Sheffield's best street art of 2025

2025 was an epic year for Sheffield’s street art scene. It’s now time to reveal Street Art Sheffield’s supporters’ favourite new murals of the last 12 months.

Narrowing down the highlights was no easy task. It was one of the busiest, most inspiring years I’ve documented since Street Art Sheffield began. The Lick of Paint Festival alone brought a surge of fresh creativity to the city, sparking even more work beyond the festival itself. Established artists returned with bold new pieces, while emerging talent made their mark on walls, shutters and boardings across Sheffield.

After much deliberation, the shortlist was distilled to 20 artworks by 20 different artists.

Over the last few weeks, you have been voting for your personal favourites. Thank you to everyone that participated and helped promote the poll. Participation was really high, and the competition for the top spots a close run race.

So, who will be joining past winners Peachzz and Elle Koziupa for the top spot? Read on to find out.

10: Romaround and INSA

In joint tenth place is INSA and Romaround.

INSA

Large wall mural representing flowing water

INSA collaborated with local artist Rob Lee to transform half a square kilometre of car park wall in the heart of the city with two incredible murals. INSA’s artwork represents Sheffield’s many rivers. Swirling patterns of blue bring images of flowing water to life. Located close to the Heart of the City 2 development, INSA’s eye-catching artwork is in a prime position; I’m sure it has helped draw people into the area as they’ve passedby.

Romaround

A large-scale mural on a red brick building featuring a highly detailed giant Antarctic Krill with the shadow of a whale in the background, the krill is formed out of thousands of small dots

Romaround was one of the artists at the inaugural Lick of Paint festival back in September. Originally from the UK, Romaround is a bit of a globe trotter being inspired by the natural world. For her festival piece, she created an ‘invisible giant’, an Antarctic Krill, formed out of thousands of small dots using a pointillist technique. It can be found high above the courtyard of Nomad Maison.

9: George Rose

Mural covering the corner of an old red brick building featuring oversized, stylized flowers in vibrant shades of pink, blue and lime green

Next up is another highlight from Lick of Paint. George Rose’s mural is just around the corner from the Wicker (and close to Romaround’s piece). Her colourful floral design covers the corner at the back of Wicker Pharmacy.

George is one of Australia’s foremost muralists. Her work is a vibrant exploration of the natural world using bold colours and gradients.

8: Trik 9

Large wall mural featuring two women under a cosmic sky, one a black woman with a large afro dressed in urban fashion, the other an asian woman wearing a headscalf and holding chopsticks. They are surrounded by flowers and a modern city skyline.

Trik 9’s work will be familiar to many people in Sheffield. He’s been doing his thing for many years now. His stunning London Road mural, celebrating the multiculturalism of the area, is one of his largest murals to date.

It’s always a pleasure to discover one of Trik’s ‘girls’ and we get two here amongst numerous references to the area the mural resides in.

7: Tom J Newell

Large wall mural of a green parakeet holding a ribbon in its beak with This is Woodseats written on it

This is Woodseats commissioned our seventh place mural to welcome people to their popular neighbourhood in the south of Sheffield. Tom J Newell took inspiration from Woodseat’s exotic parakeets for his design. Studio Jumble helped him realise his artwork which can be found on Chesterfield Road.

6: Alastair Flindall

Colourful mural featuring a saxophone player, a woman playing an unspecified woodwind instrument and abstract shapes in bold reds, greens, pinks and blacks

Sixth place goes to Alastair Flindall. Not only did he co-organise Lick of Paint in 2025 with fellow artist Peachzz, he also found time to paint some incredible walls including this Heeley based mural.

This colourful collage was created in collaboration with local Heeley residents. It celebrates the area’s music, community and heritage. It was commissioned by Heeley Community TARA and Sheffield City Council.

5: Faunagraphic

Mural of a red fox laid down in a forest with its head raised and a red admiral butterfly perched on the fox's nose

We’re now half way through the Best of 2025 countdown. In at number 5 is Faunagraphic’s Jordanthorpe Centre mural inspired by nature.

Faunagraphic is no stranger to Sheffield’s street art scene. She’s painted many iconic murals here over the years. One of her most recent is this Jordanthorpe piece that wraps around the Jordanthorpe Centre featuring various flora and fauna.

4: Rob Lee

Large mural featuring a hilly landscape made up of layers split across two walls at a slight angle utilising a Trompe L’oeil effect to make it look like a flat surface

Fourth place goes to Rob Lee.

Rob is a familiar name from past Street Art Sheffield countdown’s having twice featured in the top 5 for murals created in 2022 and 2023.

This mural is the second part of the collaboration with INSA (tenth place) and represents Sheffield’s hills. It utilises a Trompe L’oeil effect so that if you stand in the right position the two parts of his work align to look like a flat surface.

It was commissioned by Sheffield Marketing.

3: Phlegm

Large black and white mural of a giant cat lying down eating human like figures

One of Sheffield’s street art scene’s biggest exports comes in at number 3. There’s always a lot of excitement when word gets out that Phlegm is back in town. His ‘Devonshire Cat’ mural (as many have coined it) took just 3 days to paint and was commissioned by the Festival of the Outdoors.

It’s a playful piece depicting a giant cat devouring Phlegm’s recognisable human figures whilst birds watch on.

It can be found close to Devonshire Green, and if you’re lucky there will be no cars parked in front of it.

2: Tech Moon

Second place goes to Tech Moon. One of the key new artworks created for Lick of Paint, Tech Moon’s Kelham Island mural is a stunner.

This Cornish artist paints large scale murals blending the natural world with timeless classical elements. His Lick of Paint mural stands tall on the entrance to the Kelham Island Museum. A white, stainless steel Yorkshire rose set in a marble display case to interact with the architecture of the building and a nod to the heritage of the city of Sheffield.

1: Emma Barnsley

Finally, your winner of the Best of 2025 is… Emma Barnsley.

Emma’s Greenhill is 90% spray paint, and this was her first official piece using it. Emma has credited Faunagraphic (fifth place) for showing her some top tips and tricks that she utilised here. Greener Greenhill gave her several opportunities to paint around the neighbourhood and you’ll find several street cabinets close by that she also painted.

This beautiful mural was funded by Sheffield City Council’s ERF Project 2025.

That’s a wrap for 2025. We’re already a few weeks into the new year, and already Sheffield’s artists are busy creating new artworks. Street Art Sheffield will be there documenting it all.