It’s been six weeks or so since we met US street artist Pyramid Oracle in Camden Town, where he painted three large murals (covered here), since then he has been busy with several paste ups in Shoreditch and a large mural off of Hackney Road, courtesy of Hidden Streets Of London. Pyramid Oracle has also […]Read Post ›
Last Thursday Iranian artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo’s ‘Perception’ exhibition opened at the Howard Griffin Gallery in Shoreditch. I had been fortunate enough to meet Mehdi whilst he was painting each of his three walls currently up in Shoreditch, so was very much eagerly awaiting the opening of this exhibition, so as soon as the weekend hit I went […]Read Post ›
The Jealous Gallery has a new piece on their roof’s feature wall as a part of the ongoing Jealous Rooftop Mural Project. This time the work is from Attai whose trademark Birdhouse based works can currently be spotted in various locations around Shoreditch and Brick Lane, including in New Inn Yard, Blackall Street and the […]Read Post ›
Some time over last Friday and Saturday artist Trust Icon hit Shoreditch again to replace a piece of his put up some six weeks back which had been defaced, and did so with an absolutely beautiful tribute to deceased street artist Ben Naz, who passed last year after a long battle with cancer. The piece […]Read Post ›
London based French artist Zabou has certainly been active in London thus far this year. Firstly with her contribution to the Fem Graff show that was recently held at the Lollipop Gallery (covered here), her recent addition to Brick Lane (covered here), and now over the last two weeks she has laid out a further […]Read Post ›
Well it’s been an exhilarating weekend here at London Calling, with the Femme Fierce Takeover show in Croydon, being invited by Anthea Missy to watch her paint, bumping into Dan Kitchener and capturing his work, and finally being given the heads up by the delightful artist Zina to come and capture her work in Blackall Street […]Read Post ›
This last Saturday Portugese artist Furia ACK laid down his fourth piece of 2015 on the streets of London’s East End. Unlike his normal subject matter this piece has no political significance, but was painted merely because he felt it was an ugly wall covered in tags that needed to look beautiful. It’s impossible to […]Read Post ›
On Sunday Iranian artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo completed his work on the iconic Village Underground wall in Shoreditch. The piece had taken him over a week to create, with setbacks due to the heavy rainfall in London throughout the last week, but he stuck at it and what he has created is just incredible, a real […]Read Post ›
Stencil artist Paul ‘Don’ Smith has certainly been busy the last couple of weeks around Shoreditch & Brick Lane. I stumbled across two recent pieces of his, with a tribute to Elvis Presley to be spied on Hanbury Street off of Brick Lane, as well as a beautiful tribute to Paris & the Mona Lisa […]Read Post ›
Australian artist Jimmy C was back in London yesterday where he painted a new piece of what he calls ‘Street Heart’ in Whitby Street, Shoreditch, following the tagging over of his previous Heart piece there. He also collaborated on a larger piece with Uriginal from Barcelona, interpreting a Lucian Freud image. Uriginal is an urban artist […]Read Post ›
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