Over the past decade or two, street art has developed and changed to become a massive global art movement helped in no small part by the development of technology and the internet. Whereas in the past street art was truly ephemeral, websites, blogs & Facebook pages have allowed thousands (even millions) of people to discover … Continue reading »
I was contacted recently by Alberto Boido, an Italian graffiti aficionado who recently launched the great online project ‘Old Walls’ documenting the life of walls in Milan the 90s, and comparing them to the current incarnations. As a young boy of 12 in his home town of Milan, he told me how he used to ride his … Continue reading »
Been out and about this weekend messing about with a few new pieces of equipment I bought, and went to check out the legal wall that began on New Street but seems to have grown round and onto Calton Road and Old Tolbooth Wynd. Alongside some familiar names, I came across some work from one … Continue reading »
I came across Chrisse Kunst by accident, a German illustrator who appears to be based in and around Berlin. Some great detailed ink drawings of famous and not so famous scenes around Berlin, really cool to see the city in a different light with these. Particular favourites are the scene of desolation between Warschauer Strasse … Continue reading »
If there’s a city that’s synonymous with street artist Stik, it’s London. It’s virtually impossible to pay a visit to the English capital without stumbling across one of his men/women/children along the way. So it’s with great excitement that Street Art Berlin have hosted Stik in their city over the next few days, and he’s … Continue reading »
The countdown is now well and truly underway for this year’s installment of Moniker Art Fair, with a very interesting line-up announced to appear within East London’s Village Underground space in what is being dubbed the ‘Experiential Edition’ The four day show coincides with London’s major art event, Frieze, but focuses on the alternative contemporary … Continue reading »
James Bullough and Karl Addison (aka JBAK) have recently completed another large scale piece, this time not in the city of Berlin, but a little further afield. Their newest piece ‘The Fight’ sits atop a disused missile bunker a little outside of Berlin, and quite rightly is described as one of the pairs most dangerous … Continue reading »
In a relatively short, but exceptionally busy, urban art career, Fin DAC has defined and perfected an atypical paint/stencil style that ignores the accepted visual language of street art almost completely – he calls it Urban Aesthetics (a modern-day take on a 19th century art movement). He calls Cork (Eire) home but has lived the … Continue reading »
Over the last week or so Fin DAC, the London based street artist hailing from Cork in Ireland, has been a busy man over in France, painting for the street art project Paris Free Walls. The project is a community supported mural initiative produced by the MSAGallery and some of the world’s most talented contemporary … Continue reading »
Another set of flicks from our recent trip to Berlin, this time a selection of paste-ups whose creators are unknown. If you have any idea who created these, please let us know! Particularly enjoy the guy who appears to be half man, half plumbing paraphernalia – keen to find out the artist! UKB Continue reading »
