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 ›
This evening 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 in Bethnal Green. It’s been an interesting year in Bethnal Green, with a steady flow of artworks being placed up throughout the year by London’s own local talent […]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 ›
Playing catch up with this post and are taking a look at Fanakapan’s most recent London work with the fantastic mural he recently painted on the iconic Village Underground wall in the heart of Shoreditch a couple of weeks back. The piece entitled ‘Powertools, Distraction, Destruction’ is certainly intriguing, depicting a mixture of chrome and […]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 ›
Friday and Saturday saw prolific Street Artist Fanakapan hit Pedley Street along Brick Lane to paint the wall of the Kinkao restaurant with his latest and superb piece ‘Drunken Glass Elephants’. This is now the second work from Fanakapan in London with the glass animal as his subject with the last piece being a glass dog held […]Read Post ›
Seeing as its Halloween that only means one thing for us here at London Calling Blog, getting out and about to catch some of the inevitable horror themed works that are set to appear around London. Having been away for the weekend we have yet had the chance to catch a few more works put […]Read Post ›
Well it has to be said it is certainly hard to believe that the BSMT Space recently turned one year old and celebrated in style with a group show entitled ‘One Year Underground’ comprising a number of the artists who have exhibited in the gallery since its creation last year. We are sorry to say that the […]Read Post ›
Well for us it’s been a particularly great week or so for Street Art in London with last Tuesday seeing Penge receive the 16th piece of Street Art to hit the SE20 area as part of our ongoing SprayExhibition20 community project, with this incredible piece by Fanakapan entitled ‘Fragile Dog Syndrome’. The excellent work is inspired by Fanakapan’s […]Read Post ›
Better late than never, last night we finally had the time to head up to Dalston to catch up with a couple of exhibitions that opened in the last week, the first of which being the ‘Creative Differences’ group exhibition at the 1963 Gallery Space. Presenting a selection of prints in a variety of mediums from some 16 […]Read Post ›
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