Post-graffiti

Post-Graffiti is a term that artists sometimes use to describe their work when traditional ‘graffiti’ is the foundation of their artistic heritage.

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    “I want to highlight the vegetation that takes control of the territories affected by forest fires. The black morel (edible) is presented in this work as a symbol of renewal. Life always resumes no matter what. Ferns are also present in post-fire areas.”

  • Mercury and Psyche

    Mercury and Psyche is an approximately 20-meter-tall mural on the east-facing wall of 333 Adelaide St. W in Toronto. The mural creatively uses Reinhold Begas’ 1878 marble statue “Mercury and Psyche” as its focal point, blended with a pink and blue background which contains numerous styled and re-contextualised tags from graffiti artists. 

  • Vibrant Milton

    The Downtown Milton Business Improvement Area is dedicated to building a resilient and vibrant downtown community with welcoming spaces for everyone to enjoy. In 2022, we worked with Arts Milton, STEPS Public Art, a local property owner, business owners, residents and supporters to install a large new mural downtown. The project received funding from the Government of Canada through the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario)’s Canada Community Revitalization Fund (CCRF). The mural was installed in the Spice o’ Life Parkette near the intersection of Main St. E. and Charles St. It was painted in the fall 2022 and took place in conjunction with Milton Culture Days presented by Arts Milton. The mural was unveiled in November 2022.

  • Kingsway Community Event Mural

    This planned public event mural was painted in one day by volunteers from the Kingsway district of Edmonton, including softball players, police, local business reps, and passers by.
    The Edmonton Kingsway BIA commisioned the mural as a giant paint by numbers where anyone could help paint. The group came together and completed the wall in just a few active hours.

  • Hug

    Found under the bridge just east of the Lawrence and McCowan intersection Elicser Elliott, a local artist, painted this massive part graffiti, part abstract portrait mural in 2018. The upper half of the mural shows ten figures sitting in a tree-filled area. Some listening, perhaps to nature, or perhaps to the figure in the middle…

  • Skydivers at College and Spadina

    The College and Spadina mural depicts three figures who appear to be skydiving off the CN Tower, wearing blue, orange and white jumpsuits. Purple and yellow post-graffiti designs mark the bottom section of the mural, as well as its upper right and left-hand corners. A checkerboard pattern encircled the skydivers in the mural’s early days, but now only the upper left and lower right sections of the checkerboard remain.

  • Bell Manor Park

    Located in Bell Manor Park’s southwestern field, this large mural (when viewed from left to right) displays a tri-toned set of leaves and a geometric butterfly, leading to the words ‘Bell Manor Park’ in Peru’s unique multi-coloured, block-letter styling.

  • 得閒飲茶 Duck, Hen, Yam, Cha

    Duck, Hen, Yam, Cha is a myriad of Canto expressions (and a few Toisan, and Chinglish) from different generations: from golden oldies to the latest urban speak. Artwork travels through time with our use of Canto and Toisan, heritage languages of Chinatowns throughout this continent. All four signal box locations explore Time in different ways–this is the second of four locations. The first set of double boxes was Wil Yee’s “Time and Tigers”.

  • Hashtag Gallery

    KJ Bit Collective partnered with StreetARToronto to transform this community laneway into a giant canvas of graffiti and mural art. KJ Bit organized 75 artists to paint garages in two live-paint jams. The initiatives were well supported by local residents who now enjoy their revitalized laneway. KJ Bit are Jieun June Kim and Erika James.