Spot The Difference! Competition Time

The third London International Pasteup Festival team tactically arranged the new art submitted for the festival around existing art.  Some of that existing art was well weathered from LIPF2, the second London International Pasteup Festival. Read all abaht LIPF3 HERE, then enter the competition. Prize: A voucher for the Shoreditch Street Art Tour for up Read More


Space Invader Flashing and Flashed

Space Invader last strengthened his invasion of London in 2016 and from a peak of 150 the number of Invaders stationed in London has slowly diminished.  Some have been kidnapped and a number of those have been held to ransom on Planet Ebay.  Some went dark, contact lost as they simply disappeared.  Some deteriorated and Read More


London International Pasteup Festival 2023

The 3rd edition of the London International Pasteup Festival was a magnificent, colourful, creative and chaotic success.   Following an open call art came from all over the world including Australia, New Zealand, Italy, France, Germany, Norway, USA, Jordan, Greece, Uruguay and Preston to name just a few places that aren’t London. The art included every Read More


Street artist Brickflats Interview

“Foreigners own £55bm of London homes as buying spree set to climb” was the somewhat xenophobic headline in last night’s Evening Standard.  The real issue is that demand continues to exceed supply, politicians setting newbuild target but fail to walk the walk and for every homeless person in the UK there are multiple empty residential Read More


My Dog Sighs vs The Big Issue Street Art Special

Street artist My Dogs Sighs from Portsmouth has been handed the monumental privilege of guest editing a special street art edition of the Big Issue magazine.  The magazine goes on sale from Monday 10th July – seek out your local vendor for a copy My Dog Sighs founded the “Free Art Friday” movement with his Read More


Beyond The Streets Revisited

“Repeat visits are recommended” we urged in our review of the “Beyond The Streets” Exhibition at Saatchi Gallery in London. The show has been consistently busy even on weekdays but on Easter Sunday I found myself lasat in in the afternoon and wandering through a completely deserted gallery.   This was very much a “quick pop in” Read More


Manchester Street Art

A couple of weeks ago I made a trip to Manchester to explore that city’s street art.  Manchester has great architecture, a distinct exciting personality adn plenty of locations where stencils, stickers, paste ups and graffiti flourishes.  There are also some impressive murals. This next gallery is a sample of the roughly 800 photographs taken Read More