Camden Street Art Self-Guided Trail

Last September, I invited a friend to walk along Camden's streets with me looking for street art. I have been wanting to get over to this area to check it out and to see the street art. I have seen a few walls but have not gone out to specifically look for it. Overall, there actually are not too many walls, so you can do a walk in a couple of hours with a quick stop at the market and lunch. I was expecting a little more than what there was, but it also does not change as much here. Anyway, for the street art trail, we started at Chalk Farm tube station. (At the time of publishing, some of this work may have been replaced.)

The first wall is around the corner from Chalf Farm Station at the corner of Regent's Park Road. This long wall had multiple street art here, and some of it was stunning. However, it has been tagged over so that you cannot see much at all of it. Eduardo Kobra painted the wall, which originally had a work by Banksy. Kobra is from Brazil, and he was commissioned to paint this wall with inspiration from The Roundhouse theatre, which used to be a railway building. This is why the artwork incorporated a steam train as well as performers, such as the one below being one of the only parts oft he wall to have not been tagged over.

Further down Chalf Farm Road and toward Camden Market (walking south), is a stencil of Amy Winehouse by Pegasus. It is just inside the door of a cafe.

Further down the road and we come to Ferdinand Road on the left. This wall has been painted with giant parrots by Grafitti Life. It is a very colourful and summery wall.

Continue walking down toward Camden Market and we come to a face "Be Still". I am not sure who the artist is, but it reminds me of the work that French street artist Gregos creates with the three-dimensional faces.

A bit further down the road toward Camden Market and the next road on the left is Harmood Street, and this contains some great street art, including this beautiful girl with roses in her hair by Irony. Irony is a UK-based street artist who creates realistic murals. Normally, Irony teams up with fellow street artist Boe to collaborate on work; they normally paint realistic animals and birds. I recently covered some of their work on this blog at (Boe & Irony: Upfest in Bristol).

The next building on this road contains a colourful mural by Plim, a street artist duo from Brazil who paint very colourful fruits, plants, and animals. We will see more of their work later, but it is a very summery wall.

Go back to the main road and then head south and turn left at the next road (Hartland Road) to see the huge mural by Dan Kitchener. Dan Kitchener paints night time city street scenes with Tokyo featuring heavily in his work. (Check out the most recent blog post: Dan Kitchener's work on Pedley Street). This was painted last July.

Next to the Dan Kitchener mural is another huge wall (in two parts) with work by Carmen de Sozer featuring gold trophy men.

I also came across this stencil, which wasn't named but reminds me of the work by The Banker (Paul Don Smith).

And I found this little owl on a wall further down the road.

Further down this road, turn right onto Hawley Road and then turn right again on Hawley Street. Here you will find a huge cluster of street art. At the corner of the road here is a small alleyway that is pedestrianised, with a mural by JRTL.

The alleyway is called Hawley Mews. I'm not sure who created the artwork below.

James Chuter (choots) created the one next to it with colourful organic orbs.

Word16 and another artist created some artwork next to that one.

Himbad (covered here: Early 2016 London Street Art Round-up), who paints cat-like creatures collaborated on this one with his cat on the left; Marina Zumi is who he collaborated with.

Airbourne Mark, who is from London, also created a new piece for his Origami Roots series; it is a rose. (See Airborne Mark Paints "Flower of Life" - Origami Riots for his most recent work that I have covered.)

Chinagirl Tile (lastly covered in Bristol Upfest 2018) also pasted up some three-dimensional china pieces here featuring a boy reaching for a pile of money.

On the side of the building here where the alleyway becomes more narrow, Batman and Robin scale the wall.

Next to this artwork are giant chrome bees and bugs by Fanakapan, a London-based street artist (Fanakapan Star Yard MagnaDonuts Mural).

On top of this building is a smaller mural by Italian-based abstract artist Hunto (Hunto and MisterThomas Collaborate on Connectivity Matters Mural).

This little peeking Batman is a different artist, and the artist of his one is Cranio, a Brazilian-based street artist who has painted in London a few years ago. (For more information, see Cranio - Collaborations with Himbad, Zadok, & Kazz or Collaboration Street Art: Cranio & Fanakapan).

The below piece on the side of the wall was impossible to photograph, and the door was opened up so you could not see all of it, but it is by Pang and features her cowboy characters painting over the mural. You can see her last work that I covered here: Pang Paints "Carnival of the Weird" on Hanbury Street

On the end of the street, we have more colourful parrots by Grafitti Life. It was very hard to photograph, though.

Going back through Hawley Mews, the opposite wall here has a mural by Plim, who I covered above.

Now, head back out the way you came in on Hawley Street, and you will see some artwork by Otto Schade. Originally from Chile, Oschade lives in London and does paint quite a lot on London's streets. The most recent work I covered of his is here: Otto Schade Paints "The Lady Don't Protest Enough" Mural on Bateman's Row/

His work on the wall features Amy Winehouse.

He has also painted one of his standing females using the ribbon style of painting here, and on the same wall is a rhino using the same style and another female.

"Pussy Cat of Cameden" is part of Airbourne Mark's Origami Roots series and is located next to the work by Otto Schade.

Turn left and walk down Hawley Street, away form Camden Market. Then walk past a green space. You will see some more work by Carmen de Sozer by the railway line.

Go to Castlehaven Road, and then join Hawley Road and you will see "Burn" street art by Irony, which features a spray paint can shooting out flames. It has been here for awhile and is one of the most popular pieces in the area.

Also in this area on the main road is a Himbad cat (Kentish Town Road).

And then a work by Hunto on the A40.

And then this mural by Onesto and Mort under a railway bridge when you head back to Castlehaven Road.

On Castlehaven Road, toward Camden Market and Camden Road, you will find a few pieces here, including paste-ups. Lost Hils often creates paste-ups, and you can see more of their work here: Losthills Jake Paste-Ups Appear in East London.

Also is a piece by Urban Solid, a street art duo from Italy (Urban Solid New Work - Human Beings Are Connected).

And here's some more artwork about protecting the bees.

One of the best murals here was the mural by Dale Grimshaw. He paints very realistic murals featuring people. At the moment, he is supporting to free West Papua, so this is one of the works in his series. You can see more work by the artist on this blog here: Dale Grimshaw Paints the Village Underground Wall, Part 2. Unfortunately, it has been painted over.

Also, there are a few other artworks on this road / Castlehaven Road.

This mural by Void is popular and has survived over two years.

Turn back and go to Camden Road and keep heading south. The next road you will take is Hawley Crescent. Turn immediately right onto Stuckey Place, a side road. You will see another Origami Roots painting of a rose by Airbourne Mark.

Further along, you will see a giant monkey by UK street artist Gnasher.

Then turn left onto Bucks streets and you will find a colourful mural by AeroArts.

There's also a few other pieces along here as you turn onto Buck Street.

Turn right on Buck Street and walk to the other end and you will see a colourful mural by Fabio Lopes.

And on a wall here is a plaque commemorating the singer Prince.

Turn left at the end of Buck Street onto Kentish Road Town, and there is a cluster of street art here in a little courtyard. Dan Kitchener has another mural here.

There's a paste up and a mask by Gregos.

Himbad created some cats here.

I could not get a decent photo because the gate was open, but Mark Airbourne created another mural here with an emoji in his series with folded "paper" style.

Street artist Sr X also painted a mural here (Sr. X (Señor X) "The Rapture" Street Art on the Village Underground).

On the side of this one is Ant Carver (Ant Carver Adds More Paste-ups to Sclater Street), who creates colourful portraits. Both of these are beautiful pieces.

Another beautiful one is by Stinkfish (Stinkfish Paints Hanbury Street Ahead of "Portraits in Transit"), a street artist from Columbia who has painted in London a couple of times before.

UrbanSolid have also placed one of their audio pieces on the walls here.

And on another wall, I discovered a face by Gregos, which has since been painted over.

Now, that is all there is in this area, and to get to the next street art, you need to walk down Camden Road toward Mornington Crescent. On the right is Miller Street, and it has some art down this little alleyway. The first is from the film "The Goonies" by JXC.

On the opposite wall is a series of guns that spells out "LIFE". The artist of this piece is Urban Solid.

A flock of colourful birds here has been painted by Sarot.

Further down is another piece by Urban Solid.

A larger mural (but one that is also hard to photograph) is unknown, but it features a horse. There's quite a bit on this road and then around the corner.