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 ›
Last Saturday night we here at London Calling were privileged enough to be invited along to witness and capture some of the superb Live Painting extravaganza that is Drips and Runs. The project, which is filmed from a secret location, is the brainchild of duo Seeds One and BIll Daggs. The atmosphere around the event was […]Read Post ›
Today we decided to sort through our many pictures and collate a collection comprising six months of Street Art from Brick Lane’s Star Yard. A prominent place in the heart of London’s premier Street Art destination. For this piece we are focusing solely on the 10 feature walls in the car park, though there is […]Read Post ›
On Friday Portuguese, but London based, Street Artist Furia ACK was at work on Commercial Street, Spitalfields, laying out one if his beautiful trademark black and white portraits, on a shutter which was organized by the nearby Lollipop Gallery. This makes for the fifth work we have been lucky to see from Furia thus far in […]Read Post ›
This last Saturday Portugese artist Furia ACK laid down his fourth piece of 2015 on the streets of London’s East End. Unlike his normal subject matter this piece has no political significance, but was painted merely because he felt it was an ugly wall covered in tags that needed to look beautiful. It’s impossible to […]Read Post ›
Well this duo have been active this last week, I was lucky enough to catch this pair painting a collaboration piece in Sclater Street (covered here), then delighted to see that in the last week some time they have added this lovely piece to the Brick Lane car park some 5-10 minutes away. Let’s hope there […]Read Post ›
Yesterday afternoon in the car park on Sclater Street, one of the prime locations to paint in Shoreditch, I bumped into Portuguese duo Furia ACK & Costah, both residents of London, painting a collaboration piece over a previous piece of work by Furia ACK in the same spot that had finally succumb to being tagged […]Read Post ›
On Wednesday 7th January, two masked men armed with Kalashnikov rifles burst into the office headquarters of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris and embarked on a killing spree that saw 12 people killed in the building. The attack was carried out in response to the publication of satirical cartoons which the murderers considered offensive to […]Read Post ›
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