Londoners
The streets have ears and police cameras roam free Art is the outlaw, the vandal from beyond Hadrian’s wall We marvel at the anonymous and ephemeral works They carry the message of a culture, unlike the sterile ads A penny for our thoughts, a fistful of dollars for our soul Art by talented mural artist […]
Summer in the city, girls slowly licking ice creams A bicycle and a green broom straight out of Star Wars Stand guard as Princess Leila glides by the Ali Baba cavern But we can only see the thieves and the money changers The treasures lie in our eyes beyond the Sesames’ Hugh Ardoin The Londoners […]
We all have dreams We speak of them not We share undercover images The fear is that the dream may come true We look at our reflection in a window But we are too shy to talk to her After so many years standing in front of this mirror We still can’t tell the real […]
View from Knightsbridge of the Mandarin Oriental fire on June 6th in London A crowd of police vans, ambulances and fire engines A ladder and fire hose, backlit smoky scene The sun burning like a dark star in the sky Hugh Ardoin The London Londoners Gallery Hits: 16
View from Sloane Street before lock-down Hugh Ardoin The London Londoners Gallery Hits: 11
Yesterday in London the Mandarin Oriental £ 182 million refurbishment goes up in smoke Girls running in the street, panic or else… The whole Knightsbridge area went into lock-down The Guardian extraordinarily silent The press freedom caught fire too? Hugh Ardoin London Londoners Gallery Hits: 12
On the London backstreets a Kombi holds a strip-show No music playing while the bared beauty shows under a curtain fold Once the iconic transport of the Kathmandu flower-power pack Preserved undercover in the splendor of its long past youth Like a vampire sipping at the rare unleaded bloods Challenging time and the whims of […]
A guitarist on the roof, no fiddlers in Soho The pop shops and Gibson towers the hopes of a generation Hopes of fame and changing notes into banknotes Art is a freeway where the fast lane leads to oblivion The slow lane goes to satisfaction, sometimes they merge At the end somewhere by the horizon, […]
A girl meets the TetraPack cow on in Shoreditch streets London City is rife with surprise encounters of any kind You meet the Martians in Hackney, the Indians in Whitechapel The Blacks in Brixton, and the Royals who are kept behind bars in Buckingham The future meets the past while the false Maria of Metropolis fame, […]
The evening news ready to flood the passerby’s minds Fake news and single mindedness to prod the crowds Flushing the workers into the inner tubes of the city Poking the eyes and skewing the brains The working class heroes on the move Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery THE WORKING CLASS HERO As soon as […]