Bukruk Street Art Festival 2013

When I found myself with a spare couple of hours in Bangkok yesterday afternoon, the only sensible choice seemed to be to check out the Bukruk Street Art Festival.

I started my journey outside the Bangkok Arts Centre where a wall and some columns had already been the subject of attention:

Armed with a little map I had downloaded from the web, I set off on a walk which took me along the edge of a canal, in an area I probably would not walk at night. But there were certainly recent wall paintings to be found along the route:

I retraced my steps and took the road over the klong. The signs were not very encouraging:

But then I turned a corner and there was a splash of colour:

Which on closer inspection turned out to be this:

Which on wider inspection turned out to be this:

Just amazing, and even more amazing was that I was the only person there admiring it. I particularly liked that someone had continued living their life next to, and to an extent on top off, the painting:

Naturally, I stayed a while and took a few more shots.

The nearby buildings offered more delights:

Suitably enthused, I set out in search of more; but my legs and time ran out before I found anything else. A shame, because there was more to be found if I had had more time and stamina, as this video shows (you can see the area I found being painted):

2013-03-11 | The Heavyweight says

You have to admire the creativity and imagination of some of these people. Some of this is finer art than a lot of stuff selling for loads of money nowadays…

2013-03-11 | robin says

Some nice work here! This is one of my favourite things to do when visiting a new city. I’ve got some good work from Spain in particular (in my Flickr stream).

2013-03-11 | genuinej says

Fascinating stuff.

2013-03-11 | Kevin Moore says

Love the images Spike, wish I’d been there. Still eager to ge out and play with the new OM-D E-M5 but it’s a whole 2 degrees here with very stong winds and some snow, not enough to make things pretty just enough to make it pretty crap outside. Keep up the posts in the sunshine, they keep me going until my next escape.

2013-03-12 | Michael LaPalme says

Nice series Spike. There are several more large murals in Siam Square in the back sois that lie between Chula as well as some at Banbattong and again at Rama VI.

http://michael-lapalme.blogspot.com/2013/02/bangkoks-deviant-street-art.html

2013-03-12 | Grant says

Absolutely! Give the old chap a couple of hours off the leash and he turns in yet another winner. You would have loved the sign that said “Don’t painting on the wall.” If that sign helped cause all this they had better put up more signs!