Taking only photographs – leaving only footprints
Found on a large wooden doorway on New Wakefield Street this street art / graffiti was created for the Eurocultured Street Festival in 2011 by Turkesa, a Spainish artist and tattooist. A photograph of the small size you can see on screen above really can’t do this portrait justice. The level of detail in the paint work and textures are amazing. If you would like to see more work by this artist I encourage you to visit her Flickr galleries.
New Wakefield Street in Manchester is just around the corner from where I used to live. Every year the professional and always very colourful graffiti gets changed, so this year I was pleased to find myself back in my old neighbourhood with its fresh new paint job. Here we see “The Make Up Club” of characters. I am not sure which street artist created this piece, but I am sure that I like it a lot. In fact in my opinion it is one of the better artworks that I have seen in Manchester.
I came across this graffiti on a shop’s shutter in Tib Street in the Northern Quarter of Manchester and although I wasn’t sure what batman was doing, I did like the saying “Love will tear us apart”. Looking up Trafford Parsons shows he’s a local artist who takes inspiration from popular culture, particularly from the 1970s icons such as Storm Troopers or Sci-Fi monsters!
Until recently I had no idea what this small park near the harbour in Barcelona was called, just that it was a short walk from the end of La Rambla. These are the Jardins de Walter Benjamin and as you can see from the photograph above they feature a long wall of graffiti. What I liked is that the street art in this park wasn’t frowned upon. In some sections the wall had been divided up into panels and there was a group of young men happily painting away at the other end.