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

The third London International Pasteup Festival team tactically arranged the new art submitted for the festival around existing art.  Some of that existing art was well weathered from LIPF2, the second London International Pasteup Festival. Read all abaht LIPF3 HERE, then enter the competition. Prize: A voucher for the Shoreditch Street Art Tour for up Read More The post Spot The Difference! Competition Time first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

“A decaying paste up in Butte aux Caille proved worthy of almost an entire essay in itself.  The subject is a young girl, looking confidently at the viewer, relaxed yet perhaps not totally welcoming our intrusion into her world.  The concentration on her face seems to ask “Is this a person I can trust or Read More The post Street Art In Paris first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

Space Invader last strengthened his invasion of London in 2016 and from a peak of 150 the number of Invaders stationed in London has slowly diminished.  Some have been kidnapped and a number of those have been held to ransom on Planet Ebay.  Some went dark, contact lost as they simply disappeared.  Some deteriorated and Read More The post Space Invader Flashing and Flashed first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more

The 3rd edition of the London International Pasteup Festival was a magnificent, colourful, creative and chaotic success.   Following an open call art came from all over the world including Australia, New Zealand, Italy, France, Germany, Norway, USA, Jordan, Greece, Uruguay and Preston to name just a few places that aren’t London. The art included every Read More The post London International Pasteup Festival 2023 first appeared on Shoreditch Street Art Tours London Street Art Tours ..read more