On this beautiful sunny Saturday in London, the area of Shoreditch was treated to an absolutely amazing day of painting by four artists for Femme Fierce in association with Plan UK’s Because I Am A Girl campaign on the iconic Shoreditch Art Wall, considerd by many to be one of the best walls in London to be […]Read Post ›
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 ›
Fio Silva was busy at work again yesterday with her second London wall in two days, this time in the Turnpike Lane area. The wall which was organized by the Turnpike Lane Art Group resulted in what ended up to be a kind of “post-collaboration” with UK artist ATM. When I arrived Fio had just […]Read Post ›
Argentinian street artist Fio Silva painted her debut wall in London in Croydon’s Arts Quarter yesterday afternoon. Fio Silva is curently over as the winner of an international competition, the Spring Projects ‘Next Big Thing’, to search for a relatively unknown street artist to come to London and paint for Femme Fierce Reloaded and gain […]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 ›
It’s nigh on impossible to believe that it’s been a week since Croydon’s Arts Quarter lost much of its beautiful artwork to vandalism, however since then some works were painted by artists who responded to the vandalism by coming down and offering their services to replace the damaged walls. The day following the attack some six […]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 ›
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