If you walk around the old part of Naples (particularly the Quartieri Spagnoli), you will see many murals and paintings by the Italian duo Cyop & Kaf. Many of them are weathered and faded or written over but they are still hard to miss. This is a selection of the ones that I saw in Naples one wet spring day.
Re-visiting Rochester to see how some of their older murals have fared.
400 Atlantic Ave. is a brick building that parallels the railway tracks. It was built in 1920 as an Ice Block Factory to service rail cars but has since been converted to offices and storage space.
The view at street level and still looking good – Abstract shapes stretch out along Atlantic in a painting by Italian artist Peeta, aka Manuel Di Rita.
below: On the other side of the building, is Aaron Li-Hill’s “Together we Fall” from 2015 Wall Therapy event.
Across the driveway, at 410 Atlantic –
Perhaps these squares aren’t really considered “street art” as they are more in keeping with the building’s prior use as a children’s centre/school,
but they do help to brighten up an otherwise dull and ordinary section of the street.
As I walked around Tirana I saw several examples of murals by Albanian artist Eljan Tanini. This blog post features three – a whole building covered by his shapes and colours, a tall vertical mural, and last, a wall with four panels.
below: All sides of the building are covered with whimsical playful shapes in Blloku.
below: Street scene on Rruga Myslym Shyri with the bottom part of Tanini mural showing. This mural was painted as part of MurAL Fest 2018.
below: Four panels in a concrete wall have abstract paintings by Tanini (one on the left, with a blue background, is not shown).
Chopper Lane is a small dead end alley that runs off Perry Street in Collingwood. This bright blue mural is at the end of the lane.
below: I can’t read the signature at the bottom right, any ideas?
Text in the mural: “I meet love and I lose it, I sense it, I reject it, I pursue it, I find it in small things Like When I stop to look at the sky And I wonder About You”
below: The signature at the bottom right of this one is utama.co and lingerid. Unfortunately, I cut off the signature on the left (partially visible here).
below: One Mob
below: Mural of a sugar glider, a small nocturnal possum.
I’m not sure if it’s still Chopper Lane after it crosses Perry Street, but you can continue walking north.
below: Looking across Perry Street from north to south.
below: On the paper it is written: “Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all.” Even if it’s the devil from the TV show “Futurama”
below: A knight in no armour but a helmet spearing open a spray paint can.
below: I’m not sure it’s “street art” but it was too cute not to include here.
below: A closer look.
below: Two pasteups on a pole
below: Oh! It looks like I was spotted!
If you walk to the end of the lanes, you’ll find yourself on Bedford Street where there is another mural by Lingerid.
Tallinn is the capital city of the small Baltic country Estonia. I was only there for a short time but I did find some street art in the old town and in Kalamaja.
below: The young person on the right is the work of @minaJaLydia. I you look closely, there are two tiny faces to the right of the knees.
below: I am calling this one, The Warrior and his Social Media Hedgehog. They are the work of Edward von Longus
below: Close up of the hedgehog. It needs time in the limelight too.
below: Whatever he was writing on the wall is long gone. This is another work by Edward von Longus.
below: A green and blue planet Earth between two animals (a cat and a ?), by multistab
below: A couple of couples by Linna Sokk but with the theme of domestic violence.
below: Something’s stuck to his forehead… looks like a sheep to me.
below: Not your average Easter Bunny!
below: A multi talented, multi handed, multi tasking elephant!
below: This wall is difficult to see because of the fence – it is part of the old fortress/prison that is no longer open to visitors.
below: The next two are by the same artist, Lume, of LDK crew who is from Naples Italy.
below: In case you can’t read it, the sign that Darth Vader is holding says: “Help me. I need $$$ to build a death star.”
In Newtown (Sydney), Goddard Street is only one small block long. It runs west from King Street. The north side of Goddard is the wall of one building and that wall is home to a number of paintings. Gigi’s Pizza occupies the front part of the building, facing King street, but I’m not sure what else is there. Most of the paintings are unsigned and I have only been able to find information about some of them online.
below: four eyed cat, signed honeybunny
below: The painting on the right is probably by Ears
below: MW, left painting, is Mike Watt
below: The red face is by Ears
below: The woman’s head is the top of a painting by Lucy Lucy.
below: The rest of the painting by Lucy Lucy along with a portrait on a door by Crisp.
Narrow sidewalks, parked cars and rubbish bins – the bane of photographers taking pictures of street art!
Eyes on the Streets 