I went on another street art tour around Shoreditch. This is a review and I thoroughly recommend it if you are free one afternoon in London.
a Banksy – you sort of need one of these to be a Street Art tour…
It is a fascinating thing to do, often confusing as you come across a wall or door absolutely in covered in stickers and linocuts, stencils and screenprints, 3-D faces and titled patterns.
Bambi who is styled as the female Banksy…
It’s uncurated, unconventionally and utterly compelling.
Some is commissioned, some permittted and some illegal.
It’s also international. I’ve raved about London for years as a multicultural hodge-podge and I genuinely think there are few if any with the international variety that co exists in London.
That is equally true of bastard bankers, flighty fashionistas as well as avant-garde artists.
I enjoy the politics and the humour. I love some of the scale and the surrealism.
But overall I just adore the fact that it’s here one minute and gone the next, always being capped (or painted over).
My tour took me from Brushfield street next to Spitalfields, across Commercial street to Brick Lane,
North along Brick Lane until the Truman brewery and then a meandering north and west until we reached Shoreditch station
and onto Shoreditch high street.
If you go stick your nose into the alleys and courtyards.
Look up and look down;
look small and step back for the big.
There’s just so much. One special piece is the cycle of futility; if you download an app this picture
Plays as an animation, just by holding you phone up towards the piece. Amazing. View it here
Personal favourites were:
Chet and his subversion of the street signs
Jonesy and his brass fittings that held an environmental message – he uses the motif of an Egyptian mythological creature Uroboros eating its own tail to represent how we waste our planet’s resources – this is an article about him
And Gregos and his faces
TanGental 
Amazing. Thanks for sharing.
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Glad you enjoyed Mary
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Awesome photos!!
I think this is why I love the section of the capital ring that goes through Hackney. The art is totally different each time I have been through, but always amazing.
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True and you show cased those paintings along the old railway from Highgate superbly the other day!
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I love wandering around London, but don’t know this part; what a wonderful outing this would make for our camera club. thanks for sharing these great pictures.
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Yes that would be a great way to exercise your SLR skills. It’s such a vibrant part of the culture.
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You just got to love the city, it is just the best!! So eclectic 💜
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I haven’t been to Shoreditch thanks for the introduction Geoff. I enjoy arty places. 🙂
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Well this is worth a stroll when you have time Marje
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A great, comprehensive, tour, Geoff
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Thank you for sharing those so I can see them. I’ll probably never get to London in this lifetime but I love all the street art. The Trump art is my favorite. Try 100% NUTS! Trying to figure out how the hell that happened and how can we make it go away.;( The shoes hanging up were pretty darn good too but I did like every bit.
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I love a bit of street art so thanks for sharing this with us, Geoff. Those tweaked street signs are pretty good and that Cycle of Futility is brilliant. Not keen on the faces though, I am a little creeped out by them the same way as I am by some masks!
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Ah yes I can see that. Each to their own
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