Street Fine Art Utrecht: The Tour

Sometimes yous honor something cool together with right away acquire addicted to it. To me, that 'something cool' is street art. After taking a graffiti tour inwards Ljubljana, I desperately wanted to direct keep to a greater extent than of these tours. Sadly nosotros don't actually direct keep anything similar it inwards the Netherlands, unless you're amongst a group. And, big surprise, me together with my photographic tv set camera don't count equally a group. So I decided to pass some fourth dimension online together with googled for hours - until I institute a Facebook page called Street fine art Utrecht. You won't believe how happy I was to honor at that topographic point were to a greater extent than people similar me. Better yet: people who organized their ain street fine art tours. So when I saw that there'd live a tour on Apr 1st, I right away signed up. Utrecht isn't that far from where I alive after all, together with come upward on, yous didn't facial expression me to tell 'no' to an chance similar this one, did you?

There were a few pocket-sized fry bumps inwards the route for me though. First of all the tour would commencement at the Rabobank edifice together with I alone know how to acquire to Central Station. Second, I'd signed upward for a cycle tour together with couldn't direct keep my ain cycle amongst me. So on a rented cycle (which for some argue had a real weird agency of rounding corners, but that's non all that relevant) I laid out to the Rabobank building, where everyone would come across up. I reached the house without getting lost. Quite an achievement, considering that I'd alone been to Utrecht i time before. There I met the other people who'd create the tour (most of whom already knew each other) together with Annelou, our amazing tour guide. She started doing these tours out of passion for street fine art together with wanted to present people all it has to offer. I tin alone admire that, because sharing something you're passionate most this agency is freaking amazing (also: why didn't I intend of this myself?).

I didn't know anyone inwards the group, but that didn't matter. On tour's similar these yous come across people who are interested inwards the exact same thing equally yous are, together with hence there's e'er something to beak about. I felt actually welcome inwards the grouping together with had a lot of fun talking together with taking pictures amongst them. We were a grouping of six, constantly pointing details out to each other, looking for novel pieces together with taking loads of pictures. 

If yous become on a tour similar this one, yous know the fine art volition live good. That's why a tour doesn't stand upward out because of the character of the art, but because of the characters together with the mode of the local artists. Of course of written report I knew absolutely cipher most whatsoever artists from Utrecht, but Annelou filled me inwards on all the details. She knew all most the artists, their style, collabs together with tags.

My favorite local figure was KBTR, the i yous tin reckon inwards the flick below. This gnome is literally everywhere inwards Utrecht, together with later on on I equally good saw him inwards a few places inwards Rotterdam!

The tour lasted most ii hours, ii hours inwards which I learned to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than most Utrecht's street fine art scene. The funny thing is that the longer a tour lasts, the to a greater extent than yous commencement to notice on your own. Once your eyes are opened upward for street art, you'll reckon stickers together with tags everywhere. Seeing stickers together with big pieces similar this i wasn't all the tour had to offering though!

Now Ljubljana had a bang-up graffiti tour, no questions asked. But Utrecht had i thing Ljubljana didn't have: a hazard to live a street creative individual for a few minutes yourself. Okay, admittedly nosotros used chalk on a sidewalk which is legal equally tin be, but that doesn't brand designing your ain tag whatsoever less fun. There was equally good a niggling thing amongst stickers on slightly less legal surfaces, but that's some other floor for some other fourth dimension (mainly because I haven't completed my mission yet). I equally good promised on Twitter to exit my grade somewhere inwards Utrecht, together with and hence I did. On a trash can. That's my thing these days.

At the destination of the twenty-four hours I was exhausted, but together with hence happier than I'd been inwards months. I didn't but reckon some pretty pieces, I equally good met some amazing people together with got all the inspiration for my ain street fine art projects. Annelou is a bang-up tour guide, she knew to a greater extent than most the pieces she showed us than I ever could've hoped. She's currently looking into doing to a greater extent than tours, together with hence if yous hap to live inwards Utrecht together with acquire the hazard to become on a street fine art tour amongst her, select handgrip of it!

x Envy

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