Last weekend the worlds most famous global Graffiti & Street Art festival finally returned to London, 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, Meeting of Styles, setting to showcase artists and writers from all over […]Read Post ›
Just over a week ago saw London receive a visit from Danish Graffiti character artist Balstroem who was over for Meeting Of Styles London and whilst over hit up some four impressive works around the East End area of Shoreditch and Brick Lane. Featuring a range of subjects in his pieces it was certainly a […]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 ›
Sadly to say we are very behind with getting this post out, but better late than never, and for anyone London way this weekend this is your last chance to catch the fantastic ‘Neverended: A 10 Year Retrospective’ exhibition by EndOfTheLine at the Newcastle Project Space in Shoreditch. The exhibition brings together a wealth of […]Read Post ›
Next up 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 the Nomadic Community Gardens, a recently established space in terms of Street Art, but certainly somewhere that has really offered up a little hub of creativity. Over the last eight […]Read Post ›
Well this has certainly been the hardest post to compile in our near year at London Calling Blog, attempting to select our favourite 20 works from a year absolutely crammed with an abundance of high-quality and entertaining artworks on London’s Streets. After much deliberation and with many more works we would of liked to include […]Read Post ›
Well following on from our Street Art review ‘2015 – A Year Of Street Art In London’ (covered here), we thought we would also take a look at the highlights of all the Graffiti we have seen this year. In this post we have featured works primarily from East & South London as these are […]Read Post ›
Last week in Bethnal Green the final work in the ‘Colour The Capital’ project was created by the very talented Street Artist Zadok, an excellent addition and conclusion to what has proven to be an impressive collection of nine large murals put up around East London in conjunction with the Forest Recycling Plant. For the final piece […]Read Post ›
Over the last seven months a beautifully inspired community project has been born and 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 vegetable beds, the project is setting to utilize unused spaces or those awaiting development in […]Read Post ›
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