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This has been a busy summer and autumn for street art, and I have been posting as much as I can in relation to street art. For the new pieces I have discovered over the summer, I decided to create one entry as it is difficult to keep up with the amount of work seen each week. Several times a week, I often see new pieces that have been put up. Once I catch up, then perhaps I will be able to showcase a selection of new work much more quickly. Below are a few selections from this summer and autumn, and many of these are street artists that I have previously features who have added new work.

I enjoy seeing the artwork by Fan Horror Crew (Street Art: Fan Horror Crew). I love the characters made from Liquorice All-Sorts and balloons. These popped up recently on the same wall, but they did not last long with other street artists putting tags and paste-ups over the top of them.

Fan Horror Crew and Sell Out

Horror Crew

HIN (Street Art: HIN) created a few new creations recently as well. I particularly enjoyed seeing the world's political leaders enjoying gymnastics in front of a crowd at Old Street. His work is always funny.

HIN's politicians gymnastics

HIN's feeding the cat time

Otto Schade (Street Art: Otto Schade) recently created some new pieces, and other ones appeared over the spring and summer this year. I discovered that some pieces that were not painted in the usual ribbon style were also marked with the artist's name. 

A lady smokes near Old Street

Eyes in the wall of a car park on Hackney Road

Ears

A painting and close-up near a gallery that sells the artist's work on Brick Lane

O.Schades's tribute to the Curtain Theatre, which Shakespeare performed in.

Otto Schade

Otto Schade

Swoon (Swoon's Street Art in London) also recently added some new work in east London.

Swoon

I discovered this red man made out of tape this summer.

Red tape man

Jonesy (Street Art: Jonesy) added a few new pieces, and I particularly appreciate the brass symbols. This artist is always adding new paste-ups with drawings of birds around Brick Lane.

Jonesy

Nhobi is a street artist from Brazil, and he painted a few walls in London this autumn. I got some photos of the work before it was painted over; some of the pieces did not last very long until they were tagged over. (For more of the artist's work, check out his website here: http://binhograffiti.com/en/creations/street-art)

Nhobi - the middle picture contains work by Inkfish and Captain Kris 

Street artist JimmyC (Street Art: JimmyC) returned to the walls this summer with a selection of artwork. 

Selection of JimmyC's new work and the bottom also contains ALO

Nathan Bowen (Street Art: Nathan Bowen) recently added some new artwork on Sclater Street with Skeleton Cardboard.

Nathan Bowen and Skeleton Cardboard

Bailon (Street Art: Akse, Vhils, Bailon, Sliks, Grud, Drypnz, and Vinz) recently added a new piece on Brick Lane.

Bailon

Street artist La Peregrina painted this artwork, and HIN added a blue figure to it, which is now missing its head. I took this photograph this spring; I discovered it on my walk around east London. I do not know anything about the artist and cannot seem to find much about him/her.

La Peregrina

Broken Fingaz (Street Art: Broken Fingaz Crew) recently added this new work on Hackney Road. They have been busy painting in London this summer, and you can see some more of their work from this summer in the link above.

Broken Fingaz

Eoin painted this portrait early this summer. The artist primarily paints parts of faces with eyes. For more information and work from this artist, see his website here: http://artbyeoin.com

Eoin

Shok-1 (Street Art: Shok-1) recently painted this raimbow tail bone on Great Eastern Street a few weeks after their last series of rainbow X-ray art disappeared.

Shok-1 and Thierry Noir

The artwork by artist DFace appeared in the summer, but it was immediately tagged over.

ThirdEye painted this building below. The building is now painted with new artwork every month or so.

ThirdEye

The same building has been painted black, white and red recently. I'm not sure who the artist is.

Art by Shok-1, Thierry Noir, Ronzo and unknown

I saw this bus off of Rivington being painted in bright colours. I'm not sure of the artist, but these colours were recently used this spring for the Dulwich House (Open Day at the Street Art House, Dulwich Arts Festival: Part 2) by street artist Malarky (Street Art: Malarky, Mr. Penfold, Billy and Lucas).

A colourful bus

I also discovered this unknown (possibly by Pablo Delgado) red door off of Brick Lane, inside a hole in the bricks at the ground level. Little painted bats appeared to be flying out of it. It inspired me. Always look up and down to see what surprises can be found.

A red doorway

Hayze painted this red and blue picture on a wall this summer. Actually, I have seen a lot of his/her work over the summer. This is just one piece.

Hayze

I've added a selection of other artwork below.

RKuit

BlankWalls.com.au

Obit

Various work - I. Crow, Authentic, ImanOne and others

Thierry Noir (left) and Unknown

Roits

Lyken

Unknown and Kid Acne

ChinaGirl - CCTV camera street art

Birdseed and Dscreet and unknown

Unknown (located in a closed car park)

Assassins and Vinnie

LostMe

 
Unknown, possibly Ben Murphy

 
Boon (Marching Figures - London Street Art)

Odeith

Today, I will be posted a series of street art by various artists that appeared in east London. These include pieces that I captured this spring and summer. The works are by Faith47, Cernesto, Rolling People, Joyce Treasure, Mag Magrela, El Gat Mao, ORFN, Edwin, and many more.

Mag Magrela

Mag is a street artist from Brazil, and she painted a large wall this summer on Old Street. You can see more of her work on her website here: http://www.magcrua.blogspot.co.uk/

Mag Magrela 

Faith47:

I watched Faith47 paint two beautiful tigers at the Truman Brewery this spring, and I watched these evolve over a few days. I love the style; the tigers are so beautiful. Sadly, they did not get to stay too long before the panels were taken down. It looks like either they are getting ready to build something new or remove the panels altogether. I hope they bring them back once they have finished. In addition to the tigers, a large woman was painted on a brick wall off of Great Eastern Street.

Faith47

Cernesto

Cernesto's artwork features elephants. The artist, originally from America, painted a few walls in London early this summer. They are cute and playful.

Rolling People

Earlier this year, they painted the big wall of the Village Underground. I've also captured one of their pieces off Hackney Road. Their work is colourful and reminds me of comic-book style. They also were at Dulwich this year and painted a whole room in a house, which I blogged about here.

Rolling People

Rolling People

Malabrocca

I cannot seem to find too much about this artist, but this looks like their website: http://www.malabrocca.com/.

Malabrocca

El Gat Mao: https://www.facebook.com/pages/El-Gat-Mao

Doughnats

These four large, painted doughnuts looked delicious, but they were painted onto the walls at the Village Underground. I walked by there a few times, and the artwork changed - bites had been taken out of some of the doughnuts, leaving some crumbs behind. The work gradually had more chunks taken out of it until they disappeared altogether.

Doughnats

Edwin

I've seen some tags from street artist Edwin appear across east London, and I've captured the following artwork on camera that has appeared more recently.

Edwin and Edwin and Jevons

Other artists

I've pictured work by various artists below that I have taken this summer. It was a busy year for street art in London.

ORFN

Festa

Roma

Houl

Millo

Millo

Paul Insect

Joyce Treasure

Ian Stevenson

Earlier this year, Bedminster (an area not far from the centre of Bristol) launched an art trail featuring a series of painted bugs. In total, there are over eighty bugs, and they have been painted by street artists and schools. The art trail launched in March during the week of the city's Upfest, a popular event that celebrates street art. 

I caught a glimpse of a few of these bugs when I went to visit the Gromit Unleashed art charity trail. The bugs are located on buildings, and apparently a few of them can be seen inside some of the shops and restaurants in Bedminster as well.

A few colourful Bedminster bugs

Bedminster is one of the areas that received funding (Mary Portas) to make it appeal to local businesses and to thrive; it is one of the successes of the scheme. The Bugs of Bedminster art trail is just one of the initiatives to come out of that.

The bugs will be on display for a year, which would take us to the middle of March in 2014. Bugs of Bedminster even has its own Facebook page so that you can view the bugs. https://www.facebook.com/bedminsterbristol.bs3

Chance Street near Shoreditch High Street has recently had a makeover by three large-scale street artists. The new murals add colour to this area already popular with street art. Nearby are large murals by ROA, JimmyC, Shephard Fairey, and Ben Eine. 

Australian street artist Reka painted a building on a corner in the middle of Chance Street earlier this summer. I had the pleasure of photographing the painting of the wall in various stages of completion. Reka's style of organic shapes (depicting women) and bold colours is instantly recognisable, and I enjoyed seeing it come together. The artwork is called 'Fallen Angel'. (For more information about Reka's street art, visit http://rekaone.com/blog/.)

Reka's mural in progress

The finished mural 'Fallen Angel' by Reka 

Not long after Reka's mural was finished, MadC painted the building next door. MadC (Claudia Walde) is an artist from Germany. She enjoys painting letters and using bright colours. She was one of the artists who painted in Dulwich earlier this year for Baroque the Streets and painted a room in the Dulwich Art House. (For more information about this artist, visit her personal website: http://madc.tv/category/street/.)

MadC's Chance Street mural

Today, I am focusing on the work of several street artists as many of these street artists tend to collaborate a lot with each other. Covered are Artista, Binty Bint, DecoLife, Irony, Pixie, Ino, and SeaPuppy. Another common theme in these artists are using bright colours.

Binty Bint

Binty Bint's work is colourful and features a lot of pink birds, eggs, fish, and hearts. Her work can be discovered at South Bank and around Shoreditch. (Binty Bint's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Bintybint)

Artista

Artista's work uses bright colours and characters, which are normally triangles with eyes. You can see examples below with the triangles dressed up in different styles (Vikings and with swords) and painted different colours.

Artista and DecoLife; Artista; Artista; Binty Bint and Artista

Artista

DecoLife

DecoLife's work consists of using a lot of colour and detail. The artist is from Brazil. (DecoLife's Facebook page can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/paginadecolife)

From top: RUN, DecoLife and Tizer; DecoLife and Hunto; Irony and DecoLife; DecoLife; DecoLife

Irony

Irony is a street artist that paints colourful animals and portraits of females. Irony and Boe have also contributed to animal-themed street art.  

Irony - an elephant

Boe and Irony

St8ment, SkyHigh, Irony and Artista

From top: SkyHigh, Irony and Artista; Irony and Artista at work and their finished piece off of Brick Lane

Pixie

Like the previous artists, Pixie's work is colourful and 'fun'. She collaborated on a piece with Irony and Artista earlier this year off Brick Lane, which features sea turtles. Pixie's contribution with a boombox turtle and paint-spraying octopus is photographed below.

Pixie

To the left of Pixie's contribution are the realistic-looking sea turtle by Irony and the bright and colourful sea turle and triangular characters by Artista.

Artista and Irony

More recently, Pixie painted a girl and fox with her name on Bethnal Green Road.

Pixie

Pixie

Ino

I'm not able to find out too much about the street artist Ino, but the following portrait is done by this artist.

From top: Ino; DecoLife; Ino; Artista, Irony and DecoLife

SeaPuppy

I'm not able to find out too much about the street artist SeaPuppy, but the work below is a memorial to someone that the artist knew. It isn't my favourite piece that has gone up on that wall.

Today, I've showcased street artist Ben Slow and some of his work that I've snapped when I've visited east London. Ben Slow studied fine art at university before becoming a street artist, and most of his work depicts portraits. He lives in London, and he has created street art across the world.

The following murals are located in east London. (Some of these murals in my photographs have since been painted over.)

The mural of "Charlie Burns" commemorates a local 95-year-old man who ran a charity and who was a well-known figure, often seen on Bacon Street. The mural is painted on Bacon Street. 

Mural of "Charlie Burns" on Bacon Street off Brick Lane.

Other artwork has appeared on Hanbury Street, off Brick Lane. This is a popular spot for street art. The following mural, "The queen of Spitalfields" also commemorates a local individual - a landlady. 

The Queen of spitalfields

The queen of Spitalfields

The next piece was created by Ben Slow for C.A.L.M., an charity organisation that helps prevent young men from committing suicide. It was also located on Hanbury Street, and it was in the same location as the above mural. 

Ben Slow's artwork for CALM.

The following mural was also on Hanbury Street, opposite the previously-mentioned murals. This one depicts "painful" figures, protesters with political messages. The artwork, in black and white, was very striking and filled with emotion.

I've noticed a few graphic-design and photographic paste-ups of a young woman for "New Endings" exhibit pasted around Spitalfields this spring, but I failed to get any photographs of these. 

For more information about the artist, please visit: http://www.slowbenart.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/slowbenart

Conor Harrington is a street artist from Ireland, and he's been busy painting in London and all over the world this year. He painted a large wall for the Dulwich Arts Festival, covered here: Baroque the Streets. Other recent works include a portrait of a boy on shutters on Petticoat Lane and a portrait of a man off of Rivington Street. Both of these are shown below.

Conor Harrington's most recent piece at Petticoat Lane

One of Conor Harrington's more recent pieces, located near Rivington Street

Another piece to be painted earlier this year was a collaboration with Irish artist Maser. This piece is located off of Brick Lane and features the portrait of a young man.

Conor Harrington and Maser, another Irish artist

Earlier works by Conor Harrington are included below. In these murals, Conor depicts soldiers. These seem to be a favourite subject of the artist. The below image is a collaboration between him and street artist Ronzo.

Ronzo and Conor Harrington

The following two murals are located just off of Brick Lane.

Additional work by Conor Harrington

For more information about the artist, visit his personal website at: http://conorsaysboom.wordpress.com/

Last year, American artist (graphic designer and illustrator) Shepard Fairey visited London and painted a few walls around the city for an exhibition. The artist has created significant pieces for various campaigns and was featured on the cover of "The New Yorker" and has pieces on display in the Smithsonian, Museum of Modern Art in New York, National Portrait Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and other famous museums around the world.

The artwork is bold and primarily features limited colours - nornally black, yellow/cream and red. I love this style. The colours work well together to create a striking image. They look slightly 'vintage' and are minimal in detail. 

Some of the artwork has a message: political or comical.

The photographs pictured on this entry were taken in and around Shoreditch. These pieces can still be discovered, but the one above on Ebor Street has some tags over the bottom part of it at the moment.

Street artists HIN, Senna, Mo, ALO, and Cranio have been busy collaborating on various pieces around London as well as creating their own artwork. This summer has seen some fabulous collaborations with these street artists in various locations. To read more about HIN and to see photographs of his work, view my article Street Art: HIN. To read more about Cranio and to see more of his work that he created earlier this year, view my article Street Art: Cranio. To see the earliest work featuring ALO's portraits and a write-up, read my article Street Art: ALO Artistide Loria.

Cranio

Cranio arrived back in London this summer, and he has been busy creating new work on his own and in collaboration with other artists. This week, a new mural has appeared off of Brick Lane. I caught the work in progress and near completion on Wednesday, and I popped over to have a look at it early this morning. The work is located in the same place as a mural he completed earlier in the year which most recently featured work of superhero Wolverine by artist Nando Mambo. I've included several photographs of it below and one of it in progress.

Cranio's most recent work in progress on Wednesday

In addition to the mural above, Cranio also 'touched up' an older mural that he created earlier in the year off of Old Street. The sleeping giant has brightly-coloured stripes added to him.

Cranio touches up an older work of art off of Old Street

Another one of Cranio's murals that was painted earlier in the year (on Rivington Street) had recently been painted over, but Cranio reclaimed the spot with two pigs in love and a blue man with a 'thumbs up' symbol on his mobile phone.

Mural on Rivington Street

Another wall with Cranio's work on Brick Lane was recently repainted with a new character. The old mural can be seen on my previous post.

Brick Lane mural

Cranio's blue man drawn on a bus

Senna

Alex Senna arrived in London from South America earlier in the summer and created a few murals. His technique is to create black and white illustrations of people (normally couples or showing emotion) or birds. The birds are often dotted around shutters or scaffolding as tags. Although it may not include a lot of bright colour like quite a bit of the street art around, I enjoy the simplicity and cute style of street art. 

One of Senna's murals off of Brick Lane

A mural at Ely's Yard

At the end of July, Senna painted the four panels across from the Village Underground. I believe that this was the first piece that I saw from the artist. The fourth panel included the name of the artist, but this was replaced in several days with another panel. I have included photographs below, including close-ups of the work and the work in progress with Senna standing in the foreground. 

The first panel contains a newspaper headline: "It's a Girl!" than a couple are reading. These murals were painted just before the royal baby was born, so this could be a tribute to the baby. (Remember that we were not aware of the baby's gender at that time.)

Four panels across from the Village Underground

Senna's common tag, the bird, on a shutter on Brick Lane.

Old Street

Petticoat Lane Market 

HIN

HIN (Street Art: HIN) has added a few pieces around the city later in the summer, which I have not posted since the entry I posted about the artist.   These were spotted around various areas in east London.  

Various artwork from HIN

Another hulla-hooping figure

Collaborations

Bethnal Green Road and the area next to it has been the focus of many collaborations by street artists. A part of scaffolding on the Brick Lane end of the road that origiginally had work from ALO for some time now has recently been painted on by Senna, Cranio, and HIN. 

A close-up of the work on the scaffolding

A few doors down is the Fun Factory, and Cranio painted one of his blue men on the window. HIN also contributed by sticking several of his small creations around the shop front. Work by ALO and street artist 616 also featue, but these will be covered in another post. (Keep checking back for more information and artwork from 616.) 

Cranio advertises on the glass window of the Fun Factory

HIN advertises on Fun Factory, Bethnal Green Road

Around the corner and behind the Fun Factory shop are additional street art pieces that have recently appeared. These are by HIN, Cranio, and a street artist known as Mo. I have not covered much of Mo's work yet, but he paints a lot of monkey heads. These are normally tagged on the tops of buildings. I have an article coming, which you could keep checking back for. Recently, Mo and Cranio collaborated on a piece with Cranio's blue man painting Mo's monkey tag.

Cranio and Mo

Near to the above artwork, Cranio, HIN and Mo have been having fun with artwork painted on the upper walls and roof area off Bethnal Green Road.

Artwork by Cranio, Mo, and HIN

Cranio and  Senna collaborated on sleeping poses near East India station. I have not been to see these pieces yet, but they look impressive.

A shutter was painted on Petticoat Lane (Wentworth Street). It features Cranio's blue man playing on a gaming device and Senna's man reading a paper on a bench. I love this collaboration of the two different styles.

Cranio and Senna

Senna and Cranio and HIN collaborated on a piece off of Brick Lane, but it was immediately buffed over by the council (for being offensive) before I got a photograph of it. The work featured heads of not-well-liked political leaders (a common subject of HIN's) on Cranio's blue man bodies (one strapped with bombs) with a few of Senna's birds. I have a photograph of the work before and after it was painted over by the council. The work has since had new cartoon-like heads painted on it and a mini-protest about the destruction of the artwork. Admitedly, I thought that the heads had been stolen until I read that they had been painted over. While this is not any different from HIN's previous work with similar subjects, it is odd to think that this one was painted over while others survived the censorship.

HIN and Senna

Have you seen any of these pieces or know where there's more? Let me know and leave a message.