For this post we publish something a little bit different and welcome guest authors Olga Kucherenko and Ksenia Afonina as they tell the story of 94 year old artist Elena Marttila, a survivor… Continue reading
Popping up around East London over the past few months have been a series of portraits from the London based artist Neequaye Dreph, known simply on his work as ‘Dreph’ The works all… Continue reading
Flying toast took over Soho with one of London’s most recognisable street artists opening up her studio for a celebration of all things toast. In terms of tags, the toast has become pretty iconic on… Continue reading
Environmental street artist Louis Masai has embarked on his biggest project to date, a tour around America, using art to raise awareness of species local to the areas he is visiting who are… Continue reading
It’s not the most well known place on the street art scene. In fact Soho has never really broken through as a must see stop on the street art map, there are too… Continue reading
Following on from our recent post featuring the work of Ben Eine and his alphabet on Middlesex Street, this post features some of the other work to be seen in this often forgotten… Continue reading
One of the first place I ever wandered when first moving to London just over four years ago was the area of Middlesex Street better known to some as the central location of… Continue reading
The giant wall one the side of the Village Underground has long been one of the best places to see street art in Shoreditch. It’s size and location mean that it’s always attracted… Continue reading
A series of street art murals from Russian grunge artist Lora Zombie have appeared just off Brick Lane in London. The works were a finale to a successful visit to the city in… Continue reading
A couple of months ago we were asked to contribute to a feature on the travel site ebookers called ‘London like a local‘. It asked bloggers from the capital to give a list… Continue reading
The recent London’s Burning festival caught the imagination in more ways than one. A giant series of events featuring some spectacular public art exhibitions was the city’s way of celebrating 350 years since the… Continue reading
Podcast interviews with artists from the street and urban art scenes
It was sitting in a cafe in Holborn back in February 2016 that Andrea first told me of her passion for mental health and how she felt that it didn’t get the attention… Continue reading
We’ve enjoyed watching the social media journey blazed over the internet from our friends at Looking for Heroes over the past few years. Originally an Instagram channel celebrating the achievements and lives of… Continue reading
Dalston’s BSMT Space has been open for just over a year but in that time it has managed to establish itself firmly onto the already vibrant art scene of East London. Starting a… Continue reading
East London’s latest gallery space has opened just off the Hackney Road between Bethnal Green and Shoreditch. Run by the team behind Alternative London, best known for their street art tours and graffiti… Continue reading
It’s a little street easily missed just off the Hackney Road but over the past year it’s had more than it’s fair share of street art painted on it. Clare Street is an… Continue reading
Popular London based artist Louis Masai has become well known over the past few years for his campaigning murals raising awareness of the plight of endangered species from around the World. Now, he’s… Continue reading
Pictures of cute cats have replaced the adverts in a fluffy take over of Clapham Common tube station. The result of a Kickstarter campaign, Cats not Ads have certainly made their mark and… Continue reading
On the corner of Hackney and Colombia road, a new mural can be seen. A collaboration between two street calligraphers well know on the streets of London, Gary Stranger and Pref. It says… Continue reading
One of the best places to find street art in the country is Bristol and one of the best places to see stuff in that city is in the south on a road… Continue reading
We are packed together on the banks of the Thames on the embankment near Blackfriars standing opposite the Oxo Tower on the other side of the river. The reason? A giant floating wooden… Continue reading
The great fire of London devastated the old medieval city. Starting in Pudding Lane at the king’s bakers it spread quickly defeating all attempts to stamp it out. A combination of unfavourable winds… Continue reading
We love a good Banksy conspiracy theory here on Inspiring City and to be fair there is nothing better to get tongues wagging it the World outside the immediate street art sphere than… Continue reading
Spanish artist Sr. X has been a regular on the streets of London for the past few years. His art, a mixture of 50’s pop culture imagery often with a fair bit of… Continue reading
When thinking about the best places to see street art, Bristol is the sort of place that comes high on the list. For many, it is the undisputed capital of street art and… Continue reading
by guest blogger, the Curious Duke Gallery’s Sinead Loftus There is a corner of London that introduces art lovers to new artists from the UK and abroad, and that corner is East London’s… Continue reading
Sculpture in the city, the free annual art event which places sculpture in spots around the city of London has once again returned. With a variety of art on display, there are 19… Continue reading
There simply is no stopping Lucy Sparrow. From launching her highly successful ‘Cornershop‘ project in London’s Bethnal Green in 2014 she has taken the art world by storm with a series of immersive… Continue reading
It’s one of the best and friendliest festivals of the year and one that we keep coming back to here on Inspiring City, not least because it’s also held on one of the… Continue reading
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
An estimated fifty thousand people marched through London from Hyde Park to Westminster in order to show their support for the EU and their disdain at what they saw as the lies told by… Continue reading
Tower Hamlets Cemetary Park, the green eco oasis in the middle of the sprawling urban environment of Mile End has been having a bit of a makeover of late courtesy of some of… Continue reading
Some of the World’s biggest names in street art descended on Manchester’s urban Northern Quarter over the month of May to take part in Cities of Hope, a street festival aimed at raising… Continue reading
Manchester’s Northern Quarter has received a makeover as street artists from around the World descended on the city to take part in the Cities of Hope festival. The area was already a good… Continue reading
Sarah Fosse is an artist whose work we’ve enjoyed for a while here on Inspiring City. It’s her unique views of London, the city in which we live which caught our imagination. Using… Continue reading
One of the biggest street art events of the year ‘Meeting of Styles’ has returned to Shoreditch for the third year running. More specifically the Nomadic Community Gardens has hosted the event for… Continue reading
We don’t often feature pop up shows here on Inspiring City but wandering around the former courtyard of the Truman Brewery the other week we came across an interesting one. 3D Tales by… Continue reading
It often gets featured and it often gets visited, in fact no self respecting street art connoisseur misses it when visiting the area and that’s because the Seven Stars car park at the… Continue reading
Shipping containers on the Regents Canal in Haggerston have received a makeover courtesy of art duo Clandestinos. The riviera as it is known to the locals is just a short walk from Haggerston… Continue reading
Fresh off the back of his maze of art and live performances at the Goods Shed in Stroud, artist Dan Rawlings is heading to London to cut his mark on all things scrap… Continue reading
Femme Fierce returned for it’s third annual outing in the Leake Street tunnel although on a lesser scale from previous events and not this time taking place on International Women’s Day. Instead the… Continue reading
Last month saw the 400-year anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. In those 400 years, no other writer has made such an indelible mark on British culture and world literature. Shakespeare is believed to have… Continue reading
As part of their 45th anniversary celebrations the team behind the Mr Men and Little Miss characters have teamed up with Upfest, Europe’s largest live street and urban art festival, to introduce the latest member… Continue reading
Portuguese but now living in Brussels, KAS started writing graffiti back in 1999 on the streets of Porto before taking a break only to relaunch himself back in 2014. “I paint on the… Continue reading
We are back at the Ben Oakley for what is the first show this year for the shabby chic gallery under the covers of the new completely remodelled Greenwich Market. There, Ben Oakley… Continue reading
From a barren patch of waste ground to a bustling hive of share and share alike community goodness, the Nomadic Community Gardens has evolved dramatically over the past year and it’s quite remarkable… Continue reading
It’s a couple of years since we first met Elno, the Spanish artist who first appeared on the London scene during the 2014 Femme Fierce festival. There, with her pink hair blending into… Continue reading
Following the closure of the Polaroid company in 2008, Polaroid artists were thrown into despair over their future; never has a modern art form been cut off so abruptly. That was until the… Continue reading
The hugely anticipated ‘Endangered ‘event saw some of the countries best environmental artists descend upon the railway arches of Mile End and leave the residents of this part of the Tower Hamlets with some… Continue reading
