Bristol paste-ups

Posted on December 21, 2017 by Mary C

below: Be brave paste-up by donk (instagram)

be brave pasteup by donk, ofLondon, in Bristol a young person with eys closed, Indian feather head dress on hed, in monotone black and white

below: Hero of the Beach (Ben Rider), Be Brave (donk), Play Nice (donk), and Adventures into the Future

section of wall covered with pasteups, be brave, play nice, adventures into the future, hero of the beach dog, ghetto blaster

below: This characters are the work of qWeRT (on instagram)

two little green andwhite characters on a blue wall, a red heart is above the head of a tall skinny standing creature while the other is sitting crossed legged beside him

two little purple and white characters on a beige wall, a red heart is above the head of a tall skinny standing creature while the other is sitting crossed legged beside him

vertical paste up, man in suit and good shoe, but with head and hands as machinery

below: A pouting child beside the steps.

black and white photo of a cjild with curly hair and topless

below: Ribcage and a pink ‘Grab This’ pussy with a gun. The latter is by Ben Rider (instagram)

two pink paste ups on a door - the top is a drawing of a ribcage, bones only and the other is a cat with a gn and the words grabthis (grab this pussy?)

below: Paint me a rainbow

a black girlwith long curly hair is painting a small house, the house is black and white but there is a rainbow of colours coming out of it

below: A torn version of the picture above along with some other pasteups. Men in glasses, profanity pony wishes, and a more complicated poster with a hand, a skull, and other things. The words on this last one say ‘Office of the Medical Examiner, County of Cook’. Eyes dominate two of the posters – same artist?

below: She carries an awkward load on the left while the girl on the right is well armed and well prepared.

below: Mais Amor, por favor…. more love please. Another pasteup by donk.

pasteup of a smiling woman's head, large puffy hairdo, words say mais amor por favor.

below: Another donk piece – a pirate lying in a liquor bottle with another bottle in his hand.

donk pasteup in a doorway, on brown paper, a drawing of a man lying on his back inside a liquor bottle, he's holding another bottle in his hand

graffiti text pasteup in black writng on white paper

below: I was in Bristol just before the British elections in the spring of 2017. There was quite a few anti-May/Tories and pro -Corbyn/Labour graffiti including this dinosaur themed one.

black and white poster on a graffiti spray painted wall, words n poster say TMay Rex with a picture in the middle of May's (British Prime Minister) head on a dinosaur

below: The Humble Magnificent with masked boy, a donk piece.

donk pasteup of a boy in hat, wearing mask and standing with his hands at his side, background is covered with large red polka dots - the border is the words The Humble Magnificent repeated 8 times

below: A creature waits outside number 42

on a blue door with the number 2 on it, a small black and white paste of a head of a creature, signed creature [illegible name - maybe arequte?]

below: mcln’s plague doctor character is in Bristol too. He’s drawn on a printed page and the words in that rectangle are ‘resist the temptation’.

mcln pasteup of plague doctor character in black top hat

Corbet Place, Shoreditch

Posted on December 24, 2016 by Mary C

Here are a few photos of the graffiti that I saw on Corbet Place, London E1.

below: Into the machine, a MCLN plague doctor paste up.
The words in the background are ‘Dreamland Emporium’

a mcln plague doctor paste up

below: With horus, and with eyes all over, another MCLN plague doctor.

a mcln plague doctor paste up with the word horus on it as well as an eye

below: A face at the end of the street.

a truck painted in yellow and red stripes is parked on the side of a narrow street, brick three storey buildings on either side, graffiti on the wall at the end of the lane

below: Hello, is it me you’re looking for? Not where you’d expect to find Lionel Ritchie.

a bright pink rectangle paste up with a neon green milk bpttle with blue highlights, words, hello is it me you're looking for, with a picture of Lionel Ritchie

below: A Voxx face, Stay Lucky, Code, and a Mario Brothers (sort of!)

stickers and paste ups graffiti on a wall, Mario brothers parody, man by voxx,

below: On the wall at the corner of Jerome and Corbet. A very messy wall.

a wall covered with tags and other graffiti, stencils, paint, paste ups, surrounding a yard by an apartment complex, brick building in the background
below: I’m doubtful that this is actually on Corbet Place but it’s nearby and it’s colourful!

mural in yellow and blue on exterior wall of urban outfitters in Shoreditch London, abstract face with white eyes and teeth

Photos were taken in September.

Alien Gardens, East London

Posted on November 7, 2016 by Mary C

blue sign for Allen Gardens that has been altered to say Alien Gardens, city of London , TOwer Hamlets,

looking across a park, grass in the foreground. A man is sitting on a bench in front of fence covered with graffiti and street art, including a painting of a big blue eye

below: An MCLN pasteup featuring his Plague Doctor character walking old streets. A lost world of memories? Or Memories of a lost world?

paper paste up by mcln of memory, characters in black top hats and black coats walking streets of the past

below: The London Overground passes the north side of the park.

train track bridge, brown girders, over a park with a graffiti and street art covered fence below the bridge

below: An unreadable sign.

triangular street sign with red border, unreadable because covered with stickers and spray paint

below: The northeast exit from the park is a walkway that leads to Brick Lane.

a narrow lane, with bollards to prevent cars from driving down it, low buildings on either side, with street art on the right hand side.

below: The northeast corner of the park.

looking across a park, grass in the foreground. A fence covered with graffiti separates the park from buildings, a new glass skyscraper in the distance along with some construction cranes and other new construction.

Grimsby Street, Shoreditch

Posted on September 20, 2016 by Mary C

Graffiti and street art seen on Grimsby Street in Shoreditch, East London, September 2016. Grimsby Street runs off Brick Lane, immediately north of the overground tracks. It is a short street that ends at Chilton Street. In this blog post I have included the little bit of street art that was on Chilton Street between Grimsby and the next street north (Cheshire).

below: Yo! It’s a red stencil signed by Malot.

below: A stencil of a man’s head on page 272 of an old dictionary, entries between Carinthia and Carlos. Signed by Oddo.

below: A wrdsmith stencil with the now iconic paper in an old typewriter. “Smile. It’s an old school status update.” A paste-up of woman and child, decorated with pink and blue yarn is on the same wall.

below: A 3D bunny rabbit carrying a hand grenade. The piece is signed along the edge of the grenade. Chima–? Tile. Sorry but I haven’t been able to find any more information than that.

below: Amazingly detailed pictures of grasshoppers and one colour bubble tree… that’s the name I gave to these trees as I saw them around Shoreditch this afternoon. I’m not sure what the artist calls them.

below: An MCLN plague doctor character in black coat and top hat.
More examples of his street art pieces on his website.

below: Le Touquet Paris Plage, or Le Touquet for short, is a coastal town in France. It has a reputation as the most elegant holiday resort of northern France, the playground of rich Parisians. The same plague doctor character by MCLN appears on two of them.

below: Little 3D animals are stuck to many walls in East London. I think this one is a cat but I’m not sure. He was quite high up on the wall.

below: Two of many of these biplanes that I saw today. These ‘thieve the world’ stencils are by L.A. street artist Megzany who must have visited London lately.

below: On the left is beach scene that only ‘face the strange’ could have created. Men in suits out of context and with their heads replaced with strange things – a striped candy stick, a horse’s head and a yellow bucket, and something red and flattish. In the middle, a woman with a red rose in her hair by artist KIN MX, aka Kathrina Rupit.

below: Red headed woman by C3, an artist whose drawings are often women, and usually red heads.

below: Some potty humour, by matlakas

below: And another…. Just press the button

below: A wise man turns change into good fortune.

below: Or, a wise man once said nothing

below: Stormtrooper buddha by minty beside a small green buddha amongst other things.

below: Three realistic looking bird heads. Birds with feathers in an awesome shade of blue.

below: A pasteup by Voxx beside an abstract sort of drawing with an eye in the middle. The latter pasteup was a fairly common sight in Shoreditch. Voxx is short for Voxx Romana, an artist currently based out of Portland Oregon.

below: Five more paste-ups, all people in one form or another. The woman in the center with the large flower on her hat is by Mr. Fahrenheit. He is responsible for the street art with the slogan “U R so porno baby”; if you’ve read some of the other London blog posts here you’ll have seen his work. If not, the next image includes one of his pieces.

below: U R So Porno Baby with Star Trek characters in funny shades of green and brown. Boom! Spock and Captain Kirk look a little off colour. The RX Skulls beside it are the work of Arrex, another Portland Oregon based artist.

below: This hand is looking at you. Bright blue eye.

below: A little lightning bug? Jake.

below: High on a wall, an upside down elephant with its trunk entwined with a pink elephant, a mural painted by Cerresto.

below: King Elvis.

below: Crouching beside the front door for a smoke and a chat.

below: Street art on the brick fence between Grimsby street and the train tracks.

below: “Protect children: don’t make them breathe your crystal meth.”

below: Two stencils, a little surdude who says that only little people pay taxes and a stencil by SSOSVA. The latter is an acronym for Secret Society of Super Villain Artists.

below: An electrical plug comes alive, signed by Ted Flip.

below: A paste-up by TeneT, a serious looking woman, Emma Goldman, with “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” TeneT is a Melbourne Australia based street artist. Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist and a feminist amongst other things.