“Repeat visits are recommended” we urged in our review of the “Beyond The Streets” Exhibition at Saatchi Gallery in London. The show has been consistently busy even on weekdays but on Easter Sunday I found myself lasat in in the afternoon and wandering through a completely deserted gallery.   This was very much a “quick pop in” Read More The post Beyond The Streets Revisited first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

A couple of weeks ago I made a trip to Manchester to explore that city’s street art.  Manchester has great architecture, a distinct exciting personality adn plenty of locations where stencils, stickers, paste ups and graffiti flourishes.  There are also some impressive murals. This next gallery is a sample of the roughly 800 photographs taken Read More The post Manchester Street Art first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

Into the second hour of my wander through Beyond The Streets a wall label poses the question “How do we get from graffiti on Parisian streets of the 1930s that Brassai captured, to the Academy Award nominated film “Exit Through The Gift Shop” by Banksy?”   Therein lies this exhibition’s dilemma. Beyond The Streets is part Read More The post Beyond The Streets Exhibition Review first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

Beyond The Streets, a huge public exhibition dedicated to the history of graffiti, street art and related cultures related has arrived in London after previously showing in New York and LA. The exhibition is epic in scale and wide ranging in content and features art and installations from many household names from the urban art Read More The post Beyond The Streets Exclusive Intervew first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

Argentinian stencil artist Cartoonneros is in town again, this is hard to miss if you are paying attention in Shoreditch. A few days ago I had the honour of visiting a posh west end gallery (private, appointment only!) with Cartoonneros and after that visit, rather than go for a coffee as I had anticipated, our Read More The post Street Artist Cartoonneros Surviving England On Ten Pounds first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

Hanging a new calendar signals a lovely excuse to look back over the best of Shoreditch street art 2022.   Here is a slide show of some of the best, there is a full write up on Graffoto, my personal street art blog, which goes into more depth regarding the hows and whys of these highlights. The post Best Of Shoreditch Street Art 2022 first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

As well as being a street art capital, Shoreditch hosts a lot of advertising.  It comes in many varieties, billboards, flyposters, spraypainted mural adverts, and more.   Adbusting has been the street artists traditional response to adverts. Street Art has always held an anti advertising stance close to its heart, we prefer art on the streets Read More The post Thom Thom Club Adbusting first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

We have been aware of a proliferation of street art in Penge for some time but didn’t get the chance to visit until this weekend just gone.  This just happened to be the weekend of major Halloween festivities so a lot of the Halloween themed street art was being exhibited to the public for the Read More The post Street Art in Penge Rooftop Gallery first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

The second edition of the London International Paste Up Festival took place 20-23 October 2022.  Artists from all over the world, about 300 all told, sent in paper-based artwork which the organisers pasted up on a number of walls mainly around the Brick Lane area. Street art was put up on a total of 7 Read More The post London International Paste Up Festival 2 first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

This August a group of street artists from Portland, Oregon as well as their friends from other endz visited Shoreditch to bless the public realm with their creativity.   Various combinations of this group have been visiting Europe regularly over the years and the street art they create is never short of impressive. RX Skulls and Voxx Read More The post Portland and NY Street Artists visit Shoreditch first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more