Here at London Calling I was back in Croydon yesterday and was absolutely delighted to stumble across one of my very favourite artists, Dan Kitchener, who was adding his second piece of work, just along from his piece created a few weeks back, in Croydon’s Arts Quarter. Dank was creating another of his ‘Liquid Lights’ […]Read Post ›
Last night Anthea Missy returned to Croydon’s Arts Quarter to replace a piece of hers that was lost earlier in the week to vandalism. Anthea was kind enough to invite us along to see her paint on Park Street and it made for a superb Friday night, being able to watch an artist work their […]Read Post ›
Over the last week or two London based Chilean artist Otto Schade aka Osch has certainly been busy, laying down three new stencil works in the East End around Shoreditch and the Brick Lane Area. Otto was born in Chile. where he initially studied Architecture at the Bio Bio University and Construction and Design Architecture in […]Read Post ›
It’s with extreme disappointment that I find myself reporting on the terrible act of vandalism that befell Croydon’s Art Quarter around St Georges Walk on Sunday night, a mere week from the incredible Femme Fierce Croydon event that really was the starting point for a beautiful and inspiring project to come. Local gardeners and contractors offered […]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 ›
Manchester duo Aylo & Cbloxx of the Nomad Clan collective were hard at work with the addition of their second piece in London this week, this time in Camden Town. I was lucky enough to briefly catch the pair starting out their work on Monday and on Friday I was able to swing back by […]Read Post ›
Mexican duo Rosario Martinez Llaguno & Roberto Vega Jimenez, members of the Mexican art collective Lapiztola Stencil based in Oaxaca, whose show Democracia Real Ya is currently on at the Rich Mix Complex on Bethnal Green Road, laid down one of their superb stencil pieces in the car park on Brick Lane yesterday afternoon. Having seen the fine pieces […]Read Post ›
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