A round six weeks back saw the first fresh piece of street art to hit Croydon town centre in some years when stencil artist Dotmaster passed through to refresh a spot he first painted some six years previously. Croydon’s street art scene has been all but non-existent in recent years so it was a real […]Read Post ›
Once again London was recently fortunate enough to receive a visit from LA based Street Artist WRDSMTH, who last visited the capital in October 2017 (covered here), and on this occasion was again only in town for a brief whistle-stop visit, yet still managed the time to leave us with a lovely, humorous and inspiring half-a-dozen […]Read Post ›
It has been a few months since we have seen any fresh London works from Street Artist Otto Schade, however in the last couple of weeks he has made up for that with a fantastic set of four works placed up in Park Street, Croydon. Otto’s painting styles range from the abstract and surreal. Working […]Read Post ›
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 ›
A couple of weeks back saw Rich Simmons return to Croydon’s Arts Quarter to create a collaborative fusion of Pop Art & London Graffiti with tags from Gasp and Dice entitled ‘Rooftop Romance’. The work as the title suggests features a couple embracing aloft a New York rooftop scene in his distinct comic book/Pop Art style. The addition […]Read Post ›
A couple of weekends back saw Croydon receive its latest Street Art painting by English born but US based Street Artist David Hollier, whose distinctive works feature portraits of notable people in popular culture and history created through words which are especially chosen for their relevance to the chosen subject. On this occasion the subject is none […]Read Post ›
After a little spell away from the scene we here at London Calling Blog were delighted to get back out on the streets for the ‘We Are Croydon’ Block Party put on in St George’s Walk encompassing live music, DJ’s, street performance and an exhibition of local artists – which runs until August 13th – and most importantly for us […]Read Post ›
Last week over the course of two days, Street artist Mr Cenz was back in Croydon to lay down his latest mural, unsurprisingly one that really is just fantastic. The piece depicts one of his now trademark female portraits created in his distinctive sci-fi and cosmic-fueled styling, seemingly improving with each mural he creates, truly honing […]Read Post ›
It’s been a month since we last provided a full update on the various happenings in Croydon’s Arts Quarter, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been popping by to keep abreast of the developments. In that time we have reported on the stunning work by Fio Silva (covered here) and the latest addition from Dan […]Read Post ›
Dan Kitchener returned to Croydon’s Arts Quarter yesterday to add the third installment of his ‘Liquid Lights’ series to the are Unsurprisingly it is once again an incredible work, this time taller than the pieces standing side by side with it on Park Street. We absolutely love Dank’s work here at London Calling so upon […]Read Post ›
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