Across The Tracks and Through The Looking Glass

A new art supplies store has recently opened and is rapidly becoming very well established in East London’s Bethnal Green Road, near the top of Brick Lane, the heart of Graff-land! Its opposite the 90 meter graffiti wall. With the Rarekind gallery downstairs exhibiting work by original first generation graffiti artists it really is worth a trip. 

Specialising in the best spray-paint and markers available they carry a full range of Molotov paints markers and inks including the classic Belton range in the full spectrum of colours. They also carry the new mtn94 range, a staggering array of markers from minis through to ultrawides and mops, unbuffable inks in the full spectrum of colours, caps of all descriptions from needle to superfat, magazines, books and accessories and claim to be the cheapest in London.

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Many thanks to Skam for this snap of an old Elate tag from the eighties uncovered during recent renovations to Marble Arch station. If anyone else has any old Elate snaps I’d be very glad to hear.

I came up to Plaistow Hall of Fame, East London to meet Keen One with the intention of spending a sunny day drinking beer and maybe putting a little something up myself…

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I was invited in to paint a small piece of this monster wall by Aks, graffiti artist and the events

co-ordinator. Situated between Shoreditch high street and Brick Lane and opposite the new Chrome and Black shop with the Rarekind Gallery downstairs, this is London’s graffiti central. In the next street is Sclater Street Hall of Fame.

This is now East London’s most visible and longest graffiti wall and is at the heart of the most graffitied area in the country. The wall is a youth project organised by Richmix for young people to learn graffiti with experts and professionals such as the legendary Prime, a face I Iast saw at the Covent Garden ‘writers bench’ in around ‘89.

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