Following on from a previous post I thought I’d update you on some further artwork that I came across in East London.

James Cochran is the latest graffiti artist to have his work on display in Whitby Street. Judging by how many tags and variations of Instagram photos I have seen I would say that it has been a hit among locals and tourists. Cochran has managed to create both a soft and hard focus using a drip painting style, which allows the object of the piece to really jump out at you. The more angles you view it from the more detail becomes apparent.

A great site to check out if you are passing through Shoreditch.

Walking around Holborn/Bloomsbury you may have come across variations of Anna Laurini’s work - often plastered across closed or abandoned shops.

This piece below really caught my attention, as I find it really interesting that in a busy, humming city a simple phrase or caption can make such an impact on passersby. I would love to know how many people have walked past it and smiled or have taken a photo and shown it to a loved one.

Laurini’s style is said to be inspired by the abstract impressionism movement which is very apparent in her latest work.

To find out more about her please visit here.

The latest artwork to grace the buzzing South Hall of Covent Garden is a truly beautiful installation by Charles Pétillon.

Heartbeat was created by the French Artist to symbolise the movement and history of the area and has really brought to life the iconic building in the West End. The lighting feature of the artwork begins daily at 7pm, in which you can really capture and admire both the simplicity and the thought process that has gone into the sculpture.

A pop-up gallery has also been opened in the plaza, allowing you to see other work from Charles Pétillon and view a short film about the installation.

Heartbeat will be open to the public daily until the 27th September. Click here for more information.

Popin’ Pete will be holding their launch party at our Project Space in Shoreditch on Wednesday 12th August. It is also United Nation’s International Youth Day so they will be having a whole day of celebrations with young people from Plymouth, Leeds, Nottingham and London.

They have recently returned from Leeds where they had over 200 people taking part, raising an impressive £300 for Macmillan Cancer. Check out their latest promo below, and for more information visit www.scannersinc.org

Our latest artist Jillian Eldridge who is currently exhibiting work at our Project Space in Shoreditch, will be holding a coffee and pastry event this Sunday 3rd August. Jillian is currently showcasing her beautiful paintings in our gallery, and it is a fantastic opportunity to meet her and discuss the artwork. It’s free entry and open between 11am and 1pm.

To find out more about Jillian’s work, visit her website www.jillianeldridge.co.uk

It’s all about the experience in Gonzalo Borondo’s immersive and creepy exhibition. Broken frames litter the floor and visitors have to walk over bark chips to see a video of drumming, sculptures of birds and projected portraits.

Borondo’s work is poetic and evoking, inciting the public to pause and reflect on their own mortality—their memento mori—leaving all vanities and mass-media-influenced notions behind. “The biggest part of my work [is to] try to reflect our dramatic nature. I use the universal body-language to show the issues of the human condition.” With this in mind, the artist will take us through eight thematic spaces that include video installations and painting animations in collaboration with Carmen Maín (Spain), and sculpture installations, created together with Edoardo Tresoldi (Italy) and Despina Charitonidi (Greece).

Domestication of the natural world, the animal, and the human, which were once the same but are now very removed from their primal interactions. The tradition of animals being more than meat to us, more than leather or horns, vanishes with the rise of technology and market economy. Acting through fear, we demand to control and predict everything. We need supremacy, and the belief that we have achieved it. A simple and naïve human delusion, since nature is, after all, indomitable.