So a couple of weekends back we had the good fortune of spending a long weekend in Croydon with some 36 artists reworking the vast majority of the ‘Arts Quarter’ around St. George’s Walk to put on the ‘Any Colour You Like’ Paint Jam organised by ourselves and put together with support from friend of the blog and […]Read Post ›
Well here we are again taking a look at the latest creations from Zabou, one of London’s most prolific artists, with her first pair of new works in 2017 about London, with one in East London and one in North London. We always love seeing Zabou’s works about town, fueled with such humour, warmth or rebellion […]Read Post ›
Playing catch up here with a look at this absorbing work from Wasp Elder & Helen Bur placed up in Hanbury Street in Brick Lane a couple of weeks back now. Certainly a gripping work which generates a rather sombre effect with the somewhat faceless subjects walking the cold streets all emphasized by the fluid painterly tones […]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 ›
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 ›
This morning 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 and Graffiti in Hackney Wick & Fish Island. Hackney Wick is always an interesting place to visit, with the sections of painted walls along the canal receiving […]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 ›
Friday and Saturday saw the feature wall on the side of Nemesis Tattoo in Camden Town which changes every month or so received it’s latest makeover with an excellent collaboration from visiting American Street Artist Elle and London’s very own Fanakapan. Certainly the most interesting work we have seen on this wall for a while […]Read Post ›
A couple of weeks back saw Pang – who is sadly no longer London based – return for a visit and hit up Hackney Wick to paint this funky fusion of styles with Graffiti Writer Seeds One along the canal. Featuring a dark backdrop and subject for Pang, the colours and explosive style present a […]Read Post ›
Over the weekend and culminating today Leake Street played host to an incredible production featuring some 30 or so Graffiti Writers and Street Artists all setting out to have some fun for Halloween and in doing so created ‘A Nightmare On Leake Street’ along one entire length of the tunnel. Impressively organised by SkyHigh with a […]Read Post ›
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