Street Art News from Street Art London. The latest Street Art and Graffiti from the best Street Artists in London.
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 … Read more
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.
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.
Banksy is in town again. Two new pieces have gone up in London in recent days. The first piece is on Regents Canal in Camden and sees Banksy reclaiming a wall from King Robbo. The canal underpass seen below is the location where the Banksy/King Robbo fued initially flared up last year when Banksy went over an ancient Robbo piece. Banksy’s perceived dissing brought Robbo out of retirement and since then, ownership of this particular wall has gone back and forth between Banksy and King Robbo. The second new piece, entitled Sperm Alarm is near Victoria Station.
Regents Canal
This weekend saw the Pictures On Walls gallery release Banky’s much anticipated ‘Choose Your Weapon’ print at their East London gallery, Marks & Stencils in Soho and through an online lottery. 450 prints priced at £450 and over 15 colours were released (and all rapidly purchased) in total. Four other print colours were produced too (Gold, Silver, White and Warm Grey – more on these below). At POW’s East London gallery there were scenes of absolute bedlam as a huge queue formed outside the gallery from 10pm on Friday when the news hit peoples inboxes. Many had been erroneously tipped off about the relases and had started queuing over at Marks and Stencils in Soho early on Friday. Throughout the night and early morning there weere reports of fights, thugs pushing in to the front and scalpers hiring whole crews to stand in line. Many of the Choose Your Weapon prints sold by POW over the weekend rapidly found their way onto eBay with some reported sales rising to £10,000.
Full details of all 19 colourways after the jump.
London has it’s first ‘Dead Drop’, located next to Brick Lane Gallery, 196 Brick Lane (check the pictures above for exact location). What is a ‘Dead Drop’? Dead Drops, from German artist Aram Bartholl, are anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing networks that are located in public city spaces. USB flash drives are embedded into … Read more
As part of the ‘Making the Invisible Visible’ street art project, German street art collective Mentalgassi have teamed up with Amnesty UK to highlight the plight of Troy Davis, a 42-year-old man on death row in the US state of Georgia.
Davis, the subject of a long-running campaign from Amnesty, has spent 19 years on death row for a murder he has always said he did not commit. No physical evidence links Davis to the crime and seven out of nine witnesses on whose evidence he was convicted in 1991 have since changed or retracted their testimony, with some citing police coercion. Despite these serious doubts, he still faces execution. Please take a look at the online petition to grant Davis a stay of execution here.
There are three installations which can be found at 4-7 Great Pulteney Street, 21 Great Pulteney Street, and 5 Berners Street (all London W1). We’ve been down to have a look today, check out the pictures below:
The invisible becomes visible:
The Wild Hackney Project is a local grass roots response to Hackney Council’s current policy towards street art and graffiti in Hackney, which is essentially to paint over it. Recently Hackney Council threatened to paint over the Roa Rabbit on Hackney Road, a legal piece of street art painted with the permission of the building’s owner and beloved by the local community. Widespread uproar in the Hackney community, features in the Metro, an online petition signed by thousands and a flurry of angy letters from The Premises, upon whose building the Rabbit was painted, prompted a climb down from Hackney Council. Other pieces have not been so lucky, for example, a well known Banksy piece on Church Street was recently blitzed by Hackney Council along with many other pieces of street art.
@WildHackney are planning to lobby Hackney Council about a new approach to graffiti and street art that goes beyond painting it black by providing them with a policy written by local residents. If you want to have your say, go along to Wild Hackney’s first metting which is at 6:30pm on 2 December at the Fellow Court Community Center, E2 8LR.
We, at @StreetArtLondon, are never ones to miss the oppurtunity to show you some good street art, so take a look at what Wild Hackney are fighting to save. If you take a wander up Hackney Road this is what you can expect to see from street artists such as Roa, Eine and Christiaan Nagel:
Forget the Rabbit, it’s all about the Roa Beaver! Located a little nearer to the Shoreditch end of Hackney Road.
Street Art London has up for grabs a copy each of the recently released the ‘Street Art Stencil Book’ and the ‘Street Art Doodle Book’.