Street Art

[booze and cake]

Good ones @User13710, the face of Stoke one is like the one of the eye @Tim Hall posted from Tower Bridge Road a while back. And good to see Faunagraphic getting out to the shires, they did another bird one in Camden I photographed earlier in the year.

We lost one of the most iconic voices of the 20th century last week. The afterlife just got a lot more soulful, RIP Aretha Franklin. Here's a couple of tributes I saw over the weekend.

And this made me laugh.

 

[rich p]

A couple from the Lanes area of Brighton.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@booze and cake
The Aretha murals are quick work, but damned good!!!


Carter Street (a clue to its previous main trade)
off WestGate
Wakefield

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

KirkGate
Wakefield

Pussycat Tattoo

There's one in Batley, a few miles away with The Joker on it
(closed/painted over now)

 

[booze and cake]

@Richard A Thackeray me too, one Aretha would be impressive so soon after her passing, but finding two was a real surprise.

I thought I'd post this one from my ride yesterday, another one for the 'a bit different category'. Next to the millennium Dome (I refuse to call it the O2....) is a huge upside down electricity pylon that looks like its fallen from the skies. Its by artist Alex Chinneck.

I had to go to Camden this afternoon, while there I discovered the name of an artist whose work I've liked and posted 3 times before, but was unable to identify. Remember the part mechanical animals, the hedgehog

the leopard

and the marlin

...well today I came cross some birds

This is the only one that's been signed, although I had to strain my eyes until they watered to read it....something Ardif. Bingo! The interweb reveals Ardif is a French artist based in Paris, more info and some more excellent examples of their work here: https://www.urbacolors.com/en/artist/ardif

Funnily enough I've had a trio of black and white finds. In a side street further up Camden High St is this.

And in a side street off Whitecross St is another Paul Don Smith work.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

@Richard A Thackeray me too, one Aretha would be impressive so soon after her passing, but finding two was a real surprise.

I thought I'd post this one from my ride yesterday, another one for the 'a bit different category'. Next to the millennium Dome (I refuse to call it the O2....) is a huge upside down electricity pylon that looks like its fallen from the skies. Its by artist Alex Chinneck.
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I had to go to Camden this afternoon, while there I discovered the name of an artist whose work I've liked and posted 3 times before, but was unable to identify. Remember the part mechanical animals, the hedgehog
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the leopard
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and the marlin
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...well today I came cross some birds
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This is the only one that's been signed, although I had to strain my eyes until they watered to read it....something Ardif. Bingo! The interweb reveals Ardif is a French artist based in Paris, more info and some more excellent examples of their work here: https://www.urbacolors.com/en/artist/ardif

Funnily enough I've had a trio of black and white finds. In a side street further up Camden High St is this.
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And in a side street off Whitecross St is another Paul Don Smith work.
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I've been past that pylon many times and managed to find a name for the work a while ago. I've since managed to forget it but it was along the lines of ''It came from outer space.''

Anyhow, back on track. This is a Deptford one that has recently appeared under the arches

And one from the London Bridge end of Druid Street which even features bicycles and the strange hat lifting powers of Tower Bridge:

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

On the 'tunnel' that gave access to the fishing lakes, from Green Lane, but is now part of a local cycle-way (Wakefield Wheel')
It passes under the M1, between jcts 39 & 40
'Horbury Junction'

Taken during a rather wet ride back from Caphouse Colliery, & the; http://www.leafersatpit.org.uk/latp/

This one is painted over, but it gives the location; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/386539

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

On the 'tunnel' that gave access to the fishing lakes, from Green Lane, but is now part of a local cycle-way (Wakefield Wheel')
It passes under the M1, between jcts 39 & 40
'Horbury Junction'

Taken during a rather wet ride back from Caphouse Colliery, & the; http://www.leafersatpit.org.uk/latp/

This one is painted over, but it gives the location; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/386539

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[Richard A Thackeray]

On the 'tunnel' that gave access to the fishing lakes, from Green Lane, but is now part of a local cycle-way (Wakefield Wheel')
It passes under the M1, between jcts 39 & 40
'Horbury Junction'

Taken during a rather wet ride back from Caphouse Colliery, & the; http://www.leafersatpit.org.uk/latp/

This one is painted over, but it gives the location; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/386539

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[Richard A Thackeray]

On the 'tunnel' that gave access to the fishing lakes, from Green Lane, but is now part of a local cycle-way (Wakefield Wheel')
It passes under the M1, between jcts 39 & 40
'Horbury Junction'

Taken during a rather wet ride back from Caphouse Colliery, & the; http://www.leafersatpit.org.uk/latp/

This one is painted over, but it gives the location; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/386539

​

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

On the 'tunnel' that gave access to the fishing lakes, from Green Lane, but is now part of a local cycle-way (Wakefield Wheel')
It passes under the M1, between jcts 39 & 40
'Horbury Junction'

Taken during a rather wet ride back from Caphouse Colliery, & the; http://www.leafersatpit.org.uk/latp/

This one is painted over, but it gives the location; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/386539

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[deptfordmarmoset]

Street vehicle art (bringing beer to Deptford):

 

[GM]

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Here's one I saw at BeaverTown brewery on a Saturday afternoon couple of years ago......

 

[booze and cake]

@deptfordmarmoset the pylon one is called 'A bullet from a shooting star' https://www.dezeen.com/2015/09/17/a...lectricity-pylon-london-design-festival-2015/

@Richard A Thackeray that portrait looks like Hunter S Thomson to me.

This has been painted over already. Alas I'm rubbish at languages, I'm still getting to grips with English, but this looks to me like Sanskrit. I'd love to know what it means, if anything. Any CC'ers know Sanskrit?

Just off the famous Lambeth Walk in south London, is Damien Hirst's old gallery.

And across the road is this of the man himself.

Someone's written across his forehead 'I am James Whale' which gave me a laugh. I haven't heard that cringe-worthy shock-jocks name since his 80's late night TV show, that was the last thing on telly at night where I grew up in ITV's Welsh hinterland zone, HTV.
This is over in Hackney

This is new in Shoreditch and is near the amazing tiger I photographed recently.

Remember the house in a skip from page 48, direct link here: https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/street-art.221565/post-5276090
I was at the Freize art fair in Regent's Park this afternoon and they had another house just like it

And my other favourite 'park-art' pieces were these:

Some more pics of the artworks can be seen in my post in the 'my ride today thread', linky: https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/your-ride-today.173254/post-5363422

 

[Reynard]

There's something really disconcerting about that portrait of a young woman. It's not quite right, and it doesn't half make my eyes go funny...