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The Cans Festival London event is a full on street art exhibition taking place just three minutes from the London Eye on show over the May Day Bank Holiday weekend. With work on display from the likes of famous graffiti artist Banksy and others, the Cans Festival is a riot of colour and street style urban expression.

Covering a tunnel right next to Waterloo Station are hundreds of stencil works created especially for the Cans Festival exhibition. Bansky and 30 other artists have been busy creating works of urban art for this unsual show, transforming a piece of dull city landscape into a vibrant and exciting art gallery.

Located on Leake Street in SE1, the Cans Festival London exhibition is a chance for graffiti and art lovers to sneak a peak at a fabulous collection of stencil work. With other a whole host of other urban artists joining Banksy in having their work exhibited in this unusual location, you will find there is plenty of exiting new work to be seen on the street.

Described as a stencil only exhibition, other graffit artists have been invited to contibute their work to the Cans Festival to make it a truly open and community based event. Making the art less about restrictive and sometimes elitist art galleries, and more about art on the street that means something to the people that see it everyday, this is an opportunity for any urban artists who are into stencilling to add their work to the collection.

Artists confirmed to take part in the Cans Festival at Leak Street are Bsas Stencil, Run Don’t Walk, James Dodd, Tom Civil, Vexta, Prism, Daniel Meli, Altocontraste, Bandit, Roadsworth, 3D Del Naja, Artiste-Ouvrier, Blek, Sten, Sadhu, C215, Lucamaleonte, Lex, Orticancvoodles, kaagman, Dolk, ccPobel, M-City, Vhils, Btoy, Coolture, Schhh, Borbo, Sam3, Faile, Eine, John Grider, Logan Hicks, Pure Evil, Dot Masters, Dan, Eelus and of course Banksy.

The Cans Festival London exhibition takes place at Leake Street, from 10am to 10pm Saturday 3rd to Monday 5th May 2008.

My good friend Neil ‘Wally’ Parker went along and has kindly let me upload his pics. You can see them on my space at Flickr

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I'm the owner of Jo's Web, a professionally qualified graphic designer who has been involved in the industry for over 20 years. I have worked as an art editor for London publishing houses, B.B.C , Haymarket and now run Spiral Pixel Design.

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