Earlier this year whilst on an early morning cycle through Brick Lane we were incredibly fortunate to stumble across this absolutely incredible and captivating artwork by Spanish born, but London based, street artist Jay Kaes. Through his work Jay Kaes explores concepts of reality and illusion through a glitched experience of the world, fusing reality […]Read Post ›
For our next round up of 2023 blog post we are taking a look at what we have seen one our visits to Brick Lane and Shoreditch over the last year. Brick Lane and Shoreditch still hosts a significant amount of the London’s street art and graffiti, however nowadays Shoreditch beyond the Brick Lane area […]Read Post ›
For our second of five annual reviews looking back at what’s been happening on London’s Street Art and Graffiti scene we are taking a look back at what pieces we have been fortunate enough to have seen around London as a whole through 2023. We have again unsurprisingly spent much of our time working on […]Read Post ›
We have had over the last ten months the exceptional pleasure to work with the new owners and developers of the Blenheim Centre in the heart of Penge High Street, namely Clarion Housing and Hadley Property Group who are running the development of this location with a mind to utilise underused spaces on the top […]Read Post ›
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 ›
A couple of weekends back saw the one of the worlds most famous global Graffiti & Street Art festival finally return to London for its 10th anniversary in the UK with a fantastic event comprised of painting, music and all round fun by the many people in attendance. The very nature of the event is […]Read Post ›
Over the last few weeks or so Spanish born, but London based Graffiti artist Kaes has hit up an delightful pair of works in Shoreditch. We here at London Calling Blog very much enjoy seeing Kaes’ simple yet striking character portraits, which represent a fusion of character, colour and geometry, with the subject merging into and from the background, the […]Read Post ›
Over the last week or so Spanish born, but London based Graffiti artist Kaes has hit up an impressive trio of works all right on top of each other in Shoreditch. The first pair of works, comprising one tag and one of his distinct colourful female portraits, were placed up in Willow Street as part […]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 ›
Yesterday at Tobacco Docks, StreetFest 2015, returning for it’s eighth consecutive year, this time in its new setting of Tobacco Dock, took place with a day and evening packed with events set to entertain all, including an eclectic mix of music, dance, urban sport, a street kitchen, and most quintessentially for us here at London Calling […]Read Post ›
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