So a couple of weekends back we had the good fortune of spending a long weekend in Croydon with some 36 artists reworking the vast majority of the ‘Arts Quarter’ around St. George’s Walk to put on the ‘Any Colour You Like’ Paint Jam organised by ourselves and put together with support from friend of the blog and […]Read Post ›
Well it has taken a while to process all this, but at the weekend we here at London Calling Blog were privileged enough to get to celebrate two years of running the blog (officially this weekend) with many of the friends we have made over the last year, artists and photographers alike, with a Paint […]Read Post ›
Since the blog’s inception we have began delving into various projects the most rewarding of which has been the organization of Street Art in our hometown of Penge through our SprayExhibition20 Community Street Art Project. All of which has been made possible due to the incredible support of the local community who have provided spaces to paint, […]Read Post ›
This morning 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 Croydon. It’s been another good year in Croydon after the flying start it had through 2015. Croydon’s Arts Quarter has continued to receive a steady stream of new additions and played […]Read Post ›
As hard as it is to believe last Monday marked the one year anniversary of the opening of the Nomadic Community Gardens kicked off with the Greenhouse Effect Paint Jam (covered here). Over the last year a beautifully inspired community project has been born and seems to be gaining more and more momentum as the months […]Read Post ›
A couple of weekends back saw a large-scale Paint Jam in Mile End for Endangered 13, an event set to raise awareness for endangered species through beautiful and at times poignant artworks. The event was put together by Louis Masai, an artist whose output is solely orientated focused upon such causes, along with the Human Nature […]Read Post ›
At the weekend we here at London Calling Blog were delighted to see the creation of the second work in our local area of Penge, SE20, with a beautiful work placed up by Street Artist Morgandy, put up with a little support from us. Morgandy has certainly added his own mark to area. Shutters can be […]Read Post ›
Well it has taken a while to process all this, but at the weekend we here at London Calling Blog were privileged enough to get to celebrate one year of the blog (officially the previous weekend) with many of the friends we have made over the last year, artists and photographers alike, with a Paint […]Read Post ›
Well it seems like it has taken forever for this work to be completed, with the piece being constructed in various bursts over a month or so, with the artists coming back and forth to add to the work and build up the sense of cohesion which was finally attained. However despite the lengthy wait we […]Read Post ›
Next up 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 the Nomadic Community Gardens, a recently established space in terms of Street Art, but certainly somewhere that has really offered up a little hub of creativity. Over the last eight […]Read Post ›
