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17 January 2015 · 2 Comments

Street Art in Camden

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On Saturday I headed to Camden to go on a street art in Camden tour with Nelly from The Hidden Streets of London Street Art Tours. I became interested in street art while in Paris, mostly because it was the first time I was confronted by it (Tampa and Davidson aren’t exactly known for street art…). London, however, has a ton of street art, especially in Camden and Shoreditch so we figured going on an actual street art tour by someone who knows what they’re talking about would be a good idea. Especially since we had never been to Camden before and neither of us knew anything about street art…

The tour was 90 minutes and fantastic. I learned so much and our tour guide, a professional photographer of street art who also goes around the city finding legal places for artists to paint, was so knowledgable and passionate about each of the artists and their artworks (which always makes a tour even better). There’ll be a lot of pictures in this post, mostly because it is a post about street art and all of it was so cool I can’t even pick a favorite! I’ll try to explain what I remember but I was pretty focused on the beauty of it all so I don’t remember everything.

Illegal art with a political message (painted high enough to
where they won’t take it down)

 

Bambi (an anonymous female artist) tribute to Amy Winehouse

 

Another Bambi tribute. Winehouse lived in Camden

 

I love this one. By Italian artist Alice. Her sister (I think) works at this Greek restaurant
This artist used to paint in color but decided to switch to black & white to be original.
His art has mostly to do with love.
This artist partners with nonprofits and paints pictures of endangered species
This guy paints from photographs (freehanded) with a giant roller. Wow.

 

 

Sixonesix will paint these geometric characters on anything and just leave
them around the city for people to take
A woman’s face if you look closely
Invisible friend
John Lennon. The pub right next to this painting originally
had painted its wooden walls this green but recently painted
them back to a blue
Amy Angel. On an outside wall of Starbucks. Originally covered
over but after Winehouse died, they let the artist come back and
repaint her there. Apparently this was covered by lots of news outlets.
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This one really gets me. This artist couldn’t get a gallery show
so he just decided he would work on the street.
Tribal person (innocence) contrasting with Disney/
Dumbo (corruption). Dale Grimshaw
Mr Cenz paints women in futuristic ways
Love these
French artist Zabou. Usually paints stuff concerning social
awareness
A portrait of Zabou by Ala Niz

 

More Amy Winehouse! By Otto Schade, from Chile
Love the Rhino. Still by Otto
Artist from Brazil
my dog sighs (the artist). The irises show the city skyline of where they were painted
lol
A collaboration by three artists. Called Lost Souls.
Another endangered animal pic
so pretty
another Brasilian artist~supposed to be a native Brasilian.
Eating McDonalds makes your stomach explode?

 

These little guys were everywhere. I love them!
This artist always paints balloon animals
Airborne Mark & Whoam Irony
pointillism! Jimmy C.

 

 

 

Vanessa Longchamp
Geisha by Dan Kitchener
This house will be torn down really soon
Je Suis Charlie tribute. Painted a couple of days ago.
This guy is huge. Like 2 stories huge. Himbad.
Whoam Irony

 

The same b&w artist that paints scenes depicting love
Cenz
More Dale Grimshaw
Vanessa Longchamp
This marked the end of our tour. As you can see (if you made it this far) we saw a lot of art and learned a lot too! I will definitely be doing a street art tour of Shoreditch as well! If you’re in London, I highly recommend this tour, the guides are knowledgable and the groups are small (it was only me, Siobhan and one other guy), and the price is right (15 pounds for a 90 minute walking tour)! It was freezing outside but definitely worth it! I’m so glad I found it!
After we said goodbye to our tour guide, we headed over to Camden Lock Market, but I’ll spare you and save it for another post :)

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  1. Teresa says

    21 July 2020 at 02:52

    I love street art. These are amazing pieces of art!

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    • almathews says

      21 July 2020 at 11:33

      They are! It was so fun going around Camden to spot some great pieces.

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