Street Art of Brighton: Kensington Street

In Brighton, UK Kensington Street's Street Art of Aung San Suu Kyi

Hip, trendy, artistic – just a few of the words that I’d use to describe Brighton. With a dynamic art scene, both within galleries and on the streets of the city there will be things to see no matter what your artistic style – fashion, galleries, sculpture or my favourite, street art!

Through Brighton’s Greeter program I was taken on a tour through the most artistic of Brighton’s streets but one which has stuck in my mind was Kensington Street.

One side of the road is smart office buildings whilst the other is car parking and a rainbow of spray paint.

The Smurfs taking down bad guy, Gargamel

Run D.M.C. as chess pieces

A tribute to Michael Jackson

I loved how they used the features of the wall to make this tiki gamer scene come to life

A tribute to funk master, James Brown

A beautiful piece commissioned by the Brighton & Hove City Council from the 2011 Brighton Festival when they named Aung San Suu Kyi, a Burmese political activist, guest director when the festival explore themes of liberty and freedom.

There is plenty to see and do in Brighton but the city’s street art is my favourite aspect to explore because it’s constantly revolving, growing and pushing the limits.

What’s your favourite thing to do in Brighton?

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Tash

September 17, 2012 at 3:39 pm

Love that piece featuring Aung San Suu Kyi – so beautiful!

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Nicole
September 17, 2012 at 3:48 pm
Thanks Tash! It’s my favourite piece in the whole street. 🙂

NaEun

September 21, 2012 at 2:49 am

I love street art – which is why I’m so excited to go on my Euro Trip!! 😀 These are so prettyyyy

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Nicole
September 21, 2012 at 12:33 pm
If you love street art you should definitely check out Melbourne. The city is teeming with great pieces. 🙂

Lizzie

October 5, 2012 at 11:23 pm

Hey Nicole 🙂 I’m from Brighton and whilst I know there is a lot of street art here, I kind of take it for granted now… The whole ‘if you see it everyday you get numb to it’ kinda thing. But seeing your post has just reminded me how great it is. In fact, I have to walk through the back of Brighton station to work everyday which has some amazing graffiti! I have heard about graffiti tours you can do here, so I’m going to look into doing one of those at some point to re-acquaint myself with our thriving urbant art scene!