A couple of weeks back saw some 20 writers and artists take to Fleur De Lis Street, Shoreditch, for a Paint Jam which has transformed this little alleyway which connects East London to the City entirely for the better. Working to a uniform blue backdrop a whole host of letter works and characters now decorate […]Read Post ›
A few weeks back saw a Paint Jam put together by the Gums & Tongues crew in Camden Town to say farewell to Tony Boy, who has sadly now ceased living in London and moved back to his native Spain. It will certainly be a shame to not see any of Tony Boy’s art around London from now […]Read Post ›
A few weeks back London was host to visiting Malaysian Graffiti Artist Cloakwork, who was over on his second visit to the Capital having visited last August (covered here), and whilst here yet again embarked on a wave of activity painting all about the place and including a great number of collaborations with some of […]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 ›
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 ›
A couple of weekends back saw the one of the worlds most famous global Graffiti & Street Art festival finally return to London for its 10th 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 […]Read Post ›
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 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 ›
This evening 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 Brixton and Stockwell. Brixton has long been a place with little pockets of Street Art and Graffiti coming and going, albeit nothing on the scale of areas such as […]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 ›
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