Here we are taking a look at a pair of recent additions to Leake Street from French born, but London based, Street Artist Olivier Roubieu. Painting a pair of striking portraits that really grab your attention upon passing, with both works fusing female faces with layers of graffiti in order to create a rich mix […]Read Post ›
Well it certainly has been a year like no other, and like most aspects of life in 2020, the London Street Art and Graffiti scene has been impacted by the wider social and global issues and we have seen less works produced than normal. In accordance with these events we we have been confined to […]Read Post ›
Last month marked the four year anniversary of the formation of the London based Smile More Often crew, whose collective work we have been spying frequently around London in recent years, so we thought we would share the crew’s most recent additions to London that we have witnessed on our travels about town. Work by […]Read Post ›
Despite the cold weather London has played host to a number of Paint Jams about the city, with the third weekend of the new year playing host to simultaneous paint jam’s around South London in Forest Hill, Stockwell and Leake Street. It is the latter mentioned of which we are looking at first with WOM […]Read Post ›
Well it certainly has been another great 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 also continued to […]Read Post ›
Sunday saw the latest Paint Jam to hit Leake Street with the Do1Cancer event which saw a host of Graffiti Writers and Street Artists hit the legal walls in this tunnel to raise awareness and money for Cancer Research. Following from 2015’s Battle Cancer Paint Jam which was organized via social media by Charlie Pugh in response to discovering his girlfriend had […]Read Post ›
Last month we were saddened to hear the news that London Graffiti Writer POW had died, someones whose work we had always admired when we had the opportunity to spy it around South and East London. What has been lovely to witness though is the beautiful response from the local Graffiti community with a number […]Read Post ›
Sunday saw the latest Paint Jam to hit Leake Street with the Do1Cancer event which saw a host of Graffiti Writers and Street Artists hit the legal walls in this tunnel to raise awareness and money for Cancer Research. Following from 2015’s Battle Cancer Paint Jam which was organized via social media by Charlie Pugh in response to discovering his girlfriend had breast […]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 ›
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 ›
