RUN and Street Art London were recently invited to paint the front doors of Tramshed, Mark Hix’s new restaurant in Shoreditch, notable for its commissioned Damien Hirst piece inside featuring a cow and a cockerel. Tramshed shuts its front doors at midnight and RUN had another painting date in Spain the next day so it was a race against time through the night. RUN however rose to the occasion and produced a stunning work.
Recently, São Paulo based artist Flip visited London and put up this great piece on Ebor Street on the other side to ROA’s hedgehog. Street Art London got in touch to find out a little more about FLIP and the inspiration behind the wall….
Your new wall in Ebor Street is great. Can you tell us a little about the inspiration for this piece?
The funny kawaii, monsters and non-sense inspires me. It’s also inspired by old Japanese mythical creatures, in this case, I mixed the Tanuki (Japanese raccoon) with the Jellyfish. I chose CMYK colors to pop up in front of the bricks … Seems to be alive !
Tell us a little about your artistic background and how you go into street art?
As far back as I can remember I drew a lot. Cartoons, cars, dinosaurs, I also used to draw these massive sci fi battle scenes when I was a kid, bit of a dork really, some of it probably came from Star Wars…
I always wanted to be a cartoonist, then when I got to my teens a couple of my friends got into graff and tried to get me into it. We used to tag all the spots we skated and at some point drawing and piecing became more important to me than skating.
Stik recently collaborated with the Dulwich Picture Gallery to re-create seven old master paintings from the Gallery’s collection around the streets of Dulwich. This project represents a daring collaboration between street artist and England’s first public art gallery. It is also refreshing to see Stik’s work and street art more generally transplanted into leafy and surbaban Dulwich.
Stik found inspiration from regular visits to the gallery and then reinterperated and remixed the work into his own unique style. Stik’s simplification of the works in the street serve to highlight the universal nature of the themes expressed by the old masters. The piece below is Stik’s interpretation of Marcantonio Franceschini’s The Guardian Angel (1716), located at the Push Studios at Blackwater Court, Dulwich.
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.
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!
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…
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
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….
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.
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…
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…