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 ›
It was with much sadness last week that Bristol based Graffiti Writer Hush sadly passed away from a heart attack. We were however touched when passing through Leake Street to spy this lovely tribute to Hush from London Graffiti Writer SkyHigh with the piece spelling out “Hush” very much in SkyHigh’s distinct colourful and diverse style. […]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 last years Battle Cancer Paint Jam which was organized via social media by Charlie Pugh in response to discovering his […]Read Post ›
On Monday morning while we took a visit to Leake Street to see what the weekend may have left us, we were exceptionally delighted to see this most interesting collaboration by Hannah Adamaszek and Olivier Roubieu had survived the Sunday night untouched in order for us to appreciate its beauty and share it here with you […]Read Post ›
Over the last couple of weekend Street Artist Airborne Mark has been out and about around South London keeping himself busy working some of his ‘Origami Riots’ magic, with works in Leake Street and Tooting. Setting to Leake Street a couple of weeks ago, Airborne Mark set to create a delightful work featuring an origami […]Read Post ›
Over the weekend London was fortunate enough to receive a second visit this year from Austrian Street Art Ceramicist Chinagirl Tile, who whilst over took the time to place up five of her ceramic delights around London. Leaving her mark around Leake Street and Penge in South London as well as in Shoreditch and Brick […]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 ›
Following on from our post this morning on Lovepusher’s latest London work (covered here) this evening we are taking a look at the freshest London piece put up by Graffiti Writer SkyHigh on Monday in Leake Street. One of London’s more proactive Graffit Writers, SkyHigh is one of our favourite writers about town, someone who displays […]Read Post ›
Yesterday whilst out on our travels we were delighted to stumble upon a couple of fantastic works in Leake Street following what must of been a busy weekend in the tunnel this recent bank holiday. The highlight of our venture to Leake Street was this striking work entitled ‘Unite & Conquer’ by Graffiti Writer Lovepusher. We don’t […]Read Post ›
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