On Monday morning we couldn’t resist a trip to the Stockwell Hall of Fame in the pouring rain on our way in to work to see this fantastic production by Gnasher, Pad, Oliver Roubieu and JXC based around the film ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’. Certainly a fantastic piece with so much going on, presenting a cast of […]Read Post ›
At this point in our series of reviews of the last year we are heading down over to South London and taking a look back at the year of Street Art & Graffiti in Leake Street. Leake Street represents London’s premier legal Graffiti location, located in the Old Vic tunnels beneath Waterloo Station, made famous as a result of […]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 ›
Over the weekend and culminating today Leake Street played host to an incredible production featuring some 30 or so Graffiti Writers and Street Artists all setting out to have some fun for Halloween and in doing so created ‘A Nightmare On Leake Street’ along one entire length of the tunnel. Impressively organised by SkyHigh with a […]Read Post ›
Just over a week ago Street Artist JXC took to Camden Town to paint his latest hyper-real creation, an excellent piece depicting actor Jeff Cohen’s character ‘Chunk’ from the 1985 film The Goonies. The scene which JXC choose to so superbly paint was Chunk performing the ‘truffle-shuffle’ dance but slightly subverting the situation by adding his gang […]Read Post ›
Earlier on today as we passed through Leake Street, London’s most prominent legal painting walls and were delighted to find a work from the exceptionally talented artist JXC still up and unmolested since its creation on Friday. Creating an incredible hyper-realistic grey-scale portrait of a male subject covered in a mass of tattoos, several of […]Read Post ›
Sunday was certainly a fantastic day to be in Leake Street, with three separate Paint Jams simultaneously underway, offering a wide array of fantastic art to enjoy being constructed amid a jovial and relaxed atmosphere that permeated through the artists, the pieces they painted and with those in attendance admiring the spectacle. We will be […]Read Post ›
Nearly two weeks ago now London was treated to a visit from Barcelona based artist El Pez, who was over for the launch of his book at the West Bank Gallery, and while over took the time to hit up three delightful works spreading his infectious message of happiness and joy. El Pez, whose name […]Read Post ›
Well it’s been another month in Camden Town, and more so than any calendar month this year the area has been adorned with many fresh new artworks, predominantly from the superb work of The Real Art Of Street Art, with numerous pieces being jointly organised with Pigment, regarding the works by Brazilian artists, Onio, Waleska Nomura […]Read Post ›
It’s only been a month since we last reported on Camden’s Street Art, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been popping by for all the newest happenings in the area. In that time, despite so much of Camden’s great street art being lost to redevelopments, some really remarkable works have been put up, demonstrating that […]Read Post ›
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