I really wanted to get to the Nomadic Community Gardens for this year's Meeting of the Styles. Unfortunately, I've been ill with a bad cold for most of the month of May and I've only just started to feel better. I still wasn't really up for going out on Saturday, but I wanted to get photographs before the street art was replaced as it never lasts long. I was glad that I went because I was really impressed with the big wall in Nomadic Community Gardens this year. This post covers the wall, as I thought it deserved a post of its own, but I will post photographs of the other street art from Meeting of the Styles in another post as there were some wonderful pieces this year.
The big wall is designed to look like Adobe Photoshop application on Microsoft Windows, a program that I am all too familiar with. The street art is presented in several Adobe Photoshop windows with the dialogs arranged to include a series of street art inside them with names of the files becoming the artist's name. There are also cursors, a colour-picker dialog, and "error" alert, and a partially-transparent background with part of street art design on top of it. It's actually a very creative idea.
The bottom of the wall shows the names of the artists who contributed to the wall: Voyder, Jeba, Fanakapan, Jim Vision, Core 246, Aches, Samer, Jay Kaes, and Irony. It also included the date and the sponsors of the "Meeting of the Styles".
In the above image, the image in the top right dialog is by Jay Kaes, a London-based artist that often paints portraits using dimension and comic style, and I've covered his work many times on this blog.
To the left of that image is work from artist Aches from Dublin. It shows a greyscale grafitti-style tag of the artist's name.
The bottom right image with the alert dialog was created by Irony, which is a photo-realistic portrait in very much in the style that Irony paints.
The bottom right image shich appears to be a flower is created by artist Samer. To the left of this is a portrait of two men in blue and pink colours, and this was painted by Core 246.
The piece above contains the artists that I have already identified except for the chrome skull, which is by artist Fanakapan, who paints in London often and paints foil balloons, chrome and glass.
From the top left in the above image is a grafitti-style drawing of a blue man by street artist Jeba. To the right of this is artwork by Jim Vision, who is based in London and often paints fantasy-style artwork.
The above photograph artists have been identified except for the top piece, which is by Voyder. It's very eye-catching as it is created with bright neon colours. Not only that, but the artist allowed creativity of the Adobe Photoshop theme here but seeming to erase a part of the background and then add the "transparency" background (the white and grey grid) with the squiggle line painted on the top layer.
Overall, the artwork here and the idea has been done very well, which blends all of the artwork and the different styles together perfectly. To see the wall, make your way to the Nomadic Community Gardens off Brick Lane. The gardens are located under the railway bridge off Pedley Street, and it is opened most of the day on Saturdays and usually later in the week from around noon.
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