Last weekend was the street art event "Meeting of Styles" which saw several street artists paint new murals across several locations in east London. Locations included Pedley Street, Sclater Street, Redchurch Street, Hewett Street, and New Inn Yard. "Meeting of the Styles" takes place in several cities worldwide and is an excuse for street artists to get together and paint and meet each other. Over the weekend, the walls were transformed with new work. Unfortunately, I was unable to be there during the event but I managed to capture several photographs of it on Monday.
Lost Souls, Ryan Kai, XI Design and others transformed Sclater Street.
Core, Kaes, Masai, BraveOne, Chu and Inkfetish painted the walls on Pedley Street just off of Brick Lane. Some of these, including the one by Inkfetish and Chu, did not last very long. In fact, Inkfetish was annoyed and left a message in response to his work being so quickly painted-over by Graffiti Life. I thought that this would create an outrage as the piece did not last long, and I was actually surprised that Graffiti Life did not wait a little longer to paint over this piece. However, this is the nature of street art. Sometimes even really good pieces do not last long at all. (I do find the one by Chu to be a little offensive, so that is possibly why part of it was painted over.)
The large wall on Pedley Street was painted on with a collaboration of artists (Gent and Vibes and others).
Also on Pedley Street appeared work by Cenz, Rolling People, and others.
Redchurch Street saw new work by Jim Vision, Zadock, and Zina.
Some work was painted off of Great Eastern Street and in a car park there.
I also captured the above on Hewett Street, including a couple of pieces that have been there for a bit longer that I had not captured yet. The one with the wolf above is Jim Vision and Dan Chase.
Lost Souls also painted, in collaboration with others, near Redchurch Street.
The site of Shakespeare's theatre in New Inn Yard was also a location, and Cenz, Dank and others painted there.
On the Monday morning after the event, I captured the above work in progress.
Brainwaithe Street near Shoreditch High Street station saw a lot of new pieces by various artists.
And the car park on Sclater Street saw some new work painted onto its walls.
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