It certainly has taken us a while to process this post, but we are finally ready to take a look at our takeover of the former Golden Lion pub in Maple Road/Hawthorn Grove, Penge, with some 13 artists coming down to transform this wonderful building for our SprayExhibition20 community Street Art project. This former pub has been left […]Read Post ›
This evening in our look back at 2016 we wish to take a look at the beautifully inspired community project that is the Nomadic Community Gardens, somewhere which seems to be gaining more and more momentum as the months pass, all through the diligent and impressive work from the 1 Love Community. By developing a system of raised […]Read Post ›
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 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 ›
Playing catch up again this morning we are taking a look at a pair of delightful works created for a great cause by Street Artists Elno and Frankie Strand in Walthamstow as part of a beautiful project we wanted to share here with you. Put together by Wood Street Walls working on behalf of Walthamstow and the Caravans […]Read Post ›
Here we are taking a look at a work from one of London’s most prolific artists Frankie Strand, which was painted some six weeks back now, but we have been awaiting the removal of the scaffolding to get a clear view at this large scale work. Certainly the biggest wall Frankie Strand has undertaken as […]Read Post ›
As hard as it is to believe last Monday marked the one year anniversary of the opening of the Nomadic Community Gardens kicked off with the Greenhouse Effect Paint Jam (covered here). Over the last year a beautifully inspired community project has been born and seems to be gaining more and more momentum as the months […]Read Post ›
On Saturday in Paradise Row, Bethnal Green a fantastic Paint Jam featuring some thirteen artists took place, organized by Hidden Streets Of London and very much giving Paradise Row a much needed and stylish makeover in the process. Despite the grey weather and sudden, though thankfully short spells of intense downpours, the atmosphere was fantastic with […]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 one year of the blog (officially the previous weekend) with many of the friends we have made over the last year, artists and photographers alike, with a Paint […]Read Post ›
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