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 ›
Over the weekend Josephine Avenue in Brixton once again played host to Urban Art Brixton 2016, returning for its 15th year showcasing an impressive collection of artists displaying & selling their works all along the street and most importantly for us it was all accompanied by a fantastic display of live Street Art and Graffiti which brought with […]Read Post ›
This evening in our series of reviews of the last year we are heading back over to East London and taking a look back at the year of Street Art in Bethnal Green. It’s been an interesting year in Bethnal Green, with a steady flow of artworks being placed up throughout the year by London’s own local talent […]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 ›
Over the previous several days from the 15-18th October the Moniker Art Fair returned to East London for its sixth consecutive year, in the most appropriate location to host such a large expose of Street Art in a gallery setting, namely The Old Truman Brewery at the heart of Brick Lane. The event was held […]Read Post ›
Over the last few weeks, Typography based Street Artist Lilly Lou has been out around London’s East End, laying out two of her delightful and soft letter works, firstly in Shoreditch and secondly in Bethnal Green. Creating her trademark tricolour soft letters, her work may look easy, but we have seen this artist at work […]Read Post ›
Next up in our in focus look at some of the works from StreetFest 2015 we have another collaboration, this time from Lilly Lou and Zina. Who between them laid out a stunning piece, very much utilizing their distinct approaches to street art, with a tribute to the victims of the recent Gorkha eathquake in […]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 ›
Last Sunday in the glorious Spring sunshine the latest installments of Street Art for the #SaveBrixtonArches campaign were put up during a paint jam with 7 artists out painting a further six of the 40 or so shutters to be completed. Bringing the current total of shutters painted to ten and its only fair to say […]Read Post ›
Great reworking of the classic Leake Street Tunnel board by Pad. It finally happened, Femme Fierce Reloaded, organized by Ayaan Bulale, hit Leake Street for the second year running to raise money and awareness for the Plan UK charity “Because I Am A Girl” campaign, which sets to end such acts as forced marriage and FGM […]Read Post ›
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