On Christmas Eve the Shoreditch Street Art Tour had the pleasure of bumping into Yorgos photographing a charming new street art piece in his signature style painted the night before. Ever the friendly one, Yorgos delighted guests on the tour by posing alongside his new masterpiece. Yorgos told us that he had painted the artwork Read More
2023 Street art, another year down. Did you smile more often? Certainly the Smokers crew aka SMO did. A burst of activity in the Summer sun included the perfect composition of “Smokers” on a railway bridge as well as the crew acronym SMO appearing all over Shoreditch but the crowning piece was their huge Smile Read More
Banksy is in the news again, who’d have thought? For the benefit of anyone dwelling beneath something hard and rock like, an image of three drone missiles appeared on a STOP sign at a road junction in Peckham, South London, acknowledged as a genuine Banksy on Banksy’s instagram. What made this Banksy particularly newsworthy was Read More
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
“A decaying paste up in Butte aux Caille proved worthy of almost an entire essay in itself. The subject is a young girl, looking confidently at the viewer, relaxed yet perhaps not totally welcoming our intrusion into her world. The concentration on her face seems to ask “Is this a person I can trust or Read More
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
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
The ground floor of the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow was been taken over by a huge retrospective of some of Banksy’s greatest hits, more than 75 pieces in total. Unfortunately health reasons meant I could not make the exhibition until the last week but here for the benefit of all who haven’t had Read More
“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
