An interview with Mr Cenz as he paints in the Shard
We’ve gotten used to seeing the work of Mr Cenz on the streets of London. His work is bright and vibrant and his style is most certainly his own. Much to the extent… Continue reading
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The murals of the 2018 Nuart Aberdeen Street Art Festival
The second iteration of the Nuart street art festival saw 12 street artists from around the world invited into the city of Aberdeen. The festival which started in Stavanger in Norway has in… Continue reading
Where to find street art in Aberdeen
Pictures and information about the street art murals of Aberdeen created as part of the Nuart festivals
Where to find Street Art and Graffiti in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle
The Baltic Triangle in Liverpool is the cities growing cultural hub. Walk around the streets and you are likely to find the odd cool cafe and eatery alongside the graffiti and street art… Continue reading
Banksy art appears on the Scott Street Bridge in Hull
On the floor of a permanently raised drawbridge in Hull, a new Banksy has appeared! Now covered with the obligatory perspex it depicts a young boy wearing a colander for a hat and… Continue reading
HNRX the Austrian artist painting on walls around the world
It’s a bad line and HNRX is trying to get a signal! He is sitting in his lodgings in Valencia where he’s just painted a towering mural. It’s taken him all of a… Continue reading
Giant mural by the Nomad Clan and Tankpetrol pays tribute to the mill workers of Leeds
It’s a mural we’ve seen many times from the train on the way from London to Leeds but this Christmas we finally got to see the giant mural called ‘True North’ upclose. Nestled… Continue reading
Street Artists take over abandoned office block in Soho
For the second time this year our friends at London Calling took over an abandoned office block in the centre of Soho and opened up its walls to artists to do with what… Continue reading
Fan Making and Street Art combine at the Fan Museum in Greenwich
It’s not the most obvious of collaborations! The unique little fan museum in leafy Greenwich and the urban art scene of the inner city joining together to put on a unique show of… Continue reading
We meet Colombian street artist Stinkfish as he prepares for Portraits in Transit his new show in London
“It’s about taking people from one location and placing them in another” Stinkfish tells me as we meet to talk about his new show ‘Portraits in Transit‘ soon to be showcasing at Dalston’s… Continue reading
Where to find street art and graffiti in Leicester
It’s not a city I’d ever thought of as having the potential to be street art hub but the ‘Bring the Paint‘ festival earlier in the year has certainly put paid to that.… Continue reading
The Curious Tale of Dead Bod the Hull Graffiti from the 60’s which is now a symbol of the city itself
Dead Bod a simple drawing of an upturned bird, feet to the sky and drawn onto a sheet of rusting corrugated iron more than 50 years ago is an unlikely folk hero in… Continue reading
The artists of Upfest, Europe’s largest street art festival
Upfest is the biggest street art festival in Europe and as such attracts artists from all of the country and the world. Applications are taken months in advance and to paint at the… Continue reading
Giant mural from Ben Eine in Shoreditch pays tribute to the survivors and victims of the Grenfell Tower
“You saw it in the tears of those who survived”. The words from poet Ben Okri have been painted high onto a giant wall by local street artists Ben Eine in a tribute… Continue reading
Whitecross Street Party returns for 2017 with street art, live music and performance art
The Whitecross street party returned for 2017 and once again contained a mixture of street art, music and performance art which gives this family friendly festival a unique vibe. We’ve covered the event… Continue reading
Meeting of Styles 2017 returns to the Nomadic Community Gardens in Shoreditch
The first big street art festival of the year, the Meeting of Styles, took place over the first weekend of July in a location which has become well known to the event, the… Continue reading
Lora Zombie returns to London to paint ‘I am Groot’ and cute pink kittens on Brick Lane
Lora Zombie has returned to London and once again placed a few murals on Brick Lane. She’s been here before of course and on her most recent visits painted a number of murals… Continue reading
Meet ‘Hello the Mushroom’ as she launches her first solo show in Monty’s Bar on Brick Lane
We first got to know Sara from ‘Hello the Mushroom’ as a fellow blogging kindred spirit given that she has for sometime written the cool lifestyle blog Hello the Mushroom. Now the mushroom herself… Continue reading
Barcelona the creative city with a graffiti soul and a street art heart
It’s typical that when you return from a place it’s only then that you realise just how much of the place you didn’t see and how much you missed. Never mind that you… Continue reading
Meet Robert Burt the founder of Base Elements gallery in Barcelona
It’s like an Aladdin’s cave of artistic goodies. We have just entered the ‘sotano’ or the basement of the Base Elements urban art gallery in Barcelona’s gothic quarter despite protestations that it’s a… Continue reading
Where to see street art and graffiti in the Poblenou area of Barcelona
For the next of our ebookers ‘My Barcelona‘ series on street art and graffiti in Barcelona and following on from our ‘Top street artists to see in Barcelona‘ post we focus this time… Continue reading
The Top 20 street artists to see in Barcelona
Barcelona is one of the best places in Spain to see street art. It’s a city with a vibrant artistic culture and everywhere you go, art jumps out at you and from a… Continue reading
Tribute to Ingrid Beazley the street art pioneer who founded the Dulwich Outdoor Gallery
It’s an odd thing to say in 2017 that there should still be street art pioneers but in Ingrid Beazley, who died last week, we really did have a leading light. She took… Continue reading
The street art murals of Wood Street in Walthamstow
Walthamstow is always a place we like going to. It’s got a vibrant young feel to it and creative types seem to be flocking up the Victoria line at the moment desperate to… Continue reading
Wasp Elder hosts his first solo show ‘Victims of Circumstance’ in London with the 1963 Gallery
Berlin based British artist Wasp Elder returned to London to showcase his work with the 1963 Gallery at the 5th Base exhibition space just off Brick Lane in the heart of London’s east… Continue reading
The Nomadic Community Garden in London and where to find it
It’s been a year since we last featured the ever evolving feast that is the Nomadic community garden. A community project, it can be found nestling behind Brick Lane on a patch of scrubland… Continue reading
Environmental street art fills the arches of the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
The glorious meadows of the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park seem an unlikely spot for street art to take hold but that’s exactly what’s happened over the past year. Initially started last year, the… Continue reading
Meet Lolie Darko the French street artist bringing her sad party to London for her first solo show
Lolie Darko’s sad faced children have been appearing around London for a while now. Often accompanied with captions, the works stop people in their tracks as they try and make sense of the… Continue reading
Argiris Ser paints giant mural on the Village Underground wall in London for the Education is Not a Crime campaign
Greek street artist Argiris Ser is back in London to paint the iconic Village Underground wall just a couple of weeks after he was last in the city showcasing at the BSMT Space’s… Continue reading
ROA’s iconic Shoreditch hedgehog gets an update from Jim Vision
It’s one of the most iconic pieces of street art in Shoreditch and it’s prime location on Chance Street just by the crossing to Shoreditch High Street means that it is right in… Continue reading
Meet Alo the Italian street painter whose abstract portraits have taken over the Saatchi and the streets
If it was a bit of a suprise back in 2014 when the Saatchi Gallery decided to award the softly spoken Italian artist Alo his first solo show, it certainly shouldn’t be now.… Continue reading
A quick street art tour of Camden in London
Camden is certainly one of the best spots to see street art in the City of London. It’s a place that we return back to again and again especially as, over the past… Continue reading
Interview with Ant Carver as he puts on his latest show in the Truman Brewery
Keen observers of the East End street art scene may well have noticed Ant Carver’s work. Portraiture with a graffiti inspired twist, he is as happy putting his work up on the streets… Continue reading