Back to Leake St Tunnel: springtime!

Spring has sprung forth with glorious sunshine and that’s as good a reason as any to venture back to Leake St to see the new street art.

I started the trip at Morley College near Lambeth North tube, where I saw a great show of music photography by Anne Coffey and Linda Kinne. Photos of the music scene in London and NYC in the 80s and 90s are just superb, and I especially loved the way it was analogue, beautiful colour and black and white film. The exhibition is small but dense, all arranged with posters, flyers and mementos, perfectly preserved.

Collage by Linda Kinne

After that, a chill out in Lower Marsh then off to Leake St. The vaulted tunnel under Waterloo Station is always a hive of art activity and there were painters there, working in the sun.

Great fox!

Every time I visit Leake Street even if only a week or two passes between visits there’s always something new and over the course of the year or a season the tunnel constantly shifts and changes as old pictures disappear under or incorporated into new ones

New artists come to try their hand and others come regularly, faithfully, year on year to make their beautiful marks on the old stones.

Leake St

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