Street art with the tag "Helch" has been appearing across London and outside of London along the roads and on motorway bridges for a few years now, but his artwork seems to be almost everywhere now and across all of London. The first tag or reference to "Helch" that I discovered was on the M25 near Denham in 2019. This was the famous grafitti bridge that used to read "Give PEAS a chance" in capitol letters. An artist named "PEAS" tagged the bridge, and someone else added "Give" and "a chance" as a play on words, such as the famous John Lennon song.
A lot of people were upset when Helch tagged over the name "PEAS", ruining the grafitti. For many, it was a game to spot the bridge or acted as a timing mark in a journey between London and Oxford. The grafitti had a lot of fans, and that's why it was sad to see it ruined in 2019. The following year, it became painted over again with a tribute to the NHS.
This post contains several Helch tags that I have spotted across London.
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