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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

Banksy’s Snorting Copper in Shoreditch Rediscovered

One of Banksy’s most famous paintings. An image of a policeman on his hands and knees snorting the road markings…

Banksy, Shoreditch and Brick Lane

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…

exhibition

America’s Top Graffiti Alley Halls of Fame

As time moves forward, further away from the 70’s, the ever growing graffiti movement takes new forms and tackles new…

Stinkfish the Colombian Artist and his Portraits in Transit

“It’s about taking people from one location and placing them in another” Stinkfish tells me as we meet to talk…

Jean Michel Basquiat Mural at the Barbican in London

Two pieces of street art by Banksy have appeared near the Barbican. They pay tribute to the pioneering street artist…

Mural

Street Art and Graffiti from Leicesters 2017 Bring the Paint Festival

It’s not a city I’d ever thought of as having the potential to be street art hub but the ‘Bring…

Bring the Paint

10 Artists to Watch Out for at the Roy’s People Art Fair

We’ve been trailing this one for a while and have already featured the works of a number of artists taking…

Dead Bod in Hull graffiti which is now a symbol of the city

Dead Bod in Hull is a simple drawing of an upturned bird. Feet to the sky and drawn onto a…

London Inspired Artwork from Urban Soup at the Oxo Gallery

Ah the great city of London! A city so great it even inspired the name of this very blog. A…

Who are the best British Street Artists

It’s always fraught with difficulty putting together a list of something like the best British street artists. It is of…

Street artist

Interview with Italian artist Raffaella Bertolini

We are in the attic of a West London terrace. Doubling as the studio of our latest interview Raffaella Bertolini,…

interview

Interview with Canadian Artist DD Regalo

DD Regalo is a contemporary artist well used to abstract designs. He paints based on feeling, on the things around…

interview

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