Brick Lane Street Art

The lowdown

The streets around Brick Lane are one of the world's great open-air street-art galleries, and exploring them costs nothing. Shutters, doorways, whole building ends and back alleys are covered in murals, stencils and paste-ups, and the display changes constantly as walls are painted over and reborn.

This is where international names and local unknowns work side by side. Pieces by some of the biggest figures in the scene have appeared here over the years, and because the walls turn over so fast, the collection is never the same twice, the piece you photograph today may be gone next month.

You can wander and find it yourself, drifting down Hanbury Street, Fournier Street and the lanes off Brick Lane, or join one of the many free-to-follow self-guided routes online. Either way it is a free, living, ever-renewing gallery in the heart of the East End.