A few weekends back we here at London Calling Blog had the absolute pleasure in visiting Bristol for Upfest 2018, marking the 10th anniversary of what is now Europe’s largest Urban Arts Festival and our second time attending the event. Bristol is very much a place with a long and rich history of a thriving Graffiti […]Read Post ›
Well it has taken us sometime to process all this, but at the the turn of the new year we here at London Calling Blog were privileged enough to get to celebrate three years of running the blog with many of the friends we have made over the last year, artists and photographers alike, with […]Read Post ›
Well here we are with the finale of our series of reviews of the last year and we thought we would take a look back at the exhibitions we have attended – admittedly far less than we have visited or reported on in the previous two years. Nonetheless in the process we have been all over […]Read Post ›
Next up in our series of reviews of the last year we are heading over to North London and taking a look back at the year of Street Art in Camden Town. Camden Town has long been a hub of high quality Street Art, a place busting with a sense of creative energy and certainly one of […]Read Post ›
A few weeks back saw a Paint Jam put together by the Gums & Tongues crew in Camden Town to say farewell to Tony Boy, who has sadly now ceased living in London and moved back to his native Spain. It will certainly be a shame to not see any of Tony Boy’s art around London from now […]Read Post ›
A few weeks back London was host to visiting Malaysian Graffiti Artist Cloakwork, who was over on his second visit to the Capital having visited last August (covered here), and whilst here yet again embarked on a wave of activity painting all about the place and including a great number of collaborations with some of […]Read Post ›
A couple of weekends back we here at London Calling Blog had the absolute pleasure in visiting Bristol for Upfest 2017, our first time attending the event and an experience well worth the visit. Bristol is very much a place with a long and rich history of a thriving Graffiti and Street Art scene, most […]Read Post ›
A couple of weekends back saw the one of the worlds most famous global Graffiti & Street Art festival finally return to London for its 10th anniversary in the UK with a fantastic event comprised of painting, music and all round fun by the many people in attendance. The very nature of the event is […]Read Post ›
In our last post we took a look at the Illustrated 2016 event, run by Marc Farrington and held in the Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane a few weeks back (covered here), of which one of the events was the Saturday night’s Secret Walls battle organized by Captain Kris, hosted by Hidden Street Of London and […]Read Post ›
It’s taken us a while to catch up with this post but we wanted to share our visit to the Illustrated 2016 event at the Old Truman Brewery held a few weekends back. Running from the 10-12 June the event showcased a broad range of artists presenting a wealth of diverse illustrative styles from artists from around […]Read Post ›
