In late 2012 I had a brief insight into Parisian street art, and have been thinking about it ever since. Having become reasonably familiar with London and Berlin’s scene, it was great to be confronted by work from a hoard of new artists whose work I was almost completely unaware of. While the heavyweights of … Continue reading »
UKB recently caught up with Hannah Adamaszek, a freelance artist based in the UK who played a big part in the success of the recently finished Brandalism project and has contributed yet more large scale work at this year’s Boardmasters Festival in Newquay. Having spent much of her 20s travelling she’s now attracting interest with … 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 »
We spent last weekend in, arguably, the best city for street art in Europe. If there’s ever a city that never fails to disappoint, it’s Berlin. We took so many photos it’s taken some time just to look through them. Over the next few days we’ll post up the most interesting here. Let us know … Continue reading »
Edinburgh’s general attitude to urban art took another step in the right direction (from our perspective!) with the start of the Shutter Project as part of the LeithLate 2012 festival. The project aims to transform 6 of the drab looking security shutters belonging to small businesses in the Leith area of Edinburgh over the next … Continue reading »
Another batch of pictures from the recent trip east to Berlin. In this set there’s a mix of classic murals from Blu, and highly visible work from Kripoe (right in Alexanderplatz), mixed in with Karl Addison’s Llamas installation on Manteuffelstrasse, a sellection of the prolific Prost, and a bold female piece from Alice. Let us … Continue reading »
It’s been a long time coming (well, 6 months to be exact) but the 3rd edition of the extremely popular biannual graffiti magazine ‘Canela’ is now available to buy. It was welcomed onto the shelves (both electronic and physical!) at Impaktes Visuals, with everything from live painting (by Dyse) to live rap performances, and the … Continue reading »
Some stunningly colourful and detailed large scale mural work from Spanish artist Kram at Wool Urban Art Festival recently. The festival sets out to use several walls in the city as a support for interventions of urban artists, with the aim of bringing, for the first time, an event of such characteristics to an interior … Continue reading »
