I am behind on uploading photographs of street art as there's quite a lot being placed up or a lot of it gets tagged over very quickly anymore. French street artist Zabou (who is based in London), has been painting a lot on London's streets from sometime around 2015 when I saw her first pieces. Her work has evolved over the years and keeps getting better and better, and I always love seeing her artwork. I discovered a couple of murals from 2016 and 2018.
"Gold and Hop" was painted in 2016 on Helmsley Place underneath the rail bridge by London Fields overground station. It shows a portrait of a girl with a floral garland in her hair and holding a pint of beer. Around the corner from this and on the same railway line is an additional mural spanning two archways.
This mural features two figures facing each other with the male figure blowing a kiss to the female figure in the next archway, depicted with a floral garland in her hair. The mural is named "Romeo and Juliet". Unfortunately, there was a parked van in front of the mural, so I wasn't able to get a very good photograph of the whole thing.
The other mural is one taken on Brick Lane at a cafe. The shutters are closed on this particular cafe early in the morning or later in the day normally, but it is a shutter that gets tagged over quickly, and I've failed to capture some of the other murals on this same shutter in the past due to the frequency of tagging and the shutter being open when I happen to be in the area. (It was much easier to get photographs when I worked daily on Brick Lane!)
Keep following this blog for more artwork by Zabou. Previous Zabou murals that have appeared on this blog include:
Zabou Refreshes Brick Lane and Salvador Dali Artwork Zabou Paints "Good Vibes"
Zabou Paints "Sisters" on Kingsland Road
Zabou Paints Audrey Hepburn on Brick Lane
Zabou: "Jack the Ripper" Street Art
Zabou: 'Racism is a Virus' Street Art
New Murals by Zabou in East London (Clockwork Orange, Sherlock, David Bowie)
Zabou "The Shining" and Refresh of Salvador Dali in Spitalfields
Villana and Zabou Collaborate on Amy Winehouse Street Art
Zabou paints Sid Vicious from 'The Sex Pistols'
Zabou Paints Freda #2 at Broadway Market
Zabou Paints Salvador Dali on Commercial Road
Koeone and Zabou Collaborate
"Keep Out!" Street Art by Zabou
Zabou's 'Cabinet of Curiosity' Street Art
Leake Street Tunnels Street Art, Spring 2016
Recent Street Art by Zabou
Street Art: Zabou
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