Here we wanted to share some of the moments from the absolutely amazing day we had on our recent ‘Anythings Better Than A Blank Wall’ Street Art tour of SprayExhibition20 in memory of Gordon Gibbens who we recently learned sadly passed away in 2017 aged 86 after spending the previous two decades documenting graffiti and street art […]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 an interesting year in Croydon with a trickle of artworks appearing through the winter and spring followed by a large festival at the end of the summer […]Read Post ›
Here we are taking a look at 2 out of 3 recent additions to London from prolific globe travelling Street Artist Dan Kitchener which have been created over the last couple of months. Always a pleasure to see fresh work from Dan Kitchener and we are sure you will agree when you see the works […]Read Post ›
A few weekends back we here at London Calling Blog had the absolute pleasure in visiting Bristol for Upfest 2018, marking the 10th anniversary of what is now Europe’s largest Urban Arts Festival and our second time attending the event. Bristol is very much a place with a long and rich history of a thriving Graffiti […]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 few weeks back saw Dan Kitchener back in Shoreditch to create his second London mural of 2018 to paint the ever changing feature wall of the Kinkao restaurant along Brick Lane. On this occasion Dan Kitchener created a captivating cityscape neon ‘Liquid Lights’ traffic scene entitled “Future Tokyo” depicting a sinister vision of a city in time that […]Read Post ›
Mercifully it appears that the rather short but disruptive downfall of snow which in true British fashion has yet again brought London to a virtual standstill over the previous four days has all but disappeared. While traveling around the city has been somewhat chaotic over the last few days we are fortunate that we don’t […]Read Post ›
A few weekends back saw Dan Kitchener in Shoreditch to create his latest London mural and his first in some 9-10 months. Taking to Scrutton Street in Shoreditch, a tad off the beaten track off the regular Street Art haunts of the area, Dan Kitchener created a striking scene depicting a captivating cityscape scene entitled […]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 – admittedly far less than we have visited or reported on in the previous two years. Nonetheless in the process we have been all over […]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 has been no easy feat. After much deliberation and with many more works we would […]Read Post ›
