Tag: Glöbel

Aberdeen

by theholmesteader, posted in Aberdeen, Street Art, Travel

Friday

An early start to get into Buchanan Street bus station to meet Jim for our mega bus trip to Aberdeen, the journey went smoothly and we arrived in plenty of time to check into our accommodation in The Lost Guest House in Bon Accord Street, I had stayed here previously and our room as Jim described it as “perfectly adequate” was ideal for our stay. Once checked in we visited a nearby hostelry for a late lunch and a refreshment before going to the local tourist information office to collect this year’s Nuart map. A stroll around town to familiarise ourselves and to see where the main Nuart facilities were taken up our afternoon and early evening. We did manage to see some of this year’s works and met some old friends, Kieran Globel included.


We then had a late dinner before heading to the Nuart Fight Club in the Spin Bar, which was really interesting and good fun, again it was to catch up with people I had met at previous festivals.

Saturday

After a nice breakfast, we set out with the map in hand to capture as many of the artworks we could find, again, this was a great way to see parts of the city we had never seen before or would not normally visit, lunch in one of Weatherspoon’s fine establishment fortified us for even more walking and artwork capture. A stroll around the newly refurbished Union Terrace Gardens topped off the afternoon with a pleasant coffee break, Jim managed to meet up with Denis Law, one of his heroes.
To get into the spirit of the festival, we visited the Aberdeen Art Gallery to hear a couple of the Nuart Plus talks, some of which were very interesting, especially the ‘meet the artist session’, before returning to the accommodation for a well-earned rest. We had dinner in Chinatown, reputed to be one of the best Chinese restaurants in Aberdeen (it lived up to its reputation) this set us up for another visit to Spin for the Nuart closing party, again it was good to meet some old friends and to make some new acquaintances.

Sunday

Again after yet another breakfast, we headed down to the harbour area to visit some of the murals painted in the years I had missed the festival, namely 2021 and 2022, it was good to see that they were still in great condition. We had a quick coffee break before a visit to the very interesting and informative Aberdeen Maritime Museum, which left us plenty of time for lunch before joining our pre-booked Nuart walking tour. The tour which started at the Marischal College led us through many of the recent murals in the city and also covered some of the older ones, our tour guide was very entertaining as he explained some of the stories behind the murals. All of the walking we had done required us to have a short refreshment break before returning to the accommodation for a rest period.

Aberdeen Maritime Museum and Fishing Industry Memorial

Monday

All too soon it was time to pack our bags and get ready to return to Glasgow so after our breakfast we checked out leaving our luggage, before going into town to capture the last 4 murals of the 49 main ones on the Nuart map. Again it was a bright sunny day and Aberdeen sparkled in the sun, it was good to take some time in the Union Terrace Gardens soaking up the rays. After lunch in our new Aberdeen local, The Grill on Union Street, we collected our bags before heading to the station to catch our bus to Glasgow. Looking back over our time in Aberdeen we had a great time, saw some great street art, met up with friends, old and new, and generally had a load of fun.

I haven’t posted my street art photographs here, they can be found on my dedicated Nuart page. I have put the photographs of the murals created each year into a separate page, i.e. Nuart 2021, Nuart 2022, and Nuart 2023.

Storytellers

by theholmesteader, posted in Glasgow, Street Art

I paid a visit to the inaugural Storytellers exhibition at The Glue Factory in Farnell Street on Saturday 23rd June.

This exhibition showcases Glasgow’s street culture and creatives, providing a space and a platform for artists to present their work.

There was a wide range of mediums on show, with something for everyone across the entire ground floor of the Glue Factory, from graffiti and paintings to sculptures and videos, there even was a wall where kids, of all ages, could express themselves.

I will admit that I took the wrong camera with me to the event, however, I still managed to get some good shots of works from Mack Colours, Ejek, Priest!, Chelsea Frew, Barry the Cat, Micheal Corr, and Ross MacRae. I loved the area Conzo & Glöbel had set up, this displayed their typical sense of humour, and I was mightily impressed by Mark Worst’s display wall. Saving the best to last, up high on the back wall of the space is a tremendous piece by GazMac, which highlights his status in Glasgow’s Street Art community.

GazMac
Ross MacRae
Michael Corr
Molly Hankinson
Boondocks_art
Boondocks_art
Imrie
Imrie
Jay Ventone
Conzo Throb
The Guzler
William Spaceboy
Ejek
Ejek
Mack Colours
Priest!
Priest!
Vues1
Chelsea Frew
Alicesillustrations
Siguel
KMG
KMG
Barry the Cat
Barry the Cat
Shona Hardie
Shona Hardie
OhPanda
Ellie Type
Alko
Itois Bru
Full Swing
Josh Thomson
DEV
Utopid
Conzo & Glöbel
Jay Ventone
Charlie Anderson
Lukas Suchy
Conzo & Glöbel
Alko
Conzo & Glöbel
Mark Worst
Mark Worst
Mark Worst
Mark Worst‘s wall

The Old & The New

by theholmesteader, posted in Glasgow, Street Art

I ventured out today to find something new and was pleasantly surprised that a couple of old favourites are still there and looking fairly good.

My first stop was in Govanhill where Conzo Throb & Ciaran Glöbel created ‘A Postcard from Govanhill‘, the first mural in the Govanhill Open Museum art trail. The mural, which contains patterns from Middle Eastern tiles, Romanian fabric, Scottish tartan and ‘wally close’ tiles, represents a different aspect of the diverse local community and is very reminiscent of a similar one created by them in Dennistoun.

Maryhill was my next stop, where I went looking for a new(ish) mural by Mack Colours and Frodrik on Stockline Plastic’s building on Hopehill Street, it really is well worth a visit to see it, the company are delighted with it and In their opinion, it makes a wonderful addition to the impressive collection of murals around the city.

Mack Colours & Frodrik

Whilst in the area, I popped along Maryhill Road where I photographed a piece by Ohpanda in the Braeside Community Gardens, a nice big fish from Frodrik on the front of a building near the corner of Cowal Road. At the end of the building, you will find the little Scottie Dog and Bumble Bee and across the road, there is the Glasgow Panther, both created by Rogue One and Ejek way back in 2014.

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Street Art in Northern Ireland

by theholmesteader, posted in Street Art, Travel

Now that I’ve had a bit of time I’ve put together a couple of pages of the street art I photographed during my recent trip to Northern Ireland. I discovered so much I have split it into two pages, one for Belfast City and the other for the pieces I found in the other towns I visited on my trip. A few sample images are shown below.

The complete set of photographs can be found on the Street Art in Northern Ireland page.

Back in Town Again

by theholmesteader, posted in Uncategorized

I got my walking shoes on again and over a couple of days I wandered around Glasgow to see what pieces of street art I could find, and I must admit that I was pleasantly surprised by the amount I found.
My first walk was a regular for me, from the bottom of Byres Road, and it’s lanes where I photographed a couple of older murals, one by The Rebel Bear created at the start of the pandemic and a fun poster by Conzo & Glöbel on the side of De Courcy’s Arcade , I then headed up to Great Western Road, and walked along to Charing Cross via Georges Cross. A stroll along Sauchiehall Street to Renfield Street and then on to Stockwell Street to get the bus home.

I must admit to a couple of stops along the way, the first was at the Inn Deep Bar where I had a refreshing pint before photographing some of the nice artwork there, mainly from Frodrik and Negative Destination, whose works greet you as you enter from Great Western Road.

  • NegativeDestination – Inn Deep
  • NegativeDestination – Inn Deep
  • NegativeDestination – Inn Deep
  • NegativeDestination – Inn Deep
  • NegativeDestination – Inn Deep
  • NegativeDestination – Inn Deep
  • Frodrik – Inn Deep
  • Scent – Inn Deep
  • Frodrik – Inn Deep

Back on Great Western Road again I came across a well decorated electrical junction box painted by Negative Destination, something I would love to see more of, and a colourful mural by Molly Hankinson on Woodlands Drive.  At Charing Cross, in addition to one of  Oh Panda‘s Big Heids, I came across a bright and busy mural by Ursula Kam-Ling Cheng, appropriately called Love on the wall of a bridal wear shop.

On Sauchiehall Street I found another of Frodrik’s monochrome hands.  My next stop was for lunch in another of my haunts , The Raven on Renfield Street before a stop in Buchannan Street to capture Conzo & Glöbel’s fun poster in one of the lanes next to Princes Square.

  • Negative Destination
  • Molly Hankinson
  • Oh Panda
  • Frodrik
  • Ursula Kam-Ling Cheng
  • Conzo & Glöbel

After being lazy over the past while and missing out on my daily walks, I was certainly quite tired by the time I reached home, but I was glad that I had started again, so much so that I have another walk I have complete to post with more photographs, so watch this space.

Yardworks – The Arches

by theholmesteader, posted in Glasgow, Street Art

I recently took a trip down to see how the Arches Project at SWG3, was coming along, it was a really sunny day and it was good to meet up with Gaz, Dan, Barry, Smug, and the rest of guys working away. As usual, I took plenty of photographs, some from the narrow pavement beside the arches and some from across the Expressway.

Some pieces are completed, however many of the pieces are still to be finished and there are a couple of arches yet to be started. Most artists were assigned one arch, but Smug and the Cobolt Collective were each given 2, looking at what has been done to date on them they are making full use of the expanded space.

I was highly impressed with the work so far, but as I’m getting ready to disappear for a wee while, I’ll just have to wait to see the finished articles on my return.

Smug
Balstroem
Voyder
Sledone
Michael Corr
Conzo and GlobelC
Inkie
Box Vincent
Reaoner
Cobolt Collective
Mark Worst
Barry the Cat
Shona Hardie
Welinoo
Sapien

On the Town

by theholmesteader, posted in Glasgow, Music, Street Art

I had a bit of a pub crawl on Friday, I had arranged to meet my son Graeme for lunch starting off with a pint in Brewdog’s Doghouse on Hutcheson St. Looking for something different for lunch we went round to Mikaku, Glasgow’s new Japanese Izakaya-style restaurant on Queen St. Lunch there was brilliant, the Ramen and Yaki Gyoza’s were excellent, all washed down with a nice pint of Asahi. The large Blade Runner styled mural by Rogue One along the main wall made it more enjoyable for me.

Graeme had to collect some records from Mono in King St., where I bumped into Nick, a friend from the Barn in the Gorbals, so we stayed a while for a beer with him. We were joined later by some of Nicks mates, including Conzo & Globel, (which reminded me that I hadn’t posted my wide angle shot of their Yardworks piece, you can see it above).

A good few pints later we decided to move onto the Scotia Bar on Stockwell St, this turned out to be a great choice, the beer was very good and we happened to be sitting next to a guy called Danny, Danny, a visiting American music teacher, who had his fiddle with him, was desperate to play some of his traditional music in Glasgow, we eventually convinced the staff there to let him play, we, and the punters in the pub, really enjoyed his playing and he was asked for more and more tunes. After a few too many beers and eventually after getting Danny on a train to Edinburgh, I drifted home after a really great day out with Graeme, I certainly felt a wee bit fragile in the morning.

 

SWG3 – Again

by theholmesteader, posted in Glasgow, Street Art

With not a lot to do today, I took a trip to SWG3 to see a new piece by Conzo and Glöbel I had heard about. While I was there I bumped into Mark Worst as he was getting started on a new large scale mural, from what I have seen it will be really good, I took a photograph of his preliminary work but I won’t post it until the work is completed. Mark told me that this new work is part of his new direction of portraiture murals for 2019, I look forward to seeing more of his work.

While I was there I also had the chance to have a chat with Garry Mackay aka Gaz Mac, the director of swg3, it was great to eventually meet up with the man who many say is Glasgow Graffiti’s Driving Force. We blethered about the development of art in Glasgow and this year’s forthcoming YardWorks which I’m hoping will not be on while I’m away travelling.

I took some other photographs whilst there, mainly of stuff that the lads were working on last week.  I’ll credit the images later.

New Section added

by theholmesteader, posted in Glasgow, International, Street Art

To try and make it easier to find photographs of street artists with a significant quantity of murals, I have created a new top-level section called The Artists.  I have added as much information on the artist as currently known by myself and a gallery of images.  I will add more information and Images as I receive them.