On our recent trip to Hackney Wick our first and eagerly await port of call was to the Lord Napier pub outside Hackney Wick Overground Station. After 26 years closed the Lord Napier, Hackney Wick’s most iconic site for Graffiti and Street Art has reopened and with it the pub had a full makeover curated […]Read Post ›
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 ›
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, all though it was disappointing to see that Urban […]Read Post ›
This morning in our series of reviews of the year we are taking a look back at Shoreditch, which alongside the adjoining area of Brick Lane, make up the epicentre of London’s Street Art scene. An area that is a must visit destination for tourists and enthusiasts alike, and whilst there you will regularly pass Street Art tours and […]Read Post ›
A couple of weeks back saw some 20 writers and artists take to Fleur De Lis Street, Shoreditch, for a Paint Jam which has transformed this little alleyway which connects East London to the City entirely for the better. Working to a uniform blue backdrop a whole host of letter works and characters now decorate […]Read Post ›
Last month saw a monster production piece put together on the then freshly reshaped hoardings that grace Great Eastern Street, Shoreditch, put together by the 4D Crew with a little help from some friends. Certainly an impressive work with a peemeating sense of nostalgia a fntastic effort by all the artists involved. Work by Wrist77 […]Read Post ›
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 ›
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 Saturday The Battle Of Waterloo, London’d biggest Graffiti event, put on by Chrome & Black returned to Leake Street, providing a day of some forty Graffiti Writers painting over eight hours contending to win the £250 first prize. Judges worked to a points system comprising: Letterform, Fill-In, Characters, Concept & Background. The event was […]Read Post ›
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