'Love Piepenbrinck' (lovepiepenbrinck) is a street artist from Germany who creates small pig sculptures and pastes them up onto walls in various cities. There are several of these in London, and I have only seen a few by chance. I would love to spot more, and I always keep my eyes open in the hopes that I will notice a new one. Recently, the artist has been in London posting stickers and paste-ups around Shoreditch and Spitalfields, and I discovered two of the new pigs the day after they were pasted up.
I enjoy seeing these cute piglets, and they always bring a smile to my face. All of them are unique. Sometimes, they are difficult to notice because their colours have worn down. The two immediately below are my favourites.
One of the newer pigs put up this year.
This pig was placed earlier in the year; the astronaut has since gone missing
This was a 2011 pig; originally it had a ball and chain around its foot
This was a 2012 pig
These pigs in a clock formation were placed in 2012
Miraculously, this purple pig was placed in 2012 and still looks clean; this was the first one I noticed, but i did not know what I was looking at
A painted-over pig and a sculpture by Xylo
A row of pigs
Butterfly pig
A colourful pig
If you know of the locations of any that I have not posted here, please tell me where they are so that I can photograph them.
For more information about Love Piepenbrinck, visit the official website: http://www.lovepiepenbrinck.com/
Or, see photographs: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lovepiepenbrinck/
View the Facebook page with photographs of various pigs: https://www.facebook.com/love.piepenbrinck
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