Best Of Shoreditch Street Art 2022

Hanging a new calendar signals a lovely excuse to look back over the best of Shoreditch street art 2022.   Here is a slide show of some of the best, there is a full write up on Graffoto, my personal street art blog, which goes into more depth regarding the hows and whys of these highlights.


Thom Thom Club Adbusting

As well as being a street art capital, Shoreditch hosts a lot of advertising.  It comes in many varieties, billboards, flyposters, spraypainted mural adverts, and more.   Adbusting has been the street artists traditional response to adverts. Street Art has always held an anti advertising stance close to its heart, we prefer art on the streets Read More


London International Paste Up Festival 2

The second edition of the London International Paste Up Festival took place 20-23 October 2022.  Artists from all over the world, about 300 all told, sent in paper-based artwork which the organisers pasted up on a number of walls mainly around the Brick Lane area. Street art was put up on a total of 7 Read More


Portland and NY Street Artists visit Shoreditch

This August a group of street artists from Portland, Oregon as well as their friends from other endz visited Shoreditch to bless the public realm with their creativity.   Various combinations of this group have been visiting Europe regularly over the years and the street art they create is never short of impressive. RX Skulls and Voxx Read More


Felipe Pantone Quick Tide

The annual London Design Festival which is on right now at time of writing presents a dizzying selection of visual indulgences across London and a particularly eye catching one is Quick Tide by Felipe Pantone. Felipe has been commissioned to add chromatic vibrancy to an outdoors stairway and cantilevered veranda arrangement overlooking the 02 Arena Read More


Helch – The Dog’s Pollocks

It being that day today, Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral, I decided to go out graff hunting and what a great decision that turned out to be.   “Helch Watch” has been running for several months following the addition of an incomplete piece of graff close to our hood in May. My fave graff lookout, Lady Read More


Carnival of Graffiti 2022

Carnival returned to Notting Hill this weekend after a COVID hiatus of 3 years, this meant the return of one of the best and most temporary HOFs (Hall of Fame) going – the Notting Hill Carnival shopfront hoardings. One person who played a major role in grabbing the head of graffiti and twisting it 180 Read More


Novelondon

Novelondon street art: Street art from the artist Novelondon has appeared around Shoreditch within the past fortnight and there is nothing we love more than delicious new art from an unfamiliar artist. Novelondon’s new street art combines characters and text with the unmistakable influence of Spain’s Miro.   The Rolling Stones and The Beatles lyrics feature. Read More