WTU3A In Extremis

27 October, 2013

WT U3A Extreme Visits

Adrian Randall

30 September 2013 – Street Art – Illustrated Trip Report

I’ve been asked lots of questions about artists and locations of the photos in gallery from the Street Art trip. I’m ashamed to admit I clearly didn’t pay enough attention – it was happening so fast, so here’s my attempt at a Trip Report with all the facts I remember.

The majority of the group travelled together from Stoke Mandeville.

First stop – The crypt of the chapel of St Mary Magdelene and St Edmund incorporated into the 1 Bishops Square (designed by Norman Foster).

Second stop coffee – obvious really.

Third stop – Meandered through Spitalfields Markets to “The Big Chill Bar”. One of the group received a text from his daughter warning it wasn’t targeted at our demographic….We did a quick study and 90% of the customers were over 60!

The main event. We met our guide, Ben Slow by the goat statue in Brushfield Street. Ben is a very accomplished artist in his own right (well worth googling) and was the perfect guide. Though Street Art grew out of graffiti, it is largely produced for free, with permission or invitation from landlords etc. and promoting the artist’s work that is available in local galleries.

Street Art is temporary in nature (in fact, there is none of Banksy’s work left in East London). That didn’t prevent a feeling of great disappointment when one of the works we were hoping to see was defaced 10 minutes before we arrived.

Street Art can be anywhere!

[WebEdit request – If anyone can add some or more narrative to any of these images please e-mail it to me at Webmaster@WTU3A.org.uk]

01 Extreme Visits – Street Art – 30-09-2013
02 Extreme Visits – Street Art – 30-09-2013 Street furniture decoration
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07 Extreme Visits – Street Art – 30-09-2013 Elephant-Octopus hybrid by Puerto Rico based artist Alexis Diaz aka La Pandilla using thousands of tiny brushstrokes. Took a week to complete.
08 Extreme Visits – Street Art – 30-09-2013 DALeast 09 Extreme Visits – Street Art – 30-09-2013 Ben Slow with Space Invader Street Art by Invader +
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11 Extreme Visits – Street Art – 30-09-2013 Chilean street artist Otto Schade, a.k.a. Osch. Have a nice day London
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14 Extreme Visits – Street Art – 30-09-2013 Pendley Street, A work by Brazilian artist Cranio, Ben Slow and the gang
16 Pendley Street, A work by Brazilian artist Cranio, Ben Slow and the gang Pendley Street, A work by Brazilian artist Cranio, Ben Slow and the gang
17 Pendley Street, A work by Brazilian artist Cranio, Ben Slow and the gang
18 Extreme Visits – Street Art – 30-09-2013 Nokia gets in on the act.
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23 Extreme Visits – Street Art – 30-09-2013 Quite liked this collection of co-located fonts.
24 Extreme Visits – Street Art – 30-09-2013 DALeast
25 Extreme Visits – Street Art – 30-09-2013 Shoreditch Zoo by Saki&Bitches, great incorporation of the bars used to keep out squatters.
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28 Extreme Visits – Street Art – 30-09-2013 Hedgehog in Shoreditch
29 Extreme Visits – Street Art – 30-09-2013 Christaan Nagle’s mushrooms
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31 Extreme Visits – Street Art – 30-09-2013 Offices inold tube train carriages.
32 Extreme Visits – Street Art – 30-09-2013 Martin Ron Badger Cull Street Art
33 Extreme Visits – Street Art – 30-09-2013 Space Invader Street Art by Invader on shabby Car Park. Brilliant covert operation with hi-vis jackets, one team diverted the traffic.
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35 Extreme Visits – Street Art – 30-09-2013 By Elmac from LA, he freezes the paint spray cans before use and paints with them in an ice bucket to get that soft finish.
36 Extreme Visits – Street Art – 30-09-2013 EVPortuguese artist Alexandre Farto, “Vhils”. Beige plaster was painted over this brick wall and then used an excavating process chipping away plaster to create a 3D portrait. He also uses explosives.
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38 Extreme Visits – Street Art – 30-09-2013 Martin Ron Mural (left) Crane by Belgian Artist Roa (right), painted in 8 hours. He started painting a heron, but the local Bengali community if it was a Crane, he adapted it.