This morning in our series of reviews of the year we are taking a look back at Shoreditch, which alongside the adjoining area of Brick Lane, make up the epicentre of London’s Street Art scene. An area that is a must visit destination for tourists and enthusiasts alike, and whilst there you will regularly pass Street Art tours and […]Read Post ›
A couple of weeks back saw some 20 writers and artists take to Fleur De Lis Street, Shoreditch, for a Paint Jam which has transformed this little alleyway which connects East London to the City entirely for the better. Working to a uniform blue backdrop a whole host of letter works and characters now decorate […]Read Post ›
A couple of weeks back saw Street Artist Olivier Roubieu and Graffiti Writer CREEDoner take to Pedley Street, along Brick Lane, in order to paint a rather large collaboration that makes ample use of the space it adorns. The work fuses Olivier Roubieu’s central portraiture that is overlaid with that all so distinct hand-style declaring […]Read Post ›
A couple of weekends back we here at London Calling Blog had the absolute pleasure in visiting Bristol for Upfest 2017, our first time attending the event and an experience well worth the visit. Bristol is very much a place with a long and rich history of a thriving Graffiti and Street Art scene, most […]Read Post ›
Sunday saw the latest Paint Jam to hit Leake Street with the Do1Cancer event which saw a host of Graffiti Writers and Street Artists hit the legal walls in this tunnel to raise awareness and money for Cancer Research. Following from 2015’s Battle Cancer Paint Jam which was organized via social media by Charlie Pugh in response to discovering his girlfriend had breast […]Read Post ›
On Monday morning we couldn’t resist a trip to the Stockwell Hall of Fame in the pouring rain on our way in to work to see this fantastic production by Gnasher, Pad, Oliver Roubieu and JXC based around the film ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’. Certainly a fantastic piece with so much going on, presenting a cast of […]Read Post ›
This morning in our series of reviews of the last year we are going to take a look back at the year of Street Art and Graffiti in Croydon. It’s been another good year in Croydon after the flying start it had through 2015. Croydon’s Arts Quarter has continued to receive a steady stream of new additions and played […]Read Post ›
This evening in our series of reviews of the last year we are going to take a look back at the year of Street Art and Graffiti in Brixton and Stockwell. Brixton has long been a place with little pockets of Street Art and Graffiti coming and going, albeit nothing on the scale of areas such as […]Read Post ›
At this point in our series of reviews of the last year we are heading down over to South London and taking a look back at the year of Street Art & Graffiti in Leake Street. Leake Street represents London’s premier legal Graffiti location, located in the Old Vic tunnels beneath Waterloo Station, made famous as a result of […]Read Post ›
One of the things we here at London Calling Blog are most grateful for from 2016 is the access the Jealous Gallery have most kindly continued to afford us in order to pop by, witness and document the monthly changing works on their rooftop feature wall as part of the ongoing Jealous Rooftop Mural Project. Seeing as for the […]Read Post ›
