A blog about all things street art, graffiti and Sheffield.
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.
Read Gavin Kilcommons' Art House Exhibition
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.
Read Manchester's Cities of Hope Street Art
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.
Read Vandalism of Our Street ArtSheffield’s largest public art event The Herd of Sheffield is coming to a close. The elephant sculptures that took part will soon be auctioned off to raise money for The Children’s Hospital Charity. Yesterday I started to share my top 10 elephants of the trail starting with numbers 10 through 6. Now it is time for my top 5.
Read My Top 10 Herd of Sheffield Elephants (the Top 5)So the summer is over and the elephants that have occupied the streets of Sheffield over the last few months are starting to disappear ready to be auctioned off for charity. I have been following the trail of the Herd of Sheffield throughout the summer months and taking photos of each sculpture with the help of my partner. Each elephant has been added to this site’s Herd of Sheffield section to exist as a constant reminder of Sheffield’s largest (to date) public art exhibition.
Read My Top 10 Herd of Sheffield Elephants (#10 - #6)Last weekend we attended the inaugural Hillsfest at Hillsborough Park. A weekend arts festival to showcase and celebrate the creative side of Sheffield.
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Today marks the official start of the Herd of Sheffield, a ten week public art event taking place across the city. Throughout the summer Sheffield will be the home of 58 large elephant sculptures and 72 elephant calves.
Read The Herd of Sheffield has Arrived!
