Playing catch up here with a look at this absorbing work from Wasp Elder & Helen Bur placed up in Hanbury Street in Brick Lane a couple of weeks back now. Certainly a gripping work which generates a rather sombre effect with the somewhat faceless subjects walking the cold streets all emphasized by the fluid painterly tones […]Read Post ›
A few days back on our commute into London we decided to take a detour through Stockwell to visit the Hall of Fame in order to catch this lovely work from Street Artist Aspire. Featuring his trademark subjects of birds the delicate soft effect Aspire creates is fantastic as can be seen in this delightful […]Read Post ›
Last week saw Spanish born, but London based Graffiti Writer Kaes take to Kinkao restaurant wall in Pedley Street to offer this wall which sees such a high turnover of mostly fantastic artworks its latest reworking. We here at London Calling Blog very much enjoy seeing Kaes’ simple yet striking character portraits, which represent a fusion of character, […]Read Post ›
On Monday morning we couldn’t resist a trip to the Stockwell Hall of Fame in the pouring rain on our way in to work to see this fantastic production by Gnasher, Pad, Oliver Roubieu and JXC based around the film ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’. Certainly a fantastic piece with so much going on, presenting a cast of […]Read Post ›
Well this incredible piece we are sharing with you now was painted in Clerkenwell between Christmas and New Years and as it wasn’t completed until the last day of 2016 and therefore not possible to view completed until 2017 we are counting it as the first work of the year in London, and what a spectacular […]Read Post ›
Well it has taken a while to process all this, but at the weekend we here at London Calling Blog were privileged enough to get to celebrate two years of running the blog (officially this weekend) with many of the friends we have made over the last year, artists and photographers alike, with a Paint […]Read Post ›
Since the blog’s inception we have began delving into various projects the most rewarding of which has been the organization of Street Art in our hometown of Penge through our SprayExhibition20 Community Street Art Project. All of which has been made possible due to the incredible support of the local community who have provided spaces to paint, […]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 ›
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 ›
One of the things we here at London Calling Blog are most grateful for from 2016 is the access the Jealous Gallery have most kindly continued to afford us in order to pop by, witness and document the monthly changing works on their rooftop feature wall as part of the ongoing Jealous Rooftop Mural Project. Seeing as for the […]Read Post ›
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