Last weekend saw fun, creativity and a bit of exercise for all the family thanks to local street artist DFace.   Being “Local” was particularly significant as DFace was celebrating decades of decoration on his stomping ground, the street of London. The idea was a treasure hunt.  Solve the clues, find the location, stamp your paper, create Read More The post DFace Shoreditch Stamping Ground Treasure Hunt first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

Fancy an artist endorsed do-it-yourself DFace Print?  This intriguing possibility has been floated in the following to DFace email subscribers: “For one weekend only, D*Face and StolenSpace Gallery will be celebrating their East London heritage by offering the chance to create your very own D*Face print by following a series of clues to five DIY Read More The post DFace East End Street Art Stamping Ground first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

Radiant lovehearts paste ups first started to be seen around Shoreditch in about February this year.   As a bit of a sucker for super saturated colourised photo edits this series was in equal amounts intriguing and beautiful.  A recent chance encounter with the artist Grete Hjorth-Johansen revealed a fascinating story to the art. Grete is Read More The post Lovehearts On Shoreditch Streets by Grete Hjorth-Johansen first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

London has been been blessed with new Banksy street art creation every day for the past 9 days.   Call it the urban jungle, the Banksy zoo, the London Banksy safari, whatever you like, Banksy has treated London to a version of his notorious October 2013 Better Out Than In 30 day New York residency.  Fans Read More The post Banksy Street Art Zoo Breakout first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

Heading into Easter week there was so much activity that it is definitely worth a Shoreditch street art update. Saturday saw the all female WOM collective close off a month long art programme with an all female paint jam in Allen Gardens. That same Saturday morning the discovery of a single paste up by New Read More The post Shoreditch Street Art Update first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

Spring is sprung and Banksy welcomes the freshest season with some fresh street art.  Last Spring it  was Valentines Day Mascara in Southend, this year a hibernating tree bursts into life with a vigorous new canopy of green foliage thanks to a gardener armed with a garden sprayer. It can be interpreted new life, new Read More The post Banksy Imitates Nature first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

On Christmas Eve the Shoreditch Street Art Tour had the pleasure of bumping into Yorgos photographing a charming new street art piece in his signature style painted the night before.  Ever the friendly one, Yorgos delighted guests on the tour by posing alongside his new masterpiece. Yorgos told us that he had painted the artwork Read More The post Yorgos new street art and old first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

2023 Street art, another year down.  Did you smile more often?  Certainly the Smokers crew aka SMO did.  A burst of activity in the Summer sun included the perfect composition of “Smokers” on a railway bridge as well as the crew acronym SMO appearing all over Shoreditch but the crowning piece was their huge Smile Read More The post 2023 Street Art Memories first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

2023 Street art, another year down.  Did you smile more often?  Certainly the Smokers crew aka SMO did.  A burst of activity in the Summer sun included the perfect composition of “Smokers” on a railway bridge as well as the crew acronym SMO appearing all over Shoreditch but the crowning piece was their huge Smile Read More The post 2023 Street Art Hunting lived experience first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

Banksy is in the news again, who’d have thought?  For the benefit of anyone dwelling beneath something hard and rock like, an image of three drone missiles appeared on a STOP sign at a road junction in Peckham, South London, acknowledged as a genuine Banksy on Banksy’s instagram.  What made this Banksy particularly newsworthy was Read More The post Its A Sign Banksy first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more