Since Russia chose to invade Ukraine we have all watched on and felt the need to assist and help in some way. Many people have donated essential items and other money to the DEC campaign. Some buildings in Cardiff were illuminated in the colours of the Ukrainian flag, blue and yellow with flags being flown…
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My City, My Shirt
An iconic mural in Cardiff Bay has now been recreated after fast-food giants Mcdonald’s previously removed it to paint an advert in its place for the burger chain. The image of a woman in a Cardiff City shirt was originally painted in March 2021 by local artist Rmer as part of the Unify campaign with…
Ukraine mural painted in Cardiff
Artist My Dog Sighs painted a stunning Ukraine flag mural in the back lanes of Cardiff. My Dog Sighs visited Cardiff only days after Russia had begun their invasion of Ukraine and painted in one of the city’s back lanes a really poignant piece highlighting Ukrainians’ struggle amid the Russian invasion. Cardiff was the latest…
My Dog Sighs is coming to Cardiff
My Dog Sighs tickets for Monday 28th February in Cardiff available here. My Dog Sighs was the creator of the ‘free art’ movement – giving away lots of his work including iconic faces painted onto squashed up cans and aerosols but has since moved onto much bigger street art pieces. Now painting huge walls –…
Grangetown Whale
It’s been a real barren year for street art in Cardiff but luckily the start of Spring has seen a flourish of new work appearing all around the city. In the middle of March 2021 a large wall in Grangetown was worked on by Spike Clark aka Spk aka UK Fat Cap – and it’s…
Tudor Lane uncovered
A trip down to Tudor Street….(do we all mistakenly call it Tudor Road?)… has always been synonymous with Cardiff’s chinatown, multiple takeaways, a famous tattooist and some housing stock that has seen better years. But recently over £4million of funding from the Welsh Government and Cardiff Council has been set aside to regenerate the area…
Amazoning artwork
A huge mural has been created on a blank wall in Cardiff’s Quay Street of a local professor who was recently awarded an MBE to celebrate her incredible contribution she’s made towards the NHS in Wales. Professor Alka Surajprakash Ahuja, along with the TEC Cymru team, were fundamental in establishing the NHS Wales Video Consulting…
Eyre to breath
Take a typical bricked wall from a typical street in Cardiff them add some creative people with possibly some time on their hands! What do you get? A blank canvas turned into a great piece of street art painted by a talented resident of the city. Cardiff resident Christa Haworth painted a black tree trunk…
Kick Hass
Street art has been very thin on the ground in Cardiff during this lockdown period for obvious reasons but as things are eased and people are allowed out more than once a day now it seems colourful street art is starting to make a resurgence. On Cardiff’s City Road in Cathays this really colourful peacock…
Black Lives Matter
The coronavirus may have grinded down daily life across the country – but for one wall in Cardiff it still seemed like ‘business as usual’ as it had many makeovers since lockdown began in March 2020. Firstly some Cardiff-based artists painted a very powerful plea for Cardiffians to ‘Keep clean and Stay safe’ in these…
Statues of liberty
As the UK along with the rest of the world manages to cope with the Coronavirus outbreak as only Britons can – we still like to keep humour levels high whatever we are going through! And at the heart of Cardiff Bay that is no different where someone has put medical masks on the prominent…
Stay at Home
As the Coronavirus pandemic gets to grips with British life – it’s good to see that some people have managed to get out and provide an important message to the rest of us. Firstly someone in Cardiff has used the many billboards dotted around the city to provide a positive outlook. They have been posting…
Keep clean – stay safe
As the coronavirus grinds down normality and day to day life across the country – a few Cardiff-based artists have spruced up a wall in the capital with a very important message. Painting a very powerful plea for Cardiffians to ‘Keep clean and Stay safe’ in these distressing times. Organised by Oner Signs the street…
Reign of Kera
A regular visitor to the Capital City of Wales – Kera is a German graphic designer and street artist born and living in Berlin. You may recognise some of his geometric work already around the streets of Cardiff? Painting at both Empty Walls festivals in the city the artist has returned once again to complete…
Hungary for street art
Wales were on the brink of qualifying for their third ever major football tournament which meant that thousands of Hungary football fans were in town and ready for a crunch clash in the Euro 2020 qualifying game at the Cardiff City Stadium. The game finished with a confident Wales beating the visitors 2-0 – resulting…
Super Mario World
Cardiff’s longest serving legal graffiti wall in the Grangetown part of the capital has always attracted a wide variety of street art over the years. And 2019 is no different as the ever changing 130m wall has recently been given a Nintendo makeover featuring the classic Mario Land / Super Mario World. Taking over a…
Aerosol psycho
A relatively new location in the heart of Cardiff city centre is Callaghan Square which has attracted a range of street art over the last two years. Set amongst a burgeoning business ‘quarter’ and road system – these two concrete walls have been painted by local artists Rmer, Hoxe and Unity most since the beginning….
Cofiwch Dryweryn
First we must begin with a quick history lesson unearthing why this graffiti is important in Wales. Once again normal service has been resumed. This time in less than 24hrs #CofiwchDryweryn #irgad #Tryweryn pic.twitter.com/hnAdABjOOK — Jez (@Jez_B) April 14, 2019 ‘Cofiwch Dryweryn’ which translated into English means ‘Remember Tryweryn’ – is a phrase that was…
Under the arches
An ever changing Cardiff helps bring different parts of the city to life with more places for street art to exist within the current confines. What was once the old Collingdon Road sprouted into a mega four lane avenue transporting people from the City Centre to the new area of Cardiff Bay. An area once…
Pr0les Pr0file
There’s a new kid on the block and his work is popping up on many old blocks around Cardiff recently. Predominently using pasteups – here is one of his first pieces pasted on an empty building situated on Cowbridge Road in Canton. Highlighting the plight of the homeless and the amount of empty buildings in…
Veg Power II – Dope
At the start of 2018 a new campaign was launched, called Veg Power, which was to simply encourage children in the UK to eat more veg. All the pictures of the original 2018 wall can be viewed on the link below:- https://diffgraff.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/veg-power/ Fast forward to 2019, and mid-January, local artist Oner and others took to…
Underpass Unity
As the busy M4 motorway rumbles above – this grey underpass below greets people each day on their travels around Cardiff’s Taff Trail. So take a huge slab of concrete and four local artists to help brighten up this popular thoroughfare. Based between the Radyr and Whitchurch areas of Cardiff – local artist Unity /…
The Banksy Effect
In December 2018 world reknowned artist Banksy paid his first official visit to Wales and used the excuse of the Severn tolls being removed as part of the reasoning! He revealed his latest work in the industrial town of Port Talbot – set on the side of a breeseblock garage which featured a child playing…
Double decade duo
Two writers who have become some of the main players in the Cardiff street art scene are celebrating something very special with their latest paint. Cardiff based writers, Rmer and Hoxe, have painted their latest wall in Sevenoaks Park to mark their twenty years partnership of painting in the capital city of Wales. Rmer’s striking…
Sala tribute
The 28 year old Argentine footballer, Emiliano Sala, has been missing since the light aircraft he was traveling in to join up with his new club, Cardiff City, lost contact with ground crews near Guernsey in January 2019. While the search for him and pilot David Ibbotson was officially stopped after only a few days…
Washed up Simpsons
Featuring an area of Cardiff that has seen more than it’s fair share of graffiti and street art over the last couple of decades but this building has always escaped the spray cans…. until now! Cardiff based artist Unity/Millimagic secured the wall for a host of local writers to paint at the Roath site located…
2019 Park Life
The first week of a new year and time for a fresh new paint to kick start 2019 in true flying colours. A range of Cardiff based street artists have painted here during 2018 with the remnants of their work still apparent in Cardiff’s Maitland Park many months later. Pictured above is work from some…
Defo Deffro
A name not too familiar in street art circles in Cardiff but one that has instantly made an impact here already. Deffro is an artist based in Cardiff and in his own words describes himself as ‘creating weird visuals and using art for a cause.’ So it was great to follow a trail of his…
Pluz brut alism
Pluzbrut is an artist from Barreiro in Portugal who has been based in Cardiff since 2015. He originally focused on art with a great attraction to wildstyle letters which has since transformed into several illustration styles and beyond. His work has graced the walls of Cardiff for many years now with the latest offerings dotted…
Bortusk posters
Bortusk Leer (to show off his full name) is originally from Slovenia, but now lives and works in Amsterdam where he creates his very colourful work. He can mostly be found painting bright coloured monsters on ageing newspaper – where the artist’s work can be summed up as happy, childish, neon and all a bit…
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