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 2015’s Battle Cancer Paint Jam which was organized via social media by Charlie Pugh in response to discovering his girlfriend had breast […]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 ›
This evening in our look back at 2016 we wish to take a look at the beautifully inspired community project that is the Nomadic Community Gardens, somewhere which seems to be gaining more and more momentum as the months pass, all through the diligent and impressive work from the 1 Love Community. By developing a system of raised […]Read Post ›
This morning 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 Croydon. It’s been another good year in Croydon after the flying start it had through 2015. Croydon’s Arts Quarter has continued to receive a steady stream of new additions and played […]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 ›
At this point in our series of reviews of the last year we are heading down over to South London and taking a look back at the year of Street Art & Graffiti in Leake Street. Leake Street represents London’s premier legal Graffiti location, located in the Old Vic tunnels beneath Waterloo Station, made famous as a result of […]Read Post ›
Over the weekend and culminating today Leake Street played host to an incredible production featuring some 30 or so Graffiti Writers and Street Artists all setting out to have some fun for Halloween and in doing so created ‘A Nightmare On Leake Street’ along one entire length of the tunnel. Impressively organised by SkyHigh with a […]Read Post ›
It was with much sadness last week that Bristol based Graffiti Writer Hush sadly passed away from a heart attack. We were however touched when passing through Leake Street to spy this lovely tribute to Hush from London Graffiti Writer SkyHigh with the piece spelling out “Hush” very much in SkyHigh’s distinct colourful and diverse style. […]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 ›
Over the weekend Josephine Avenue in Brixton once again played host to Urban Art Brixton 2016, returning for its 15th year showcasing an impressive collection of artists displaying & selling their works all along the street and most importantly for us it was all accompanied by a fantastic display of live Street Art and Graffiti which brought with […]Read Post ›
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