It is fair to say that one of the stand out moments of London’s street art scene in 2024 was Banksy’s nine day London Zoo extravaganza. Love him or hate him, everyone on the scene was paying attention to each new work as the days unfolded. The works were placed up all around London, and certainly kept […]Read Post ›
Earlier this year at the tail end of Spring, London received a visit from Portsmouth based artist My Dog Sighs, who hit up a series of six works in South-East London ahead of an exhibition he hosted in Peckham, three in Penge and three in Peckham. Of the the five works, we were fortunate enough […]Read Post ›
We have lots of artworks and pieces to catch up from this year, so there will be lots of blog posts coming before the year is out. First up we are taking a look at a piece from early this year by one of London’s most prolific street artists, Aspire, who took to the legal […]Read Post ›
For this post we are playing catch-up with a series of twenty fantastic works placed up over the course of the last year from street artist Aspire. All of of these additions to South and East London through 2022 feature animals as the main subject, with the exception of two fantastic letter works dropped in […]Read Post ›
For our second of three posts looking back at what’s been happening on London’s Street Art and Graffiti scene we are taking a look back at what pieces we have seen around London through 2021. We have spent much of our time working on our SprayExhibition20 project around Penge and Anerley which has kept us […]Read Post ›
Last week saw one of London’s most prolific Street Artists, namely Aspire, take to the legal walls comprising the railway arches near Queens Road Peckham to leave this fantastic artwork that was a most unexpected treat for us on our journey through Peckham. The work in question features Aspire’s a bird, this artist’s most prominent […]Read Post ›
For our next post we are taking a look at a series of pieces we have spotted around South-East London over the last few months by writer and street artist Atila. We have been very fortunate enough to see that this artist has been regularly taking to the recently established legal walls in Crystal Palace […]Read Post ›
For our next post we are taking a look at a superb addition to South-East London by French born, but London based Street Artist Zabou, who has painted a striking portrait in her trademark photo-realistic grey-scale styling accompanied by a bright colourful backdrop. The work features local resident Leanne Pero who was chosen as the […]Read Post ›
First up in our look back at 2016 we thought we would be cheeky and start with a review of what we have proactively organised and been up to about London – as we know that for 2016 we are done and there will be nothing to add in the coming week. So where to begin […]Read Post ›
Well this has certainly been the hardest post to compile in our near year at London Calling Blog, attempting to select our favourite 20 works from a year absolutely crammed with an abundance of high-quality and entertaining artworks on London’s Streets. After much deliberation and with many more works we would of liked to include […]Read Post ›
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