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Nuart Festival 2015, Stavanger Norway – Part 1: On the street

October 3, 2015

Nuart Festival took place on the first weekend of September 2015 in Stavanger, Norway. This was Nuarts fifteenth anniversary and we were excited to check out this special place. We arrived in Stavanger to be welcomed by local street art enthusiast Tor, as he drove us to the house he could not resist giving us a quick street […]

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Ador – Four seasons and a wall

October 1, 2015

ADOR is a french street artist from Nantes, who creates murals of large-scale with imaginative humanoid characters. The wall is in his hometown of Nantes and during the past 12 months Ador has taken us through the seasons from Winter 2014 through to Autumn 2015 with his thought-provoking art. Here his first painting on the wall […]

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Vision Art Festival 2015

September 15, 2015

The Vision Art Festival is a unique encounter between nature and art in the amazing setting of the Valais Alps. The festival aims to create an open-air museum in the mountains, spread over an incredible surface located between 1.500 and 3.000m above sea level on the Glacier of Plaine Morte. With its spectacular circular view, coiled […]

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No Limits Street Art Festival 2015, Borås

September 12, 2015

On the 3rd until the 6th of September 2015, the Swedish town Borås once again opened it’s walls to public art for the ‘No Limits Street Art Festival’ curated by fellow street artist Shai Dahan. This is the second year that Shai has invited artists to paint the town of Borås. This years No Limit […]

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The Aftenblad Wall, Sandra Chevrier Nuart 2015

September 11, 2015

During this years festivities Nuart did their own collaboration with Stavanger Aftenblad newspaper and launched a new public art initiative that will see invited artists create work on a large-scale billboard in the heart of Stavanger, called ‘The Aftenblad Wall’. The Aftenblad Wall, in the Storhaug area of Stavanger, will provide selected Norwegian and international contemporary […]

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STIK ‘Sleeping Baby’ Fundraiser Homerton Hospital

September 8, 2015

Stik is londons most treasured street artist. From living on the cold streets, Stik found comfort and then fame, with his street art work, painting his Stik figures on the streets of london. Stik started off in Hackney wick and made his way to the street art mecca of Shoreditch. These stik figures are simple, only […]

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UpNorth Festival, Sulitjelma, Norway

September 1, 2015

UpNorth Festival is a brand new urban art festival that took place in the remote village of Sulitjelma, above the arctic circle in Northern Norway. Sulitjelma initially a Sámi settlement, who bred Reindeer during summers through the end of the 16th century went on to become one of Norway’s biggest mining communities in the 1800’s. At its […]

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Ella & Pitr, Klepp Nuart festival 2015

August 28, 2015

The world’s largest outdoor single mural has been completed in Klepp, Rogaland, in just four hot days for the Nuart Festival, Norway. French artists Ella & Pitr have worked at lightning-quick pace to cover Block Berge Bygg’s 21,000m2 roof on the outskirts of Stavanger and created a beautiful new addition to the Rogaland landscape. Luckily for […]

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24 hours in Banksy’s Dismaland, Weston-super-Mare

August 24, 2015

After months of watching people come and go and witnessing peculiar events within the confines of the old Lido walls, the abandoned Tropicana site is finally ready to open its doors to the local residents of Weston-super-Mare. The site is all set to host the much-awaited Banksy show, ‘Dismaland, Bemusement Park.’ The Graffiti Street team […]

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No Limits Borås, Sweden 2015

August 15, 2015

On the 3rd until the 6th of September 2015, the Swedish town Borås will once again open it’s walls to public art for the ‘No Limits Street Art Festival’ curated by fellow street artist Shai Dahan. This will be the second year that Shai has invited artists to paint the town of Borås. The No […]

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Bordalo II Big Trash Animals Series : Treating pets as rubbish

August 5, 2015

With his latest additions to the Big Trash Animal series, Portuguese street artist Bordalo II, is capturing the world’s attention once again, this time to the growing problem of Pet abandonment. There are many reasons why irresponsible owners abandon their pets: Money issues, laziness, A relationship break up, lost interest, Breeders who do not sell […]

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