On Sunday ROA put up a great new mural on Chance Street in Shoreditch to mark his last night in London before jetting off to paint in Poland. This piece adds to his growing repoitoire of animals around London and caps off an extended stay that saw him put up one more street piece a few weeks back (see below), but more significantly put together a fantastic installation based gallery show entitled Hypnagogia.
Hypnagogia opened last Thursday and is spread over two spaces – one at Stolen Space gallery and another at a pop-up space towards the end of the Brick Lane – both are worth checking out, particularly the pop-up…
ROA is one of the most prolific and most talented street artists on the planet and he has visited London numerous times and left many of his giant animals across it’s walls and shutters. Check out Street Art London’s collection of his work accross London HERE and then consider that ROA is doing the same in many other cities and countries all around the World!
Chance Street, Hedgehog:
Buxton Street Pig:
Last week, Sheffield based street artist Phlegm, put up an epic new piece just off Brick Lane on Heneage Street… This wall four other Phlegm pieces in London… notably this collaboration with ROA in Peckham.
This huge wall took him a full three days to paint and well displays his characteristic black and white, illustrative style and stylised narratives that overflow from his self produced comics. If you fancy tracking down this, and the rest of Phlegm’s street art in London, then why not use the Street Art London iPhone App – all of the pieces are on there and much more besides!
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We thought it might be a good idea to tell you guys about some of the features currently in the Street Art London App. The Street Art London App is part of the wider Geo Street Art Apps Project. The Project’s goals are to both help people locate street art within their cities but also to provide insight into the global street art scene and the artists who create these artworks all over the world. With that in mind, please check out the features of the Street Art London App below. There are also some interesting new features in development…
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We have been working on this baby for quite some time alongside Geo Street Art. We are pleased to finally release it. The Street Art London App presented by Street Art London and Geo Street Art guides you to the locations of London’s ephemeral street art using the GPS functionality of the iPhone.
With an array of past and present pieces, the newly launched App represents a comprehensive reference point to the London street art scene with detailed artist biographies included. We have really distilled of their knowledge and resources into this App. You can also share pieces from the App with your friends and read the Street Art London blog directly from the App.
The App launches with close to 600 images from Street Art London’s archive, and features work from over 90 street artists. At launch, the App’s database contains over 270 locations in London that are waiting to be discovered using the App’s map interface. We will be constantly updating the App to ensure that the map always reflects what’s on the street.
The Street Art London App, along with the Street Art NYC App, which is also launched today, represents the spearhead of the Geo Street Art Apps Project. More cities are on the way!
We’ll be in touch soon to tell you all about the amazing features of the App.
The App is available now in the App store for £2.99.
Contact:
hello@streetartlondon.co.uk
hello@geostreetart.com
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C215 has, in recent days bombarded Brick Lane with new pieces… in a similar vein to his last visit to London in July 2011. Street Art London went out and hunted a few of their pieces down… there are probably one or two more still out there that we missed….
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The street art scene in Buenos Aires is immense and boasts some of the most exciting street artists in the world right now. Here BA Street Art give us a small introduction to the Argentine capital…
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It’s certainly been a busy and exciting last few months for street art in Argentina. In November, BA hosted Meeting of Styles, the first ever international graffiti festival to be held in the country. Some 130 street artists were painting at more than half a dozen sites around the city. Vhils from Portugal dropped by to destroy a wall in Palermo and Blu decided to spend the summer in the city. The Italian master ended 2011 in fine style by painting his last four murals of the year here in BA.
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Stik’s well known piece on Pitfield Street in Hoxton was freshened up recently as Stik playfully remixed it to depict an ‘Art Thief’ making off with a nice piece of Stik artwork. Perhaps next month there will just be a plain doorway here as the figure makes its getaway…
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RUN at work (with Stik).
Street Art London was lucky enough to hang out with RUN back in December while he added this nice wall to the Foundry. RUN has been busy of late and recently put this cool piece along Hackney Road. RUN tells us that he has a few more pieces in store over the coming months so watch this space…
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These huge murals by ROA and Phlegm in Peckham were put up back in February this year and at the time weren’t featured on Street Art London. However, given that these two pieces are arguably two of the finest examples of ‘street art’ to be found anywhere in London they deserve extra attention. The setting of these pieces is also a great – a secluded brick courtyard encloses you on all sides creating a feeling of isoloation despite their location in the bustling centre of Peckham.
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Given that Banksy has been very active recently putting down pieces left right and centre in London, with most being very quickly buffed/removed, we thought now might be a good time to feature two other recent pieces of his that are still riding on the streets.
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Banksy put up four new pieces in London this week. One on the side of National Gallery, one in Bell Lane near Liverpool St. Station, one on Wapping High Street – all which were buffed/removed very quickly indeed. The best place to see these pieces is therefore on his website which last night underwent a major update with new pieces in Liverpool also.
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Brooklyn based street artist Swoon, real name Caledonia Dance Curry, yesterday put up some of her trademark paste-ups across East London. Swoon uses traditional wood cut techniques to render her evocative, ephemeral and realistic street art that draws inspiration from an array of historical and folk sources as well as people that she knows or meets on her travels. The results are exquisite, with an astounding level of craft and detail within each piece. Street Art London managed to find seven which are pictured below.
Swoon has visited London before and last year put up four pieces up on the street of which only one remains today. She also put up a piece a few weeks back (reported here) that was removed after just two days on the street. This year in London, Swoon has also been busy with other projects, having put on an exhibition at Black Rat Projects and delivered a lecture at the Bank of Ideas.
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