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 ›
This evening in our series of reviews of the last year we are going to take a look back at the year of Street Art and Graffiti in Brixton and Stockwell. Brixton has long been a place with little pockets of Street Art and Graffiti coming and going, albeit nothing on the scale of areas such as […]Read Post ›
A couple of weeks ago saw a pair of collaborations by Fanakapan and Tom Blackford go up in, firstly in Camden Town and secondly in Brick Lane, with both of these works put up with support from Monoprixx & Bablu121 for the ‘Creative Differences’ group exhibition at the 1963 Gallery Space (covered here). Work by Fanakapan & Tom Blackford […]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 ›
Over the first couple of weeks at the beginning of August London was host to visiting Malaysian Graffiti Artist Cloakwork, who whilst over left London with some eight excellent character works – seven of which we have below to share with you. Of himself Cloakwork states that the name derives from how ‘Cloak’ represents the […]Read Post ›
After a little spell away from the scene we here at London Calling Blog were delighted to get back out on the streets for the ‘We Are Croydon’ Block Party put on in St George’s Walk encompassing live music, DJ’s, street performance and an exhibition of local artists – which runs until August 13th – and most importantly for us […]Read Post ›
Yesterday we here at London Calling Blog were up bright and early in order to catch the train from London to Birmingham in order to spend the day attending the City of Colours Street Art Festival in Digbeth, Birmingham. Originally launched in 2014 with much success, sadly last year City of Colours was cancelled due […]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 whilst out on our travels around Shoreditch we were delighted to stumble across Graffiti Writers Lovepusher and Ink Fetish at work on what was set to be a fantastic collaborative piece. Certainly an incredible work and the two artists fuse so well, with Lovepusher creating his distinct and trademark futuristic 3D letters, set […]Read Post ›
Next up in our series of reviews of the last year we are going to take a look back at the year of Street Art and Graffiti in the Nomadic Community Gardens, a recently established space in terms of Street Art, but certainly somewhere that has really offered up a little hub of creativity. Over the last eight […]Read Post ›
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