As hard as it is to believe last today marks the two 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 pass […]Read Post ›
Thursday night saw the opening of the latest exhibition at the BSMT SPACE in Dalston on this occasion with ‘Lucid Dreaming’ by the one and only Himbad. The show presents an excellent body of work that very much demonstrates the sheer imagination within the magical realms which Himbad’s scenes depict and the characters that inhabit them. At this point […]Read Post ›
Well here we are with the finale of our series of reviews of the last year and we thought we would take a look back at the exhibitions we have attended. In the process we have been all over London and become further acquainted with many wonderful gallery spaces and visited a wide range of ‘pop-up’ spaces […]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 ›
Next up in our series of reviews of the last year we are heading over to North London and taking a look back at the year of Street Art in Camden Town. Camden Town has long been a hub of high quality Street Art, a place with a sense of creative energy and certainly one of our […]Read Post ›
This morning in our series of reviews of the year we are taking a look back at Shoreditch, which alongside the adjoining area of Brick Lane, make up the epicentre of London’s Street Art scene. An area that is a must visit destination for tourists and enthusiasts alike, and whilst there you will regularly pass Street Art tours and countless […]Read Post ›
We thought next in our series of reviews of the year we would again take a look at the beauty of collaborations. This for us is one of the most impressive things with Street Art, something you don’t see in most other art forms and certainly not to such an extent. Some artists paint in pairs […]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 ›
Short and sweet with this post with all the lengthy reviews we have and shall continue to subject you to, so here are just 16 of our favourite photos from this last year. Olivier Roubieu, Zina, New Art Rioter, Artista & Morgandy at work first anniversary celebrations in Shoreditch. Portrait of Donald Trump by Furia139 which […]Read Post ›
Well it certainly has been a fantastic year for Street Art around London, and we here at London Calling Blog have very much continued to just have a blast along the way. We have had the chance to travel all over London to hunt out and witness some amazing art, we have met a number […]Read Post ›
