GRAFFITI – Around Canton, Cardiff

Over the last few years the graffiti and street art hotspots of Cardiff have either been in the City Centre or around the Roath and Cathays suburbs. There has never really been that much to feature from the western side of Cardiff….. until now! The pieces I found were dotted along the main high street […]

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GRAFITTI-Boilerhouse and Hailey Park in Winter

Within the suburb of Llandaff, Cardiff, there is an amazing display of talent flourishing out of the first official dedicated grafitti and street art gallery – known as The Boiler House. This is taken from The Boiler House Press Release in February 2010 when the project opened:- The Cardiff based arts collective ‘Peaceful Progress’ has […]

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GRAFITTI-Roxejam 2011

The RoxeJam was originally set up in 2007 by Lou Lockwood as a memorial to her son Bill(aka Roxer), who had died in a road accident. Prior to the event all the previous artwork was painted over with black paint ready for this year’s creations. Previous blog post about the blacked out wall at https://djleekee.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/grafitti-preparations-for-roxejam-2011/ […]

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GRAF-‘Enta’ legal art opposite Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.

There is a small legal wall featuring various pieces of art opposite Chapter Arts Centre in Canton, Cardiff. It’s essentially a small wall at the side of someone’s house who have allowed artwork to be displayed there. The first piece sprung up back in December in 2010 and was of a cute little chav girl […]

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