After a quick visit to Camden High Street I made my way to Liverpool Street Station and on to the goat statue in Shoreditch for the start of my walking tour of street art around Shoreditch and in particular Brick Lane.
I went with Shoreditch Street Art Tours and our small group started the tour at 11. I did manage to take a few other images while waiting and I was lucky that one of the members of the tour was wearing a red coat (more images later).
We went down Brushfield Street past Gun Street and on into Shoreditch towards Brick Lane. I have grouped the images rather produce them in the order in the tour, if you want to see all of the images (and the ones I haven’t included!) then please book the tour with Dave!
Street Art Installations
Walking around Shoreditch we looked up at posts and often up on roofs to see art from Jonesy (the bronze castings), the Rolling Fool by Dr Cream and mushrooms from Christiaan Nagel,
This is a view towards Brick Lane showing the French artist Gregos’ face on the wall.
After leaving Dave I made my way back to Liverpool Street and passed this installation from Gregos.
Other photographers
It wasn’t just me taking lots of pictures of the street art, this is one photographer that I took.
And as we finished the tour there was a serious photo shoot taking place. Not sure about the knife though!
Serious piece from Bambi
Bambi’s subject is a repeated image of Michael Brown who was shot by cops in Ferguson Missouri.
I only managed to capture two of the stencils due to white van man. The wall that the stencils are on is opposite the Cargo nightclub.
Humour from Saki and B*tches
Under the window of a tattoo parlour is this pig.
And on the door at the side of the parlour is this art from Japanese artist Saki and Bitches.
She has toned down her art in respect of the people who live and work around brick lane. But it doesn’t look as this will save this pig.
Cul-de-sac off Brick Lane
We went down a side street of Brick lane passing street art on both sides and entered a space with a lock-up and three sides of street art. Some of the art was hidden behind parked cars and a van these are some of the images on the walls and doors.
Fashion Street
Throughout the tour Dave gave us lots of background information and explained the history of the street art and some details of the artist. Here he is in full flow on Fashion Street.
More from Saki and the B*tches
This piece is just up the street from the tattoo parlour, close-up all you see are the two mermaids but from the road the skull is there.
Cargo NightClub
The tour ended at the Cargo Night Club where there are two Banksys in the open area outside the club.
Dave summarised our morning and told us where we could see more street art as we walked back to Liverpool Street station and where we could see another Banksy in the West End.
Shoreditch Street Art Tours
Dave sent a follow up email that gave us all more information and was full of links to blogs, videos and more pictures.
For more information and pictures of the street art around Shoreditch Dave blogs on two sites: