Chalk directions/pavement art/fun

"Have a good day!"

"Step" ... "Jump"

"Hop on one leg"

...and into the sunset

Photos: 100+ yards? Along the pavement on the south side of Whitton Avenue West, 6 May 2024.

Street art, Kai Ohlsen?

Fulham Palace Road, Tuesday

Street art signed KOHLSEN, possibly Kai Ohlsen (signs the same way anyway see kohlsen.uk ), paper poster on metal utility connection box today. Also written on by someone else "SY was here". But whether it's genuine/original/a print is open to question. Saatchi Art online lists some paintings by Kai Ohlsen.

Justice for Grenfell sign, Ladbroke Grove

Ladbroke Grove, Canal Way roundabout, North Kensington

The photo shows a London black taxi, a painted sign JUSTICE FOR GRENFELL painted in stylised white block capitals edged with red, along the height and length of a black hoarding that spans under two huge billboards, the most prominent one being an outsize one for Barbie the movie, Canal Way roundabout, Ladbroke Grove, North Kensington today.

Mustique by Cold War Steve

Mustique. Part III. pic.twitter.com/ZHui8W7RiA

— Cold War Steve (@Coldwar_Steve) January 2, 2020

They're all in this together.

"Raft of the Twats" masterpiece by Cold War Steve

Raft of the Twats pic.twitter.com/Opws4hnUPP

— Cold War Steve (@Coldwar_Steve) May 13, 2019

A parody of Théodore Géricault's painting "The Raft of the Medusa" is one of Cold War Steve's masterpieces.

God's Own Junkyard

Neon art hub, plus cafe, hidden away on a Walthamstow industrial estate, utterly beloved by international Instagram curators. By Diamond Geezer.

"Look, just look, the Vistula is near"

Russian Prints from World War 1

"This exhibition features Russian prints made during the First World War and its aftermath. Taking its title from an early propaganda print produced by Kazimir Malevich, the suprematist painter, and revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, the show presents work produced as part of a propaganda effort from the Tsarist war mobilisation in 1914 through to the Bolshevik era and the Civil War. ..." To read on and for full details see
http://www.londonprintstudio.org.uk/…/look-just-look-the-v…/.

At the London Print Gallery, Harrow Road, April 8th to May 7th

‪#‎russianww1prints‬ ‪#‎malevich‬ ‪#‎maykovsky‬ ‪#‎lubok‬ ‪#‎propagandaart‬ ‪#‎londonprintstudio‬ ‪#‎exhibitions‬

Sculpture by Henry Moore

At Charing Cross hospital

This is a model for the full sized version of the same thing, outside the Rockefeller "Center" in New York. There's a plaque with all the details. [Unfortunately not in this post! Ed.]

Feeling drained

Charing Cross Hospital sculpture (Henry Moore)

Encounters at BAR GalleryChas

"Nine Heads" - Jean-Luc Almond

"Chas" - Joel Whybrew 

Ink Encounter - Sally Buchanan
recycled linen thread

From the recent Encounters exhibition at Brent Artists Resource gallery, Walm Lane, Willesden

Brent Artists summer show

Sign on gallery door, Queens Parade (Walm Lane)

Full details online at BAR.

Peace in the community - mural

Grange Road

Ritual adornment of the sacrificial building

InkFetish

PositiveArts

The Willesden Library centre, home of the Brent museum, BelleVue cinema, Gigi's Café, the Willesden Bookshop, The Brent One-Stop centre, The Space I and II performance venues, The Gallery, The Gallery Concourse, the education room and other community spaces, the only town centre car park, and not least the busy upstairs and downstairs library with tables thronged with children studying, is about about to be demolished.

In the past few years, over £600,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund was spent on it to move the museum from its former location, and other changes. Since then it has been deliberately run down and the car park made practically unusable.

The whole place was continuously booked and busy with community groups and cultural events. We even had The Divine Cat on loan from the British Museum. But fear not, in another few years you will have an office building with community areas and a private block of flats where the car park was. The piazza at the front will be consumed and the Victorian library building conjoined to the new box.

And they're also demolishing the Queensbury, opposite Willesden Green station for - you guessed! - another block of flats. They've already demolished Dollis Hill House in nearby Gladstone Park and closed six out of the twelve libraries for Brent, so the culturecide continues apace. They must spend all their time thinking, "What else can we destroy?"

This library centre is the seventh out of twelve to close but they promise it will reappear as large as ever in a couple of years. Let's wait and see. Well, we have no choice. Money has spoken. You can thank your local Labour party representatives at the next local election.

Artists at work

InkFetish (left) and PositiveArts (right)

Two artists from PositiveArts

InkFetish.co.uk - The artwork of Tom Blackwood

PositiveArts.co.uk - Empowering and Inspiring people through Graffiti Art / Street Art

More pictures

Murals appear on condemned library & bookshop

The angry creature with a box is alongside another (incomplete?)

No mean talent has gone into these.

Painted on a window of the closed Willesden bookshop

This picture incorporates the electrical flex.

Grange Road

Update: About the artists

Unveiled: The cover for New Short Stories 7

Stratos Fountoulis has once again done us proud. Here is an impression of the new cover. I think this is going to be an excellent addition to the series.

You can read the contents list and author bio's at the following link:
http://newshortstories.com/2013-new-short-stories-7

Available from: Barnes & Noble, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com

Undone

Undone from Hayley Morris on Vimeo.

"A drifting man struggles to pull objects from the roiling sea below him and scrambles to keep the objects from slipping through his fingers. A stop-motion animation using textured and tactile materials, as well as personal imagery, that represents the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Inspired by my grandfather." (Hayley Morris)

99 tiny games

99 Tiny Games

In the library centre piazza, Willesden High Road