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At the start of the year, street artist Conor Harrington created a mural on a gate off Brick Lane. The artist, who is originally from Ireland but now lives in London, has painted many murals across London. This newest one replaces a similar mural painted in January. Similar to the January mural, the subject is a man covering himself in bunting. It is a political and social piece that reflects on self-congratulatory masculine society. The artist generally paints his subjects in a classical style with traditional costume. This mural has been painted in greyscale with a pale blue background.

More work by Conor Harrington on this blog can be seen here:

New Mural by Conor Harrington Off Brick Lane
Street Art: Conor Harrington
Baroque the Streets: Dulwich Street Art
Dublin Street Art
Street Art on Whitecross Street
New Street Art by Conor Harrington
Belfast Street Art
Street Art Round-up in Early Spring 2014
Street Art Tour of Walthamstow

Street artist Ant Carver, who is based on London, created a lot of portraits across east London back in 2016 and 2017. In 2019, I had captured some photographs of a couple of paste-ups that were spread around Brick Lane that year, but I did not get to capture too many that year as I wasn't making many trips in to see the street art. On a street art tour in Penge at the end of last year, I photographed another mural from the artist on a wall. The style used in these is illustration with greyscale portraits imposed with colourful crayon-like markings drawn across them.

The above mural located in Penge was painted in the summer of 2017, so the colourful markings across the greyscale portrait are appearing faded.

The artist is currently focused on a new style with more realistic portraits in recent work, such as the one that appeared on Hanbury Street a couple of years ago. 

The first sculpture trail of the year put together by Hemel Hempstead and Wild in Art is "The Big Hoot" in Hemel Hempstead. This family-friendly trail featuring twelve large-sized painted owl sculptures can be explored on foot in the centre of Hemel Hempstead, and it is designed to bring people into the town as part of the Business Improvement agenda after the pandemic. Each of the owl sculptures is unique and encourages exploration of the area with themed events taking place during school half term. The sculptures are in place until the middle of April and just after Easter, so there's plenty of time to visit.

Night Owl by Sue Guthrie

Captain Bluebeard by Donna Newman

Dandelion by Ruth Green

Professor Mechanicus by Glen Brooks and Owlbert by Carloline Daly

Midnight Blossom by Milan Topalovik

The Love Owl - Nisha Grover

Nocturnals by Amanda Quellin

Oh what a night by Roy Meats

Open with Love by Sally Adams and The Beach T'Owl by Megan Heather Evans

Terry the Tiger Owl by Lucky Pablo

I visited the owls on a chilly weekend day in early March. All of the sculptures are relatively close together along a twenty-minute walk from the old town High Street to the modern city centre with shops along the river.

Right after Halloween last year, I came across a large Halloween-themed paint jam that took place on Grey Eagle Street behind Brick Lane and another smaller paint jam that took place off of Great Eastern Street. The work is painted on the walls and contains at least twenty new street art murals featuring Jim Vision, Captain Kris, BAOne, Frankie Strand, and others.

Captain Kris

BAOne

BAOne

Asto

The Real Dill

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unknown

Frankie Strand

Tom Blackford

REN and XRC

REN

unknown

Jim Vision

Jim Vision

Coffee CanArt

unknown

unknown

unknown

unknown

Sugar, 2Rise

Trafik

Tizer

ThisOne, MichoGato, Nush Poke

MichoGato

ThisOne

Jim Vision

Matika

Jim Vision

Only HMZ

Most of these murals have since been painted over, and it's taken me a little while to post this.

Going back to the end of May in 2020, the United Kingdom was in the middle of one of the strictest lockdowns in the world. Meanwhile, across the ocean in America, a social awakening was happening. The "Black Lives Matter" movement had begun to bring the awareness of prejudice and social injustice. Several murals across London had been painted along the same lines, which I managed to photograph as soon as the lockdowns ended and as soon as I was able to get out. I obviously was unable to capture everything, but here are a few photographs of some of the murals painted. Additionally, one of the murals I'd already posted up with street artist's Zabou's mural here: Racism is a Virus.

The above mural appeared on Great Eastern street and is mainly typography sreet art. I am unsure who painted it.

Street artist David Speed, who has been painting many murals in pink neon style across east London for the past couple of years, painted the words "I can't breathe" on a gate across from Shoreditch High Street station. Unfortunately, this was the best photograph I could get before it was tagged over. On my first visit, it was blocked with a white van that would not move. On the second visit, the colour had faded a lot more, and it was being blocked by a motorcycle.

Street artist Pegasus, who has been painting paste-ups and social concern street art in London for the past many years, created a mural on a wall around Redchurch street: "I'll tell you what freedom is to me: No fear."

On Brick Lane, the railway bridge was painted in big and bold letters "United against racism".

The above mural was painted as a memorial to Ebow Graham.

Located near Great Eagle Street behind Brick Lane is a grafitti "BLM".

Last, but not least, is one of the favourites of this time that I discovered in Allen Gardens. It is a very gold "I can't breathe" along the wall here, and you can't miss it.

Sometimes I come upon a piece of street art that I had not seen before, and it's always a surprise and a joy when I discover one off "the beaten track". Over two years ago, I happened to stumble upon a mural dating from 2015 that was painted by Dale Grimshaw, and I was even more surprised that it was not tagged over. Dale Grimshaw's works at the time in 2015 (and since) mainly consisted of tribal portaits featuring Papua New Guinea people. The mural in Camden features a medieval Scottish warrior with facepaint and a lion, and he is holding a sword and dressed in chainmail. 

For more murals by Dale Grimshaw on this blog, see the posts below:

Dale Grimshaw Paints Hanbury Street for Homeless Charity 
Dale Grimshaw Paints Hanbury Street for Well Hung Gallery Exhibition
Dale Grimshaw Paints For Manchester's "Cities of Hope Festival"
Dale Grimshaw Paints the Village Underground Wall, Part 2
Dale Grimshaw Paints Hanbury Street Ahead of "Pride and Prejudice" Exhibit
Dale Grimshaw Paints the Village Underground Wall
Dale Grimshaw Mural in Support of Papua New Guinea
Street Art: Dale Grimshaw, Icon, Code FC, Low Bros, El Mac and others

Street artists Nush Poke and ThisOne have been collaborating on various murals across London recently. ThisOne is a London-based street artist that has been painting on London's walls since 2016 with collaborations or on their own. The style of mural is usually black and white illustrations of floral arrangements or animals. Nush Poke is an artist from France who has only recently started to paint in London, and their work mainly features birds in bright colours with an illustrative style. Both street artists have recently collaborated on a few walls around London.

I have never posted about Nush Poke on this blog before as this artist has only recently started to paint in London. Previous posts on this blog featuring ThisOne can be read below:

Street Art: HNRX and This One
ThisOne and Koctel Collaborate on Street Art in Shoreditch
Street Art: This One
Street Art Round-Up January, 2018
Manchester Street Art Update 2019
Street Art Murals in east London by ThisOne
Street Art from HNRX, Frankie Strand, ThisOne

Street artist Conor Harrington, who is from Ireland but lives in London, has recently painted his first mural in London for awhile. The artist had previously painted in different areas of London many times over the past several years but nothing recently until this new mural. The new mural is located on a gate on Buxton Street, off Brick Lane, that the artist has painted on a few times before. The mural depicts a man dressing himself in bunting, and it is a political and social piece reflecting on monument patriarchy culture. The artist has used his typical style of classical painting with characters in traditional costume. The piece has been created with spray paint and is in monotone grayscale.

More work by Conor Harrington on this blog can be seen here:

Street Art: Conor Harrington
Baroque the Streets: Dulwich Street Art
Dublin Street Art
Street Art on Whitecross Street
New Street Art by Conor Harrington
Belfast Street Art
Street Art Round-up in Early Spring 2014
Street Art Tour of Walthamstow

The Battersea Power Station tube station opened in the autumn last year, and I posted about A Commute to the Northern Line Extension at Nine Elms when I first rode on the new Northern Line extension; I was finally able to disembark at Battersea Power Station in order to see one of the newest regenerated parts of London and to experience a brand new light festival: Battersea Power Station Light Festival. The light festival began in mid-January and continues until the 27th of February, so you still have some time to check out the five light installations.

The light festival has been put together after the rise of similar popular light festivals in London, and it aims to get people to this area of London and to enjoy the cafes, bars, restaurants, and other attractions.

Antenna Sud by Michela Bonzi

Antennae were very popular until underground cabling, but they are still prominent in Italy. Italian designer Michela Bonzi has developed the installation with lit-up antennae, an ordinary part of the surroundings in Italy. 

Greenhouse by Victor Engbers

This light installation of a greenhouse is made from cast uranium glass, which glows a flourescent green colour under ultraviolet light. The greenhouse lights change a subtle colour with a greenish glow with additional purple or blue colours. The result appears like an impressionist painting of light.

Picto Sender Machine by Felipe Prado

This interactive installation produces a very low resolution image from 1957 from the times when television and photographs were not in high definition like they are today. The machine contains the enlarged pixels that record a video message based on movements in front of the sensor, which then project into blocks of light. Visitors to this installation were having fun posing and dancing around.

Eternal Sundown by Mads Vegas

The Coaling Jetty at the Battersea Power Station has been decorated with beautiful lights by Danish designer Mads Vegas. There are 140 different fluorescent tubes of light. The lights fade into different colours of the rainbow.

Digital Origami Tigers by LAVA

These two red tigers travelled around the world in 2010 to celebrate the Chinese New Year in time for the Year of the Tiger, which took place on the first of February. They are made from recycled materials and placed in front of the Battersea Power Station. The artwork is used by charity to bring attention to endangered tigers. Unfortunately, one of the tigers was not working when I visited.

Run Beyond by Angelo Bonello

Italian artist Angelo Bonello has created an animated light installation featuring different figures in a running and jumping leap. The figures animate into a running and jumping person, and this is in front of Battersea Power Station. The leap symbolises a "jump to freedom".

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