Here we wanted to take a look at what was for us the stand out work from this years cracking Meeting of Styles London 2018 event that took place some six weeks back around the Nomadic Community Gardens up Brick Lane. The work in question is this haunting and thought-provoking mural entitled ‘We Disappear’ placed up by […]Read Post ›
Last month saw one of the worlds most famous global Graffiti & Street Art festivals finally return to London for its 11th anniversary in the UK with a fantastic event comprised of painting, music and all round fun by the many people in attendance. The very nature of the event is defined in the name […]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 ›
Well here we are with the finale of our series of reviews of the last year and we thought we would take a look back at the exhibitions we have attended. In the process we have been all over London and become further acquainted with many wonderful gallery spaces and visited a wide range of ‘pop-up’ spaces […]Read Post ›
Better late than never, last night we finally had the time to head up to Dalston to catch up with a couple of exhibitions that opened in the last week, the first of which being the ‘Creative Differences’ group exhibition at the 1963 Gallery Space. Presenting a selection of prints in a variety of mediums from some 16 […]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 a fantastic year in Croydon and we have to say has been one of our favourite places to visit it this year for varying reasons. Firstly it […]Read Post ›
This morning 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 ›
This evening in our series of reviews of the year we are heading over to North London and taking a look back at the year of Street Art in Camden Town. Camden Town has long been a hub of high quality Street Art, a place with a sense of creative energy and certainly one of our absolute […]Read Post ›
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 countless […]Read Post ›
We thought today in our series of reviews of the year we would take a look at the beauty of collaborations. This for us is one of the most impressive things with Street Art, something you don’t see in most other art forms and certainly not to such an extent. Some artists paint in pairs regularly […]Read Post ›
