As Shoreditch, an inner city district in London’s East End, continues its transformation from a working class neighborhood into London’s most creative hub, its walls attract not only the best of its local artists, but those from across the globe. Here are a few images captured on my recent visit — more to come! Photos of …
I have always been a fan of colourful character based street art. For me personally, there is only so much of the polar opposite, stencil art, I can take before I find it all merges into one large mess of overlapping ideas and style. Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy the use of stencils …
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Pez (the Spanish one) has his first UK solo show opening this week at Tony’s Gallery. Like most shows at Tony’s Gallery, Smiling since 1999 will be a mixture of installations and works on more traditional materials like canvas. Taking advantage of his time in London to hype the show a bit, Pez has been …
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Pez and Tom14 from Barcelona recently painted this wall in Bogota, Columbia.
Barcelona’s Pez and Kenor are in Turin, Italy this week for a show at the Galo Art Gallery. It opens on Friday. Here’s a piece they painted together a while back in Barcelona: Photo by txmx 2
Todd James aka REAS‘ latest solo show opened this week at Madrid’s Galeria Javier López. Glltn has plenty of photos, and REAS fans should definitely check out their full set of images. There’s some great pieces in this show. Personally, my favorites are his Somali Soldier series. Photos by Glltn
Jess X Snow (@jessxsnow), the author of this post, is an artist, filmmaker and Pushcart-nominated poet. At its worst, public art can be imagery that heightens already existing social hierarchies and inequalities, and at its best–can be a portal into a future of healing and transformation. I am a queer Asian American immigrant woman and non-citizen to …
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Spaik got an early start on his mural for Street Skills in Colombia. The mural is part of the third edition of Street Skills, a festival aimed to gather street artists and graffiti writers to showcase their works in various cities throughout Colombia. Street Skills will be taking place in 3 different Colombian cities throughout the …
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Juuuust in time for the end of the month, as usual. I’ve been working on some very special projects here in Melbourne all of which I will be sharing over the next month! September was another great month in Melbourne. As usual a bunch of shows and some of the best street art and graffiti …
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This month, Swampy and ekg both released quite unexpected video pieces on YouTube, and I happened see a relatively new piece by Adam Void aka AVOID pi for the first time (even though it was uploaded in June). What I find so interesting about these three artists making these videos is that all three come …
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