STREET ART – Helen Bur at The Empty Walls festival

Helen Bur is no stranger to Cardiff as she got her Fine Art degree at the Cardiff School of Art but you may not have already seen some of her work around Cardiff. Check out this link to see some photos of Helen’s previous work around The Cardiff Fashion Quarter:- https://djleekee.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/street-art-womanby-street/ You definately cannot miss […]

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GRAF – Animating images by INSA

Insa is an artist and graphic designer who likes to push those boundaries and create new ways of doing things. Here he has painted an image on the exterior of a building located on Hyperion Drive in Los Angeles, taken a still photograph, then repainted the walls, taken another photo, then repainted the walls again […]

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OLYMPIC ART – Adain Avion airplane art installation

Adain Avion is a mobile art space created from the fuselage of a DC-9 airplane, discovered and transformed by Spanish sculptor and designer Eduardo Cajal. His idea was to recycle the fuselage, creating a vehicle for cultural and artistic exchange, re-inventing the object as a space for contemporary creative action and communication. As part of […]

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GRAFFITI – Leake Street

First of all what an amazing name for a street! 😉 I could see it on Google Maps but all I could see in front of me was the huge Waterloo Station – I took a wander around to see if I could discover it but found all the other streets listed on the map […]

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VIDEO-Cardiff’s Animal Wall brought to life in short films

Local website BigLittleCity put a call out to animators from in and around the City to imagine the secret lives of the animals of Bute Park’s animal wall. A range of videos were submitted with the best being featured on ‘Off The Wall’ over at biglittlecity.com/offthewall Each video features a different animal from the famous […]

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VIDEO-The history of hip hop performed as live beat box!

French beat box phenomenon Eklips performs a 4 minutes history of hip hop in one single take! Featuring some original oldskool classics and bringing us right upto date with some current hip hop monsters aswell. This is well worth four minutes of your time! Enjoy!

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GRAFITTI-Tributes paid to ‘Gorf’

Flickr user Walt Jabsco announced on his feed that local grafitti artist known as ‘Gorf’ had passed away on January 14th. “It’s with great, great sadness and a heavy, heavy heart I have to announce that Gorf/Hasl/Anoy, one of Cardiff’s most recent, prolific writers, passed away on 14th January in Portugal.” “Sympathies go out to […]

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PHOTOS-Man playing violin suspended in The Hayes

Over the years Cardiff has always had some street entertainment dotted around the City’s streets – some good and some pretty damn awful! But I bumped into this chap playing a violin (i hope thats what it was!) in The Hayes. He was suspended on a rope and balanced on one foot whilst playing numerous […]

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LINK-Boilerhouse Graffiti website and shop

The Boiler house is the first Graffiti and Street Art gallery and exclusive Graffiti shop in Wales. They support local Artists by providing opportunities to exhibit and sell their work. They have two outdoor Graffiti wall spaces measuring over 100ft long that are available to paint at any time. They are situated at the rear […]

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