Urban Art Association

There's always some nice pieces to be seen on Sclatter Street as well as Star Yard on Brick Lane. The Nomadic Community gardens is also just off brick lane that has a nice vibe, you can grab a coffee and there is a lovely wall painted recently for the Meeting of Styles event. At the back of the NCG there is a rail arch that takes you through to railway walk-bridge that is always covered in graff.

Redchurch Street and Rivington Street have some nice pieces as well as Great Eastern Street although they have now lost a lot of the hoardings (but they are really just curated walls and get on me tits a bit) although where Old Street and Gt eastern street meet there are also some nice pieces - above the kebab shop at that junction is the Banksy Happy Choppers piece, they've put a picket fence around it now but if you can swing entrance into the high rise opposite and go up to the 10th floor you can get a good view of it

for some decent Cept you need to head up Kingsland Road and there are some nice pieces scattered around - near Arch 402 gallery on the side and back of the car mechanics garage there are some great pieces. Plenty of Invader to be seen in the area too along with some Stik. On the other side of Old Street towards Clerkenwell there is a nice phlegm hidden away in recess along with Eine and Gary Strangers LonDon mural and a couple more invaders  

not much Irony (& Boe) about but there is a stunning mural at All Saints as well as another Banksy (my Taps been Phoned) 

Bethnal Green Road and Hackney Road are also good areas to get some Cept, Stik plus some of the more recent artist and if it's still there another Irony & Boe

Hackney Wick and the canals are also another good area to view plenty of graff with some real gems from sweet tooth, Paul Insect and lots of others hidden away (around the wick) 

I'll have a quick go to see if I can mark out on a google maps screenshot - but be prepared to put in some miles, the city bikes are a good resource to help you get around and as long as you return them to a bike station within 30 minutes you only pay the standard day rate.

Wow. That is what this forum is all about.
Bravo.

I've quickly knocked this up off the top of my head so have probably missed out loads but if you PM me a gmail address i'll share the map with you.

Thanks mate,
I'll create a gmail account and drop you a PM if that's cool

I was shocked at how little new work has been put up over the past 5/6 years, it seemed like once all of the big hitters stopped no one really filled the gap.

Have to agree with you there thomasmer & Dibbs 45 - the whole London scene has become very sterile, I haven't had a proper mooch for ages as I struggle to find the enjoyment in much of the work about. There seems to be a real dichotomy between what we might regard as street art and the curated walls it has become. The use of hoardings arranged by some of the street art tours fellas has also killed off a lot of the raw grittiness and there are very few artists prepared to do any illegal work at all these days - i might be wrong but it seems some daren't do anything illegal in case it affects their ability to get into the US or other major countries and most paint outside purely to further their careers and nothing to do with the rebellious, anarchic and anti-establishment ethos it once was. Even graffiti writers are now putting their work on legal walls / hoardings which just leaves me totally conflicted.....a throw put up legally ?!

Nobody seems to want to find the wall space anymore and make it theirs, they rely too heavily on the groups amassing walls and so pieces last a matter of days before the next artist rattles up and repaints the same piece of hoarding....and what really gets me is that when they have days to paint, with no pressure of getting caught and on a perfectly flat surface it really should be Gallery quality work and yet some of it....well, I struggle to even make the effort to lift my camera sometimes

The last real illegal piece that I've seen done with some style and balls was Himbad's piece on the side of the apartment block in Sclatter Street....It was a funny site, while the others were working away on their legal walls there was Himbad putting up a huge piece balancing across a ladder between two buildings just a roller on a huge pole.

After that grumble it should still be said, there are many pieces scattered around London, old classics that are a pleasure to take in, especially for those that don't frequent the streets as much as you or I but as for new fresh work, nada.

I'd not been back to London for two years, so was shocked at the lack of new art, and even more shocked at pieces 5/6/7 years old that are still up.

For me, the youth got lazy and scared, on top of that Muralism is the new cool, its safe and pays.

Strange and kind of sad, but isn't that what happens to all counter cultures?