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‘Sofia and the Mountain’ by Nimi, Stavanger, Norway 2016

August 31, 2016

‘Sofia and the Mountain’ by Bergen-based artist NIMI makes its appearance in Stavanger courtesy of Nuart’s latest ‘Art City’ program.  The piece depicts NIMI’s daughter, Sofia, and the famous Rogaland landmark – Preikestolen rock or Pulpit Rock. Along the plateau of the rock there continues to be a deep crack. Due to these cracks, the plateau will at […]

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Yash, Artscape Gothenburg 2016 Photo Credit Artscape

Artscape Street Art Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden 2016

August 23, 2016

This summer street art festival Artscape landed in Gothenburg, Sweden’s alternative culture capital, as part of the city’s build up to its 400th anniversary in 2021. Between 25th July & 21st August 2016, twenty international and Swedish street artists were invited to create and paint in all ten districts of the city, making Artscape Scandinavia’s largest ever […]

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Ador

Interview with Street Artist ADOR

August 22, 2016

Ador is a french street artist from Nantes who creates murals of large-scale imaginative humanoid characters. At a very early age Ador found his passion with drawing and hasn’t stopped since. Following his studies in Fine Art, Ador shifted his focus by bringing his art onto the street scene. Ador utilises his playful and wonderful […]

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Kiev’s Street Art through a Lens

August 22, 2016

Photographer Amos Chapple returned to Kiev with his camera at the ready to capture the large scale street art murals being painted across Ukraine’s capital. Amos initially visited Kiev in 2008, although his trip left him battered and bruised from an unprovoked assault. Since the Euromaidan protests of 2014, public murals have been appearing on the […]

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GraffitiStreet Urban show Streets of London, Tackling Homelessness

Street Art Auction raising money for London’s Homelessness

August 14, 2016

It’s with great pleasure to announce that for a second year running we will be hosting a charity urban art auction to tackle homelessness and together with your help we will be able to make a difference. For this year’s specially curated charity auction, street artists My Dog Sighs (UK), Pichi&Avo (ES),  JPS (UK), Bisser (BE), Hunto (IT), Joachim (BE), Pahnl (UK), Nils Westergard (US), 3F (UK) and NME (UK) […]

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We chat to ‘Streets of London’ Charity Founder Ian Fothringham

August 14, 2016

GraffitiStreet initially teamed up with ‘Streets of London’ at the GraffitiStreet launch event which took place June 2014 in London, and have ever since continued to raise money for their charitable work, through our charity urban art auctions.

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Karl Addison © Henrik_Haven

Street artist Karl Addison paints the Federal RTD Station, Denver, Colorado 2016

August 10, 2016

Karl Addison has spent time in Denver, Colorado painting a large-scale public artwork titled, Doradus,  (113.85 meters wide x 6.7 meters high) on a new Federal Rail Transporation District (RTD) Station that opens this October, 2016. Currently a building site, the Federal RTD Station is one of eight stations opening up in Denver this October. It has 11 miles […]

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Gaia, Street Art Mural, Lodz, Poland, Release Urban Forms Foundation, Photo © Grzegorz Stężała

Gaia introduces ‘The Energy of the City’ Street Art Festival, Lodz, Poland 2016

August 10, 2016

The Urban Forms Foundation has been activity bringing street art to the city of Lodz, Poland since 2009. Inviting local and international artists such as Sainer, Etam crew, Os Gemeos etc… They are now busy organising a street art festival to run between 1st September until 30th September 2016 called “The Energy of the City […]

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Street Artist Elian paints for Mural Social Club Festival, Kiev, Ukraine 2016

August 9, 2016

Argentinean artist Elian Chali, aka Elian was invited to paint in Kiev, Ukraine for the Mural Social Club street art festival, organized by NGO Sky Art Foundation and Dmytro Palienko, curated by Oleg Sosnov and Julia Ostrovska. The festival line-up includes Li-Hill, Rodrigo Branco, Fintan Magee, Borondo, Fikos Antonios, Millo, Agostino Iacurci and others. Ukrainian […]

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Os Gemeos & Aryz, Urban Forms street art gallery, Lodz, Poland.

Urban Forms, Permanent Street Art Gallery, Lodz, Poland

August 6, 2016

Urban Forms Foundation was created in 2009 to bring culture to the city of Lodz, Poland. Urban forms organise, promote and support independent artistic initiatives in public spaces. With the aim to change the dull city landscape of Lodz by raising its quality and aesthetics. The fundamental mission is to saturate the cityscape with creative, […]

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Dan Witz Red Telephone Box Takeover, London 2016

August 4, 2016

Dan Witz has been actively working on the streets since the late 1970s. He cleverly combines digital reproduction with illusionism, bringing lifelike figures appearing on signposts, walls, windows and manhole covers across the world. Painted and layered over digital photographs, each image is designed to surprise the viewer, taking them aback and from the expected. […]

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