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.
Jeff Blackburn Homework So Jeff Blackburn put together this colouring book with his street artist friends ! How cool is that ? You can download it from his personal website. I downloaded it and it’s a PDF with 25 pages.…
Elicser Elliott Street Artist From Wiki: Elliot’s most notable works can be described as a highly improvised collage of soft characters and organic shapes, layered and blended through transparencies. His character work is often mediated by past experiences and relationships…
Late March Street Art Finds It’s the first day of spring and these are of my recent finds. This new virus unfortunately is going to mess up the beginning of mural season. Fingers crossed that it doesn’t. To everyone out…
Mid March Urban Exploration Some finds from this week. The weather is finally warming up ! I’ll do another street art post this weekend. Jamie Osbourne Mural I saw this across the street and had to check it out. Turns…
February Urban Street Art Exploration Winter blues time of the year. Mural season won’t start for at least a month so it’s time to check out the murals that have been around for awhile. There’s a few that have been…
Kizmet’s Portalis Street Art Installation I checked out the Winter Light Exhibition at Ontario Place this weekend. They have 21 art installations located all over the West Island. I’d have to say that I wasn’t impressed with a lot of…
Nick Sweetman Featured Mural Artist I’ve been following Nick for a few years now. Every time I see his work I am in awe. He just gets better as time goes by. Nick has got to be one of the…
Alma Art & Walt Ruston Mural This mural is on the side of Site3. From the Site3 Website: Site 3 coLaboratory is a 2,000 square foot member-run makerspace in Toronto’s west end. We are dedicated to making, teaching, learning and…
Essencia Arts Collective Collab Mural 2015 Found this amazing mural by Bruno Smoky with sisters Fiya Bruxa & Shalak Attack. They did this artwork at the end of December. Beautiful to see in person ! This information is from the…
Graffiti Alley Back in early December Courtney Greenberg wrote an article for the Toronto Star titled: “Should ‘Graffiti Alley’ artists be paid?” Her article begins with this picture: ““Paid graffiti tours profit off local artists,” it reads. “Stop using them!”…
Drake by LuvSumon Street Art This is the story of a mural in 16 seconds. Back in October LuvSumone painted this mural of Drake for @cbc_music to celebrate 10 years of his music. They even had a videographer recording the…
Clandestinos Art & Murals As most people know Clandestinos is Shalak Attack and Bruno Smoky. When they work together they go by ‘Clandestinos’ or ‘ClandestinosArt’, which is smart of them. This way they have an independent identity as well as…
WallNoize 2016 This is the final post for the project done back in 2016. Over 40 artist took part. Most of them are still tag free. The only unfortunate part is that some of the murals are unsigned. Evro Uno…
Ravina Gardens Park Street Art Part two of my post about the project that was done back in 2016. It’s just north of the High Park Subway stop. The park is kinda of secluded you have to go up a…
WallNoize Ravina Garden Street Art Project Back in October of 2016 WallNoize organized this project with over 40 artists. Can’t find much official information about WallNoize other than what they have on the Instagram account: Working with and showcasing Toronto’s…
