Tag: Contrast Mural Festival

Liverpool Street Art 2

In previous posts I have looked at the street art that can be found around The Baltic Triangle and in the area close to London Road . In this post I will consider the art that can be found in and around Oldham Place as well a few other locations.

Oldham Place is quite hidden away and is not the sort of place you’d casually stumble across on a walk in the city. It can be found just off Roscoe Street which runs between Mount Pleasant and Leece Street. The nearest local landmark is The Bombed Out Church. The Roscoe Head is a very fine public house that you will also come across on Roscoe Street.

Oldham Place is the home of Zap Graffiti, here you can buy art supplies or take a graffiti art class held on Saturday afternoons. It has much to offer and gives a second reason to visit, if one were needed.

In the yard round the back there is a huge Back to the Future piece that takes up a whole wall.

The use of colour on some of the pieces is quite outstanding.

From the splendours of Oldham Place a short walk will bring you to the following locations.

Slater Street. Home to three pieces that formed part of the Contrast Mural Festival in Spring 2018.

Trench One
TOne
Elph

Fleet Street

Riots

Liverpool Street Art 1

There are three broad areas where street art can currently be found in the city.

  1. The Baltic Triangle. I have previously posted about the art in the area and you can read about it here
  2. The eastern end of area between London Road and Islington.
  3. Oldham Place, which is located off Roscoe Street, between Mount Pleasant and Leece Street.

In this, the first of two posts, I will focus on the area around London Road. The streets here are rarely vivid by tourists to the city. It is a good half an hours walk from the waterside at Pier Head. It is an area undergoing development and many of the art pieces on Dover Street are to be found on the wooden hoardings that surround a construction site. It is likely therefore that they won’t be around for very long, illustrating perfectly the temporary nature of much street art.

The majority of the works in this area were created as part of the Contrast Mural Festival which was held in the city in the spring of 2018.

London Road

The side of Lord Warden public house and the area adjacent is where you will find these two works.

MrCenz

 

Bayhorse Lane

 

Constance Street

Both Burnon and Emily Gray also have works in the Baltic Triangle on Greenland Street and New Bird Street respectively.

Tomo

Gildart Street

Cheba
Finbar McHugh

Dover Street

The message here is catch it while you can. All the art is surrounding a construction site.

Harry Bones
Easi
Noys