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One new technique for street art this summer is creating murals that glow in the dark with ultraviolet (UV) lighting, and Amara Por Dios' new mural on Great Eastern Street is the fifth (that I am aware of) to be created in London. Oliver Sweet created a pair of glow-in-the-dark owls in Camden, Dan Kitchener created an ultraviolet street scene mural in Clerkenwell, Replete created a glowing lantern on Redchurch Street, and Zina created a glowing portrait on a building on Great Eastern Street. I have not been to Clerkenwell or Camden, but the Replete lantern and Zina pieces have sadly since been painted over. You can read about the Zina piece and view photographs on Inspiring City in a new browser window here.

This "glow in the dark" ultraviolet artwork phenomenon has kicked off due to a marketing campaign by Sony Experia in conjunction with Global Street Art. The campaign is part of the #ICan response, which seems to be aimed at promoting the smartphone's camera (#ICan see in the dark, #ICan see underwater, etc).

I mentioned the Zina ultraviolet mural above, and that was painted on the building opposite the wall where the Amara por Dios mural is painted. On the same building is a contribution to Amara por Dios, but it does not glow. In fact, Zina and Amara por Dios have collaborated before, and Amara por Dios helped Zina with the large-scale piece.

Unfortunately, Zina's piece looks like it has been recently replaced with an advertisement for the film "Legend". The film is about the Kray twins who were notorious criminals in London's east end.

To see the Dan Kitchener ultraviolet mural, go here: http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/13423507.PICTURES__Dazzling_artwork_only_provides_smartphone_photo_moments_at_night/

To see the Replete mural, go here: http://londoncallingblog.net/2015/08/18/new-replete-uv-work-singularity-in-shoreditch/

This weekend was the first time that I have had the opportunity to get to Shoreditch to look at street art for at least two months, and so much has changed that I ended up spending quite a few hours walking around and getting photographs. Don't worry - I still love street art and want to continue to feature it on my blog. I've just been busy with work and a lot of other bits and pieces, which I'm dying to say but cannot say just yet. 

One of the newest pieces, which looked like it was freshly painted, was by Fanakapan. This new piece, featuring balloon animals, replaces his "Rise & Shine" piece, which was painted early in the summer and which I covered here.

The subject of this piece are silver foil balloon birds and elephants.

The work by Fanakapan always brings a smile to my face. To see it, head toward Pedley Street off of Brick Lane.

One of the street artists to paint in London at the beginning of the year was Pyramid Oracle. I saw paste-ups of abstract portraits from the artist as well as a large mural taking shape on a wall off Hackney Road. The artist created over a dozen artworks in London, and I'd only managed to see and photograph the ones in Shoreditch and east London. Pyramid Oracle is from the midwest in the USA, and he's painted a lot around Chicago and Philadelphia as well as other cities in the midwest. I believe that this was the first time that the artist produced any work in London, and he had an exhibition in the city in March.

More information and work by the artist can be seen on his Twitter page: https://twitter.com/pyramidoracle

Today's post features a popular and (I think) two of the most stunning murals that have been painted in London over the past few years. Fin DAC is a high-profile street artist who started in 2008 and now has a large following, and he's painted in London quite a few times. The pieces included here were painted on Cheshire Street and Hanbury Street off of Brick Lane. Sadly, they no longer exist. His work is charactierised by realistic portrait work with focus of detail on the eyes and face, the importance on the eyes primarily. The murals produced are beautiful. 

This piece on Hanbury Street did not last long at all before someone tagged over the eyes. I believe that I took the photograph in the summer of 2012.

For more information about the artist, visit his Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/finbarr-dac/102099492162

Street artist Banksy painted his version of "The Girl with the Pearl Earring", a famous painting from the 1600s by Johannes Vermeer. Instead of a pearl earring, the girl's earring is an alarm. The artwork appeared last October near Bristol docks, and I happened to see it as I was walking in the area.

There were reports that the artwork was defaced shortly after it was painted, but it appears that it's now been fixed. It can be seen in Bristol Harbour area near the attraction Brunel's 'SS Great Britain'.

Ely's Yard is always host to new pieces of street art. There are two canvases outside of Corbet Place (bar), which are always changing with something new. There's also a corner of the square that has several pieces of street art, including a nice mask piece by Cityzen Kane. Along the same side of the building are small sculptures of men by Isaac Cordial. Ely's Yard used to have more street art before they refurbished the main building, removing canvases there which changed regularly and hosted murals by Ronzo and Vhils. For as long as I can remember, the square has held two other pieces of street art. One of them is by D*Face, and I've covered that here. The other is a pink race car, which is in a glass cage and was painted by Banksy.

Upfest in Bristol took place the last weekend in July, and one of the show-stoppers this year was the street artist My Dog Sighs (originally covered in Dulwich Baroque the Streets, a collaboration with Midge and Blackall Street in London). His subjects include pairs of eyes and bubbles/water drops, his Hug character, and characters made from flattened cans. His piece on Hotwells Road in Bristol became one of the iconic murals for Upfest 2015, which was created before Upfest and was printed onto the marketing booklets and used on the website as the 'face' of the Upfest 2015 festival this year.

The mural is painted next to a goldfish, but I am not sure who the artist is.

The eyes on the piece have reflections of the Clifton Suspension Bridge in them, and this is one of Bristol's icons.

Additionall, My Dog Sighs painted work at Upfest, which I covered here. During the weekend, he also painted on the side of a house in Bedminster, which I covered here.

Last weekend was Bristol's Upfest street art festival, which attracts artists from all over the world. I covered this year's Upfest and the brilliant work created over that weekend on my blog post here. One of the artists attending was My Dog Sighs. In addition to his murals for Upfest, the artist was asked by the owner of a house on British Road in Bedminster to paint the Hugs character on her wall. The owner really liked the style of work, and a Hugs character on another wall had been painted over, so she asked for a new one on the wall of her house.

I think this makes a fine addition to the area where a lot of street art took place over last weekend.

I have been visiting Bristol this weekend, and I went to Upfest yesterday (Sunday) in order to see some of the work (and work in progress). For those who do not know what Upfest is, it is Europe's largest street art/grafitti festival, and it takes place in Bristol each year and attracts many visitors and artists from the UK and overseas. This year, the artists painted primarily along North Street in the Bedminster area of Bristol. Many of these pieces are in progress with scaffolding obstructing the views, so I be posting again with the finished artwork. (Note that a few pieces below were previous pieces painted on shutters, so I've just included them here too.)

Olivier Roubieu

Guy Denning

Andy Council in progress - tribute to Wayne - RIP Wayners

Dan Kitchener (Dank) work in progress

An artist at work at 'The Steam Crane'

Guy Denning

Tizer and various artists on North Street

Artwork at 'The Hare' pub: Bex Glover, Parlee, :Si2:, Gnasher (Wallace & Gromit)

BraveOne and CHG

Lonac

Philth 

N4t4

One of the pieces by Angus - 'Minions' cross with 'Pulp Fiction'

L7M

Stik & My Dog Sighs - Revenge of the Stik 

Unfortunately, the largest venue (South Street Park) was shut due to the rain. The site had permission from the owners of the land, a school, and they were told not to let visitors enter because they did not want the grass destroyed. A lot of people were disappointed. I was allowed to take photographs from the entrance only, but there were so many pieces here that I could not see. I recognised a couple of artists' names that I know from the Upfest directory for this location, so it is a pity that I am many others were unable to see these pieces. I did see some stunning pieces from the entrance when I zoomed in using my camera. I hope that these boards are put on display somewhere so that they can be enjoyed by the public and the artists can get the exposure that they want as well.

South Street Park

 
The Spotted Cow - Lex Luther, unknown, Beepmonkey, Yash, Object, Sinna One, Hardie, DinDin, Arrix

North Street: Unknown, Rob Lee, Bram, unknown, Gage Graphics, Bill Giles, InkFetish, Fabio Petani, unknown

North Street: Lemak, Hoshiko, unknown, Stephen Quick, Julie (?) unknown, Agent Provocateur and Korp, SMV, European Bob

North Street: SF80, 4ire, Skie, John Curtis and Alex Willmott, RAST, Zabou, unknown, Steek, Johnman, Canvaz, FKDL, Roots, Leeks & Fetch, , Carleen Desozer, Giusi Tomasello

Luckwell - Olivier Roubieu, Miedo12, Diogo Galvao, 45rpm

Hen & Chicken: Mr Dog Sighs, Miss Wah, Los Dave, unknown, unknown, Jody, Dr. Love

Angus, unknown, Masai, Inkie, unknown, Inkie, Stewey

Otto Schade

Tobacco Factory: unknown, Thierry Noir, Fake, Oli-T, Loch Ness, Hannah Adamaszek, Acerone, Andrew Burns Colwill

Vector seating: Karl Read, Unknown and Rolling People (?), id-iom, Jim Vision and Dan Kitchener, unknown, CodeFC, Julieta XFL, Rusk, Nomad Clan (?), unknown

Martin Ron

My Dog Sighs

Berlin Wall exhibit at St. Francis with Thierry Noir

Hen Harrier Day with Danielle Mastrion & Lexi (?), Masai, DAP (?) with RAW (?), Goin

Rising Sun: Snooty, Dice67, unknown, Decay, John Doh, Angus, Deeds, Annatomix, unknown, unkown and D7606, D7606, unknown with Lone Wolf, STX

Collaboration on Luckwell Road - Dale Grimshaw, Cosmo Sarson, Mr. Cenz

Mr. Cenz in progress - Luckwell Rd

Luckwell Road - Dale Grimshaw and Cosmo Sarson in progress

Voyder in progress on West Street

Let me know if you recognise any of the artists that I have labelled unknown (or got incorrect). I've had to rush to write this post as next week is going to be really mental for me and I am not going to have any time to spend on this blog. As always, I've covered a lot of the artists in previous posts, so just search my blog. Sorry I wasn't able to add any direct links like I normally would have done. I've just had a lot of material to get through and long weekend and a very trying week ahead of me (which I am very much dreading, particularly as I've got blisters on my foot from doing a lot of walking), and next weekend is going to be mental as well. Thanks for reading!

Joachim is an artist from Belgium who has been involved in the street art and grafitti scene since the 1990s. The artist came to London nearly a couple of months ago and painted a wall on Rivington Street in Shoreditch (London) with his trademark abstract style figures/faces.

Close-ups of the piece can be seen below.

The artist's style reminds me of Italian artist Hunto. The artists also collaborated on another mural on a wall together.

I also captured one mural near Hoxton station.

For more information about the artist, see his Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Joachim/1454474741453602