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Street artist Irony often paints for Upfest in Bristol. When I was in the city earlier this summer, I captured her work on a shutter. The female face has two nose ring piercings, and the viewer can only see the bottom part of her face. The artist paints detailed street art featuring people or animals, and the style is realistic. This artwork looks like it has been painted awhile ago.

More street art by Irony (collaborations or otherwise) on this blog:

Kingston and East London Street Art
Irony Anglefish Street Art in Penge
Irony Paints Molly the Dog in Penge
Irony Street Art in Penge - dog, cat and other work
Badger Street Art in Penge by Boe and Irony
Portrait Street Art by Irony in Camden
Boe and Irony at Upfest 2018
Camden Street Art Self-Guided Trail
Meeting of the Styles 2018
David Bowie and Brixton Street Art
Street Art by JimmyC, Boe & Irony, Trust Icon, and Others on Paradise Row
Street Art: Artista, DecoLife, Binty Bint, Ino, Irony, Pixie, SeaPuppy

At the start of this year, I discovered that the walls inside an alleyway parallel to Code Street off Brick Lane had been freshly painted with a variety of exotic animals, birds, and reptiles. These are on the side of a block of apartments, and the gate was open so that I could take a look. I am not exactly sure when the work was painted, but I assume it must have been part of a street art jam with different artists. Let me know if you know anything about this.

The artwork nicely tidies up the walls in this neglected little corner.

Stewy is a Bristol-based street artist who uses stencils to create artwork and paints a lot of animals, celebrities, famous faces, and more. I have photographed some of his work before in Bristol. When I was in Bristol (Bedminster) this summer, I photographed a few of the work that I discovered. I especially liked the street art fox.

More street art by Stewy on this blog:

2018 Bristol Upfest
Street Art in London

Th artist responsible for painting the toothy smiles and grins is London-based Sweet Toof. In the past couple of years after a bit of a break, Sweet Toof has returned to the streets to paint. The artist paints toothy smiles on London's walls, inspired by identity that the smile, the dental work, and structure create. Over the past couple of years, I photographed several new pieces that appeared around Brick Lane and east London.

More street art on this blog by Sweet Toof is below:

Phelgm and Sweet Toof 
Street Art by Sweet Toof on Brick Lane
Street Art By Sweet Toof, Mo, and Gold Peg
Street Art: Gee, Paul Insect, Sweet Toof, Bortusk Leer

"The Mild Mild West" street art by Banksy is painted in Bristol and features a teddy bear throwing a fire in a bottle at police officers. It was painted in 1999 and was painted in response to the police arresting people who were having parties in abandoned buildings in Bristol in the 1990s.

I also photographed one that I had previously showed, which has since been vandalised by someone throwing paint onto it.

Street artist Liam Bononi is originally from Brazil but now resides in the UK, and he started to paint graffiti in 2007. The style is realistic but with expression and energy. The artist painted in Upfest 2024 in Bristol a violinist deep in concentration of the musical skill. He was inspired by a performance of Rupert Engeldown on a visit to the city of York. The work is painted on a wall in Bedminster and off the main street.

Unfortunately, since the wall was painted, a small extension in front of it has been placed up. This makes the street art difficult to see and difficult to photograph.

Street artist Aspire (also known as Aspire A51), paints birds and other animals as the main subject. I have featured the artist's work in London before as they tend to paint a lot around London. The artist also blends in features of the walls and uses them in the work at times and creates "pixelated" areas of the artwork. The first artwork in this post is a large wall in Bedminster, Bristol. It is titled "Cherry on top" and shows a bird sitting on top of apples with a cherry on its head. The artist, at the time this was painted, was combining the birds with food items in a series.

I also discovered some additional work around Bedminster and other parts of London from the artist, including the one below on shutters.

The below artwork was photographed at the top of the hill at Queen's Road in Bristol and shows two birds in a grassland setting.

More artwork by Aspire on this blog can be seen below:

Bird Street Art by Aspire in London
Street Art by Aspire in Penge
Aspire Street Art in Camden
Airbourne Mark and Aspire Collaboration - "Music to Prey To"
Bristol Street Art Round-Up 2018
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
London Street Art Review Round-up 2016

I visited Swindon a couple of times this summer for work, and while I was there, I took a quick walk to see the street art. There is an area of Swindon that is being regenerated, and the scaffolding is filled with street art. Other parts of the city centre have also been painted during the city's street art festivals. Below are some photographs that I took of Swindon's street art on my visits this year.

Rice

Shauna Blanchfield

Sarah Harris, Lost Dogs

Merny

Mowcka

Mowcka

Jaksta, hosterroreres

MustOne

The Last One

Stocke, Gorillas by Night

Vlad

Sarah Harris, Lost Dogs

Harrie Dearing

Caryn Koh

Elno

Martin Travers

VaneMG

7th Pencil

Andrew Burns Colwill

Caryn Koh

Adam Illes

Mickeyraw, Ed Poster

Harrie Dearing

Poster One, Jacksta

Jaksta

Leonidas Giannakopoulos

Remy Uno

Jaksta

Nimsdai

More street art in Swindon:

Swindon Street Art

Bristol has a large share of street art, some of which is painted for its Upfest festival. Many more has appeared over the years and when the city had been going through a rebuilding phase in the early 2010s. I used to live near Bristol and worked in Bristol, and the city has changed significantly since then with a lot of older buildings demolished and new buildings placed up. Some of the murals in this post were painted all of these years ago and can be seen (or could be seen) from other areas in the city. There is a cluster of artwork on a couple of buildings in the centre of Bristol by Nick Walker, El Mac, M-City, and Aryz.

M-City and Nick Walker

M-City painted the artwork featuring construction cranes during the 2012 "See No Evil" festival.

Nick Walker

"Bowler Hat Man" was painted by Nick Walker. The man appears to pour paint on the street below. His work often features a man in a bowler hat vandalising.

Aryz

"Wolf Boy" was painted by Aryz for the "See No Evil" festival in 2011.

El Mac

El Mac painted "Clothed with the Sun" for the "See No Evil" festival in 2014. The work is inspired by the religious photographs of the baby Jesus. (See this post with another mural by El Mac in London in 2014.)

Street artist Jack Lack's subject is painting animals and other natural scenes that look very realistic. The artist lives in Germany and has painted murals all over the world. Last spring, he painted in Bristol for Upfest. The work is titled "Dangerous Home" and depicts a red panda amongst arrows. The red panda is an endangered species.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

The work is very detailed and looks cute until you realise that the red panda is lying amongst arrows.