the thousands

The best thing about living next to Shoreditch is being able to just pop down and see interesting stuff in five minutes when there is nothing else to do on a Thursday night after work.

Tonight I checked out The Thousands exhibition and am kicking myself for not taking my damn camera as people were snapping away the whole time. Although is it a bit of a faux pas to take photos of art in an exhibition?

My absolute favourite was a sequined canvas of a cartoon boy on a bike by Brazilian art duo Os Gêmeos. It simply shone and made me grin like a Ye Old Cheshire Cheese cat.

Some of the other artists that warmed my cockles on a cold London night were Swoon, Adam Neate, Anthony Lister and Know Hope. Not knowing much about street art I hadn't heard of any of these people but a lot of the stuff was super familiar, most likely because I've seen lots of the work by the artists wandering around the streets of London and Melbourne.

Now I'm going to do my best not to watch some crappy show on my computer and read one of the many books I have collected since landing here. S'long.

I've posted some pictures by the artists I loved, not ones from the exhibition sadly but beautiful none-the-less.

know hope


swoon


adam neate


anthony lister


Os Gêmeos