Blackpool Palatine Road October 2014

Finally, the rest of my photos from Blackpool in October! These were all taken at Palatine Road car park. After this year’s Sand, Sea and Spray was cancelled at short notice, lots of the artists who were going to take part painted here instead. Sadly I don’t know all the artists, but names are under the photos where I do.

Lowdon – Catch 22

C3 – D7606 crayons had been removed, but I believe they have since been replaced.

Pawski

Mars

Trik 9

Jay Sharples – Catch 22

Catch 22 – Jay Sharples – Trik 09

Jay Sharples – Catch 22

He Dreamt Mars

Infected By Design

He Dreamt Mars

Infected By Design

SSOSVA Alba Invasion Exhibition

Yesterday (13th 2014, in case you’re reading at a later date) I headed up to Dundee to check out the SSOSVA Alba Invasion show at The Mercantile. Suffice to say, it did not disappoint! I won’t waffle on too much, but just wanted to say thanks to artist/SSOSVA member Stuc for the tour – it was great to hear more about the artists and their works, and that new artists are given the same opportunities to exhibit their work as those more established.  If you want to attend, you still have time, it runs until the 17th. It’s worth the effort, the photos don’t do it justice. For more information on SSOSVA, you’ll find their Facebook page here. For more on the individual artists, where available, I’ve added links under their works.

UNI

El Bev

Catch-22

Lemak

Skint

Silent Bill(left) and Ebzy(right)

Kreative Junkies and Kiss Katt

RIP

Stefanie Teiwes

Kiwi

Gee 

John D’Oh

RIP

Rust Bucket Workshop

Pixels Pencil (photo credit – FYZN)

FYZN

L1NK

Ryze

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Angus

Thumper

CS Stanley

Sic Swan

F1NK

Wolf

Syke

Hmmm Bates

Stuc

Bleach

PMAO

PMAO

 

Graham and Brown Art For Walls Illuminations

I visited Blackpool again a few days ago. The weather was awful and I managed to have a self inflicted camera debacle, but I was organised and had back up so I managed to see (and photograph) loads of good stuff anyway. This first blog covers something unique to Blackpool – Graham and Brown(wallpaper manufacturers)Art for Walls Illuminations. This is the largest illuminated street art gallery in the world, I wasn’t there long enough to see them at night, but even during the day they look amazing! If anyone is in the area and wants to check them out, you will find them just beyond North Pier/Grand Metropole hotel. The artists featured are Catch-22, Inkie, Infected by Design, Osch(Otto Schade), Foundry, Lowdown, The Toasters, Oliver Winconek, Danny O’Connor, Agent Provocateur, Tea One and Neil Ennui. For more information, see the Blackpool council website here

Blackpool part 2

Some more photos from my Blackpool trip last week – if anyone is thinking of going there for a look at this stuff, I can definitely recommend it. I was only down for around 5 or 6 hours and managed to fit in taking loads of photos, lunch, trip to the tower and some shopping. All of this I am posting is around the city centre. I also recommend a trip to Baseline Creative Studio just outside the Hounds Hill shopping centre where you can pick up some work from local artists including Catch 22 and He Dreamt Mars. For more information on what they do, check out their website Pictured below is work from (top to bottom) Akse, unknown (been trying to find out, but no luck so far), Zed1(left) and Krio (right), Eska, Lonac, Martin Whatson, My Dog Sighs, Jay Sharples, Catch 22, Lowdown, My Dog Sighs and Shai Dahan. Enjoy! More to come in the next couple of weeks.

Blackpool Street Art part 1

Although not as well known as ,for example, Upfest in Bristol, Sand,Sea and Spray is really helping to put Blackpool on the street art map. The festival started in 2011, and has grown in popularity since, and has managed to save at least one building from demolition, as the owner enjoyed the art at Crookson Street car park so much. Previous artists attending have included Smug, Id-iom, Inkie, Kashink and The Toasters. I went down in April 2014 to get some photos from various locations before (I assume) some of them get painted over to make way for this year’s even – which runs from 13-15 June(2014). For more information, keep an eye on their Facebook page. I have so many photos, I’ll be posting maybe 3 blogs, so look out for more coming soon.  From top to bottom, the artists of this batch(where known)are : Lonac, Jana & Js, Smug, Shai Dahan (smaller piece by Jay Sharples), Kashink(with Catch 22 on the left, and Lowdown on the right), Otto Schade, The London Police, Zed 1, Zina and last, but certainly not least, Id-iom.