At the beginning of this month we here at London Calling Blog had the distinct pleasure and honour to be invited to Belfast to document the Hit The North 2022 street art festival put on by Seedhead Arts and local artist Emic. The festival saw some 61 street artists and graffiti writers transform the hub […]Read Post ›
A few weeks back on Halloween weekend, the biggest jam to hit the Brick Lane and Shoreditch area for some years now, with 30 Graffiti Writers and Street Artists taking to Grey Eagle Street, just behind Brick Lane for a superb spooky Halloween production. It’s taken us a few weeks to sort through our pics from […]Read Post ›
A couple of weekends back saw the return of the Whitecross Street Party, with the two day event bringing together a diverse and eclectic range of entertainment and events with something for everyone to enjoy. Unfortunately we were unable to attend and missed seeing some of the fantastic pieces produced on temporary structures as part […]Read Post ›
It’s fair to say that so far this year Forest Hill has proved itself the unexpected canvas to a wealth of Street Art and Graffiti across a trio of sites and really enriching the area in the process. It’s not to say that the area has been completely devoid of Street Art in the past, […]Read Post ›
Here we are taking a look at a series of works placed up in the Stockwell Hall of Fame last month month to celebrate London Graffiti Writer Chips birthday which saw many of London’s finest Graffiti Writers and Street Artists take to London’s premier Hall of Fame to leave a fantastic array of works for […]Read Post ›
Despite the cold weather London has played host to a number of Paint Jams about the city, with the third weekend of the new year playing host to simultaneous paint jam’s around South London in Forest Hill, Stockwell and Leake Street. It is the latter mentioned of which we are looking at first with WOM […]Read Post ›
Well it’s that time of the year again and at the the turn of the new year we here at London Calling Blog were privileged enough to get to celebrate five years of running the blog with many of the friends we have made over the last five years, artists and photographers alike, with The […]Read Post ›
Last month saw what will be in most likelihood the last large-scale Paint Jam to grace the area of Brick Lane, namely Graffestival, a two-day event set to mark the end of the creative hub that in recent years that has being the Nomadic Community Gardens. The event was organised through the hard work of London’s […]Read Post ›
Here we are taking a look at the fantastic Paint Jam that took place around Stockwell a couple of weeks ago, featuring some 49 artists and writers painting across 3 sites and organised by Wild Style Cafe – the newly opened Paint Shop / Cafe that recently opened up in nearby Stockwell Road. Taking to the […]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 […]Read Post ›
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