Shoreditch Street Art
the streets are the gallery
An open-air, ever-changing gallery of murals and graffiti across the streets of Shoreditch, free to explore, where world-famous artists and unknowns paint side by side.
Free to visit · Shoreditch · Old Street · E1 6JE
Opening: Open access · best in daylight
The streets around Shoreditch and Brick Lane are one of the world's great open-air street-art galleries, and exploring them costs nothing. Walls, shutters, doorways and entire building ends are covered in murals, stencils, paste-ups and tags, a constantly shifting display that changes from week to week.
This is where international names and local unknowns paint side by side. Work by some of the biggest figures in the scene has appeared here over the years, and because the walls are repainted so often, the collection is never static. The piece you photograph today may be gone by next month.
You can wander freely and find it yourself, drifting down Brick Lane, Hanbury Street, Redchurch Street and the lanes around them, or join one of the many guided tours. Either way it is a free, living, ever-renewing gallery in the heart of the East End.
Getting there: Around Shoreditch and Brick Lane, easiest from Shoreditch High Street, Old Street or Liverpool Street.
Best time to go: A weekend afternoon when the area is liveliest, though the art is there to see any day. The walls change constantly, so it is never the same twice.
Insider tip: Just wander rather than hunting specific pieces, because the walls are repainted constantly and half the fun is what you stumble on. Hanbury Street and the lanes off Brick Lane are reliably rich hunting grounds.
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