A blog about all things street art, graffiti and Sheffield.
Nottingham is less than an hour away from Sheffield by train. So yesterday I took a trip down there to see is I could discover some of Nottingham’s street art. Thankfully I didn’t have to search hard to find some great murals and graffiti in the city centre.
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It’s a year since Sheffield hosted the Feature Walls street art festival. It saw artists from Sheffield and beyond paint large scale murals across the city centre and beyond. It was a fantastic event for Sheffield and we’re hoping that it won’t be the last of its kind. Perhaps we could have a Feature Walls 2018?
Read Remembering Feature WallsIt’s the ninth annual Tramlines music festival in Sheffield this weekend and the city will be buzzing. So I thought it would be great to look back over some of the musical legends that have been painted on Sheffield’s walls over the last few years.
Read Sheffield's Musical Legends Street Art
Earlier this week I visited the beautiful seaside town of Southwold over in Suffolk and discovered this great piece of street art. This large scale wall mural of George Orwell can be found at the entrance to the town’s pier. This graffiti mural is by the street artist Pure Evil (Charlie Uzzel-Edwards).
Read Pure Evil's George Orwell Graffiti Mural in Southwold
There’s a great exhibition of pop art by Gavin Kilcommons in the Art House just off Division Street at the moment. This exhibition has been on for a while, but I finally took some pictures of Gavin’s fantastic works the other week and wanted to share them here.
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The other week I went over to Manchester to seek out a wall mural painted by Phlegm earlier this year as part of the Cities of Hope festival. Whilst looking for it I found a number of paintings in Manchester’s Northern Quarter by some of Sheffield’s street artists that I thought I should share here.
Read Sheffield Street Artists in Manchester's Northern QuarterEarlier this year Manchester hosted the Cities of Hope festival which brought nine of the world’s most renowned street artists to the city to create new landmarks of hope on walls across the Northern Quarter and surroundings. Included in the nine artists was Sheffield’s very own Phelgm.
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This month marks the second anniversary of the Street Art Sheffield website. The number of street art locations in the gallery has almost trebled since the site started. So I decided it was time to give the site a fresh lick of paint and attempt to make it easier to use.
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On Saturday we went on our annual trip to York for the city’s Illuminating York festival. It’s a night time arts festival that runs for several days at the end of October every year which invites artists to use the medium of light. As always it was great fun and there were some amazing things to be seen this year.
Read Illuminating York 2016 and the Bunny TrailThe last couple of months have been great for Sheffield’s street art scene. Thanks to the current Feature Walls event as well as the Antiques Quarter Art Project and Festival of the Mind we have seen an incredible number of large wall murals painted across our city. So it really saddened me when I learnt last week that the recently painted Visions of the Future by Rocket01 on Abbeydale Road had been vandalised.
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