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Fanakapan is a street artist who was busy painting in London last year, and last year's subject was all about the silver foil balloons. (One of these foil balloons can be seen at the bottom of this post, and this foil "7" balloon was located near Cambridge Heath station a couple of weeks ago and may still be there.) I covered his work here with the "STAR" balloons off Brick Lane, and he also created some large murals and collaborated with Cranio. This year, the artist seems to be trying out a new style of 'chrome' street art.

It features a chrome baseball cap, sunglasses, headphones, spray paint mask, and can of spray paint. A blue 'smoke' or haze adds an extra dimension to the piece.

I enjoyed the foil balloons last year, but I overheard the artist say that he was tired of working on them, so I assume that he's trying out these new styles. The above piece replaces the "STAR" balloons, which miraculously lasted for a few months. I'm looking forward to seeing more work by Fanakapan in London.

The "number 7" balloon is from the artist's previous style in the shape of silver foil balloons.

I'm a little bit late posting up these photographs of street art by Ador & Semor, a pair of street artists from France who started painting their murals in 2012, but as I was writing my post, I discovered that (thanks to Facebook) one of the artists is back in London again and painting walls. Ador was back in London a week and a half ago and painted the wall at the corner of Pedley Street and Brick Lane with a blue-haired archer character and a giant carrot.

On the previous trip to London at the end of 2015, Ador and Semor contributed on a few murals around London. Ador's adds shadow and dimension to his work by shading and blending, and Semor's work is more detailed. In the image below, the subject is a boy blowing up a balloon in the shape of an elephant. The boy is the work of Ador, and the purple-pink elephant is the work of Semor.

The next piece was located around the corner and features an older man sitting in his chair with abstract art painted on the wall behind him. 

The third piece features a person sawing down a tree with flowers and other creatures around as the tree is sawed into a stump. Perhaps this highlights the reconstruction that is taking place in the vicinity. This piece was being painted over when I was in the area on Saturday.

For more information about Ador, see the Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ADOR2049/

Street artist Stockholm-based Amara por Dios has returned to the streets of London to paint a tribute for International Women's Day, which takes place tomorrow. The mural was made in collaboration of the luggage/bag brand EASTPAK with the hashtag #sheWears. The artist is a regular to London's street art scene, and her recent works included a large glow-in-the-dark ultraviolet piece on Great Eastern Street and a collaboration on Bacon Street. Last year, she painted the huge wall on the Village Underground. 

The artist's new piece features one of her feminine portraits with braided hair, and it has been done completely in varying shades of pink and purple. It really is an eye-catching piece on Great Eastern Street.

I always enjoy seeing work by Amara por Dios, and I enjoy seeing street art painted for a good cause.

Alice Pasquini is another female artist who is in London due to the all-female street artist exhibition at Saatchi Gallery 'XX: A Moment in Time'. Alice is a street artist from Rome and is not a stranger to London. She last visited in the summer of 2014 and painted a mural on Bacon Street, and you can see that piece and some of her other pieces from previous visits on my post here. Her work is created using stencils, and the subjects of her work feature portraits in a variety of poses but always showing expression and emotion, which the artist captures these moments in time very well. 

I always find her work a pleasure and the small 'hidden' portraits often make me smile. The image of the young girl above, with her tonque to the side of her mouth envokes playfulness of the subject and reminds me of a selfie picture that the younger generation are doing. 

The stencil in the most prominent place is of a pregnant young woman wearing a floral bikini and posing.

Another figure of a female appears to be dozing in a window. She looks care-free and seems unaware of anyone watching or looking at her.

Last, but not least, are these two young girls playing around; the angle is looking down on them so it appears that the viewer is the adult or parent and is a part of their interaction.

There is also a larger mural in Camden, which Alice has collaborated on that I have not seen yet. 

I love how this artist's work has evolved over time, and I hope that more artwork appears by this artists on the streets of London soon.

Last night was Oscar's night, so I thought I'd post some Oscars-related (and political-related) street art that I recently photographed in London. I have been rather busy over the past few weeks and have not dedicated a lot of time to my blog. My biggest news happened on the second week in January. I had an interview and job offer, so I was not out of work for long after my last role came to a close at the beginning of the year. You may have remember reading the update about the situation here, at the end of last year. The contracts took just over a week to get sorted, and I've been commuting approximately half an hour door-to-door. Not bad considering the long commutes I was doing before I moved. I'm really enjoying my new role as I'm able to use a range of my skills, which I've not been able to do in some past roles due to the way that the work was organised. I really hope to stay for awhile as it's perfect for me.

Angus - I got 99 problems but an O$car ain't one!

I've also set up a new blog to post my development-related posts to keep the blog themes separate. It's not quite ready to launch yet, though. When I originally started this blog, it was for development, visual design, my photography, art, and personal projects. It was a place where I would add inspiring work or interesting industry news. I would store ideas here that inspired me as many creatives do. (My instructors at university in the School of Visual Communications told us to always keep a copy of pieces that we discovered that inspired us, and I did that for many years.)

Code Street

In following with my love of art and its tie to visual design, I ended up posting a lot of street art as I was working in east London. (I also received minor degrees in fine art, creative writing/literature, and history. I don't have time now, but I used to paint/draw. At some point when life and the work on the house is settled, I hope to paint/draw again.) Since then, this blog transformed into a 'lifestyle blog' (for want of a better word). 

Because I've established this blog over several years to the state it is now, I decided to separate out my development items from the blog. Some of these were published entries, and some of them were unpublished or still in a rough draft state. Some of these posts attracted a lot of attention, particularly in one development area early on as there was a lack of documentation at the time. I still want to grow that area of my blog for my benefit (sometimes a quick reference guide helps) and the benefit of others.

Political and Oscar street art by Angus

The direction for this blog will not change, and I will keep up with it as much as I can. However, I do want to make sure that I spend a little more time on the other blog and other areas of my website in general.

I also have plans to add my own design to the blog, which was always my goal and at one point around 2007-2010, I didn't update my blog much at all because I wanted to get the design perfect first. I realised that sometimes it does not matter if it's not perfect and that it was best to just write for it and evolve it when I had a spare moment. So, I've used the themes that came with my blogging software in the meantime. I'm actually not ready to take a break from work in order to do my personal projects, except from a few hours here and there to create posts. I'm not ready to invest a lot of time over several weeks to do an hour here and there of something that will take a lot more time and dedication.

If you have any ideas of items that you would like to see me cover more or cover less, then comment below to let me know.

Street artist collective Broken Fingaz have recently painted a wall on Redchurch Street in Shoreditch. The group, originally from Israel, often paint in comic style with a range of common characters that are usually depicted in bright colours (green men, blue men, and so on). I have previously covered their work here with a lot of their work in London. The group also recently painted a shutter in Soho, which I covered here.

A few years ago, they painted some controversial explicit works across London in a series of murals featuring primarily women in compromising positions with skeletons and animals. I think I found three of them in total, and they were all tagged over and removed. Their recent work is decorative (instead of controversial) and also highlights aspects of good visual graphic design with the use of imagery and typography.

I enjoy seeing their work back to the original and inexplicit characters, so hopefully we will be seeing some more of their work around London in the coming weeks.

French street artist Zabou has recently painted several more walls in London, and some of these replace the artist's previous works. She is in town for the all-female art exhibition 'XX: A Moment in Time' at Saatchi Galleries, and I have already covered some work by artists ELLE and Marina Zumi. Many more female street artists are exhibiting, and I've still got more photographs to post of the excitement that has been happening to London's walls this month. It's already been quite a busy year with street art this year.

The last time I covered Zabou's work was at the end of last year when I started to see a lot more work by the artist throughout the year; you can see the artwork here. 

My favourite of the artist's new pieces is the one above. It features two children with paint on their faces in Native American fashion. It replaces an earlier piece with the same subject that you can see in my previous post about the artist here.

Next, the wall between Columbia Road and Hackney Road (Ion Square) was repainted with a new mural of a woman with roses. It's already been damaged, and the previous excellent piece (which I preferred) was tagged over a little while ago. It's a shame that this one has also been damged so soon.

This lady seems to peek out of a shutter on Hanbury Street, off Brick Lane.

A lady sticking her tongue out appears on Brick Lane. There's also another Zabou piece on Brick Lane a few doors down from this one.

The above image, which looks like it depicts a Christian religious symbol with a spray can abd paint brush, is painted on Commercial Road.

Last (but not least) is this colourful couple on Hackney Road with the quote "No future. But a beautiful present." This could represent a lot of things, but it probably represents how most people are getting priced out of London and out of the area and it's more difficult to live, but the people in power are not doing anything about the future except living in the present and living for themselves as there's so much greed and selfishness. At least, that's what I read into it. I think it could probably mean a lot of different things to different people. The above piece is also a replacement wall for another piece covered here, which was tagged over eventually.

I really enjoy seeing Zabou's work in London as her witty interpretations always brings a smile.

ELLE is a Brooklyn-based street artist who is currently in London for the 'XX: A Moment in Time' all-female street artist show at the Saatchi Gallery. While in the city, she wasted no time in securing a couple of walls to paint. Both walls are just off Brick Lane and feature black and white portraits of women using abstract shapes and colours highlighted with gold or bronze paint.

ELLE's style is unique in that she combines different mediums in order to create her artwork. These could be spray paint, acrylics, markers, and even three-dimensional mediums.

The exhibition 'XX: A Moment in Time', featuring ELLE's work and the work of several other female street artists, takes place until March 6.

While I was wandering around east London today, I discovered that Ben Eine had recently replaced one of his murals on Ebor Street. The street contains work by the artist down both sides with 'Tagonists' being replaced in favour of this new mural, which reads "Like Nothing Else". (The other side of the wall still reads 'Extortionist'; originally, one side read 'AntiAntiAnti' and the other read 'ProProPro'.) The letters are a mixture of bright colours with the artist's circus-like typeface as used previously on this wall. Eine uses different typefaces, but this is one of his most common and is also used a block away to spell out 'Old London'.

The last time we saw the artist paint a mural in London was last summer when "Cheese London" was painted near Columbia Road (covered in my Street Art of 2015 Round-up post). The artist is originally from London but moved to the USA a few years ago. He's quite a well-established artist now, and a few of his murals can still be seen in London on Rivington Street, Ebor Street, off Hackney Road, Plough Yard, and Club Row.

The work looks as if it has just been finished. Below is the full mural on Ebor Street.

Other photographs of work by Ben Eine in London can be seen here and here. The later of the two links has a photograph of the artist in action the last time that he painted that wall with 'Tagonists'.

Street artist Marina Zumi was born in Argentina but lives in Brazil. She was recently in London as a part of the all-female show 'XX: A Moment in Time' at the Saatchi art gallery, which is currently on until March 6. While in town, she painted a couple of murals along with many other female street artists, and I will be covering some of this work by other artists later on. 

Marina Zumi's background was in fashion design, and nature is a prominent feature of her work. Her work often contains animals, flowers, and trees. These are often painted in bright colour, and her work brightens up the dull walls.

I had just arrived at the wall when the artist had just finished and was packing away the spray paint cans. It's a long piece, but I managed to capture most of it above. It features a pink deer standing in a stream with mountains on a clear night. The turquoise, blue, and pink look good against the black sky.

On the side of the scaffolding on Great Eastern Street (where this work is painted), the artist thanked those who put her in touch with this wall. 

It's a fantastic addition to London's streets at this dull time of year, and the colour is much appreciated.