ROA's New Giant Flea Mural in London

While wandering the streets in Shoreditch at lunch, I noticed a new street art mural by Belgium artist ROA (Street Art: ROA - Jenikya's Blog). ROA creates primarily black and white large-scale murals on the sides of buildings that depict animals or insects. The artist was last in London a little over a year ago when he painted a group of animals on the side of buildings off of Bethnal Green Road and another for South Bank Festival that appeared on the South Bank last spring (Phlegm and ROA Street Art at South Bank - Jenikya's Blog).

ROA's new mural appears just off of Leonard Street (near Great Eastern Street) in Shoreditch, east London. The mural depicts a giant detailed and close-up image of a flea.

Close-up of the giant flea mural

I was happy to see ROA's brilliant murals returning to London. Perhaps we will be seeing more of his murals around the city. Unfortunately, some of the older murals have been damaged in the past few months, so I do not know how much longer they will last. I've been noticing several old favourites by other artists have also disappeared recently as soon as they get marked over a few times and not patched up quickly, including one by Stik on Redchurch Street.

Shot of the mural of the giant flea, including other street art