Street art and Dulwich - at first glance it doesn’t look like the most natural combination but the Dulwich Outdoor Gallery, in it’s own little way has started to turn the concept of street art on it’s head!
Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised, art is always evolving and street art should be no different. What some still call graffiti is actually a dynamic, ever changing form of free expression which engages with the viewer as a normal part of their everyday life.
Street art in the Dulwich area is unique. The world’s top street artists have painted walls here, but they have elsewhere too. So what makes the Dulwich murals different?
The artists have all based their compositions on paintings from Dulwich Picture Gallery’s permanent collection – and a unified theme such as this has never occured before, anywhere, ever.
Jenn Siegrist came to Dulwich from Basingstoke in Hampshire, attracted by the Street Art Festival in May. Here is her amazing photographic record of the soon-to-be-demolished ArtHouse. ‘The Dulwich Arts Festival was held in May, […]
Baroque the Streets festival is over. But the wonderful murals will remain. In May 2013 sixteen of the biggest names in international street artists were invited to Dulwich to create murals based on the 17th […]
Street Art has officially arrived in Dulwich as some may have seen on the BBC news last night. As part of the Dulwich Festival this year Baroque the Streets (organised in collaboration with Street Art London) […]
With just under a week to go before Baroque the Streets, preparations are well under way. Over a sunny lunch break I was treated to a tour around the Dulwich hotspots where work is in […]
Baroque the Streets is currently celebrating the diversity of Street Art worldwide, collaborating with an international group of artists who, inspired by Dulwich Picture Gallery, are painting walls all over the area for the Dulwich […]
10-19 May 2013 The biggest names in international street art are creating murals in Dulwich during May in association with the Dulwich Festival This month the streets of Dulwich will be transformed as renowned […]
