Dulwich Outdoor Gallery has come inside! Nearly all of the participating artists are selling their artworks in a new pop-up shop in the heart of Dulwich Village. The Dulwich Indoor Gallery was launched during the […]
Articles tagged Graffiti
Mural with Matching Sky
On the corner by the pub car park is a new mural after van Dyck’s Venetia, Lady Digby, on her Deathbed. Let me count the ways this work inspired by a portrait of a dead woman […]
Street art vs Fine art - So which do you prefer?
I’m no art expert nor am I an artist, but I’ve always admired art ever since I can remember. At school I loved painting and drawing and learning about so many different artists. My love for […]
Escher exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery - must see!
Escher is probably one of the first artists most students are introduced to during their art class. I remember when I was introduced to his work during one of my classes and I was suddenly haunted […]
Brockley’s colourful street art
The first ever Brockley street art festival was held in early June 2015. The colourful artworks can be seen on walls in schools, pubs and even the front of houses. Brockley is not normally known for it’s […]
An Unlikely Pairing
Graffiti and… English lessons? I normally wouldn’t peg the two as synonymous, but they both came together in a classroom at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. Bella Szyszkowska, an ESOL teacher at Lewisham […]
‘Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem’ by Jacob Van Ruisdael, John Constable & Walter Kershaw
In about 1650 Jacob Van Ruisdael painted a landscape that typified his native Netherlands: two windmills, a large church on the horizon, a thatched cottage with a lady in a red dress giving something to […]
THE EVOLUTION OF ART: When the Street Meets the Gallery
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.
