Street Art in Coventry

Some new street art has appeared on the canal just north of The Moorings. It is #tagged Coventry2021.

"We saved it", Starley Road - 2 Mar 2008 A mural painted to celebrate victory for the residents of the city centre street in overcoming council plans to demolish their homes Bishop Street - 21 Jun 2011 Youth Centre, Jardine Crescent, Tile Hill North - 6 May 2012 The 'Hall of Fame' mural on the wall of the Tile Hill Youth Centre depicts famous boxing champions who trained in the Tile Hill Social Club in the 1960s-80s

Hertford Street - 9 Jan 2019 Silver Street - 9 Jan 2019 Rear of the Coventry Transport Museum (formerly the Museum of British Road Transport, hence the registration plate!)

The new mural of Ira Aldridge by Dreph at the Belgrade Theatre / Belgrade Plaza. Ira Aldridge: Wiki entry Dreph website

The City of Peace by Bandit. White Street Coach Park accessed from Pool Meadow

Work in progress. Katie O'Sullivan AKA Katie O Art working on a commission to celebrate the 73rd birthday of the NHS. Will go back and film the finished article.

And here is the finished version - on display in Broadgate next to Lady G for today only (5 July). Not sure what they are going to do with it - will possibly be donated to a local hospital to display permanently.

A mix of tags - some better than others - and a couple of impressive bits of art in amongst them. Looks like some Polish artists have contributed at the Black Pad end.

Certainly improved since my last visit in Feb 2019

A massive improvement!

Save it to Saved it! ... the earliest bit of "street art" I remember seeing in the city was at Starley Road in the late 1970s.

FarGo Village Street Art - 26 Feb 2019

A couple of football murals Ponderosa Playing Fields, Jardine Crescent - 26 Feb 2019 Market Way - 21 Sep 2020

DANK (Dan Kitchener) is creating a slice of Japan at Well Street / Bishop Street. A Coventry built taxi is at the heart of the mural. He's a big hitter on the street art scene so great to have him working here. Had a good chat with him; especially about his murals in the Shankill area of Belfast where I lived for a while. I'd actually posted a pic of one of them in the main Coventry cultural / arts fb group and posed the question about Cov getting a taxi themed mural ... lo and behold just over a month later and here he is painting a mural with a taxi in it This one should be finished tomorrow (Sat 7 August) but deffo by Sunday. Elsewhere there is a HUGE mural going up on the wall of the New Union Street car park - the part closest to the dome / ring road. That is being done by NOMAD CLAN and features a burning pocket watch at the heart of it. Again, should be finished this weekend. Will film them both again when finished. At least 6 more murals in City Centre locations are coming soon including one on the side of the West Indian Club in Spon Street which will celebrate Afro-Caribbean culture

Super artwork there, by obviously extremely talented artists. And you, too, BrotherJoybert, are obviously having a very positive effect for our City of Culture year.