Last month saw one of the worlds most famous global Graffiti & Street Art festivals finally return to London for its 11th anniversary in the UK with a fantastic event comprised of painting, music and all round fun by the many people in attendance. The very nature of the event is defined in the name […]Read Post ›
A couple of weekends back we here at London Calling Blog had the absolute pleasure in visiting Bristol for Upfest 2017, our first time attending the event and an experience well worth the visit. Bristol is very much a place with a long and rich history of a thriving Graffiti and Street Art scene, most […]Read Post ›
Having just had the good fortune to spend the weekend in Bristol attending Upfest 2017 and being presented with an absolute abundance of new Street Art being created all around Bedminster of which we will of course be posting on the event soon but due to the time that will take to process, in the […]Read Post ›
A couple of weekends back saw the one of the worlds most famous global Graffiti & Street Art festival finally return to London for its 10th anniversary in the UK with a fantastic event comprised of painting, music and all round fun by the many people in attendance. The very nature of the event is […]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 heading back over to East London and taking a look back at the year of Street Art and Graffiti in Hackney Wick & Fish Island. Hackney Wick is always an interesting place to visit, with the sections of painted walls along the canal receiving […]Read Post ›
It’s being quite a while since we have been out and about lately and even longer since we last made a visit to Hackney Wick, so needless to say we were delighted upon our most recent jaunt to the area to discover several fantastic collaboration works from a multitude of artists, and especially for the […]Read Post ›
As hard as it is to believe last Monday marked the one year anniversary of the opening of the Nomadic Community Gardens kicked off with the Greenhouse Effect Paint Jam (covered here). Over the last year a beautifully inspired community project has been born and seems to be gaining more and more momentum as the months […]Read Post ›
A couple of weekends back saw a large-scale Paint Jam in Mile End for Endangered 13, an event set to raise awareness for endangered species through beautiful and at times poignant artworks. The event was put together by Louis Masai, an artist whose output is solely orientated focused upon such causes, along with the Human Nature […]Read Post ›
Well it’s that time of the year again and without fail several artists have taken the opportunity to get in the spirit of Halloween and place up some pieces to bring the fright factor to London’s walls. In Willow Street, Shoreditch last week a series of six works were placed up just for the occasion […]Read Post ›
