Murals reMastered is an ambitious, nationwide collaboration between the National Gallery and Global Street Art, that will see some of the world’s greatest paintings transformed into monumental murals in streets, neighbourhoods and unexpected public spaces across the UK. The first artwork to be featured is Henri Rousseau’s Surprised! first painted in 1891. The artwork features [&hellip;]

Murals reMastered: Henri Rousseau’s Surprised!

100% of survey respondents would like to see more murals in cities The festival in numbers&#8230; 314 artists took part, creating&#8230; 140 permanent murals including 80 in housing estates! Across 10 London boroughs 2 murals in London state schools, as part of our School Mural Competition Using 10,000 cans of paint! Footfall increased +33% on [&hellip;]

London Mural Festival 2024

The Leadenhall Building, also affectionately known as ‘The Cheesegrater’ has a series of prominent trumpet like air vents on its forecourt, designed by architect Richard Rogers. The Trumpets have made for a fascinating canvas for street artists DRT, Carl Cashman, Anna Ovni, Itaewon, and Nick Tez across two editions of London Mural Festival (2020 and [&hellip;]

Leadenhall Building Trumpets

At Global Street Art, our collections mirror this sentiment – to see art in objects that are often overlooked. However, we agree so wholeheartedly with the late Mr. Warhol, that we ourselves caught the cookie jar bug. Our own collection, humbly, is only around a hundred cookie jars but there is still much we can [&hellip;]

Cookie Jars

In Britain today, in an average lifetime, each person will have roughly fifteen lovers, a few more who are slightly rough, and over four hundred and fifty pieces of sexy, sexy knitwear. Do you think it’s cashmerely a coincidence? Of course not darling. There’s no such thing as coincidence. Merely fate. And fate brought us [&hellip;]

Love and knitwear

QSL cards are postcards sent between amateur radio operators, scanning the airwaves to connect with radio operators in other countries, who would swap personal details and then send each other a postcard (a ‘QSL card’). As our communication habits have changed so much, especially with the growth of the internet, we have forgotten how important [&hellip;]

QSL Radio Cards

Happy Meals then, for happy meals now. Deciding that the plain, solid-coloured lunchroom table wasn’t quite adding to the aesthetic of the office, Lee set out to design a replacement.&nbsp; Based on the idea of clear display cabinets often sold at toy fairs to collectors, Lee’s table design would display his decades-spanning collection of McDonald’s [&hellip;]

The Happy Meal Table

A collaboration project between UK based design agency Waste Studio and GSA. Global Street Art originated when collector Lee Bofkin embarked on a mission to document street art worldwide in the early 90s. His deep appreciation for the often-unsung artistry apparent on the street eventually led to the establishment of Global Street Art (GSA) a [&hellip;]

Disney – the 20th Century&#8217;s most well-known producer of nostalgia-inducing Ephemera – turns 100 this year! You&#8217;d assume (correctly) that we have quite a bit of Disney represented in our gallery. For this post we selected objects in threes: three books, three games, three rugs, three paper objects (it could have gone on longer), three [&hellip;]

Disney 100

Where you allow more people to participate in shaping public spaces by painting it, you allow more forms of expression to happen there. Lee Bofkin Concept has always been quite important to me, and composition, not filling the space too much but allowing room for the viewer to interpret in different ways. Jo Hicks The [&hellip;]

Squarespace x Dazed: Street art collaboration

The collection itself is called ‘Largely Forgotten Artists’ because we believe the artists deserve to be better remembered today than we think most of the artists are. The collection, which will always be incomplete, is a rich history of life in Britain over this time, and shows changing tastes in society but also how we [&hellip;]

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