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New Swoon street art in East London

12 Dec ’119 Dec ’11

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.

Invader: Brixton Invasion

9 Dec ’116 Dec ’11

It would seem that Invader has launched his ninth wave of Invasion against London – this time centring upon Brixton. Street Art London went down for a look and managed to find three new Invaders. There are probably more out there… Street Art London’s intelligence gathering unit is on high alert and will keep you updated if any new Invaders are found across London.

RUN hits Hackney Road

6 Dec ’113 Dec ’11

Last night, RUN put down this awesome piece on Hackey Road at the old tennis courts which makes clever use of pre-existing paste-ups by Mustafa Hulusi. Mustafa Hulusi’s paste-ups have themselves have been popping up all over the East in recent weeks.

For a little more background on RUN, check out this interview that we did with him back in March this year. Also, check this 12 storey mega wall that RUN painted this Summer in Gdansk, Poland as part of the Monumental Art Festival.

Evol hits Smithfield Market

3 Dec ’1116 Nov ’11

German street artist EVOL is in town and today hit up Smithfield Market with some of his distinctive street art. Evol uses paste-ups and stencils to transform such urban furniture as concrete blocks, tree planters and telephone exchanges into tower blocks thereby creating tiny cities with the city. We went down to have a look, check out our shots below…

‘Robbo inc.’ returns courtesy of Banksy?

16 Nov ’1111 Nov ’11

King Robbo’s iconic ‘Robbo inc’ piece has returned to Regents Canal, Camden, albeit in a slightly difference guise. This wall is where the Banksy v King Robbo feud was spectacularly ignited nearly two years ago with Banky’s notorious ‘modification’ of King Robbo’s iconic Robbo inc piece which was, at the time, 25 years old. In the intervening period this feud has been much scrutinised within both the street art and graffiti scenes as well as the mainstream media.

Ozmo street art, ‘Big Fish Eat Little Fish’.

11 Nov ’1119 Oct ’11

Italian street artist and painter Ozmo is in town at the moment. He recently painted this striking piece at Cargo in Shoreditch which is entitled ‘Big fish eat small fish‘. The piece draws inspiration from the works Brugel the Elder and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres’ painting ‘The Turkish Bath‘. Speaking about the piece he said that he was “inspired by the city, where everyone is thinking about money, business and fame, without any respect towards people and relationships..”

Check out the rest of Street Art London’s photos below.

Interview: Milo Tchais

19 Oct ’116 Oct ’11

With Macay

Tell us a little about how you got into street art and graffiti?

The very distinctive hardcore tagging scene in Sao Paulo, pichação, was what turned my attention to urban street writing, and a love of letter styling in the first place. I have enjoyed drawing and messing around with paint ever since I can remember, but the urge to go out and paint on the streets was to do pichação in the very beginning. Pichaçao was what I saw at first, since a little kid around the streets, but I quickly moved into doing thick bubble and piece letters once I started spraying as well as character designs. That was a time of the first generation and a second was emerging, of writers influenced by the hip-hop graffiti painting in São Paulo, and with little visual information around, not yet with the wonders of the virtual world established. More influences and magazines came about, seeing more pieces and murals, I quickly got hooked and saw myself doing panels almost every day around the city, which developed into murals and big productions.

Phlegm hits the Foundry

6 Oct ’112 Sep ’11

We caught up with Phlegm whilst putting up two great new pieces up at the Foundry Building on Old Street. Phlegm was fresh from painting this epic piece over on the Azores Island and is off to another far flung destination soon to paint another massive wall so be sure to watch out for that. In the meantime check out our photos of his new stuff at the Foundry below.

Street art, Hackney Wick and the 2012 London Olympics

2 Sep ’1123 Aug ’11

Hackney Wick Street art 2011 Olympics in London

It won’t have escaped anyone’s attention that the Olympics are coming to (East) London next year. Next door to the Olympic Stadium, just across the canal, is Hackney Wick, which in recent years has experienced a proliferation of street art. Here, Street Art London presents a modest collection of some of the finest street art to be seen in Hackney Wick and also aims to provide a little background on some of the street artists at work over there. Be sure to pay a visit to Hackney Wick soon as the future of much of this street art is perhaps uncertain as the 2012 London Olympics and it’s legacy draws ever nearer.

Pablo Delgado’s miniature street scenes… Part III

23 Aug ’1115 Aug ’11

Pablo Delgado's miniature street art in London

Around Broadway Market.

Street artist Pablo Delgado continues to produce more and more tiny street art scenes across London. Over the past few weeks Street Art London has been scouring the streets for as many as we could find. In this latest collection, we also present some of his earlier pieces that we missed the first time round. Some of these now have a lovely weathered look which makes them seem even more at home on the street. This time we have included some clues as to location to help you hunt them down yourselves…

Christiaan Nagel show (Thursday 11 August, 7PM @ Rich Mix)

21 Jun ’208 Aug ’11

Here is a gentle reminder that Christiaan Nagel’s show opens this Thursday at 7PM over at Rich Mix. We have been working hard putting the show together and we very much hope that you can make it down! We’d also like to take this opportunity to announce a few more details about the show.

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Stinkfish hits Brick Lane

31 Jul ’1131 Jul ’11

There has been a lot of activity on Brick Lane in the last week with fresh stuff from Mobstr, Buytronick, Malarky, Pop 187 and KA. T.A. We’ll be featuring it all in a seperate post soon. In the meantime, we caught up with Stinkfish again last night as he painted a shutter in Brick Lane… … Read more