Street Art

[Reynard]

Some fabby new stuff since I dipped into this thread last. And nice to see the memory jogged as well.

@booze and cake - those gardens you mention... Are they near the railway line just past Shoreditch High Street station?

 

[User10571]

@User10571 @deptfordmarmoset

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Commendable effort sir, third time's a charm. In your defences it was another one from ages ago, back on page 3 again in fact
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And from Roman to ramen, a Woskerski on the side of Wagamama's in Borough market.....mmmmmm noodles.
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Page 3.
My frikkin' nemesis.
As Caesar once said.
Before going off to make a salad.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

A tattoo shop in Batley
(Commercial Street, I wrote)



View: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208588937193171&set=a.10208206049781225.1073741869.1601508436&type=3&theater

 

[booze and cake]

I emailed Janey the street artist I met last week to ask for the name of her friend who did the excellent woollen 'techni-colour yawn' from page 44, so I can give a proper credit for that excellent work. She kindly replied and I've just been back and edited the post, the artist who did that was called Perspicere. I'm not on Instagram, they are apparently and can be followed there, but here's some other great creative examples of their work that are worth checking out: http://globalstreetart.com/perspicere

Janey was off to the Meeting of Styles street art festival in Germany in 2 days time. This is just one is a series of world-wide events going on throughout the year, more details of where found here: http://www.meetingofstyles.com/blog/category/year/2018/ Hopefully our roving international correspondent @nickyboy will have upcoming business trips to some of them:

I've only just found out the London Meeting of Styles was based around the Nomadic Community Garden a few weeks ago, which explains all the recent work I've photographed there recently. @Reynard its around Allen Gardens and Pedley St, not the patch of green on googlemaps that's right by Shoreditch High St station, that's not green at all and is 5 a side football pitches.

I've got a real treat for us today, with a new work by the always excellent Dale Grimshaw who does excellent tribal figures, and did the amazing Bob Marley piece in Brockley from way back in the early days of this thread. Its on the huge and regularly painted wall at Village Underground. I noticed it was underway on Saturday.

Only one mini concertina lift this time, which an assistant informed me he only had for Saturday and Sunday, so all the high up stuff had to be done in 2 days, with the assortment of ladders being used for the rest of it. I went to visit again on Sunday, I love how the lift on this makes her look like one of those African tribal women who practice 'neck lengthening' (I doesn't lengthen the neck apparently, it crushes the collar bones to make the neck look longer https://www.urbo.com/content/the-ancient-tradition-of-neck-elongation-explained/ )

He works fast, I went by again yesterday just before sunset and it looked stunning in the evening light

And the final bit of greenery was added today, it was signed, and tidied up. Truly stunning, I saw numerous jaws drop in amazement in just the few minutes I was there

 

[Reynard]

Wow, that's *amazing* to the artist.

I'm not talking about the 5-a-side pitches @booze and cake If you get on the overground and travel between Shoreditch High Street and Whitechapel, there are a whole load of allotment / garden type thingies that you can see while on the train, and there's some fabby street art there. Couldn't say what the street names are, as I always hop onto the train when I'm heading that way. IICR, they are on the other side of the railway line to the place where you have the painted up tube carriages.

 

[booze and cake]

@Reynard yes those are the ones. You'll like this one from Leake St, from their tags it appears to be an advert/showcase for a tattoo studio in Guildford. I laughed.

 

[Reynard]

Glad we cleared up the confusion @booze and cake

Love the cat, it is a"mew"sing Actually, it's a pretty good representation of an Exotic Shorthair by the artist.

 

[SteveF]

One from Budapest..

 

[User10571]

I emailed Janey the street artist I met last week to ask for the name of her friend who did the excellent woollen 'techni-colour yawn' from page 44, so I can give a proper credit for that excellent work. She kindly replied and I've just been back and edited the post, the artist who did that was called Perspicere. I'm not on Instagram, they are apparently and can be followed there, but here's some other great creative examples of their work that are worth checking out: http://globalstreetart.com/perspicere

Janey was off to the Meeting of Styles street art festival in Germany in 2 days time. This is just one is a series of world-wide events going on throughout the year, more details of where found here: http://www.meetingofstyles.com/blog/category/year/2018/ Hopefully our roving international correspondent @nickyboy will have upcoming business trips to some of them:

I've only just found out the London Meeting of Styles was based around the Nomadic Community Garden a few weeks ago, which explains all the recent work I've photographed there recently. @Reynard its around Allen Gardens and Pedley St, not the patch of green on googlemaps that's right by Shoreditch High St station, that's not green at all and is 5 a side football pitches.

I've got a real treat for us today, with a new work by the always excellent Dale Grimshaw who does excellent tribal figures, and did the amazing Bob Marley piece in Brockley from way back in the early days of this thread. Its on the huge and regularly painted wall at Village Underground. I noticed it was underway on Saturday.
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Only one mini concertina lift this time, which an assistant informed me he only had for Saturday and Sunday, so all the high up stuff had to be done in 2 days, with the assortment of ladders being used for the rest of it. I went to visit again on Sunday, I love how the lift on this makes her look like one of those African tribal women who practice 'neck lengthening' (I doesn't lengthen the neck apparently, it crushes the collar bones to make the neck look longer https://www.urbo.com/content/the-ancient-tradition-of-neck-elongation-explained/ )
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He works fast, I went by again yesterday just before sunset and it looked stunning in the evening light
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And the final bit of greenery was added today, it was signed, and tidied up. Truly stunning, I saw numerous jaws drop in amazement in just the few minutes I was there
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I was going to add the Brockley Bob Marley, to the Brockley coathanger when I posted that at the weekend.
Just as well that I didn't.
Was Brockley Bob on page three as well, by any chance? ;-)

 

[Tim Hall]

I've been in Belgium and saw a few bits:

This giant squid was hanging around in Brussels.

While this party scene was in the lovely city of Mechelen.

This woman was outside the Stella brewery in Leuven, as was the giant toothpaste below. (Bike photographer's own)

I'm pretty sure the regular moped sign doesn't feature a pony tailed rider.

 

[Tim Hall]

These birds were all on a bridge in Leuven, I think:

These flowers, possibly straying from the strict subject of the thread, adorned the Spanish Steps/Montagne de Bueren in Liege.

 

[booze and cake]

I was going to add the Brockley Bob Marley, to the Brockley coathanger when I posted that at the weekend.
Just as well that I didn't.
Was Brockley Bob on page three as well, by any chance? ;-)

Bob is even older, from page 2. And we've had the Roy Ayers one in Brockley too in case you're wondering

Great stuff @SteveF that's our first from there I'm sure, thanks. This thread truly has gone global now.

And thanks @Tim Hall some great ones there, really like the bird ones. And we can veer off course occasionally if its artistic, free, viewable by bike, and you deem it worthy, and those flowers are that

I've got a similarly off beat one today that made me laugh out loud when I saw it. Cutting through Hoxton square I came across this:

Yes believe it or not, that skip is a gallery, what a brilliant idea, love it. More info here: https://www.skipgallery.com/
And on more familiar territory here's a colourful coral scene by Louis Masai in Tooting.

 

[SteveF]

A couple more from Budapest. ...

 

[Reynard]

Love the sewing machine one - I have a machine just like that

 

[booze and cake]

Thanks again @SteveF, really like those
I saw work start on this today, I'm betting its a corporate advert, we'll see. Look out for the phone zombies in the road.

And opposite the Escher like panel I photographed over the course of a week back on page 46, an impressive and detailed Romeo and Juliet scene has appeared.