It’s not often it snows in London, but the weekends brief flurry made for a delightful change to break up current life and allowed us the opportunity to go on a photo jaunt for our daily exercise about our hometown of Penge. It was lovely to see how the snow made the artworks pop all […]Read Post ›
fAfter our recent visit to Belfast where we were treated to an abundance of high quality Street Art we thought we would create a Street Art guide to some of the best locations around Belfast for some painted creativity. The majority of the art shared below has been organised by Seedhead Arts who have done […]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 ›
Next up in our look back at 2017 we thought we would be take a look back at what we have proactively organised and been up to about London this year. So where to begin really, Street Art and Blog wise it’s been an fantastic and fun year for us here at London Calling Blog, the […]Read Post ›
This evening we are taking a look at year of Street Art in Penge, something we have to say which has been a real pleasure to look back on. Since the blog’s inception three years ago now we have began delving into various projects the most rewarding of which has been the organization of Street […]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, all though it was disappointing to see that Urban […]Read Post ›
We thought today we would take a look at Maple Road in Penge, perhaps a little biased, as this road is where we started our community Street Art project SprayExhibtion20 to bring some creativity and life to this corner of South London we call home. To date the project has seen some 90 works put up […]Read Post ›
A few weeks back saw a visit from South African Artist Falko1 who brought what he dubs ‘The Herd’ to London in a wave of activity leaving some 18 works depicting 22 elephants around North, South & East London. Hailing from Cape Town Falko1’s urban expression started with painting Graffiti and slogans for the ANC […]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 ›
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