Mural street artwork or art refers to large or small murals that are found within the city of Toronto as defined by me. I don’t claim to be an expert as I am learning about public art as I go.
These are images that I have captured around town going back as far as 2014. Some of these pictures are done with spray or aerosol, others are actually hand painted.
They appear in different forms, some of them maybe on a wall, others on the sidewalk. But to me they define what I consider to be mural.
Murals with the city might be done by a local artist or someone who is town doing a special project.
What is most captivating is the long lasting nature of a mural. Something that was done in a short period of time (perhaps even a day) has a long lasting impact that changes the cityscape forever.
Early September 2020 Urban Exploration Still catching up ! A few sculptures in this post – I never thought to include them in ‘street art’ but they are one of the original versions of ‘street art’. Myfanwy Macleod Sculpture I…
Late August 2020 Urban Exploration Murals Finishing up posting what I found in August. Things really picked up in August so it was nice to be able to find some new artwork. Although things are a lot slower than last…
Mid August 2020 Urban Artwork Mural Finds This post is mostly a grab bag of things that I have stumbled upon in August ! Elicser Elliott Mural Discovered this mural by Elicser a couple of weeks ago. George Floyd Mural…
More August 2020 Urban Exploration Street Art Catching up with my street art finds from August. Like I said before …things have been picking up as far as new street art to check out. There’s a huge Wallnoize project taking…
August 2020 Urban Exploration Finds This past August was one of the quietest in Toronto I can ever remember. I guess without large festivals like Caribana or the CNE, quite simply downtown was a bit of a ghost town. But…
Big On Bloor Pop Up Festival 2020 So.. normally Big on Bloor happens in August and this year is no exception. However COVID has made large gatherings illegal and that means events like Big on Bloor can’t operate ‘as normal’.…
Late July 2020 Street Art Finds Like I said in my last post street art has pick up again. With Toronto finally being in Stage 3 some of the art projects have resumed. Not all of them but enough that…
July Collaboration Mural Project Artworks Collaboration seems to the word of the summer. Can’t believe how many artists were all working together this summer. I guess with COVID – it actually makes a lot of sense. Here are just a…
July 2020 Street Art Exploration I haven’t been updating my site as much as I usually do this time of year. COVID-19 has had an impact on the street art scene as well as everything else. A lot of the…
Paint City Black Mural Project The “Paint the City Black” project saw 40 graffiti artists from around the GTA gather to pay tribute to the anti-Black racism movement. They even made international news. Here are some of the murals…
June 2020 Street Art Finds I haven’t posted much lately because of the lockdown. Even though Toronto is still in Stage One — some of the street artists have been working on new murals. I came across so much new…
May 2020 Urban Exploration Street Art Some more street art finds from the end of May. Things are still slow as far as new street art in concerned but as the restrictions ease there have been some recent murals, especially…
May 2020 Street Art Finds There’s been some more new street art this month. It’s not like the usual mural season this year ….obviously. Mostly smaller pieces are being created in places like graffiti alley. But I did some all…
April & May Street Art Finds Along with everything else street art projects have been put on the shelf for now. There’s been a few murals organized by Kadence World which I still have to check out. But nothing official…
Christina Mazzulla Feature Artist At this time this is Christina Mazzulla’s latest mural that I can’t wait to see. In a recent article on another blog Christina was featured: “Social distancing has altered my practice drastically for the time being.…
