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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STREET ART – Peaceful Progress ‘The Last Dance’

Gracing a long wall in the depths of an old industrial estate on the edge of Cardiff’s city centre and providing a focal point for an otherwise rundown area sandwiched between garages and ageing warehouses – it’s the latest work by Peaceful Progress. This fantastic piece by local artist Peaceful Progress demands your attention as […]

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STREET ART – Sponge bob Squarepants

Who’da thought I’d be posting about my two favourite things – Graffiti AND Spongebob Squarepants?! Well over at the Nickolodeon studios based in Los Angeles in America – street artist Nychos has totally deconstructed Spongebob and created this fantastic (albeit a bit scary for kids) piece in his traditional style. #Nychos hits Nickelodeon – #SpongeBob […]

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GRAFFITI – Roxejam 2012

Now in it’s sixth year the ‘RoxeJam’ was originally set up in 2007 by Lou Lockwood as a memorial to her son Bill (aka local street artist Roxer), who had died in a road accident. After a wash-out Summer this was luckily the one week when it was dry and extremely sunny with pure blue […]

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STREET ART – Phlegm

On my graffiti trawl of Shoreditch, London a local artist recommended I take a visit up a certain road to discover the latest work by Phlegm. I was totally unaware of what to expect from ‘Phlegm’ but the local artist did seem quite excited just telling me about this piece. Walking down Heneage Street and […]

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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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GRAFITTI-Preparations for 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. It’s a 2 day free event held at SevenOaks Park in Grangetown, Cardiff bringing together all elements of hip hop and graffiti culture.

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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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Renovation of Castle’s Animal Wall is complete…..with an added extra animal!

The multi-million pound makeover of Cardiff Castle and surrounding areas has been taking place over the last few years (does it really take that long?) with the famous Animal Wall now complete. Part of the wall has been lowered and all the animals given a makeover. It seems there was a cheeky little addition to […]

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PHOTOS-RoxeJam Graffiti event in Cardiff.

The RoxeJam was originally set up in 2007 by Lou Lockwood as a memorial to her son Bill(aka Roxe), who had died in a road accident. It’s a 2 day free event held at SevenOaks Park in Grangetown, Cardiff bringing together all elements of hip hop culture and graffiti with support from Cardiff Council and […]

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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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