London Mural Festival 2024 visited photographed and described
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London Mural Festival 2024
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2024 Pasteup Festival
4th edition of London International Pasteup Festival in Brick Lane with contribution from all over the world and lots of cats
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Southend City Jam 2024
When you are spoilt for choice of Street Art festivals but have limited time, you must choose wisely. The annual Southend Festival Jam has evolved into one of the most intense and largest street art spraypainting orgies. The quality of artwork certainly rewards the daytrip from London. A fair old chunk of the afternoon was […]
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Meeting Of Styles UK 2018
Meeting Of Styles Nomadic Community Gardens, Shoreditch 26 – 28th May 2018 At the end of May there is a Bank Holiday in the UK though really no one knows why or cares what for. This provides a marvellous opportunity for a huge array of spraypainting talent to gather in Shoreditch for a frenzy of […]
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Meeting Of Styles UK 2015
Shoreditch, London 10 – 12 July 2015 all photos: NoLionsInEngland Meeting Of Styles returned to Shoreditch last week for the second Summer on the trot. Over a 2 day period spraycan graffiti writers and street artists from Brazil to Russia via Spain and UK threw a wild ribbon of colour around Shoreditch. Ekto & friends […]
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Meeting Of Styles UK 2014
all photos NoLionsInEngland except HowAboutNo where stated Meeting Of Styles is an international celebration of the art of the spraycan, graffiti and music. Since 2002 Meeting Of Styles spraycan art jams have taken place in 16 countries. Last weekend it was the turn of Shoreditch to host the Meeting Of Styles UK 2014 event. Billed […]
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Hackney Wicked
Hackney Wick30 July – 1 Aug 2010 Hackney Wick is bohemian, decaying, swampy and trendy though a lot of its post industrial bleakness is being surrendered to the concrete sports temples rising out of the mud and mire. Some of the resilient local artist community, 670 or so the promotional bumpf proclaims like some kind […]
One of the unique charms of London’s art galleries is their enlightened welcome of members of the public who can add their own enhancements to the displayed works and correct the principal artist’s shortcomings. Actually no but in the case of the Leake Street tunnel there ain’t no stopping anyone with a spray can getting […]
I haven’t seen any comment anywhere else so I am begining to wonder if I am reading too much into the letters in the tunnel! Anyway, without doubt the Cans tunnel has a Hunt The Thimble game involving each letter of the alphabet, I have only found 23 – could someone return the E, the […]
Leake Street tunnel re-opened this morning to reveal a lush kaleidoscope of freehand spray graffiti and ensemble of burnt out cars. Crowd control barriers not required this time – no crowds! No ice cream vans, no posters, not even any staff, just a no-fuss “ok, at your leisure look at what we’ve done this time” […]
Remember how news of the Cans Festival broke to us common plebs last May? Some posters, a list of artists too incredible to believe? In just 5 days time? Well, now we have a new mystery: What could it be? Some have talked of something fresh, some have talked of The Grand Buff (actually I […]
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Meeting of Styles ’08
Why is it the best events are always the ones you don’t know a thing about?! The Meeting of Styles was going on as we took a random walk round the back of the “trains in the air” wall to see if there was any update to the progress of Fridays half painted out ATG […]
Or Cans Festival: you created a monsterWords: NoLionsInEngland; pictures NoLions, Howaboutno Foreword – Cans Festival (the bits that make sense of where this post is coming from):Cans Festival – the first preview night visitCans Festival – Let Us Spray – what went on in Banksy’s pet project, the public access spray zone The gauntlet was […]