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Don Smith (the banker, Street Art: Don Smith) added some new artwork this summer on the walls in east and north London, which I documented here: New Street Art and a Meeting with Paul Don Smith (the Banker). Since adding these pieces, a few new pieces have turned up at the beginning of autumn, including a series of Winston Churchill. The works can be found on and near Brick Lane and near Petticoat Lane, although the ones taken on Brick Lane are no longer there.

Sinatra, Churchill and Hendrix. Elvis. The Who.

The following painting on Brick Lane did not last long at all...

"The Mrs" by Paul Don Smith

Churchill

I recently discovered Whitecross Street, and I found a lot of street art by artist Paul Don Smith. The themes included are the Olympics, Batman, The Lorax, Star Wars, and football. I loved the Star Wars artwork. I've included the lot below. These brought back some memories of the Olympics. (It is hard to believe that the Olympics were sixteen months ago now; it does feel a lot longer.)

Whitecross artwork by Paul Don Smith

Star Wars

Jedi Knight from Star Wars

I am happy that this work remains intact and has not been tagged over. Some of the pieces are covered when the market on Whitecross Street is opened, so it is best to visit early in the morning when I did. I went back to the street to get more photographs when the street was quieter.

'Love Piepenbrinck' (lovepiepenbrinck) is a street artist from Germany who creates small pig sculptures and pastes them up onto walls in various cities. There are several of these in London, and I have only seen a few by chance. I would love to spot more, and I always keep my eyes open in the hopes that I will notice a new one. Recently, the artist has been in London posting stickers and paste-ups around Shoreditch and Spitalfields, and I discovered two of the new pigs the day after they were pasted up. 

I enjoy seeing these cute piglets, and they always bring a smile to my face. All of them are unique. Sometimes, they are difficult to notice because their colours have worn down. The two immediately below are my favourites.

One of the newer pigs put up this year.

This pig was placed earlier in the year; the astronaut has since gone missing

This was a 2011 pig; originally it had a ball and chain around its foot

This was a 2012 pig

These pigs in a clock formation were placed in 2012

Miraculously, this purple pig was placed in 2012 and still looks clean; this was the first one I noticed, but i did not know what I was looking at

A painted-over pig and a sculpture by Xylo

A row of pigs

Butterfly pig  

A colourful pig

If you know of the locations of any that I have not posted here, please tell me where they are so that I can photograph them.

For more information about Love Piepenbrinck, visit the official website: http://www.lovepiepenbrinck.com/

Or, see photographs: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lovepiepenbrinck/

View the Facebook page with photographs of various pigs: https://www.facebook.com/love.piepenbrinck 

I took these series of photographs over a year ago on near Shoreditch High Street station in London with various silhouettes and speech bubbles. Since then, they have been painted around with other street art. I am not sure who the artist is, but the name looks like "MOO KS 2011" in a close-up of the last photograph. Let me know if you know who the artist is.

Recently, Graffiti Life have been busy creating new artwork in London. In the entrance to a courtyard near Brick Lane, where there's always work by them, I caught a glimpse of them painting a poppy. On the opposite wall were portraits. This wall always seems to be covered with portraits, and I have included some of their older work in this entry as well.

Poppy

A month or so ago, this Bart Simpson street artist appeared off of Brick Lane. Since it appeared, other street and graffiti artists have been using the image for their own benefit - adding their own tag to the image over the top of the 'Graffiti Life' tag.

Bart Simpson

Portraits

Older artwork by Graffiti Life

Gee was a street artist that I covered earlier in the year (covered here), when his work was popping up all over east London. He's since been busy painting several images in a car park off of Hackney Road and near Petticoat Lane. I've included a sample of his images below. Favourite themes of his appear to be punk hair styles and Star Wars.

Gee

The following appeared near Petticoat Lane Market along with other work by other street artists, such as 616 and Paul "Don" Smith.

Gee

Elle magazine has asked three design agencies to rebrand feminism, and their results will be published in its November edition of its magazine. The term is in need of rebranding due to all of the changes that have happened in the past several years as well as trying to get rid of negative stereotypes about the word 'feminism'. The campaign hopes to get the media to take notice of the issues surrounding women in today's world.

Rebranding Feminism campaign

One of the campaigns included the addition of a shutter painted off of Brick Lane, combining art and social media. The art encouraged visitors to use Twitter hashtag #IAMAWOMANAND in order to contribute. Using the #print hashtag after this means that the tweet will be printed and pasted onto the shutter. I logged onto Twitter and contributed to this:

"#IAMAWOMANAND I like travel, design, photography and developing websites!" - from my Twitter feed @jenikya

Rebranding Feminism Twitter tweets

It is great to see this getting some media attention now as I still find that women are treated inequal in the eyes of society, and this is simply old-fashioned thinking. I work in a field (Information Technology) dominated by men, and it would be great to have those barriers removed and for more women enter the field. I have my own stories, too. Imagine if women were equal in this world; perhaps we would be even more advanced in science, technology, medicine, and all other aspects. I certainly think we would if all boundaries (for men and women and other groups) were removed.

Over the past year, I have captured some excellent street art in east London, and I have several pieces to share. In this entry, I am showing work by 2Square, CodeFC, Jim Vision, Peter Drew, Zadock, and others. Keep checking back for new street art round-ups as I have plenty more to post.

2Square:

This American duo have painted street art around the world, and they have recently painted work off Redchurch Road, Rivington Street, and various pieces in a car park off of Hackney Road.

A selection of work by 2Square

For more information, you can read an interview by the artists here: http://thestreetartcurator.com/a-street-art-disney-land-interview-with-2square/ 

You can see their Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/2square

Code FC:

CodeFC painted some work for the London Olympics last year. I blogged about them here: They were back in London painting later this summer, and I got a couple of photos. The first one is located just off of Brick Lane, but it has since been covered. The other was a location of work that CodeFC previously used for an Olympics piece, and it's still intact but tagged over. CodeFC is an Italian artist who is based in London and who paints a lot in Asia.

CodeFC

For more information about CodeFC, visit his Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/codefc/248751956287

Jim 'Probs' Vision:

Jim Vision's artwork contains a lot of colours, wings, and fictional characters. He also seems to experiement with some new styles. Recently, a dinosaur skeleton appeared off of Scater Street, which is a different style to the usual bright colours and wings or winged creatures. The artist sometimes signs his name as 'Probs'. There's so much of his work in east London that I have only included a sample here.

Dinosaur bones...possibly a tribute to ROA?

A ninja girl

Advertising the White Canvas Project

A fantasy girl and dragon

Mr. Cenz:

Mr. Cenz (Julian Phethean) creates stylistic artwork featuring fluid faces out of organic shapes. One off of Club Row was painted this spring, and it was recently replaced by a similar work. I captured the artist painting it. 

Various work by Mr. Cenz, including the latest one in progress

Finished Mr. Cenz work

For more information, visit his Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/MrCenz

Peter Drew:

Peter Drew is an artist from Glasgow, Scotland. He adds paste-ups to the streets, and although I have not photographed all of the ones that I have seen (such as some vintage-style posters) for my blog, I enjoyed seeing these ones (below). They are a series of his work with various messages. There's a though-provoking tone to his artwork, and perhaps because of this, these paste-ups did not last long. The photographs below were not too controversial: "Crimethink" and "Cats 'n' stuff... War 'n' stuff". A box with one of the faces appeared on Brick Lane this October as well; I remembered the style to associate it with the artist. I enjoyed these pieces and have enjoyed seeing some of the others in the series on the artist's Facebook page.

Peter Drew's artwork

Peter Drew

For more information about the artist, view his Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/PeterDrewArts

Zadok:

Zadok's work is also instantly-recognisable on the streets as it features a common theme: birds. 

Various work by artist Zadok

Agents of Change:

Agents of Change is a collective group of artists, and it features artist Remi/Rough. 

King's Cross, Agents of Change

Although the below artwork was attributed to CodeFC, I don't think it's his style and think it's RemiRough, a group of street artists.

Remi Rough

Other artwork:

I've included additional pieces by various artists below.

Walala and Anatole

Wat and more

Base23

Zabou

Putin the Peacemaker

Huemon; Al and Emic

Emic close-up

Mer and Mr. Shiz

The Krah, Rae, and the Krah

Hanbury Street has been a popular place for new street art in the past month with a new mural by Martin Ron (New Mural by Martin Ron on Hanbury Street), next to ROA's crane. Last week, new artwork appeared from Guy Denning on the wall formerly occupied by DALeast (Street Art: DALeast). Guy Denning is an artist born in 1965 from Somerset in England who has an art career spanning a few decades now. His work primarily includes portraits, and he exhibits in museums. The work on Hanbury Street features a portrait of a woman, and the lines (shade and dark) are made up of type (letters and numbers).

Guy Denning

Guy Denning

For more information about the artist, visit his website: http://www.guydenning.org 

On the other side of the road from Guy Denning's mural is a mural collaboration by Alex Face, Mau Mau and Bon featuring a range of odd characters. The characters include a fox roasting marshmallows (Mau Mau), a boy sleeping in a cyclops rabbit onesie, another rabbit onesie with a missing ear (Alex Face), and a psychotic-looking bird taking a knife a bird's leg next to a large 'DELETE' button (Bon). The artwork is quite clever as it interacts with the large mural of ROA's bird on the corner, and when standing in the correct place, the leg looks to be in the right angle. I've photographed the work below with ROA's large crane at the angle where the characters interact with it.

Alex Face's artwork

Alex Face, whose real name is Patcharapol Tamgruen, is an artist from Thailand. He often found abandoned buildings in Bangkok to paint, and the boy in the rabbit suit above is a common character that he paints. For more information about this artist, visit the website at: http://bukruk.com/festival/items/alex-face/

Mau Mau's work consists of witty characters, and these are often portrayed against large brands. For more information, visit the artist's official website at http://www.mau-mau.co.uk.

Bon is another artist from Thailand, and partial-skeleton fish are one common subject. For more work from this artist, visit: https://www.facebook.com/Bon.mue or http://www.flickr.com/photos/tbon/

Bon and Alex Face also and most-recently collaborated on a new piece off of Brick Lane on Pedley Street. The mural features several of their characters, including a scene around the corner of the characters in black and white paint with a hose with coloured spray paint coming out of it.

Bon

Alex Face and Bon

A final collaborative piece by the two appeared across from their work on Hanbury Street on the shutters of a bakery and coffee shop. The work features the two with a delicious-looking pink cake and cups of coffee, representing what can be bought in the shop that the shutters belong to. 

Alex Face and Bon

Mau Mau

For Halloween, I thought that I would showcase London's most haunted pub, the Viaduct Tavern. The Viaduct Tavern is located at Holborn Viaduct, near Smithfield's Market. (Smithfield's Market was a meat market.) This is a very old and haunted area of London, and three Halloweens ago, I took a ghost-walking tour that focused on this area. The location is near Charterhouse Square, which was the scene of murders of monks in Charterhouse abbey and monestary, and the location of the Black Plague pits. It's also near St. Bartholemew's church and hospital, which are also rumoured to be haunted. Outside the hospital, many lives were ended due to religious differences, and Braveheart also met his end here.

Holborn Viaduct is the world's first flyover, and the River Fleet is now buried beneath the streets here. The bridge on the flyover contains impressive statues (science, agriculture, commerce and fine art), and this bridge must have been impressive on the way into (or out of) the City.

The Viaduct Tavern was built in the mid-1800s on a spot where part of the Newgate Prison was demolished. The prison would be completeley demolished in 1902, and the Old Bailey is now located in its place. Hangings took place just outside the prison, where a fountain (across the road from the pub) marks the spot, and some of those hanged are rumoured to be buried there. The Viaduct Tavern was a "gin palace"; gin was a popular drink in London and pubs that were lavishly decorated took the name "gin palace". According to various articles I've read in the past, gin was cheap and not polluted; in these days, the Thames was dirty and full of waste, so gin-drinking was more common. 

The cellars of The Viaduct Tavern are rumoured to be original cells from Newgate Prison, though some doubt the accuracy of this. Irregardless, my friend and I asked the staff to check it out, and we were given a tour. Whether or not these cells are original, the cellar area would have been used to lock up prisoners as the prison was located here. Perhaps the cells have been altered in some way to be used by the pub at a later date. It is possible that the doors and caging were used by the prison.

Once we arrived at the bottom level, we found ourselves in a large room with three or four closed and locked doors off to the side. We were shown the cells by the member of staff. One of the cells held a series of cages staked three high. We also saw a sign painted with the "Gaol Rules" on one of the doors.

It would not have been nice to be locked up in one of these rooms with little light and surrounded by other different types of criminal. I am sure that many who were confined to prison here met their fate here as well. Based on the deaths that would have happened and the hangings that took place, it is no wonder that the pub is rumoured to be haunted. Some of the bartenders will not go into the cellar, and others have had bottles fly off the shelves.

For those in the area, I suggest going to the pub at non-peak times and ordering a drink to soak up the atmosphere before asking if you can see the cellar. I found the staff to be friendly and helpful. For non-peak times, avoid after 17:00 and avoid the hours between noon and 14:00. I believe that my friend and I made our visit at about 16:00.

Street artist Beau Stanton recently painted a wall off of Brick Lane. I love this style of artwork as it combines patterns and has a vintage feel. The work is highly detailed. The artist must have worked quickly or at the weekend because I walk up this street most days, and I didn't see it in progress. Beau Stanton is from California but now lives in New York. He gathers inspiration from ancient architecture, letterpress, old photographs and antique machinery.

Beau Stanton

For more information about the artist, visit his Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/beaustantonvisuals or the website at http://www.beaustanton.com.