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These 15 Street Art Murals Will Make You Want To Visit This U.K. Festival

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A new book documents the colorful history of Europe’s largest live street art festival.

Upfest II chronicles the last four years of the “Upfest” event, which started as a small gathering in the Bedminster neighborhood of Bristol in southwest England in 2008.

It’s since mushroomed into a focal point for graffiti artists around the world, with this year’s edition over three days in July attracting 300 painters from 40+ countries who each painted on shutters, boards and buildings across the area.

Upfest

Festival organizers estimate that 1,600 artists have taken part since the event’s inception in Banksy’s home city. Upfest will return again in 2017 from July 29 to 31.  

The book (cover above) showcases 200 of those works of art, with the majority of the photographs taken by visitors and selected via a competition. A selection of them are below:

  • Cheba & Fanakapan (Upfest 2016)
    Photograph by Street Art Atlas
  • FLX (Upfest 2012)
    Photograph by Nigel Thomas
  • Mr. June (Upfest 2016)
    Photograph by Neil James Brain
  • Odeith (Upfest 2016)
    Photograph by Daz Smith
  • Cheo (Upfest 2011)
    Photograph by Big Bozo
  • Arts Anonymous (Upfest 2012)
    Picture by Sarah Huges
  • C215 (Upfest 2013)
    Photograph by Rizwan Ali
  • Cheo (Upfest 2016)
    Photograph by Rory Falconer
  • Masai (Upfest 2016)
    Photograph by Paul Bidgway
  • Otto Schade (Upfest 2015)
    Photograph by Nim Jethwa
  • Thierry Noir (Upfest 2015)
    Photograph by Paul Box
  • Voyder (Upfest 2016)
    Photograph by Daz Smith
  • Snub23 & Goin (Upfest 2008)
    Photograph by Lindsey Davis
  • Snub 23 (Upfest 2016)
    Photograph by David Todd
  • L7m (Upfest 2015)
    Photograph by D7606
  • Upfest II is available to buy via the Upfest website here.

    And see how 2016’s event went down here:

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Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/upfest-bristol-street-art-book_us_584185aae4b017f37fe41ab8

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