For our next round up of 2024 blog post we are taking a look at what we have seen one our visits to Brick Lane and Shoreditch over the last year. Brick Lane and Shoreditch still hosts a significant amount of the London’s street art and graffiti, however nowadays Shoreditch beyond the Brick Lane area […]Read Post ›
It is fair to say that one of the stand out moments of London’s street art scene in 2024 was Banksy’s nine day London Zoo extravaganza. Love him or hate him, everyone on the scene was paying attention to each new work as the days unfolded. The works were placed up all around London, and certainly kept […]Read Post ›
Well it certainly has been another great year for Street Art around London, and we here at London Calling Blog have very much continued to just have a blast along the way. We have had the chance to travel all over London to hunt out and witness some amazing art, we have also continued to […]Read Post ›
Last week saw the unveiling in London of Street Artist Banksy’s latest stunt in the capital, on this occassion taking to Croydon to present ‘Gross Domestic Product’ a storefront containing branded merchandise. A poster in the shop window declares “GDP is the homewares brand from Banksy and this is our first and only store. The showroom is for […]Read Post ›
So Thursday night following 10 days of activity and protests from Extinction Rebellion who are acting to urge the government to be truthful and act appropriately to the scale of the current climate crisis, a new mural in support of the cause emerged overnight at the site of one of the main camps for the […]Read Post ›
In the Street Art world and popular culture as a whole Banksy is someone who needs no introduction, an artist, whose identity remains unknown, and whose works and status many adore and many loathe, either way you cut it no other Street Artist has been responsible for the rising popularity of Street Art in the […]Read Post ›
Well it’s been a while, but a few weeks back saw saw the arrival in London of Street Artist Banksy’s latest stencil works, and it has unsurprisingly attracted quite a bit of attention. The duo of works both paying homage New York Street Artist pioneer Jean-Michel Basquiat were placed up just around the corner from the […]Read Post ›
Having just had the good fortune to spend the weekend in Bristol attending Upfest 2017 and being presented with an absolute abundance of new Street Art being created all around Bedminster of which we will of course be posting on the event soon but due to the time that will take to process, in the […]Read Post ›
Well yet again this has certainly been the hardest post to compile in this years Annual Review series, attempting to select our favourite 20 works from a year absolutely crammed with an abundance of high-quality and entertaining artworks on London’s Streets. After much deliberation and with many more works we would of liked to include here, […]Read Post ›
For the last week a most interesting piece of Street Art has been on display outside auction house Bonhams ahead of its sale under the hammer yesterday. The work which fetched some £218,000, demonstrating the value placed upon this artists work, is from Banksy’s first US exhibition held in LA within an industrial warehouse in […]Read Post ›
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