I love this trend in Glasgow to having murals featuring the names of local areas. This one in Mount Florida seems to be new since the last time I visited, but there are also examples I've come across in Dennistoun, Battlefield and Govanhill.
Does anyone know the story behind these tiles about Alice? I run into different ones from time to time on walls around the Southside of Glasgow, mostly in the vicinity of Queen's Park.
The annual Yardworks Festival was on this weekend at SWG3, with its usual display of wonderful street art. This one, by I Am Sprite, was one of my favourites.
Bottlecelli. Created by a team consisting of Smug, Yardworks and Lidl to encourage more recycling, it contains more than 30,000 bottlecaps. It's based on Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus and can be found just outside SWG3 on Eastvale Place in Glasgow.
I love this new mural on Catherdral Street in Glasgow. It's part of the Gable End project from Articulate Hub as part of their Artivism work. The Articulate Cultural Trust uses creativity to help care experienced and other marginalised young people get to wherever they want to go.
Building a snowman (or rather a snowpenguin!), carol-singing, decorating their Xmas tree, having snow ball fights with the punks next door, and of course visiting Santa: The Glasgow Penguins are certainly full of the Christmas spirit at the moment!
I finally managed to track down the last couple of street art mosaics in Wilma van der Meyden's Glasgow Street Swallow series. This beautiful one on James Watt Street is made from the type of unglazed porcelain tiles often uses to make threshold mosaics on older Glasgow buildings.
The distinctive murals by Molly Hankinson, Michael Corr and Rogue One on the whisky tanks of the Strathclyde Distillery in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. Established by Seager Evans in 1927, this distillery can produce forty million litres of grain whisky per year.
I came across this unusual piece of street art in Pollokshields in Glasgow today, which I believe is from the artist Louise McVey. I do love stumbling across things like this while exploring the city.
Ceramic heart street art on a wall in the west end of Glasgow. This is part of a serires created by Louise McVey. I really love it whenever I come across any of Louise's work as they always brighten my day.
The Maryhill Panther, painted on the exposed gable end of a traditional sandstone tenement, peeking through between newly built flats on Maryhill Road in Glasgow.
Little ghosts, like this one under the Kirklee Bridge, and ceramic pumpkins have been appearing along the Kelvin Walkway in the west end of Glasgow over the last week, and they make a nice addition to the other alternative street art along this stretch of the river.
Another of the beautiful Street Swallows from Wilma van der Meyden. This one is just off Oswald Street in the centre of Glasgow and is made from seaglass collected from the shores of the Firth of Clyde.
More of the beautiful Street Swallows from artist Wilma van der Meyden. These pieces of street art can be found on walls in side streets off the Broomielaw and Clyde Street in Glasgow and are made from fragments of discarded materials found in and around the city.
I love these swans. They're part of a set of murals on some hoardings blocking off an area of disused land along South Street in Glasgow, and they really help it blend in.
Ernie the Emu on Clyde Street in Glasgow. This is one of a pair of similar murals in the city by Australian artist John Murray. The other is at Kelvin Bridge.
This beautiful piece of street art on the Broomielaw in Glasgow is one of the street swallows created by artist Wilma van der Meyden. It's made from fragments of old ceramics collected from the shores of the Firth of Clyde. It's called the Broomielaw Swallow.
I posted a couple of these little art works a couple of days ago, and now I've tracked down a couple more, as well as their origin.
They are part of a sound walk through Partick and Kelvindale created by Tricky Hat Productions in August 2021 called Round Our Place. You can find out more about it here (including a map of the entire walk and the locations of all eight plaques): https://trickyhat.com/portfolios/creative-communities-2022/