Street Arts
At the end of September we stumbled upon a beautiful life-sized woodblock wheat-pasted poster from Brooklyn based artist Swoon (covered here). Shortly after posting about the new piece we left for the Avant-Garde Urbano festival in Spain and assumed as Swoon was obviously in London we would possibly see more street work from her while she was in town. We returned from Europe a week later to find a number of emails and messages from people asking us for the street location of the new pieces but no sign of any additional pieces. So we figured that was all she had time for, that was until we discovered this beauty hidden away in a small side street in Hackney yesterday afternoon.
The scale of this piece is on par with the other life-sized woodblock but this piece sees Swoon step it up with not one but three separate layers of paper pasted onto the wall making up this elaborate piece. The main image is a woodblock cut-out paste-up, as is the lower section of the piece. These have been pasted up and over the delicately cut black paper layer featuring the dancing skeleton like figures. How she managed to get this fragile piece onto the wall in one piece is beyond us, but we always welcome the addition of new Swoon pieces to the London Streets especially when they are as exceptional as this one.
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- Swoon's Street Art In Red Hook, Brooklyn
It's no secret that we are big fans of the work of Brooklyn based artist Swoon. We have featured her work on the site on a number of occasions most recently posting images of the large scale pasteup Swoon work (Previously on Hookedblog) close to...
- Swoon — Back On The Streets Of London
Following the successful launch of her Murmuration installation at Black Rat Projects, Brooklyn based street artist Swoon took to the streets of East London with a number of large scale paste ups based on a number of images which featured in her first...
- Swoon Hits The Streets Of London
Earlier last week Black Rat Projects announced that their next exhibition at the gallery space would be a solo installation by New York artist and long term Black Rat collaborator Swoon. We were delighted to hear this news, as Hookedblog are massive...
- Swoon Hits The Streets Of London — 02
More Swoon news today. We told you we were big fans of the artists here at Hookedblog! And as promised yesterday, we were up early this morning to get some better shots of the three large scale Swoon pieces we found. Still no sign of the fourth piece...
- Diy America Ep #2 — Swoon Video
We have just stumbled onto a great channel on Vimeo 'WKE' which is advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy’s foray into documenting provocative conversations on culture, music and all sorts of fascinating topics from Portland, Amsterdam, New York,...
Street Arts
Swooning all over again in London
At the end of September we stumbled upon a beautiful life-sized woodblock wheat-pasted poster from Brooklyn based artist Swoon (covered here). Shortly after posting about the new piece we left for the Avant-Garde Urbano festival in Spain and assumed as Swoon was obviously in London we would possibly see more street work from her while she was in town. We returned from Europe a week later to find a number of emails and messages from people asking us for the street location of the new pieces but no sign of any additional pieces. So we figured that was all she had time for, that was until we discovered this beauty hidden away in a small side street in Hackney yesterday afternoon.
The scale of this piece is on par with the other life-sized woodblock but this piece sees Swoon step it up with not one but three separate layers of paper pasted onto the wall making up this elaborate piece. The main image is a woodblock cut-out paste-up, as is the lower section of the piece. These have been pasted up and over the delicately cut black paper layer featuring the dancing skeleton like figures. How she managed to get this fragile piece onto the wall in one piece is beyond us, but we always welcome the addition of new Swoon pieces to the London Streets especially when they are as exceptional as this one.
Follow us on Facebook or Twitter for additional photos and news.
- Swoon's Street Art In Red Hook, Brooklyn
It's no secret that we are big fans of the work of Brooklyn based artist Swoon. We have featured her work on the site on a number of occasions most recently posting images of the large scale pasteup Swoon work (Previously on Hookedblog) close to...
- Swoon — Back On The Streets Of London
Following the successful launch of her Murmuration installation at Black Rat Projects, Brooklyn based street artist Swoon took to the streets of East London with a number of large scale paste ups based on a number of images which featured in her first...
- Swoon Hits The Streets Of London
Earlier last week Black Rat Projects announced that their next exhibition at the gallery space would be a solo installation by New York artist and long term Black Rat collaborator Swoon. We were delighted to hear this news, as Hookedblog are massive...
- Swoon Hits The Streets Of London — 02
More Swoon news today. We told you we were big fans of the artists here at Hookedblog! And as promised yesterday, we were up early this morning to get some better shots of the three large scale Swoon pieces we found. Still no sign of the fourth piece...
- Diy America Ep #2 — Swoon Video
We have just stumbled onto a great channel on Vimeo 'WKE' which is advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy’s foray into documenting provocative conversations on culture, music and all sorts of fascinating topics from Portland, Amsterdam, New York,...