London’s Eastend is an urban art mecca
Berlin, were we live is often considered to be Europe’s streetart capital. While it is true, that Berlin is a top destination from all over the world and that we have a number of local artist who are up there with the best, the overall quality is rather mixed. So let’s see how things are in London. A huge Thank You to Klaudia for providing us with this awesome collection of murals and grafitti from the British capital. If you’re interested in streetart from Berlin, you might enjoy the collection we’re maintaining over at Berlin on Bike.
Where available we added the artist and their homepage at the bottom of this post.
Street Art gallery London Eastend
Eine’s ,large-format typos have made him one of London’s most recognizable street artists
French artist Zabou has long been a resident of London and you find her works all over the Eastend, most of them featuring comic like portraits that are slightly off-key.
I guess this mural by David Davin on streetcorner in London’s Eastend is some kind of cultural criticism
Sadly we unable to find out who created this old-school gangsta mural in shoreditch, London
D-Face often uses a classical 1950s comic look as in this piece called East London Rebels. It advertises a manufacturer of hand-made and high-quality motorcycle stuff.
Love this 3D-octopus by ACE NYLON, who now goes by the name of A.CE London
London’s Eastend still has some of those rundown, in-between areas where developers have not yet taken over, which offers many ways for street artists to leave their mark
More an ad than a real street art piece, nonethless this mural on the wall of LEvy Safe Co Locksmiths is quite impressive
Of course the Avengers read comics, if the iron can keep his death-rays to himself for long enough.
Australian artist James Reka – who now lives in Berlin – has left a couple of pieces in Shoreditch as well. Even though I couldn’t really describe his style, it is easy to identify.
This lascivious pile of female nakedness puts visitors of club Row in the right mood for a night out in the Eastend.
Tribute to Filipino artist Ben Naz, who died of cancer in 2012.
Funny faces in London’s Eastend
Colourful mural of a woman in a leotard with african print
Mural of London in the rain on Hanbury Street
Possibly another mural by James Reka
Mural of a disco scene in London’s Eastend
Stay Rad comes easy with this London mural
Street artist ELLE, originally from New York now tours the whole world and her works are being exhibited in some of the most prestigeous museums and galleries. This piece reminds a bit of Dalí – when he had particularly bad dreams the night before.
Zina (on the left is originally from Norway but now lives her life in a small town in the Finnish arctic circle.
We weren’t really able to find out much about c215, other than that he (or she) is probably French.
Thierry Noir in London. I’m pretty sure this piece was paid for by someone. Thierry’s days as an unpaid artist are largely over, even though he’s still creating new pieces in his home Berlin
Dscreet’s owls can be found all around the world.
Two more owls by Dscreet in London, this time in black and white: “you know the day divides the night”
Stik is among London’s most famous artists. Interestingly enough, this exact piece is used to illustrate an exhibition about muslims in the GDR, that is running in a museum, right beside my Berlin office.
Another one by STIK, not sure if they’re barfing or just shouting at each other.
The large-scale naturalistic pieces by ROA remind me of Dürer in their extremely detailed execution. Most of the time they can be seen as condemning the way we treat nature, although this one seems to be largely decorative.
On the right, another mural by roa, depicting a huge bird (a heron maybe? I’m a city boy, I don’t have to know these things) Sadly we weren’t able to identify the artist responsible for the dynamic breakdancer on the left
James Cochran aka Jimmy C has a unique style, that’s basically a modern version of Pointilism. You can find many of his works in London, Berlin and other majour cities around Europe.
“Do You trust me? ” powerful stencil by SYD in Londons Eastend
Colourful wall with various paste-ups in London. I really like the fantasy critters by Jonesy in the middle
Absolute masterpiece by Dale Grimshaw covering an Indian restaurant in Shoreditch. By now, probably one of Londons most famous murlas.
Much to see on this wall. Aside from the rather cheesy portrait of Prince we really digged the rainbow stormtroopers by minty
We’re actually no experts, either on London or art, but the overall quality of the work in Klaudia’s pictures is absolutely stunning. Stay tuned for more part 2 is in the making.
Artist’s profiles, Street Art of London
David David
Zabou
Eine
Minty
Dale Grimshaw
Jonesy
SYD
Jimmy C
ROA
Stik
Dscreet
C215
Jim Vision