Shoreditch Street Art: Best Streets & Murals 2023 + Map

I love street art! And since I moved to Shoreditch in 2021, I feel like I’m in heaven.

The Shoreditch Street Art scene is huge, one of the biggest and most popular in London and worldwide.

The whole area is covered with a diverse range of artwork, from vibrant graffiti to captivating street art murals, appealing stickers, provocative paste-ups, and interesting sculptures glued onto buildings.

The walls, buildings, tunnels, bridges, and shutters of this East London neighbourhood are the greatest canvases for renowned local and international artists, such as Banksy, Ben Eine, CPWon, and Jimmy C.

With so many brilliant pieces of art at my doorstep, I decided to write this post to help you to find the coolest street art murals in Shoreditch.

To learn more about Shoreditch Street Art history and get to know some of the artists, I booked a Shoreditch Street Art Tour with Viator, and you can find the review below.

Pericles Rosa taking a selfie with the graffiti murals in Shoreditch, London — Searching for different street art pieces in my hood is like an adventure to me

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Where can you find street art in Shoreditch?

You can find street art almost everywhere in Shoreditch. There isn’t a shortage of spetacular and unique artworks in this area.

But the best places to find street art in Shoreditch are:

Brick Lane
Fashion Street
Hanbury Street
Princelet Street
New Inn Yard
Fournier Street
Redchurch Street
Box Park Area
Allen Gardens
Buxton Street
Pedley Street
Rivington Street
Great Eastern Street
Grey Eagle Street

A diverse range of street art on Buxton Street, London — The diverse range of street art on Buxton Street, London

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10 Best Street Art Murals in Shoreditch – 2023

1 – Connectivity Matters

Colt Technology’s London Head Quarter on New Inn Yard and King John Court streets, is home to UK’s largest and the most striking mural.

Eight pairs of graffiti artists and street artists from all over Europe worked on allocated sections and covered the three-storey building with geometric shapes, cubist faces, and colourful characters.

Colt Technology’s London Head Quarter building on New Inn Yard and King John Court covered with a huge street art mural

This epic Shoreditch Street Art mural was finished in August 2018. It’s the most awe-striking and beautiful piece of street art I’ve ever seen in the UK.

Colt Technology’s Head Quarter street art mural, London

2 – Boris, the clown

Boris, the clown, is a collaboration between Ante_ltd and Uncool Sam. The two artists didn’t use sketches and didn’t plan in advance the colours they’d use to create this fantastic piece.

The result was a defiant mural, that has been on Fashion Street for over three years. It has faded and been vandalised a bit but hasn’t lost its impact and significance.

It’s one of my favourite street art murals in Shoreditch.

Shoreditch Street Art — Clowns are generally cheerful, but Boris, the clown, looks so sad…

3 – The Whitby Street Lady

James Cochran aka Jimmy C, an amazing Australian street artist based in London, painted this captivating mural on Whitby Street over 10 years ago.

The lady, with eyes cast upwards, seems to be filled with naïve amazement, and the spheres seem like moving toward the beholder, which gives perspective and depth to the work.

The Whitby Street Lady was revitalised by Jimmy C in 2018.

4 – Adore and Endure

This is probably one of the most famous and iconic bits of East London Street Art.

The surreal image is composed of a pastel colour building with four windows with random faces that seem like billboards still being put onto the wall.

At the top of the building, on the left corner, there are two abandoned train carriages, covered in graffiti by Sime and Wendy perched atop two containers. On the right corner, there’s a Cristhiaan Nagel oversized yellow mushroom.

There’s still the paradoxical message ‘Let’s Adore and Endure Each Other’ by Stephen Powers.

A pastel colour building with four windows with random faces and at the top of the building on the left corner, there are two abandoned train carriages covered in graffiti by Sime and Wendy perched atop two containers. On the right corner, there’s a Cristhiaan Nagel oversized yellow mushroom. — This is so East London!

5 – I DON’T LIKE THIS ANYMORE

Among all Shoreditch graffiti murals, my favourite is the one done in February 2021, by Ben Eine, a typography artist, and his friend, The Dotmaster.

Located on Ebor Street, just off Shoreditch House, this 45-metre-long multi-coloured mural is impossible to be missed.

It’s big and vibrant and there are always people snapping some pictures with beamingly bright letters in the background.

A street art mural by Ben Eine and The Dotmaster on Ebor Street, London

6 – Hanbury Street “collective” mural

Almost on the corner of Brick Lane and Hanbury Street, you find one of the most recognizable Shoreditch Street Art murals.

The crane was painted by the highly respected Belgium street artist ROA in 2010, and the upside-down breakdancing Coldstream Guard by the Argentinian Martin Ron in 2013.

But ‘Homesick’, inspired by an image of a sculpture in the British Museum by an unknown French artist, was just painted by the Miami-based artist Claudio Picasso, CPWon, at the beginning of July 2022.

Street Art murals on Hanbury Street, London

7 – A Ukrainian tribute

Searching for the best street art murals in Shoreditch, I stumbled upon this stunning mural on Redchurch Street.

This photo-realistic portrait, painted by Woskerski, just after the war started, in February 2022, it’s a “little tribute to the Ukrainian people”.

The image of a lady proudly wearing a hat with Ukrainian flag colours is vivid and deep. The woman’s face has a mix of emotions… a bit of disbelief, and despair but also determination.

A photo-realistic portrait mural by Woskerski on Redchurch Street, London — It seems that she’s looking straight into your eyes and asking: Are you not going to do anything?

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8 – The neon pink portraits

Walking on the streets of Shoreditch, you’ll find not only one but a series of neon-illuminated portraits and animal paintings by David Speed.

There are horses, dogs, a tiger, and several realistic portraits scattered throughout Shoreditch, where the artist is based.

If you have the opportunity to see them in the evening, you’ll be delighted.

A neon pink face portrait mural of a woman by David Speed on Braithwaite St, London — A woman’s portrait mural on Braithwaite St (night shot) & A man’s portrait mural on Redchurch St (day shot)

A neon pink face portrait mural of a man by David Speed on Redchurch St, London — A woman’s portrait mural on Braithwaite St (night shot) & A man’s portrait mural on Redchurch St (day shot)

9 – High 5

A four-storey building almost on the corner of Brick Lane and Pedley Street was a massive canvas for a collaboration between the artists Jim Vision and Fanakapan.

It was painted in 2019 as part of the Graffestival, a Graffiti Mural festival in Shoreditch.

The mural of a woman with watery eyes holding a birthday balloon is an explosion of colours. As Jim stated: “Everyone deserves a bit of colour in their life”.

A building covered with a street art mural on Pedley Street, London

10 – Joe’s Kid

Another lovely artwork created by Jimmy C, in which he also makes a clear stylish reference to the history of the art, specifically to the work of post-impressionist painters.

The affectionate father carrying a cute little girl first appeared on Fashion Street in 2016 and was restored by the artist in 2018.

The mural is on Fashion Street, just off Brick Lane.

Joe's kid, a street art mural by Jimmy C on Fashion Street, London

To find the exact location of each mural, I created a Shoreditch Street Art map below.

Shoreditch Street Art Tour

Before starting to write this post, I decided to take a tour to learn more about the artists and the meaning behind the murals.

The tour started at 10h00 and the meeting point was just a few steps from my house.

Dave, our guide, is genuinely passionate about street art and knows interesting facts about the artists.

During this Shoreditch Street Art Walking Tour, we navigated through several streets, including Brick Lane, Hanbury and Princelet, to find the best street art in Shoreditch.

Some people joining a Shoreditch Street Art Tour on Brick Lane, London — A stop to admire the Brick Lane Street Art & Among the artworks displayed on Princelet St, there’s a remarkable mural by Stik that represents this multicultural neighbourhood

Some people with a tour guide observing the artworks displayed on Princelet St, London — A stop to admire the Brick Lane Street Art & Among the artworks displayed on Princelet St, there’s a remarkable mural by Stik that represents this multicultural neighbourhood

We found a plethora of incredible artworks, from paste-ups to a small piece of art set into a brick wall. I was impressed and surprised by how Dave found this bit of street art that I hadn’t seen before, even living in the area.

A guide showing a handcrafted miniature replacing a missing brick on a wall in — Dave showing us artwork by Brickflats, an artist that makes handcrafted miniatures to replace missing bricks on walls around the world

A piece of art by Brickflats — Dave showing us artwork by Brickflats, an artist that makes handcrafted miniatures to replace missing bricks on walls around the world

Dave finished the 2h30min tour unveiling two murals of the most famous figure in street art today, Banksy.

A man taking a picture in front the famous Guard Dog graffiti mural by Bansky on 83 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, London — The policeman, and me with the poodle 😉

Taking this street art tour in Shoreditch made me realise how important, varied, immense, and unique the street art scene in Shoreditch is.

I booked the tour with Viator, a Tripadvisor Company that offers a myriad of tours, activities and experiences all over the globe.

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If you want to learn how to interpret different pieces of art and hear insider stories about local artists, you shouldn’t miss it.

The Shoreditch Street Art tour runs from Friday to Sunday and is very reasonably priced.

Book your tour on-line in advance here

Where to find Banksy in Shoreditch?

Unfortunately, much of Banksy’s work has been covered up over the years. However, you can still find two of his pieces in the courtyard of the former nightclub Cargo, at 83 Rivington Street.

The two Banksy murals in Shoreditch are His Master’s Voice and Guard Dog. Both pieces date around 2001, when the British artist was active in this area and where his first exhibition was held on May 31 of that same year.