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The meaning behind Banksy's 'Girl with Balloon' - Explained. Image © Banksy

The meaning behind Banksy’s ‘Girl with Balloon’ – Explained

July 5, 2021

Banksy’s Girl With Balloon was first stencilled across London in 2002 under Waterloo Bridge at London’s Southbank Centre, together with a quotation that read ‘There is always hope’ …before the council painted over it. A couple of years later, Girl With Balloon resurfaced on a printing shop wall in trendy Shoreditch, which the owner later […]

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Fintan Magee’s New Street Art Mural Pays Tribute to Essentional Workers Post-COVID, Australia 2021

June 20, 2021

Fintan Magee has just finished painting a massive mural at the Limestone Centre in Ipswich, Australia, titled “Two figures behind glass.” The mural depicts two rail workers sitting close to each other, facing opposite directions. Fintan uses a clever painting technique to create the illusion of artic glass to blur the two figures intentionally. However, […]

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VukovART Street Art Festival, Croatia 2021

June 18, 2021

VukovART street festival in Vukovar, Croatia, has just wrapped up its fifth edition held from 15th May to 15th June 2021. Vukovar is a city in eastern Croatia. It contains Croatia’s largest river port, located at the confluence of the Vuka and the Danube. The name Vukovar means ‘town on the Vuka River‘ (Vuko from the Vuka River, and vár from […]

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Get stuck in and STUCK UP!, Nuart Aberdeen 2021

June 18, 2021

Make it, print it, send it, paste it! Nuart Aberdeen is preparing for a RECORD BREAKING paste-up wall in a worldwide collaborative project and they have invited the world to get stuck in with them! Nuart has secured a massive 1500ft of wall space in Aberdeen City Centre and intends to create the world’s largest […]

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Street Artist Li Hill’s Mural ‘NEW FUTURES’ Celebrates World Environment Day 2021, NYC

June 18, 2021

Brooklyn based Canadian artist Aaron Li-Hill has teamed up with Leading Climate Arts Initiative GreenPoint EARTH with his latest mural ‘New Futures’ in New York City. Li-Hill and GreenPoint EARTH both share the same vision that a more sustainable world and future is possible if we can restore our natural ecosystems, which in turn will […]

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PULPA Festival Volume 1, Montesilvano Italy 2021

June 17, 2021

Montesilvano, a small seaside suburb outside Pescara in Abruzzi, is home to a brand new and exciting street art festival called PULPA. Pulpa Festival is founded by Enrico Peca, Art Director of Spazio 010 – Studio Creativo, and their mission is to offer a new way of experiencing their city, to create tourism, and to […]

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‘PIONEER’ by INNERFIELDS for Out in the Open 2021, Aalborg

June 16, 2021

Boom! Out in the Open 2021 has just kicked off with the 7th season of new beautiful murals, where Innerfields have just finished the first one to come in the summer of 2021. Launched in 2014 the project aims to bring the art out of the gallery and into the streets, adding beautiful art to the […]

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‘EVERYTHING MUST GO’ Highlights the Impact of Consumerism, Bristol 2021

June 12, 2021

Everything Must Go is an ambitious outdoor installation by the art/activist duo Peter Kennard and Cat Phillipps known collectively as kennardphillipps, supported by Jack Arts, part of the BUILDHOLLYWOOD family. The impressive work spans a trio of billboards on West Street inBristol. The first has the word ‘EVERYTHING’ together with an image of our extraordinary […]

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Interview with My Dog Sighs – ‘INSIDE’ Art Installation 2021

June 9, 2021

My Dog Sighs’ has turned his attention to installation art; the show will be an incredible look at his artistic growth over the last 18 months. The multi-story complex that houses the installations is the perfect setting for the artist’s own creatures, dubbed his ‘Quiet Little Voices’, as his playful to melancholic painted murals and sculptures fill the unsettling abandoned space. We catch up with the man himself and chat about his new venture INSIDE…

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Street Artist Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada’s Mural Criticises Social Media Platforms, Madrid 2021

June 8, 2021

Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada speaks out about our relationship with social media with his latest mural, ‘Byte the Candy’, for Urvanity in Madrid. It’s the first piece created by Gerada which brings his terrestrial land art style to the wall, creating a perfect union of the two aesthetics. “In 1984, Neil Postman gave a talk about how […]

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‘Inside’ installation by My Dog Sighs opens this summer in Portsmouth, UK 2021

June 6, 2021

 An immersive installation by acclaimed British street artist My Dog Sighs opens this summer in an undisclosed location in Portsmouth. Inside is My Dog Sighs’ most ambitious project to date, transforming a derelict building into an immersive world inhabited by the artist’s own creatures, dubbed his ‘Quiet Little Voices’. “Like us, these creatures are not perfect […]

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