DRAB hits the streets of London

The last few months have seen an influx of Australian street artists passing through London, each leaving their mark on the city. Everfresh crew member Rone was in town back in January and again in April working on this mural in the Old Truman Brewery.This month has seen a visit from grafitti / street artist Lush who has been hitting London and Brighton hard with a series of typographic pieces across the two cities. We have also spotted works from HAHA and Numskull who has collaborated on a number of pieces with Mr. Penfold and Sweet Toof.

The latest Australian to hit London is Melbourne street artist DRAB, who recently moved to East London. It would appear the artist has now settled in and has begun hitting the streets with a series of large scale paste-ups pictured. It's great to see paste-up of this scale in London again and we look forward to seeing more from the artist in the coming month.

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OH WOW! New Mobstr street work

Oh wow look it's some Street Art! London based street artist Mobstr has continued hitting the streets of East London with his ongoing series of typographic based interventions across walls, A-boards and billboards. Pictured are some of the artists latest works that have appeared over the last few days.









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London Street Art — 28

Here is our photographic round up of what's been grabbing Hookedblog's attention on the streets of East London over the last week or so. This Sweet Toof and Pez shutter is from a few weeks back from when PEZ was in London for his solo show but we have only just managed to capture a photo of the piece as the shop always seems to be open!

A new wood cut piece from Dale Grimshaw on Hanbury Street off Brick Lane.

Also on Hanbury Street is recent piece from stencil artist Otto Schade.

A piece from last year painted up in Dalston featuring the work of  The Krah.



Finally found this C215 cat hiding just off Leonard Street.
A.ce

Stencil duo Jana & JS were extremely busy on their recent trip to London, we have already featured a selection of the work they created around East London. The piece is located on Hengate Street, off Brick Lane.

If you still want more street art, take a look at some of our previous posts:

Hookedblog London Street Art — 24 
Featuring work from A.ce, Malarky, Dom, Pablo Delgado & Michael DeFeo.
Hookedblog London Street Art — 23
Featuring work from Malarky, Stik, Haculla, Lister, EMA.
Hookedblog London Street Art — 22 
Featuring work from Banksy, Dale Grimshaw, Mr.Penfold, Ronzo & D*Face.

Rolling Fools from Dr.Cream

We have been seeing these miniature resin 3d street art pieces for some time now around East London, in various colours and often in clusters stuck to walls, building and various other street furniture. Recently the pieces have gotten considerably larger such as those pictured, with each one featuring the 'Rolling Fool' character.

At first we assumed the various pieces we were seeing around London were all identical considering the detail in each, but from our recent set of pictures we realised they were numbered and each of the ones we found featuring the character in a different pose. With each piece embossed around the base with the words Rolling Fool Youtube, a quick search lead us to the video below which features these cement sticker characters in different locations right across London, with each one photographed and made into a clever street art animation. The work it seems is that of an artist calling himself Dr. Cream and his Jester Quester street art project would appear to be an urban art and photography quest that is interlinked via the search engines of Google, Flickr and Youtube. More info in the videos on the artist's Youtube channel here.

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Banksy & The Queen's Diamond Jubilee

The web has been abuzz all afternoon with chatter of a new Banksy street art piece in North London. According to locals this piece appeared some time in early hours this morning on the side of Poundland on Whymark Avenue in Turnpike Lane. This piece has not officially been confirmed as a Banksy piece, but with the Queen's upcoming Diamond Jubilee, the location of this piece and the style and cut of the stencil it is highly likely that it's the work of Banksy. Here are a selection of photos Hookedblog captured this evening.


See some of Banksy's other London street art pieces here and here.
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Stencil work by JANA & JS

A series of new stencil pieces and paste-ups have been appearing around East London over the last week or so and yesterday we managed to find so time to capture the selection presented here. The work is that of duo Jana & JS, an Austrian and French couple currently living in Salzburg, Austria. This is the first time we have seen their work on the streets of London and we are expecting to find a few more that we know we have missed.



UPDATE:
Spotted this additional large scale piece from JANA & JS yesterday. Should you want to see it in person you can find it on Fashion Street, just off Brick Lane.


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Broken Fingaz Crew on the streets

Unga, Kip, Deso and Tant are street artists / illustrators / designers hailing from Israel and collectively known as the Broken Fingaz Crew. Having received support from the British Israeli Arts Training Scheme, a British Council initiative in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Culture and Sport in Israel, the collective recently staged their first major UK exhibition, 'CRAZY EYE HOTEL' in the Old Truman Brewery off Brick Lane. If you missed the show which closed last week, check out our slideshow of images from the show below.

With the exhibition now closed, the Broken Fingaz Crew have taken their work to the streets of East London hitting up the hoardings of this derelict building pictured on Hackney Road. We also spotted an additional new piece on Bethnal Green Road which appeared over the Bank Holiday weekend. We look forward to hopefully seeing more street work from the collective while they are in London.



Update: New work from the Broken Fingaz Crew spotted this afternoon.

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Agents of Change - The Megaro Project

Earlier last month saw the completetion of this impressive and eye catching project by the Agents Of Change for the Megaro Hotel and Karpo restaurant. What looks to be one of London's largest street art / graffiti murals has been painted by the four members of Agents of Change – Remi/Rough, Steve More, LX.One and Augustine Kofie with assistance from David Shillinglaw. The project encompasses the two sides of a five storey Georgian building located directly opposite St. Pancras International Station in Kings Cross, London.



With the building wrapped in scaffolding, it took the artists two whole weeks to complete, using over 150 litres of emulsion and 160 litres of spray paint. On it's unveiling, the buildings colourful new addition was very well received although it was met with some opposition from a member of the King’s Cross Conservation Area Advisory Committee who felt "what was an attractive building had now been knackered with a layer of permanent paint,like an unwanted tattoo"!

We personally feel it is a great addition to the city and especially the Kings Cross area. And what with London hosting the 2012 Olympics this summer it makes for a fantastic first impression on national and international visitor arriving into St. Pancras, highlighting London as a vibrant and creative city. What do you think?



If you have not been in person we suggest checking it in person and also be sure and have a look at this time-lapse film below of the murals creation.



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Mobstr back on the streets

London street artist Mobstr has been hitting the streets again with some new typographic pieces, from billboards to stencil pieces, stickers to wooden A-boards and vinyl letters the artist has been busy of late. Here is some of the artists new work that Hookedblog spotted over the weekend.


See some previously featured work from Mobstr posted on Hookedblog earlier in the year here and here.

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RONE Mural In London

Hookedblog bumped into Australian artist and Everfresh Crew member RONE this morning while we were out and about around Brick Lane taking some street art photos. We last saw RONE in London back in January when the artist painted some large scale murals as well as hitting up Redchurch Street with some large paste-ups featuring his stylised images of ‘girls’ faces.

The Melbourne based artist arrived into town earlier this week ahead of the opening of his joint London exhibition ‘Don’t Look Back’ with Tom French. With the exhibition work hung and ready for the opening this Thursday 26th April, the artist found time to begin work on this mural piece in East London using a combination of paste-ups, paints and spray paint. If you are out East be sure and check this piece in the Old Truman Brewery off Brick Lane.


The ‘Don’t Look Back’ exhibition opens 26th April with a preview on the night from 6:30pm – 9:30pm. The show will then run from April 27th – May 1st 2012.

 Zero Cool Gallery @ RBHQ - 155-171 Tooley St - London Bridge - London