Over the weekend a few artists decided to make the most of the fine winter weather and set of to Hackney Wick to hit up some delightful works. Street Artists Fanakapan, The Real Dill, Captain Kris, Bill Daggs & Ali Hamish certainly left their mark along the canal and certainly brightened up a section of […]Read Post ›
Earlier this week over the course of Tuesday and Wednesday Street Artist Fanakapan was out in Tooting to lay out his latest piece of ‘Helium Graff’ entitled ‘Diet’. In the process further advancing his change of direction over the last year, moving into a more monochrome approach to his helium balloon creations, offering the maximum opportunity to demonstrate his superb use […]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 this has certainly been the hardest post to compile in our near year at London Calling Blog, 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 […]Read Post ›
Well following on from our Street Art review ‘2015 – A Year Of Street Art In London’ (covered here), we thought we would also take a look at the highlights of all the Graffiti we have seen this year. In this post we have featured works primarily from East & South London as these are […]Read Post ›
Over the course of a few days last week, culminating on Saturday, amidst the extreme cold and wet weather, Street Artist Fanakapan was out near the river to lay out his latest piece of ‘Helium Graff’ work entitled ‘Pain t’, further advancing his change of direction, moving into a more monochrome approach to his helium balloon creations […]Read Post ›
On Monday evening the much-anticipated Drips & Runs X Tate event finally took place at the prestigious Tate Modern, one of the World’s leading contemporary art institutions. It is fantastic to see that such globally recognized premier institutions are finally beginning to acknowledge the place Street Art & Graffiti deserves in the canon of Modern Art […]Read Post ›
On Thursday night the inaugural exhibition from new pop-up art space BSMT Space opened in Dalston with a group show entitled ‘Underhand’, comprising an impressive number and range of London’s Street Artists, along with a few international talents making an appearance also, curated by Speckles76. Eagerly anticipating seeing how this new gallery would present itself […]Read Post ›
Earlier this week one of our favourite Street Artists Fanakapan was at work around Brick Lane, painting his newest and large scale mural, culminating in a good couple of days work spread out around the near constant torrential downpour that befell London this week. Further advancing his change of direction, moving into a more monochrome […]Read Post ›
On Sunday at the Queen of Hoxton rooftop bar in Shoreditch, amid the glorious sunshine Lend Us Your Hands, a charity fundrasier comprising a day and night of art, music, crafts, food and cocktails all in order to raise vital funds for the Tsum Valley region devastated by the Nepal Earthquakes took place. A vast part of the […]Read Post ›
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