For those of you that don’t know, Cans Festival was an event where Banksy invited a huge range of stencil artists to come and stencil the walls of an abandoned tunnel in Leake Street, London. I visited the Cans Festival site recently, away from the crowds that gathered there during the event. Even though the street installations had been removed, the art on the walls was as vibrant as the day it was sprayed (despite some dirty tags on the pieces). I could quite easily tell you about the work of the big artists that sprayed in Leake Street, but you can look anywhere on the internet to find that info out - what I want to take a closer look at is the smaller artists work.

There was an blank area in the tunnel left for any stencil artists to come and paint and they came in their masses. So much so, you’d be lucky to find a blank area in the tunnel now. Below are some of my favourites. Unfortunately, when I was there I didn’t take pictures of all the work I enjoyed so I think i’ll be taking a return trip to get pictures of some of the other great work.

Who wants sushi?

Lego man.

Dirty mouth Dog - great piece of work, I love the colours on this.

Gordon Brown on the 10 Pence coin. A little jab about the 10p tax rate?

Big thank you for some of the pictures from the Cans Festival flickr group.

Tags: Cans Festival, Stencil

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