The first real street art event of 2016 in London kicked off over the weekend. This was with an all female artist paint jam on the little alley known as Blackall Street in Shoreditch.
A popular spot for paste up artists in particular. The street has taken on a whole new lease of life over the past year. This on account of the demolition work that’s been taking place on one side of the street.
That work, which will soon result in the creation of a massive office block has seen the previous sixties buildings disappear. They had overlooked a row of turn of the century warehouse buildings. The resultant alley in between had become a haven for arty types. It’s one of the spots to see if you were ever going to visit the area on a street art tour.

Female Artist Paint Jam on Blackall Street
Now, the warehouse buildings remain yet hoardings have replaced the more modern affairs. Needless to say they’ve become extraordinarily popular with street artists and graffiti writers who have discovered a whole new series of canvases.
The art there changes very frequently although what will happen when the hoardings come down and the shiny new buildings are built is anyones guess. My thoughts are that the life of Blackall Street as a key location for street art in the city is a limited one and will soon come to an end as the area finds itself transformed.
For now though we have the chance to see plenty of art. The first paint jam of 2016 saw some of the area’s most popular female street artists gather on Blackall Street to paint some of the hoardings.

On a wet weekend in January. Giusi Tomasello, Elno, Amelia Unity, Pyklops, Mondi, Mutiny and New Art Rioter all got together. combined with the organising skills of Femme Fierce. They would crack open the paint cans and to decorate the hoardings resulting in a bit of a bonanza for the many street art tours that came past cameras in hand.
So for the first paint jam of 2016, check out the gallery below and if you can get down to Blackall Street yourself to see some of the hoardings for yourself, don’t wait too long. The times as they say, are a changing!
Blackall Street Paint Jam Gallery





















Blackall Street was visited on Saturday 9 January 2016. For more art of the street check out this post from 2013 and for more posts featuring some of the artists here check out some of the pictures from Femme Fierce 2014, Femme Fierce 2015, Pop Brixton featuring Elno, Giusi and Mutiny and Street Art Margate featuring Giusi and Pyklops.
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Two female artists from Cardiff joined a raft of other female street artists in the latest Paint Jam on London’s Blackall Street.
Pyklops and Unity both attended and posted a few pics on their Instagram feeds too.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BAUqapsvx17/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BAVF75SPxyV/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BAVFwOYPxx3/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BAWmsjRvx5x/
Great post! I added a few Instagram pics at the to but for some reason the theme Im using doesnt seem to like the javascript so ive taken them off the post but theyve still appeared here!
Apologies for clogging up the comments!
Lee
No problem, I think they look pretty good 🙂
Nice work Stuart ! I have not been out for so long. Must get down to Blackall St before it all goes, was one of my favourite streets.