Howard Griffin Gallery has a great new show coming up on April 3 with the Berlin Wall artist Thierry Noir. We at Street Art London have of course worked with Noir on numerous 1 throughout 2013 so it is fantastic to see Howard Griffin Gallery 2 the artist’s first significant solo show of his 30-year career. Despite the difficulties of the 1980s, a number of artists, musicians, and free thinkers 3 in West Berlin. Within a group which included David Bowie and Iggy Pop, was a rebellious young French artist called Thierry Noir. Thierry Noir was born in 1958 in Lyon, Frence and moved to Berlin in 1982 with one suit case. By chance he settled in a flat 4 the Wall at the border of East and West Berlin. In 1984,Noir was the first artist to irresistibly paint mile 5 mile of the Berlin Wall. Noir wanted to 6 a real revolutionary act: to paint the Wall, to transform it, to make it 7 ,and ultimately to help destroy it. Noir’s bright and seemingly innocent works painted on this deadly border 8 a sole act of defiance and an only voice of freedom. In this landmark 9 at Howard Griffin in Shoreditch, the artist’s first solo show, 10 works will be exhibited on a concrete wall, bisecting( 平分 )the space alongside rarely seen photographs, interviews and films, old and new placed side by side to reassess Noir’s enduring legacy and contribution to society.