Stavanger NuArt Festival: A Weekend Shower of Street Art

on 1st Oct 2012

This was written by our friends over at Global Street Art.

This weekend I was invited to NuArt Festival in Stavanger, Norway. For a small city with only 130,000 residents the amount of street art is awesome. The city discovered large amounts of oil that led to rapid growth from the 1970s onwards. Consequently, the city is very wealthy, and despite a conservative attitude towards graffiti, thanks to the ongoing efforts of NuArt’s organisers (including the magnanimous Martyn Reed), the city opens its arms to artists each year to paint the otherwise bland walls.

This year welcomed artists from all over the World, including: How and Nosm, Ron English, Aakash Nihalani, Saber and Jordan Seiler from the USA, Eine, Sickboy and Mobstr from the UK, The Wa from France, Neils ‘Shoe’ Muelman from the Netherlands and Norway’s own Dolk.

Here is a selection of some great pieces from this year’s festival, and some choice photos of pieces painted in previous years that are still running. Pack an umbrella because here we go!

Pobel and Ostrem, Norway

How and Nosm, Spanish-German twins

Mobstr, UK

Sickboy,UK

Sickboy, UK

Ben Eine, UK

Shoe, Netherlands

Phlegm, UK

Herakut, Germany

How and Nosm, Spanish-German twins

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Dr. Lee Bofkin is the founder of Global Street Art (www.globalstreetart.com), which this year is releasing the Worldâ€™s best classified graffiti and street art archive: a database of 60,000 photographs taken in over 20 countries. He has a PhD in...

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