A few weeks back saw Italian Street Artist 0707 return to London and hit up his first wall in the city since 2017, leaving Stockwell with a striking work. Working to a minimalist colour palette of black, white, greys and gold, and a made from a mixture of stencils and free hand techniques, 0707’s portraiture […]Read Post ›
Next up in our look back at 2017 we thought we would be take a look back at what we have proactively organised and been up to about London this year. So where to begin really, Street Art and Blog wise it’s been an fantastic and fun year for us here at London Calling Blog, the […]Read Post ›
It seems that of late there has been a massive wave of locations that once played host to a wave of creativity and expression are being swallowed up in the name of gentrification, with one of the biggest blows recently dealt to London’s Street Art scene, the loss of Star Yard. Deriving its name from the […]Read Post ›
Well it has taken a while to process all this, but at the weekend we here at London Calling Blog were privileged enough to get to celebrate two years of running the blog (officially this weekend) with many of the friends we have made over the last year, artists and photographers alike, with a Paint […]Read Post ›
Yesterday we here at London Calling Blog were up bright and early in order to catch the train from London to Birmingham in order to spend the day attending the City of Colours Street Art Festival in Digbeth, Birmingham. Originally launched in 2014 with much success, sadly last year City of Colours was cancelled due […]Read Post ›
This evening in our series of reviews of the last year we are heading back over to East London and taking a look back at the year of Street Art in Bethnal Green. It’s been an interesting year in Bethnal Green, with a steady flow of artworks being placed up throughout the year by London’s own local talent […]Read Post ›
Yesterday in Brixton Market along the Brixton Arches a paint jam on a series of boards put out for the day were utilised as a part of a community event to hold a paint jam with works from some nine artists put up in the process. The crux of the situation is that Network Rail intend to evict […]Read Post ›
This last weekend in Bethnal Green a series of pieces were put up on a set of walls, in a secluded road, by Street Artists and Graffiti Writers alike. Bethnal Green has increasingly propelled itself into a top destination to see Street Art of late, the vast majority of this work is done through the support […]Read Post ›
Today we decided to sort through our many pictures and collate a collection comprising six months of Street Art from Brick Lane’s Star Yard. A prominent place in the heart of London’s premier Street Art destination. For this piece we are focusing solely on the 10 feature walls in the car park, though there is […]Read Post ›
On Saturday we were lucky enough to stumble across four artists working around Brick Lane and Bethnal Green and met upon a fifth artist having completed her work on Hackney Wick. Needless to say we had a great time on Saturday, it was if we couldn’t move around the East End without seeing someone work […]Read Post ›
