonder where the local graf artists are going to to paint if everywhere is new and clean…. gentrification here we come, expect a Pret on Broadway Market in the next 6 months