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The Nomad Clan Paint Huge Mural at Craven Park in Hull

Although the Banksy which appeared in Hull recently has been the one making the headlines. An altogether grander piece of…

Mural

Where to find Banksy Street Art in Hull

A new Banksy has appeared in Hull on the floor of a permanently raised drawbridge. Now covered with the obligatory…

Banksy

Cosmo Sarson Angel Mural in Brighton

Brighton is such a dynamic city. It’s also a great place for street art. You can weave in an out…

Mural

Lumiere Festival transforms the Leake Street Tunnel

The Lumiere Festival has returned to London following an initial hugely successful outing in 2016. This time though it’s expanded…

lumiere festival

Lost Coast a photographic essay from Carson Lancaster explores the raw Californian coastline

A photographic essay exploring the most undeveloped and remote part of the Californian coastline is the focus of one of…

exhibition, interview, photography

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…

interview

Lazinc Gallery hosts Giants Exhibition by JR

French artist JR known for his giant photographic installations has launched Giants his latest exhibition at the newly opened Lazinc…

exhibition, Lazinc Gallery

Paint Jam in Penge kicks off 2018 street art in London

As has become now a bit of a tradition. Our friends at London Calling once again organised a street art…

paint jam

Frankie Strand the Artist Painting the Natural World

Frankie Strand is an artist from East London. Walk around the canals and streets of the area and the chances…

interview

The Inspiring City Street Art Review of 2017

As ever it’s been a busy year here on the blog and we’ve expanded our horizons a bit. From focusing…

Mural

Anna Laurini the artist whose faces are all around London

You can’t fail to notice Anna Laurini’s abstract faces. Peering out of doorways, on the sides of lampposts and on…

Nomad Clan and Tankpetrol Paint True North Mural in Leeds

It’s a mural we’ve seen many times from the train on the way from London to Leeds. This Christmas we…

Mural

Poster and Paste Up Street Art on Brick Lane in London

Brick Lane is a favourite spot of ours to see paste up street art. Go there at any time of…

paste up art, Shoreditch and Brick Lane

London locations of the Bloomsbury Group

The writers and artists who collectively called themselves the Bloomsbury Group have become synonymous with that particular area of London.…

Bloomsbury Group

Interview with New Zealand Artist Abbey Kayte Greenwood

“I can draw fish, lots of different kinds of fish” laughs AK my latest interviewee prior to explaining that fish…

interview

Paintings exploring the Paradox of Social Media

The paradox of social media is how much we depend upon it. Street art is particularly linked in fact it’s…

exhibition, Stolen Space Gallery

Tribute Mural to the Hive appears on Kingsland Road

A mural on the Kingsland Road in Haggerston has appeared as a final hurrah for the Hive Dalston which closed…

Mural

Gimmie Shelter Paint Jam in Abandoned Office in Soho

For the second time this year our friends at London Calling took over an abandoned office block. This in the…

paint jam

David Walker Art at the Lawrence Alkin Gallery in London

“I’ve always been fascinated by painting people” explains David Walker. We are talking in the basement of Soho’s Lawrence Alkin…

exhibition, interview, Lawrence Alkin Gallery

Alexander Chappell talks about his debut show ‘Nobody’

“I don’t think I actually deserve to be here” says my latest interviewee, Alexander Chappell, as he looks around the…

exhibition, interview, Stolen Space Gallery

Mali Mowcka and the Mushroom put on a show in Hackney Wick

It’s always good when artists collaborate and even better when those artists are good friends of ours here on the…

exhibition

Free Walking Tour around Bloomsbury and Holborn

The area around Holborn and Bloomsbury is a great place to walk around and explore. Personally we’ve got to know…

Bloomsbury Group

Interview with Irish street artist Eoin O’Connor

Originally from Dublin but now based out of the west coast of Ireland, Eoin O Connor is an artist whose…

interview

Strictly Cardboard only as artists put on a show in Soho

The second Soho Takeover from London based artist Artista saw a old office block in the centre of the city…

Celebrating the work of the East London Group of artists at the Nunnery Gallery in Bow

A show at the Nunnery Gallery in Bow has been celebrating the work of the East London Group of artists…

exhibition, Nunnery Gallery

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