One of the highlights of London’s street art scene during 2024, was when during the summer Invader made his first visit to London in eight years. This most recent visit marked the nineteenth time Invader has landed in London and left his mark. Known for his pixelated mosaics’ creations, predominantly Space Invaders, made from differing sized and coloured tiles, his mosaics are certainly in a style of its own and over time he has gone on to become one of the most original and iconic Street Artists the world over.

Invader is a French artist who defines himself as a ‘UFA’, an ‘Unidentified Free Artist’. Under this guise Invader has since 1998 developed a large scale project, code name: Space Invaders. The primary purpose of the project is about liberating Art from its usual alienators in the form of institutions such as galleries and museums. Secondly it is about freeing the Space Invaders from their video game TV screens and to bring them into our physical world. With each work publicly placed, referred to as an ‘Invasion’, each of these unique pieces set to become a fragment of a monumental installation. The Space Invader basis of his works were chosen as they are the “perfect icons of our time, a time where digital technologies are the heartbeat of our world.”

On his latest Invasion London has been apparently been left with some eleven fresh pieces, two of which are in one location, and of the eleven we have thus far, with plenty of help from a few people, located and enjoyed ten of these intriguing and unique Street Art delights – with the eleventh invasion being removed by the owner – who almost certainly appreciated the financial value of what Invader left on his property and didn’t survive 24 hours. We have long been fans of Invader’s output and it was an absolute pleasure to cycle all around London to go and see his latest creations and see how well he has created excellent designs for locations on which these new works now reside.

Invasion in Chelsea.

Invasion in Chelsea.

Invasion in Soho.

Invasion in Soho.

Invasion in Soho.

Invasion in the West End.

Invasion in Seven Dials.

Invasion in Holborn.

Invasions in Vauxhall.