Does anyone know the story behind these tiles about Alice? I run into different ones from time to time on walls around the Southside of Glasgow, mostly in the vicinity of Queen's Park.
I love this new mural on Catherdral Street in Glasgow. It's part of the Gable End project from Articulate Hub as part of their Artivism work. The Articulate Cultural Trust uses creativity to help care experienced and other marginalised young people get to wherever they want to go.
Building a snowman (or rather a snowpenguin!), carol-singing, decorating their Xmas tree, having snow ball fights with the punks next door, and of course visiting Santa: The Glasgow Penguins are certainly full of the Christmas spirit at the moment!
I finally managed to track down the last couple of street art mosaics in Wilma van der Meyden's Glasgow Street Swallow series. This beautiful one on James Watt Street is made from the type of unglazed porcelain tiles often uses to make threshold mosaics on older Glasgow buildings.
The Maryhill Panther, painted on the exposed gable end of a traditional sandstone tenement, peeking through between newly built flats on Maryhill Road in Glasgow.
Little ghosts, like this one under the Kirklee Bridge, and ceramic pumpkins have been appearing along the Kelvin Walkway in the west end of Glasgow over the last week, and they make a nice addition to the other alternative street art along this stretch of the river.
More of the beautiful Street Swallows from artist Wilma van der Meyden. These pieces of street art can be found on walls in side streets off the Broomielaw and Clyde Street in Glasgow and are made from fragments of discarded materials found in and around the city.
I love these swans. They're part of a set of murals on some hoardings blocking off an area of disused land along South Street in Glasgow, and they really help it blend in.
This beautiful piece of street art on the Broomielaw in Glasgow is one of the street swallows created by artist Wilma van der Meyden. It's made from fragments of old ceramics collected from the shores of the Firth of Clyde. It's called the Broomielaw Swallow.
I posted a couple of these little art works a couple of days ago, and now I've tracked down a couple more, as well as their origin.
They are part of a sound walk through Partick and Kelvindale created by Tricky Hat Productions in August 2021 called Round Our Place. You can find out more about it here (including a map of the entire walk and the locations of all eight plaques): https://trickyhat.com/portfolios/creative-communities-2022/
Love the newest tiling added to the Stockingfield Bridge in Glasgow, especially this rainbow. These tiles have been made and installed by Make It Glasgow.
Love this new mural on Paisley Road West in the Cardonald area of Glasgow. It features Winnie Drinkwater, the first woman in the world to hold a commercial pilot's licence, which she got in 1932 at the age of nineteen. She was born in Waterfoot in East Renfrewshire in Scotland in 1913 and died in New Zealand in 1996. The mural was painted by Spraywell Murala
Today in Glasgow is a day to be windswept and interesting, just like this mural of Jack Vettriano's 'Dr Connolly I Presume' on Dixon Street, which was created to celebrate Billy Connolly's 75th Birthday in 2017.
I love this mural by Smug on an orphaned gable end down an otherwise rather grim section of Mitchell Street in Glasgow. It brings a much needed splash of colour and interest to it.
I haven't come across a new mural by Negative Destination in a while (probably because I haven't been out running around the streets of Glasgow as much as usual in the last few months), but I came across this great piece yesterday just off Hope Street.
The annual Yardworks Festival was on this weekend at SWG3, with its usual display of wonderful street art. This one, by I Am Sprite, was one of my favourites.
I love this trend in Glasgow to having murals featuring the names of local areas. This one in Mount Florida seems to be new since the last time I visited, but there are also examples I've come across in Dennistoun, Battlefield and Govanhill.